A Warning for Entrepeneurs and Small Businesses

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/frozen-yogurt-maker-issues-youtube-plea-loblaw-dispute-022257645.html

What is the Final Revolution?

How Much More Evil Can Bill Gates Get?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9729383/Catcher-in-the-Rye-dropped-from-US-school-curriculum.html

Still not convinced of his evil ways? Do your research.

Revisionist History Lesson

http://www.infowars.com/pearl-harbor-as-a-noble-lie/

How Far Will We Go in Our Quest to Control Nature?

Please read this article by noted Canadian writer Naomi Klein:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/28/opinion/sunday/geoengineering-testing-the-waters.html?_r=0

The Way the System ACTUALLY Works

What exactly do you learn from Ron Paul's speech?

This is What to Expect From the Next Generation of Elite

What does this exchange between two billionaire teens, and their simple-minded reaction to the public outcry, say about their character?  http://www.businessinsider.com/joke-about-killing-obama-on-instagram-2012-11

Do We Really Live in a Democracy?

Please read this article on how the Canadian parliament really works and answer the following question:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/blogs/canada-politics/michael-ignatieff-says-top-heavy-parliaments-spell-doom-212856921.html

What does this admission by Ignatieff prove about the state of democracy today?

Rime of the Ancient Mariner Assignment

Please view this animated adaptation of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

Part One: http://youtu.be/4EpuaCaPML8

Part Two: http://youtu.be/j6TYaeI-NKQ

Part Three: http://youtu.be/DKk43D5W_K8

Part Four: http://youtu.be/yqDxAFW7jL4

Part Five: http://youtu.be/qJ7fjTB9xbw

Here is a link to the poem: http://www.online-literature.com/coleridge/646/

After viewing the film, please answer the following question in a short paragraph:

Do you think the theme of the poem is more or less relevant today?

"Earthship Biotecture": Renegade New Mexico Architect's Radical Approach to Sustainable Living

Please watch this news clip and then leave a comment:
"Earthship Biotecture": Renegade New Mexico Architect's Radical Approach to Sustainable Living

Please read Wordsworth's "Strange fits of passion I have known" and answer the following question: How is death suggested by movement in the poem?

Hint: the answer is somewhere in this article: http://everybookandcranny.wordpress.com/2011/11/14/poetry-peeks-wordsworth-part-ii-the-lucy-poems/

Remember to write a literary paragraph (100-150 words) with a topic sentence including the title and author, reasons, evidence supporting those reasons, and explanations explaining why those examples prove your topic sentence.

BONUS QUESTION: Read all of the Lucy poems found here and then describe the character of Lucy.

WHO or WHAT is ALEC???

The United States of ALEC: Bill Moyers on the Secretive Corporate-Legislative Body Writing Our Laws

Please read this report about America's poorest city Camden, NJ and then post a comment:
Crisis in Camden

Check out what economist Max Keiser has to say about the state of the economy and the financial markets: