… a credit card, a straw, a thick white powdery line, then a sniff……This is the deadly and illegal use of OxyContin, or otherwise known in my town as OC’s. Credibility: This is a sad description of an on going problem in my very own town. This is…

… of witnessing his own father physically disintegrate after they together have endured so many months of suffering in Nazi death camps. During the last days of his father's life in a death camp, Elie desperately tries to comfort his father by telling…

… During this time, there was much political turmoil. Starting with the Paris Commune in 1871 and ending with the Dreyfus affair in 1899, these political turmoils affected the political and economic aspects of French society. When national…

… provinces, was a formidable commercial, financial, and naval power. The wealthiest and most powerful province was Holland, dominated by the influential merchant elite of Amsterdam, the leading banking and trading center in Europe. For the Dutch…

… a traffic light with a high volume of cars racing back and forth. The more objective driver may believe a busy intersection is not necessarily congested with cars; just lots of surrounding events taking place at once. I never thought much about…

… ways does setting influence the plot? In Philip Pullman’s novel, The Golden Compass, the character Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon( an animal-like creature, which is necessary for human survival) comes into contact with different conflicts as she travel…

… and forgotten as time goes by, but there is one place that I can never forget, the village called Sunshine. For me, this little village is my heaven on earth. I have lived all my life in this place, from the moment I was born in our house until…

… Alan feels about Equus and his creation in order to seek spiritual and sexual freedom. But was it Dysart that drove him to confessing about his passion. Dysart is a villain in the fact that he put Alan under a lot of pressure and finally led him to…

… you read the title “Battle Royal,” it becomes obvious that a struggle will be present in this story. However, there is not one, but many “battles” addressed. After reading the story, it becomes clear that these battles being fought are both physical…

… protagonist, an intellectual man of thirty-nine years. He’s a member of the Outer Party and has an insignificant and average life. He lives in the futuristic country of Oceania. Oceania is governed by Big Brother and the Party. The society in which…