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BOOKS
Crime and Punishment is a book about a Russian called Raskolnikov. He kills a lady and his mom and sister come to the city where he is a student. His sister has a fiancé but they end up not getting married after all. Raskolnikov feels guilty about killing the lady for the whole book. His sister gets married to Raskolnikov’s friend, though. Towards the end Raskolnikov turns himself in and he goes to prison. ELEVATOR Elevators have these buttons: UP, DN, DOOR OPEN, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, B and ALARM. That is how the ten buttons in the elevator are labeled. All of the buttons except for “UP” and “DN” are also labeled with Braille underneath them. The elevators, which are self-lit, have electrical outlets in them. If man's intellectual capacity is on it's way up, then why must we show so much in the form of money-driven mass entertainment? Movies such as Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius and Harry Potter: The Sorceror's Stone and The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring have all shown us that geekdom is gaining acceptance in mass media; the very compass of cultural norms. And yet we must make light of our newly found intellectual acceptance in the form of mass-marketed entertainment? Were the "truly" intellectual works of time's past ever accepted within the confines of a proletarian(common man)'s pocketbook? Shakespeare may have been well-received in his Globe Theater of 17th century Britain, but I pray chance to say he ever saw more than a pretty pence of his efforts come his way. Sure, Voltaire may have been privy to the fantastical delicacies of Louis the XIV's aristocratic lifestyle. However, both Shakespeare and Voltaire's (and others like them) works were not lifestyle-driven so much as they were by purely intellectual forces. Is it now that, in our ever-greedy and yet ever-economically stressed 21st century, we must pander to our broadening intellectual horizons with a base thirst for the almighty dollar? And, if this is the case, how can we say that we have evolved from our base animalistic instincts when instead we embrace that which is so fundamentally human? Do not worry. Our contemporaneous foray into ingenious gadgets, wizards, and wonderous hobbits (respectively speaking) is nothing more than a reflection of Western culture's future glories. All I'm saying is that, for now, don't get your panties in a bundle over the fact that we gotta legitimize our intellectual worth through monetary means. It would seem as though as society becomes smarter, it becomes all the more human. However more elevated our thoughts rise, the more they are grounded by money, greed, and self-interest; all hinderences to intellectual growth. Oh, bother. WEATHER Though it seems that some days are really warm and then the next day it is cold, it was really nice outside. Residents could have sat on their porches and read books or talked. People were seen wearing light jackets. July 8, 1987 Mrs. Mariate Soales, Human Resources 1258 San Christophe Drive Clearwater, Florida 34615 Mrs. Soales: Celebrity Cruise Lines has a long history of excellence. According to the Berlitz Complete Guide to Cruising, your cruise ships rank in the top three nationally, and your award-winning gourmet quinine is unequaled in the industry. If you would like your bars and lounges to enjoy a similar reputation, you should hire me as your next bar and lounge supervisor. My qualifications, enthusiasm and attention to detail will help you set a new international standard for cruise line nightlife. Bartending in a luxury supper club with three separate lounge areas has taught me to be flexible. The restaurant bar has a clientele that demands superior service, even at the cost of speed. The tiki bar is a high-energy dance club focusing more on style and speed pouring. The banquet bar combines the charisma of the dance club with the restaurant’s high quality wines. My experience with these distinctly different bars would allow me to quickly adapt to the several tavern environments aboard your cruise ships. My duties as supervisor of the Stout University Photography lab included ordering supplies and scheduling other employees; two skills necessary for bar management. And my business education, (including the only wine and food pairing course of its kind in the country), uniquely qualifies me to work alongside chefs as easily as accountants. After you have read my resume, feel free to contact me with any questions. Thank you for your consideration. Sincerely, Jinny Russel THE SUBJECTIVITY OF LANGUAGE Words and knowledge, it will not be argued, are one of the same. It is also such that knowledge is not knowledge as such unless one takes into account a knowledge BASE that is shared by both he and those who he wishes to compare his “knowledge” to. And what is a knowledge base but one’s own viewpoint, one’s own interpretation of that knowledge base. That means that knowledge is inherently a subjective truth and not any real ultimate truth. Words play directly into this subjective nature of knowledge (truth). Thus, as far as I’m concerned, you may as well think you’re reading an article about bats. Also, if you were to think that bats meant knowledge, then you’d be on “the right track.” But whose right track? Mine? Perhaps. Perhaps your own, however. This is not an "operable illusion," this is how the nature of truth plays out. The question becomes how to reconcile the subjective nature of words and knowledge with the ultimate truth. The ultimate truth can only be understood through words (the way we communicate) and the knowledge that comes from these words and their particular ordering and structure (syntax). It may appear then that the ultimate truth is out of our reach when if fact this is NOT the truth, though. Truth runs deeper than meets-the-eye. All it would take for ultimate truth to be ascertained through the subjective nature of that which surrounds it is real, genuine insight. For example, this article is not about bats, it is about truth. You have this insight already. Or perhaps, no one else but we do and this works all the same. If people like you (the reader) and I (the writer) were to all share our point of view, we could create our own knowledge base, from which would grow truth. The subjective nature of everything prevents anything like that ever really happening, but it is something we can dream about, something we can all aspire to. In the future, when more people “get it” this potential will hopefully become a grand reality. FROM THE DESK OF THE EDITOR It seems to this writer, that by forcibly colonizing what is now the United States of America, white men (this vague yet well-known and powerful demographic) began blueprinting a framework that would allow us to maintain power indefinitely. Our plan was simple: to squash cultural innovation until the cultural innovation is as strong as we are, then make it ours so we can control it. This is part of why white Americans have such a hard time creating new and soulful pieces of expression; our own culture is devoid of it and doesn’t support it. White Americans are observers. We do not live our art. White Americans try to create something new not by expressing ourselves, but, rather, by reacting childishly to what has come before it. "New" has been interpreted by white "artists" simply as "not old." All white Americans secretly want to escape our skin color; we want to be able to belong to a culture that is truly a culture. To be a white American is to be the default, and we have no one to blame but our ancestors. |
MIDDLE EAST SHATTERED INTO TWO HALVES
This schism has caused a chasm in the hearts of the people's mind as well as their splitting mind’s eye’s brain of hearts and mind. Some are ripped, others are torn between the circumstances of division, hurtling towards an end. The confrontation continues to fight in its battling insofar as age-old confrontations slowly twist and mingle under time and circumstance. Brothers fight other brothers for their land and for their brotherhood. But no semblance of brotherhood can be assembled up to strengthen the familial ties of such an age of hard and war times. News clips serve as a stirring reminder above images of struggling over to a future. Forever revealed between history, this current situation might be the turning point of time and battle. AT THE MOVIES Hollywood Actress Christina Applegate Stars in “Don’t Tell Mom the Babysitter’s Dead” Hollywood, CA -- What happens when an older sister (Christina Applegate) and two younger brothers are under the care of a babysitter for a whole summer but the babysitter dies? Well, first of all, we don’t tell mom! Secondly, it’s a 9 to 5 for Hollywood starlet Applegate. And that’s just where the comedy starts. Throw in her two oddball brothers and you’ve got a comedy flick that just won’t quit. 3 stars. FICTION Few things are nobler in this life than encouraging children to share. It is in this spirit that I took to writing “Brothers,” a charming and mysterious tale which follows the lives of three forest creatures (Brother Bear-of-the-Land, Brother Hawk-of-the-Sky and Brother Fish-of-the-Sea) as they learn the importance of brotherhood through redistribution of material wealth. As Brother Hawk-of-the-Sky said, “How can one define the limits of the sky?” By reading this story or having this story read to them, children will also learn the importance of ecology and become life-long readers themselves. I remember we were driving in your car / The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk... HOW WORDS WORK Words have prefixes, roots and suffixes. In writing, the prefix and suffix are often hidden, just as the letter e can be attached to a word to change a vowel sound, yet itself is unpronounced at all. Even the word prefixes has these three important parts. Pre is, ironically, a prefix. Fix, also ironically, but not as ironically as pre being a prefix, is a root word. Es, the last part of the word, is the suffix. It is attached to the root word at the end of the word to change the meaning. Her teaching draws from several main impulses: to foster a student-centered classroom, one that is conducive to learning that transcends the limits of a particular course; to teach the skills in critical reading, thinking, and writing which enable her students to successfully make this move beyond the classroom; and to impart a sense of literary production as a vital and essentially human endeavor. Her approach to literature in particular is two-fold: to recognize and appreciate the craft of an individual piece of writing (regardless of whether or not we "like" the content), and to seriously consider the ways in which a text is at once capable of reflecting, resisting, and helping to construct the values and ideas that inform the reality of its particular culture. She finds early modern literature and culture particularly rich subjects of inquiry insofar as they stand in a relation to us that is simultaneously one of familiarity and alterity. Because of this feature, such study often provides a valuable and useful gauge of how far we've come as a culture-and of how far we still have to go. FROM THE DESK OF THE EDITOR It seems to this writer, that by forcibly colonizing what is now the United States of America, white men (that vague yet well-known and powerful demographic) began blueprinting a framework that would allow them to maintain power indefinitely. Their plan was simple: to squash cultural innovation until the cultural innovation is as strong as you are, then make it yours so you can control it. This is part of why white Americans have such a hard time creating new and soulful pieces of expression; their own culture is devoid of it and doesn’t support it. White Americans are observers. They do not live their art. White Americans try to create something new not by expressing themselves, but, rather, by reacting childishly to what has come before it. "New" has been interpreted by white "artists" simply as "not old." All white Americans secretly want to escape their skin color; they want to be able to belong to a culture that is truly a culture. To be a white American is to be the default, and they have no one to blame but their ancestors. MUSIC Pop music is at an all time high but loyal supporters of rock music still bang their heads to guitar licks and rock drum beats. Some rock music is being played on pop stations, but statistics show that supporters of rock music tend not to listen to those stations. Pop music supporters don’t seem to mind sharing the airwaves. “It’s all about the music,” they say. DO WE NEED ARCHITECTURE ANYMORE? 1. Architecture, as it stands, stands, or does so, cross-roadly. 2. At when does architecture stop being necessary, and start acting as surplus? 3. Certainly, the art(?) of building edifices for human use has history as long and rich as any other, even more so, art (artistic movement). 4. Rome—not built in a day—fell neither in a single one, as may with ‘architecture’ en masse. 5. Architecture may also be considered upon as a science—not an art. 6. A constructional science. 7. Con-struct-ion. 8. (Struct-ure.) 9. Civilization minus structure? 10. You judge. 11. Perhaps point-by-point: Civil Architecture. 12. Let’s not put carts-before-horses. 13. Sympathy, with the civil cause, is natural and unassuming. 14. F. Scott Fitzgerald Solomonly stated: It is the great mind which can hold opposing views. 15. Let us therefore hold that contrary view, then, momentarily, discard the former view. 16. It now becomes clear…Civil Architecture is only mandatory in such bureaucratic situations as can or may mandate them. 17. Such is. 18. Perhaps point-by-point: Ecclesiastical Architecture. 19. Separation of church and state. 20. Union of state and civilization. 21. Separation of church and civilization. 22. Ecclesiastical Architecture? 23. Thanks, no. 2 RECYCLING An office recycling effort is most effective when used in conjunction with a comprehensive waste reduction program. Waste reduction means avoiding the generation of waste by using less material, using supplies and equipment more efficiently and buying products that are more durable, easily repairable or recyclable. Reducing the office waste stream makes economic as well as environmental sense. It saves operating and disposal costs and helps conserve natural resources and energy. There are six effective methods of waste reduction that can be practiced in any office or institution. But before establishing a new office waste management system, it is important to know your current waste management practices. This requires a waste audit, the first step in starting and maintaining an effective waste reduction and recycling program. Waste audits should be conducted at least once a year. |
HAPPINESS GOES GLOBAL
By Jonathan Brickman World happiness is up...way up. According to world surveys loooking at the how happy people are, most people are feeling especially good about things. Whereas scientists had previously thought that world happiness was in decline, it has now been clinically proven that happiness is somewhat very contageous. You only need to look around to see. With happiness raining merry rampage upon our city streets, both here and abroad, it is clear to see that happiness is a force to be reckoned with. The mayhem that has consequently ensued should therefore not have surprised anyone. Ironically, if you are in fact surprised by this news, it comes as a happy surprise. So, as you see, happiness is inevitible. In studying happiness, a group of scientists telephoned citizens of the world to poll them on their current emotional state. Of the 125 people to respond, 124 reported feeling “tremendous”, “exceptional”, or “just really, really happy.” Oddly enough, the other respondent reported feelings of “tremendous loss” and “grief”. When asked why he wasn’t happy like everyone else, it was revealed that the grief came as a result of the man’s dog having just died. Boo-hoo. As it turns out, the dog had already murdered the man’s wife – a fact the dishonest man vehemently denies – and, as a result, the death comes as, in fact, a celebration of life, and the happiness that results from the eradication of negative emotions such as a desire to kill a happy biological lifeform. Upon completion of the survey, the scientists concluded that 100% of the respondants were happy.* How can you contribute to world happiness? Dr. Mary Little of Omaha Nebraska says there are many ways to keep the ball rolling. “It is important, first of all, to pretend that disease and other maladies of the body and soul are fabrications of the forces of evil and/or the Devil,” she says. “In thinking that these are exactly what they are, fabrications, you are left to deduce that happiness is all that remains. Pure happiness.” When I offhandedly muttered that the Devil cannot be happy given his desires for evil, Little told me that I was most mistaken. “The Devil is happy in his own perverse way,” she claims. Other factors contributing to happiness include excessive smiling, drinking lots of alcohol, and ignoring bothersome issues. So smile, and be happy! There is no time like the present to revel in the widespread joy. Everyone else is, so you will be, too. By Andrew Tortorice "Nothing is more certain than the indisputable necessity of government" --John Jay, the Federalist Papers #2 While I don't object to the philosophy in this statement, I do object to the grammar. Strongly. The Federalist Papers, the theoretical foundation for our nation, reads like a first draft written by an "Introduction to Composition" student. “Nothing is more certain than the undisputable" is a truism, and an atrocious one. Why state the undeniable? This illuminates a wider issue: news articles, magazines, and popular books (in short, that vast segment of our literary culture written by and for the mindless) are expected to be lucid, concise, and straightforward, but somehow we don't mind that the so-called great works of social theory are almost unreadable. From Hobbes to Nietzsche, our greatest minds wrote as though they were going to receive extra credit for commas and syllables. If scholars are as serious about the language of their masters as they are about the language of their servants, perhaps they'd do better with Readers Digest than they're doing with all of those undigestible postmodernism readers. Derrida wrote: "Even when the thing, the 'referent,' is not immediately related to the logos of a creator God where it began by being the spoken/thought sense, the signified has at any rate an immediate relationship with the logos in general (finite or infinite), and a mediated one with the signifier, that is to say with the exteriority of writing." --Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology DO YOU KNOW WHERE ALL THE TINY BABIES ARE? Every year, tiny babies get totally lost and/or hidden from view for what has, in all probability, been described by as “long periods of time.” These babies that had been fetuses have popped out of so many vaginas that the confusion and misplacement has gone unchecked and unregulated for as many as several and some doctors fear for far too many weeks and years. These tiny babies are without defense, they are sad, scared and they crying. They are so little, yet within themselves holds much, so much potential. These tiny things are very little, but they, themselves, embody what is or can be the future itself. The real tragedy? THE CIVIL WAR The main problem in discussing the Civil War is determining who exactly was fighting who while also discussing who was at war, that is, whose civil war was this civil war? The United States of America was at war with itself, but it was also not because it became two different things: The Union and The South, or Confederate States of America. It quickly becomes obvious that Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, guided his country through the most devastating experience in its national history--the CIVIL WAR. He is considered by many historians to have been the greatest American president. Lincoln was born on Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin in Hardin (now Larue) County, Ky. Indians had killed his grandfather, Lincoln wrote, "when he was laboring to open a farm in the forest" in 1786; this tragedy left his father, Thomas Lincoln, "a wandering laboring boy" who "grew up, literally without education." Thomas, nevertheless, became a skilled carpenter and purchased three farms in Kentucky before the Lincolns left the state. Little is known about Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks Lincoln. Abraham had an older sister, Sarah, and a younger brother, Thomas, who died in infancy. (Parenthetical courtesy of http:// sc94.ameslab.gov/ TOUR/ alincoln.html)) was getting to the heart of a matter by explaining to Generals Grant and Lee that a house divided against itself could not stand. He meant that one thing, be it a house or a nation, when divided, or split up into two factions like the Northern States such as Maine and Rhode Island and Illinois and so on and the Southern states like Florida and Texas and Kentucky, etc., against itself, as if to say that they are fighting, cannot stand--in other words--will fall into destruction, a sort of self destruction, QED. Penning the Emancipation Proclamation, Lincoln re-united the U.S.A. and then, as now, it is stronger than it was before. So America wasn't really at war, it was just kind of trying to understand itself.  |