Family Essays

Bridal Ballad is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe that focuses on the themes of marriage, love, loss and a desire for happiness. It also concentrates on the symbolism of a wedding ring as finality as well as the despair and hopelessness that comes with it. The poem demonstrates that …

A family is a most precious identity a person can have. An individual from a noble, average or poor family can be distinguished by the character, acts, behavior, and living style. A person spends most of his time in life with the family and thus the family contributes the most …

Since the independence of America from the British, the ideals of American womanhood have been constantly changing. Between the 1770’s and the outbreak of the Civil War, women had shifted from a gender of little power to one of great importance. Over the span of the century from 1770 to …

Marriage has been one of the latest hard hitting debates because of the impact it would have in our society, politics, and family values. Since the beginning of time, marriage has always been seen as the union of a man and a woman. In the bible in the book of …

“A Visit to Grandmother” is a story that takes a black man named Charles all the way back to his childhood where he encounters a question that he has been asking himself his whole life: does his mother love him less than his irresponsible brother? All through the story his …

When you were eight years old, what were you doing? Maybe building a snowman with your friends in the winter, running through sprinklers in your backyard in summer, having sleepovers? Climbing on that new monkey bar set during recess, playing with Cabbage Patch Kid dolls? Sounds pretty normal, a pretty …

I think what I really like about Chekhov is the way he uses words: he does them justice by acknowledging the power they have and the impact they can convey. He lets everything speak for itself, he does not put in frills or excessive wording for added sophistication, and, most …

Despite moral and ethical issues surrogate motherhood has been popular all over the world. Surrogate mothering can be the way out and the rescue for the infertile couples who are not able to give birth to their children. The dictionary definition for surrogate mothering is “the process by which a …

Gloria Steinem’s “Erotica and Pornography” was published in Ms. magazine in 1972. In this piece she elaborates on why conception is not the only time human beings want to have sex. Humans not only have sex to create life but also to create a connection with another person. We have …

Judith Wright once said in an interview, “I write poetry because it’s one way to understand life”. Being able to understand life and how it works seems to be Wright’s intention in the poem Sports Field, a poem that she was inspired to write after going to a school sports …