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Dia De Los Muertos
November 1, 2017 Dia De Los Muertos Dia De Los Muertos or Day of the Dead is a Mexican Holiday celebrated around Halloween. In the 1960s the Mexican government had the Aztec festival declared a National Holiday. In the Aztec … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Event, Mythology, Politics/Economics
Tagged 1960s, 2017, All Inclusive, Anglo-Saxon, Aurora, Aztec, Belle, blantly racist, bones of the dead, born mortal, Calveras, children who have died, Cinderella, Coco, Colonialism, Cultural Appropriation, decorate graves, Dia De Meurots, Disney, Families, Fashion, festival, Festivals, Goddess of the Dead, Greeks, Hades, Halloween, Honoring, Indigenous Roots, Intent, Jasmine, La Calvera, Latin Culture, Latina, Latino, Maya, Mexico, Mictecacihautl, Moana, Multicultural, Native American, offerings, openly mock, Overacting, Persephone, Pocahontas, Princess Tiana, Racist, Respect, sacrificed. ancestors, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, special, Sports Teams, Sugar Skull, The Book of Life, Underworld, Unique, White
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The Age of American Unreason
The Age of American Unreason By Susan Jacoby, 2009 Jacoby writes about anti-intellectualism in America. She was inspired by the book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter, which was published in 1963. Jacoby points out that more than half … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Pedagogy, Politics/Economics, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1800s, 1960s, Alan Bloom, America, Ann Coulter, Anti-Intellectual, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, Book of the Month Club, Bush, Campus Crusades, Cheap Books, Christianity, Clinton, College, Common Sense, Communisim, Communist, Cristina Hoff Summer, Culture, Debate, Democrat, Don Imus, Dumbed Down, English Language, Founding Fathers, Government, Guilded Age, High Brow, Internet, Junk Media, Junk Science, Learning, Lectures, Left Wing, liberal, Literacy, Low Brow, Middle Brow, Nixon, Patriotic, Pop Culture, President, Protests, Publishers, Reason, Regan, Republican, Richard Dawkins, Richard Hofstadter, right wing, Russia, Science Versus Religion, Seperation of Church and State, Socialism, Socialist, Soviet Union, Television, The Closing of the American Mind, The Constitution, The Rights of Man, The Supreme Court, Thomas Paine, United States, Unpatriotic, Unreason, Vietnam War, Working Class
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Dracula in the Dark: Film Adaptations of Dracula
Dracula in the Dark: The Film Adaptations of Dracula By James Craig Holte, 1997 Vampires often shapshift, particularly on film. Varney The Vampyre came first, then Carmilla and then Dracula. CLASSICS 1922: Nosferatu 1931: Bella Lugosi’s Dracula 1979: Frank Langella … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, Anne Rice, Bella Lugosi, Bram Stoker, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Carmilla, Children of Eve, Christabell, Christopher Lee, Count Chocula, Dark Beauty and the Beast, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Dracula Dead and Loving It, Elizabeth Bathory, Films, Frank Langella, Gothic Romance, Greek Mythology, Has Dracula Become More Like Us or Have We Become More Like Him?, Lamia, Legia, Lenore, Lillith, Movies, My Grandpa is a Vampire, Nosferatu, Once Bitten, Salem's Lot, Satanic Rituals, The Biography of Dracula, The Bride of Corinth, The Brides of Dracula, The Castle of Otranto, The Count on Sesame Street, The Devil and the Evil Spirits of Babylonia, The Gothic Flame, The Iliad, The Interview with a Vampire, The Italian, The Land Beyond the Forest, The Lost Boys, The Monk, The Mysteries of Uldopho, The Odyssey, The Prince of Darkness, Vamprie Cop, Varney The Vampyre, Video, Yama
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Nuclear
January 28, 2016 Nuclear The past couple of weeks have been nuclear in nature. I thought it fitting since I was writing about the natural nuclear explosion over Tunguska and watching the TV show Manhattan about the first Atomic Bomb. … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Event, History, Movies/TV, Mythology, News, Politics/Economics, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1949s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Africa, Agony, Aliens, Anti-Nuclear, Army, astroid, Atlantis, badass, Bomb, Chernobyl, Cities of Gold, Classfied, Cold War, comet, Damage, Destruction, Disrespect, Don't Mess With The US, Edgar Cayce, Fat Man, Fission, Fukushima, Fussion, Hiroshima, Hiva Empire, horror, Idaho, India, Japan, Lemuria, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, metetor, Nagasaki, Natural Nuclear Reactor, New Mexico, Nuclear, Nuclear Power Plans, Nuclear Reactor, Oko, Olmecs, Pakistan, Platonium, Power, Radiation, Radium, Russia, Tennessee, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Thin Man, Three Mile Island, Top Secret, Tunguska Explosion, US, US Government, War, Weapons, WWII
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Glamorous Vs Gritty
Glamorous Vs Gritty Sex and the City aired on HBO from 1998 to 2004. Since I didn’t have HBO except for a brief few months in 2003, I did not get hooked on the series. I heard about … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 1960s, 1980s, Apples and Oranges, Brooklyn, Career, Carrie Bradshaw, Cosmo, Entitlement, entrepreneurial spirit, Fashion, Generation Me, Generation X, Generation Y, Girls, Glamourous, Gritty, Hannah, HBO, idealistic, Jean Twenge, Job, Judgmental, Late 20, Late 30s, LGBT Community, Lost, Love Life, Luxury, Manhattan, Midwestern Girl, Millennials, Motherhood, Paris, Russian Lover, Sex and the City, Snapshot, Successful, Wealthy, Whiny
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May 23, 2004 Truthfully, Industrialization and the Human Condition had gotten to me. Seeing the rundown homes and businesses made me want to inspire some sort of change. I am all for technology and modern amenities. The problem is we, … Continue reading
Posted in History
Tagged 1800s, 1900s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, Abandon, Apartments, Architecture, big backyards, Boxed Buildings, Business, Constructs, Dark, Demolish, developed areas, Environmentally Friendly, Falling Down, Fix Them Up, Human Condition, Industrialization, Knock Them Down, Landscape, Light, Mansfield, narrow, Ohio, OSU, Outskirts, Ovalwood, rebuild, renovate, Shelby, Third Street, tree lined streets, Urban Growth, Urban Sprawl, Victorians, wide, windows
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