In the poem Beowulf, Beowulf is recognized as the ideal hero because Beowulf’s attitudes and actions reveal him to be the strongest and most gifted warrior around. He is the main character of the epic – a Geatish hero who fights the monster Grendel, Grendel’s mother, and a fire-breathing dragon. As a youth Beowulf represents […]
“Mom, I don’t want to go!” In Inchon Airport, on a hot and humid mid-August day, people were busily moving as always. But when the girl cried out, people stopped moving and turned towards the scene of the girl and her mother. Her mother shook off the girl’s hands that tightly held her sleeves, but […]
2:16pm. The skinny woman in front of me had just bought two carts, $416.23 worth of food, half with a government aided food stamps program. I totaled it out, tapped sign off twice on the keyboard in front of me and ran straight into a shopping cart being loaded by a first day bagger. Singing […]
As a society, we recognize a wide variety of disabilities. Over the years people who have them have been called many things from disabled to handicapped and today are more often identified as challenged. Some of these medical conditions are detected and others are not, but nearly every person in his, or her, life will […]
As I was taking the SAT a week ago, I came across an essay question: Discuss the word Identity. Identity is a very hard topic to discuss. Identity is a state of mind that many people still do not have a firm grasp on. It’s even harder for black people. Growing up in an unjustly, […]
As he approaches me, he cheerfully greets me saying “Hey, how are you?”, and warmly shakes my hand. A bit unsure of my new surroundings, I give a shy response with a timid handshake. He asks, “Would you come this way please?” I slowly stand up and he leads me out of the waiting room […]
Earlier than Paula sat down behind me, everybody was shifting uncomfortably of their seats in a futile try and keep away from sweating of their florid formalwear. Paula was a vibrant mom who was quickly in a position to change the environment of your entire commencement. Paula’s father, who should have been near ninety years […]
Last week, I tripped and fell onto the banana tree that grows in the middle of our foyer. I had long before decided that I hated banana trees—we’d actually grown multiple over the years, caring for them as a fond reminder of tropical South India, where my parents had been born and raised. Each year, […]
Birds chirping, wind blowing, balls bouncing. My grandparents’ backyard situated in North Andover, Massachusetts is the ideal place to visit during the dog days of summer. It lies between a quaint neighborhood park, which has recently been remodeled, and Sutton Street, the town’s busiest road. Children on bikes and babies in strollers race down the […]
It’s been with me, this flaw of mine, for eighteen years, or a minimum of of what I can assume by observing the present severity of this incapacity. As soon as an issue, at all times an issue, proper? It has grown with me, developed into a facet of my life that I can depend […]