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London, W. Owen, 1751. A Discourse on the Moral Effects of the Arts and Sciences (1750), also known as Discourse on the Sciences and Arts (French: Discours sur les sciences et les arts) and commonly referred to as The First Discourse, is an essay by Genevan philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau which argued that the arts and sciences corrupt human ...
International Imitation Hemingway Competition. The International Imitation Hemingway Competition, also known as the Bad Hemingway Contest, was an annual writing competition begun in Century City, California. Started in 1977 as a "promotional gag", [1] and held for nearly thirty years, the contest pays mock homage to Ernest Hemingway by ...
Alfie Kohn (born October 15, 1957) is an American author and lecturer in the areas of education, parenting, and human behavior.He is a proponent of progressive education and has offered critiques of many traditional aspects of parenting, managing, and American society more generally, drawing in each case from social science research.
Faux Faulkner contest. The Faux Faulkner contest was an annual parody essay contest founded in 1989 by Dean Faulkner Wells, niece of Nobel laureate William Faulkner, with her husband Lawrence Wells, and sponsored by Yoknapatawpha Press and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture. [1] It was held 16 times until 2005. [2]
An article about the basement you live in. Nobody, especially girls, are going to want to enter your parent's home, dude. Ok, maybe your girlfriend - but nobody else. An article about the sand castle you made in 3rd grade. A 77-page essay as to why Caravan Palace is the best band in the universe. <|°_°|>
It's Bad For Ya. (2008) I Kinda Like It When a Lotta People Die. (2016) Wikiquote has quotations related to George Carlin. It's Bad for Ya is the 19th album as well as the 14th and final HBO stand-up comedy special by stand-up comedian George Carlin. It was televised live on March 1, 2008, on HBO, less than four months before his death in 2008.
Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs. Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs is a 1997 humor book written by Miami Herald columnist Dave Barry, chronicling the results of his bad song survey. The survey started when he wrote a column about a song he thought was particularly bad ( Neil Diamond 's "I Am... I Said"), and he got such a response that in addition ...
DENVER (Reuters) -The convicted shooter who killed five people in a 2022 attack at a gay nightclub in Colorado, pleaded guilty to federal hate crime and gun charges on Tuesday and received ...