From the Academy Award winning creator of “The Piano” comes what Newsweek calls a gorgeous, fascinating, and audacious film. The Portrait of a Lady “is truly mesmerizing,” raves Rolling Stone. “Riveting and superbly rendered by director Jane Campion.” … “A master work,” applauds the Village Voice. “It’s sexy, edgy, and sublimely satisfying. The best film […] Read more

Playwright and British poet Robert Browning was a master of dramatic monologues and verse, making him one of the prominent Victorian authors. His most famous work is the 303 lines of the narrative poem The Pied Piper of Hamelin, a Child’s Story. It is a classic tale of Hamelin, a town desperate to remove the […] Read more

‘I am the very pattern of a modern Major-General; I’ve information vegetable, animal, and mineral; I know the Kings of England, and I quote the fights historical, From Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical; I’m very well acquainted too with matters mathematical, I understand equations, both simple and quadratical, About binomial theorem I’m teeming with […] Read more

Section 4 of the Flag Code states: The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag: “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”, should be rendered by standing at attention facing the flag […] Read more

The Princess Bride is a fantasy romantic comedy about Westley, a farmhand who must rescue his Princess Buttercup from the pompous and evil Prince Humperdink. Based on a metafictional narrative-style novel, the film became a cult classic and one of co-producer Rob Reiner’s best works. The all-star cast made it one of the best films […] Read more

Once again the queen learned that holding the throne was harder than winning it. She spent the days after the uprising struggling with her conscience, faced with the agonizing question of what should be done with the rebels who had come against her and been so dramatically defeated. Clearly, God would protect this Mary on […] Read more

The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe First two verses Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. `’Tis some visitor,’ I […] Read more

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door- Only this, and […] Read more

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “‘Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door- Only this, and […] Read more