My senior year in high school, in my Literature class, we had a unit on poetry. We had to write a bunch of poems to be turned in, at the end of the unit, in a unique and creative way (i.e., not stapled together in a report cover). I think some of my classmates wrote [...]
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Ask Conlan: The Controversial Survey (Part 2)
Continued from last time: 6. Do you think Marijuana should be legalized? I lived in San Francisco for two years, where it is legal (pretty much). I think it smells like sweaty dirt, so I was opposed. However, I did not know it was a proper noun. This new knowledge will cause me to reevaluate [...]
A lofty heart
The elder Zosima to Ivan Karamazov, who wondered, essentially, whether faith and reason could be reconciled: But thank the Creator that he has given you a lofty heart, capable of being tormented by such torment, “to set your mind on things that are above, for our true homeland is in heaven.” May God grant that [...]