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Bruce Martin
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In modern US society, many of us suffer from a lack of adequate community in our daily lives. Indeed, social alienation and psychological strain seem to be endemic to late-stage capitalist societies.
“Our doubts are traitors,
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
― Measure for Measure
and make us lose the good we oft might win,
by fearing to attempt.”
― Measure for Measure
“Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself. The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.”
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“What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?”
― Cloud Atlas
― Cloud Atlas
“Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.”
― The Essays
― The Essays
Composition and Rhetoric
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— last activity Jun 15, 2015 06:03PM
Welcome. This is a reading group for anyone interested in teaching writing. I've set a regular reading schedule that focuses on one book for 2 month ...more
Critical Marxist Reading Group
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— last activity Dec 19, 2010 07:49PM
For workers, proletariats, comrades, et al interested in sharing canonical and less known works of marxist ideological bents and those imbued with mar ...more
Grassroots Chiasmus
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— last activity Feb 22, 2008 04:38PM
RSQ (Rhetoric Society Quarterly) review group- Scholars and activists studying the most recent interdisciplinary scholarship in rhetorical studies, ...more
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