Living Essays

Civil Peace. One rarely hears those two words together. It is usually either Civil War, or perhaps Civil Chaos, but rarely is it Civil Peace. This is because it is not the times of peace that are remembered, but the times of war. It is during these times that people …

Linda M. Hasselstrom made a very convincing argument in her essay, “Why One Peaceful Woman Carries a Pistol”. She says that criminal activity has become a growing concern for most people. According to the Department of Justice, several hundreds of people will be robbed, assaulted, kidnapped or murdered this year …

Issues of dieting, fat, and slenderness are hot topics in our culture. Bordo addresses them from a postmodern, but historical, feminist perspective. In this essay, she attempts to explain the appeal of slenderness in our society; and also, how the ideology of normal our society holds can be mentally and …

Freedom Summer was a highly publicized campaign in the Deep South to register blacks to vote during the summer of 1964. During the summer of 1964, thousands of civil rights activists, many of them white college students from the North, descended on Mississippi and other Southern states to try to …

Have you ever tried a fad diet? Then you know the truth. Fad diets are never a good idea no matter which one you choose. Fad diets don’t have scientific evidence backing their plans. Though some of these diets have been around for years they are shrouded in mystery. The …

For centuries males have often wondered the same question that for most women have an obvious answer, yet it is something that many men do not fully understand : “Why do women have so many pairs of shoes?” This subject can often be found as the bunt of jokes or …

In life, we all going through many relationships until we find the one who we feel is te perfect mate for us. While we are datin others, we may experience different types of boyfriends. Based on certain characteristics, an excessiv type of boyfriend can be passiv, energetic or prejudiced. First, …

Can men and women be just friends without any sexual tension between them? I don’t believe so. I believe, both from personal experience and from several scholarly sources, that there is always, at some point, a sexual attraction between two people of the opposite sex who have a friendly, pleasant …

In the essay in his recent book, “There’s No Such Thing as Free Speech and it’s a Good Thing Too,” Fish argues that free speech “is not an independent value, but a political prize,” and any differences, which the courts have drawn between, protected and unprotected expressions are “malleable.” Like …

The Epic of Gilgamesh, the first and most important epical writing of Mesopotamia, narrates the efforts of finding fame and immortality of Gilgamesh, the king of the city of Uruk, and the advancement of friendship between Gilgamesh and the steppe man, Enkidu. Fame and immortality were the aims of Gilgamesh …