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Jun.04.2012
I got into poetry not so much because I loved poetry, but more because I loved a woman who loved poets. I found, and still find, I don’t get it. I try and sometimes I am right, but usually I “miss the point” and just enjoy the sounds of it whether it is established poets like Langston Hughes to up...
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Jun.03.2012
“I don’t think you can simply be a Dadaist simply because you say you are,” my friend paused and drew a puff of his cigarette “what I am saying is that a Dadaist does certain things. I think to be a Dadaist you have to actually do these things”. I scowled at my friend as he sat across from me. He...
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Jun.02.2012
Here,at this point, is where I remembered despite the degradation, despite the comments of “Those who can’t, teach” ,there was much good about teaching. There is a concept inherently involved in teaching that a CEO of a company or executive middle manager would never understand...
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Jun.02.2012
"In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less." --Lee Iacocca
A big tear began to form in her eyes. At first they covered the eye like some alien membrane and then gravity pulled the tear between her...
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Jun.01.2012
The end is anti-climatic, so much so that viewers probably will wonder why the story was told in the first place. In reality-life, unlike Hollywood, we have very little control how the endings occure and even less control of forcing the character-people will react. I took one last look at the...
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May.31.2012
Sadly I think most of the politicians would dodge the question because they are in the election winning business. They want the congressional pin, or the all night parties on Airforce 1 . Elections are not about the “people” rather they are about a particular person.
The question that needs to...
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May.31.2012
The 2002 Nobel Prize winner for economics, psychologist Emeritus at Princeton University , Eugene Higgins once said:
“ We are blind to our own blindness, We have very little idea how much we don’t know, we are not designed to understand how little we know”
It was upon reading that quote...
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May.30.2012
He wanted to bury all his problems,
And so they were.
With each shovelful of consecrated dirt
He became all the martyr he hoped to be.
Stories were told,
Laughter,
Cries,
The center of everyone’s attention,
The sadness over his pain,
It was the things of his very most intimate dreams....
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May.29.2012
This is not a blog about religion, rather it is about the literal meaning of a word and how it affects us.The Webster dictionary defines faith as believing in something without proof. For example I have faith that I will live through the day. I have no proof that I will. I could drop dead of...
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May.27.2012
One day Lady Gaga and Tim Tebow will be credited with saving the world of literature. While the same could be said about JK Rowling or Suzanne Collins there is far more to be learned from the success of two of the most polarizing people in sports and entertainment. Their success, much to the...
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May.26.2012
It is this point, this particular moment, that should have been plot point one. Plot point one, for those of you who do not spend your time writing, is the point where the main character is thrust from their normal life and the character is faced with a problem that they need to solve. Yet the four...
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May.26.2012
It is natural for the human eye to be pleased by contrast in colors. The fact that the leaves sunbathing on top of the trees did not surprise me. Like me, they were probably wondering if laying on the single puffy cloud in the sky was as comfortable as it looked. What did surprise me is where...
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May.20.2012
Genius, near genius , and “nearer to genius than above average intelligence” are all deformities. They aren’t even mutations, they are deformirities much the same as being a Yankee’s fan, or if we must be serious, a baby chimp being born with no tail. Exceedingly smart people are not...
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May.15.2012
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May.15.2012
The summer farmer’s market takes place in Puyallup’s town square. At least the grassy area that should be the town square if it weren’t already named Pioneers Park. The scene there is quite different from when I arrived in February. Most notably there is this warm ,hot, yellow, thing in...
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About Joshua
Worked in politics, hated it, so I went to teach abroad. Now I am spending my time collecting research on Cambodia in between teacheing stints. Some of my friends accuse me of using my research as an excuse to travel to neat new places. They are sometimes...
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Joshua’s Favorite Books
American Gods
Freakanomics
The Watchmen
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