… She was strong enough to board a strange ship sailing to a new world. She was strong enough to actually be hopeful, to really believe in a chance. That, in my own opinion, is a rare thing indeed. Hester plays the e in Nathaniel…

… stories about slavery, both very impressive but at the same time very different from each other. The stories are written by authors who both where once slaves themselves, but finally gained freedom One was written by a woman and thus giving us…

… time. The thought of magic and death is plagued mankind for millions of years. In the era of William Shakespeare, there was a strong theory in the supernatural. Therefore, the concept of the supernatural plays in many of Shakespeare’s plays (Supernatural…

… by the same man who authored such compelling books as Shiloh: In Hell Before Night and Chattanoga: A Death Grip on the Confederacy. That man could only be Civil War buff and historian James Lee McDonough. Currently, James Lee McDonough is a faculty…

… Sketch It was with ardent horror that the prehistoric man first witnessed a solar eclipse---the sun swallowed by the predator moon until all light ceased and darkness fell on to the land. We, the more enlightened descendants, have also suffered…

… ““blinded”” to the truth. The answer to their question or solution to their problem may have been obvious. Yet, they could not "see" the answer. They were blinded to the truth. Associations have been made between being blind and enlightened. A blind…

… J. Koch (born in1924), served as the Democratic mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989. In 1985, he contributed the essay to the New Republic, an influential public affairs magazine. In the article “Death and Justice” he supports the idea of the…

… a particular genre indubitably interferes with an interpreter’s appreciation of a composer’s composition. The numerous ways of pursuing revenge all manifest different paths of creation and consequently devise different interpretations creators seek…

… provide the scaffolding that allows us to build our own system of thought." "We are too civil to books," writes Emerson." For a few golden sentences we read 400 to 500 pages." Still he opened every new book with anticipation. He spent…

… in a society inundated with different gender-related social interaction styles it’s easy to understand why people believe that men and women come from two distinctly different cultures. Gender roles have become learned patterns of behavior…