Category: Books/Reading/Art
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Daily Prompts: We can be taught
http://dailypost.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/daily-prompt-greatness/ Without a doubt, the single most influential teacher I’ve had was my HS English Teacher Ms G. She was everything I hoped to be in High School; witty, articulate, intelligent and doing what she loved. Her was a small woman, but her presence and love of teaching in creative ways was so over powering…
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Reading Rut
So it’s that time of year when I no longer want to read new books, I want to revel in the comfort that I found in titles I love. I used to be sad when this feeling rolled around but now I relish my re-reading of Macbeth, 100 Years of Solitude and everything that Junot…
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Akata Witch – Nnedi Okorafor
I stumbled across this book by chance really, one of the amazing women I follow on Twitter said it was going to be the next book read and discussed for our Twitter Book Club. As always, I’ll never turn down a book with the promise of discussion after so I bought it for my Nook…
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Inspiration: Chinua Achebe
The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel before them – Things Fall Apart. – Thoughts – Things Fall Apart is one of those books that you read as a child that changed your life, especially if you read it in High School and had an amazing English…
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Batman: Return of the Dark Knight Part 1
Batman: Return of the Dark Knight is a new animated Batman movie released of course by DC comics. The storyline picks up with an older, Bruce Wayne wiping out in a car crash on a race track. He meets up with his old friend Commissioner Gordon. who worries for Bruce’s sanity. This movie deals with…
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Cover your books
Buying exercise books were one way you recognized that the summer break was over and that it was time to go back to school. The notebooks were standard, they all looked alike and had the same amount of pages. The same logo graced the front and handy references covered the back. There was everything from…
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Batman and Superman – Apocalypse
So, you guys know I’m a nerd and I love me some Batman so of course I didn’t pass up the chance to take a look at this new release, after watching Under the Red hood, my expectations were high but they quickly dwindled. I had forgotten how corny Superman really is. Plot in a…
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J.D Salinger – Misunderstood
Catcher in the Rye is definitely not the only effective book I’ve read by JD Salinger, but it was the first. It’s honesty and human-ness shocked me as a child accustomed to reading fairy tales. I was too young to read it then but when I re-read it in high school I understood. People argue…
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Con-fuse
I need to know. Who are you? Where did you come from? Stop. Remember me? Remind me Console me Hurt me Play Anoint me Dethrone me Who am I? Who are we? When are we going home?
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Brooklyn Boy
I never thought that I would fall for a brooklyn boy, all chocolate brown and sweet as pie.
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Gaming: A study on its effect on culture
Since I’ve been playing Halo (3, going on 4 years) I’ve been plagued by a lot of issues namely from non gamers who really believe, deep down in their hearts that video games have contributed to violent outbursts in children/young adults. Now. I’m not saying that video games haven’t upped the exposure of violence but…
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Fastest Growing Weblog
Holy shit! So I’m checking out my dashboard and of course the handy section they have for what’s hot and happening on wordpress, and I see in the “Fastest Growing WordPress.com Blogs” that there’s a blog called “My Weblog” so I’m like..wow, that’s a crazy name for a blog and I click on it and it…
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