"Within the Gilded Six-bit Greed Corrupts Everything" Greed is "an excessive desire to acquire or possess more than what one needs or deserves, especially with respect to material wealth" (Webster's Dictionary). Money and greed can fuel many relationships. Yet if it takes over, it corrupts ab...

The divorce of my parents on my fourteenth birthday... The death of my grandmother, my closest relative... When these tragedies occurred, I acted as though nothing was wrong, like that was how it was supposed to be. During our countries "Gilded Age", the immigrants who came fr...

The sun had just awoken and peeked over the horizon. Slowly it raised, throwing a contrast of colors into the sky. The little water dew drops soaked Danielle's feet as she walked through the grass to feed the chickens. It was early Monday morning and chores needed to be done. Today was market da...

The sun had just awoke and barely peeked out over the horizon. Slowly it raised, throwing a contrast of colors into the sky. The little water dew drops soaked Danielle’s feet as she walked through the grass to feed the chickens. It was early Monday morning and chores needed to be do...

Fifty years, nine months, and four days is the time it takes to trace the lives of the three main characters in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novel Love in the Time of Cholera, set in an unnamed country on the coast of South America. This is the epic story of a woman who lived in a heat-swollen country...

Although it has been at least two years since I read The Great Gatsby, there are undoubtedly numerous similarities between that novel, and the short story "Winter Dreams." Jay Gatsby and Dexter Green are both men who come from humble beginnings, and who are utterly infatuated with two beau...

The Greek heroes, Hercules and Theseus, are uniquely distinct from each other by their tasks, toils, and triumphs. The gods assist both of them while they accomplish great tasks; however, their personalities, lives, and intellect are not similar in manner. First, Theseus is a mild-mannered, just ma...

Women's Escape into Misery Women's need for male support and their husband's constant degradation of them was a recurring theme in the book House on Mango Street. Many of Esperanza's stories were about women's dreams of marrying, the perfect husband and having the perf...