Archive | September, 2009

Birthday

Seeing there is nothing really going on today… I’ll just post three odd pictures taken in the last day and a half… Happy Birthday me…

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Effects of the Internet on mental health

Written around October of 2000 I have been using the Internet for almost ten years now. I have made many friends over the net, and actually do go out with them on a regular basis. I make my money for going to the movies from designing web sites, rather than serving food at the local [...]

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The Waste Land Water Symbolism

Completed somewhere around May 2001 – was published, so don’t copy too closely T.S. Eliot is one of the most studied poets of today (Murphy 250). His poetry is masterfully planned and executed, filled with clever references and multiple meanings. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1948 “for his outstanding, pioneering contribution [...]

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The Waste Land Water Paper Outline

Written as a planning tool for the paper I’ll post on Monday – Written April 2001 Eliot purposefully employs an ambiguous water motif throughout the poem to make points about nature, culture, religion and life in general and how modern man in his reactions to each has become a “wasteland”, and needs to be reborn.

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Few Random Things With No Place To Go

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The White Tribe of Africa Speech

Speech Written in June 2002 Introduction Just before I immigrated to the United States, I saw a headline in the Johannesburg Star which read “Death Rate to Exceed Birth Rate by 2003”. Now for a European country, this might not seem so unusual, but this was Africa. It took a few days for the headline [...]

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Nintendo Neurosis

Written around October 2000 One of the most popular past times of my peer group is killing each other. Achieved through Tekken 3, Mortal Combat 4 and Quake 3: with all the blood and gore brought to us by the makers of the Sony Playstation and a bunch of networked computers. We play the games [...]

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Stoh Night For Writing Meeting

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British-American Chamber of Commerce Jag Event

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Glyn Davies

Written in February of 2002 about my Grandfather In the year 2002, is it possible to have had a family history of four generations in IT? I would think it would be rare, but not impossible. As a 21 year old web and graphic designer, computer player and full time geek, I am one of [...]

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