My first abortion was the most painful, unforgettable thing I had ever experienced.. It was not something I never want to go through again. I was only fourteen years old, a freshman in high school. The pain I endured was more mental than physical. Although it happened well over five yea...

The story "The Watcher", written in 1982, is a short story set in 1959. The narrator, "the watcher" first starts off by summarising his childhood and by describing his family to give us a clear view of the whole situation, his surroundings. The narrator's characterization...

Magnolia is a film about nine different people who are faced with regrets. "We may be through with the past, but the past ain't through with us." This is a line in the movie that best describes the plot. Each story consisted of complex situations that somehow correlate with one anot...

There always seems to be something extremely upsetting when we hear about the murder of a child. When we hear about tragedies of this nature through news or television shows, one can only imagine the pain and grief the family is going through. No matter how heartbreaking we find the situation we hea...

The setting of Haruko's World begins in 1974 in a small farming community in Japan. The start of the book is the author getting acquainted with the area and the family she is about to spend the next few years with. Bernstein goes into to detail to describe the home and her surroundings, such as "i...

The Eminent Death During this past summer I experienced real pain and sadness as a result of a loved ones illness and ultimate death which was something I had never had to deal with before. My grandfather, Pappy, had been sick with cancer on and off for ten to fifteen years. He was a very anim...

My Grandfather, My Mentor The black clouds that floated in the air would simply put the worst thoughts in anybody's mind. Walking down what seemed to be a never ending hallway, the air was still and the sound of a pin drop could be heard from a mile away. As I walked down the old sterile tiled hall...

Although remembering all the events that occurred between the time my mother and father got divorced, in 1986, to the present time is quite difficult, there is nothing that could make me forget my mother's strength and determination throughout the years that I lived with her. Being that I was only t...

Genre 'On The Black Hill' – Novel 'Long Distance' – Poem Possibly the poem is a lot more concentrated, as poems are never as long as novels. 'On The Black Hill', is a lot less concentrated than 'Long Distance'. A poem has to distil that ...

The U.S. has the highest Divorce rate in the world today. In 1992 about 2.4 million marriages took place and about 1.2 million divorces. This means that one divorce occurred in every two marriages. (Paul Bohannan) Divorce is a way of dissolving a legal marriage that permits the partners to rem...

He always loved his gin in the morning, noon, and night; it came to him like water and it was impossible for him to leave home without it. No one could ever sway him from his essential life fluid. It wouldn't matter whether you cried, pleaded, or begged on your two knees, he would not stop. H...

Death: Good for the Dead, Bad for the Dying, and Worse for Those It Leaves Behind My whole life, death has been a distant thing to me. It is not even really a thing, but more of an idea. I have heard about death millions of times with the media. Everyday in the news, people are dying left...

Grandma's Passing Grandma was a frail older woman, in her early 70's, and of small stature. Her skin was of a light brown complexion, wrinkled and ashy. When I sat on her knee, her brittle hands would always gently wrap around my waist. I would kiss her on her cheek, which was always...

A Celebration of the Tragic Have you ever read a story about how someone had a close person in their life die? Didn't it make you sad? I know it makes me sad when I read stuff like that. I want this reading to be different. Although my story is about death, it is still somewhat sad...