Over the past two weeks, I feel as though I have lived and breathed The Cider House Rules. I have spent hours of each day diving into rural Maine with the characters I have grown to know and love reading, The Cider House Rules. Finally, after reading the entire novel, the next day I went ...
Looks like the Oscar hosting duties will go to Billy Crystal. Now that we know that Eddie Murphy is officially out and the eight time host will be taking the stage again, it’s now time to focus on the upcoming Oscar telecast. Nominations Announcement The nominations announcement is January 24, 2012 and the broadcast is ...
At first glance the life of the main character of Irving Stone’s novel A Prayer for Owen Meany seems to consist of a collection of haphazardly assembled childhood memories. However, under closer inspection, a logical pattern emerges. All the main events in Owen Meany’s short life involved sacrifices to fate. At times, it even seemed ...
One fact usually missing from school texts about New Hampshire is the winding path to the state’s present name. The current moniker was selected by Captain John Smith — of Virginia fame — to commemorate his own English county of Hampshire. However, according to the official New Hampshire web site, the area was initially named ...
