Lone Eagle written by Walter L. Hixson is a fantastic piece of literature that gives the reader an insight into flying in the early 20th century. Pioneers in any field often have many tales to tell about their days of ... incredible accounts that constitute his career, and his personal life are simply engrossing. From his initial interest in flight during his early childhood, all the way up to his transatlantic voyage a passion for soaring above the clouds is what kept him going. Despite all the obstacles that he was forced to overcome in order to achieve something great he was never ... tr...

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• Grade Level: High School

... sets a course of events in motion. A course she soon discovers that she desperately wants to change. The actions she proceeds to take are nothing short of heroic and courageous. The voyage matures her years beyond her young and tender age of thirteen. The book is written in first person - from Charlotte's point of view. She tells us at the very beginning ... of the book that she kept a journal in order to help put together her story of what happened upon that fateful voyage. It is this action of the author that I felt grabbed my attention the most. I was easily drawn into Charlotte's ch...

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• Grade Level: High School

... sight of the pure and simple joys to be found in everyday living. 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. When Hawthorne transports himself and the ... return home, to the people and places that are forever emblazoned in our hearts. 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 ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate