Ethan Hawke is perhaps the most famous actor of our time. While the tabloids (and countless numbers of teenage girls) flatter characters like Brad Pitt and Judas Law, Ethan Hawke maintains relative anonymity in the metropolis of New York. Although he was nominated twice for the academy awards, he still won. So, here’s an honorary […]
Tag Archives: White Fang
When Chris McCandless died four months after boarding his Alaskan Odyssey, critics accused him of being crazy and stupid, but as in Jon Krakauer’s Wild and Henry Ticknor’s “Death of Innocents,” McCandless was quite the intellectual. What led to his downfall, however, was that he was so deeply ingrained in academia that he lacked the […]
I’ve read and enjoyed every last one of these books when I was in elementary school. I also have several of them in my personal collection. I now understand the merit of their literature and how much they influenced my development. My past instructors have recommended many of them to me and I now recommend […]
03
Sep
Sep
A Brief History of Surfing It is unknown when exactly the sport of surfing began in the islands of Hawai’i. It is known that by 1778, the year Captain Cook and his crews became the first Europeans to see Hawai’i, that surfing was a sport well entrenched within Hawaiian culture and had been around for […]
If you plan to give gifts to a bedridden friend, it is essential that you get to know that person well. I have a brother-in-law who is constantly wondering what to do with inappropriate gifts that clutter his already too small bedroom; gifts that were chosen with no thought to what might interest him, or […]
18
Mar
Mar
I have a friend who says he only goes out with one other hour — he calls Dyads. Why? He says that when the females are together in groups of 3 or 4, they are notable for their strength combined with the skills of the alpha dog in animal groups. She does not believe them, […]
Again, Jack London amazes me with his wonderful writings about nature and animals. White Fang is a spectacular book that will leave you wanting more. It is a book about the lives of a generation of wolves, but it ultimately centers around one wolf, White Fang. It is born in a small cave near the […]