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Humor: Harry Potter and the Wannabe Storyteller

Somehow I never got into the Harry Potter craze. I am thus, I suppose, an oddity, misfit, and candidate for a 12-step program.

My granddaughter, Akiko, age 8, disdains me for my lack of obsession with Harry. She reads the books, watches the More »

Author’s note: This article is a response to the Ministry of Reshelving Project.

For years writers have written novels about dystopian futures as a warning to modern society. In recent years many of the grim predictions made by these stories are beginning to come true. Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave New World was published in 1932 and seventeen More »

In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the theme of the implicit future downfall of our own society is expressed through Huxley’s use of character. Huxley uses his characters’ ignorance of what life is truly about and their similarity to today’s citizens to get his point across.

The characters in Brave New World really are quite clueless about what life is all about. They live theirTiny ignorant lives, More »

When we think about what defines a decade, we remember music, movies, fashion, and world events. Having lived for over four decades, I firmly believe that the 80s will be remembered as the most outrageous and decadent decade of my lifetime. When you combine New Wave music with shoulder pads, large hair, and John Hughes movies, you get an extremely memorable era that so many people are fond More »

I believe the society in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World is a dystopia, because of social isolation created by unjust rules, unordinary people and too much outgoingness. This society forces people to be outgoing, but if they’re shy they won’t get along well. The rules make some people seek seclusion. Some people in this society are just unordinary wish a mental excess, physical defect of other More »

What Happens When Proverbial Magnets Pull the Savage in Different Directions?

In the critically acclaimed novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, the novel’s pivotal character, John (circumstantially to be referred to as the Savage) is raised outside of the pseudo utopia of the brave new world’ (as the Savage constantly refers to it) and inside the natural human reservation in New Mexico. His transition from life on the reservation More »

I had an English professor who swore America had one great romantic poet:  Edgar Allen Poe. America’s other famous poets had followed the Romantic period , and celebrated realism and the beauty of nature instead. There’s a connection between the folksy wisdom of Mark Twain and the raw joy of a poet like Walt Whitman. And even in the poems of Emily Dickinson, you find a quiet regard for the More »

I’m proud to admit it. I’m a Potterhead. I wish I had graduated from Hogwarts, and I wish my daughter could get accepted there too. I enjoy the Harry Potter series entirely way too much for any 31 year old. Yet, I cannot pull myself away from it. More »

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World offers us a terrifying vision of the future which, though not an attempt at sociological forecasting, is as disconcerting now as when it was written in 1932. In fact, with the advances made in science and medicine, particularly the field of genetic engineering; with the victory of consumerism; and with the ever-growing tolerance of promiscuity and drug abuse; Huxley’s world is much more recognisable as More »

There are really a good number of very famous African American poets. They really are famous for theirvery special poetic styles and unforgettable poems.

Some of the very famous African American poets are

James Weldon Johnson

He was born in the year 1871 and is very famous for his poems in African culture. He evn wrote Negro National Anthem. He died in the year 1938 after making an extensive contribution to literature world.

Phillis More »

My closest circle of friends have a nickname for me, ‘Throwback’. It came about because I have a certain fascination about the 80’s. I love movies, but 80’s is my favorite decade for them, I love the 80’s music, (what ever happened to the synth!), the style was so flamboyant, (and yes they did get it wrong a lot of the times) and the hairstyles, could they get any More »

‘I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.’ Aldous Huxley . His seminal work, Brave New World, is set in the year of Our Ford 632 (ad 2540) which is 632 years after Henry Ford created the first mass produced car, the Model T ford, and Ford himself became the object of worship. The book More »

What can I say? If you would have asked me as a teenage girl what kind of man i wanted to spend the rest of my life with, I would have said, “I’m looking for him”. Now (him) was the best man for me. He was made up More »

TEN LESSONS TO TEACH YOUR PRESCHOOLER

As a former kindergarten and preschool teacher, I have learned that there are lessons to be learned and they go beyond just learning letters, numbers and shapes. The following books help open the doors for teaching and learning:

Lesson 1: LEARNING CAN BE More »

Children can be introduced to different forms of rhyming at an early age. Not all poetry rhymes and that can be the difficult part to teach kids about this form of writing. Children will either love poetry or they will hate it. The easiest way More »

Looking in, there’s nothing there

just an empty shell, with mirrored glare

I want to see you, I want to know

who draws the curtains, on this show

On the inside, there’s much to see

but looking in, won’t set this free

I have to be there, inside with you

looking out, from this More »

You know a poem has something special when a line from it is often used or paraphrased by people who have never even read the poem before. Robert Burns’ “To A Mouse” contains the famous lines, “The ideal laid plans of mice and men…” and is a More »