"One moment I was on my feet singing and clapping and, at the same time, working out in my head the plot of a play I was working on then; the next moment, with no transition, no sensation of falling, I was on my back, with the lights beating down onto my face and all the vertical saints above me . ... In the end his father ended up slapping him; "In that moment everything flooded back-all the hatred and all the fear, and the depth of a merciless resolve to kill my father rather that al! low my father to kill me" (Baldwin 37) Everything that Baldwin had "repented" had come screaming back to hi...

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• Grade Level: High School

In Sunday school Owen would always be harassed for being too small and was often thrown around and abused by the children. ... He still continued to attend church every Sunday and kept his faith alive. ... (Pg 1) He sends Creon to an oracle to find out how to cure the city of this plague and Creon comes back to say the killer of Laius is in this town and needs to be driven out for the plague to end. ... (pg 5) The irony comes about when Oedipus was making fun of and rebuking the citizens of his country for not taking action, as well as reprimanding the unknown person who did this awful cri...

• Word Count: 1938
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

When I watch a sitcom from my childhood, like "MASH", I think, "How innocent things were back then." ... I used to work many Sundays. One Sunday, I was at work and I overwhelmingly felt the presence of the Holy Spirit. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

What is the American family? This question was answered by John de Crevecoeur, in "what is the American?" (1782), when he said: "I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman, and whose present four sons have four wives of different nations."1 In fact, Crevecoeur summarized the history of the American family, in particular, and the American man, in general. There are many kinds of family systems in the world; the English family is but one of them. ...

• Word Count: 9352
• Approx Pages: 37
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School