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Bad Feminist
Bad Feminist Roxane Gay published Bad Feminist in 2014, but it is even more relevant this week. She titled the book Bad Feminist because many women, including herself, often do things that are considered not considered consistent with the Feminist … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Event, Feminism, Literary Criticism, Movies/TV, Pedagogy, Politics/Economics
Tagged #MeToo, 19th Century Women Writers, 2010, 2011, 2012-2017, 2018, 400 Years of Class in America, ACLU, Available Means, Bad Feminist, Brett Kavanaugh, Bush, Caitlin Moran, Catholic Church, Cheryl Sandberg, Chris Brown, Christine Blasey Ford, Democrats, Django Unchained, Domestic Violence, Elevator, Emotional, FBI, Feminism, Feminist Rhetoric and Pedagogy, Gender Trouble, Gillian Flynn, Girls, Gone Girl, Green Girl, Hanna Rosin, Hearing, hope, How To Be A Woman, Hunger, Hysterical, infuriating, Investigation, Jeff Flake, Judith Butler, Kate Zambreno, Katherine Stockett, Lean In, Make-Up, Nancy Isenberg, News, Nominee, Outrage, political agenda, Professor, Racism, Rape, Republicans, Roxane Gay, Senate, Sexism, Sexual Assault, Sheryl Sandberg, Supreme Court, Sweet Valley High Series, The End of Men, The Help, Trump, UNCG, White Trash, Yale University
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Service
November 15, 2016 Service “Service” is the name of this week’s The Walking Dead episode. I thought that the power struggle between Negan and Rick was a good subtext for the election this year and the subsequent fallout. Tuesday night … Continue reading
Posted in Movies/TV, Politics/Economics
Tagged Abraham, America, Big Bad Wolf, Big Picture, bigoted, Brutal, Canada, Carl, Conflict, conservative, Convergence, Discontent, Educated, Election, Fight, Glen, Government of Wolves, hope, idiot, Intolerent, liberal, Losses, loud mouthed, Lucille, Maggie, Michonne, Negan, Obama, Paralyzed, Peace, Peaceful, Polarization, Poor, Power, President, Protect, Protests, Psychological Warfare, Racism, Racist, Rick, Service, Sexism, Sexist, Subtext, The Hilltop, The Kingdom, The Saviors, The Walking Dead, Tolerance, Tolerant, Torture, Trump, Tyrant, Undermine, Uneducated
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Books and Mythos
July 8, 2006 Books “The trouble with books is you don’t know what’s in them until its too late.” This quote is from Jeanette Winterson who was on Bill Moyer’s PBS series Faith and Reason. The same could be said … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Feminism, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Mythology
Tagged Banned Books, Bible, Bill Moyers, Book, Books are Dangerous, Burned Books, Cultural Dark Ages, D.H. Lawrence, Dark Times, Faith, Faith and Resaon, Fell in Love with a Woman, Greek, Greek Myth, Greek Words, Hidden Books, hope, Illiterate Dad, Jeannett Winterson, Keep Writing, Lesbian, Logos, Mom, Myth, Mythos, Sneaked Books, Snuck Books, Wegiht of Words, Weight, Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?, Women in Love, Written on The Body
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Shaw and the Play of Ideas
Shaw And The Play of Ideas By Robert F Whitman, 1977 Shaw’s hostility to Capitalism as the source of most of civilized man’s economic, social and moral ills, is both well known and persuasive throughout his writing….And war in general … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Politics/Economics, Religion
Tagged 1977, Boredom, Burden on Society, Capitalist, Capitalists, Communication, community, Creative Evolution, Don Juan, Drama, Duty, Evil, Evolution, Fabian Soceity, GBS, George Bernard Shaw, God, Government, Heavne, Hell, hope, Hopeless, Humankind, Justice, Life-Force, Logic, Logical Process, Morality, Paradox, Politics, Poor, Public Forum, Reality, Reason, Religion, Rich, Robert F Whitman, Self-Delusion, Self-Indulgence, Shavian, Shaw, Shaw and The Play of Ideas, Sincere, Socialism, Thought, Unvierse
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The Great Peace March
The Great Peace March Holly Near, 1986 Katherine Hendrix from the Los Angeles Times Wrote: “The Vision that on March 1, 1986 5,000 Americans would set out on foot from Los Angeles for Washington, walking across the country for global … Continue reading
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Tagged 1986, Buddhism, Buddhist Chant, Camilla Taylor, Camping, Christian, Cold War, Communism is NOT The Enemy, Cooking, David Mixner, Democratic, Dr. Helen Calicott, Dream, Gandhi, Geraldine Zarade, Gorbachev, Holly Near, hope, Huger Is the Enemy, Inspire, John Gordon, Jonathan Schuell, Los Angeles, Mr.President, November 14 1986, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace Petition, People Reaching Out For Peace, Poverty is the Enemy, Pro Peace, Regan, San Francisco, Send Off, Socialism is NOT the enemy, Steve Brigham, Tent City, The Fate of the Earth, The Great Peace March, Washington DC, Yeah Peace
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Candide Calls for Cultivating Our Gardens
Candide Calls for Cultivating Our Gardens Cari Gilkison, French Literature 1996 Candide takes us through a very violent and pessimistic world only to show us that there is indeed hope. While Pangloss introduces us to thinking that all is for … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture
Tagged 1996, Candide, Candide Calls for Cultivating Our Gardens, Cari Gilkison, Chains, Change the World, Cundegonde, Earthquake, Eldorado, Existence, Faults, French Literature in Translation, Garden of Eden, gauntlet, Greed, hope, Illusions, Lust, Mary Joyce, Optimism, OSU, Pangloss, Purpose, Question Things, Shipwreck, Trauma, Triumph, Utopia, Voltaire, Weathering the storm, Westphalia
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Reservation Blues
Reservation Blues Cari Gilkison, English 575: Post-Colonial Literature, Winter 1997 Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie shows that there is no hope for Native Americans to redress the effects of colonization. Alexie feels that there is no hope of ever … Continue reading
Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture, Religion
Tagged Ancestry, Big Mama, Cari Gilkison, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Christianity, Christopher Columbus, Colonized, Freedom, God, Going off the Right Path, hope, Horses, Indian, junior, Native American, OSU, Post-Colonial Literature, Reservation, Roots, Rservation Blues, Screaming Horses, Sherman Alexie, Ten Commandments, Thomas, Urban Indian Blues, White Man, White Man's God, William Buckley, Winter 1997
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Firefly
April 11, 2009 Firefly Firefly is the name of the TV series that Joss Wheldon created. It came out in September of 2002, but only 11 of the 13 episodes ran. Although it was quickly canceled, it gained a loyal … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture
Tagged Attraction, awakening, Bashir, creativity, dragonfly, Dreaming Mind, Energy, Firefly, grace, guidance, hope, Illumination, inspiration, Joel Schwan, Joss Whedon, Kiri, new ideas, profound growth, Prophets of Paladin, Science Fiction, Serenity, Subconscious, symbol of the dragonfly, symbol of the firefly, Thoughts Surfacing, Water
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