My American Values
About to embark on a four-week academic course at Oxford University in the UK, I am profoundly troubled on how to answer the simplest of questions,…
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Appropriate Behavior
My father wants people to take me seriously and so I must conduct myself in thought, word and deed in the appropriate manner. He expects to…
The Christmas Truce 1914
I am a British soldier in a front line trench at Ypres, Belgium on Christmas Eve 1914. The night is cold and crisp. As I sit…
Mendacious malingerer manipulates mild mannered mother with malevolent mendacity.
Currently, my father is not proud at the way I conduct myself. He is unhappy with several flaws in my character. The consequences of these flaws…
Who Won the First World War?
World War 1, 1914-1918, was a war fought on the fields of Belgium and France, the steppes of Russia, the rugged Alpine mountain ranges, the narrow…