In the poem "The Last Night that She Lived," Emily Dickinson portrays the human response of those left living after the death of a loved one. Although Dickinson does not attempt to justify the death of her friend, she does express various attitudes that society has towards death. Throughout the po...
Life has good days and bad days. It is when the bad days outnumber the good that there is a problem. One must live life to the fullest, never holding back. People should live everyday like it was the last for the future is scarce. Life should not be wasted; it should be embraced. Accepting life i...
Fallen Angels Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Myers, begins with the introduction of an African American 19-year-old boy who lives in Chicago. Recently he's joined the army and been assigned domestic work as he hoped for due to his bad leg and unreliable strength on it. Then, by accident of pap...
Roaring into Trouble During America in the twenties lifestyles were very fun and exciting. As we rolled into the next decade of the thirties things started to change drastically. Life in the twenties was very different social, economically, and politically. The era of the twenties was very free. P...
The Things We Choose Not To See The topic of violence is a recurrent theme in the media today. We all see it on the nightly news where we find out about the latest homicide or act of violence among the people who live in the lower class areas of Philadelphia. However, as many of us are middle ...
On March 27, 1970 Mariah Carey was born on Long Island, New York. She grew up in a divorce family at a very young age. Her father had left and it was now up to her mother to take care of her two of her three children. Mariah's sister Allison decided to move with her father when he had left. So M...
Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog, had written in reference to immigrants in America, "Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen." Immigrants from the 1700s to mode...
