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Feb.11.2010
In our most unique free country of the United States we have undisputable inalienable rights along with our constitution that spells out and guarantees those rights.
Most people today take for granted what others before us fought, and died for. To remain in office, our elected representatives...
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Feb.11.2010
In my culture, women of status used to have their feet bound so that they could hobble around daintily their whole lives. Fortunately, my father had left China during the Communist Revolution and I grew up in America in the '70s and '80s.
In the summer of 2001, I had the opportunity to hike 600...
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Feb.11.2010
When I was a kid, I loved stories about big families. I loved The Brady Bunch, and two of my favorite movies were (still are) Cheaper by the Dozen and Yours Mine and Ours. I think I loved them because I loved how the sibling dynamic, be it bickering or being there for each other. I'm an only child...
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Feb.11.2010
Freedom is a perfect blog topic for Black History Month. African Americans are still searching and fighting for freedom. But that's not all, so are lots of Americans. We send our young people out everyday to fight for our freedom. Some of them come home to us and some don't. Freedom is about...
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Feb.11.2010
(NOTE: This poem is made up of song lyrics. There is an annotated version for the curiouser of the curious.)
Born free, as free as the wind blows. I woke up this morning with my mind set on freedom. Good morning, freedom, I'd like to take you by the hand. Freer than the meaning of free that man...
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Feb.11.2010
In one of the sequels to Anne of Green Gables, the central character, Anne Shirley, mentions to her elders that she would like to live on her own when attending college and not in a dormitory (which in the 19th century was more like a convent) in order, as she put it “to have more freedom”.
The...
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Feb.11.2010
For better or for worse, I'm in love with freedom. This romance began when I was a child and grew as I grew, becoming the central focus, the beat in my veins, the pulse. For most of my life, I chose freedom over other pursuits. I sacrificed safety, pleasure, and relationships for freedom....
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Feb.11.2010
If Shakespeare was right, then poets and madmen have much in common. The all-important difference being that what in madmen is called insanity, in poets is said to be inspiration. What distinguishes poets from their mad brothers is this ability to put their visions down on paper. Madmen have...
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Feb.11.2010
A wisp of hair escapes and we slick it back in place; we find a page running away and we chase it and return it within the confines of a book. We lose our way and desperately try to look for directions to get to a designated place. Safety is in such stratified knowledge and bondage. Freedom isn’t...
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Feb.11.2010
Freedom
It is the hope, that is taken away,
In the night, when it is just me,
Freedom is robbed by the pain,
Freedom to sleep and dream,
It arrives striking and strong,
Like black boots strapped,
To marching blitzkriegs of agony,
Pain comes! Pain comes!
Shouts the remnants of hope,
Plans for the...
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