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The Ethics of Contemporary Literature: Are Writers Promoting Wrong Values? - 0 views

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    "Novels by serious writers of genius often eventually become best-sellers, but most contemporary best-sellers are written by second-class writers whose psychological brew contains a touch of naivety, a touch of sentimentality, the story-telling gift, and a mysterious sympathy with the day-dreams of ordinary people." This quote by Leonard Woolf depicts the realm of best-selling lists: they are filled with badly-written prose that does not help readers establish lasting impressions and values. "
Umar Jamil

Unnatural Desirez: Human Nature - 0 views

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    ""Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot."  "I don't have a solution but I admire the problem." "Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken." "If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done."  "There is no time like the present for postponing what you ought to be doing."- Anonymous"
Robbie Lowdown0

Christian Blogger's Journal: Wrong Thumbnail Picture When Sharing and Meta Tags - 0 views

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    Having problem here with thumbnail when sharing, there has to be a solution, and what's with the meta tags, how to get them working properly with shares? 
Ninja Essays

10 Online Tools for Creative Writers | Qwiklit - 0 views

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    If you are a writer, all you're supposed to do is sit down, open a plain word processor and write. Wrong! Other people think that a writer only needs to be creative and commit to a daily working schedule, but you know it's never that easy.
DorineFantasywriterD Hughes

The Moral Premise Blog: Story Structure Craft: Not Without My Daughter - 0 views

  • There is a fundamental anti-conscience aspect to radical Islam where rote ideology supports a culture where suppression of another person's conscience (the inner sense of what is right or wrong) is allowed and encouraged
  • Thus, Moody manipulates Betty to take their daughter back for a 2-week visit to Iran to visit his family, but secretly he has no intention of leaving, or letting them leave the deeply misogynistic culture. 
  • Why would Moody (an American trained doctor) stay in a culture that seems to have jumped backwards 1,000 years in terms of hygiene, medicine, science, human rights, freedoms, and basic knowledge about the human condition? Several reasons. (1) It's revealed that his political activities in the U.S. have resulted in his termination from two jobs, in two states, and two different hospital systems -- further resulting in the loss of his Green Card.
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  • (2) The second reason Moody relapses to his upbringing is that (as Betty surmises in the book) there is an basic inability of the Islamic culture to think independently -- a trait ingrained by the educational system upon her daughter, where all learning is by rote repetition
  • You are taught only to say and think what is spoon fed to you.
  • Where there's a will, there's a way.
  • This engenders in Betty, a perseverance in the midst of persecution, that allows her achievement of the goal -- getting out of Iran with her daughter. And the odds and obstacles for the unlikely, common hero are immense -- natural structure for a successful movie
  • Betty reiterates that her father brought her up to believe
  • In this story, Betty retains or embodies the practice of listening to her (properly formed) conscience (or will) while her antagonists (the autocratic Islamic culture, represented by Moody) embody a rote-mentality (or suppression of the will) and a willingness to live under tyranny.
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    The not without my daughter, Premise
Chiki Smith

How I Got Over My Cheating Husband - 1 views

When I learned that my hubby was cheating on me, I was so angry that if looks could kill he would be already lying lifeless on the floor. But then, when I took a time off, I felt insecure. I knew t...

cheating spouses

started by Chiki Smith on 13 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
Jex Ferrera

'I may have been wrong about Twitter', writes Ricky Gervais (Wired UK) - 6 views

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    On creativity, twitter and critics.
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