April 1 2008 One reason why many younger people show no interest in film noir is because the classic noir movies were almost all made during the late 1940s or early 1950s. For twenty... Read More
Posted by: gjcondon on 2008-04-01 17:30:00
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April 3 2008 You might think that we writers get interviewed often by the media, but you'd be wrong.  I'm sure that Stephen King and J.K. Rowling have journalists and TV anchors calling... Read More
Posted by: gjcondon on 2008-04-03 11:47:55
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April 7 2008 By now,  there is probably nobody on the planet who doesn't know that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are competing to be the Democratic Party candidate in this year's... Read More
Posted by: gjcondon on 2008-04-07 11:03:38
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April 9 2008 American writer Stephen Crane was born after the Civil War ended and he never saw combat, except as a war correspondent, but his 1895 novel The Red Badge Of Courage was one of... Read More
Posted by: gjcondon on 2008-04-09 13:55:09
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April 13 2008 One way to get noticed by the media seems to be to pronounce the end of something. About twenty years ago, a book titled The End Of Ideology received much attention. The... Read More
Posted by: gjcondon on 2008-04-13 13:22:58
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April 14 2008 One of Barack Obama's handicaps in his push to be President of the United States is the fact that he has two Republican opponents, John McCain and Hillary Clinton. No doubt... Read More
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April 16 2008 Many American conservatives are convinced that Hollywood has always been a stronghold of leftism, but this isn't true. During the history of American movies, the political tone... Read More
Posted by: gjcondon on 2008-04-16 14:45:31
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April 20 2008 Movies about the supernatural usually do well at the box office.  The genre can be further subdivided into such types as the vampire flick, the werewolf movie and films... Read More
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April 24 2008 Have you ever been discriminated against because of your age?  Even if you haven't, you almost certainly will be. In North America, people are living longer and the fastest... Read More
Posted by: gjcondon on 2008-04-24 10:24:47
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April 26 2008 Back at the start of the current American presidential primaries, many mainstream media pundits talked blithely about how the United States had moved on, past racism and sexism.... Read More
Posted by: gjcondon on 2008-04-26 13:50:48
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April 30 2008 I don't have time to do an essay today (Don't all cheer at once.), so I'll just post a brain teaser.  If you answer this one correctly, take a bow for being very... Read More
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