… of personal responsibility to save, protect, or prosecute the residents of Salem, Massachusetts. These duties range from personal retribution to trying to protect reputations to trying save family members and neighbors from the court. Their goals,…

… Charles Dickens, lays out a brilliant plot. Charles Dickens was born in England on February 7, 1812 near the south coast. His family moved to London when he was ten years old and quickly went into debt. To help support himself, Charles went…

… the news is becoming all too familiar. A school shooting. With the most recent occurring in a small suburb of San Diego, CA. Two teenagers dead, 13 injured and thousands traumatized. We?ve seen it all before, but each time, the heart is ripped…

… 3 * Scene 4 * Scene 5 * Scene 6 * Scene 7 Scene I The scene opens with three witches entering an open plain. Thunder and lightning surround them, as the first witch asks of the other witches, "When shall we three meet again? In…

… apparent at the very beginning. What was a poor, elderly sick woman doing gallivanting in the forest during the dead of winter? The reason became clear towards the conclusion of the story as the action revealed that the conflict was obtaining the…

… philosophical ideas have been essentially divided between the east and west. Despite the geographic separation, eastern and western thought pertaining to the human condition and the nature of the cosmos share a common thread. Certain aspect…

… novels and had great success with them, but only a few have been as enduring over time as Kurt Vonnegut?s Slaughterhouse-Five. Slaughterhouse-Five is a personal novel which draws upon Vonnegut?s experience?s as a scout in World War Two, his capture…

… in Animal Farm. This raven, first described as the "especial pet" of Mr. Jones, is the only animal who doesn't work. He's also the only character who doesn't listen to Old Major's speech of rebellion. Orwell narrates, "The pigs had an even harder…

… scars are unable to be detected using our physical senses. Therefore, as a society, we are forced to make value judgements as to the severity of the damage that is inflicted. When expressive tactics are used to inflict suffering.…

… for I would move off to college the next day. I was very full of my own thoughts, very concerned with how things would turn out for me. This book gave me pause, and turned my mind toward darker topics. Night started out so happily, that I…