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68The Concept of Grace in A Good Man is Hard to Find
Flannery O’Connor is known as one of America’s best Southern Writers, having published two novels, thirty two short stories, and variety of essays and literary criticism. Her work is...
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73Jack Gilbert’s “A Brief for the Defense”
Jack Gilbert is one of the most celebrated contemporary American poets still living to this day. He is known for a simplicity and directness in his poems, allowing them to be available and...
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65A Women’s Place Isn’t Always in the Lodge: A Reading Evaluation of Pretty Shield
Frank Linderman, author of Pretty Shield, had a tough job ahead of him. Having been in Montana for over 46 years, and writing about the culture and life of the Crow Indian, Linderman was still unable to...
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70The Curious Years of Ishi: A Reading Evaluation of Ishi in Two Worlds
Theodora Kroeber, author of Ishi in Two Worlds, thought it essential to record the last years of a Native American Yahi man. Although this individual never revealed his true name, he was given the Yahi word...
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63How To Buy Cheap Textbooks for College
A great list of ways to buy cheap textbooks for college. Includes links to sites, stores, and the facts of why books are so, so expensive.
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64Six Absolutely Must Know Book Sites
The six must know book sites that I love on the internet. Includes free book sites, audio books, indie online store, and more.
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69Teddy Roosevelt: A Popular, Progressive Hero
Theodore Roosevelt was a professional historian, learned naturalist, explorer, hunter, woodsman, author of thirty five books and numerous essays, a member of the board of police commissioners in New York...
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73Telling Lies to Experience the Truth in Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story”
Tim O’Brien, in “How to Tell a True War Story”, instructs his readers that truth is not actually factual and morals are not always absolute. By using a variety of story-telling techniques, and...
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81Concepts of Freedom in John Updike’s “A & P”
John Updike’s “A & P” offers a first person narrative of a young supermarket employee in a typical blue collar town. Sammy tells us a story about the events and observations that lead up to eventually...
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70A Freudian Perspective of Lady Macbeth
The year was 1923 and a young Austrian psychiatrist published “The Ego and the Id,” creating a new theory on the human psyche. Sigmund Freud theorized that a human’s personality had three distinct...
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