It depends on what is more important ... freedom or equality.
Poe has gotten a bad rap over the years... portrayed as an alcoholic incestuous pedophile. According to witnesses during his life, he did not...
In 1991, Magic Johnson attempted to get company paid health insurance. An HIV test is mandatory. That's how he found out he was (and remains) HIV...
I never vote along party lines. I vote for the candidates. Too often, in recent years, it seems I and others have voted against someone rather...
The opposite of atheism is theism, not necessarily religion.
My understanding is that the laws of return have been modified in recent years due to strong lobbying by Reform and Conservative Jews and that the...
"Kudos to those who strive, for whatever reason, to make english haiku as close to the japanese version as possible. It's an interesting...
If you read just about any serious, scholarly book on haiku, you will find that the fewer the syllables, the better. Most experts on the form...
Isn't it a requirement that 14 year old young women be way too dramatic? Time will no doubt temper those tendencies;)
While mental illnesses are terrible in the suffering they cause, I don't know that they could be considered bad traits. For one thing, very few of...
Actually, I think I have used A Writer's Book of Days. It is a collection of fairly neutral yet nonetheless intriguing writing prompts broken down...
I am really looking forward to this class, especially since your reference books are ones I have never read. I teach creative writing though I...
The Garden of Proserpine by Algernon Charles Swinburne (IMO, the finest poem of the Victorian era and one that sums things up nicely and ......
Too much is made of making sense. The only thing one has a chance of making genuine sense of is one's own thoughts and feelings; the rest is up...
"As for the rest of the posts on here some are really disgusting and beyond tasteful, some women today are such pigs." A 19 year old woman is...
Thank you both so much for your words of encouragement. It means a lot to me. My voice had always been geared more toward expository prose and I...
Hey, Shakespeare wrote a lot about what he didn't know and rarely is he faulted for it. When writing character driven stories, one cannot help but...
dramatic monologues and psychological horror (often in the same piece)
All my protagonists are evil.
Being very tight does not make the sensations of sex too pleasant. Every time I have sex with my boyfriend, I feel like I've never done it before...
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