Guilt and Punishment
Creon’s actions and judgment in the play Antigone were questionable, but I don’t think he deserved the punishment he received at the conclusion of...
10 Big Mistakes Parents Make
While we all love our kids, in this day and age of two working parents and insane schedules, we tend to cut corners and neglect important things....
Both Polonius and the speaker from “To A Sad Daughter” are struggling with the concept of letting go of their daughter and both love their daughter.
Polonius is not read...
In the satire of the sexes, Egalia’s Daughters by Gerd Brantenberg, there is put forth a society different from which has ever been present in modern times. This would be a...
Emma - Understanding Jane Austen's World
Pamela Whalan has been a member of the Study Day Committee of JASA since 1999 and has been involved in the successful presentation...
In India there are 1.28 billion people that reside in the nation. The Dalit or Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST) form about 20 percent of India’s population. T...
THE MUSICAL YOUTH OF MOZART
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart began his musical career as perhaps the greatest musical prodigy ever known. Born into a society in which the arts w...
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is a wonderful example of a novel that deals with the many facets of life after a tragic event. The choice of love over fear is thrust upon...
Because Franz Kafka has become the poster boy for twentieth-century alienation and disoriented anxiety, his work is often introduced in the context of his own experience of al...
Ernie R. Ceja, Jr.
An Essay on “The Westward Moving House”
Don, the older of Ray’s two children, is feeling rather pleased with all that he has accomplished b...
Teenage pregnancy carries high costs in terms of both the social and economic health of mothers and their children. Teen pregnancy puts a lot of str...
is a French satire novel written by Voltaire during the Enlightenment period. The novel tells the life story of Candide, a young and honest man from Westphalia. He fal...
Les Misérables contains a multitude of plots, but the thread that binds them together is the story of the ex-convict Jean Valjean who becomes a force for good in the world, b...
O. Henry is the pen name of American writer William Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862 – June 5, 1910). O. Henry short stories are known for wit, wordplay, warm characterizat...
In William Shakespeare’s classic play Romeo and Juliet there are three main female characters, Lady Capulet, her daughter Juliet and their Nurse Angelica. They are all very...
In the many movies, articles, poems and songs relating to the topic of domestic I have investigated there are many similarities along with some differences. The texts that ill...
is an American television sitcom that originally aired from 1974 to 1984 on ABC. The show presents an idealized vision of American life in the 1950s and early 1960s...
In the book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, the author Harriet Jacobs (also the main character in book), paints a very powerful, and emotion picture of what the instit...
Throughout many novels, stories, poems, and movies a great number of different emotions have been expressed. Emotions such as sadness, happiness, anger, and greed. But one maj...