Richard Meehan writes an account of the story that Thomas Worcester tells him. The story starts out with a preview of sorts. Its tells the reader that engineers face a lot of ethical problems. The way that engineers secure deals can be mixed up and not really make any sense....

In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, Ursula K. Le Guin describes an imaginary city called Omelas, where everybody is constantly happy and satisfied. In Omelas, the summer solstice is a very important event which the local community celebrates with joyful processions, music, food and horse races. Despite Le...

Within the novel Devil in a Blue Dress, the story is told about a black man in the 1940s who is trying to establish himself in the American Dream - owning his own home and making a comfortable living for himself. However, given the time period and the cultural situation,...

Elsa Morante’s novel “History” includes the concept of Catholicism and Catholic elements, but it mainly focuses on the individual development of the protagonist, Ida. Ida suffers a crisis identity throughout the book. Her father was baptized as a Catholic, but her mother was a Jewish woman. Therefore, Ida has a...

One of the values of the American Dream is freedom, and this is perhaps the value most explored in the film, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, in regard to the protagonist, Duke. This is because Duke essentially does whatever he wants without thinking, and this includes taking heavy amounts...