Essays on The One that Got Away

The year was 1842 in Glendora, Mississippi; there lived a young boy named Jimmy. At the age of 13 Jimmy was sold and separated from his father. He was sold to William C. Ford. Ever since that day Massa Ford hasn’t let him go. Jimmy...

There’s a song that young children are taught. My mother sung it to me and I have yet to meet anyone who hasn’t heard it. “You are my sunshine.” While this is a cute song for kids, it has a deep meaning if you’ve ever...

In Katy Perry’s corresponding music video to her single, The One that Got Away, she addresses the roles of men and women individually, during both a relationship, and a breakup scenario . Her visual tells two correlated stories. The first is a story of a...

In Chaim Potok’s The Chosen, a quote by psychologist Karl Menninger appears in the dedication. It goes, “When a trout rising to a fly gets hooked and finds himself unable to swim about freely, he begins a fight which results in struggles and splashes and...