Barack Obama has recently landed in hot water for this picture of him refusing to pay his respects during the Pledge Of Allegiance. What does this mean for his Presidential campaign? What does it say about the character of the man? Does he have t

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Apparently they’ve run out of Disney drivel and slasher films to remake so they’ve decided to do remakes and sequels to films that were actually critically acclaimed. I’m not exactly sure who has been clamoring for a sequel to “Dances With Wolves,"

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There is something about baseball that moves us. Perhaps it’s baseball’s timelessness and history, which converge to make it a sentimental game. Field of Dreams captures that sentimentality without entering the realm of the cheesy or melodramatic.

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Derrick Rose coming up. In case you're wondering who will be taking over for Kevin Durant as a must-watch, will-dominate freshman it's Derrick Rose of the Memphis Tigers. The only difference is that Derrick Rose has some very good teammates which

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An exploration into Shakespeare's use of imagery to help build character and plot. In this soliloquy from Othello, Shakespeare uses imagery to show Iago's true nature along with the structure and content of the dialogue, punctuation, enjambment, c

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A couple weeks ago, I contacted some great bloggers that I’m subscribed to and asked them that what had inspired them to start blogging. I then decided to compile all their responses into one post, I just thought you’d like to know what has inspired

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In a perfect world, you’d never have to edit your own work, but well, you know the drill. The world’s not perfect, life’s not fair, yada yada. So spend a little time now or a lot of time later trying to convince your boss to let you keep your job as

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We end the week in 1920’s prohibition-era Chicago with The Untouchables. This flick features several stellar performances, but two stand about the rest - Sean Connery, who won an Oscar for his supporting role as one of the Untouchables, Jimmy Malone

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A provocative speech by the principal character in the ‘V for Vendetta’ movie (directed by the Wachowski brothers) was used by Ron Paul’s supporters to raise record breaking funds for his election campaign.

Here are some scans of the actual V for Vendetta comic strip featuring the famous TV studio speech. The speech is completely differe

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Eric Gordon is part of the deepest freshman class EVER in college basketball. David Stern has given the opportunity to watch these future NBA stars for a year includig future star Eric Gordon. Greg Oden and Kevin Durant were in their own stratosphere as far as last years class was concerned, but there's a chance this class has at least 5 tha

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In this quote Pablo Neruda talks about solitude, silence, and isolation and how they lead us to our humanity and our shared destiny. Pablo Neruda is a Chilean poet, who has a beautiful art with language. I have included a link to Towards a Splendid City, his Nobel speech given in Sweden.
I also include a link to his Biography, for those inte

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Building on articles on better speech and building self confidence, this article looks at breathing. Explains how breathing is affected by anxiety. Then goes on to give four exercises to help get into better breathing habits. None of us were taught how to breath and most of us don’t get taught how to breath in later life. As well as anxiety

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She's been doing enough lately on TV, in film, on the internet, and in print, to be getting the attention of everyone in Hollywood. And now Elizabeth Banks is going to "make a porno". Click here for more about her latest project! It has something to do with Kevin Smith and Seth Rogen! http://duelingtampons.blogspot.com/2007/11/shes-going

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Finally we got in update on Kevin Everett's condition. In a statement before the Bills kickoff today Kevin told everyone that his condition was improving and thanked all of the fans for their support during this ordeal.

Everitt suffered a life threatening injury during a game a few months ago and it's so good to hear that the Kevin Ever

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So another new trend in recruiting seems to be ‘green recruiting’, at least according to Steven Rothberg at College Recruiter. In his most recent post he quotes from the ever eloquent John Sullivan’s speech at the Kennedy Information conference in Orlando.

Of all the current challenges facing today’s recruiters, is worrying about whether o

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