Nonfiction – Page 36 – US Represented

Using Environmental Education to Improve the Lives of Inner City Youth

Nature, Nonfiction, Writings, Writings / By a featured contributor

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” –Nelson Mandela Millions of Americans are still unaware of the problems surrounding the current environmental crisis. Although eco-consciousness across the country seems to be steadily growing, we have to wonder why more people aren’t actively posing more questions about these issues? […]

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Virginia Woolf and the Fascination of the Pool

Fiction, Nonfiction, Writings, Writings / By a featured contributor

But if one sat down among the rushes and watched the pool—pools have some curious fascination, one knows not what—the red and black letters and the white paper seemed to lie very thinly on the surface, while beneath went on some profound under-water life like the brooding, the ruminating of a mind. Many, many people

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Does Philip K. Dick Dream of Unfaithful Adaptations?

Drama, Gary Walker, Nonfiction, Writings, Writings / By Gary Walker

Science fiction writer Philip K. Dick, hailed by many readers as one of the most prolific and influential visionaries of the twentieth century, died in the early 1980s, but his legacy remains relevant today to an extent that he probably could never have imagined. What viewers of Dick-inspired films and series like Minority Report, Total

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Tarkovsky and Stalker: In the Zone

Drama, Eric Stephenson, Nonfiction, Writings, Writings / By Eric Stephenson

Andrei Tarkovsky once said, “It is a mistake to talk about the artist looking for his subject. In fact, the subject grows within him like a fruit and begins to demand expression. It is like childbirth.” This means that art springs from somewhere other than the controlling elements of the conscious, rational mind. In such a

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William Burroughs on folks who can’t mind their own business

Nonfiction, Writings, Writings / By a featured contributor

Most of the trouble in the world has been caused by folks who can’t mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. Now your virus is an obligate cellular parasite, and my contention is that evil is quite literally a virus parasite

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Closed for the Season

Nonfiction, Writings, Writings / By a featured contributor

I came into the world just as neighborhood amusement parks were closing for the season, and closing for good. In various towns and cities lied cemeteries for twisted steel, dilapidated roller coasters, weather-torn wood planks, and old bumper cars driven into the weeds. Before the mid sixties, Ohio alone had about 50 now defunct amusement

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