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79Experience: Candide and Olaudah Equiano
How do we use the knowledge we acquire through study and experience? Two options are explored in Voltaire's "Candide" and Olaudah Equiano's travel narrative.
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81Voltaire's CANDIDE: No Censorship Here
One of the wisest decisions I ever made as a teacher was to create an elective course in world literature. I had hated Silas Marner as a high school student and I hated it even more as a teacher. "If only I...
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78Words of Motivational Wisdom - My Top 25 Motivational Quotes
Words of Motivational Wisdom - My Top 25 Motivational Quotes. This is merely a list of my top 25 motivational quotes, words of wisdom which have inspired me to succeed in becoming a better person, continuously seeking ways of improving, both in physical and mental...
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70Is Common Sense Really Common?
Have you ever been asked a question you thought everyone knew the answer to? I once knew a 34 year old woman who asked me the following; "If I take the dead batteries out of this digital...
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7618th Century France
In the 18th century, France was by far the greatest power in Europe. French was the language of all educated Europeans. The longest reign in European history was that of Louis XIV, King of France, who reigned from 1643 to 1715. He created what is...
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76French Quotes
The French language is considered by many to be the pinnacle of beauty. As support for this opinion, they cite things like its sensuality, its poetry, and all the cultural associations that go with the language. When such people speak of the...
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78Top 7 Most Famous Names (that are actually Pen Names)
Pen names, or pseudonyms, have been used throughout history for various reasons. I use the pseudonym Cydro, although I can't cite a reason for source. Check out these authors that were a lot more successful than I am, and the reason they chose their pen names:
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7725 Weird Coffee Trivia to Astound and Amuse You
Photo by allygirl520 @ flickr How well do you know your coffee trivia? Bet there are a few here to keep you entertained for more than a nanosecond. Awesome coffee photos. 1 - The famous writer and French philosopher Voltaire loved to drink...
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73Can Ignorance be Bliss? Candide vs. Metamorphoses
Arguing for the positive side of ignorance.
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66DEVIL RIDES OUT IN AFRICA
If there were no Devil, it would be necessary to invent him, said the philosopher Voltaire. Some years ago during my eventful stay in Africa, there was a lot of hue and cry about the prevalence of devil worship in several parts of the world,...
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