E Pluribus Unum: Out of Many, One The founding fathers took many steps into making our home, the United States of America, a place of opportunity. It may seem that it took many years before America became a united nation under one co...

Generally recognized as one of the best essayists of the twentieth century, E. B. White was also a major force in the success of The New Torker magazine, a writer of some of the best children's stories of our time, an inspiring advocate of...

Few poets can be said to occupy a more secure position in the literary history of their countries than that held by E. J. Pratt. Often hailed in his own lifetime as Canada's unofficial poet laureate, Pratt has become, since his death in 19...

SOURCE: "E. M. Delafield," in Some Contemporary Novelists (Women), Leonard Parsons, 1920, pp. 177-84. In the following essay, Johnson discusses egoism and the sense of self portrayed in Delafield's female protagonists. There is a certain co...

E. V. Lucas was taught to swim by George Bernard Shaw, heard James Barrie reading Peter Pan while it was still in manuscript, and knew virtually everyone in the London literary and publishing worlds in the first third of the twentieth cent...

Born Harry Patterson on July 27, 1929, Jack Higgins has become a world renowned author. Higgins' childhood in Belfast, Ireland was filled with political strife. His family had a strong political background, and he frequently experienced the...

When you think of life changing experiences, you can think of having a near death incident, becoming a parent, becoming a believer or something in those areas. Well in my short life, I haven't really had a life changing experience. But th...

Born in Schuyler, Virginia, to Earl Henry and Doris Marion Gianinni Hamner, Earl Henry Hamner, Jr., was the eldest of eight children--three girls and five boys. The historical circumstances of his birth--both time and place--account, in va...

[The Early Asimov or, Eleven Years of Trying is a candid], delightful insight into Asimov's increasing maturity as a science fiction writer. His discussion of his feelings on first breaking into print could be an inspiration to any young wr...

During Jesus' life all he really tried to do was to improve Jewish law but the Pharisees (Rabbis of the time) were fearful of Jesus of what he had to say, and had numerous arguments with him at the time. After the death of Jesus in around t...

Imagine that you are describing planet Earth to someone who has never seen it. How would you describe its appearance? What would you say about it? What things about Earth are typical of all planets? What things are unique? To describe Eart...

By the time I had reached the end of [Earthly Powers] I had accumulated enough notes to make a modest book: a fact that bears witness to the sheer density of the writing, as well as the seriousness of its concern. It is unwise to skim. Only...

In East of Eden, John Steinbeck's narrator explores good and evil in three generations of Americans. Each time a character overcomes their extremely pure or horribly corrupt fate, he disproves destiny. Throughout the novel, Steinbeck's use ...

SOURCE: "Empire of the Mind and Heart," in Saturday Review, Vol. 41, No. 47, November 22, 1958, pp. 15-6. In the following review, Smith argues that Buck's half of Friend to Friend is more penetrating than that of Carlos Romulo because it a...

Easter time in Poland is the most special holiday for me. There are many customs connected with these days in my country. I would like to make you familiar with some of them. On the first day of spring - 21s...

Russian army's officer corps were demoralised by the poor progress of the fighting. Even though the Germans were completely outnumbered, they were more cunning and dangerous than the Russians and the Russian royal family's intervention di...

A wide diversity of spiritual and religious thought has dominated the world for centuries. However, most polytheistic views have faded to the most common thoughts of the 21st century; Eastern and Western philosophy. Between the two philos...

A Schism is a formal breach between sects of the Catholic Church. The Great Schism of 1054, between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church, was caused by the enduring differences of religious beliefs and political views...

SOURCE: Babcock, Barbara A. “’Liberty's a Whore’: Inversions, Marginalia, and Picaresque Narrative.” In The Reversible World: Symbolic Inversion in Art and Society, edited by Barbara A. Babcock, pp. 95-116. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell Uni...

During an interview in 1979, Eavan Boland renounced "the evasion out of fear from some realities, and the folly of that evasion, because the realities catch up with you." Appropriately, she spoke of reality in the plural, for in her five v...

The Ebola Virus Today, in many poor countries, especially Africa, there is a battle being fought against a deadly virus called the Ebola Virus. The Ebola Virus was originally named after the Ebola River in Congo. The first victim of the ...

[Fowles's] collection entitled The Ebony Tower takes [Marie de France's] Anglo-Norman lay of Eliduc as its focal point, or so the author states in his headnote to the translation which occupies the midpoint of the volume. In this note he sa...

Searching for the meaning of life, people constantly question religion. What is our purpose? Why are we here? What is the meaning of our lives? In the third century BC people saw their lives falling apart; they wanted a new meaning of r...

SOURCE: “The Eclogues” in The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil, Clarendon Press, 1908, pp. 130-73. In the essay below, Sellar discusses the order of composition of Vergil's Eclogues and maintains that Vergil's earlier poems are i...

Coined in 1974 by the French feminist Francoise d'Eaubonne, ecofeminism, or ecological feminism, is a recent movement that asserts that the environment is a feminist issue and that feminism is an environmental issue. The term ecof...