Mothers, daughters, and wives dieing. Is that something you want to be hearing on the news? I didn't think so, this is what would be heard time and time again if we the United States let women go into combat situations. Women shouldn't be put into combat units or combat situations directly because o...

Roseanne Becomes A Role Model It's eight o'clock in the evening, I have settled down on the couch to watch some primetime television. As I flip through the channels I realize how superficial and unrealistic the actresses truly are. I also began to notice o...

Roseanne Becomes A Role Model It's eight o'clock in the evening, I have settled down on the couch to watch some primetime television. As I flip through the channels I realize how superficial and unrealistic the actresses truly are. I also began to notice one common thread b...

Swains Vision There comes a time in every young mans life when he realizes the difference between the superficial problems of childhood and the real world of adulthood. Some boys learn the nuances of being a man at an early age, while others don't quite understand the truth of maturity...

Swains Vision There comes a time in every young mans life when he realizes the difference between the superficial problems of childhood and the real world of adulthood. Some boys learn the nuances of being a man at an early age, while others don't quite understand the truth of maturity until...

Experience is considered to be one of life's greatest teachers. Lieutenant Jimmy Cross of Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" and the narrator of Raymond Carver's "Cathedral" both learn a lesson from an experience that causes them to change their outlook b...

Emerson's Individualism Emerson's "transcendentalism" is essentially a romantic individualism, a philosophy of life for a new people who had overthrown their colonial governors and set about conquering a new continent, in hopes of establishing new and unique views. Though Emerson is not a tradit...

Time and time again gender roles are played upon in novels and stories. In our society and many others all over the world gender is crucial in how people or characters are accepted in society. In Margaret Atwood's novel, Bluebeards Egg, Atwood uses characters to reinforce socially a...