Cultural Differences Observed at the Dinner Tables in the U.S. and Japan The French author André Maurois wrote in his book The Art of Living (1939), “In restaurants, the duration of silence between couples is too often proportionate to the…

This is an updated version of my essay on Toni Morrison's Beloved, originally submitted as a school assignment. From Outside of the Slave Plantation Toni Morrison’s Beloved is centered on experiences of a former fugitive slave Sethe. Two o…