On a cold's winter night at two A.M., I'm in my bed in a dark, dank room feeling the chills and the shakes – God I hate this feeling. Gotta go, gotta go...gotta get my smokes! Two packs a day and counting – for the last five years of my life. It all started as a joke in middle ...

The Stages Of Life Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening is an excellent story of a woman's quest for freedom in her society. Her decisions in life challenge the social barrier, and defy conventional family roles. Edna is unfulfilled as a wife and mother even though she and her husband are financially ...

Summers on Cape Cod My main and initial molding of the person I grew up to be comes from my time spent on Salt Marsh Lane in Pocasset, a small village on Cape Cod, on the shores of Buzzard's Bay. I have been going to the Cape since I was four months old. My summers in Pocasset have taught me...

All Quiet On The Western Front, by Erich Maria Remarque, is a war novel that doesn't glorify the war effort, but denounces it as the cause for human deterioration. It also places much emphasis on the idea that even though a man can be trained to not have feelings, they do come out every...

The Quest for Human Destiny Do pure chance and accidents lead our lives or are they filled with deep purpose and destiny? This has been the question posed on our minds while watching the films Grand Canyon, Ground Hog Day, and Dickens's Christmas Carol. How larg...