Tag: anthem
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June 29, 2008 06:34 PM EDT --
I went to Brampton today, to see my youngest.
She wasn't answering her cell phone though, so I went to my sister's place without her, first... figured she was sleeping in, since I was a bit . . . more
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January 11, 2008 08:29 PM EST --
And it was very very cool!
One of the papers I have been working on is about adolescents and fiction - and I am using Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet as my exemplar (prof doesn't like us to call . . . more
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September 18, 2008 02:01 PM EDT --
On singing OUR National Anthem in Spanish
I'm sorry, but after hearing they want to sing OUR National Anthem in Spanish - enough is T OO much!
NEVER . . . more
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July 01, 2006 04:16 PM EDT --
Today is Canada's 139th</ birthday. Whoohooo!
For those of you who don't know, "O Canada" was proclaimed Canada's national anthem on July 1, 1980, 100 years after it was first . . . more
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January 13, 2008 07:48 PM EST --
Look - it's the boots!
If you don't know what boots, you can read about them here . You should also, if and when you get the opportunity, . . . more
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August 24, 2008 09:30 PM EDT --
I am watching the closing ceremonies of the Olympics. They are handing off the torch. I just heard a very familiary song being played while the British flag was being raised, but is was not the words that . . . more
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February 23, 2008 01:49 PM EST --
This is my (hopefully) last draft of my paper re: Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet - which I still highly recommend, by the way. If you haven't bought it yet, you really should! . . . more
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November 20, 2007 02:34 AM EST --
Got to Sudbury and couldn't get online.
Tried to Repair. It SAID it repaired and all was wunnerful.... an "excellent" connection - NOT!
Fine... tried ipconfig release/renew ... . . . more
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April 20, 2007 09:59 AM EDT --
I have attended hockey games in both the US and Canada over the years and I'm always amazed at the difference between the fans when the two national anthems are sung. In games I've attended in . . . more
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April 02, 2008 02:04 PM EDT --
In the future, we did not exist. The time that we live in was flawed and is enveloped in 'The Unmentionable Times', and so it did not happen.
There is no individual left. Every person born . . . more
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August 13, 2008 02:11 PM EDT --
O Say Can You Sing?
by Marilyn Mackenzie
I had the same teacher for second grade and for fifth grade. The one thing that I remember she taught us (or made us memorize) was The Star-Spangled . . . more
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July 16, 2007 09:15 PM EDT --
How did she do that? I think that was the only discordant note in the song that makes up Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet - the fact that every once in a while, I noticed the cover and remembered again that . . . more
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July 09, 2006 09:27 PM EDT --
On September 13, 1814, during the British attack on Fort McHenry, the 35-year old lawyer Francis Scott Key was inspired to write the poem that was destine to become the USA's national anthem. Nearly . . . more
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August 08, 2008 10:52 AM EDT --
Top 10 Most Violent National Anthems, Part I
Despite sinking more coins into our Olympic coffers than a virgin at Lucky Fountain, Toronto has been repeatedly denied the chance to host the . . . more
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September 14, 2006 09:08 AM EDT --
In Defense of the Hispanics: Comment by Craig Olson
I did not write this piece, but I wish to comment on it. When Francis Scott Key wrote "Jose can you see?", he was referring to a Hispanic . . . more
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October 22, 2007 05:03 PM EDT --
Earlier this month I told you about Barack Obama’s decision to stop wearing the flag lapel pin because he felt it has become a substitute for "true patriotism" since the Sept. 11, 2001 . . . more
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January 25, 2008 11:32 AM EST --
My son ran his fingers down the list of selected hockey players
hoping to find his name.
Parents began to shove and punch;
children not on the list versus children who had been selected.
The ten-year-old . . . more
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September 08, 2007 10:40 PM EDT --
New American Anthem
After Shock and Awe
It's a transitional time
Of untidiness
We bombed in Baghdad
Now we have no idea how
To clean up this mess
Forget peace on Earth
Let the common folk suffer . . . more
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July 08, 2007 03:07 PM EDT --
My friend → Faith ← .. is hosting a series of photo parades here on Gather. Each "parade" must follow a centralized theme, and be introduced by an article that links visitors . . . more
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May 11, 2007 03:26 AM EDT --
Junk News.
Junk Blues.
Junk Food.
Junk in every room.
Got no reason to believe in you.
Got no reason to toe your line.
You got no vision but a cesspool.
You got nothing, just a waste of my time. . . . more
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