Can't Help Falling in Love

The great desire to achieve the ultimate American Dream has not just been a fad that comes back into style every couple of years; it has been an idea that has stimulated American Citizens for many centuries. According to Merriam- Webster’s Dictionary, the American Dream is defined as an American social ideal that stresses egalitarianism and especially material prosperity; the prosperity or life that is the realization of this ideal. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Arthur Miller’s…

Have you ever read a book so great you can’t put it down? I can honestly say that this has never happened to me. English has always been my most difficult and disliked subject. Reading and writing never came easy to me, and I always seemed to just squeeze by to get the grade that my parents and I thought was acceptable. I struggled in finding a way to make English enjoyable. Learning to read did not come easy for me. I started at a later age than normal and ever since then it seems like I have…

left me with a feeling I can't describe, the same feeling you give me now. I hid it close to my heart, away from everything else, but I can hold it no more. This may come as a shock, but you are the one I've loved all these past years. You make me feel like an ocean made warm from the sun.” “Harold, I don't know what to say.” “And Alice, my love for you is as vast as all the oceans combined.” “Harold--” Alice's hands were already resting gently in Harold's, but…

As we usher in the festive season, the magnificent University of Illinois at Chicago Theatre rekindles our love and belief in fairy-tale by astonishing us the phenomenal play titled The Secret in the wings by Mary Zimmerman. With the amazing direction by Christine Mary Dunford, the secret in the wings brings stories of love, life and fantasy alive on stage. Everyone at some point in their life have had deep believe in fairy tales, some still hold on to them, I should know because I’m one of…

Warsan Shire’s “For women who are difficult to love” is the most well-known poem because Beyoncé had adapted it into her album, Lemonade. Warsan Shire is a present- day poet whose poems have powerful words and the words are what women relate to. Beyoncé’s interpretation of “For women who are difficult to love” was about her husband cheating on her and it tells us about how Beyoncé’s husband might have tried to deny the allegations and made her feel guilty about her expectation from the…

Many people are blinded by their own narrow-mindedness. Our self-destroying, materialistic and superficial society puts a heavy burden on us with this “if you can’t see it, it doesn’t exist” attitude. There is a battle between society and the mentally ill. A silent war between blind and unheard. Judgment and hate usually comes from a lack of understanding, and it’s impossible to completely understand the human…

burned with anguish and anger” (158). “Araby” is a story of initiation, which allows us to recognize that the short story, will without a doubt include a valuable life lesson. This story tells a story about a young boy who believes he has fallen in love with a girl who he has never really had a conversation with and has eventually created an image of her in his head that is unrealistic and foolish. For this very reason, throughout this story the young boy goes from being a child in the beginning…

drinking too much. The son, and father have a close relationship because he doesn’t call him dad or “father” like most do. The young boy calls him “papa” in the poem as he helps him through the kitchen. Since papa is drunk again, the mom who is also there does not help him, and doesn’t even bother. Only mentioning she is not happy and can’t unfrown her expression. That’s where you can sense that this is not the first time that “papa” has gotten drunk like this. There is nothing the mom can do,…

He managed to figure the meaning of his life, and is on the right path to getting help. Before, he was convinced that he needed to be the catcher in the rye, for example, catch his sister whenever she fell down. However he learned that his role was to fall into the abyss, and not really have an effect on her life. He needed to learn…

marriage being something you do when you genuinely love another person. Without any other thought young adults will marry another based only on the belief that they are “in love”. Yet within a year or two the same couple that’s “in love” will divorce. Just as quickly as they go in they rush out with a divorce, and in doing so break the very foundation of what marriage is meant for. Whether it is cause from lying, cheating, or simply “falling out of love” they damage their own future, and their…