Tuesday night was surreal. After President-elect Barack Obama's historic victory, I was fixated with not only the reactions of Americans, but also the rapture of foreigners. For the next few days, I found myself perusing news Web sites, browsing pictures of the worldwide celebration.
0 CommentsThe document is 103 pages on my computer, 33 chapters; numerous people's stories, most real, some fictional. It is about fires, firefighters, and fire buffs - what it is like to ride in a fire truck, to listen to a police scanner when a fire is happening, to live at a fire station.
0 CommentsOn Saturday, Nov. 8, students from American Studies 301, Junior Seminar on American Texts, visited the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center at Nook Farm in Hartford, Conn. Nearly everyone has heard of Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and many have read the work itself.
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