... passed this way. After many days of pursuit without sign of trail or hope, Aragorn sees riders coming their way. The riders are men of Rohan and their leader is Eomer. Eomer and his riders tell the men that they have already slain the Orcs but that there were no Hobbits with them. When Aragorn tells Eomer that both Gandalf and Boromir are dead ... . Sam grows suspicious of both his companions. On the fifth day of their quest, they come to the desolation that lies before Mordor. The ground is parched, gray and white. Nothing grows on it and even the sun's light is defiled among the ash he...

• Word Count: 4146
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School

... and last thing she could, she would go to The Old Man of Wandering Mountain. Atreyu and Falkor were tended by three of the invisible Powers of the Childlike Empress, and she went in her glass litter carried by the four other Powers to find the Old Man. The Old Man was the opposite of the Childlike Empress, she was the beginning and he was the end. They should never meet. But ... many more wishes: he wished for a dragon for an un-recognised warrior, and he wished the most ugliest and sad creatures nice and merry. Atreyu, Falkor and some other warrior escorted Bastian on the way home. But...

• Word Count: 4560
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: High School

... and in his place an angel appears to Mary Magdalene and others, charging them to tell Peter of Jesus' resurrection. The women fail to fulfill this command: "So they went out and fled from the tomb, for the terror and amazement had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they ... to the word good, saying "there is none good but one, that is, God." He reminds the man of the traditional commandments, and the man replies that he has always observed them. Then Jesus says, "One thing thou lackest: go thy way, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor..." The man ... today. Mi...

• Word Count: 6234
• Approx Pages: 25
• Grade Level: High School

... I never thought of death / My n*gga, we the last one's left / And life goes on." "Dear Mama," Me Against the World (Interscope): An insightful 2Pac repents the stress that he's caused his mother: "Mama, I finally understand / For a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man / You always was committed / A poor single mother on welfare / Tell me how you did it / There's no way that I can pay you ... performer - let alone a gangster rapper - 2Pac advises: "Be real to our women And if we don't we"ll have a race of babies / Who hate the ladies / That make the babies / And since a man can't ma...

• Word Count: 5308
• Approx Pages: 21
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School