More to Come   Seely Place was a second home to me, From the best first day of kindergarten, To the day my first baby tooth came free To the day I learned to read, but then Came sixth grade as well as graduation It was time for 7th grade and middle school This new Read more…

Because Weiland and Wilsey wanted personal stories about experiences with the state, Smith tells about this one illegal adventure to the island she had with her father. She talks about swimming off a boat to the island, which was trespassing and completely forbidden. Not only were they breaking the law, but they ended up encountering a group of sharks, all gathered under their boat. During the time on Ni’ihau, they beachcombed together, finding human bones. The hundred-year-old skulls they found lying around on the beach under the sand were forbidden to be touched because “To touch a bone, especially a Hawaii’an one, disturbs its mana, the life force Hawaiians believe inhabits all things.”

Xue Tao and Yu Xuanji: Female Poets of the Tang Dynasty         China is one of the oldest civilizations in the world, and it has been a patriarchal society ever since several millennia B.C.E. In the agricultural system of the Tang dynasty, at least, men held power over women. The Tang Dynasty Read more…