Life Essays

Failure of the American Dream The setting is in Long Island, New York on the parts of East Egg and West Egg. West Egg is home of the “new” rich people and East Egg is home to the distinguished rich families. Nick Carraway has just moved into his new shack …

Many people think that going away to college is a bad idea but actually it is the best learning experience. Most people arte under the conception that all college students do is party and not study, and that if one was to stay home in their own environment that they …

In his Freedom of Will and Concept of a Person, Harry Frankfurt asserts that the common philosophical approach to the concept of a person is wrong, as it interferes with his own perception. Frankfurt mentions Strawson’s definition: “the concept of a type of entity such that both predicates ascribing states …

‘Willow Tree and Olive’ is a post- modernist novel by Irini Savvedes. The story presents a period of a young girl’s life during which we see her discover and accept things about herself by remembering things from her past that she has tried to forget. Olive is a teenage girl …

There are many themes and topics that authors and directors can choose but the theme for the novel “Lockie Leonard, Human Torpedo” by Tim Winton, and film “Lex & Rory” is very similar. Both these narratives expressed the same issues, some of which were bullying, popularity, relationships and male and …

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 …