I could not wait to live at college. It seemed as if I had spent years waiting for this moment. I would be free and on my own. I would be able to do whatever I wanted and all within the confines of a homely apartment that I would share with a good friend. This "apartment", of course, woul...

As dad and I took off for Grand Isle on Friday afternoon visions of red snapper, cobia, and dolphin fish danced through my mind. We bounced down the road in my dad's friend, John's pickup truck. The whine of the tires and the bland music on the radio made my eyelids heavy and slowly I wa...

"Hurry Taylor, we're late sweetie." "But Mom, I've gotta make sure I have everything!" Taylor screams in a whiny voice. The day I've been dreading has finally arrived. My oldest daughter is leaving for the summer to work as a camp counselor. She's working...

Pain and humor are strange bedfellows for how do you explain The Three Stooges or the laughter following a banana peel pratfall? Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound" juxtaposes that curious relationship between funny and sad as it chronicles the dissolution of the Jerome family just as its protagonist Eug...

On March 21, 1998, I attended a ballet of \"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs\" at the Etheredge Center. The ballet began at 7:30 p.m. and lasted almost two hours, but the time went by so quickly because the dancers were so captivating in their performances. Two of the performers were students at th...

The Role Of Monsters In Beowulf In the epic poem Beowulf, Monsters play a big role in what the main hero has to gain or lose, whether it is a friend or even his life. But hey also play an more personal role than what the original dialogue states about them. In the epic, then monster are seen as an...

Imagery in Frederick Douglass's Narrative Reading about the pains of Frederick Douglass's life as a slave is hard on the hearts of readers. Tales of rape, brutality, human degradation, and identity restriction, are horrific in the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An Americ...