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Still Behind

Aug 19, 2005 21:06

I'm still stuck on Don Quixote. The story is cute and funny, but at times it seems tedious and like it's not going anywhere. I'm only on Chapter XV. I have the Walter Starkie translation. I don't know why I'm finding it so hard to get through...maybe it's the tiny print. I like the short chapters though ( Read more... )

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Black Elk Speaks bluecub21 August 20 2005, 03:18:19 UTC

I read Black Elk Speaks for a class and I thought it was amazing! There is one small part, a dream sequence if I remember correctly, that is a little confusing, but that is all. The book is well written, informative, and I thought it was good.

roygbiv August 20 2005, 03:38:38 UTC

I loved the autobiography of malcolm x.

don't know them, well female_phoenix August 27 2005, 21:51:24 UTC

Have you heard of Charles Darwin? Even with a teachers best intentions sometimes a little rain must fall. I'm not sure what discussions and papers you'll be asked to write, but you will survive. I think this stuff is dry.

And I am serious about Darwin. There is quite a bit of talk in US schools about whether evolution should be taught at all levels. It is as hot as Roe V. Wade. Check out the reprint at th website for the Museum of Ntural History inNYC. It may be at top or in the magazine section. IT is a history of the prominent people of the time for and against this theory. Well, it is back in debate BIGTIME. They are trying to drum up support so that the schools don't lose it in the cirriculum. Also, homeschooling has become an influence on public schools and it ain't the same homeschooling of 20 years ago, they make coops now. Sorry, just politically speaking while it is still quiet.

Re: don't know them, well rabidpixie August 27 2005, 23:06:11 UTC

IMO schools should teach both evolution and "....that other word...i forgot the term they use for it now but you know what i mean...". Just like they teach you more than one theory in different subjects, why shouldn't they show all the options and let kids make up their own minds as to what to believe?

Oh, but I don't know how you got Darwin out of my post? Am I missing something?

Re: don't know them, well female_phoenix September 1 2005, 12:28:36 UTC

Sorry, please excuse what I posted. You are not missing anything. I sometimes read too much into things and go off on weird tangents. I thought differently about the list of books you wrote. I'm sorry again, I really embarrassed myself.