… a lift do you stop to pick him up? In the essay “Umbilicus” by James Alan McPherson, two white men stop and ask a black man if he needs a lift, and he accepts their offer and the journey begins. Most people would not stop; this is a trust issue…

… Laertes and Hamlet both display impulsive reactions when angered. Once Laertes discovers his father has been murdered Laertes immediately assumes the slayer is Claudius. As a result of Laertes’s speculation he instinctively moves to avenge Polonius's…

… discussing the great writers of the world, one name that invariably appears is William Shakespeare. Shakespeare will always be known as arguably the greatest playwright to have ever lived, his writings always studied by classrooms of children around…

… the audience through a night of a few drinks shared by college professors. This show first appeared via television on October 15, 1962 and is considered to be one of the most important plays in modern theatre. The play is set in the home of George,…

… addiction and our lives had become unmanageable. The 1st step is the big step. It is the step, I, as an addict, had to come to understand and accept before I could do anything about my drug addiction. It is a very hard step to understand and accept,…

… sonnet has been one of the most widely used and well-known verse forms for over four centuries. Generally written in series, but quite effective as individual poems, they have celebrated love, death and many other expressions of private, personal…

… based their writings upon the places, people, and events that have shaped their lives. This was no different for Louisa May Alcott when it came to writing her most famous work, Little Women. It is a story of four young girls, Meg, Jo, Beth, and…

… Also called common sense realism, things are perceived directly as they are. True naive realists would never sum up or analyze their views, because they do not consider them views but the way things obviously are. However, I will do my best to illuminate…

… 19, 2001 Zora Neale Hurston, author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, writes of a main character using many figurative devices in the explanations of the character. Janie, the main character has a good, strong way of living her life when she…

… of social inequality, it is essential that we step outside the realm of our own lives, class position, and discard any assumptions we might have about the nature of inequality. This process of critical pedagogy allows us to view our world, not…