… who endure a disenchanting moment, in which their ideals become distorted. There are similarities between the boys’ experiences, and there are differences. There are universal features of growing up that these two boys experience, just as all of…

… Aliens (Clancy, McNally, Schacter, & Lenzenweger, 2002) Review by Tom Baker The concept of abductions by aliens is a traumatic event that is unlikely to have occurred. In spite of this fact, individuals over the years and all across the world…

… of social ranking, however, there are certain implications as to how that status is to be maintained. In the Rocking-Horse Winner, Paul has an opportunity to try and help his family’s desperate financial situation and he tries very hard to do so.…

… anxious to get back to my great-grandparents house so I could find my new collection of what I called my new toys but yet they were several years old and most definitely not toys. I ran through the hall way my feet pushing on the wet carpet that…

… as to which road of life a person should choose. It raises the question of whether it is better to choose a road on which many have traveled, or to choose the road less traveled and explore it for yourself. In Frost’s poem "The Road Not Taken"…

… encouraged to aspire to marriage. In The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits, Sarah Stickney Ellis, a best-selling author, maintained that women were “clothed in moral beauty,” which was best applied to raising virtuous children…

… it is common that poets either celebrate the intensity of his/her love for another or grieve the absence of reciprocated love. “Love,” evidently, can be both a nourishing power that brings happiness and exuberance, and a destructive force that causes…

… Isabelle Karangalan, and Domingo Matapang. All three represent the a country trying to gain independence. The story opens with 13-year-old Alejandro Karangalan and his brother Roderick. They are walking in Manila heading for home after a long…

… Western Front. Disillusionment is “a freeing or a being freed from illusion or conviction.” (Webster’s 384) A synonym for this word that we all are probably much more familiar with is reality. In my case, reality has really only hit me once…

… left it with an enlightened sense of nationalism that would eventually lead to demise of Britain’s authority over Canada. The Canadian Army Core, although starting out weak at the beginning of the war, eventually blossomed in a strong force that helped…