… attitudes have changed in the last 50 years, not so much sexual behavior but societies attitude towards it. After the 2nd World War and in the 1950's sexual behavior was a very taboo subject and not openly discussed. Sex was conducted behind…

… because of peer pressure and looking cool. According to this recent article that was in the Detroit News about an Edsel Ford High School student they asked him why he started smoking and he said he didn’t no he just did. All most every article…

… was a product of a conservative Southern family. Rich’s poem, “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” clearly reflects this gender struggle, for it is evident that it is a feminist poem in which the poet criticizes the male-dominated world for frightening and oppressi…

… the possible consequences that could result from deferring a dream. The author explores what might happen through highly effective visual similes and metaphors. The importance of this short poem relates to the time it was written (1951) and the…

… in Oakland, California to Chinese immigrants John and Daisy Tan. Her family eventually settled in Santa Clara. When Tan was in her early teens, her father and one of her brothers died of brain tumors within months of each other. During this period…

… your precious eyes, you’re blind to the corruption of your life, to the house you live in, those you live with…” Tiresias (469-472) In the story Oedipus the King, Sophocles demonstrates the imagery of sight versus blindness through the use of tragedy,…

… critically analyse a passage from the play "A Dolls House" by Henrik Ibsen. Between the pages 222 and 225 there seems to be shift in the plot, as Nora takes a different attitude towards her and Helmer's relationship. All of a sudden instead of…

… was formed by the upper class society. It was a dream of money, wealth, prosperity, the need to get rich quick, and the happiness that should come as a result of a booming economy. The American Dream was based purely upon materialistic things. The…

… educate? The Webster’s New American Dictionary defines the word educate as “to provide with schooling; to develop mentally and morally; to provide with information, train, discipline, school, instruct, teach.” The Oxford English Dictionary defines educa…

… everyday life, one should not judge others solely on their appearances. There are many people who appear to be trustworthy but in reality, are not. Appearance versus reality is an important theme in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The theme focuses…