Every month, we select some of the best scholarships around and post them here on our blog. When you are ready to apply, check out our tips on How to Write a Scholarship Essay! Bruce Lee Foundation Scholarship Program Amount: $1,000 Eligibility: Applicant must be at least 16 years of age and be a senior in high…
Summer Reading That Doesn’t Suck
Ah, summer time, the perfect opportunity to pick up a new book and enter a brand new or vaguely familiar world. Pool-side or park-side, a new book is a great way to fill your brightly lit evenings. Check out our thoughtfully curated suggestions below for some truly gratifying reads. For a Good Laugh: Consider picking…
How to Use Hyphens, En Dashes, and Em Dashes
This is part two in our original grammar series. It turns out the little horizontal lines you’ve been sticking between words when you weren’t sure what sort of punctuation should go there are actually different lengths for a reason. Go figure. Which of the following should fill the blank? 1. The confident student begins the well_proofed…
How to Use Commas
This is part one in our original grammar series. Today, we discuss the comma. It has rules attached to it that are easy to forget, and often hard to understand. Which of these sentences is correctly punctuated? A) Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Tell Tale Heart,” describes the crazy narrator’s murder of the old man…
The 10 Most Popular Homework Help Questions on eNotes
This month we’re opening our data vault and sharing some eNotes secrets. We get thousands upon thousands of student questions on every topic imaginable. And those questions are viewed by even more students around the world. So it takes a unique question to top our charts and get more clicks than all the rest. Here…
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Exquisite Commencement Speeches by Famous Authors
A lot of the literary geniuses who penned the eNotes top one hundred literary works are dead—but a surprising number of them aren’t, and have thankfully stuck around long enough to see the invention of YouTube. Check out the funny, profound, tragic, and sometimes surprising revelations offered by the authors you think you know in their…
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Mother’s Day Cards to Famous (and Infamous) Literary Moms
We love our moms, and they love us! But... more often than not in literature, we see somewhat, er, nontraditional relationships between mothers and their children. Some of these relationships are too good (or too bad?) not to comment on, so when we started brainstorming our Mother’s Day post, we kept coming back to the…
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8 Hauntingly Beautiful J.M. Barrie Quotes
Happy birthday, Sir Barrie! J.M. Barrie, famous for penning the original novel that inspired Peter Pan, was born on this day in 1860. To commemorate, we've put together some of our favorite Barrie quotes (no, we didn't just focus on Peter Pan... though we couldn't omit it entirely). We chose some of our favorite spine-tingling and thought-provoking quotes commenting…