… on foot of an elderly black women, Phoenix Jackson, from her home to the nearest town. She makes the journey to go to the doctor to get medicine for her sick grandson. On the trip, she runs into some trouble here and there with her dress…

… has arisen mostly in the past century, this could not be further from the truth. Women have been sexual creatures for nearly the same amount of time as men. Two poems, Rochester’s “A Song” and Behn’s “Amyntas Led Me to a Grove”, are contrasting…

… war between the Americans and the Spanish. Most are right, but only to a point, because the Spanish-American War also included wars between the Americans and the Filipinos, as well as between the Americans and Puerto-Ricans. Reasons for these wars…

… fatal love is possibly the retelling of the opening chapter of the Bible, Genesis. In the short story “Rappaccini’s Daughter” there are many similarities to the biblical Genesis chapters. Many situations, places and characters in the story symbolize…

… tells the struggle between a person’s ending their suffering and accepting it rather than holding on to the hope of freedom. The author uses symbols to represent the immediate end of suffering, acceptance of defeat, and succumbing to torture in competit…

… there is a character who appears so little, but yet is so influential. He is responsible for so much action on the part of the main characters, but he himself does very little. The name of this character is Michaelis. He is described as the young…

… Caulfield - Holden Caulfield is the main character and narrator of the story. The story consists of what he is telling a psychologist about several days that Holden spent in New York after being dismissed from Pencey Prep School. During the time he talks…

… possibility to change the way society functions. “When the act of reflection takes place in the mind, when we look at ourselves in the light of thought, we discover that our life is embosomed in beauty....” Ralph Waldo Emerson Life is a miracle itself…

… choosing a particular aspect to nutrition of interest, so my Internet exploration took to the webcrawler search engine where I typed in nutrition to get me going. The results gave one particular site, which I recalled seeing on the list that was distribu…

… seemed to relax as I rested for the first time in what felt like a week. It had only been six hours though, and we were only at base camp, 14,800 feet above sea level. As my head pounded, probably because of the altitude, I had a disturbing thought.…