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Has poor Harry Potter has gotten a bad rap?
Writing from my past I was reminded that I had once written a sort of defense of the Harry Potter series. So , I looked and found one of...
Troy Kinney
Jul 23, 20198 min read
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THE WALL
It is obvious that our elected officials cannot seem to agree about walls but Samsung just revealed theirs. This new item also proves...
Troy Kinney
Jan 11, 20191 min read
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Two Ways to Read?
I think there are some interesting things in this piece by Zat Rana: There Are Two Ways to Read — One Is Useless My immediate problem as...
Troy Kinney
Nov 27, 20181 min read
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The Yahoos are Here! And they are Us.
As I watched that video and others like it, I again sat in wonderment of the craziness that overcomes some folks on “Black Friday.” Much...
Troy Kinney
Nov 24, 20182 min read
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Mr. Anderson, English 102
The second semester of my freshman year in college I had an interesting English prof. His name was Mr. Anderson. He loved to pick on the...
Troy Kinney
Aug 20, 20185 min read
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HBO films Fahrenheit 451 (2018) - Movie review
I was excited to see what HBO cooked up when I saw the initial preview to their film based on the novel Fahrenheit 451...
Troy Kinney
Jun 15, 20182 min read
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Book Review: The Great Gatsby
People also believe that George Wilson kills Gatsby out of jealousy and revenge. But this is not what really happens.
Troy Kinney
Apr 21, 201813 min read
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Decanting Poe's Amontillado
It's Fat Tuesday (a.k.a. the day prior to Ash Wednesday) ! You should read Edgar Allan Poe’s “Cask of Amontillado”. The short story...
Troy Kinney
Feb 14, 20186 min read
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The Politics of Dancing
So here are the facts: My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on...
Troy Kinney
Feb 4, 20183 min read
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Silence by Shūsaku Endō
I think that there are many popular missionary stories out there that generally have a happy ending. Even in martyrdom there is hope....
Troy Kinney
Jan 15, 20174 min read
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The Little Prince and Our Modern Educational Practice
Can she get accepted into Werth Academie? The Little Girl had to answer the One Big Question.
Troy Kinney
Oct 26, 20168 min read
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