Plot Summary Isaac Campion is a novel by Janni Howker, set deep in the heart of the British empire in Southern England around the town of Hard Acre, a fast growing industrial town over looked by the Campions Horse farm on the outskirts. The family had emigrated from Ireland a...

I live in the city of Highland Park, home to 57,566 residents, predominantly of Latino descent by the 1970's. Highland Park is a historic neighborhood in Northeast Los Angeles. It is inhabited by a variety of ethnic and socioeconomic groups and it is with in these groups that drugs, gangs and v...

The Grapes of Wrath By: John Steinbeck The Grapes of Wrath is an eye-opening novel which deals with the struggle for survival of a migrant family of farmers in the western United States. The book opens with a narrative chapter describing Oklahoma, and the overall setting. It sets the m...