Part one of term paper
What is the meaning of life? I always asked myself this very same question every day because I often wonder what is the reason for my existence in this world. I have never learned to appreciate all the things I enjoy in life, such as health, friendship, and love. I have always taken them for granted. I have constantly wanted more out of l ...

Part two of term paper
... wondered how [he] survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while.¡¨ Born during the Depression era, Frank McCourt, along with his brothers, Malachy, Michael, and Alphonsus, is raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland. Since birth, Frank and his brothers endure ¡§poverty, [a] shiftless loquacious alcoholic father, [a] pious dejected mother, pompous priests, bullying schoolmasters and the [despised] English.¡¨ Frank becomes very mature ...