… remarkable way, it would have to be my sister Jackie. She has always been there for me in every way possible. She is 19, and plays softball at the University of Alabama. She has been my rock and my shield throughout my whole life. She makes me feel…

… was born into slavery at the end of the Civil War, near Diamond Grove Missouri. His mother was owned by Moses Carver and his paternity is unknown. It is believed that his father was a slave on a neighboring farm who was killed in a log-hauling accident…

… More than just a Beast Fable At first glance the Nun's Priest's Tale appears to be a simplistic beast fable that provides the reader with a very basic moral lesson. Too often it is overlooked as one of Chaucer's lesser tales in terms of content and…

… and who was the first feminist? Although no one can say for sure the exact date on which the feminist movement started, most of it is attributed to the past two centuries. However, women who are feminists have been around much longer. In Sophocles’s…

… develop their literature. Through these techniques a writer chooses how he or she wants the story to be understood, how the characters are perceived, how the place and time of the story are important, and when to twist the plot in another direction.…

… vs. the Board of Education was the start of integration for schools. The ruling was that the black schools were separate and unequal. When the ruling came out the African Americans were terrified to leave their homes in fear of the increasing…

… about 13,000 people have been legally executed since the colonial times. The 1930’s executed up to 150 people yearly. Due to the lack of support of the death penalty from the public the rate went to nearly zero by 1967. The United States Supreme…

… Wills Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in the city of Dublin, Ireland. He was born into and lived in the prejudiced and etiquette-ridden years of the Late Victorian Age. Actions and language of the individuals were required to conform to rigid…

… from, “The Story of an Hour”, to, “The Dream of an Hour” could be because the woman was drinking an elixir. This elixer could have been a kind of hallugent. Which would cause her to “dream”, while she was awake. Another reason could be that after being…

… CHANGES WITHIN SOCIETY? Stratification describes the different “layers” that exist in society. These ‘layers’ are distinguished by unequal rewards and life chances. Sociologists view stratification as the classification of groups and the relationships…