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Silent Spring
Silent Spring Rachel Carson, 1962 Silent Spring begins with a “fable for tomorrow” – a true story using a composite of examples drawn from many real communities where the use of DDT had caused damage to wildlife, birds, bees, agricultural … Continue reading
Posted in Biology, Culture, Environment, Event
Tagged 1960, 1962, 22nd Century, Air, beauty, Bill of Rights, Biology, bird-less, Bohemia, Bones, brush control, burning, California, cancer, carcinogens, Chemicals, Chimney Sweeps, choice, Coal, contact, Cornwall, cost, Coughing, DDT, Death, destroy non-human life, Destruction, diet, Disaster, dose, Dutch, Earth, Ecology, England, Environment, Environmental Movement, Fable For Tomorrow, Facts, farmers, Farms, fish-less, Fork in the Road, harm, Holland, Ill, Illinois, industrial revolution, industry, Inhalation, insects, lethal, lies, Life, Lung Cancer, Maine, marrow, Miners, Mines, Money, mosquitoes, Nature, Newspaper, not quite fatal, notes, Officals, Pesticides, Poison, Power, Preservation, profit, prophetic, Public, quotes, Rachel Carson, Radiation, rivers, Robert Frost, Saxony, Scientists, Sick, Silent Spring, Skin Cancer, Soot, species, streams, study, survive, Swallowing, Sweden, United States, US, Vision, Warfare, waterways, who gets to decide?, Who Speaks?, Why Do They Speak?, witness to nature, WWII
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Think On These Things
Think on These Things By Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1964 Self-Knowledge comes when you observe yourself in a relationship with your situation, you teachers are all those around you. It comes when you observe the manner of another, his gestures, the way … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1964, America, Anger, beauty, Capitalist, caste, Children, Class, Communist, creativity, Culture, don'ts, dos, education, Europe, Everything, Extraordinary, Family, Feel, Feelings, Freely, Hindu, India, Inquiry, Intellegence, Jiddu Krisnamurti, Learning, Life, Love, Meditate, mindful, Open, Open Mind, Ordinary, Peace, Ponder, Poor, Prisoner, Relationships, revolt, Rich, Self-Knowledge, Socialist, society, Spirit, survival, Teacher, Think, Think on These Things, Torn, Truth, War, watchful, World
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Literature As Exploration
Literature as Exploration Louise M Rosenblatt 1965 Reprint 1995 Schools and Colleges are there to teach students about themselves and humankind. As students, we try to understand the psychology of the characters we read about. We try to figure out … Continue reading
Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture
Tagged Anthropology, Book, Books, characters, College, Criticism, Culture, dissatisfaction, Emotions, experience, Flexabilty, framework, Growth, High School, Humankind, ideas, Individual, instructors, judgment, Knowledge, lack of knowledge, Learning, learns, Life, Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Literature As Exploration, Louise Rosenblatt, motivations, personal experience, Personality, Psychology, Reader Response, Reading, School, society, Sociology, Students, Teachers, Understanding, will to learn
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Reincarnation, Refocus and Reshaping Reality
February 26, 2009 Reincarnation, Refocus and Reshaping Reality. These are the themes that I wish to explore. It all comes back to the return! First, Lost continues to redefine itself. This season has been fast paced and filled with an … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Lost, Movies/TV, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged Anagram, Ben, Canton-Rainier, Christian Shepherd, Crash, Death, Emotional, Faith, Hydra, Island, Jack Shepherd, John Locke, Life, Lost, Love, Man in Black, Murder, No Escaping Fate, Pain, Refocus, Reincarnation, Reshaping Reality, Return, returning, Same Issues, Season 5, St Sebastian, Suicide, The Life and Death of Jeremy Bentham, Van
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Libertarianism
September 11, 2014 Libertarianism Libertarianism is a term I was not familiar with until a few years ago. Oh, I might have read about it before in regards to to the French Revolution or something, but I didn’t realize that … Continue reading
Posted in Politics/Economics
Tagged Against Imperialism, Against Racism, Anarchism, Big Government, Cold War, Communism, Constitution, Dependent Upon Mutual Aid, Freedom, Good of All, Individual Anarchy, Libertarian, Libertarianism, Liberty, Life, Mutualism, No Big Government, No One Telling Us What To Do, Non-Hierarchical Free Associations, Not Bound By Law, Patriots, Pursuit of Happiness, Russia, Self-Ownership, Self-Reliance, Sharing, Social Anarchism, Social Anarchy, Socialism, Stateless Government
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