Literacy called key to putting minorities in college | TribLIVE

Literacy called key to putting minorities in college | TribLIVE:

 "The way to increase minority enrollment in colleges and universities is to improve the literacy rates of students, a former director of the Washington Archdiocese‘s Office of Black Catholics said Monday at St. Vincent College‘s observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day."

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Recipe for literacy success: start early and read often | SouthCoastToday.com

Recipe for literacy success: start early and read often | SouthCoastToday.com:

 "NEW BEDFORD — When it comes to improving graduation rates, the key is to start reading early, said Pam Kuechler.

And she means early.

"As soon as infants are born, parents should be reading to them," said Kuechler, coordinator of the Greater New Bedford Early Literacy Consortium."

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The Magic Of Literature by ~Ponti55

The Magic Of Literature

by ~Ponti55

Matteo Pontonutti  

Collecting Souls - YouTube

Collecting Souls - YouTube:

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Get your free copy here and share it around the world...

http://book.85mm.ch

El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha

Jan.16th 1605 - The first edition of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha (Book One of Don Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published in Madrid

Harold Bloom Talks About Literature, Judaism, and the Almighty – Tablet Magazine

Harold Bloom sobre Cortázar. De la crítica literaria al SIDA (Photo credit: Scemoso)

Harold Bloom Talks About Literature, Judaism, and the Almighty – Tablet Magazine:


 "“You should hear him talk to a cabdriver,” one of Bloom’s ex-students told me. Bloom thrives on personal contact, and his conversation is full of affectionate verbal squeezes: His Yale colleague Geoffrey Hartman, like Bloom a pioneering critic of Romanticism, is the “Ayatollah Hartmeini”; John Ashbery, the poet, is always “the noble Ashbery.” Every male under 60 is addressed as “young man”; every woman, of whatever age, as “my dear.” “Kinderlach,” Bloom will say to a group of middle-aged friends, with genuine, surprised tenderness, “you astonish me always.”"

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Book Recommendation: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin

Book Recommendation: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin
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A Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz

A Tribute to Blacklisted Lyricist Yip Harburg: The Man Who Put the Rainbow in The Wizard of Oz:

 "His name might not be familiar to many, but his songs are sung by millions around the world. Today, we take a journey through the life and work of Yip Harburg, the Broadway lyricist who wrote such hits as "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" and who put the music into The Wizard of Oz."

Max Brooks World War Z Full Audio Book - YouTube

Max Brooks World War Z Full Audio Book - YouTube: ""

Nellie McKay's Project Song at NPR - YouTube

Nellie McKay's Project Song at NPR - YouTube: ""
Nellie McKay born December 13, 1984



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Mozart - Requiem - YouTube

Mozart - Requiem - YouTube: "Requiem Mass was first performed on January 2, 1793, in a private concert for the benefit of Mozart's grieving wife, Constanze Mozart.


The Following are the lyrics, translated from their Original Latin"

Grant them eternal rest, Lord,
and let perpetual light shine on them.
You are praised, God, in Zion,
and homage will be paid to You in Jerusalem.
Hear my prayer,
to You all flesh will come.
Grant them eternal rest, Lord,
and let perpetual light shine on them.


Lord, have mercy on us.
Christ, have mercy on us.
Lord, have mercy on us.


Day of wrath, day of anger
will dissolve the world in ashes,
as foretold by David and the Sibyl.
Great trembling there will be
when the Judge descends from heaven
to examine all things closely.


The trumpet will send its wondrous sound
throughout earth's sepulchres
and gather all before the throne. 
Death and nature will be astounded,
when all creation rises again,
to answer the judgment.
A book will be brought forth,
in which all will be written,
by which the world will be judged. 
When the judge takes his place,
what is hidden will be revealed,
nothing will remain unavenged.
What shall a wretch like me say?
Who shall intercede for me,
when the just ones need mercy?


King of tremendous majesty,
who freely saves those worthy ones,
save me, source of mercy.


Remember, kind Jesus,
my salvation caused your suffering;
do not forsake me on that day. 


Faint and weary you have sought me,
redeemed me, suffering on the cross;
may such great effort not be in vain. 


Righteous judge of vengeance,
grant me the gift of absolution
before the day of retribution. 

I moan as one who is guilty:
owning my shame with a red face;
suppliant before you, Lord. 

You, who absolved Mary,
and listened to the thief,
give me hope also. 

My prayers are unworthy,
but, good Lord, have mercy,
and rescue me from eternal fire. 

Provide me a place among the sheep,
and separate me from the goats,
guiding me to Your right hand.


When the accused are confounded,
and doomed to flames of woe,
call me among the blessed. 

I kneel with submissive heart,
my contrition is like ashes,
help me in my final condition.


That day of tears and mourning,
when from the ashes shall arise,
all humanity to be judged.
Spare us by your mercy, Lord,
gentle Lord Jesus,
grant them eternal rest. Amen.


Lord Jesus Christ, King of glory,
liberate the souls of the faithful,
departed from the pains of hell
and from the bottomless pit.
Deliver them from the lion's mouth,
lest hell swallow them up,
lest they fall into darkness.




Let the standard-bearer, holy Michael,
bring them into holy light.




Which was promised to Abraham
and his descendants.


Sacrifices and prayers of praise, Lord,
we offer to You.
Receive them in behalf of those souls
we commemorate today.
And let them, Lord,
pass from death to life,
which was promised to Abraham
and his descendants.


Lamb of God, who takes away
the sins of the world,
grant them eternal rest.
Lamb of God, who takes away
the sins of the world,
Grant them eternal rest.
Lamb of God, who takes away
the sins of the world,
grant them eternal rest forever.


Let eternal light shine on them, Lord,
as with Your saints in eternity,
because You are merciful.
Grant them eternal rest, Lord,
and let perpetual light shine on them,
as with Your saints in eternity,
because You are merciful.

Declaration of Independence?

Declaration of Independence?:

 "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE-
"COMMIE JUNK" IN MIAMI"


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Alfred Nobel patents dynamite (November 25, 1867

[Johnny saw some dynamite
Couldn't understand it quite
But curiosity never pays
It rained Johnny for seven days.]

{Alfred Nobel patents dynamite (November 25, 1867)}

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The Origin of Species ~~Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin as a young man, probably subsequent to the Galápagos visit (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The Origin of Species
~~Charles Darwin     



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Full List | All-TIME 100 Novels | TIME.com

Full List | All-TIME 100 Novels | TIME.com:
 "All-TIME 100 Novels
Critics Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo pick the 100 best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME."

THANKSGIVING PRAYER by WILLIAM BURROUGHS

WILLIAM BURROUGHS’ THANKSGIVING PRAYER

Thanks for the wild turkey and the passenger pigeons, destined to be shit out through wholesome American guts.
Thanks for a continent to despoil and poison.
Thanks for Indians to provide a modicum of challenge and danger.
Thanks for vast herds of bison to kill and skin leaving the carcasses to rot.
Thanks for bounties on wolves and coyotes.
Thanks for the American dream,
To vulgarize and to falsify until the bare lies shine through.
Thanks for the KKK.
For nigger-killin’ lawmen, feelin’ their notches.
For decent church-goin’ women, with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces.
Thanks for “Kill a Queer for Christ” stickers.
Thanks for laboratory AIDS.
Thanks for Prohibition and the war against drugs.
Thanks for a country where nobody’s allowed to mind the own business.
Thanks for a nation of finks.
Yes, thanks for all the memories—all right let’s see your arms!
You always were a headache and you always were a bore.
Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.

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The Shortest Story Ever Told | Ego Dialogues

The Shortest Story Ever Told | Ego Dialogues:
 "Shortest Story Ever Told"


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Mad magazine turns 60; still crazy after all these years - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com

mad_magazine_dec_1957 (Photo credit: Douglas Coulter)

The first issue of Mad. Art by Harvey Kurtzman. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Alfred E. Neuman (Photo credit: Thomas Hawk)

Mad magazine turns 60; still crazy after all these years - Peoria, IL - pjstar.com:

 "Mad continues on despite the fact that there’s a lot more satire and cultural criticism out there today (called the Internet). Happy birthday, Alfred E. Neumann, we never forgot the life lesson you taught us: What? Me worry?"

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DIANA KRALL LYRICS - Cry Me A River

DIANA KRALL LYRICS - Cry Me A River:

 "Now you say you're sorry
For being so untrue
Well, you can cry me a river
Cry me a river
I cried a river over you"

Phantom Noise by Brian Turner

Phantom Noise
by Brian Turner

There is this ringing hum  this
bullet-borne language  ringing
shell-fall and static this  late-night
ringing of threadwork and carpet  ringing
hiss and steam  this wing-beat
of rotors and tanks  broken
bodies ringing in steel  humming these
voices of dust  these years ringing
rifles in Babylon  rifles in Sumer
ringing these children their gravestones
and candy  their limbs gone missing  their
static-borne television  their ringing
this eardrum  this rifled symphonic  this
ringing of midnight in gunpowder and oil this
brake pad gone useless  this muzzle-flash singing  this
threading of bullets in muscle and bone  this ringing
hum  this ringing hum  this
ringing

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Academy of American Poets
   http://www.poets.org

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The Blue Moon Review

The Blue Moon Review: "THE NEWS FROM MARS


" . . . the diaspora of human civilization is bound to go on
and out, as it always has done in the process of setting new
frontiers."
--Gerald K. O'Neill"

Quotes About Politics (1460 quotes)

Quotes About Politics (1460 quotes):

 "“If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don't bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don't bullshit yourself that you're not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.”
― David Foster Wallace, Up, Simba!"



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Evey Hammond (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Evey Hammond: [voiceover] Remember, remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder Treason and Plot. I know of no reason why the Gunpowder Treason should ever be forgot... 

But what of the man? I know his name was Guy Fawkes and I know, in 1605, he attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament. But who was he really? What was he like?

 We are told to remember the idea, not the man, because a man can fail. He can be caught, he can be killed and forgotten, but 400 years later, an idea can still change the world. I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them...

 but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it...

 ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love...

 And it is not an idea that I miss, it is a man...

 A man that made me remember the Fifth of November. A man that I will never forget. 

~~from Alan Moore's V for Vendetta

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Athanasius, Underground | The Public Domain Review

Athanasius, Underground | The Public Domain Review:

 "ATHANASIUS, UNDERGROUND
With his enormous range of scholarly pursuits the 17th century polymath Athanasius Kircher has been hailed as the last Renaissance man and “the master of hundred arts”. John Glassie looks at one of Kircher’s great masterworks Mundus Subterraneus and how it was inspired by a subterranean adventure Kircher himself made into the bowl of Vesuvius."

It's Gibberish, But Italian Pop Song Still Means Something : NPR

It's Gibberish, But Italian Pop Song Still Means Something : NPR:
 "the world's first rap song "

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Written Inc.

Written Inc.:

 ""There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
Kurt Vonnegut "

101 Zen Stories

101 Zen Stories:

 101 ZEN Stories

http://www.101zenstories.com/

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National Novel Writing Month

National Novel Writing Month: "What is NaNoWriMo?

National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing on November 1. The goal is to write a 50,000 word, (approximately 175 page) novel by 11:59:59, November 30."