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Book: Great Lakes Solo / Mary Blocksma
An account by an adventurous woman who sets out to travel the length of the United States-side of the Great Lakes coast.
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Book: The Hero with a Thousand Faces / Joseph Campbell
An incredible examination of the universal components of myths with lyrical interpretations and hundreds of examples.
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Book: A Walk in the Woods / Bill Bryson
The story of the author’s attempt to hike the Appalachian Trail.
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Book: Gai-Jin / James Clavell
The Noble House tries to establish a port of trade in Japan.
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Paper: Strange Turns in Renaissance Mathematics
World History 219, Section 802 Dr. Monica E. Podbielski As far as I can tell, mathematicians are an odd lot. I’ve known a few in my varied undergraduate majors of physics, engineering, and computer science. There is always a surprise to be found in the minds of these people, whether it be the amount of…
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Book: The Great Gatsby / F. Scott Fitzgerald
An unusually honest character’s account of a holocaust of the American Dream.
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Book: The Odyssey / Homer
Homer’s epic. Odysseus starts out to sail home victorious from the Trojan War, but Poseidon has other ideas.
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Paper: Anatomy of a Schism – Anatta and Rebirth
Religious Studies 100, Section 401 Dr. David Swain November 22, 1996 A religion must, like it or not, be prepared to supply answers to common metaphysical questions. How long would a new religion last if it offered no answer to the ever-popular inquisition, “What’s gonna happen to me when I die?,” while the Christians down…
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1700 miles on the PCT
In 1996 my friend Peter Miles Reginold Bergman and I decided to attempt a through-hike of the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. We made it as far as Oregon, and soon after I chronicled our journey on the web.
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Postscript (Pete)
Scott “LETITBE” Williamson. Made it, without Psycho Ken all the way back down to Red’s Meadow by November. A persistent snow storm forced him to prudently abandon his quest there at the gateway to the serious High Sierra. In April of 1997 he set out from Campo alone. His second attempt in as many years…