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...Mario Kart is not the same thing as Moby-Dick; if the former is to be offered alongside the latter, it must be on a provisional basis only. While we should hardly resist the chronic adaptation of interests and habits amongst young people, we must simultaneously insist upon the preservation the our more classic literary forms. After all, perhaps there is less cause for alarm than a few among us might suggest; perhaps the duel for the hearts and minds of students is not quite a zero-sum game. Mark Seidenberg, a reading researcher at the University of Wisconsin, said...
...defaulted on pledges and must now increase aid by $18 billion a year to meet the original goal. Assistance has been anemic when it was supposed to be titanic. Bad situations will likely worsen with the financial implosion, especially in Latin America and Eastern Europe, where countries depend heavily upon foreign capital. Turbulence will mean compression of capital flows, labor immobility, and restricted access for the exports of developing nations. Droughts, commodity market speculation, and spiked food, oil, and biofuel prices also bring sorrow. While some first-graders will say goodbye to friends when they are forced to move houses...
...fact, this is supposed to represent the evolution of nature into civilization and society. So this is how it all came to be! But Clement Picon, the video creator, is not yet done explaining the “depth” of the universe. In the end, everything depends upon the beginning, and who are we to question the “Reckoner?” The video dances around the idea of being a single united universe, ultimately returning to its original seed-like property and starting all over again. Lucky for me (and you), the second time around...
...actually, he still is. But now, he is also much more: Usher is the woman in the relationship. You see, Usher can relate to every struggling female out there. He identifies with the adversity women face every day at the workplace and at home. So, he has taken it upon himself to reverse these stereotypes and give women the power they deserve. Thankfully, we all have the good fortune of viewing his experiences as documented in this borderline pornographic “music” video. In his societal experiment/sexual fantasy, Usher plays the modern women. He placidly concedes...
...that could not mask the brutal hardness of wood. She felt the splinters scraping her tender back as though it had been yesterday.And he was here in Italy. She knew it with as much certainty as if the painted figure before her were not oils hardened into ridges upon a canvas, but flesh equally hardened by athletic prowess. It was as though a vital, palpitating ghost inhabited the great hall with her. She felt his mouth on her cheeks, the delicate yet rough line of kisses along her bare arm, her shoulder, her decollatage.It was true, what he had said...