… a country where it does not exist. From the early settlement of Europeans in America to modern times the country has progressed prodigiously but it is still far from a land where all people are truly equal. The fact that the Court has divided different…

… and “Eumenides” were all based on one parent child conflict that gradually manifested into one the best-known curses in Greek mythology. Tantalus, one of Zeus’s many sons, started this havoc when he attempted to serve the Gods a dinner consisting…

… Cormier entangles accidents, death, life, and revenge in the novel In The Middle of the Night. In The Middle of the Night is about a sixteen-year-old boy named Denny whose parents didn’t allow him to answer the phone. Twenty-five years earlier…

… use of appearance versus reality. Appearance versus reality is such a popular tool that is used in Shakespeare’s masterpieces because it can be seen in our everyday lives. There are many occasions where we portray ourselves to be someone we are…

… you can hear as the tires squeal, smoking as you go down the street. As you shift from first to second you feel the car get a new thrust of speed, barreling faster and faster down the almost empty road. It’s just you and the guy next to you, fighting…

… This is where “the eating disorder” emerges. I believe that an eating disorder is more than anorexia or bulimia, it is also crash dieting. My reasoning behind this is because as anorexia and bulimia ruin ones body so does crash dieting.…

… She Lived, by Emily Dickinson. The message in this poem is we take life for granted and we don¡¯t appreciate it until we are threatened with losing it. Emily used what seems to me as free verse with no apparent rhyme but alliteration at times.…

… true tragic hero in Sophocles' Antigone. Many hold that it must be Antigone, herself; after all, the play does bear her name. I conclude that she is the actual heroine, for she perfectly exemplifies the meaning of tragic hero. In order to determine…

… struggles constantly with society for self identification. She defies the stereotypical black woman by insisting on independence. Janie Mae Crawford, the main character in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes were Watching God significantly changes both…

… toward Las Vegas thorugh her description of “quickie” Las Vegas marriages. Even though she never says her feelings towards marriages directly, Didion conveys her feeling of contempt toward them through her descriptions and tone. She starts out…