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On the Side of Better Angel Although morality consstantly exists in societies worldwide, it represents for different values in different societies. Some may think consuming alcohol is a sin, and some think that it is pleasurable. However, as society progresses, … Continue reading →

Pearl as the Only Redemption for Hester Should a child be blamed for the parent’s sin? In the book The Scarlet Letter, the narrator Nathaniel Hawthorne sets up an interesting character, Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne and Dimmesdale. The … Continue reading →

Safe Trip, Seat Belts The plane landed in that cold winter night filled with snowdrifts and numerous flakes falling to the ground. As the lonely sky hung up high, the darkness and silence are all over the place. People even … Continue reading →

Listen  In the novel The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien readers experience the horrific scenes of Vietnam during the war.  The soldiers carry with them, not just the items needed to survive, but mental, emotional, and physical burdens.  While men are … Continue reading →

Truth Is The Only Safe Ground To Stand Upon In the novel The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale is a man of secret sin, hidden guilt, but a man that must stay honest to his relationship with … Continue reading →

It was all black when I woke up on the ice, the first thing I saw was coach Jeff Ross looking down at me. “Well, that can’t be good. He’s done” Ross said.   It was 6 A.M on a … Continue reading →

Corruption of Innocence In the novella Maggie: A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane, Maggie, a prostitute on the street corners in New York sees life in the eyes of a “painted cohort.”  Maggie involves herself in a toxic … Continue reading →

Death is Alive People only go to a hospice house for one reason, and it isn’t for long time care or assisted living.  My grandmother, Grammy as I called her, entered hospice care just two days before she took her … Continue reading →

Shine Pearl Shine Hester Prynne, the most shamed woman in all of Boston in The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, has committed a sin that shall belong to her for the rest of her existence.  If it isn’t enough of … Continue reading →

Lost in the Lost Generation In the time following World War I novels such as The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway were written in a time period know as The Lost Generation.  In a time of rebuilding after the … Continue reading →