Month: November 2002
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And when I looked over my shoulder, everything was different
“My opinion on art, and what I’m trying to do- when I do a project I just let it flow, come up with ideas, feelings, movements and just put it out there. I’m trying to learn from others and find my own style of interpretation.” -Pat McRaith The project started out ambitious enough: figure out
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Pop Goes Music
I once got into a conversation with a guy who believed that music could not be categorized…
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Play me like a fiddle: American media on American foreign policy
The same anecdote keeps coming up again and again in articles decrying the United States’ attitude toward Iraq. In 1996, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright gave an interview with 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl regarding U.S. sanctions in that country. Asked whether the sanctions were worth the death of half a million Iraqi children since
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Ode de la Toilet
Ahhh… look, you are inside the public John! What a pleasant place indeed. It is smelly, you can see the remains of an individual prior to yourself and of course, it is so wildly decorated! Narrowing in on this last matter, what is to be said about toilet graffiti? That’s right, toilet graffiti! This phrase
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Don’t get caught with your participle dangling in the wind
At the risk of pathetic fatalism I’m going to come clean right at the beginning that I’m not sure if it’s possible to write something interesting about grammar, so at this point I apologize. However, you’re not exactly going to be spared either. My condolences… It’s hard to say exactly where language is headed these
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Don’t Cheat! New Technology Detects Plagarism
This just in: Plagiarism is bad. Just in case you somehow missed the fact that copying someone else’s work and calling it your own is an unacceptable practice in high school as well as here at university and throughout your life, we’ll mention it one more time. Plagiarism Bad. To some, the case would be