Skin Cancer Treatments

We are a quick fix species. Top 3, 7, 10 ways to achieve whatever. We have long history of buying what the medicine man sells: hope really, but who ends up richer or better off?. PT Barnum understood to entertain first, then clean out the fool's pockets in appreciation. Even […]

An online think tank had brought up the point that human emotional characteristics and thought processes are so similar to the other animals we find in nature or even as pets, that we could assume that humans are only slightly smarter animals. That is to say that religious dogma aside humans are not divinely made […]

Langston Hughes (1902?1967) was a true Renaissance man, being a poet, novelist, essayist, playwright, autobiographer, and writer of children's books (Rampersad 368). He was born in Joplin, Missouri, and spent most of his childhood in Lawrence, Kansas, but also lived in Illinois, Ohio, and Mexico (Rampersad 368). Hughes' earliest influence was his maternal grandmother, […]

Dancing Dark Spiders

Part I

The Dark Thick

The sun raised over the top of the Galapagos, pouring down a tide of brilliant, gleaming sunlight: involuntary motions, deliriums: riddled the jungle, and my puzzled-entangled brain?.

Down, down and around the tributaries?it seemed the slow current lead my vessel: filled with night?s goblin-faces? obscure dimness, riding high, high as […]

TO MOST PEOPLE, A TOWN WITH PICKPOCKETS IS A BAD THING, but to me, there could be no better place to practice some stealing of my own. There is, in fact, a gaggle of thieves who's hangout or headquarters (if you want to call it that) is right near my apartment. I know them pretty […]

(1885) The man called Arizona Blue was a man by himself and before him laid a town in Wyoming. Behind him were scars and memories. Each one had a name. He forgot them, but he remembered the count. It was thirty-six dead. Most all of them shot though the […]

Playing the piano is a wonderful activity for children because it not only provides hours of fun for kids, it utilizes all of the human creative processes. These include Seeing (visualization), Observing, Forming Analogies, Inverting, and Simplification. Effective piano lessons apply teaching strategies that utilize these processes to exercise students' creative abilities and expand their […]

Leaping onto the television landscape in Fall 2001, Smallville follows the exploits of a young Clark Kent in the years leading up to his emergence as the beloved Superman. Following a slew of TV renditions of the character's life since the comic book first appeared, Smallville sets itself apart by focusing on the lesser discussed […]

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Two Old Jews[Maggots on a tree]

(Advance: The two old Jews came from the sea, just walked right out from the sea one day, just like that did miracles all around, for the world to see, and the Devil saw this and his demon, said: ?This is not good?!)) And like maggots on a tree they […]

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High sky, and visible sinister shadows,

The covered moon, now still,

Then the eldritch dark, its eerie face falling,

And now, nearby, a viper-imp is calling?I no longer weep. But watch, watch the

Strange nights go by (why?)

(I shall get no pleasure in telling this story,where?where strange nights bring forthtruth and light, to the dead.)

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Macabre?and silent was the night, […]