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Election Maps, Steelers and Great Authors
2008-11-06 15:50:00 My life the last few days has focused almost entirely on the election and the Steelers? Monday night game, though not necessarily in that order. I have a few links about both:I love maps and have spent way too much time looking at the county-by-county results of the Presidential election. From the map, only one county in the six New England states went to McCain: Piscataquis, Maine.Conversely, McCain won every Oklahoma county, and Obama only won two counties each in Wyoming and Utah and three counties in Kansas and Nevada. Of course, winning Clark County, home of Las Vegas, was enough for Obama to carry that state. McCain also won both Mineral counties. That would be Mineral County, Nevada where 49 total people voted and Mineral County, Colorado which had a whopping 64 voters. I spent over 20 minutes trying to verify these numbers from the Mineral County government websites, but I don?t think these counties have actual websites.According to the Pennsylvania map from the Pittsb...
By: Sean's Ramblings
John Steinbeck: Tortilla Flat - Book Review
2008-02-11 01:25:00 John Steinbeck, the voice of American conscience, and a true literary genius. His work has grown increasingly important in these modern times, these devoid of his ceaseless grace and passion. His words hang like crystal chandeliers in a world inhabited by shadows. John Steinbeck is more than a novelist. He is our reflection.Tortilla Flat represents Steinbeck's first critical and popular success as a novelist. Comprised of seventeen episodes, Tortilla Flat documents the events surrounding a group of 'paisanos living on the fringes of society in the fishing community of Monterey, California nearly a century ago.It is a story of Danny's house, and Danny's friends. It is a story of loss and redemption, and more loss. It is a tale of meaningless triumph, of alcoholism, of loneliness and of friendship. Steinbeck warns the reader of such impending peril, and delivers with great sadness. Such is the fabric of Tortilla Flat.Ultimately, Tortilla Flat confronts the basic tenets of morality...
John Steinbeck - Discontent
2008-02-10 05:17:00 Â Â Where does discontent start ? You are worm enough , but you shiver . You are fed , yet hunger gnaws you . You have been loved , but your yearning wanders in new fields . And to prod all these , there’s time , the Bastard Time . Technorati Tags: john steinbeck,american literature
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John Steinbeck - Discontent
2008-02-10 05:17:00 Â Â Where does discontent start ? You are worm enough , but you shiver . You are fed , yet hunger gnaws you . You have been loved , but your yearning wanders in new fields . And to prod all these , there’s time , the Bastard Time . Technorati Tags: john steinbeck,american literature
By: pigassus.com
Ban books? Ban ideas, ban imagination, ban a future
2007-12-09 00:26:00 To ban a book is to ban an idea. Some ideas are good; some are bad. But good and bad are judgments each of us must be free to make ? and learn to make. At S&R ? as do so many people in diverse media everywhere ? we discuss ideas and express our opinions about them. We try to not suppress the ideas with which we disagree. Rather, we point out what we see as flaws and attempt to persuade others by providing better ideas. The current flap diverting our attention from more pressing matters involves “The Golden Compass,” a movie derived from the first book in a trilogy called ?His Dark Materials? written by Philip Pullman. His novels and the movie (review) have irritated the Catholic Church, which alleges a secularist agenda and fears the film would drive children toward Pullman’s books. The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, which has published a 23-page denunciation of the film, says: The Catholic League wants Christians to stay away from this movi...
Yukar? Mahalle
2007-08-04 05:15:00 Danny, yüzy?llar önce Kaliforniya’ya gelmi? ?spanyol yerle?imcilerin neslinden bir paisano’dur. Arkada?l??a paradan çok önem veren Danny, aniden bir mirasa konup iki eve birden sahip olunca, sokaktaki di?er arkada?lar?na kap?lar?n? açar. Bu grubun özgürlük a?k? ve maddi dünyaya duyduklar? nefret, onlar? heyecanl? ve ço?u zaman komik maceralara sürükler. Ta ki, Danny, yeni ya?am?ndaki sorumluluklardan s?k?l?p ...
Sardalye Soka??
2007-07-17 06:50:00 Sardalye Soka??’n?n karma?as?nda, hayat?n bir yerinden tutunmaya çal??an uyumsuz insanlar -kumarbazlar, fahi?eler, ayya?lar, serseriler ve sanatç?lar- yanyana ya?arlar. Sahibi oldu?u genelevi sanat gibi i?leten k?z?l saçl? Dora, Sala? Palas? mekan seçen Mack ve onun iyi niyetli zavall?lar çetesi, Sala? Palas’?n ve yerel dükkan?n?n uyan?k sahibi Lee Chong, korkak ressam Henri ve bu marjinal topluluktaki bilgeli?in ...
Gazap Üzümleri
2007-07-17 02:26:00 Ça?da? Amerikan edebiyat?n?n en önemli isimlerinden biri say?lan John Steinbeck. (1902-1968), üniversite ö?renimi s?ras?nda çe?itli i?lerde çal??t?; daha sonra ö?renimini yar?da b?rakarak kendini tümüyle edebiyata adad?. ?lk roman? Alt?n Kupa 1929′da yay?mland?. bunu izleyen Yukar? Mahalle, Sardalye Soka?? Tatl? Per?embe, Fareler ve ?nsanlar, Gazap Üzümleri, Bitmeyen kavga vb. kitaplarla büyük bir ün ...
Gazap Üzümleri
2007-07-17 02:26:00 Ça?da? Amerikan edebiyat?n?n en önemli isimlerinden biri say?lan John Steinbeck. (1902-1968), üniversite ö?renimi s?ras?nda çe?itli i?lerde çal??t?; daha sonra ö?renimini yar?da b?rakarak kendini tümüyle edebiyata adad?. ?lk roman? Alt?n Kupa 1929′da yay?mland?. bunu izleyen Yukar? Mahalle, Sardalye Soka?? Tatl? Per?embe, Fareler ve ?nsanlar, Gazap Üzümleri, Bitmeyen kavga vb. kitaplarla büyük bir ün ...
Fareler ve ?nsanlar
2007-07-17 02:03:00 George ve iriyar? saf arkada?? Lennie, yersiz yurtsuz ki?ilerdir. Dünyada tek sahip olduklar? ?ey, aralar?ndaki dostluk ve günün birinde yerle?ip huzur içinde ya?ayabilecekleri, kendilerine ait bir araziye sahip olma hayalidir… Kaliforniya, Salinos Vadisi’ndeki bir çiftlikte i? bulan iki arkada?, bu arazi için gereken paray? biriktirmeyi dü?lemektedir. Ama bir çocu?un zekas?na, ayn? zamanda da korkunç ...
Fareler ve ?nsanlar
2007-07-17 02:03:00 George ve iriyar? saf arkada?? Lennie, yersiz yurtsuz ki?ilerdir. Dünyada tek sahip olduklar? ?ey, aralar?ndaki dostluk ve günün birinde yerle?ip huzur içinde ya?ayabilecekleri, kendilerine ait bir araziye sahip olma hayalidir… Kaliforniya, Salinos Vadisi’ndeki bir çiftlikte i? bulan iki arkada?, bu arazi için gereken paray? biriktirmeyi dü?lemektedir. Ama bir çocu?un zekas?na, ayn? zamanda da korkunç ...
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
2006-12-14 15:22:02 From Oprah’s Favorite Books Gallery The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck One of the greatest and most socially significant novels of the twentieth century, Steinbeck’s controversial masterpiece indelibly captured America during the Great Depression through the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads. Intensely human yet majestic in its scale and moral vision, tragic but ultimately stirring in its insistence on human dignity, The Grapes of Wrath (1939) is not only a landmark American novel, but it is as well an extraordinary moment in the history of our national conscience. Dorothy Allison on John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath: ” “John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath is a novel completely of it’s time-but that time is as much the concrete nineties as the dust bowl thirties. With language that echoes the poetry of the gospels and characters who cling to simple human decency under the most horrific assaults, it is both a work of soci...
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