Free Essays

When you finish writing out your responses on a separate file, go back to the essay you responded to and pick out the most blatant statement there,,, "David Crockett said, " and put that in the first sentence of your file. 

Now go back through your responses with that nugget gleaming brightly before your eyes rewrite everything you had to say. 

Throw in some other quotes to support your views and you are done. No college professor will ever realize you didn't write the whole thing yourself.

This poignant essay of a man measuring himself against his father by a professional author will bring warmth and joy to your heart.  Down with the Willow by Lin Stone  

Distant Possessions, by Andrew Carnegie. 

A message for Garcia is one of the longest enduring and most published essays of all time.  It saw the light of day in 1899 and has been reprinted in every written language on earth. 

David Crockett's essay on Governmental Charity.

They say that God works in mysterious ways. I, for one, am a true believer of this. Sometimes His tests of endurance leave us feeling as if we may not make it through. But, like Helen Keller once said, “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it”.  Last year My family had a pretty hard year, but nothing compared to what would happen just three days before Christmas, 2003...

My First Eagle.  *  Light Your Way  *  The Law of Tooth and Claw. 

Only poets are divine.   Whence cometh then this belief that teachers are always right and mere authors so sacred?  

My young grandson had a right royal smashup on his high powered motorcycle this morning.  His ribs were broken, his arms were broken, one leg was broken, and much of his handsome face won't be handsome any more unless the Lord sends a miracle down.

Are you Leaping For Joy over Leap Years?  Here is the latest update on the subject.

Is your bathroom cleaner than your kitchen?

Inasmuch as we know that nations, like individuals, are subjected to the punishments and chastisements in this world, may we not justly fear that the awful calamity of Civil War that now desolates our land may be but a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins to the needful end of our national reformation as a whole people. Abe Lincoln

People admiring my work often say, "I could never do that!" I say, "Yes, you can!" The Artist Within 

Is Your Money Safe In The Bank?  Banks are institutions wherein miracles happen regularly. We rarely entrust our money to anyone but ourselves – and our banks. Despite a very chequered history of mismanagement, corruption, false promises and representations, delusions and behavioural inconsistency – banks still succeed to motivate us to give them our money. 

As the war clouds gather round us again the War Will Make Us Rich theory of economics rears its ugly head in the bars and even in some business circles once more.  Even state and national historians have insisted the theory is true that war will save our economy and in some magical way boost the supply of bucks bumping around in our pockets as we "SPEND OUR WAY out of a depression."

The Lady, or the Tiger?   We all face danger with every choice we make.  Here you will find reassurance and insight.

Is boredom a curse, or a blessing?

Hope and Love are the only tools known that can break down the barriers between warring nations. 

The men of the Third Division are young, strong and eager. Judging from history, their enthusiasm will last right up to the moment someone shoots back.

To equip the 650 whalers for just one voyage required an aggregate of 100,000 barrels of flour at six dollars a barrel, 32,500 barrels of corn at 70 cents a barrel. 6,500 bushels of bea

Lawrence of Arabia opined it took 15 regular troops to counteract 1 guerilla, based on his experience during World War I in this area. Modern thinking posits a range of ten to twenty troops per guerrilla. If so, it doesn't take too many guerillas before we're eating substantially into our standing forces. We've been overusing the reserves and the guard, according to Senator Kay Hutchinson, and small businesses are having a hard time supporting their employees being gone.

Pollsters are predicting a huge turnout for this election, in fact some of them are predicting that as high as one fourth the registered voters will make it all the way to the polls. In the cold crucible of Valley Forge things were a little bit different.

The Poor You Have Always With You 

The best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most.