Through out my teenage years I always had it made. I had security, support of my family, and other things. When I turned 16 I had found out something that would change my life forever, I was pregnant. As a teenager I was anorexic, therefore meaning I had a problem with getting fat. If I had g...

Author Ernest J Gaines explores the consciences of two young black men living in the Jim Crow south in his novel, "A Lesson Before Dying." Jefferson, a barely literate and poor man, is caught at the scene of a liquor store shootout. Although innocent, having been at the wrong place at the wrong time...