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		<title>This I Believe Audio</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jun 2010 05:52:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I plan to share the following This I Believe essays from National Public Radio (NPR) with my seniors. It&#8217;s all part of their final project, but it&#8217;s more than that. This is something I have to do before sending them off into the adult world. It&#8217;s funny because I have no set of guidelines, no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Concise Guide to MLA Style and Documentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I&#8217;ve written a small book to help my students write their research papers. In the thirty years since my undergraduate days in Florida, there has been a seismic shift in the way students conduct research, find primary and secondary sources, gather and store information, and write their papers. I’m certainly grateful I had the [...]]]></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>The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:42:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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An original drawing from Mark Twain&#8217;s collection Sketches New and Old, in which &#8220;The Jumping Frog&#8221; was published in English, in French, and then back into English.
&#8220;The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County&#8221; was first published in 1865 and in many ways put Mark Twain on the literary map. Twain in fact owed his [...]]]></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;).
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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>
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		<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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		<title>Dead Poets Society Review Questions</title>
		<link>http://www.yourenglishclass.com/dead-poets-society-review-questions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 16:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1. In the space below, create a Venn diagram to compare and contrast Welton Academy with your school.
2. What, if anything, is missing from the boys&#8217; education at Welton? What do you feel is overemphasised?
3. Look at Keating&#8217;s first two lessons. Why are the boys so readily on-side with Keating? Is this believable? Who leads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Young Goodman Brown</title>
		<link>http://www.yourenglishclass.com/young-goodman-brown/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 05:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom Fasano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[See post to watch Flash video]
I found the above video on a blog called protozoic, a very strange and clever place indeed.
Click here for a handout we&#8217;re going to use when reading Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
The following audio is an unabridged reading of the story. We will begin reading this story tomorrow and [...]]]></description>
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