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Unique Teaching Aids: Musical Theatre

It is a well known fact that art imitates life and that drama rarely confines itself to the inside of a theatre. If you're looking for a fresh, dynamic way to teach students about the highs and lows of the...

4 comments    education how music
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Apathy in American Teens

Is there someone else out there or am I the only one who feels like it takes a somewhat visible yet extremely exhausting effort to care about a cause? Really. The rights of animals, the rights of human beings,...

0 comments    internet america youth
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what the readers want

After following this site for two weeks and publishing, i can see that I am on the wrong track. It looks to me that people are more interested in the more social/personal aspects than the political ones....

0 comments    social commentary everyday life
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Screaming For More

Their kids are screaming for more – more public perversion, choreographed commercials, fast-food heart attacks. Their kids are screaming for more – more televised sex, videotaped...

0 comments    arts poetry social commentary
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The Demise Of Cell Phone Etiquette

What is this nonsense with the cell phones? Use to be it was impolite to be on a phone and talking to others at the same time. And, what's up with 'Blue Tooth' phones? Bunch of 'Borgs' walking around talking...

0 comments    living social commentary
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All I'm sayin' is...

So, we were thinking about it and winco/sams club/etc. would probably be one of the worst places to be in an earthquake. Ever looked UP in one of those places? Just rows of pallets stacked so high all around...

0 comments    life random social commentary
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The Incommensurable Mediocrity of Man

"How are Mr. Obama and Ms. Amanda Knox's names in the same sentence?", you may ask yourselves. Well, I believe that both are victims of human pettiness. Barack Obama undertook his reponsibilities as a...

0 comments    current events social commentary
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REQUEST RESPONSE: THE SEVEN NEW WONDERS OF THE WORLD

Someone asked for it...okay now you've got it: IN RESPONSE TO YOUR REQUEST: HERE ARE MY NOMINATIONS FOR THE 7 NEW, TRUE, W O N D E R S OF THE W O R L D 7. Southwest Airlines Reservations: a wonder of...

5 comments    travel humor comedy
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Redux Matters - The Brave World's Worst Enemy

A blog featuring social/political commentary furnished by the Kommentator, a promoter of a cultural revolution.

0 comments    social commentary social changes
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cruel and unusual

When America was conceived in 1776, our Founding Fathers brought a radical new idea into the world, best articulated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, that all people are "endowed by...

0 comments    politics philosophy torture
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