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An insightful high school English teacher introduced me to Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye.” It was a book report assignment not only to capsulize the story but also to address my personal experience reading it. At that time – as I recall – I found Catcher daring and quite revolutionary in Holden’s exploits and language. Rebellion in those days was often repressed and silent. Holden broke that mold and for the first time I met a literary character with whom I could empathize. He represented freedom to express and the guts to criticize.
Now, fifty years later – motivated by Sallinger’s death – I reread “Catcher in the Rye.” A very different experience, indeed! By today’s standards and my own personal evolution, Holden emerges as a complaining, negative and whining fellow. You want to take him by the shoulders and shake before dragging him to the nearest mirror for a hard look. Still, the book is a classic – a product of its time – and offers new perspectives in the revisit. It works on many levels and is a must read for youngsters of today who are bound to appreciate the differences, and for seniors who take pleasure in recalling the rather stilted days of their youth.
A Tune a Day
George Stevens’s inlook on the AEF from D-Day to Berlin presents an astonishing and macabre focus not on the battle, but the eternall journey to V-E day. Along this journey, Mr.Stevens brings into delight the horrifying death and exterminating camps of Dachau. The color sots are vivetting, careful not to turn our stomachs with “gross” scenes, he does show the reality of war and the wage of war on man’s delicate souls, including death. A must see for all genertions, and why we need a memorium for the over 400,000 KIA, MIA men/women of all ethnic backgrounds of Americans in WWII. I am black, and realize that hatred is evil, the Holocaust justified that demeanour.
George Stevens D Day
I sat on the sidelines waiting on the iPad to get to the market. Shortly after the iPad arrived in Apple Stores, I was there giving it a test drive. The reason I considered the iPad was because I wanted and eReader, and it if could do more than that, then great. I can have a multi-functional device that meets my primary eReader desire. Well, the availability of books for the iPad was disappointing. True, I could get the Kindle app and get to all of the Amazon books. However, if you have an iPad, what is one of the things you will want to do? Yep, put music on it. So, you get into books, apps, music, pictures, etc. and see how long 16GB will last. That pushes you to the 32GB model to have some room to grow which comes in at $600. Ouch! Plus, I thought it felt a little too heavy to hold for extended periods of time.
So, after giving it long thought, I kept coming back to the Kindle being the device that met my core need and didn’t have all of the fluff of the iPad. Make no mistake, I am a big Apple fan. Our home is filled with Mac’s, iPods, iPhones, etc. But I just couldn’t go down the iPad path at this time. And I am glad that I couldn’t take the path.
Since getting the Kindle, it has simplified my reading experience. All of my books are in one place (except for the few I can’t get on Kindle). I can make highlights (which I do often) and bookmarks so that I can quickly refer back to items I felt where of particular interest. I can have the Kindle eReader, Kindle for the Mac, and Kindle for the iPhone all in sync with what I am reading at any given time. So, if I have a few minutes, I can read some more no matter where I am (I usually have one of those three devices handy). To date, it has also increased the speed of which I can intake information. I’ve already knocked out three books since it arrived.
The only negative I have seen which I have seen mentioned before is that there is no page reference to a printed version. Therefore, using it t
Grandparents Day Special Gift
I bought this program specificly for Word 2007, I write novels. Word 2007 + Imagnation = A winner.
Mary Kay TimeWise Day
I have been using Microsoft Word since 1992 and that’s part of the problem. Over the years, the upgrades enhanced its performance but the look and feel of the program stayed recognizable and the changes were easy to follow and use. But goodness, the learning curve to this upgrade, Word 2007, is killing me. No longer do I have the familiar “File – Edit – Insert, etc” pull-down menus. No more toolbars. I find I have to relearn EVERYTHING to prepare a document, including the vocabulary of all the familiar Word functions. It has been a couple months since I upgraded and and I still find myself surfing the Internet to find out how to do things that used to be intuitive. (Surfing the ‘net because the “Help” pull-down is no longer.)
The REASON for my rating is the learning curve and not what Word 2007 can do. I am getting to the point where I’m starting to get why the reorganization. I would even concede that some months from now I might give a higher ranking. But for now, I’m weary.
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