Road RageMany things can cause road rage. Every driver has experienced rage at some point while driving. Rage causes many accidents, some of which resulting in death. It is a serious problem that nobody seems to be doing anything about. Road rage can start in many ways. We live in a fast paced ...

William Shakespeare's tragic works are notably characterized by the hamartia of their protagonists. This tragic flaw is a defect in character that brings about an error in action, eventually leading to the characters imminent downfall. In Shakespeare's King Lear, written in 1606, the King's hamartia...

Columbine: Cause and EffectThe Columbine tragedy has struck another victim last week. If all thoughts were that the tragedy was behind us, no one has considered the effects of the massacre. A student that was injured in the massacre was making progress on recovering, when backlash from the tra...

The Great Awakening started as a questioning of religion and authority of government. This led to tolerance of new beliefs. The Great awakening created a sense of shared American identity that affected the people who experienced it all across the colonies. People grouped together no matter were t...

Positive EffectWorking twelve hours a day every weekend during college is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. The work I was doing simple and repetitive, and I wanted to quit after the first day. However, being a graduate of high school, I figured that for the first time in my life I would st...

With or Without You "See the stone set in your eyes, see the thorn twist in your side. I'll wait, for you. Slide of hand and twist of fate, on a bed of nails see makes me wait. And I'll wait, without you, with or without you, with or without you. Through the storm we reach the shore, you ...

Fear to Become Before I read " The Fall of the House of Usher", I had a dreary experience of my at my great grand-mothers house. Just as there are several causes and effects of horror in " The Fall of the House of Usher," I have experienced a frightening event which wa...

Committing Murder The problem with committing murder is the high risk of being caught. When you decide that murder is justified, the problem of how to do it and how to avoid being found out are your first thoughts. Unfortunately, the police have become very sophisticated in their investi...

ABDUCTED BY VIETNAM It has been estimated that over 2 million people died in the Vietnam War, and an additional 3.6 million were wounded. These staggering numbers give some example of the terrible bloodshed each individual soldier either witnessed or participated in on a daily basis. The Things ...

MacBeth was a kind, decent and faithful man not long before the witches prophesy. The witches prophesy had a dramatic effect on MacBeth, something that caused major trouble, damage and disaster. At first it sounded very harmless, but MacBeth was not patient and decided to kill Duncan - with pressure...

A critical character in the play Much Ado about Nothing is a villain named Don John. Don John from the beginning tries to challenge the other characters' trust with one another. Not only does it put some of the other main characters trust at steak he more importantly jeopardizes the other...

In the first passage titled "hurricane," the writer describes extensive damage and destruction to people, buildings and surroundings. People suffer shock, horror, despair and grief when they lose their love ones, their property and experience physical and mental hurt. The after effects ...

Mill's Vs. Harm's Principles Its unfortunate that Gottfried is in such a sticky situation. Analyzing the situation with Mill's principles could lead to two different conclusions, depending on the type of utility you follow. In the long run, Gottfried will realize that there are p...

Misunderstandings and communication problems are obstacles that most people come across at one point in their lives while working with colleagues. While these conflicts and misunderstandings are sometimes inevitable, there is no need for it to cause unbearable stress (Stoppler, 2004). When these m...

Patriot Games, by Tom Clancy, is a thrilling novel, crammed full with action and excitement from beginning to end. It follows the story of Jack Ryan who, after saving the life of the Prince of Wales, his wife and baby, is hunted by Irish terrorists of the Ulster Liberation Army. I found this book re...

The Many tricks of Edgar Allen Poe Edgar Allen Poe is one of the most famous writers of our time. He has a way of writing that is unlike any other author. His stories are truly unique in each and every way. The main topics that repeat in all of Poe's stories are irony, horror, and sadness....

Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome was a novel marred by tragic irony. Its main characters, Ethan, Mattie, and Zeena, are each consigned to a lifetime of misery and despair. They have no one else to blame but the evil villain of the story, which is a character that has drained the will of all who enc...

In Atonement, there are many things that are broken and never mended. The greatest tragedy of all these is Briony breaking Lola\'s silence thus sending Robbie to jail. Robbie and Cecilia\'s relationship is doomed from the beginning and they never get the chance to experience their love. Briony brea...

Self-responsibility and interest can be examined in different perspectives. By nature, a person usually expects to reach his goal without considering the possibility of his or her decision and how it may affect the community around them. It is often times very difficult to differentiate responsib...

"From Relations of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca" Cabeza de Vaca and three companions survived out of hundreds of their fellow men. They survived many difficult obstacles. First, they survived the Indian attacks at Apalachen by fleeing. Second, when their ship was tossed in the waters...

Keep Away From That Machine On November 28, 1922 there was a man who invented a machine and his name was Jeremiah Wilson. Now this machine was designed to let you be almost anything that you wanted. Whether that was that you wanted to be the best writer, the best basketball player, the prettiest,...

On September Eleventh Two Thousand One the twin Towers collapsed. I was in school. The principal at got on the intercom and instructed the teachers to turn the televisions to channel Five. It was a massive destruction. Terrorists were hijacking our planes and crashing into the towers killing ov...

T.S. Eliot an unprecedented part of the early 20th century was deeply influenced by his age. The current social, economical & political condition had a tremendous effect on him. After the First World War, the western world suffered a loss of faith in the existing values. Moreover, the moral disinteg...

Americans visit the movies everyday in search of a couple hours filled with mind blowing entertainment. Is it the digitally re-mastered sound, the out-of-this-world special effects, or tear jerker dramas? New movies are released every week, but what movies are the top grossing movies of all ti...

In the novel The Pearl, John Steinbeck uses symbolism in many different forms. Symbolism is defined as objects, characters, figures, or colors used to represent abstract ideas or concepts. Symbolism in this novel effects how the reader views the story. The Scorpion, in Chapter 1, that bites Coyot...