This essay explores the characteristics of Noboru, Ryiju, and Fusako in The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea.

Comparision of Kurt Vonnegut's

Explores three of Dickinson's poems:

A research paper on Phyllis Wheatley's poem

This essay takes a vivid and unique look into the transformations that modern artist use to interpret Shakespeare. Akira Kurosawa, director of

Raplh Waldo Emerson's nonconformity and blithe thinking were factors in putting American prose on stage with the European masters. However, the ideals shown in his essays bore striking similarities to those found in Native American folklore. The irony is he views them with contempt and unease, while preaching to Americans in his essays the same ideals inherent in thousands of years of tradition. By doing a comparative critque between the two, both could further justify each other.

The majority of Americans are immigrants or descendents of immigrants, and most are also hybrids of multiple ethnicities.  Americans commonly long for uniqueness, and simultaneously desire community and connectedness.  Initially, the protagonists from the novels Tripmaster Monkey by Maxine Hong Kingston, and The Counterlife by Philip Roth, reject their ethnic heritages, but they later realize that they want to be accepted in society for who they are--history, legacy and skin color included.

An examination of the establishment of culture, language, and authority in isolated society.

An absurdist, satirical impression of the usual morning of a confused genius.

An essay on John Fante's novel

Essay on Jonathan Lowy's novel

As I nowlay vacant...pondering, thinking and suspecting.Not about others…but about self.And I wonder…would I be I Which I am now,if I hadn’t got your love some how.The very thought of youfills my bosom with emotions unlimited,which my heart fails to store.And flows and flows and flows...through the shrine of my heart causing whirlpool in all of my senses and altering each and every barren partsof mine fertile and productive.

a reflection on life

reminiscence of a lost love