During Act One Scene Three, we are presented with the growing attraction between the young Hamlet, and Polonius' daughter, Ophelia. However, we learn of this attraction solely through the blunt advice that both Polonius and Ophelia's brother, Laertes, give heavily. Unfortunately for Opheli...

Nothing is more powerful than the memories of our childhood. These memories are what shape our adult lives. Our lives are touched by the many experiences of our childhood. Have you ever wondered where your present fears come from? Our greatest fears are made by the experiences of our childhood. Even...

The Effects of Trauma on Family Members and Processes In Lenore Terr's Too Scared to Cry In Lenore Terr's book, Too Scared to Cry, the author describes the effects of a traumatic event on the family of the traumatized person. The family processes are disrupted, and the family member...

Kate Chopin is a brilliant writer. Her writing career is during the late 1800's. She lives in a time where women are sexually suppressed and their opinions are not valued. Her writing holds more in common with our time than the time just after the Civil War. Although her life was full of death...

In Shakespearean literature, soliloquies are important dramatic devices. They allow the reader to understand a character better as a play unfolds. In Hamlet, the soliloquies performed by the title character help reveal his innermost thoughts and feelings aloud. Hamlet's soliloquies are the keys to ...

The award winning play, "Lost In Yonkers", written by Neil Simon is a tragicomedy focused on the lives of the Kurnitz family and their days in Yonkers, New York. Neil Simon gives the audience a hint of what the play's about through its title. With the characters "lost" not physically,...

Leila Ahmed grew up in the 1940's and 50's in a respected and wealthy family in Cairo, Egypt. Her father, an engineer and her mother, a passionate housewife, had shaped her life form the very beginning of her childhood. Her father was a responsible government servant and politically active...

The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, is a story that follows a family living in the Midwest as they travel to California in search of a new beginning. The Joad family was one of many thousands that lost their home and land shortly after the depression. A horrible drought had fallen upon th...

The lifetime accomplishments of Hetty Green all started at a young and tender age when she would hang around the docks her father owned, where she was instilled with a certain attitude towards business. She was quite a tomboy, understanding the lingo of the whalers and learning the business. She w...