In both Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Hall of Fantasy" and Robert Frost's poem "Birches," we are guided through a fantastic description of a world where the actual must merge with the imaginative, where our dreams are a sort of therapy for the concerns of daily life. ... Our dreams act in much the same way as this passport; they allow us to make a voyage into the unknown, to see there isn't only one way of thinking, and come home to our actualities with a fresh perspective on our own existence. ...

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The short book is a gathering of annotations, anecdotes and findings that the self-proclaimed humble Fray made of the inhabitants that he encountered and observed while accompanying Columbus on his second voyage. ... Taíno myths dealt with the origin of the sun and the moon, which they believed came from a cave called Jovovava; the transformation of asexual beings into women by the iriri bird that made holes in trees; and the fantastic creation of the sea when a pumpkin broke spilling the enormous...

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Introduction The first Amendment of the United States Constitution grants we the people many inalienable freedoms and protections. Throughout the years, various organizations and political parties, our own government included, have challenged many of these freedoms and immutable rights. Therefor...

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Mine My Precious The novel Heart of Darkness is a montage of many political and social themes appropriate to Joseph Conrad's era. Imperialism is one of these key themes, believed by Europeans to be the solution to the "White Man's Burden-. In a thoughtful narrative, Marlow recounts a previous jou...

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