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A man, Ethan Armstrong, dies in the 1970's and is sent back to his hometown a century earlier to change history. The story is told from two points-of-view: Ethan's son, Jesse Armstrong (nine years old) in 1977, and a very distant uncle, Samuel Armstrong (nine years old) a century earlier. In the opening chapter, Jesse is six, and the year is 1974. Any feedback is appreciated! Thanks! - Corra

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A man held his lieutenant up, because he couldn't stand, for three days in a rice paddy, both of them shot. The lieutenant died two months later in Colorado of infections they couldn't control. Bart died a little too.

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Please read summary for Rapes of Passage (Parts 1/2) Part 3 segues from surrealist writing into the history of classical rapes and points up our acceptance of rape as Art. Then the story changes into a manifesto asking why no public memorials have been built to the victims or rape especially in war time, known and unknown, as have been for the war dead. And on into the appalling tragedy of the actual statistics for rape world wide. The rapes are increasing so rapidly that much of my research is outdated. And much, as in the Sudan and most of the world, not even reported. Any suggestions for, or thoughts on raising such memorials to the raped, or ideas for improving the website under construction will be appreciated. Also of course any constructive nitpicks (typos, grammatical errors, etc.) in the story itself.

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The story is about a young man's dilemma on how his well-to-do upbringing contrasts with reality, and about the outcome of all this.

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This short poem follows the form of an abecedarium (words all ordered from a to z)

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Today I watched Dick Cheney give an interview. Martha Raddadtz, the ABC News Chief White House Correspondent and author of "The Long Road Home" interviewed the Vice-President. After listening to his response to the actual first statement about the war in Iraq and watching his smirk, I wondered how the rest of the interview would have gone if I had given it. My research was minimal. It's satire born of rage.

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In The Whole Stunned World, Gurney escapes Burma alive. Having lost entrepreneurial American parents and a student-activist lover to Burma's pro-democracy uprisings, she can't blame her past for the ways she's losing her son and husband and even herself now to Boston. And her husband, Robert, had played it safe all his life until Gurney. And then it wasn't enough to have a beautiful Asian wife, but he'd had to flaunt her. And so now he hadn't intended to land this Burma/Myanmar job, this incredibly lucrative job, no one in his right mind would take it. And Gurney is over the moon with it, he hasn't seen her this happy ever. She's got some crazy ideas that it will change the whole world if he takes it.

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Some times I get drawn into the very words I hear and pictures I see. I almost become one with who I am writing about. This is not always a blessing as many tears are shed. Again..being new and untrained at this any review is greatly appreciated Flowing Pencil

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I wrote this while getting my son's Christmas package ready. It was a day when two young soldiers died.

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This poem is for all the soldiers out there, who fight for our freedom everyday. You will never be forgotten. This poem won the international poet of merit award. Comments and feeback are welcomed.

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I just had some thoughts about a war documentary I'm watching.

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Thinking about the plight of soldiers in battle and how that must feel. I have shamefully neglected to do that very deeply until now and am indebted to the person who has inspired it of me.

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A short story about the woman who kills Osama Bin Laden

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Ferdinand Marcoux is a seemingly unintelligent and uneducated man whose first visit to a brothel leads to an encounter with Jeff, a friendly but shrewd farm worker who uses Ferdinand's naivety as an opportunity to cash in. Jeff offers to take Ferdinand to Moussac, a small village in rural France, with the promise of a job working at a farm. The farm is own by Andre Bouvin, a violent, sexually deviant man. Andre enjoys humiliating his wife Giselle, and terrorizing his daughter Gabrielle, who the villagers called "the mute". Andre and Giselle have two sons, Maurice, the eldest, an introvert and weak man who yields to his father's humiliation and whose bored, pretty but dim-witted wife betrays him at every opportunity, and Gaston, the youngest son and the cruellest of all. For the villagers of Moussac, Ferdinand has no past and no future. Never have they seen a man with so little common sense! He is a passing comet that first generated suspicion and then greed, for he is a hard worker who never counts his wages. Ferdinand becomes Moussac's idiot, harmless and even entertaining at times. They could not be more wrong.

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Is there ever a good reason for war? Why do we spend so much on weapons? Who are the ones who create those weapons to destroy our very own sons and daughters?

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I met Mouse as a United Nations Soldier (British) in the Balkans during the height of the conflict there. She's never been far from my thoughts ever since. First impressions and all that....

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This novel takes place in the mid to late 1970's in the US and Japan. Bill Sanford is a young CPA working for the Tennessee Fried Chicken Corporation. He was brought up as a Foreign Service brat and had spent three years in Japan. He had dreams of an international career but, his wife would have no part of it.// Ray Easton, TFC's Regional VP, Far East, is a cunning scoundrel and consummate liar. Ray is a master of insider trading of stock, and spreads the wealth to gain favors. He has always stayed one step ahead of the law.// Mike Adachi is an executive with one of Japan's major trading companies. He was raised in San Francisco and speaks English as a native. He launches a plot to bring a major US fast food company into the Japanese market, relying on a complex chain of industrial espionage.// Strategic Planning is taking corporate America by storm. TFC'S CEO has caught the bug. He brings in two hot shots to produce and lead a corporate-wide Strategic Planning initiative. Resistance to strategic planning and the new hot shots builds, and the corporate politics accelerate, with battle lines being drawn.// Japan has been through post war reconstruction and is becoming a world class economic power. Some of its former military leaders are determined to achieve economically, what they failed to accomplish militarily.// Two trading company giants, Mitsugawa and , become embroiled in a struggle for dominance of the exploding, western style, fast food market.// The cultural differences between Japan and the US complicate matters for both sides. The inner workings of Corporate America and Japan are revealed in all their successes, but also, their corruption and greed.// Personal conflicts and deep seated vendettas, some originating during World War II, unfold.// Seduction and love affairs are an integral part of the plot. They illustrate the differences in social views of sexuality between the East and West.// Industrial espionage involving two highly competitive US fast food companies, two Japanese Zaibatsu and the Japanese and Mexican underworld unfolds.// Many of the key characters were involved in WWII and their individual experiences influence their business behavior.// Cultural differences subtly emerge, and the exploitation of others to achieve one's ends is front and center.// Personal ethics, or the lack there of, and the constant tug between good and evil are interspersed throughout.

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To whom does The People's Champion belong? The people or himself? That's the question foundling(orphan) Jakund Frey'lnd, a gifted young swordsman and war hero dubbed "Kid Blade," struggles with as he battles the ferocious Gothari and learns that his fame as warrior makes him a target for those looking to make a name for themself as well as an unwilling player in the games of the powerful. This is a Young Adult Fantasy, filled with humor and action, designed to appeal to all ages.

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Most historians list Princess Noor Inayat Khan as one of the most intriguing heroines of the Twentieth Century and rank her up near the top along with Mata Hari. She was born inside the Kremlin during 1914 and evolved from infancy into an emotional, naive, careless and beautiful young woman ... hardly the attributes of a future spy. This novel is based upon true events during the years 1914-1944. While being brought up in France, Princess Noor clandestinely falls in love with Paulo. He is torn from her arms after being drafted, during 1935, into the Italian army to fight in Ethiopia and she spends the next eight years trying to discover his whereabouts while he is constantly sent to other danger zones in North Africa, Spain and Russia.

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A woman about to commit a savage act of war in the name of religion....a dark comparison to the seamingly routine dressing of a woman.

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