Garden of Eden Parables: The English Tour of Italy
The drive down to the city of Montalcino may even be enough to understand Italy. Between there, and the neighboring town of Siena, one begins to understand the necessity of a stick shift. The S-curves of the road wind gracefully--unlike their straight and bored counterparts in the New Worldand, so....
Native American Women: Coerced, Stripped, and Abandoned
I had been sterilized at the age of eleven, at the IHS [Indian Health Service] hospital here in the early 1950s. I got married in the 1960s and I went to the doctor and he told me that I had a partial hysterectomy. [When I was a child] they were giving us vaccinations and mine got infected and a n....
The Lost Generation
Kat Shareshian
Lit Media Studies
5/16/05
Period 2
The Lost Generation
The lost generation is a phrase coined by Gertrude Stein referring to those intellectuals, poets, artists, and novelists who expatriated themselves to Paris. These young adults searched for meaning, drank excessive....
Wise Words from the Buddha for the Lost Generation - The Sun Also Rises
In Ernest Hemingways novel The Sun Also Rises, readers discover the post World War 1 era that is full of much adversity, immorality and loss of any hope and value for anything. The War That Would End All Wars is not often directly touched upon by Hemingways characters, but it is understanda....