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Belonging is a perception shaped within personal, social, cultural and historical context. While to most the concept only includes acceptance and harmony, there can be two sides to belonging, and Donnie Darko explores this idea through its characters and their context in the film. Donnie Darko is set against the backdrop of the 1988 Bush…

War narratives before Erich Maria Remarque’s times still leaned toward subjects of glorification. escapade. and award. In showing his realistic version of a soldier’s experience. Remarque stripped that from war novels in his antiwar novel. All Quiet on the Western Front. Remarque accurately depicts both the physical and mental adversities of war. This novel should…

Michael Crichton, a master of suspense, has created a novel for yourimagination. This book involves prehistoric animals and plants from theJurassic era. Steven Spielberg took on this book, as a movie project to add tohis collection of visually mastered Science-Fiction motion pictures. Both themovie and the book have captured the imagination of people around the…

Last of the MohicansThe book begins in the middle of the French and Indian War in upper New York State near the Hudson River and Lake Chaplain. General Webb has just gotten word from an Indian that Moncalm and the French are going to attack Fort William Henry and that Colonel Munro will not be…

At a young age, Frederick Douglass understood the importance of reading and writing as the key to his freedom from slavery. Initially, Mrs. Auld, his mistress, willingly taught him the A,B,C’s. However, Mr. Auld soon discovered this and became enraged, demanding that she cease her efforts. He believed that if Douglass learned how to read,…

Children perceive the world and experience it differently than adults. Looking through a child’s eyes can be both frightening and enriching. Not only can children promote the comprehension of difficult subjects, they can also display how a child learns and conforms to society. Children see the world as it is, without bias or prejudice. Children…

The heroes of the epics “The Iliad – Achilles” and “The Epic of Gilgamesh – Gilgamesh and Enkidu” were super naturals in that Achilles was the son of Thetis, the daughter of the sea divinities Nereus and Doris; Gilgamesh was two-thirds god and one-third human; Enkidu, a wild-man created by the goddess Aruru.  The Iliad…

How Hester Changes Nathaniel Hawthorn’s novel The Scarlet Letter Is a story of love, sin, and self- realization. Hester Prying Is a beautiful young woman who commits adultery, and as punishment she has to wear a scarlet “A” on her shirt everywhere she goes. Her society shuns her and she can no longer have normal…

Last month a woman from Oklahoma named Linda Jones e-mailed me and asked if I’d be interested in a photo of Harold Preece taken on the occasion of his 77th birthday. Also appearing in the photo was his lady friend, the poet Winona Morris Nation. Of course, I replied with an enthusiastic “yes.” The photo…

In 1974, Erno Rubik, a 29-year-old Hungarian, unintentionally created the famous Rubik’s cube when he was trying to solve a design issue connected to three-dimensional geometry. The cube originally had the name “Magic Cube” given by Rubik, but later on, it was renamed as Rubik’s Cube by the Ideal Toy Corporation in 1980. Little did…