… to Orange County as a suburban region. The use of the concept “suburb” is a little misleading in this instance. The term “suburb” customarily referred to low-density settlements located on the fringe of cities. Even with the development in the…

… for his attacks on the social institutions he considered immoral and for his faith in the religious significance of nature. The essay “Civil Disobedience” is his most famous social protest. Thoreau believed that each person must be free to…

… is a name given by historians to an intellectual movement that was predominant in the Western world during the 18th century. Strongly influenced by the rise of modern science and by the aftermath of the long religious conflict that…

… creation in the beginning of Genesis can be distinguished in various ways. The two stories differed in how they were told, how humans were created, a human’s purpose in life, and the image and role that God played. In Genesis I, God seemed more…

… many antitheses. Among them are love versus hate, life versus death, and the state versus the individual. However, the dominant antithesis is the one of pride versus wisdom. Polyneices and Eteocles, two brothers, had killed each other in battle.…

… they come true. The world he wakes up to has changed into the world that he dreamed, sometimes radically, sometimes violently. As a teenager he dreams the death of his aunt and he awakens to finds that she was killed in a car accident six weeks before.…

… The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, from that book, we know that he and Tom has 6,000 dollars. In these chapters Huck lives at the Widow Douglas plantation, and is being watched over by the Widow Douglas and her sister, Miss Watson. So the story's main…

… had an official job. I use the words official job because I had to arrive at work for a certain time, work so many hours a week and finally had to pay taxes. I made my fair share of money that summer and I spent a great deal of it. The money was deposite…

… modern classic Lord of the Flies, written by William Golding, explains the faults of man. Lord of the Flies begins with a group of civilized young males becoming stranded on an island. On the primitive island the children attempt to create an ordered…

… the Priest, and the doctor have all undergone a change due to money. They are all affected by their need to be wealthy and inturn are setting themselves up for their own destruction, and the destruction of society. Steinbeck's "The Pearl" is a story…