Imagine finding yourself stranded aboard a lifeboat in the middle of the ocean. For Pi Patel this was a reality. On a voyage to find a better life in Canada, Pi's boat sinks and he is forced to endure…
Literature
"The truth will set you free," Tennessee Williams writes on the role of honesty and its significance in his play A Streetcar Named Desire. The play follows a former debutante's fight to escape her pas…
Love is a feeling that develops when a person feels some connection to another person. When someone is forced to be with someone, the feeling that arises would not fall in the same category as Love, i…
During times of stress and triumph, it can be hard to keep a level head amongst the judgment. In the novel "The Great Gatsby" the author F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells the tragic story through Nick Carra…
An alchemist is someone who can turn metals into riches, cure diseases, and save lives. In the book The Alchemist, the Alchemist guided Santiago to fulfill his personal legend, otherwise known as doin…
"I couldn't help thinking that there were two of us: my body and I. And I hated that body," (pg. 85). During the Holocaust, millions of Jews were put in concentration camps, and roughly seven million …
Motivation is the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way. In both Macbeth by William Shakespeare Lady Macbeth has motivation behind convincing her husband to kill King Du…
Can money buy love? Would enough extravagant parties sway someone's heart towards you? Would building your whole life around a single individual be enough for them to love you? The classic The Great G…
White women and women of color lived very different lives during the years. Sarah Winnemucca's story, "Life Among the Piutes", talks about the vastly different lives white women and Indian women live.…
"I, too, sing America" (Hughes, line 1). In his poem I, Too, Langston Hughes envisions a more prominent America where individuals of all races can proudly identify as American citizens. I, too, was pu…