In the short story America and I the author Anzia Yezierska can be quoted as saying "If murders had robbed me and killed me it wouldn't have hurt me so much." The author of this story was obviously hurt and left very afraid by the harshness that the ways the new country she had come to live in. ... About ten years ago my parents divorced and obviously they moved into separate houses and my sister and I went to live with my mother. ... This is a form of courage that we don't get to see all of the time, he showed his mother that he was there for her and made it a easy as possible fo...
What do a hot pink dress, a sparkling new Chevy and a bright green Jell-O mold all have in common? Karal Ann Marling asserts that Americans became obsessed with such colorful new objects during the 1950s, and that mass marketing and advertising convinced Americans to display such items as signs of t...