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	<description>A high school teacher trying to make it through life</description>
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		<title>Ralph Waldo Emerson&#8217;s &#8220;Self-Reliance&#8221; &#8211; Excerpt</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:05:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ &#8220;Ne te quaesiveris extra.&#8221; (&#8221;Seek no one besides yourself.&#8221;)
&#8220;Man is his own star; and the soul that can
Render an honest and a perfect man,
Commands all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing to him falls early or too late.
Our acts our angels are, or good or ill,
Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.&#8221;
&#160;
There is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dashiell Hammett</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 17:49:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mystery writer Dashiell Hammett was born on this day in 1894. The three film adaptations of his most famous story, The Maltese Falcon, became staples of the film noir genre. His romantic relationship with Lillian Hellman, a well-known playwright, inspired The Thin Man, a story featuring heroine Nora Charles. The film adaptation of this novel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerson Pyramids</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the two pyramids chosen by my students as best graphically representing  Emerson&#8217;s hierarchy of ideas.
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		<title>Across the Universe</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen to the Song
&#160;
John Lennon
Philip Norman.					Ecco 2008, 					Hardcover,				864 pages,				&#36;3.99
 Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup, They slither while they pass they slip away across the universe Pools of sorrow, waves of joy are drifting through my opened mind, Possessing and caressing me Jai guru de va om Nothing&#8217;s gonna change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting on a Friend</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[See post to watch Flash video]
WAITING ON A FRIEND
(m. jagger/k. richards)
Single by Rolling Stones
from the album Tattoo You
Watching girls go passing by
It aint the latest thing
Im just standing in a doorway
Im just trying to make some sense
Out of these girls go passing by
The tales they tell of men
Im not waiting on a lady
Im just waiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What a Wonderful World&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 03:09:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This song has a hopeful and optimistic tone with regard to the future, and beautifully illuminates Emerson&#8217;s idea about finding &#8220;the journey&#8217;s end in every step of the road&#8221; (from Emerson&#8217;s &#8220;Experience&#8221;).
&#160;
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
I see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dixie Chicks and Transcendentalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love this song, especially the stuff about striking out on your own, chasing a dream, and finding your place in the sun &#x2013; pure transcendentalism.
[See post to watch Flash video]
&#8220;Wide Open Spaces&#8221;
&#160;
Who doesn&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m talking about
Who&#8217;s never left home, who&#8217;s never struck out
To find a dream and a life of their own
A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emerson&#8217;s First Step to Successful Living</title>
		<link>http://www.yourenglishclass.com/emersons-first-step-to-successful-living/</link>
		<comments>http://www.yourenglishclass.com/emersons-first-step-to-successful-living/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DEVELOP SELF-RELIANCE
&#160;
Be Who You Really Are
I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever inly rejoices me, and the heart appoints.
—“Self-Reliance”
&#160;
Fear, Fear, and More Fear
We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.
—“Self-Reliance”
&#160;
Approval Seeking: Our Psychic [...]]]></description>
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