Life Essays

In the article “The Land of Opportunity” written by James Loewen the author argues that most students leave school (preferably high school) with no understanding of social inequality, mainly due to their assigned textbooks. When they are told by their teachers that America has a great deal of social inequality …

            The book “In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio” by Philippe Bourgois is an in-depth look of the working community and family lives of inner-city Puerto Rican crack dealers in East Harlem and gives important answers to many of the difficult questions facing policy-makers, social scientist, journalists …

As an acclaimed American author of fiction and the recipient of the 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, Tony Morrison’s novels are radically powerful, exploring the realms of racism and ‘womanism’. Being one of the momentous works of American fiction, The Bluest Eye (1970) centralizes a young Afro- American girl named …

            I never thought something like that would happen in my life. I looked death in the eyes, and he looked back, directly at my own eyes.             I returned to my normal self just a few hours ago, when I was assured that I’m really away from that place, …

The brilliant tapestry in The Blind Assassin is classic Margaret Atwood.  It is a story-within-a-story, a novel-within-a-novel interwoven in one beautifully crafted literary piece. The story, set in fictional Ontario and Toronto towns in the 1930s and 1940s, is told in the perspective of the narrator as well as perspective …

The industrialization and mechanization which took place in United States between 1845 and 1900 gave rise to big businesses and monopolies. This also resulted in the concentration of industrial capital and power into few hands. Although labor played an important role in this process of industrialization and emergence of big …

As young women budding towards the full bloom of femininity, teenage girls undergo personal battles that contribute to the shaping and strengthening of their characters. Such battles and internal conflicts in works of literature may appear juvenile and even somewhat exaggerated to more mature, if not cynical, readers, but are …

Life is built on memories. Memories provide each person with a unique identity. They make lives fluid, ever flowing from the past into the present, even into the future. If there were no such thing as memories, each day would be as if a person is a newborn baby. There …

Bibliography             Sr. Callista Roy is an exceedingly valued nurse theorist, writer, lecturer, researcher and teacher who presently is a Professor and Nurse Theorist at the Boston College School of Nursing in Chestnut Hill, MA (Meyers, n.d.). She occupies herself with: a) teaching epistemology of nursing, b) teaching masteral and …

Leadership really plays a major role in building a firm and lasting foundation for the Roman Republic and the creation of the Roman Empire.  Many have tried to introduce a good government to Rome but only a few have succeeded.    Power, wealth, and fame are not enough aspects of a …