… I learned the importance of saying "no" if someone asks me to take drugs. I think the D.A.R.E program is an awesome program. I learned about heavy peer pressure, teasing pressure, friendly pressure, and indirect pressure. I learned that I…

… the organized activity of soliciting money or pledges for different organizations. (Alliteration) Just ask any high school student what they feel fundraising is and their reply will most certainly contradict any dictionary definition. (Alliteration,…

… write a book on all the limitations of freedom, but it appears in so many ways, in so many places, and on so many scales, so there must be some way that I can simplify it. It seems that freedom has one real variable which it is dependent upon and that…

… and having the ability to control the repercussions of having these flaws is the best step to living a successful life. Sense and Sensibility is a fictional piece by Jane Austen which exposes the flaws of individuals and society itself. Through the…

… A Doll’s House, for her long-time friend Edna. She acts as a friend that holds onto Edna’s secrets, a supporter of Edna’s choices and a helper when Edna moves houses. On page 52, Edna admits her secret to Mrs. Linden and then proclaims, “Nobody must…

… jealousy is aroused by his wife's confession on the radio of a shipboard romance. Hilda Johnson, who witnessed "Karen's" supposed accident. Jane Clausen, wealthy mother of the missing Regina, torn between the desire to protect her daughter's privacy…

… - only seven of her some 1800 poems were published during her lifetime, five of them in the Springfield Republican. Dickinson withdrew from social contact at the age of 23 and devoted herself in secret into writing. I felt a Cleaving in my Mind…

… of Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, published by the Center for Religious Humanism at Seattle Pacific University. Dillard's most recent book is For the Time Being. Any culture tells you how to live your one and only life: to wit as everyone…

… that you had unknowingly murdered your father and then married your widowed mother! This was the discovery made by the main character in Sophocles’ Greek tragedy, Oedipus Rex, when he sets out to seek his true identity. The…

… in a writer’s repertoire of literary devices. It’s used as a means of relating theme, mood, tone, and bringing the reader closer to the characters by showing humanity, or the lack there of. In reading “Use of Force,” by William Carlos Williams, the…