If I could hear myself speak in an age where gender seems to be two lines merging and immerging, I wouldn't think of myself as a product of this or that. I've always thought that greatness or depravity was not a trait of what we had or did not have, but how we handled that lack or abundan...

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest We, being members of society do not have the authority to judge whether people are sane or insane. Some may say that others are insane but we are all a little bit crazy. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, a novel written...

In London researchers have found that the universe is growing faster than what they thought. At first, they thought that it was growing too slow, then it was speeding up, and now they are saying that it is speeding up way too fast for us. The reason they have found this out is because researc...

One of the earth's most precious resources is in great peril. Water, the substance required by all living beings as a means of survival, is succumbing more and more to the ravages of pollutants, most -- if not all -- of which are the cause of humanity's environmental carelessness and neglect. Inde...

Donne's Holy Sonnet Five confronts multiple inner spiritual and physical struggles while twisting together the struggles between science and religion. With the author claiming himself as a "little world," he uses the metaphor to tie together both his physical and the spiritual str...

Looking back and comparing life during the 1900s in Canada to today's life, I can see how much the past 100 years have left us in a completely different world. I can not even begin to describe how much things have changed since then. My life would have been entirely different. First off, I w...

A dream cannot exist without another person. The Catcher in the Rye illustrates the American dream by revealing the heartaches one must go through while growing up and finding their place in society. Holden Caulfield is amazed by peoples' "phoniness". He believes that no one is truly real and th...

My Dream I am a devoted horoscope reader, and although rarely accurate, these little columns gave me some of the best advice. "Always look at life in a realistic light" is an example of this advice which I find very valuable, but also difficult to live by when everyone including myse...

I was born into a string of privileges: racial privilege, financial privilege, sexual privilege, physical privilege, educational privilege. I was born to parents who considered the education and nurture of their children their highest priority; I was born into a time and class in which my gender and...

Brave New World In the furturistic story Brave New World society as know it is gone; It has become a society that is governed by drugs (soma) and by technology. In this utopian society there is no pain, fear, war, hate, or love, instead there is only the happiness. In doing so the ci...

Communications. I could barely spell the word, much less comprehend its meaning. Yet when Mrs. Rubin made the announcement about the new club she was starting at the junior high school, it triggered something in my mind. Two weeks later, during the last month of my eighth grade year, I figured it...

Sylvia's Success There is risk taken when introducing a deprived child to a world of lavishly expensive items and unattainable attractions. Some may accept what they have seen, and accept their situation. Others may grow stronger, rise above their circumstances, and flourish. Fortunatle...

How do I know I'm free? Well, in the country today, we don't have near as many freedoms as we would like. Most of the freedoms that were originally written in the Declaration of Independence have been distorted from their original purpose. Take freedom of speech, for one. These days you can't just ...

One Foot through the Door, One Foot Out There was change in the air, a fresh noted difference between the world I left and the one I reentered. You lack noticing these small details with daily routine and repetition, but they exist for the whole world to see. Little things like the city, commerce,...

Flannery O'Connor is best known for her deeply layered characters and the contrasts that she introduces through them. Good Country People is no exception. This story is set in the deep South in the middle of the Bible belt. This story is about the masks that everyone wears to hide who we truly ...

A surprising experience of the current healthcare delivery system which has personally affected me involves globalization and the internet. Apparently, as America's population continues to age, a large number of our senior citizens cannot afford the cost of their basic medicines. My neighb...

Chee-wa-jit For a research paper, I decide to research about "Chee-wa-jit" which in English means Wholistic and Macrobiotic. Wholistic comes from whole, which it means all of the component part or element of a thing. A wholistic state that the world, outer spaces, above the earth, un...

A Vicious Act of Intolerance and Terror On Tuesday, the 11th of September a horrible and hardly explainable act of terror took place in the United States. Casualties are hard to count but approximate numbers show that more human lives have been lost only in World War II. It is unacceptable action b...

Parenting Parenting is one major clash, or difference in the two stories of, The Glass Rose, and Life is Beautiful. The two films take two quite opposite ways of showing how a father can be, and act to there children. The Glass Rose shows an almost typical male approach to parenting, the fath...

I am writing this letter in regards to measure 28. I strongly feel that to vote for measure 28 was wrong. Our state has become so greedy. Does that little bit of money we will be saving really benefit us? I think not. I feel that we are about to become worse off than before due to an increase...

I don't think that it's just the young people of Americas fault. Some of it we have to blame on the music we listen too and the things we see on TV. Granted we can block or restrict what we watch and listen too. But young people still do watch it and listen to there favorite actors or mus...

"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man had turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation..." (Jean Arp. Internet). Since the beginning of time, we have trie...

The Awakening Just as a child comes out of its mother's womb and takes its first breath in open air, Edna herself is taking her first breath from her awakening in Chopin's novella The Awakening. Chopin describes Edna's water experiences as if she was a new-born baby coming into ...

In my opinion, Science is one of the most central themes in our lives, and probably one of the most overlooked. All through school I remember hearing "How am I going to use this?". To that I say what you don't know can kill you. There is more to science than what meets the eye. S...

"Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian (Dennis Wholey)." Just on account of a person being understanding toward others, does not essentially mean that others have to be understanding t...