Life Essays

Teens today are bombarded with multiple types of external and internal conflicts. AIDS and other STD’s impact the way they live externally; depression and suicide can govern their internal lives. However, religious tolerance grabs at both their internal and external lives. The biased media always attempts to push teens’ beliefs …

Rosario Ferré uses dolls in her writing to symbolize the methods in which society holds down women in Puerto Rico as well as throughout the world. In “The Youngest Doll,” Ferré sets the precedent that dolls are equal to the maiden aunt’s nieces, by stating, “The aunt had continued to …

The emotion of fear is so powerful that it can motivate an individual to do the unimaginable. In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, fear is the driving force for murder, escape, and madness. There are three types of fear that are exhibited in this tragic Shakespearean play. They are the fears based …

We often ask ourselves if our lifestyle is healthy. Whether we live long and happily very much depends on how we live and how we treat our bodies. The most obvious health safe-guarding steps are the following: regular checkups, exercising every day, quitting smoking, shedding excessive weight, controlling daily stress, …

The theme Change Upon Change by Elizabeth Barett Browning is love lost. The central character of the poem reminisces about his life five months ago. The poet uses the change in season to refer to the emotions of the character “and slow, slow as the winter snow the tears have …

Australia’s Federal System is dynamic and the division of lawmaking power between the Commonwealth and State since 1901 has changed dramatically; Critically discuss, focussing on the major reasons for those changes. On the first of January 1901 Australia became a federation when the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act came into …

When an individual is willing to grow up, sooner or later, that person will experience many adversities that at times might take them by surprise, and cause them to question their ethical morals. Beverly Mitchell once stated, “Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and …

Christopher Mallowe’s poem, “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love,”presents an overly optimistic view of love. He personifies the Shepherd’s love to both beauty and bounty. Sir Walter Relegh’s poem, “The Nymph’s Reply,” presents an overly pessimistic view of love. The nymph describes the Shepherd’s love as unstable and changing just …

Joyce’s ‘Eveline’ is a story about a young woman who was unhappy with her life so decides to run off with a man whom she fell in love with. The plot of the story is a quest-like search for the love she doesn’t feel with her father. The writer spreads …

In his story of the Rip Van Winkle, Irving used his unique style of diction, which also developed a contrast between before and after the climax of the story. The major change of scene in the story takes place after Rip takes his nap in the mountains and there is …