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How does an individual involved in creating and selling art ensure that what he creates and puts on the market will be thought of as “great”, be bought, and thus finance his daily bread? Are there certain ways of working which will assure success for such an individual? Sure as heck beats me. The attitudes [...]

In Kurt Vonnegut’s Harrison Bergeron, a fictional couple living in a future where all have at last been made equal cope with the loss of their son Harrison to the authorities. Harrison has been carried away, probably for disagreeing with the very idea of equality which has him blinded and deafened by goggles and headphones, [...]

Spurred by the breakneck pace of technological progress at the end of the industrial revolution, world society as a whole struggled with the hitherto unforeseen issues of over-population and international statesmanship. Through the blood and fire of two world wars, the nascent issues of human rights and globalization came to dominate the world stage, while [...]

I recently wrote a friend of mine that Stephen King’s Dark Tower series is “awesome” and very much worth reading. She asked me to justify my views, thus:
The Dark Tower - it’s something like a romance, which talks of the last gunslinger Roland Deschain, and his quest to reach the Dark Tower, which is the [...]

“A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea,” Honore De Balzac; “As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words,” William Shakespeare.
The poetic love-at-first sight concept which hearkens back to medieval tales of knights in shining armor may [...]

Dear Professor,
Having given me the chance to write a convincing paper on a topic of my own choosing, I have picked such to be the review of late papers. Your criteria was to absolutely abstain from any talk of getting a higher grade, and I wanted to bluntly state that this has nothing to do [...]

I recently read Gabriel Garcia Marquez’ One Of These Days, very thought-provoking.
In this striking short story, the author introduces the somewhat laughable character of the Dentist Aurelio Escovar, whose office is poorly furnished and whose clothes are of poor taste. Something in his absentminded but not entirely rational manner seems to suggest that he is [...]

This is a short little update to let the world know that unlike Amelia Earhart, I haven’t mysteriously disappeared while crossing the ocean of work betwixt one blog post and the next.
I went to see Public Enemies last Friday, and found myself gripped by the human intensity which bled from the silver screen to the [...]

It is widely accepted that reporting media such as newspapers, television news, and radio news bulletins convey a general impression of negativity. Not much is needed to prove this, after all, almost every headline across the world every day features some tragedy or disaster or inadequacy of some kind.
Make no mistake, this is no accident [...]

It suddenly it me what it is the letters must mean in the American grading system;
A for Aced
B for Brilliant
C for Conservative
D for Deficient
E for Excuse Me
F for you FLUNKED
W for Wuss