Descartes' 'Cogito Ergo Sum' (I am, I exist) argument is a complex one. In many ways, he constructs a convincing argument for the existence of the self, and for the process of the thinking being, the essence of that self. In this meditation on his philosophy, Descartes on numerous ...

The novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, written by Betty Smith, not only gives a picture of what life was like in Brooklyn in the early 1900s, but it also represents a coming of age for its main character, Francie Nolan. I, personally feel that the time period depicted in the novel represents a more in...