Category: teaching
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Points of Paradisimo by M. Pitter
Various parts of our planet have been popularly dubbed beautiful, considered to be paradise, Shangri-La, the vestibules of nirvana. Narrowing our scope to the radiant oceanic scenes, we see that these places can often take mastery over a person’s pleasure principle or, at least, pull a person into a trance; and she sinks into a…
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Just (Part 1) – Short Story by P Kim
Phillip Kim was forced to go to Boston University. He studies English Education because he wants to be a drill sergeant but he doesn’t want to join the military. He is a preschool teacher and mocks his students regularly. He writes videogame plots, slam poetry, short stories and likes cheese. READ PART 2 HEREREAD PART…
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The Web as Ideology by G. Sistare
Gabriel Sistare is a writer and thinker most comfortable steaming vegetables or sitting in the public library. He prefers to sit next to the oversized Phaidon Atlas of World Architecture and write about his philosophical opposition to the automobile. **** On August 26, 2010, the MetaFilter user, blue_beetle offered an argument aimed for the heart…
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America, Take Two Terms and Call me in the Morning by M. Pitter
After the closely fought race for the presidency, shifty and serious all the way through, Mr. Barack Hussein Obama has been re-elected as the President of the United States of America. People everywhere rejoiced, heavily clad in an armor of Obama pins and stickers, smiling, racing to Facebook to type into their statuses:________!! Bars were…
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Autobio of Ben Franklin – Thematic Analysis by P Chatelain
Upon reading the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and further discussing it in class there were a few tidbits of information that truly resonated with me. It gave me some deeper insight as to why we write, why it’s important to write, and how printing begins to change the whole playing field for written word. Literacy is in…
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A Call to the Public
At about the midpoint between our very successful first issue and the highly anticipated October issue, we are looking to revamp the In Parentheses brand by opening a call to new contributors for the IP Blog. We see the blog as a very important connection to our public that runs alongside the print quarterly, and…
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Let America be Wrong – Poems by B Nardolilli
Ben Nardolilli lives in Virginia. His work has appeared in Perigee Magazine, Red Fez, The 22 Magazine, Quail Bell Magazine, Elimae, Pear Noir, and The Minetta Review. He has a chapbook: “Common Symptoms of an Enduring Chill Explained.” He blogs at mirrorsponge.blogspot.com. Let America Be Wrong Yes, I have a wide place In a land that’s mine,
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New Negro Politics – Essay by P Chatelain
Political Changes by way of Cultural Changes How African Americans of the Harlem Renaissance reversed gruesome stereotypes in order to rework their image in the eyes of their white brothers.
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Unsharpened Pencils – an essay by P Chatelain
UNSHARPENED PENCILS – by Phillipe Chatelain For the longest I never wrote in pencil. It seemed rustic and was reminiscent of the naivety of third grade.
