Tag: history
member name: Rory M.
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August 06, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
Everyone knows, from the endless movies and televisions shows and novels, of the American pioneering archetype: the cowboy. He was the white knight of the wild West and the wide open plains, . . .
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July 14, 2007 12:51 AM EDT --
Imagine that you woke up tomorrow morning with little memory of what had come before. Let's say you still knew who you were, how to go about most of your daily tasks, but could recall almost nothing . . .
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September 08, 2008 01:33 AM EDT --
The American Heritage Dictionary defines a redneck as follows:
A slang term, usually for a rural white southerner who is politically conservative, racist, and a religious fundamentalist. This . . .
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April 10, 2009 08:25 PM EDT --
Canadian political scandals rarely receive much ink or airtime from the American media. I'm sure the reaction of most Americans to any inquiry as to the "Mulroney-Schreiber Affair" . . .
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September 10, 2007 12:12 PM EDT --
"Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."
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September 15, 2007 11:17 PM EDT --
Getting back to nature. Living off the land. Embracing the natural world and sacredness of our Earth Mother.
These concepts have been very popular in recent decades. Going back to the 1960s, people have . . .
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October 03, 2007 10:24 PM EDT --
The American television network NBC recently carried a series entitle The Black Donnellys. One of the creators of the series (Paul Haggis) is a native of London, Ontario, a small Canadian city with . . .
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October 09, 2007 08:05 PM EDT --
(If you are a person who believes that every word in the Bible is literal truth and your mind is not open to other points of view or interpretations, then it is perhaps best if you do not read any further . . .
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July 18, 2007 12:26 AM EDT --
"I know that God is always on the side of right; my concern is not whether God is on our side but whether or not we are on God's side."
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April 20, 2009 07:26 PM EDT --
As a Canadian member of the Gather community I have always been free with my comments and the expression of my opinions on matters pertaining to American politics. I do this for several reasons, . . .
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November 05, 2008 02:24 AM EST --
The election of 2008 has already gone a long, long way to restoring the dream and the amazing reality of the United States of America. It has done this in numerous ways.
Race Relations: . . .
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July 26, 2007 09:39 PM EDT --
Often on Gather various people will post some kind of simple statement or elaborate essay outlining their position on a given issue or cultural phenomenon, staking out their position and inviting like . . .
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July 17, 2009 09:09 PM EDT --
There is a conviction in the Western world, particularly in America , that capitalism and democracy are almost one and the same thing, or at least complimentary to one another. The corollary to that . . .
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January 20, 2009 03:20 PM EST --
Being a Canadian I have, like many of my countrymen, grown used to looking south to our great friend and ally with a mixture of admiration, fear, hope and judgement .
America is the most powerful . . .
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April 05, 2009 03:12 PM EDT --
Amongst people of Irish descent, most of whom are fair of skin and light or red of hair, there is a distinct sup-group with darker hair and complexion, almost swarthy, sometimes referred to as the Black . . .
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May 24, 2008 01:06 PM EDT --
In this fifth installment of my series on words that have had special meaning to me in my life (links to the first four articles are at the bottom) , I would like to focus on a very few words that were . . .
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November 16, 2008 01:41 AM EST --
Freedom ain't free. It's kind of a slogan, isn't it. You might see it on a bumper sticker, perhaps on the back of a beat up Ford F150 beside a "Support Our Troops" . . .
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November 22, 2007 11:30 AM EST --
I am not in the habit of reading books authored by American political figures. Though I have read two of former President Jimmy Carter's books, I am not drawn to partisan writings on politics in . . .
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March 16, 2007 12:55 PM EDT --
There is a tendency to compare the war in Iraq with the war in Vietnam, especially as opposition to the war continues to rise as it did during the waning years of the Vietnam war.
The question must be . . .
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May 19, 2008 01:01 PM EDT --
This is the third article in the series I have begun to pay homage to the words of other writers that have meant so much to me through my life. The first two articles can be found here:
http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977347468&nav=MyGather . . .
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