… a short story that deals with many different issues that woman in the 19th century had to deal with on a daily basis. In general the mistreatment of women was so commonplace that most of the time it wasn’t even noticed. The two main characters of…

… are better understood if the reader sees them in the context of the poet’s other works. One such poem that benefits from being approached in this way is “Mother Who Gave Me Life”. “Mother…” is one of several poems Harwood wrote about motherhood and…

… today’s teenagers is rampantly increasing. Drugs are going from the undergrounds to the hallways of America’s schools; nevertheless, they are corrupting America’s youth. Those that are fighting the war against drugs are using the wrong weapons to…

… many different ways people can go about living. The diversity in America is greater than ever. Depending on an individual’s lifestyle, there are several different choices one can have when looking for a place to call home. While in the market for…

… The Diary of Jack the Ripper, by Shirley Harrison, we examine the question of whether or not this is the diary of James Maybrick, who is Harrison’s candidate for Jack the Ripper. Various pieces of evidence can prove that this is Jack the Ripper’s…

… 12 year old Wendy hurried home knowing that she would have the entire house to herself tonight. Her father was out of town for the next two days on a business trip and her mother was working the 2nd Shift at a local factory. She walked in to the house…

… there is a lesson to learn from to help shape the reader’s experience. Here we see how the stories influence Odysseus and his son Telemakhos’s live. Telemakhos is forced to mature at an astounding rate, traveling far from home and risking his life…

… only lead to the hero's demise but may also enable the reader to sympathize with the character. So it follows that in Oedipus the King, a Greek tragedy, the tragic hero Oedipus should have some sort of flaw. However, after close examination of the text,…

… is better known for the freshness of her approach in examining until-then taboo subjects of sexual desire and especially women's sexuality. Such economical though passionate poems as Woman to Child and Woman to Man, apart from confounding thousands…

… Preface to Shakespeare, he uses a quote that says, “The irregular combinations of fanciful inventions may delight a-while, by that novelty of which the common satiety of life sends us all in quest; but the pleasures of sudden wonder are soon exhausted,…