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Last week, my nephew came to visit me. While he was playing, he fell off the chair he was sitting on, and began to cry. While his mom tried to calm him down, I asked him if he wanted a chocolate, and the tears immediately stopped. He proceeded to enjoy his chocolate and then bargained…

Black people come in all different shades, and because we look different we get discriminated against differently. Colorism is the racist belief that light skinned is good and dark skinned is bad. This goes all the way back to slavery days when the white man used to separate us by color placing the light skinned…

The objective of the proposed research is to understand the catastrophe of 1947 known as Partition of India- Pakistan in South Asian Literature with the references from Indian and Diaspora Writers. The study will be focused on how literature perceived the event and its repercussions on the lives of people. The project is based on…

Healthcare in the United States is still relatively new to us and is one of the most debated topics in our government. Many presidents have tried to get Healthcare reform in the past, however one President that finally got a law passed on it, was former President Barack Obama. In October of 2009 The Affordable…

What does it mean to be a hero? In definition, it is someone admired for courage and nobility, someone with idealistic qualities. James Sturges is the main protagonist in the fantasy novel written by Guillermo Del Toro. James demonstrates heroism in his transformation of himself and the town he lives in while exploring the unknown….

“And that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost explains in his poem ​The Road Not Taken​, the direction we do not choose in our life is the road not taken and that will make all the difference in our destination. Robert Frost explains his thoughts about the option he had left in the past….

In the opening poems of Drum Taps, Whitman has a patriotic tone which shows the audience that war was not only necessary, but that people’s lives were just small price to pay to ensure people’s safety back home. Whitman, along with Melville, does recognize that war does come with a price but, the price comes…

We haven’t discovered much of our ocean. Why is that? The ocean has a lot of information that we need and the ocean plays a role in everything. It gives us information on climate, the air, water pressure, etc. We have most of our knowledge about the ocean in shallower water but the deeper waters…

Beowulf was a noble warrior growing up. He was courageous, powerful, and greatly known for his swimming match against Breca. He was dedicated, loyal, and had a reputation for those qualities. He continued to represent that as he grew older, and his defeat of Grendel, and Grendel’s mother, shows that. He gained a lot of…

John Boynton Priestley was an English world-famous essayist, playwright, novelist, social critic and historian. He was one of England’s last great writers. He was a member of the last generation of freethinking British sages who contemplated both science and philosophy in their literary output. Critics said he was a writer in Britain’s best ‘roast beef…