Tag: culture
member name: Ian B (in Toronto)
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November 17, 2008 09:53 PM EST --
Mistakes were made (one)
I've been enjoying this book so much that I thought I would give some observations of individual chapters. I hope to just generate some interest, and to write out some . . .
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December 14, 2008 04:50 PM EST --
I was skimming some articles, reading some posts and comments: when I came across an interesting one. The post was about some difficulties in Afghanistan, and the comment was: "They will make good . . .
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February 16, 2009 02:35 PM EST --
I don't much like TV marathons; I guess I just don't like many shows that much. There aren't many shows that I can stand enough to put out a whole day to watch them. Particularly one of my . . .
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November 05, 2008 09:41 PM EST --
I went to visit my previous manager at my old job tonight; it's only been a few weeks since I left, but we still chatted about old times and changes in the company and where things were going. It made . . .
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November 07, 2008 05:46 PM EST --
When I was in grade eight (that's eighth grade to my American cousins) I had one bear of a teacher for English. He was known across the school as the hardest teacher for the subject. I guess I would . . .
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November 09, 2008 10:32 PM EST --
Okay, this is more a question than anything else. I went to church this evening, and the sermon was on "the image of God": which, of course, is us. Now I've never heard a sermon on this topic . . .
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November 16, 2008 11:00 PM EST --
All of us who have been writing and publishing (in any sense of the word) for any length of time know what it is like to receive a negative comment. We know what it is like to receive a spiteful comment. . . .
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December 03, 2008 09:46 PM EST --
We always hear that our vote is the most powerful part of being in a democracy. But I'm not sure it is. It also means knowing when a vote is not necessary, when it becomes something that hides the . . .
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December 06, 2008 01:49 PM EST --
"Bush is more likely to choose a similar post-presidential path, at least initially, as that of Jimmy Carter... [who] became a globe-trotting humanitarian and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in . . .
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November 05, 2008 10:59 PM EST --
Okay, okay, I have to admit I've always enjoyed taking pictures. These are a few from my new job at the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. We had a pot-luck for Halloweeen, and people dressed up. . . .
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November 11, 2008 02:47 PM EST --
I'm expanding my variations of submissions, trying different kinds of writing, different subjects. I've seen all the different kinds of recipes appear on gather, and wondered what I could contribute. . . .
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December 27, 2008 05:51 PM EST --
In one of my recent posts (I don't remember which one) a friend of mine asked me to stop picking on Arkansas in my writing. As soon as I read that, I realized that in spite of adopting it . . .
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August 20, 2008 09:16 PM EDT --
I'm reading a book about WWII... in these days when war is all around us (even though we may not perceive it directly) I figured it was a good idea to read some about other wars. Actually, . . .
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October 26, 2008 03:04 PM EDT --
Last week the CBC did a piece on Flora MacDonald , a woman who (in the 1980s) was the first Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in Canada, and one of the first female foreign ministers in the world. . . .
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November 09, 2008 02:08 PM EST --
When I was younger, I was used to boycotts called by "Christian" leaders against companies they deemed to be ungodly: Proctor and Gamble was one of the most famous, if not the first (I remember . . .
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December 04, 2008 11:19 PM EST --
There was a recent question about Disney movies that started me thinking, and I have to tell this story. I have never been a big one as far as movies went in general; they tend to be too expensive and . . .
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December 08, 2008 10:11 PM EST --
By now most of us know that the U.S. is providing lots of money for auto dealers. Although I do support this move, in both countries (Canada and the U.S.), I don't think that we should do it blindly. . . .
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December 10, 2008 08:33 PM EST --
I'm afraid this post is short.
This is something I've been wondering about the last few days, and I'm curious about other opinions. I'm sure there is a technical difference, but I always . . .
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February 02, 2009 09:16 PM EST --
Have you ever read Fahrenheit 451? It's by Ray Bradbury (born 1920) who is one of the masters of science and speculative fiction in the world: he has been writing for over fifty years. Indeed, this . . .
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March 23, 2009 11:18 AM EDT --
Some would say that President Obama is only saying the right things, and that actions speak louder. In general I agree that this is the case. I was therefore pleased to see that the Obamas will be planting . . .
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