Melton Cartes

This is an essay I wrote for my College English class.

A young attractive woman walks down a big city street. The next block hosts a construction site, a new office building investors are pinning their hopes on. Men between the ages of 18 and 58 work on this site, carrying out the stereotypical spectacle of lots of workers but seemingly little work getting done, with not a few of them apparently standing around, talking. The truth is that their work was largely done by the time most people are getting to work. So, as this young woman passes by, it happens to be their lunch hour and they’re sitting and eating while spectating the wide variety of femininity that promenades by their site. (more…)

This is an essay I wrote for my College English class.

Not only is the Civil War not over, it may not have been won by the North. If you look at Germany, Japan and to a lesser extent Italy, countries that the United States as part of the Allied Forces fought in WWII, today we see no lingering public resentments on the national level from that gruesome and tragic war that involved so many people and cost so many lives (notwithstanding any individual or personal grievances). (more…)