Books
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http://www.youtube.com/v/7uSVzYE4oy0&hl=en<\/embed><\/object><\/div>";” alt=””> It’s not hard to draw comparisons between the new century vilification of Mexicans and the turn of the century vilification of the Chinese just leafing through Jean Pfaelzer’s Driven Out – Although the poorest of the poor, the Chinese bore the blame for the era’s widespread hunger and homelessness… Racial stereotypes began to…
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Tara’s Dog Star stories make me think of Morrissey crooning: I am human and I need to belong just like everyone else does – especially “Say Bridgitte Please.” It involves a high school girl misidentifying her natural need to connect as boredom. This takes her on a path she expects will remedy the situation…
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To Kill A Mockingbird is 50 years old. In a story examining the relevance of the book today as compared to when it was originally published in 1960, the reporter, Lynn Neary, notes: For the high-schoolers reading To Kill a Mockingbird today, America is a very different place than it was when Lee wrote her…
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Sometimes when I sit down to write, I open my Web browser intending to find the source of a quote or factoid I think I remember. Sometimes I am successful. Sometimes I fail. And sometimes I get completely taken away and end up watching old music videos on YouTube. My brain turns off and I…
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Sometimes it is not a matter of what is said (or being the first to say it) but a matter not being the only one saying it. I began blogging with the hope that it would reacquaint me with writing. I had taken a long hiatus – Almost 10 years! – from writing, frustrated with…
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I am going to play to stereotype and quote Bruce Lee: Knowledge in martial arts actually means self-knowledge… ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky…
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Recently Turner Classic Movies played The Good Earth and The Bitter Tea of General Yen back to back. I caught the former as the locusts descended upon the crops and continued to the latter as a “Chinked up” Nils Asther rode away in “Yellow Face” without care or concern for the rickshaw driver his car…
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Vincent Young 