… arm off! Maggie, if she does that again, just use your elbows on her," Coach Sanderson yells. That's my coach...always yelling out commands to us, but really meaning it to the refs. "Maggie get over here!" coach yells during the other team's free …

… land of Illyria, and the play opens at the palace of the youthful Duke Orsino as he speaks in lyrical but melancholy verse about his love for a beautiful countess, Olivia. A messenger arrives with bad news for the Duke: Olivia has rejected his marriage…

… issue of cultural relativism is a very perplexing topic to discuss. When can one say that another's actions are right or wrong? Does the fact of intellectual superiority have any say in the matter of who has the right to interfere with other cultures?…

… his country ... that if you are smart enough and work hard enough, you will make it. It allows us to perpetuate this huge gulf between the well off and the desperately poor. If you fall through the cracks you must be stupid or lazy or both. It's…

… A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens collectively foreshadows the future of the French Revolution with intriguing themes: Madame Defarge's carefully selected list of condemned aristocrats to die in the revolution and the streets stained with wine that…

… portrait of Industrial Society in his novel "Hard Times" Edition used. Dickens, Charles. Hard Times, ed. Kate Flint, London: Penguin Books, 1995. (It's a good starting point for writing an essay) - Dickens 'is unmistakably possessed by a…

… takes place in Oklahoma during the dust bowl of 1934-1935. Billie Joe a long-legged redheaded girl always dreamed of seeking her fortune playing fierce piano where grass grew leaving the stirring dust behind. Billie Joe turns fifteen during the story…

… (Mammoth Australia) is another contemporary novel with links to a historic shipwreck, the sinking of the Dunarling. Adam and Catriona have found a cache of four small dolls made from mandrake roots. The dolls were left in the cave by two other…

… at Metropolitan A South Africa writer, Pamala Ryan, provides an interesting analysis of Miriam Tlali's Muriel at Metropolitan by arguing that: "[...] black women do not have time to dream" (95). The lives of black women are besieged with restraints…

… The language used in Running in the Family is descriptive and poetic. The variety forms of figurative languages (especially metaphors and similes), vivid imagery, and unusual sentence structure Ondaatje utilized elaborate the sentences making the…