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Jose Saramago’s Blindness is not an easy book to read. Its premise is simple enough – a plague of white blindness is sweeping through an unnamed country. Its victims are taken into quarantine. In the government’s panic to react to the plague, the victims are quarantined inside a mental asylum. There they are left to [...]

In “The Christmas Sweater” by Glenn Beck, we are reminded that material items we wish for cannot replace the relationship with loved ones. When loved ones leave this earth or our lives, those material items no longer hold the same fascination they would have, had we had someone to share them with. Mr. Beck creatively [...]

“First Seek To Understand, Then To be Understood ” This chapter holds a special place in my heart because without a doubt it has been the one habit that challenges me the most. I cannot remember how many times I have been planning a comeback during a conversation forgetting what effective communication really means. Stephen [...]

In his book, Born To Die, Cook explores the role that disease played in the European conquest of the Americas. Cook maintains that contrary to the Black Legend, so popular during colonial times and ever since, Old World diseases were immensely more successful than Spanish cruelty and atrocities in the conquering and subjugation of the [...]

Romantic works that touches the heart are worth reading. They make you look at your own relationships (or relationships to be). Nicholas Sparks is the best popular romantic writer out there. He has been rather prolific in the last few years in writing various books including, “The Last Song”, “Dear John”, “Nights at Rodanthe”, etc. [...]

Ever found yourself caught up in a heated conversation that ended up testing your knowledge in general history? Depending on whom you are arguing with and what you are arguing about, you will know that the feeling of not knowing is not very pleasant. This might not be the case for you. Maybe you are [...]

In “Revolutionizing Your Health,” Dr. Marvin Kunikiyo, a professional chiropractor and long-time student of what propels or holds back the body from its optimal well-being, reveals the problems with today’s medical establishment and healthcare, and he educates readers toward self-responsibility for their own healthcare by explaining how our bodies work and (often simple) steps we [...]

Acne Free in 3 Days ebook: can the methods in this guide really help you get rid of acne within 3 days, or is it just another marketing gimmick? Let’s take a closer look at this ebook and find out if it really lives up to the claims. Most ebooks promise a lot, deliver very [...]

Ann Radcliffe’s influential Gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794), actively engages with sensibility, a concept prevalent in much 18th century literature. The following analysis explores how the narrative addresses the subject of sensibility through an examination of a key scene: the death of the protagonist’s father, St Aubert. The excerpts are from the Oxford [...]

This is the kind of story you can curl up with and not want to put down until it is finished…and that is what I did! Dolen Perkins-Valdez takes her research about a resort prior to the Civil War that eventually became the first black college known as Wilberforce University, and sets her suspenseful, heart [...]