She was the only woman at Sweet Home, besides Sethe, that was used and abused as a baby factory. ... For example, in Georgia, Paul D suffered a second enslavement with guards that held life and death power to sexually abuse the prisoners. ... Each person she becomes close to brings back her past memories of Sweet Home. Baby Suggs was the Sethe's first close friend and companion after escaping Sweet Home. ... On the twenty-eighth day Schoolteacher, an abusive, racist supervisor at Sweet Home, came to take back Sethe and her children back to slavery. ...

• Word Count: 2030
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog, had written in reference to immigrants in America, "Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' ... " Immigrants from the 1700s to modern day have all held one thing dear to their hearts that connect them and explain the reasons for why they come to America, and it is called the American Dream. ... She wouldn't feel at home in America until she was accepted for who she was and met a person who didn't look at her as if she was a roach and alien. ... I strugg...

• Word Count: 2291
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

He goes farther as to put his arms around me, I tried to take his hand away, but he only held onto my shoulders tighter. ... I tried to stay home as much as possible and changed the routes I used in school to avoid him as much as possible. One day I came home from school and found him standing on my driveway. ... John has gone to as much trouble as going to her home uninvited; this action could be considered as stalking relating to harassment. The fact that he not only came to Jane's home uninvited, but he would grope Jane's shoulders holdin...

• Word Count: 2182
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Why does this happen in the land of the free, this place we call home, this America? ... In addition to being the modern workingwomen of the 90s, women are still held to the standards of the 1960s housewives. ... Women who stay home and take care of their kids are considered "soccer moms" and are not looked down on by society but are considered somewhat lazy for not contributing much to our economy. ...

• Word Count: 1718
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

My mom has always been home for me when I need her. ... On the day that they went, my parents left early, and I was home alone despite my young age, only 10 years old, I knew how to take care of myself. ... After a while I heard a noise coming from the mini bed and went to see if everything was ok, and I realize that my brother was awake, I spoke to him and he looked at me, he was out of the covers, and his little hands were shaking, I caught it and held his hand, put my index finger and he shook my finger as hard as he could, that exact moment I realize that I had another person that I could ...

• Word Count: 1405
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

For instance, "some [men] desire to be accounted wealthy abroad and are yet ready to starve at home" (Radice, electronic version). ... Another had rather get riches by war than live peaceably at home. ... In the Renaissance, the church held a lot of political power, and Erasmus believed that the church was doing nothing more than blinding the people. ...

• Word Count: 1530
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

My mother stays at home making quilts to sell for extra money. ... Eight days later, Hanukah is over and my grandparents have gone home. ... I thought to myself, "Finally, after three years of living in that ghetto, we get to go back home." ... I held him in my arms for hours, crying. ...

• Word Count: 1733
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

His father comes to the performance and afterwards forcibly takes Neil back home. ... He defied his teachers by sneaking out of school and going to the woods where the club meetings were held. Therefore, Neil exhibited many of the characteristics held by boys of overbearing fathers and even killed himself because he could not deal with the disappointment from his father. ...

• Word Count: 1967
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The environment changes as Lyman journeys off on his summer adventure as he grows up and becomes a man, by going all the way to Chicken, Alaska for the long days, and back on home to North Dakota. ... Then Plunged the piece that held the two together into the water with his brother. ...

• Word Count: 1504
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

She held jobs as a coat-check girl, a hair sweeper in a beauty salon (which she quit after two days when the manager wanted to change her name to echo), and a waitress. ... (Handelman) During the ride home Tommy took the tape and listen to it. ...

• Word Count: 1798
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

My oldest daughter, Halie, has saved my life not just once but many times. I was only fifteen when I was a wild child that path eventually lead me to being pregnant at the age of sixteen. I was pregnant with my oldest daughter, Halie May Evenson. The doctor that I went to see confirmed my worst fea...

• Word Count: 1867
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School