The Things We Choose Not To See The topic of violence is a recurrent theme in the media today. We all see it on the nightly news where we find out about the latest homicide or act of violence among the people who live in the lower class areas of Philadelphia. However, as many of us are middle ...
Jason M. Lee once said: "Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control; living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chan...
On March 27, 1970 Mariah Carey was born on Long Island, New York. She grew up in a divorce family at a very young age. Her father had left and it was now up to her mother to take care of her two of her three children. Mariah's sister Allison decided to move with her father when he had left. So M...
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.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen." Immigrants from the 1700s to mode...
