… Adam Ashore and I left for a once in a lifetime trip across the Pacific Ocean to the continent of Europe. It was a fourteen-day EF tour of four major countries in Europe: England, France, Switzerland, and Italy. The sites and attractions where amazing…

… can at times, either tear people apart or bring them together. In the historical romance, The Scarlet Letter, the author Nathaniel Hawthorne, displays many accounts of deception and secrecy that have destructive consequences for many of…

… of the most compelling and interesting books I have ever read. It is not surprising however that it is also a very controversial story nonetheless. I did enjoy the ideas that Quinn offered as explanation for how we, “the Takers” came into being…

… up with a dad who went to the local bar every night, got drunk, didn’t have a job, and was abusive? Or a mom who woke up long before sunrise to scrub the entire household, day after day? How about an older brother who partied every night instead of tryin…

… interesting love stories I have ever read. Iago the greatest villain of all times plays with the red handkerchief to ruin and sometimes determine love for people. Othello loves his red handkerchief and gives it to Desdemona to have as a symbolism…

… the more sensitive character, Marianne, is shown more compassion and generally favored more by the author throughout the novel. Although at first she doesn’t marry for love, her marriage is ideal of the era and she comes to love her husband with great…

… The Hobbit was quite the fluke, because when I first started the story up it was only because it was Thursday of the first week on the month and I had to get a novel going for the reading calendar, The Hobbit was just in the right place at the right…

… the United States. The women who tend to become teen mothers tend to be among the Black and Hispanic decent. Others tend to be sexually assaulted or abused as children. Whether realized or not, teen pregnancy effects everyone. It takes a toll on…

… the Flies, William Golding is able to touch on the many aspects of our civilization through the various characters he creates. Leadership plays a very important role in the novel as it does in real life because the characters need to feel some sense…

… a strained relationship between two brothers trying to survive in the mean streets of New York City. Told from the first person point-of-view of Sonny 's brother (a hard-working conservative schoolteacher whose name is never mentioned), the…