… reflect on the past, the good experiences, the bad experiences. However, the bad experiences always seem to be the most remembered. This is because the bad experiences the world has suffered have been horrific in many cases and have ultimately changed…

… Earth Abides, a vivid and highly detailed future of society is painted. After a fast spreading and fast acting disease has all but destroyed civilization, seemingly infecting nothing but humans, only a few survivors are left to live on and determine…

… Own,” the story of a drifting man who meets an old woman and her daughter, is a very interesting piece by Flannery O’Connor. The old woman, Lucynell Crater and her daughter, also Lucynell Crater, live by themselves, and one day Mr. Shiftlet, the…

… If you are anything like the American masses, you are likely to say World War II. During wartime America was considered to be at its prime. America industry was booming, American soldiers were the strongest on the planet, and the nation was united…

… Daughters by Yvonne S. Thornton, Thornton portrays the factors in life that young people take through writing about her family. Mr. Thornton, who starts out his family with nothing, raises a total of six children successfully. He works two…

… style of narration, having the deceased speak. Only through this manifestation do these poems have a lasting impact and greater meaning. Both in Dickinson’s “I heard a Fly Buzz—“and in Jarrell’s “Death of the Ball Turret Gunner,” death is portrayed…

… the basic rights illustrated in the First Amendment hold no weight and society is merely a brainwashed, mechanical population. According to Ray Bradbury, the author of Fahrenheit 451, this depiction is actually an exaggerated forecast for the American…

… experiences of, and personal philosophical developments during, his time in southeastern Utah’s canyonlands. Abbey doesn’t like to consider himself a nature writer, yet he clearly exhibits great strengths as a preserver of nature through his writings.…

… the Cuckoo’s Nest. The novel was basically written about an Asylum and the powerful Randle Patrick McMurphy, a patient who would rather be in a Mental Institution than the slammer. In the Asylum he changed the atmosphere in the ward, he change…

… Lennie and George had in Of Mice and Men is incomparable to most friendships today. They were two very different people brought together by fate. Through all the hardships that they’ve been through, they still managed to pull through it all, that is,…