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World War II Stories: The Heroic Resistance of Guam

Analysis, Dana Zimbleman, Nonfiction, Travel, Writings / By Dana Zimbleman

Hours after Battleship Row’s ruins smoldered in Pearl Harbor, Japanese forces attacked the Philippines and Guam. Historians have written extensively about Hawaii’s “day of infamy” and General MacArthur’s 1942 retreat from Corregidor. However, the story of Guam’s heroic resistance to Japanese occupation from 1941-1944 remains unknown in U.S. history. The Chamorros, Guam’s indigenous people, governed […]

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Ikizukuri: As Fresh As Seafood Can Get

Analysis, Nonfiction, Student Writings, Writings, Writings / By a featured contributor

Traffic rushes past you and pedestrians scramble on foot in the loud and incredibly dense Tokyo city streets. Japan has a culture and language you know little about, but after all, you came here to learn. First things first, though. You’re so hungry, you could eat a zebra. You walk into the nearest building that

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Patience Is a Virtue . . . But Is It a Priority?

DeLyn Winters, Nonfiction, Writings / By DeLyn Winters

Patience is a virtue, or is it? The phrase doesn’t mean what it used to. Technology pervades our lives so much that patience is virtually obsolete. When I was a kid, I watched The Jetsons thinking that future technology would save us so much time that we’d finish our work quickly, then be pampered by

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The Whole Ruth, Part Three

Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Greenwoman, Nature, Nonfiction, Writings, Writings / By a featured contributor

←Part Two Country Life with Fred The Stock Market Crash of 1929 hit everyone hard, including the newlyweds. In early 1930, they moved to the outskirts of Redding, Connecticut, to a 55-acre farm for their retirement. They, like many during that time, felt they could live cheaply off the land. That spring, Ruth Stout

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Far, Far Away

Creative Writing, Writings / By Gary Walker

The lights go down, I’m eleven once again, and it turns out time has decided to be my friend. For five minutes, late arrivals flout unspoken rules of punctuality and search in vain for seating. When it starts, it’s the same. It’s also different, if I stop to think about it, a thing I try

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The Whole Ruth, Part Two

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

←Part One New York City Soon after May’s death, the family made the move to New York City. Their new home would be a four-story brownstone on West 118th St., less than a block from Morningside Park (designed by the famous American landscaper Frederick Law Olmsted). Ruth would live in New York City

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