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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “essays”

 

• Book Review: How to Be a Woman – Caitlin Moran [TSS]

  
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  Title: How to Be a Woman Author: Caitlin Moran ISBN: 9780062124296 Pages: 320 Release Date: July 17. 2012 Publisher: Harper Perennial Genre: Non-Fiction, Memoir, Essays Source: Personal Copy Rating: 3.5 out of 5 Summary: In her memoir/essay collection, Caitlin Moran ...
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• Is It Hard To Write A History Essay?

  
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  The answer to this question depends on how much you like research. We say this because of the fact that a good history essay is always based on a lot of research. You basically need to make sure that you find everything that you can about the topics that will be covered. A huge problem with history is that it ...
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• Wim Wenders–Places, Strange and Quiet (2013)

  
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  SOUNDTRACK : GIRAFFES? GIRAFFES!-”Fucking Ants Man! Where They Coming From? (Let’s Hang The Carroll Footnoteitsists)” (2005). I just learned that there is a band named Giraffes? Giraffes!, which is the name of a silly book published by McSweeney’s.  I was so delighted to find out about this band, that I ...
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• Libya’s “Classical Liberal” Sharia Supremacist Leader

  
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  Cross-posted at The American Thinker This past week’s Benghazi hearings re-focused attention on statements made by Libyan leader Muhammad al-Muqaryaf [Magariaf] in the immediate aftermath of the murderous 9/11/2012 attacks on the vulnerable US Benghazi diplomatic mission compound. Al-Muqaryaf, head of ...
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• Gods and monsters: The creations of Ray Harryhausen

  
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  As the story goes, Ray Harryhausen was inspired to explore the possibilities of stop-motion animation after seeing King Kong with his best friend. That said friend was Ray Bradbury makes the story irresistible. That Harryhausen went on to apprentice under Willis O’Brien, the very man who sculpted and animated the ...
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• The Digital Humanities and Identity Issues

  
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  I think that the distinctive identity issue to address in considering “the intermingling of race, class, gender, sexuality and disability and the digital humanities” is the political economy of digital-human identity today. Such identity consists in a relational set of overlaps and differences between at least two ...
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• I Wish My Mother Would Call

  
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  Sometime in April 2010, my father, Victor, a veteran who spent most of his life as an engineer, hanged himself in a garage in Blackwood, New Jersey. He and my mother, Marguerite, had a thing in the late 1970’s. That thing bore me. Read more...        
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• Seize the opportunities opened up by the Good Relations strategy. Don’t write it off

  
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  Mick’s last post is probably representative of the muted reaction to the long awaited initiative. All the same I’d rather take a more positive approach and - yes!-  begin with accepting it at face value.   So I’m asking: are critics justified in  writing off  already the Cohesion Sharing and Integration ...
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• In Photos: Sangla Valley, Kinnaur.

  
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  Kinnaur, in the lower Himalayas of Himachal Pradesh, is home to the stunning Sangla Valley, along which gushes the mighty Sutlej River. Rakcham and Chitkul, the last villages of India before Tibet, make Sangla one of the most beautiful valleys in the Himalayas – sparsely populated with graphic landscapes and a ...
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• A grain is worth a thousand words: Sand Arts 2013

  
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  The post A grain is worth a thousand words: Sand Arts 2013 appeared first on DISTRICT | The student voice of SCAD .
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• Training Prosecutors: It WAS Entertaining

  
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  No, I didn’t get paid to trot downtown and spend 2/3 of a day in a mock jury trial orchestrated to train budding county prosecutors. Did it because an old friend, recent law-school graduate, worker at a grant-funded county project importuned. All volunteer…it was worth it. What a hoot! So here was the ...
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• The Build Up: Sand Arts 2013

  
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  The post The Build Up: Sand Arts 2013 appeared first on DISTRICT | The student voice of SCAD .
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• Sorry Jay-Z, But LL Cool J’s Still the Crossover King

  
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  LL Cool J photo courtesy of Getty Images. Photo:Tim Mosenfelder Critics have weighed in: LL Cool J ‘s new album Authentic isn’t a rap revival, and his verse of Brad Paisley ‘s “Accidental Racist” — specifically, “If you don’t judge my gold chains / I’ll forget the iron chains” — was a ...
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• ‘The Great Gatsby’ Soundtrack is Irresistibly Tasteless

  
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  ‘The Great Gatsby’ photo courtesy of Warner Bros. 2013 isn’t even half over, but I doubt I’ll hear anything weirder — more inexplicably, fascinatingly bizarre — than André 3000 and Beyoncé ’s contribution to Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby soundtrack: a husk of a cover of Amy Winehouse ’s ...
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• The Taxi: A Drive Around Dallas on a Trip Fraught with Danger

  
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  Dallas, TX. Photo by Flickr user Schlüsselbein2007 The highway around Dallas is one big loop , but I still got lost. I passed Chipotle, the JP Morgan Chase building, La Quinta Inn, and Mockingbird Lane seven times before I finally pulled over and admitted I needed help. My sister was in the psych ward. She had ...
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• Caroline: A Presence, and an Absence, Deeply Felt.

  
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  I am searching for Caroline. I am searching among the remnants of memories in an old green army trunk covered in pictures from Vogue and W magazines that are slowly peeling off. I am not sure what I will find. Near the top is a heavy plaque I received for singing in my high school choir. That’s where I first ...
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• Senor Tico: A Journey of Self-Discovery with an Orange Dinosaur Pinata.

  
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  Editors’ note: Names have been changed. We found Señor Tico in the Party Works off of the Needham exit of Route 128 in Massachusetts. He was on the shelf with the other piñatas, in between the Mardi Gras beads and the cheap plastic toys that kids collect like currency but parents trip over in the living room. ...
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• Trapped: An Obsessive Search for a Missing Cat

  
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  The first morning after the cat escaped, the neighbor girl tells you she couldn’t sleep because she heard you calling “Maggie” all night long. You’d gone to bed at 11, so, technically, it wasn’t all night long. But you say nothing. At 10 p.m., you’d sat outside, covered with black cats — black cats that ...
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• A Glimpse of Transcendence over a Warm Chocolate Chip Cookie.

  
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  Even the oven’s heat can’t melt the scowl you’ve given up on hiding five hours ago. Trapped within a man-made island of kitchen appliances for eight hours a day, you watch customers stream into the Meijer bakery department like schools of fish. Like a fisherman you try to reel them in with succulent bait; ...
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• Counting Genocide: The Meaning of 613 Dead in Azerbaijan.

  
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  Baku, Azerbaijan. Photo by Flickr user teuchterlad Sunday morning. It is late February 2012. In the front seat of a butch SUV, black (of course) is a local driver and a translator-guide — providing transportation to the airport, courtesy of the hosts of the theater festival in Baku , capital of Azerbaijan. The ...
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