… make them feel like they are older. Getting an allowance, a later curfew, their first job: these are all big steps in one's life to maturing and becoming an adult. There are the important times that one never forgets because of their huge effect on…

… can also be reckless and impulsive? Throughout the Epic, The Odyssey, Odysseus is determined to be a survivor and return to Ithaca with a status appropriate to his own sense of excellence. Odysseus is not going to make any suicidal heroic stands…

… Fitzsgerald's novel the Great Gatsby you have to consider the style in which it is written. The reader has to evaluate the two different points of view, Nick as the character and Nick as the narrator. After all, Nick the narrator is reflecting…

… the decisions we make in our daily lives. Often times, emotion alters our ability to make coherent choices. In the play "Hamlet", by William Shakespeare, Hamlet encounters difficulty in making decisions as he deals with his nemesis, Claudius. In Act…

… about things as they are, and not as they are said to be" (George Bernard Shaw). These words define how people tend to only view things from the outside, without looking deeper. They do not look past the stereotypes to see things for what they really…

… he attempts to tell a woman of his love for her. When Prufrock says, "Do I dare disturb the universe? In a minute there is time for decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse" (lines 45-48), it shows that he is not very confident, he changes…

… in response to various contextual influences which dominate the different eras in which it has been read. The original dominant reading was based on the Judeo-Christian context of the Elizabethan times and reflected in Shakespeare use of the Aristotelian…

… they could ever have in the world. There is no way they would trade their children for anything; not even for the most expensive thing ever exist. No wonder they are willing to do and give anything just to make their kids happy. However, apparently,…

… trend of his administration to adopt an ever more active role in world politics. The internationalist administration was committed to spreading Capitalism and Democracy around the globe. Kennedy said that the country was prepared "to pay any price,…

… and Niccol's not to distant American city are in many ways similar in the sense of totalitarianism. The systems of control are quit different. Orwell's world seems to be an overbearing socialist police state where as, the world in Gattaca is almost…