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…The Stone Mage and the Sea The Stone Mage and the Sea is a fascinating fantasy story depicting the life of a young boy and his father and their search for absolute freedom in a world where the huge red-sanded deserts are ruled by Stone Mages…

…Rites of Passage A poem by Sharon Olds Minor Generals - By Henning Thiel Sharon Olds' "Rites of Passage" is about the hidden adults in the children that come to her son's birthday party. All the children are boys and display male adult…

…more person trying to express an opinion. The Old Testament is an accurate and valid resource to use when trying to explain Christianity and faith. For example, it is amazing how one can justify his faith to a strong Catholic family when trying to prove…

…A Gathering of Old Men by the noted novelist, Ernest J. Gaines, was first published in 1983. I wish I had known it then. Last week I stumbled across a 1992 edition published by Vintage Books at Borders on a table set aside for black authors. His most…

…, "The Meaning of Life in Old Age" The Author's question is, what is the meaning of life? Most people look to psychology for the meaning of life rather than religion and philosophy. This question has an effect on how one thinks about the social…

…Stories are account of real or imagined events. Haroun and the Sea of Stories contains many of them that do not clearly distinguish the line between reality and imagination. In fact these stories, true or untrue, show that imagination is necessary…

…A Gathering of Old Men A Gathering of Old Men, by Ernest J. Gaines, begins with the child narrator, “Snookum”, who spreads the word that there has been a shooting on a Louisiana plantation. The person killed is a white, Cajun farmer, named Beau…

…Old Testament is a Christian name for the Hebrew Bible, which serves as the first division of the Christian Bible. The designations "Old" and "New" seem to have been adopted after c.A.D.; 200 to distinguish the books of the Mosaic covenant and those…

…that the “Old-Negro” could not think for him or herself, that black’s couldn’t develop hypothesis’ on their own, that they couldn’t figure things out for themselves or wonder why things were the way that they were. In the passage The New Negro by Alain Locke…

…The Empire’s Old Clothes Ariel Dorfman’s The Empire’s Old Clothes is a one of a kind book that examines the hidden cultural backdrops of popular children’s literature. Though it is widely known that books such as the Little Prince have profound…