… of the first pieces of advice my mother gave me as a kid was that nobody was perfect. If it's one thing that I have observed in people it's just that. Even the most morally perfect people sometimes stumble and have a moment that they're not really…

… enjoying the satisfaction of a healthy, booming economy. This booming success, however, is generally accompanied by a warranted concern for rising inflation. Normally, the low unemployment rates, high profits, and growing wages, push the aggregate…

… done on the subject of eating disorders and their causes. Many eating disorders have been proven to emerge during adolescence and often serve as the foundations to more serious problems like anorexia and bulimia. The developments of eating disorders…

… teasing, violence, discrimination, cliques, and poverty. There is much to say about how having mandatory school uniforms will help these problems. My question is, will uniforms help these problems enough to dismiss the hurt that they would cause?…

… a very significant moment in my compostion development. For the first time in my educational career I was challenged with a writing assignment in which I could not completely understand. College applications essays presented me with prompts such…

… emotions. A poet can take a simple subject, and based on his or her choice of words and the use of language and literary devices, can turn it into artwork. In Charles Simic’s poem, “Breasts,” I will discuss how the piece is influenced by the use…

… abandonment has branded it as a symbol of chaos. From this perception other associations are made which connect the cave to prejudices, malevolent spirits, burial sites, sadness, resurrection and intimacy. It is a world to which only few venture,…

… has fascinated people for over a century. Her use of dark, morbid language was relatively unique in mid-nineteenth century poetry, especially for a woman. The subject of these poems ranged from just wondering about death or the processes leading…

… by Aristotle can be applied to the play The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams. According to Aristotle, every play should have six elements - plot, character, thought, diction, melody and spectacle. These elements are present in Tennessee Williams…

… the difference between the secular and the religious. Even those who believe in the Bible, for example, would generally not proclaim Scripture to be science any more than those who faithfully read their horoscopes would declare astrology to be part…