[What follows is a work of fiction. None of this ever happened or will happen. No one wants any harm to come to President Obama. The author is using stories which exist only in his imagination to tell a political parable and thereby challenge readers to think in a new way about politics. Once again, …
Once upon a time, there was an American president that ran on a platform of Transparency, Hope, Change, and his slogan was, “Yes We Can!” Well wouldn’t ya know it? He won. Like all presidents, he knew it would take a lot of back room deals, playing politics, and hard handshakes to make it to …
From Pathography to Pluralism In, Hear My Voice: A multicultural anthology of literature from the United States, editor King (1994) anthologizes multicultural stories and then asks students reflective, open-ended questions about literary elements for which they must think critically. King claims that individual voices have been suppressed in the United States for generations. “Movies, mass …
This I Believe” can often be a pulpit. Ustinov does not treat it as such. There is no proselytizing, no extolling, or drama; there is only a simple laundry list of his beliefs. Out of the secular comes spirituality, out of the irreverent comes faith. Some of the smartest people I know never went to …