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Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Life

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A Pizza Smorgasbord: On one dreary autumn day in 1974, a rather chilly Tuesday afternoon, I sat listening to music alone in my room and thus masterfully medicated my melancholy teenage gloom. The thunderous blasts from Uriah Heep's Demons & Wizards LP were vibrantly serving as my self-prescribed therapy. Suddenly, tha... More..

Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Poets

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How Can This Be * Tell me people, how can this be? Aspiring poets writing, illiterately Lacking in basic language skills Boggling my mind and making me ill * Their choice of words, I can't explain When I read them, they skew my brain A word like its they don't seem to know For its possession it's meant to show * The contracti... More..

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: The way we were

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Thanksgiving Brakes:Come mentally meandering along with me. Adhere to my words as images form for your mind's eye to see. Sit back, relax and aspire to an existence within my memoir for to be. In the late afternoon of the very day school recessed for Thanksgiving Vacation and the year is 1974. It is a frostily frigid November... More..

Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: Childhood memories

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Rule of Thumb: Cogito ergo sum. Descartes' famous proof, founded on the premise that possession of thought validates existence, did little to solve the three fundamental questions of philosophy. Those questions I have often pondered and they are as followings. Who am I? Where did I come from? Where am I going? As a ... More..

Creative Writing > Songs Songs: War

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The last two verses of this song, sung to the tune of The Yellow Rose of Texas, I took from the brilliant book The Decisive Battle of Nashville by Stanley F. Horn but the rest of it is all of my own creation. * Battle of Nashville * General Thomas of Virginia We aimed to whip you good Take Louisville for leisure And go just ... More..

Arts & Humanities > Colonial & Early American History Identity and the American Revolution

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The American Revolution enabled my American identity to form. I consider my American identity to be those aspects of my character that make me fearless, self-reliant, compassionate and just. The freedoms gained by the American Revolution made it possible for those qualities to develop, unmolested within me. Ancestors o... More..

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