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A world culture assignment in a central NJ middle class/affluent 6th grade class, which is occurring as I write, is a report on five major religions of the world.
Atheist that I am, I mentioned to the student working on the project that there are millions of people throughout the world who don’t believe in a deity. (I did not mention my thought that this assignment was another example of religion reaching into government since those two have such an unholy alliance: religion teaches its believers to accept and follow, that is, they greatly help produce the good citizen.)
But she replied: I don’t believe in God. You live and then you die. So I just said: Yes, but you live by setting good examples. You use well your days. (Thank you, Tolkien) “And when the day is done, There'll be one child left to carry on.” (Thank you, Blood, Sweat and Tears)
Which brings me to my website pick:
http://www.lettersofnote.com/
It says of itself:
Letters of Note is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos. Scans/photos where possible. Fakes will be sneered at. Updated every weekday.
Wow! Here is the metaphoric “one child left to carry on” since Shaun Usher is giving us slices of social history which might otherwise remain hidden or lost.
Currently, the posting is about WWII soldiers’ lost watches, Rolex to the rescue (sort of) and Stalag Luft III (the one William Holden escaped from in the stalag escape movie renumbered Stalag 17.) You get to read a summary of events and then see the actual letter from Rolex to a prisoner in Stalag Luft III who subsequently used the watch during the escape. Reading it is like when a friend starts telling you a story piled with coincidences and you say: No way! But it’s true.
Scroll down for a delightful letter from the creator of Ren and Stimpy to an aspiring 14 year old graphic artist. What a generous letter, full of good technical advice.
Clicking “Older Posts” will take you to a memo discussing how to have the live detective in Who Frame Roger Rabbit? (1988) interact realistically with the cartoon characters. Real animation meshed with live acting; which may seem passe today, but in 1988 was cutting edge. (This was a giant step from Gene Kelly dancing with the mouse in Anchors Aweigh - 1945.)
Then, after you finish with Letters of Note for the day, go to another site run by Shaun:
http://www.letterheady.com/
Yes, folks, it’s a lot of letterheads. Interesting stuff here also and easy viewing. I wonder if you can cull the measure of a man/corporation from their letterheads?
So enjoy these sites. Kudos to Shaun for this great contribution.
Atheist that I am, I mentioned to the student working on the project that there are millions of people throughout the world who don’t believe in a deity. (I did not mention my thought that this assignment was another example of religion reaching into government since those two have such an unholy alliance: religion teaches its believers to accept and follow, that is, they greatly help produce the good citizen.)
But she replied: I don’t believe in God. You live and then you die. So I just said: Yes, but you live by setting good examples. You use well your days. (Thank you, Tolkien) “And when the day is done, There'll be one child left to carry on.” (Thank you, Blood, Sweat and Tears)
Which brings me to my website pick:
http://www.lettersofnote.com/
It says of itself:
Letters of Note is an attempt to gather and sort fascinating letters, postcards, telegrams, faxes, and memos. Scans/photos where possible. Fakes will be sneered at. Updated every weekday.
Wow! Here is the metaphoric “one child left to carry on” since Shaun Usher is giving us slices of social history which might otherwise remain hidden or lost.
Currently, the posting is about WWII soldiers’ lost watches, Rolex to the rescue (sort of) and Stalag Luft III (the one William Holden escaped from in the stalag escape movie renumbered Stalag 17.) You get to read a summary of events and then see the actual letter from Rolex to a prisoner in Stalag Luft III who subsequently used the watch during the escape. Reading it is like when a friend starts telling you a story piled with coincidences and you say: No way! But it’s true.
Scroll down for a delightful letter from the creator of Ren and Stimpy to an aspiring 14 year old graphic artist. What a generous letter, full of good technical advice.
Clicking “Older Posts” will take you to a memo discussing how to have the live detective in Who Frame Roger Rabbit? (1988) interact realistically with the cartoon characters. Real animation meshed with live acting; which may seem passe today, but in 1988 was cutting edge. (This was a giant step from Gene Kelly dancing with the mouse in Anchors Aweigh - 1945.)
Then, after you finish with Letters of Note for the day, go to another site run by Shaun:
http://www.letterheady.com/
Yes, folks, it’s a lot of letterheads. Interesting stuff here also and easy viewing. I wonder if you can cull the measure of a man/corporation from their letterheads?
So enjoy these sites. Kudos to Shaun for this great contribution.
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