… an excruciatingly hot summer day and night in the neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, a slum Black community. In that neighborhood, three businesses dominate: a Black radio station, a Korean grocery store, and an Italian pizzeria. In a space where the…

… establish a link with the outside world and the one in which he lives. Nick in essence becomes the eyes and ears of the novel. And through him the basis of opinions that occur on the other characters are created. Nick becomes the sole source for…

… in fear, awaiting the ship of fate to sail down and pick it up. Test tubes, beakers, pipettors and flasks seem like a whole complete world towering around the cage amongst the gloves, pens, paper and safety glasses. The scent of disinfectant…

… one of George Orwell’s most controversial pieces of work. One would say that Animal Farm is an allegory of Stalinism, growing out from the Russian Revolution in 1917. Because it is cast as an animal fable it gives the reader/viewer, some distance from…

… placed directly in front of me. I’ve placed a pen and plenty of paper to right, which enables me to record all of my observations. Using all four of my senses (sight, touch, smell, and taste) as well as my thoughts throughout this exercise, I will try…

… a bug smashes into your windshield. You think, “I’ll bet he’ll never have the guts to do that again.” The statement is true. However, it applies to more than just a dead bug. Since the invention of the automobile in 1903, a simple trip to the local…

… Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawtorne takes place in the seventeenth century, New England colony of Massachusetts. Hester Prynne is the protagonist of the novel. She is an English woman and the wife of Roger Chillingworth. She is tried and condemned…

… quietly into the mainstream of American society for decades. Today these groups loudly and proudly proclaim that they have not yet merged. Indeed, many of America’s minorities have found renewed relevance and comfort in asserting their separate ethnic…

… to The Oxford Companion to English Literature (Oxford University Press, New York, 1985) as “proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart ... implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection.” This definition…

… order to explain the first scene in this memoir, Adeline Yen Mah has filled the opening chapters with lusty images of an emerging nation amid burgeoning commercial & international life at the end of an empire & the start of a revolution. Falling leaves,…