Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Arts and Letters Daily
Please go to the blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education, Arts and Letters Daily at http://www.aldaily.com/, choose an article that you find interesting or disturbing, and read at least the first page of it. Then come back here, click on Comments below, and tell us what essay you read, what you think about it, and provide a quote and a link to it so we may read it also.
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I was amazed the credit was given of the lost of the animals. "In 2004, a major memorial was unveiled on Park Lane in London dedicated to all the animals that died alongside British troops, including horses, dogs, dolphins, elephants and glow-worms (apparently troops used them as reading lights)."
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/2080/
http://www.reason.com/news/show/38388.html According to the CDC’s own data for the years 2001 to 2003, excluding older Americans leaves just 585,000 or so deaths a year, of which more than 180,000 are caused by accidents, suicide, homicide, lung cancer, HIV, influenza, pneumonia, and chronic lower respiratory diseases—none of which the CDC blames on obesity. To believe the 400,000 death toll, you’d have to believe that virtually all the remaining deaths, from causes such as heart disease, stroke, hypertension, cancer, and diabetes, are due to “poor diet and physical inactivity,” a phrase public health officials and the press have treated as synonymous with fatness. (More on that later.) That would leave no room for risk factors such as smoking, stress, and heredity.
The article we read was Lay off the fatties.by Jacob Sullun. It talks about obesity, but how it may not really be killing as many people as orginally thought. Very interesting how many more people are dying of other diseases and not really of obesity.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,2774-2454013,00.html
In this article a woman has fallen in love with her sister. This is very disturbing and un worthy of a bloggers blog.
-TV, NB
This is the beauty of the little black dress: it is utterly timeless. Its contemporary appeal, however, grows and grows. You can now exercise to the Little Black Dress workout or whittle down your waist with the Little Black Dress diet – which will be crucial if you want to squeeze into one of Chanel's severely corseted satin ribbon mini-dresses this winter.
The LBD has never been out of fashion. From simple shifts and dramatic tunics to flirty baby-dolls and vampy bustier dresses, it comes in every style imaginable and, unlike most other truly fashionable pieces of clothing, there is a variation to suit almost everyone.
How many times are we told that a piece of clothing is a "wardrobe essential"? The LBD is one of the few things that truly deserves the accolade; it certainly makes dressing for any kind of party a whole lot less stressful.
But its power is greater than this. The simplest – and sometimes even cheapest – LBD will make you look classic, chic and elegant. And unlike all the gorgeously colourful, sparkly little party dresses out there, the LBD is for life, not just for Christmas.
Heidi and Denise
We read the Beyonce artical and it was all about her new video and the comparison of Basic Instincts and Diana Ross. The artical implied that Beyonce "sexed up" her videos. They said that because of this her new CD B'day wouldnt sell as well.We feel that she needs to be sexy to sell in todays society and the buissness she is in.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20061218/brooks Amber and Sarah
We were surprised to see that chimps have taken on human traits, such as killing their own kind for different reasons, such as territory control etc. Leaves us wondering if these so called human traits are indeed animal traits taken on by the human domain.
K.G. S.S.
http://www.americanscientist.org/template/AssetDetail/assetid/54077
"The New, Soft paternalism"
This is about The new soft paternalism which is the government helping you, pointing you in the right direction. I personally agree with this much better than the old, hard paternalism.
HF
"The New, Soft paternalism"
This is about The new soft paternalism which is the government helping you, pointing you in the right direction. I personally agree with this much better than the old, hard paternalism.
HF
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/viewArticle.aip?id=10801&page=all When I went to this site I thought it would be more of a boigraphy of the famous female writer Virgina Woolf. But it was more focused on the bloomsbury soicety rather then focusing on her life, but it did mention some of her struggles of making it to the top. -Samantha Hill
If I was famous I would strip down to the bare minimum, all famous lame-ass music performers use their booty moves to get the money. Let's face it sex sells!
TR
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