"The Garden-Party" by Katherine Mansfield is a life-changing short story about a girl named Laura who awakens to the fact that she and her entire family have a totally different set of values. Her internal conflict is that she goes through many stages of denial and reasoning until she is ...

A Blessing In Disguise At eight years of age, my biggest problem should have been deflecting the names of Bucky Beaver and Nerd. My teeth protruded from my lips, my bangs hung in my eyes, and my bobby socks sagged at my ankles. What place do saggy socks have in the mind of a child when my parents...

Celia behind me (A Canadian short story published in 1984.) Section B: Celia and Elizabeth are not friends even though they share the fact that both of them are not very popular in the group of so-called friends. Elizabeth starts to tease Celia so that the focus is moved from herself to Celia...

In all my twenty years as a black male in the United States of America, I can only recall two instances where I felt I was wronged because of my race. Though both are just part of my history now, they still make me sick to my stomach when I think about them. The first one I recall was when...

INTRODUCTION True to its description, the storming phase was truly a test for me as well as our company. It had the potential to rip our company apart. However, our company was mature enough to settle our conflict of ideas and passions, and through this process, I found that I've learned a f...

Is This An Educated Man? A – Education challenges a people to learn new things about themselves and the world around them. It exposes past ignorance, encourages critical thinking, and expands the mind. An education provides the tools to communicate thoughts and emotions in the appropriat...