… not her ability to show us how mothers and daughters hurt each other, but how they love and ultimately forgive each other. If the book has a plot, it is her characters’ slow progress from confusion to understanding.” (“Tiger Spirits,” The Woman’s Review…

… “Tragedy requires a . . . balance between what is possible and what is impossible. And it is curious, although edifying, that the plays we revere, century after century, are the tragedies. In them, and in them alone, lies the belief --- optimistic,…

… force of existentialist thought cause many sweeping changes in the social climate of our planet. Citizens of almost every nation reap the rewards and taste the horrors of social changes brought about by the free will based thought professed by philosoph…

… many noble qualities as well as several tragic flaws. He was a courageous, brave and good nobleman who was haunted by superstition, moral cowardice and an overwhelming ambition. Progressively through the play, his flaws started…

… to those we are involved. However, war destroys many people in many ways. After fighting in the trenches of World War I, Erich Maria Remarque and Wilfred Owen poured their experiences into works of literature. Even though Remarque and Owen were…

… feel proud about their work. It makes one feel good; it raises a person’s spirits. “No question, pride has its good points.” (The Toronto Star, Nov 1999) Then again, there are also the bad points of pride one must consider, before being proud. Pride…

… God, uses symbolism and metaphors, also known as motifs, frequently throughout the novel. Motifs are unifying ideas that are recurrent elements in a literary work, and are used in this novel for numerous reasons. The main reason is that they…

… come across too many circumstances where I have been under what I would call a true leader. In order to be able to state what I think a true leader to be, the first problem for me is what truly constitutes a leader. A leader can be classified as anyone…

… argue that home-schooled children can never be certain if they are learning all the things in the curriculum, and if their standards are equal to their traditional schooled counterparts. They also worry that children who are home-schooled miss…

… a year, a decade, or a century later. I look back at what we did in the past and what we have accomplished as a race, a human race. It makes me realize how much can happen in a matter of years. What will happen in this next century? How advance…