Blind Desire Desire: it drives you, pushes you forward in life, and only by satisfying this yearning will happiness be possible. Blindness: some choose to ignore reality and bring this upon themselves, while others are simply unable to see life in its true light. When examined closely, the main c...
My mom looked around happily, "it's a perfect house!" she exclaimed. "Can't you just imagine a murder taking place here Molly?" I nodded in agreement and pushed aside the wispy white drapes at the large bay window in the living room. Outside a wide expanse of closely clipped green lawn swept to the top of a low cliff overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. ...
Born into a middle class mining family, D.H Lawrence grew up in the environment that was surrounded and supported by the coalmines. His father was a coal miner in the nearby mine. His mother was a schoolteacher that had retired when she started having a family. The family that Lawrence grew up in ...
"Tomorrow When The War Began" is the first book in a series of seven that were written by John Marsden and published in 1993. This novel is set in present time, outback Australia. The story is written in 1st person (using past and present tense) by a girl named Ellie. It is about her and her seven friends, six of whom when returning on a camping trip with her into a supposedly impenetrable ravine called Hell, find that their homes have been invaded and their family and friends held hostage at the Wirrawee Showgrounds by an unknown foreign army. They have no homes, no family, and no one to help...
The wealthy lifestyles of the Buchanans and Miss Jordan have morally corrupted their lives. Money has created boredom for them. Their ways of perceiving life and their altitudes towards other is vain. But each of them shows off their vanity in different ways. Tom Buchanan, for example, believes that white civilization is going to pieces and will be utterly submerged by the other races. ...
Arrayed for the world to see in a vast "Crystal Palace" of iron and glass, the marvels of British manufacture achieved a regal stature of their own and cast their allure upon the monarchy in turn. ... Discoveries in geology, biology, and textual scholarship shattered belief in the literal truth of the Bible. ...
