… that beckons to so many people, calling to them with the promise of freedom to live their lives as they see fit. As our National Anthem states, the United States is “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” The motto of the United States,…

… Catch-22 and in My Antonia are Colonel Cathcart and Antonia. Both of these characters are ambitious and each sees a road that runs ahead toward something called “success” or “wealth”, but the roads that they see are constructed differently. Colonel…

… have something in common. All their fathers have been killed and they are searching for some way to channel their mourning. They want to avenge their father's death some way. Fortinbras wants to conquer land, no matter how small or worthless. As Hamlet…

… Presentation of the Personalities of Heathcliff and Murray Kempton once admitted, ‘No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.’ The human race continually focuses on characters who intentionally harm others and create damaging situations for their…

… Meany] is the reason I believe in God: I am a Christian because of Owen Meany.” John Irving begins his mysterious novel, A Prayer For Owen Meany, by foreshadowing the entire book within his first paragraph. John Irving uses many literary devices, such…

… shows is becoming so popular because they offer an alternate sense of reality. What is reality and is there only one interpretation or many different ones? There is no one reality because reality shifts. The dictionary definition of reality…

… the character and discourse of Socrates that justice is better than justice is the good which men must strive for, regardless of whether they could be unjust and still be rewarded. His method is to use dialectic, the asking and answering of questions…

… line up and dig their cleates and hands into the playing surface. Some playing fields are hard while others are soft, some are bone dry while others are pure mud. There have been some great advances in college football over the years but I think…

… longed for since the beginning of time. Animals sleep in order to rest there bodies and minds, so that they do not die of exhaustion. On the other hand, people use sleep as an escape from the stresses of life. Philip Sidney’s Sonnet XXXIX is a excelle…

… V, King Henry is at the height of his reign as he defeats the French in one of the most significant battles in English history. As Henry fights the ongoing battle on French soil, he is subjected to many situations that define him as a man as well as…