… of Simic’s poetry is that he is a fun guy. At times he is much more dramatic than I anticipated his poetry to be. I found myself still thinking about his poetry hours after I read it and slowly understanding some of it. He is much more difficult…

… D’ Amico Chamberlan in Columbus, Ohio, I was the baby of a black man whose only crime was marrying a white woman. My mom, a Bay area native, grew up in Castro Valley while my dad was born and raised in South Central, Los Angeles. Somehow faith brought…

… There are more than thirty television talk shows in production. These shows are built solely on excitement, and barely resolve the complicated issues they attempt to address. Talk shows have gone from discussing simple topics like current events…

… of the lives of people in the medieval era. He shows that there is more to someone than his or her class. This is especially true in his portrayal of the clergy in the general prologue and in the tales themselves. In the days of Chaucer, when the…

… plays of Shakespeare are described as “for all time” or “of a timeless quality,” they are referring to the accurate description of the human psyche that holds true today. Shakespeare’s works were written long ago, and in many cases set even before…

… King Lear, the term blindness has an entirely different meaning. It is not a physical flaw, but the inability of the characters to use their thoughts and emotions to see a person for whom they truly are. They can only read what is presented to…

… to receive an education. Fortunately, through state funding, children can receive that education for free from public schools. What happens, though, when that money runs out? Someone is bound to suffer from that, and most recently it has been the…

… even magazines like Playboy and Hustler are just a piece of the many ways that you can see pornography in the United States of America. After watching a pornography video last week at home, I decided to do a paper on whether or not all pornography…

… that everyone looks up to because of his accomplishments. People think Macbeth could do no wrong until he kills Duncan, the king that the whole land loves. Macbeth decides not to go through with it, but with Lady Macbeth forcing him to, there’s no…

… laws. The teen curfew laws generally differ from county to county within states. The real problem that many propose is whether the government should be able to “parent teens” and advise them when to be home. Many feel that it’s not necessary because…