Winter Poem

The Snow That Never Drifts

The snow that never drifts

the transient, fragrant snow

That comes single time a Year

is softly drifting now--

So thorough in the Tree

At night beneath the star

That it was February's Foot

Experience would swear

Like Winter has a face

We stern and former knew

Repaired all but Loneliness

By Nature's Alibit

Where every storm so spice

That value could not be--

We buy with contrast-- Pang is good

As near as memory--

By Emily Dickinson

Favorite Short Story

My favorite short story is by Edgar Allan Poe and is titled The Masque of Red Death. This short story is incredibly well-written and left me with a very erie feeling after reading it. The tone of the story is very dark as is the narration. The story also has a bone-chilling lesson that you cant hide from death forever.

Education Today

Do you think young people today value their education as much as Sara Smolinsky does? Why of why not?

People today obviously do not value their education as much as Sara Smolinsky. Kids in high school fail out of classes every day not because they are dumb, but because they don't care. Most of these kids are given a great chance to succeed in life and they take it for granted and fail out of class. If Sara were around today to see people fail because they are simply lazy, I feel like she would be disappointed with the current America.

Thoughts on the novel Bread Givers

When reading the novel Bread Givers I find that much of the book is based off of a male dominant society. Since the cultivation of man the male has always been the leading role in a family. This is no different in the Orthodox Jewish religion that the main characters in Bread Givers family. Most of the problems are derived from the father's fanatical studies of the Torah and his belief of a male dominated household.

"There's nothing hard about writing. All you have to do is sit down and open a vein."

-Walter "Red" Smith

I believe that this quote is true for some but not most. For most people, like me, it is difficult to produce great writing. No matter how passionate you may feel about the topic, you are not necessarily a "good" writer. Personally, writing takes effort and time. Maybe for sophisticated writers there is nothing hard about writing, but for the rest of us it takes work.