http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?fid4ct=1238 Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:23:46 EDT Fri, 27 Oct 2006 21:17:38 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss RapidFeeds v0.1 -- http://www.rapidfeeds.com For those of you who have not yet received your transportation forms, please take note of this update from Mrs. Thomas, the head counselor. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=124646 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=124646 Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:53:36 EDT King wrote the letter from the city jail in Birmingham, Alabama, after a peaceful protest against segregation. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=13937 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=13937 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:01:42 EDT No real description - but he makes Emerson references! http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=13935 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=13935 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:59:50 EDT Thoreau's essay on John Brown, the radical abolitionist involved in "Bleeding Kansas" and the attacks at Harper's Ferry. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=13934 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=13934 Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:57:37 EDT Now, Emerson spent his days wandering around with his quirky journal entries but Thoreau took a different path of deviation...and it took him straight to jail for a night, where he concocted "Civil Disobedience" in retaliation and contemplation for/of his "crime", which was intellectual and monetary defiance in one. This work inspired many activists such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=12330 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=12330 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:28:15 EDT This is the full text of Emerson's essay, "Self-Reliance", with transcendentalist silliness and thinky-type questions. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=12329 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=12329 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:23:40 EDT Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement characterized by strong emotions; literature of this time ranged from expressive horror (Poe) to epic narratives, as well as many others. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=12028 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=12028 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:21:07 EDT The Revolutionary War brought grandeur back to the use of satire, as a literary form, and rhetoric, for expression to convey not only distaste but also a heightened sense of purpose in the formative years of our nation. http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=12027 http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=12027 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 22:20:01 EDT