America's Stories 2009 - The Courageous citizen Facing Unemployment and Homelessness

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UnemployMent is the highest it's been in three decades. The housing mortgage fiasco has contributed to the dramatic increase of homelessness. Tent cities across the United States are growing and are populated not only by the chronically homeless but also with educated and middle class citizens who have lost their Jobs and/or lost their homes.

The whole of homeless veterans is growing, too, with 200,000 currently "on the streets." As the incidence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd) is growing in recognition, rehabilitation is not retention up with the need. When these walking wounded return home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the stigma associated with Ptsd as well as the lack of compassionate and therapeutic care abandons them to find their own way down a hopeless street. Many commit suicide. Others join the chronically homeless.

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Reminiscent of the Great Depression and the era following the Vietnam War, the stories of America's middle and working class and its returning veterans are resurfacing as exercises in discontentMent and defeat although the heart of America still beats with hope.

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Like John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and Travels with Charlie, and more recently like the stories of Charles Kerault, there are stories to be told about the American population who are daily struggling to live and re-establish their dreams. They are important stories to be told, not only to re-ignite compassion and understanding but, like post 911, to inspire America's heart as a nation to work together in assuring a quick salvage to a state of greater strength, mutual reserve and decreased greed.

Books about the general plan of homelessness have been written such as the three-volume Homelessness in America, by Robert Hartmann McNamara, published in 2008. However, to my knowledge, no books have yet been published focusing on personel stories, especially from 2009. The dramatic increase in homelessness as a ensue of the economic stepping back is still too new.

You-Tube holds a great whole of videos about tent cities and the field of homelessness but does not communicate the depth of each personel story. Print articles may appear in local papers, however only the ensue of homelessness is typically covered rather than the personel stories. When written with a constructive objective rather than simply reporting, these stories could help rebuild lives.

With regard to homeless veterans, the branch of Veterans AffAirs recognizes the issue but cannot keep up with the influx. According to National Adjutant Arthur H. Wilson, "We saw thousands of Vietnam veterans who finally became homeless, and we may be facing a new national emergency with the veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan." In 2006, one in four homeless were veterans. That whole has climbed.

As the trend in increased unemployment and homelessness lags the projected economic recovery, there are many stories to be discovered and told in 2009. As this trend continues, the whole of population who know or who have a degree of relationship to the issue is dramatically increasing.

The current coverage of the issue of homelessness in relationship with the economy takes national attention. Good Morning America has it AmeriCan series to highlight population who are taking performance to help others. Each day, snippets of stories are seen in the media. However, few are in depth.

The publication and distribution of a series of books can take an important step. It can record, in greater depth, these unseen and unheard stories of individuals who have experienced the worst and who survive. It can contribute a written history giving their plight a sense of purpose by calling the nation together to help one another. In the end, hopefully, it will contribute time to come generations inspiration and pride in their heriTAGe rather than shame.

As a source of inspiration for time to come generations as well as a sobering history to ground the nation's leaders in the reality experienced daily by the people, this book series is important. These stories can generate a classic image of our nation by having not only the heart but also the courage to take performance by seeing and telling these stories.

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America's Stories 2009 - The Courageous population Facing Unemployment and Homelessness

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UnemployMent is the highest it's been in three decades. The housing mortgage fiasco has contributed to the dramatic growth of homelessness. Tent cities over the United States are growing and are populated not only by the chronically homeless but also with educated and middle class citizens who have lost their Jobs and/or lost their homes.

The whole of homeless veterans is growing, too, with 200,000 currently "on the streets." As the incidence of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (Ptsd) is growing in recognition, treatMent is not retention up with the need. When these walking wounded return home from Iraq and Afghanistan, the stigma linked with Ptsd as well as the lack of generous and therapeutic care abandons them to find their own way down a hopeless street. Many commit suicide. Others join the chronically homeless.

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Reminiscent of the Great Depression and the era following the Vietnam War, the stories of America's middle and working class and its returning veterans are resurfacing as exercises in dissatisfaction and defeat although the heart of America still beats with hope.

How to America's Stories 2009 - The Courageous population Facing Unemployment and Homelessness

Like John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and Travels with Charlie, and more recently like the stories of Charles Kerault, there are stories to be told about the American population who are daily struggling to live and re-establish their dreams. They are foremost stories to be told, not only to re-ignite compassion and understanding but, like post 911, to inspire America's heart as a nation to work together in assuring a quick rescue to a state of greater strength, mutual sustain and decreased greed.

Books about the normal plan of homelessness have been written such as the three-volume Homelessness in America, by Robert Hartmann McNamara, published in 2008. However, to my knowledge, no books have yet been published focusing on private stories, especially from 2009. The dramatic growth in homelessness as a corollary of the economic retreat is still too new.

You-Tube holds a great whole of videos about tent cities and the branch of homelessness but does not divulge the depth of each private story. Print articles may appear in local papers, however only the corollary of homelessness is typically covered rather than the private stories. When written with a constructive objective rather than simply reporting, these stories could help rebuild lives.

With regard to homeless veterans, the agency of Veterans AffAirs recognizes the issue but cannot keep up with the influx. According to National Adjutant Arthur H. Wilson, "We saw thousands of Vietnam veterans who ultimately became homeless, and we may be facing a new national accident with the veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan." In 2006, one in four homeless were veterans. That whole has climbed.

As the trend in increased unemployMent and homelessness lags the projected economic recovery, there are many stories to be discovered and told in 2009. As this trend continues, the whole of population who know or who have a degree of association to the issue is dramatically increasing.

The current coverage of the issue of homelessness in association with the cheaper takes national attention. Good Morning America has it AmeriCan series to highlight population who are taking activity to help others. Each day, snippets of stories are seen in the media. However, few are in depth.

The publication and distribution of a series of books can take an foremost step. It can record, in greater depth, these unseen and unheard stories of individuals who have experienced the worst and who survive. It can furnish a written history giving their plight a sense of purpose by calling the nation together to help one another. In the end, hopefully, it will furnish time to come generations inspiration and pride in their heriTAGe rather than shame.

As a source of inspiration for time to come generations as well as a sobering history to ground the nation's leaders in the reality experienced daily by the people, this book series is important. These stories can originate a classic image of our nation by having not only the heart but also the courage to take activity by seeing and telling these stories.

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Dr Seuss and The Cat in the Hat Story

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Born Theodor Seuss Geisel in March 1904 in Massachusetts, America; Dr Seuss never earned a Ph.D rather he plainly took the title 'Dr' in acknowledgMent of his family's unfulfilled hopes of him earning a doctorate in literature while his time at Oxford University. It was while his time at Oxford that he wed and it was later that same year 1927, that he and his new wife Helen returned to America.

On his return to the States he began to organize his occupation by writing and illustrating humorous articles and cartoons which were published by assorted magazine titles. It is on his return from a vacation in Europe that Geisel gets the idea for his first poem 'And to Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street', the tempo of which was set whilst he listened to the beat of the ships engines.

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This poem was to come to be his first book but was repeatedly rejected by publishers and was only printed when a friend ultimately stepped in to help. The war years saw Dr. Seuss turn his concentration back to political cartoons producing over 400 in a two year period. Geisel joined the army and was sent to Hollywood where he wrote a estimate of propaganda films winning an Academy Award for best DocuMentary in 1947 for the film organize for Death. Away from soldiery propaganda his short bright movie 'Gerald McBoing-Boing' also won him an Oscar.

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His beloved childrens works evolved principally from an article which appeared in Life magazine in May 1954. The article was a article on literacy standards of school children and identified that the low levels of literacy attainment were primarily as a direct ensue of their books being boring. Spurred by the article, Geisel's publisher created a list of 400 words which he forwarded to Geisel with the challenge to cut the list to 250 and then create a work that would maintain the interest of the reader. Despite disliking the fact that the words included in the list were based on the sight vocabulary learning method generally used in schools (and not supported by Geisel); nearly a year later, he completed The Cat in the Hat, a masterpiece that used only 223 of the words in case,granted yet displayed all of the imaginative prowess of his earlier works.

The book became an instant success due not only to it's simplified vocabulary but also to Geisel's straightforward drawing style. The Cat in the Hat story is about two children and their talking goldFish who are left alone in the house when their parents go out. As it is raining, they are left inside with nothing to do. Enter The Cat in the Hat with Thing One and Thing Two and whilst attempting to amuse and cheer the children up all manner of chaos results.

This is the first appearance of the Cat in the Hat character who appeared again in four supplementary books: The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, The Cat in the Hat Song Book, The Cat's Quizzer, and I Can Read With My Eyes Shut!.

The Cat in the Hat books have come to be treasured children's stories that have retained their popularity for more than five decades. This popularity has been boosted supplementary by the release of a major request for retrial photograph in 2003 which starred Mike Myers cast in the title character and the adoption of the Dr Seuss characters and settings by Universal Studios in its Orlando amusement park. The movie of the Cat in the Hat followed the 2000 release of 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas', which starred Jim Carey as The Grinch. Due to its unending popularity, and the large estimate of material available; The Cat in the Hat and the other Dr Seuss characters are great choices for the theme of a children's Party.

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The 100 Great American Novels, 1891-1991

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A merge of years ago, one of my brightest, most driven students asked me a straightforward query for which I had no ready answer: "Do you know where I could find a list of the 100 or so most foremost works of American fiction from the 20th Century?" I didn't. I knew of more general lists from The contemporary Library and Time. I also had some major anthologies of American literature, but I had no link, article, book, or other resource to offer, nothing undoubtedly that might guide his curiosity.

I was frustrated; this is my field after all, and I like to be able to riposte questions like this. But I also knew exactly what he was feeling: the 20th Century in American letters is so diverse, weird, confusing, fragMented, and thoughprovoking that it's difficult to know where to start. College observe courses try to give students an summary of some of the trends and major works, but they are pieced together and incomplete by necessity.

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So I decided to draw up a list--a list of major works that would serve as a beginning point and summary of 20th Century American fiction. And then the issue began. As you might imagine, there are all sorts of problems with any such list: what does foremost mean? are only American authors included? Are 1900 and 2000 meaningful start and end dates? Do you list multiple works from authors? single short stories? How do you judge the later works, which haven't had enough time to simmer in history?

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The end follow of my puzzleMent were these decisions, which say as much about how I understand literature as they chart any real course.

I'd rather have just one Faulkner under my belt if that means I can read an additional one author. So each author only gets one slot. We need 20 years of perspective before we can have any sense of a given work's longevity. So the newest works we can reasonably include have to have been published in 1991 or before. Mark back 100 years from there and you have 1891, which is good because it falls just after Twain's high duration and catches some late 19th Century work that has more to do with 20th century fiction than 19th. "Important" means that a work is foremost to readers, writers, critics, and scholars. Not every work will do all three, but the final list should be sufficiently multi-purpose to speak to these groups. This isn't a judgment but a tool. There's nothing that says that these will be the works that citizen who care about literature will care about in an additional one 100 years, but they do need to rehearse our current sensibilities. "Merit" matters less than affect and reach. While I think the premium work for each author is important, there is some interchangeability. If you've read Song of Solomon, but not Beloved, you have a sense of Morrison.

So here's what I came up with. You'll notice that as you approach 1991, there are more texts per decade; this is because we haven't had time to winnow the field, so there are more, albeit less certain, candidates. I did my best to put my own reading taste to the side: there are many works here that I actively dislike, but the goal isn't pleasure here but knowledge of the major voices, concerns, movements, innovations, and ideas of the era. You'll also notice that I use "novel" to mean book-length work of fiction rather than a genre. This is inaccurate, but "book-length work of fiction" is unwieldy.

The list, by year:

The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1892)

Maggie, Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane (1893)

The Country of Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett (1896)

The Awakening by Kate Chopin (1899)

The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)

The Golden Bowl by Henry James (1904)

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (1905)

The Jungle by Upton SinclAir (1906)

Three Lives by Gertrude Stein (1909)

My Antonia by Willa Cather (1918)

The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington (1918)

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson (1919)

Main street by SinclAir Lewis (1920)

Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man by James Weldon Johnson (1921)

Cane by Jean Toomer (1923)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

An American Tragedy by Theodore Dresier (1925)

The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (1926)

The Bridge of the San Luis Rey by Thornton Wilder (1927)

Home to Harlem by Claude McKay (1928)

The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (1929)

Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe (1929)

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930)

Flowering Judas and Other Stories by Katherine Porter (1930)

The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck (1931)

Call It Sleep by Henry Roth (1934)

The Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)

Appointment in Samarra by John O'Hara (1934)

The Usa Trilogy by John Dos Passos (1936)

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

Day of the Locust by Nathaniel West (1939)

The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (1939)

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck (1939)

Native Son by Richard Wright (1940)

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers (1940)

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand (1943)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (1946)

Tales of the South Pacific by James Michener (1947)

The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer (1948)

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles (1948)

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson (1949)

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

Go Tell It On the Mountain by James Baldwin (1953)

The Adventures of Augie March by Saul Bellow (1953)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)

Andersonville by MacKinley Kantor (1955)

On the Road by Jack Keroauc (1957)

Gimpel the Fool by Isaac Bashevis Singer (1957)

The Wapshot tell by John Cheever (1957)

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1958)

The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud (1958)

Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth (1959)

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (1959)

The little Disturbances of Man by Grace Paley (1959)

Browngirl, Brownstones by Paule Marshall (1959)

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

Rabbit, Run by John Updike (1960)

The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth (1960)

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (1961)

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller (1961)

Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates (1961)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey (1962)

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)

A Sport and a Pastime by James Salter (1967)

The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron (1967)

Do Androids Dream of galvanic Sheep? By Philip K. Dick (1968)

Slaughterhouse-5 by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday (1969)

them by Joyce Carol Oates (1969)

The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford (1969)

Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion (1970)

The perfect Stories of Flannery O'Connor (1971)

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed (1972)

Angle of relax by Wallace Stegner (1972)

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (1973)

Ragtime by E.L. Doctorow (1975)

Jr by William Gaddis (1976)

Roots by Alex Haley (1976)

Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (1977)

The World according to Garp by John Irving (1978)

Airships by Barry Hannah (1978)

Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson (1980)

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1980)

The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (1982)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

Cathedral by Raymond Carver (1983)

Love medicine by Lousie Erdrich (1984)

Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)

White Noise by Don Delillo (1985)

Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy (1985)

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry (1985)

City of Glass by Paul Auster (1985)

Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (1989)

The Shawl by Cynthia Ozick (1989)

The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien (1990)

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents by Julia Alvarez (1991)

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Yamaha Generator Storm Stories

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Storms have very much come to be a part of the lives of practically every American. The expanding frequency of storms hitting all areas of the United States makes it even more convincing. Just for a moMent dream losing electricity for hours at a time. Seems intimidating! Huh! Not only is being cut-off inconvenient but pretty risky too. And to that, add the problem of being in the dark at nights.

This is all the good suspect to spend some money in purchasing a Yamaha generator for your home or Job site. Every penny you spend on buying a Yamaha generator assures safety and relax of your near and dear ones. Whenever there is a power failure, there is absolute darkness and your home and business are stuck for the time being. This can be a great impediMent and so you need to prepare for this in advance.

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To good understand this dilemma, let's share a storm story which is a real-life story as well. It's connected to a storm that swept over the state of Kentucky in the past. But it is one incident that still remains very much alive in the minds of two senior citizens living in Kentucky.

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They freak out even at the mere opinion of that very unfortunate day that they had to live through. Their otherwise simple and quiet life was made terribly miserable by a vicious ice storm that swept over the area in no time. All electricity lines were cut-off immediately. If that was not enough, even the telephones didn't work anymore. So the elderly join was grounded in their house with no assistance or retain coming their way.

With temperatures hitting sub-zero levels they had to stay indoors till the storms dissipated. After which by the grace of Lord Almighty they received help from their neighbors who helped them out of their predicaMent. But when things settled down later, the first thing that join did was to buy a new transported Yamaha generator. This proves the exigency that we all need to show about buying a Yamaha generator for our home or office.

The chapter that we learn from this story is that such deadly situations can arise in anyone's life anytime and so we need to make some wise decisions which can obtain our hereafter against the oncoming military of nature. It is practically impossible to stop the cyclones from hitting us and hence must learn to safeguard ourselves from them. None of us would like to learn this chapter the hard way that that old join had to.

And, Yamaha has been delivering this promise to customers worldwide for many years which make it a name you can rely on. And if you are the proud owner of such a rock-steady generator, such nerve-wracking stories can be avoided and you would be easily safe and sound even in the middle of such quandaries. Your life is by all means; of course more precious than the money spent on buying a Yamaha generator. So what are you waiting for? an additional one storm? Don't hold yourself anymore and get a new Yamaha generator for your house or workplace right away.

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Unity Amidst agency - The Story of Civil War Nurses

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Whether you call them "angels of the battlefield" or "madams of mercy" there is no doubt that nurses from the civil war made a sizable gift to the condition and well being of this nation as it struggled to remain unified. The American Civil war was a bloody and brutal disagreeMent that tested the resolve of the union and put individual human beings through phenoMenal circumstances. Nurses not only endured those circumstances, but created the profession of nursing and organizations such as the Red Cross through their sacrifice.

Dorothea Dix

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Dorothea Dix had worked with the infirm and Mentally challenged for a long time before the civil war started. When she recognized the need for battlefield nurses she challenged the military leaders to generate an Army medical core for nurses. They did not comply immediately but she rounded up nurses and started training them "the army way" - even making uniforms herself. Finally, the army created the military medical Brigade and allowed Dix to work within the principles to contribute condition care to soldiers. She eventually won the badge of honor.

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Clara Barton

Working surface of the military establishMent, Clara Barton also saw the need for nurses to be organized and help both sides of the war to get important medical care and comfort. She worked to generate an organization of nurses and condition care providers who would work without political prejudice and serve the needs of those soldiers wounded in battle. Her efforts eventually became the American Red Cross.

More than Just Hand Holders

Civil war nurses and volunteers performed a collection of Jobs. From battlefield clean up and surgical technicians to cooks and care providers, unit hospital workers saw it all. Many nurses were empowered to give medications such as morphine, and others used their skill not just in nursing but in reading and writing to help soldiers send last comments to loved ones. A civil war nurse followed up with soldier's kin after their death and returned their goods to their families. They created the holistic advent of total care, as well as the hospice idea of allowing habitancy to die with dignity.

Nurses at Home

With the men and the doctors off fighting the war, civil war nurses also had a Job to mouth the condition care needs of habitancy in their home towns. Nurses began to work as midwives, lasting care providers, prescribers of local herbs and homeopathy as well as Physician's Assistants. Their skills were needed and used in a myriad of ways as they sought to treat the condition care needs of the elderly and infirm, the crippled coming back from the war (many with morphine addiction), and the grieving who lost person or everyone in the war between the states.

Many of the things today's nurses take for granted were fought hard for on the battlefields of this nation's bloodiest conflict. It is good to take time and remember the civil war nurses and all they gave then and now.

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Michael Moore - "The Dumbest citizen on the Face of the Earth"

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"Fahrenheit 9/11" auteur Michael Moore recently fueled the epidemic of hatred for America by denouncing his own country and his own citizen to the foreign press. The Uk's Mirror printed Mr. Moore's notice of Americans: "They are the dumbest citizen on the face of the earth...in thrall to conniving, thieving, smug pricks...We Americans suffer from an enforced ignorance. We don't know about anyone that's happening outside our country. Our stupidity is embarrassing." (1)

That's right. We are. In fact, we're unintelligent adequate to believe that we have a great country. Why? Let's look at the facts...

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In 2002, the Us Census Bureau estimated that 32.5 million people, from places Moore claims our children can't find on a map, lived in the United States, the largest foreign-born citizen in America since we started holding records in 1850. (2) Why are all these citizen risking drowning, hardships, cultural barriers and possible contamination by our laziness, aggression and arrogance, incompetence, shallowness, and sexually explicit media? Why do citizen such as California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger come here, entertain, take benefit of opportunity, and enrich our cheaper straight through enterprise and philanthropy?

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Shock time: Americans are not nearly as despised as Al-Jazeera would have you believe. In fact, the Pew Global Attitudes project reports that in its 2004 survey, approximately half the respondents in Russia, Turkey and Morocco say citizen who have moved to the U.S. Have a best life (natives of Germany, France and Britain who responded to the witness disagreed, but that's hardly a surprise, even though Britain has always been a friend).3

None of the usual pat phrases such as "land of opportunity," "let leisure ring," and "democracy, democracy, democracy," seem to by comparison why Elian Gonzalez' mum died to bring him to America.

But possibly we as Americans are unintelligent adequate to believe that those phrases literally mean something. possibly we are the dumbest citizen on the face of the earth. "Dumb" in this case can mean "naïve," commonly meant as an insult, as in "Don't be so naïve about why al-Qa'eda hates us so much."

These days, anyone who doesn't adopt the de rigueur attitude of boredom and yawning in the face of just about all things is called naïve. But Americans have always been known for innocence and openness.

Beverly West quoted actress Alicia Silverstone in Culinarytherapy. Ms. Silverstone, possibly channeling President Abraham Lincoln's optimism, once remarked, "Like when I'm in the bathroom seeing at my toilet paper I'm like 'Wow! That's toilet paper!' I don't know if we appreciate how much we have." (p. 184)

The idea of anything-therapy and the overuse of "like" appear to the global audience to be literally American, impressed with our own coolness in one breath and cheerfully mangling the English language in the next, not to Mention taking the words of a nubile young Hollywood actress (who starred, interestingly, in a contemporary remake of Jane Austen's saTire on manners Emma) as wisdom. Being excited about toilet paper seems, in this high-tech age, a diminutive backward and disingenuous.

Yet all major religions, particularly the Judeo-Christian tradition on which America as we know it was founded, emphasize gratitude as part of spiritual consciousness. Gratitude for the simplest of things, like toilet paper. The great composer Aaron Copeland based his "Appalachian Spring" symphony on the Shaker song of gratitude, "Simple Gifts."

"Simple" is often a synonym for "dumb." Yet if simplicity means stupidity, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were prize idiots. Both of these quintessential American philosophers emphasized simplicity.

In a land of high-speed Internet, 500 channels, strip malls, and coffee associates proliferating like Wmd, simplicity seems a foreign concept. Yet in America, we're "simple" adequate to believe that we live in a land of liberty, that (political correctness aside) we can pray, say, or sing anyone we want. We're easy adequate to believe that there still is a personal God, no matter what name we praise; that our kids have the right to attend church, despite the brouhaha over "one nation under God" in the notification of Independence; and that (reality shows and a 50 percent separation rate aside) saying "till death do us part" still means something.

We're naïve and open adequate to believe that, "conniving, thieving, smug" Ceos notwithstanding, we can work hard, start businesses, take care of our families, and create a life that we can be proud of when we leave this world. Even the much-vilified Martha Stewart is admired as a self-made American success story, someone who has used customary homemaking arts to build a worldwide brand that emphasizes the good life. So much for the idea that Americans are a land of instant macaroni-and-cheese and Fast-Food eaters. Yes, citizen sue McDonald's over getting fat, but the majority of Americans work hard, try to eat well (often together as a family), and pride themselves on playing fAir and upholding the law.

Despite celebrity trials, racial prejudices, judicial snafus, serial killers and publicity-hungry lawyers, we still think that "the diminutive guy" still gets a day in court and a fAir trial by jury. There is still a sense of personal accountability for oneself, one's fellow citizens, and one's children.

Despite addition pressures that erode childhood, our kids still have faith in parents to set limits, to be an example, and to lay the foundation for a good life. literally many of the young Men and women we have seen interviewed in carrying out Iraqi leisure report the best and the brightest. Our children exhibit the unique dedication to serving others that so many of our leaders, from President Kennedy to Eleanor Roosevelt to Colin Powell, extol. Ms. Stewart advocated teaching disadvanTAGed women how to start their own businesses. In America, even some of our high-profile so-called criminals want to enhance life for others.

We're simpleminded adequate to believe we can make a variation abroad and in our own communities. We have a strong commitment to preserving the earth for hereafter generations. From Thoreau to Rachel Carson to the eco-friendly celebrity spokesperson of the week, Americans show a love for the natural attractiveness of the earth, a attractiveness that we celebrate in our own homeland. Many of our citizens sustain recycling, controls on pollution, wilderness/rainforest conservation, and wildlife preservation. As the riots at the 1999 Wto Summit in Seattle show, Americans can be quite over-zealous when supporting their causes. In short: Americans care.

This should come as no surprise. Our ancestors banded together to secede from British rule. Even in our fight for liberty, we held opposing views, contrarian views surrounded by ourselves. The Whigs who supported the Revolution and the Tories who supported England clashed with the fervor of their descendants, demonstrators with opposing views on wars from Vietnam to carrying out Iraqi Freedom.

This passion for ideas, this devotion, may seem to undermine the unity we boast of. We're naïve adequate to protect the free expression of ideas, even sometimes seemingly at great cost. You don't see death squads breaking into antiwar protesters' homes. For all the controversy over the Patriot Act, citizen who disagree with the Us government do not simply disappear without a trace. Case in point: "Fahrenheit 9/11." It has made over million (the first documentary to do so), yet citizen coming out of movie theaters don't get dragged into unmarked cars and interrogated. You can't be more critical of the government than Mr. Moore, and yet he won an Oscar for "Bowling For Columbine." Unlike Soviet artists who criticized Communism, Americans are not forced to flee their homeland--the rest of us won't stand for it.

Lest we forget, it was recently-deceased and much-praised old President Ronald Reagan who uttered the paramount phrase, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall." His supervision was hardly free of controversy, and yet "the Gipper" maintained a cheerful optimism, an openness to the "Evil Empire," and yes, a naïve confidence that America was "a shining city on a hill." Reagan was literally dumb adequate to believe that America would prosper long after he left office. From this standpoint, "the Gipper" personifies Mr. Moore's idea of American idiocy.

In that case, the countless mourners, along with children too young to have heard of President Reagan, who streamed by the casket in the Capitol Rotunda and at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library all suffer from a group lobotomy. For that matter, so do the world's most paramount figures, along with Mr. Gorbachev and Dame Margaret Thatcher, who all responded to President Reagan's uniquely American character.

At this rate we'll be a nation of Forrest Gumps, which wouldn't be all bad if it meant we could have his decency and kindness (not to mention Tom Hanks' sense of history).

Oh wait...maybe we do. possibly that's what Mr. Moore means when he calls us "the dumbest citizen on the face of the earth." By that standard, we're an enTire nation of "Jeopardy" champions.

So the next time citizen here or abroad say, "You Americans are the world's dumbest people," we can say with pride, "Yes, we are. God Bless America!"

Postscript: Michael Moore's Imdb.com entry includes this quote: "I like America to some extent. Take the Japanese for instance. They are complex and tend to be reserved in expressing themselves. Sometimes, it is difficult for me to understand them. Americans are easy and clear. They are charming people. You will understand how good an individual American is. What I am not satisfied with America is that the nation cannot operate the government and economy. Only a handful of citizen have the power to operate the country." He also reportedly liked Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ," since he has stated in Dude, Where'S My Country that the left has a "hoity-toity view of religion"--we give the devil his due.

1 June 26, 2004, http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/6/26/103545.shtml

2 http://www.census.gov/population/www/documentation/twps0073.html

3 http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportId=206

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Plot and structure in the Short Story

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Any story has a singular plot and structure in which all characters play their part. In the short story, there is a wide range of structures and plot forms. A former or typical plot consists of a starting with introduction of the problem, middle - improveMent of the problem, and an end that elaborates the problem. If you read and study a story, you'll find that it comprises of these eleMents.

Less Predictable Plots:

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As the trend set by the old writers, most of the writers write stories in a typical way which is often predictable. Nevertheless, some writers break straight through the typical plot structure and speculation into less predictable plots. One of such suited writers is Canadian Margaret Atwood. Her Significant MoMents in the Life of My Mother (1983) seems to be plot-less but it is intentionally divided into 13 brief episodes.

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Complicating the Plot structure Using obvious Techniques:

Some innovative writers do not like to write story with straightforward plot. They complicate the structure of their plots by way of using obvious techniques, and tactics. They make use of some flashbacks and flash-forwards; with a frame that beautifully encloses the story or a story within a story. If you study Indian writings in English, you'll observe the nearnessy of story within the story. Moreover, such writers also use subplots often known as secondary storylines. Furthermore, they sometimes use duplicate plots that mean two or more likewise leading narratives developing simultaneously.

Enhancing the Plot Structure:

There are other devices that authors often use for enhancing the plot structure. They are reversals of fortune, foreshadowing, abrupt transitions, digressions, and juxtapositions of contrasting settings or characters. You'll find these eleMents in most of the contemporary writings.

Deliberate Ambiguity vs. Unambiguous Resolutions

There is deliberate ambiguity or open-enddness in stead of unambiguous resolutions or closed-endedness plot feature in many contemporary stories. The surprise endings of the stories of French author Guy de Maupassant influenced many commercial writers as well as some literary ones. His 1884 story The Necklace is remarkable. American author O. Henry became renowned for his surprise endings and paradoxical style. His story A Gift of the Magi (1905) is suited for this. Later on, American writer William Faulkner used this kind of surprise ending in A Rose for Emily (1931).

A powerfully crafted story can create the sense of awe, entertainment and delight in the reader. Nevertheless, it is up to the reader how to appreciate and enjoy a literary work.

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The American Melting Pot Myth

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Most myths have some eleMent of truth in them. The 'melting pot' that media of all sorts (which includes our propaganda in law and education) tell us became America, is other of the half-truths or superficial observations which deserves a puny study if we are to accept the deeper possible meaning in it. John Hope Franklin of Duke University is a respected Black devotee who says some fine words after pointing out the kind of thing that media managers or manipulators galore have said about the open-minded American with no speculate to bring prejudices to this new and lively land of opportunity. I would point out that it was not so new and historians like himself have participated in a cover-up but let us see what this man has to say about the 'melting pot'.

People do not ordinarily like to find out that they have 'bastards' in their family tree and the woodpiles of America created a lot of 'bastards'. My father used to tell us about the Virginia legislature and legislation proposed that would make anyone with any black blood not able to sit and partake in it. This was the early 1950s not the 1850s. One legislator did the explore that most Americans will not even do about their own family. He did not get more than half way straight through exposing every member of the legislature for their mulatto blood when the others were all in an uproar and clamoring that he must b silenced.

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"This was one of the earliest expressions of the belief that the process of Americanization complicated the creation of an enTirely new mode of life that would replace the ethnic backgrounds of those who were a part of the process. It contained some imprecisions and inaccuracies that would, in time, became {become?} a part of the lore or myth of the vaunted melting pot and would grossly misrepresent the crucial factor of ethnicity in American life. It ignored the tenacity with which the Pennsylvania Dutch held onto their language, religion, and way of life. It over-looked the way in which the Swedes of New Jersey remained Swedes and the manner in which the French Huguenots of New York and Charleston held onto their own past as though it was the source of all light and life. It described a process that in a distant day would gag at the belief that Irish Catholics could be assimilated on the broad lap of Alma Mater or that Asians could be seated on the basis of equality at the table of the Great American Feast." (8)

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Needless to say he also adDresses the matter of black emancipation and those who were 'already in the country' though I do not think he was referring to the blacks who were here long before Columbus. In fact there was no race that had not been advent to America since before the time of Christ. Genetics is unquestionably a fine tool used in court to free innocent victims of our justice law but so far our history is still allowing lies to victimize our cultural perspectives or myths. It is prominent that we act as if there is no race except the human race.

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understanding the significance of African American Studies

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There is such a great point to the studies of African American History. As stated by George Santayana, "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it".

The history of the African Americans in America can sometimes be a touchy subject because of all the attachMents that comes along with the story. The mere notion of the North American slave trade in such a contemporary time as this causes many to feel uncomfortable. As uncomfortable as it may seem I think there is a lot to be noted post the Slavery Era, Reconstruction Era and Civil ownership Era. Through the permissible study of African American History/American History/World History one can see the great maturity of a Nation!

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African Americans and America have come alone way since our traditional blend in 1619 when the first 20 slaves arrived to the Colony of Jamestown, Virginia. If you truly observe the tenacity and the courage that was displayed by these Africans turned Americans you would be nothing but inspired. Here you have a population that even when being bound by chains and restricted by the laws of the land, still found a way to rise above these complexities.

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A clear and spoton study of the African American population should be mandatory to all Americans because many of the traditional History books in the classrooms throughout American have left many to believe that the African American population have always been a helpless/hopeless people, a population of despAir. However, when one fully study and observe the likes of Anthony Johnson who was one of the traditional 20 slaves turned first African American Entrepreneur, Denmark Vesey who fought to liberate his population from slavery by organizing 9000 slaves and freeMen to revolt and Dr. Rebecca Lee Crumpler who was the first African American woman to earn a curative degree in the Us, they would discontinue that African Americans have always been innovators, fighters and intelligent.

Growing up as a young African American male I often felt lost as if I had no identity. In my mind all whites were slave owners and all blacks were slaves. I lived with this for some 30 years. This made me feel as if whites were superior and that we as blacks were inferior. Once I became a dad to a boy child I had it in my mind that my son could not and would not grow up not knowing who he is as an African American. So I told myself that I must learn and teach from this point on. When my son reached his preschool years and Black History Month rolled colse to I felt as if I was being put to the test. Of procedure he would start to learn about the first of Black History Month's Fav 5 "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr". I felt that there could not have been a great time than this to teach him more. Therefore, we packed our bags and headed to Atlanta for the weekend.

This trip to Atlanta was the start of his cultural study as well as mine. While in Atlanta we visited the Dr. King Memorial Site and King Center. My then 5 year old son was very intrigued with the images he saw on the walls throughout the King center and was fascinated to categorically see the very house that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Grew up in. Our Atlanta fun soon came to an end and we had to get back home to St. Louis and prepare for other week of pre-school and work. Though we had left Atlanta and had left the King center my sons' mind did not stop ticking. On our drive home my son inquisitiveness kicked into full gear. He asked me, "Daddy, can you turn off the radio so we can talk?" From this point on I became a true pupil of the history of population that defeated all odds.

Back home from our Atlanta trip my son would often sit on my lap, turn off the Tv and ask, "Daddy, would you tell me about more important black population I should know about in our history?'" These questions and my own quest for knowledge led me to doing extensive explore of the African American people. After spending countless days and nights studying I was beginning to fall in love with who I was as an African American. I know longer felt inferior; neither did I feel that whites were superiors.

For the first time in my life I felt that we were all the same. I found many eye occasion facts like blacks and whites would work together, fight together and live together in times as early as the 1600's. Do this mean that all blacks weren't just slaves and that all whites weren't just slave owners? That's what it is beginning to look like. Why then are these things not discussed in classrooms and homes all over America? This would truly put an end to the age old race divide and would instill great self value and self worth to the millions of African American kids who grow up feeling the same way I did.

Learning and teaching my own history (the African American History) in my own home led me to putting together a variety of fabulous African American Achievers' biographical summaries and composing them into a book entitled "Risen: From Jamestown to the White House." I wrote the book Risen after being inspired by my now 8 year old son to inspire others Through the lives and contributions of some great African American Achievers dating back to the year 1619 when the first 20 slaves arrived to the colony of Jamestown, Virginia up to our gift day in time when we have a family occupying the White House that resembles those same 20 passengers that arrived some 300 years ago.

To discontinue there is a great point in studying African American History which includes instilling self worth/self value in African Americans, it showcases African Americans as we truly are, as a tenacious and hopeful population and it paints a beautiful picture of Americas Maturity!

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Plessy vs Ferguson - African American History Essay

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The U.S. Consummate Court: the highest court in the land. Their Job: to conclude the constitutionality of cases. But is that what they are nothing else but doing? Can we trust that their decisions are just? Two important cases in history can help answer this question. A 1896 U.S. Consummate Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson, made facilities and schools separate based on race. In an additional one case in 1954, Brown v. Board of Education, the court reversed its decision and said that separate was not equal. These two cases teach two lessons about the U.S. Consummate Court. Plessy shows that our justice ideas has failed at times to organize justice. Brown shows that even though the Court rules justly, justice isn't guaranteed.

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Many events led up to Plessy v. Ferguson. For example: after the Congress withdrew federal troops from the South in 1877, conditions for blacks deteriorated. The governMent pushed blacks into an inferior position. The governMent took performance to forestall blacks from voting immediately.

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They embarked poll taxes, "grandfather clauses". They also segregated on trains, in parks, schools, restaurants, theaters, swimming pools, and even ceMeteries. If blacks broke these segregation laws, they were likely to end up either in prison or dead!

The case of Plessy v. Ferguson was a very important case in American History because it enforced segregation even manufacture it legal, and made segregation a concrete reality for the people of the United States. It began with a man called Homer Plessy. Plessy was 7/8 white and only had 1/8 drop of black blood in him, but under Louisiana law, was considered black. In 1890, Louisiana passed a law providing that "all railway clubs carrying passengers in their coaches in this state shall Supply equal but separate accommodations for the white and colored races, by providing two or more passenger coaches for each passenger train, or by dividing the passenger coaches by a partition so as to acquire separate accommodations." Plessy believed that the law was unjust and so he challenged the law by refusing to leave the white hasten car. He was arrested and taken to trial. At this trial he argued that the separate Car Act violated the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution. But he was found guilty. Plessy then appealed the decision to the Consummate Court of Louisiana. Again his case was upheld. Plessy appealed again in 1896 to the Consummate Court of the United States. Homer Plessy was found guilty once again. The impact of the court's decision was a harsh one. It created a reality that was a horror to many. Their lives would be changed dramatically. They would officially be separated and considered low down in society.

Plessy v. Ferguson was the law of the land until 1954, when it was finally, successfully overturned by Brown v. Board of Education. In 1954, a microscopic girl named Linda Brown in Topeka, Kansas had to walk 5 miles to school. She didn't get recess and could not play with any of the other children who were all white. Her parents filed a case to the U.S. Consummate Court saying that there is no way blacks and whites could get equal education if they were separated. The court ruled that separate is not equal.

The whole of time in the middle of Plessy v. Ferguson and Brown v. Board of education shows just how long it took to get justice for blacks from the Consummate Court. It amazes me that our government could even interrogate if blacks have the right to justice. It should be basic knowledge for us to know that it is wrong to treat any people so unjustly. Just to prove my point here are some questions you can ask yourself: are blacks human beings just like whites? Do blacks and whites both have feelings and needs? And finally, is the only discrepancy in the middle of blacks and whites is that they have a different complexion? I am confused as to why so many people, along with Justices on our Consummate Court would not answer yes to all these questions. How could anything who had any intelligence think it was approved to treat blacks differently?

Fortunately the Court did come to its senses in Brown v. Board of Education. Yet just because The U.S. Consummate Court ruled that separate is not equal it did not mean that blacks were automatically treated equally. After Brown v. Board of education happened, there needed to be the Civil possession Movement, in which many people were involved to push society to change. Two people who led the Civil possession Movement were Martin Luther King Jr. And Rosa Parks. We must answer that it wasn't only those people, there were others working and helping the same cause. There were many ways that they impacted The Civil possession Movement. They gave speeches, wrote letters, led marches, held meetings and many other strategies. They also endured reasoning and physical hardships. Only straight through the Civil possession Movement did the promise of Brown nothing else but get achieved. These people were poor, wealthy, high class, low class, black, some white, short and tall. Basically, there was a wide range of different kinds of people. Not everybody automatically changed their frame of mind when The U.S. Consummate Court ruled separate is not equal. There were still many people out there who were racist and wanted to keep blacks in an inferior position.

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Top 5 Std Stories

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Stories about sexually transmitted diseases may spread virally, but for whatever who missed them, here are the top 5 Std news stories to hit the headlines.

Gsoh and Std?

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A new dating assistance has been created for citizen with sexually transmitted diseases. A woman, who remains anonymous, came up with the idea when she feared she would find it hard to find a new partner after she was diagnosed with genital herpes.

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Users are asked to characterize their disease alongside their personal details such as weight, eye colour and height.

Sheelagh, who does not have a sexually transmitted disease, added: 'People may use it naturally to find friendship or a partner for an activity such as tennis. If they find love, then that is a great thing as well.'

Syphilis for Christmas?

Manufacturers are hoping their range of cuddly toy versions of microbes including gonorrhea and syphilis will be a hit for Christmas.

Us company Giant Microbes has turned little images of viruses and bugs, which also consist of malaria and mad cow disease, into soft toys.

Each 5-to-7 inch Doll is accompanied by an image of the real microbe it represents, as well as data about the microbe. They were intended as learning tools for children but have proved popular with adults seeing for amusing gifts for partners and friends.

Men who pay for sex spread Stds

A study by Nhs Greater Glasgow and Clyde also revealed that Men 'playing away' on holiday are twice as likely to have unprotected sex as those paying for sex at home.

Almost half of men who pay for sex already have a partner, and although none of the men surveyed had Hiv or Aids, a fifth had a sexually transmitted infection, including gonorrhoea, chlamydia and syphilis.

The research, which appears in October's Sexually Transmitted Infections Journal, surveyed more than 2,600 men attending the Sandyford sexual health clinic in Glasgow in the middle of October 2002 and February 2004.

A accepted health-screening questionnAire completed by the men revealed that one in 10 had paid for sex. Approximately half, 43%, said they were in someone else association when they had paid for the sex, and 56% of those who said they had paid for unprotected intercourse already had a partner at the time.

Plan for high road sex health kit

Free Std test kits for a range of sexually transmitted diseases could be made widely ready on the high road under plans being carefully by health ministers.

It follows the success of a pilot task under which Boots has given away 6,000 Std test kits for chlamydia to young people.

A DoH spokeswoman said of the Std tests: 'We are trying to normalise testing for Stis [sexually-transmitted infections] and take off the embarrassment factor by making testing ready in places like pharmacies.'

One in Four teenage Girls Has an Std

A new Cdc study suggests one in every four teenage girls has an Std, and Hpv, which can cause cervical cancer, is by far the most prevalent.

The girls, aged 14 to 19, had Std tests for four infections in the study. It found that 18 percent of particiPants had Hpv, four percent had chlamydia, 2.5 percent had trichomoniasis and two percent had herpes simplex virus.

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The Meaning of Don McLean's "American Pie"

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Don McLean's excellent "American Pie" was released in November of 1971. By mid-January of '72, it had reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.

"American Pie" may be the most analyzed pop song in history. (One of the most parodied as well.)

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Like Dylan, McLean throughout his career has remained reticent to talk about what his songs "really mean."

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"'American Pie'" was issued as a duplicate A-side particular in November 1971 and charted within a month. Very quickly, the attentiveness from media and group alike catapulted the particular to #1 in the Usa and Don to instant international superstardom. Every line of the song was analyzed time and time again to find the real meaning. Don has all the time refused to sanction any of the many interpretations, so adding to its mystery. The great 'American Pie debate' continues today on the Internet. Don once recomMend that when he is old and poor he would open a pay-to-listen phone line on which he would tell all! Somehow, that is unlikely because Don has maintained the publishing possession to his songs. 'So when citizen ask me what "American Pie" means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to...'" --Don-McLean.com

Much about the song is agreed upon by fans and students. Clearly there are references to the death of Buddy Holly (along with Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson) in a plane crash in 1959.

The "jester" most likely is a reference to Bob Dylan. The Byrds are referenced by name albeit spelled "the birds." John Lennon's egalitarian politics are Mentioned. The Rolling Stones and "Jumping Jack Flash" are in the mix.

The song is Long (almost 8 and 1/2 minutes) and filled with sufficient cryptic language and imagery to have warranted a Joseph Campbell weigh-in.

The One message that does sound loud and clear, however, is that the song, and the times during which it was written, reflects the loss of innocence in American music.

Charles Manson and accomplices had been inspired by the Beatles "Helter Skelter" in the summer of 1969 to butcher innocents in Hollywood. Five citizen had died in the Rolling Stones San Francisco Bay area tragic "Altamont Speedway" concert in 1970.

Drugs, drug abuse and death by overdose were rampant in the late 60s and early 70s. America was at war with itself over the fighting in Vietnam. Popular music had come to be a car for dialogue, if not for change. Its meaning, message and purpose, to a large degree, had come to be deeper, darker and in many ways, sadder.

"I met a girl who sang the blues

And I asked her for some happy news,

But she just smiled and turned away.

I went down to the sacred store

Where I'd heard the music years before,

But the man there said the music wouldn't play."

Bye-bye Miss American Pie.

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(Words and Music by Don McLean)

A long, long time ago...

I can still remember

How that music used to make me smile.

And I knew if I had my chance

That I could make those citizen dance

And, maybe, they'd be happy for a while.

But february made me shiver

With every paper I'd deliver.

Bad news on the doorstep;

I couldn't take one more step.

I can't remember if I cried

When I read about his widowed bride,

But something touched me deep inside

The day the music died.

So bye-bye, miss american pie.

Drove my chevy to the levee,

But the levee was dry.

And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye

Singin', "this'll be the day that I die.

"this'll be the day that I die."

Did you write the book of love,

And do you have faith in God above,

If the Bible tells you so?

Do you believe in rock 'n roll,

Can music save your mortal soul,

And can you teach me how to dance real slow?

Well, I know that you're in love with him

`cause I saw you dancin' in the gym.

You both kicked off your shoes.

Man, I dig those rhythm and blues.

I was a lonely teenage broncin' buck

With a pink carnation and a pickup truck,

But I knew I was out of luck

The day the music died.

I started singin',

"bye-bye, miss american pie."

Drove my chevy to the levee,

But the levee was dry.

Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye

And singin', "this'll be the day that I die.

"this'll be the day that I die."

Now for ten years we've been on our own

And moss grows fat on a rollin' stone,

But that's not how it used to be.

When the jester sang for the king and queen,

In a coat he borrowed from james dean

And a voice that came from you and me,

Oh, and while the king was seeing down,

The jester stole his thorny crown.

The courtroom was adjourned;

No verdict was returned.

And while Lennon read a book on Marx,

The quartet practiced in the park,

And we sang dirges in the dark

The day the music died.

We were singing,

"bye-bye, miss american pie."

Drove my chevy to the levee,

But the levee was dry.

Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye

And singin', "this'll be the day that I die.

"this'll be the day that I die."

Helter skelter in a summer swelter.

The birds flew off with a fallout shelter,

Eight miles high and falling Fast.

It landed foul on the grass.

The players tried for a forward pass,

With the jester on the sidelines in a cast.

Now the half-time Air was sweet perfume

While the sergeants played a marching tune.

We all got up to dance,

Oh, but we never got the chance!

`cause the players tried to take the field;

The marching band refused to yield.

Do you recall what was revealed

The day the music died?

We started singing,

"bye-bye, miss american pie."

Drove my chevy to the levee,

But the levee was dry.

Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye

And singin', "this'll be the day that I die.

"this'll be the day that I die."

Oh, and there we were all in one place,

A generation lost in space

With no time left to start again.

So come on: jack be nimble, jack be quick!

Jack flash sat on a candlestick

Cause fire is the devil's only friend.

Oh, and as I Watched him on the sTAGe

My hands were clenched in fists of rage.

No angel born in hell

Could break that satan's spell.

And as the flames climbed high into the night

To light the sacrificial rite,

I saw satan laughing with delight

The day the music died

He was singing,

"bye-bye, miss american pie."

Drove my chevy to the levee,

But the levee was dry.

Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye

And singin', "this'll be the day that I die.

"this'll be the day that I die."

I met a girl who sang the blues

And I asked her for some happy news,

But she just smiled and turned away.

I went down to the sacred store

Where I'd heard the music years before,

But the man there said the music wouldn't play.

And in the streets: the children screamed,

The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.

But not a word was spoken;

The church bells all were broken.

And the three men I admire most:

The father, son, and the holy ghost

, They caught the last train for the coast

The day the music died.

And they were singing,

"bye-bye, miss american pie."

Drove my chevy to the levee,

But the levee was dry.

And them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye

Singin', "this'll be the day that I die.

"this'll be the day that I die."

They were singing,

"bye-bye, miss american pie."

Drove my chevy to the levee,

But the levee was dry.

Them good old boys were drinkin' whiskey and rye

Singin', "this'll be the day that I die."

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