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.

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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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