Essays about Home

INTRODUCTIONFor millennia mankind has inhabited the third planet from the sun; the planet that supports life and is know to us as Earth. Although there has been life on Earth for quite sometime, it is only in the past few centuries that man has come to learn about what makes up the interior of this…

It was in the middle of winter on a dark, smoggy night. Chills were running through the house, in and out of my room like a quiet ghost, silently coming and silently going. As I lay awake in my bed, thinking of what the next day should bring, my eyes start to grow heavy as…

The theme of entrapment is evident in Margaret Laurence’s A Bird in the House; all the characters in the novel are entrapped. These characters deal with the sense of confinement and the need for escape. Vanessa, Ewen and Aunt Edna all reach personal freedom, however only to a small extent because they are left with…

In the play Our Town, by Thornton Wilder, a character by the name of Simon Stimson makes a very insightful statement about people and their lives. Simon is dead and buried, as well as several of the plays other characters when a newly-dead young woman named Emily joins their ranks and begins to realize the…

A Different mirror: A History of Multicultural AmericaRonald Takaki is one of the foremost-recognized scholars of multicultural studies and holds a PhD. in American History from the University of California, Berkeley. As a professor of Ethnic Studies at the same university, he wrote A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America as a fantastic new…

Dukes of T-Town”Yo, Balls, that sheriff is following you pretty close, how drunk are you?” Chris asked me just before I looked in my rearview mirror to see if anyone was following us. I saw that a sheriff was about two city blocks behind us. Looking at my speedometer to check my speed and sure…

The Cider House Rules” is a movie based on John Irving’s best selling book. It is a very wonderful, touching, and real 1943s life story. The story centered on an orphanage child named Homer and a sick doctor, Dr Larch who will have an emotional bond with Homer. I watched the movie before, and my…

Buying Real EstatePrepareLike so many things in life, when it comes to buying Real Estate, proper preparation is one of the keys to success. Don’t want to find yourself in a neighborhood you don’t like? Don’t want to be making mortgage payments on a house in which you are uncomfortable? Don’t want to waste your…

John Steinbeck A Common Mans Man I never wrote two books alike, once said John Steinbeck (Shaw, 10). That may be true, but I think that he wrote many of his novels and short stories based on many of the same views. He often focused on social problems, like the haves verses the have nots,…

The Garden of Love is, quite obviously, a poem about life and the pursuit of happiness. It is also about the effects that negativity can have on love. Blake uses religion to convey the idea that negativity pervades and corrupts all life(51 n. 9), further supporting it with his use of rhyme scheme and imagery….