… out for the first time of my life. I made the decision to quit playing soccer and start to focus on college academics at Birmingham-Southern. There were numerous thoughts running through my head and I didn’t know what to expect. Would it be tough…

… and bad. In the story Two Old Women, and in the movie, Smoke Signals, their are two people who both go through different journeys, but both have a mesmerizing end to both. In the story Two Old Women there are two old women in a tribe that are pretty…

… extremely interesting because he functions both as the villain of the play as well as the hero. In the very first scene of the play, Richard tells the audience that he is “determined to prove a villain” (p. 752, line 30), but he also gains the sympathy…

… is Lady Macbeth’s soliloquy prior to the arrival of King Duncan. Earlier in the Act, Macbeth and Banquo had encountered the three witches who told them both various predictions for their future. Banquo was told he would be father to Kings and Macbeth…

… this book, Ramadan was the one that could be said to be most interesting. Most Americans by at least age sixteen should have heard of Ramadan before and that it is known as the Islamic month of fasting. Not too many Americans have ever witnessed…

… Shirley Jackson portrays an average New England town with typical farm citizens embarking on a disturbing evil. On June 27th of every year the members of the community hold a village wide lottery in which everyone is expected to attend. At first we do…

… as a perfect example of courage and strength because of her desire to go against society and the degradation of women. Through the narrative eyes of Newland Archer, the reader sees a woman “like no other woman” (102). Ellen Olenska is much like Hawthor…

… is a narrative, usually involving the supernatural and explaining natural events. Myths may be thought of as stories that answer basic questions about the world of early people. For example, what questions are answered by the Biblical story of…

… they have no control over. When these things happen I call it experiencing life, and often leaves people muttering the words “Why me.” Occasionally these events occur when the actions of someone else’s life leads into your own. Other times it could be…

… the literary world. This wondrous entity brings out imagination of what it looked like, how it smelled, what it meant to Adam and Eve, and what it now means to humanity today. The biblical garden serves as an excellent symbolic device, which can serve…