Excelent Easter Greeting Card Messages
Various messages to write to a fellow Easter celebrator.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1542463/excelent_easter_greeting_card_messages.html
Saturday, March 7, 2009
The National Anthem
" Oh say can you see by the danwns early light..." so begins our illustrious National Anthem. However, what is it about? It's abouyt realisign that after then end of a war, our flag is still there. Is this the portrayl we want for our country? A song that when everyone listens to they see only the violence and the fact that we are "king of the hill"?
Even the way it was written is ridiculous. Francis Scott Key was drinking at a pub and decided to start beign beligerent to the officers, who were preparing for a large battle during the war of 1812. Francis Scott Key was put into a holding hull of a ship with a prt hole in it to sleep off his drunkeness. Thsi ship was just outside of the harbor where the main battles of the War of 1812 was being fought. Francis Scott Key was awoken from his inhebriated state to cannon fire, and saw through his port hole smoke and fire blazing on shore. As the sun rose, and the smoke cleared oyur flag was still standing.
Francis Scott Key took out a pen and wrote a song to the tune of the last tune he could remember - an English drinking song. So our National Anthem was written by a drunk to the tune of a drinking song in the middle of a battle that effectively did nothing for the country.
This is our national song - when a perfectly good song was sitting there the whole time, and was often sung in celebration of our country: America The Beautiful. A song that describes the great things about our country, and the people who inhabit it.
Instead we decided to honor war, battles, drinking, drunkenness.
What do you think? Which should be our true Anthem?
(Feel free to comment on yahoo answers or cisit my cite at http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/259591/chad_herman.html)
Even the way it was written is ridiculous. Francis Scott Key was drinking at a pub and decided to start beign beligerent to the officers, who were preparing for a large battle during the war of 1812. Francis Scott Key was put into a holding hull of a ship with a prt hole in it to sleep off his drunkeness. Thsi ship was just outside of the harbor where the main battles of the War of 1812 was being fought. Francis Scott Key was awoken from his inhebriated state to cannon fire, and saw through his port hole smoke and fire blazing on shore. As the sun rose, and the smoke cleared oyur flag was still standing.
Francis Scott Key took out a pen and wrote a song to the tune of the last tune he could remember - an English drinking song. So our National Anthem was written by a drunk to the tune of a drinking song in the middle of a battle that effectively did nothing for the country.
This is our national song - when a perfectly good song was sitting there the whole time, and was often sung in celebration of our country: America The Beautiful. A song that describes the great things about our country, and the people who inhabit it.
Instead we decided to honor war, battles, drinking, drunkenness.
What do you think? Which should be our true Anthem?
(Feel free to comment on yahoo answers or cisit my cite at http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/259591/chad_herman.html)
What does F Scott Fitzgerald know?
I often find myself asking this question. F Scot Fitzgerald, the man who was named after Francis Scott Key the writer of our National Anthem. How did he with a few words truly make us all understand that which is the hardest to see. What is that? The meaning, the true meanign of his novel: The Great Gatsby.
The main point in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic is who is the real person in ourselves?
Fitzgerald knew better than anyone, there's the "real person" nobody sees. This is where all of the fears hide, and we hide this persont he best we can.
Then there's the mask. F. Scott Fitzgerald's "mask" was varied, and changed often. As many of us do on a daily basis. We are a student, parent, sibling, daughter/son, coworker, etc, etc.
We are also what others see us as. As F. Scott Fitzgerald put it, the man we are when the demons are looking jotting on peices of paper. Thsi si the most important person, because this is the person we are judged as, we are seen to be, and we are stereotyped in. In F Scot Fitzgerald's The Great Gastby: Gatsby spent every waking moment developing and redeveloping this person to the point of perfection. Everyoen wanted him and everyone wanted to be him.
What makes him diferent than everyone else is he did this for love, not for his own personal gain!!
So who are you? So are you truly? Is F. Scott Fitzgerald right, we are the person that everyone sees or are we more than that?
The main point in F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic is who is the real person in ourselves?
Fitzgerald knew better than anyone, there's the "real person" nobody sees. This is where all of the fears hide, and we hide this persont he best we can.
Then there's the mask. F. Scott Fitzgerald's "mask" was varied, and changed often. As many of us do on a daily basis. We are a student, parent, sibling, daughter/son, coworker, etc, etc.
We are also what others see us as. As F. Scott Fitzgerald put it, the man we are when the demons are looking jotting on peices of paper. Thsi si the most important person, because this is the person we are judged as, we are seen to be, and we are stereotyped in. In F Scot Fitzgerald's The Great Gastby: Gatsby spent every waking moment developing and redeveloping this person to the point of perfection. Everyoen wanted him and everyone wanted to be him.
What makes him diferent than everyone else is he did this for love, not for his own personal gain!!
So who are you? So are you truly? Is F. Scott Fitzgerald right, we are the person that everyone sees or are we more than that?
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Transcend to the flip side
Poems About Death
Here is a collection of poems of and about death.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1512236/poems_about_death.html
Here is a collection of poems of and about death.
http://www.associatedcontent.comarticle/1512236/poems_about_death.html
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