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SUCCESS is counted sweetest By those who ne’er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need. Not one of all the purple host W...

Novelist Bernard Malamud, born in Brooklyn, New York (1914). He grew up in Brooklyn in a household where both Yiddish and English were sp...

Beat! Beat! Drums! Beat! beat! drums!---blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows---through doors---burst like a ruthless force, Into the...

John Updike 1932 –2009 American author John Updike was born in Shillington, Pennsylvania (1932). His family moved to a farm when he wa...

Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston (1706). Books were hard to come by when he was a young apprentice in his brother's printing shop...

* City upon a hill is a phrase from the parable of Salt and Light in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. In Matthew 5:14, he tells his listeners...

A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A...

Men Die Miserably Every Day from "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" My heart rouses thinking to bring you news of something th...

Are You the New Person Drawn Toward Me? Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with take warning, I am surely far different fr...

Oh our Mother the Earth, oh our Father the Sky, Your children are we, and with tired backs We bring you the gifts that you love. Then weave ...

Approach: The emphasis of the course will not be on information, but on finding our critical individual voice for evaluating and understandi...

Yann Martel was born on June 25, 1963, in Salamanca, Spain, to Canadian parents. There, while sipping coffee in a café in the town of Pondic...

1) Be prepared to discuss "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" by J.D. Salinger 2) Choose one poem from the poems we studied in clas...

When it came to the war and the losses of life, about 7,200 Americans were killed in battle during the Revolutionary War. Approximately 8,20...

Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will ...

Compensation Why should I keep holiday, When other men have none? Why but because when these are gay, I sit and mourn alone. And why...

Yann Martel wrote a big best seller about a boy and a tiger in a lifeboat: Yann Martel was born in Salamanca, Spain (1963). His father was ...

A few famous quotations from Henry James (1843-1916) *The house of fiction has in short not one window, but a million... but they are, singl...

These are the days when Birds come back— A very few—a Bird or two— To take a backward look. These are the days when skies resume The o...