October 2008
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September 2008
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Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I...
– Albert Camus
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TIME: 'Censorship in Modern Times' →
“TIME” has compiled a list of the top ten most challenged books of all times.
Candide - Voltaire
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
1984 - George Orwell
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
Lolita - Vladmir Nabokov
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
The Anarchist Cookbook - William Powell
The Satanic...
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SOT Vault: Textbook
I remember those days of flipping through fifteen year old textbooks and finding all sorts of things.
That was before I paid an arm for a college textbook that I wouldn’t dare think of writing in.
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One person can make a difference, and everyone should try.
– John F. Kennedy
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears...
– Henry David Thoreau
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Lost In Translation
My Linguistics’ professor tries her best to make her class fun and entertaining. She tries by showing us comics and handing out interesting things related to topics we are covering.
Thursday she gave us a page with the following and prefaced it by saying, “don’t read if you’re easy offended.” Of course, we all read it anyway…
These are extracts from actual...
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I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and...
– Dr. Seuss
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The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie— diliberate,...
– John F. Kennedy
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Fifty People, One Question: New Orleans
Stuff like this inspires me beyond words. It’s the little things in life that matter.
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The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo,...
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
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When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not...
– William Blake
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Lost & Found Dog
Every weekday my college emails everyone on campus a list of student submitted announcements; the powers that be call it “The Student Digest.”
This past Tuesday there were two announcements that caught my eye. The first one read:
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Subject: FOUND DOG | From: “Anna”
-Found at The … clubhouse on Friday, September 12, 2008. -Small with mostly black hair. Some...
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Blake is masturbating cause he forgot to clear his password off a public...
– My Facebook Newsfeed
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Formal Paper 1
Due within the next 36 hours is a 4-5 page, double-spaced paper covering the follow:
We have discussed Rachel, Faulkner, Bambara, Hawthorne, Conrad, Joyce, Gass, and (some) Percy at length in class. You have written about some of these works, but only informally and tentatively. Now is your opportunity to rigorously analyze a work of literature. For the first formal paper, write an essay built...
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Tap'dNY →
No glaciers were harmed making this water… not from the top of some far away mountain…
What an interesting and great idea.
I have been to New York City once but, unless my memories of that amazing trip are fuzzy, I have never had any of the city’s water.
I’d love to get my hands on a bottle of this or, even better, get my hands on one of those epic Sigg bottles they say...
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us...
– Norman Cousins
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