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...