P3t3r1 wrote:

Hi, I would really appreciate it if someone could read it over and see if there are any grammar errors. I checked it over but it is always helpful to have a second check. Thanks. William E. Gladstone, the great statesman of Britain, once remarked in a speech that “selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race". This selfishness, a terrible and destructive force of the human nature, is a central theme in both The Shining Houses by Alice Munro and The Winner by Barbara Kimenye. The Shining Houses is a story about a neighborhood in a fictionalized western city that is trying to eradicate an elderly occupant resident simply because her property doesn’t meet their [neighborhood = singular = its] standards. The Winner, on the other hand, talks about an elderly man in Buganda winning the football lottery and the consequences that comes with it.  Although The Shining Houses and The Winner uses [two novels = plural verb = use] two very different settings, both emphasize the universal quality of the selfishness that exists in humans. Selfishness is universal because it exists in all types of people, can be destructive in many different ways, and encounters many different kinds of resistance.