My heart is in a land I have never been, with people I have never met, hurting for the stories that I will never hear, the stories that will never be.
Please watch:
Tears of the Sun
The Invisible Children
Hotel Rwanda
Please visit:
http://www.savedarfur.org/content?splash=yes
http://www.invisiblechildren.com/home.php
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)
"The scholar has lived in many times and is therefore to some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press of his own age."
About Me
- Laura Headley
- "It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from."
Moon River
Moon River, wider than a mile,
I'm crossing you in style some day.
Oh, dream maker, you heart breaker,
wherever you're going I'm going your way.
Two drifters off to see the world.
There's such a lot of world to see.
We're after the same rainbow's end-- waiting 'round the bend, my huckleberry friend, Moon River and me.
Rhetoric
- Audience - who are you speaking to?
- Speaker - what traits are you wanting to come across?
- Context - place, situation
- Thesis - the statement of an essay or speech
- Appeal to Pathos - something that appeals to our emotions
- Appeal to Ethos - something that establishes our credintials on a subject
- Appeal to Logos - something that appeals to our minds
- Scheme - a way of sorting words or phrases
- Trope - figure of speech
My Word Bank with thanks to Sharon!
Favorite Books
- Till We Have Faces (Jack Lewis, more popularly known as C. S. Lewis)
- Mansfield Park (Jane Austen)
- The Republic (Plato)
- The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien)
- The Great Divorce (Jack Lewis)
- The Man in the Brown Suit (Agatha Christie)
- Atonement (Ian McEwan)
- Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
- Cry, the Beloved Country (Alan Paton)
- Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte)
1 comment:
This is, interestingly enough, a matter I've been looking into of late. It's astounding how much violence there is and has been on that continent that no one knows anything about. Chad, Sudan, the DRC, the CAR, Uganda, and Somalia, just to name a few, are all in the midst of vicious wars that are displacing and slaughtering millions of innocents on a level that, comparatively speaking, the West hasn't seen since WWII. It's truly staggering.
(And you might find the movie Blood Diamond equally relevant.)
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