.... a vast power of self restraint.ÿ While this seems to give Dimmesdale great strength, it is also his largest flaw. His body refuses to do what his heart says is right. Dimmesdale instructs Hester to reveal the truth, but when she refuses he doesnÿt have the willpower to confess himself. Therefore, his sin becomes even larger than hers, because while hers is an exposed sin. He continues to lie to himself and his followers by keeping his secret hidden, so his is a concealed sin. Here Hawthorne shows us just how strong Dimmesdale actually is, by allowing him to hide his sin and bear the weight of it, he creates an extremely interesting and tremendously strong .....

.... meaningless. But if you pull back and see all the brush-strokes, you can view the painting in its entirety." He thought this was very wise and went away, contented that I was a literate genius. Myself, I didn't really know what to gather from the stories. I've never honestly read any Hemmingway previously. I've started to read The Sun Also Rises about ten times and gotten waylaid by Batman, Robert B. Parker, and the like each time. I think I read The Old Man and the Sea ages ago in high school, but it was so long ago that it has slipped completely from my memory. He is one of those authors that I always connect with my father and his college years for some rea .....

.... that most books neglect or skim over: the plight of the Native Americans that had their numbers reduced by up to 90% by European invasion, the equality of these peoples in many regards to their European counterparts, the importation of slaves into America and their unspeakable travel conditions and treatment, the callus buildup of the agricultural economy around these slaves, the discontented colonists whose plight was ignored by the ruling bourgeoisie, and most importantly, the rising class and racial struggles in America that Zinn correctly credits as being the root of many of the problems that we as a nation have today. It is refreshing to see a book tha .....

.... favorite aspects of this book are the characters, the theme, and Guest's style of writing. I enjoyed the complexity and intensity of each character, and each character's need for affection. I also enjoyed reading how each character would react differently with other characters. Another thing I liked was the story's theme. I think the theme of would be not to try to repress one's feelings, even when it may be difficult to face them. Feeling occasional depression or anger may be what we must sacrifice for the happiness in life. Guest's style of writing is also very interesting to read. I enjoyed the way she would use the word "he" when describing a charac .....

.... Tom's master, discussing business with Mr. Haley, who is a slave trader. Mr. Shelby is in debt to Mr. Haley and is forced to give up a couple of his slaves. Mr. Shelby makes a deal to trade his best servant Tom. Mr. Shelby also agrees to give up a small boy that belongs to Eliza, his wife's servant. When Eliza hears about her child's fate, she decides to take him and run away. Tom decides to stay and go with the slave trader. Eliza escapes with her son safely to Canada. Tom is traded to a new master named Legree. Tom is eventually beaten to death by Legree. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, by Frederick Douglass, is a narrative about his s .....

.... who loves a good fantasy should read this book. After seven long years of traveling, the rough looking, worn out Caledan Caldorien is returning to his home town Ireaebor and finds it has been taken over by a tyrant known as Cutter. In Caledan's absence, Cutter has passed many ridiculous laws and anyone violating any of these is forced into slavery under the Tor which the city is set upon, where Cutter is mining to find the crypt of the Shadowking, where the nightstone, an ancient artifact of great and evil power, believed to be. Caledan finds this out through a connection within the slums and goes to find his old traveling companions who once made up the Co .....

.... a broom closet. The child lives in this room sitting and lying in his own excretions. The child can no longer speak like a human. The child is hastily fed a half bowl of corn meal and grease each day making its belly protrude and its legs so thin that there are no calves. The child has become mentally and physically deformed by this malnutrition and neglect. This is a representation of our very own sometimes gross existence. Think about our own homeless people and how they are treated. We ignore the except to make fun and laugh. We find it repulsive how they are dirty, smelly, and often beg from us. Mentally or physically challenged people in our society .....

.... Meneses was eventually convicted for trafficking, but in Nicaragua, never in the United States.) These allegations have been challenged vigorously by the "responsible" U.S. press: those papers, above all the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post, who respond most swiftly to the needs and requests of their CIA sources. For those who follow such matters, the special connection between these papers and the CIA is no secret. Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein once wrote in Rolling Stone that the CIA’s "relationship with the [New York] Times was by far its most valuable among newspapers, according to CIA officials. From 1950 to 1966, about 1 .....