The "mini-culture" of my family agreed with the majority of mainstream America: pain is bad. There was no middle ground, there was no acceptable pain and unacceptable pain. Pain was not ignored, but rather rushed to find medical or professional attention at the slightest inkling of the d...

Finding Your Identity Knowing the fact that no human could be perfect, my determination to accomplish the impossible was merely unstoppable. I would never be satisfied with any of my accomplishments for they were never perfect enough. Instead of giving myself a pat on the back for the amount ...

Finding Your Identity Knowing the fact that no human could be perfect, my determination to accomplish the impossible was merely unstoppable. I would never be satisfied with any of my accomplishments for they were never perfect enough. Instead of giving myself a pat on the back for the amount ...

Reincarnation Reincarnation is one of the topics that I am torn apart in whether I should believe it or not. On one side you have a very nice idea that your loved one is always around, no matter if they are an animal, a human, or a plant. And on the other side you also have a very nice idea th...

9/11: One Year Later It has been one year since the attack on the World Trade Center, but it seems like it only happened yesterday. They say you'll never forget where you were when you first heard the news. I was in my first period class at Donna High School. There were about ten minut...

When the idea of a personal artistic experience comes to mind, there are a number of things that must be considered. The first thing is the word "art." What is art? One's idea of art can vary greatly according to culture and definition. Art is a form of self-expression that manifests itself by...

In all three of the stories, "A Good Man Is Hard to Find", "Revelation", and "Everything That Rises Must Converge", the main character is a southern woman. Julian's mother from "Everything That Rises Must Converge", the grandmother from "A Good Man ...

Perception and Its Effects As we grow older we learn new things and start to build new opinions about them. It is not necessary that every one has to share the same opinion. As a child I was taught in school that every story has a fixed moral and that is the one that the teacher talks about in t...