… was struggling to cross the slippery puddle- filled streets. The crossing guard at the corner felt a tug at her leg and it was Tommy waiting to cross. He waited patiently at the corner until traffic seemed to clear. The crossing guard began to lead…

… first appeared in Harper's Magazine (January 1987). It is an account of why some marginalized people "choose" homelessness and why middle-class culture finds them so threatening. In this piece, Marin explains to his readers that homeless people…

… depicts human life as an ongoing quest for virtue and self-discovery, which one should approach with humility and modesty. He maintains that life is a challenging period of trials and tribulations and that one must confront these challenges without succu…

… Coles talks about the works of two photographers, Jane Lange and Walker Evans, examining the process they used to produce their pictures and the artistic decisions they made; the meaning they wanted to convey and the history of their photographs. …

… certain thoughts and ideas which are often forced upon us by other individuals or groups. In Dorris Lessing's Prisons We Choose To Live Inside she brings up a valuable point being that humans have the most trouble resisting the influence of…

… upon a readers personal values and attitudes towards the context of World War One. Discuss. By: Sarah Hilliard Australia has not always been a mature nation but through inclusion in World War One, the state of Australia's maturity was developed.…

… Often short stories would be printed in short, weekly chapters in magazines or newspapers, this made then quite popular. Reading these 'chapters' or stories was easy to get into and it was a good form of entertainment at the time. There were…

… proper format, conveys a message to the world. It is very easy to type out a sentence, or write a paper based on the tools you are given from your teacher or professor, but to create your own style and "syntactically" arrange them is a whole new ballgam…

… on evidence in the text. In the novel The Scarlet Letter the character Pearl is portrayed as the young mischievous daughter of Hester Prynne. Nathaniel Hawthorne portrays Pearl's physical trait as a spitting image of her mother but also reveals…

… Rex, sight and blindness are used as an underlying theme throughout the play. Sophocles makes the point that those with sight are not all seeing, and often those without sight see what others don't. Our first encounter with blindness in the…