… friends of my         life are all around me on my book shelves. Every book I lift off         the shelf pinpoints a time in my life. They represent all the joy,         sorrow, and laughter felt in my life. The large, shiny…

… D'Alonzo Research Paper Proposal Purpose: Thesis: John Steinbeck's use of loneliness, along with companionship, to show the suffering the main characters undertook throughout Of Mice and Men. Proposal: 1. Definition of topic - I plan on showin…

… A man draped in a long, black trench coat burst out. His eyes darted from left to right, assessing the situation from under his broad rimmed hat. He appeared to reach a decision and started to sprint across the shopping mall. Behind him six men,…

… AM had come once more to mark the end of my academic morning, and the beginning of my lunch period. After paying my one dollar for a small cherry vita-pup slush drink and a strawberry fruit roll-up, I would take my place at the usual lunch table.…

… undiscovered, or to know what remains unknown is an everlasting human goal. Although many have failed to realize this dream, a very few have been passionately successful in its pursuit. The immortality power that these select few have, of course,…

… students often have with Emerson's style and allusions, it seems very important to address Emerson not as the proponent of a unified philosophy or movement (e.g., Transcendentalism or Romanticism), but as a writer concerned with his audience and his…

… Longfellow before taking a college course, the poems they know are not in this anthology: Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish. The Longfellow of this anthology is our late twentieth-century "revisionist" Longfellow,…

… various folklore and local legends have been prime subjects of human intrigue and fascination. Over the past century, such folklore has been dubbed "Urban Legend." Also referred to as contemporary or modern legends, urban legends have become…

… and you will realise that it isn't designed for you as a pedestrian; it has undoubtedly lost its human element. You feel like an alien in your own world, trying to make your way through an entanglement of spaghetti-like highways. Your thoughts are drowne…

… across my face. I love it when there isn't a crowd. Only two other people braved the chill, and had the will, to get up this early. Upon arrival, my view is enhanced. Though I've seen it enough to burn an image into my subconscious, each visit…