He soñado con poseer muchos negocios. Estableceré por supuesto un cierto tipo de negocio en el futuro, pero no estoy seguro de qué clase será.

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Easwaran, “A man to match his mountains: Badshah Khan, nonviolent soldier of Islam”

“If we are on the road to ruin, it is because we have neither the true spirit of religion, nor the true spirit of patriotism nor love for our nation… A great revolution is coming and you …

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Rohan Gunaratna, “Inside Al Qaeda: global network of terror”

So if we defend our people in Palestine, the world reacts by ganging up against the Muslims under the banner of fighting terrorism, falsely and unjustly (p. xlvii).

The piece by Osama bin Laden was very blatantly anti-American. I think there …

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After much distress, I have settled on a schedule for next semester, more or less.

I decided to take an interdisciplinary course on Russia after I learned that first-semester Russian would not be offered this spring. Unfortunately, by the time I got to enroll, the class was full! I then …

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Well, it’s not snowing that hard, but with much more vigor than we’ve seen this year thus far.

Here’s a wonderful idea to warm you up

I successfully woke up four hours early to do homework! So I’m gonna get back to that…

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Christopher Columbus, “From a letter to Gabriel Sanchez”

“… But I forbade giving them a very trifling thing and of no value, such as bits of plates, dishes, or glass… So, too, for pieces of hoops, jugs, jars, and pots they bartered cotton and gold like beasts. This I forbade, because …

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One Country, “At the UN, women rally”

In addition to an overall agenda for women’s empowerment, the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action dealt with 12 critical areas of concern for women: poverty, education, health, violence against women, armed conflict, economic structures, power sharing and decision making, mechanisms to …

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Well, it's Sunday! I just got back from getting groceries and going to lunch with my mother and my five youngest siblings - but that's not what I want to talk about.
Last night Justin V invited me to dinner. We went to Wasabi on State St., and it was officially my first time having Japanese cuisine. I think I had something called..., um, nevermind, I forgot. Anyway, it was shrimp, vegetables and rice, with a side of Me-something soup. Interesting spoons are used in such places, too. I spilled a bit...
After that, we were about to go to the Badger Herald party at Taylor H's apartment, but we first visited Justin's friend Lauren's party upon receiving her phone call. That was interesting - I saw a few of her friends, including Chong L and her boyfriend Matt U...

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I really miss Dyan. Here are my latest crazy antics:

Dion W: I don’t understand how you can want to talk to me one second and then not the next. This has nothing to do with you being an asshole…no one has ever called you that. You’re …

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Well, this week is finally over, almost. I have a chemistry assignment that was due at 5 p.m., but I didn’t finish it - so I’m going to work on it after this and hopefully turn it in this morning. This weekend I have to study for math …

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Note to readers: this entry is basically a continuation of an earlier entry from a week ago. Please familiarize yourself with the other entry before proceeding! Thanks!

I am currently having an email conversation with Dion, which I will transcribe below when it’s complete. Below that is the AIM …

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La ciudad de Milwaukee tiene una herencia muy rica. En 1795, el francés Jacques Vieau construyó un establecimiento por el lago Michigan. Milwaukee fue incorporado en 1846. En aquel momento, la gente de Alemania, de Francia, de Irlanda, y de Polonia viajaba a la ciudad. En este tiempo, Milwaukee es la vigésimo segundo ciudad más grande de los Estados Unidos con una población de 579,000 personas.

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This week has been pretty nuts.

An online friend, Travis Bjorklund, messaged me two weeks ago stating that his parents were going to charge him rent, so he was either going to move to Madison or back to Florida. I told him that he was welcome to come live with …

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Well, after many hours of work, I am pretty much done installing Movable Type! In fact, you are looking at it right now!

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A multicivilizational United States will not be the United States; it will be the United Nations.

Not many ideas are more challenging for me to think about, much less take a side on. The discussion in class and in Huntington's article about the United States and its identity were interesting and confusing.

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...Not only can a language arbitrarily choose its signifiers; it can divide up a spectrum of conceptual possibilities in any way that it likes. Moreover, and here we come to an important point, the fact that these concepts, or signifieds, are arbitrary divisions of a continuum means that they are not autonomous entities, each of which is defined by some kind of essence. They are members of a system and are defined by their relations to the other members of that system.

This quote, though fairly long, was more or less a revelation for me. After I read it, many concepts about languages suddenly made sense. For instance, in Culler's text about Saussure and also in Hudson's "The Great Issues (Grey Tissues)," the variation between any two languages was a popular and complicated topic.

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I have been tinkering a bit lately, and I think I am going to change this blog from Nucleus CMS to Movable Type. I just need to figure out how to export everything properly…

I’m very disappointed with myself this weekend - last weekend I got no homework done, but …

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Hey! This is going to be a very quickly-written entry because I’m trying to finish some straightening before I leave for work…

Last week was somewhat stressful - not because I had a TON of homework, but because the homework I did have seemed to take forever to complete! I …

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This was written by Cassie W of Hartford Union High School

Hello Fellow Myspacers,

What will you be doing in 60 days? You probably dont know. You probably dont really care. November 7th, 2006 is just another day that you have to go through. But its not. Its so much …

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Message to Joey on MySpace:

well, my view is that i’m all for anything that increases awareness - especially when it’s positive. i even like when religious protesters hold a rally - but this is even better, because many people admire him. this is an issue that I think will …

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I’m joining it.

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6:20; Wake up, change alarm to 6:35

6:35; Wake up, take shower

6:57; Call Melissa Zehner to be sure she’s up. She’s muy tired-sounding. Aww.

7:00; Sit down and figure out what classes I have and where I’m going. Look for clothes …

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College is finally here…and I’m totally not ready.

I’ve got a kitchen table, chairs, and counter completely stacked with groceries… $450 worth actually. I went home over the weekend to babysit and go to Six Flags Great America with the family… except Ben didn’t go… but …

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Finally, after nearly four years, my braces have been removed. My teeth feel weird, smooth, and look huge. I am now to wear a rubber tooth positioner four hours a day until further notice. No retainer. Yay!

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It’s been a while since I’ve actually written a blog entry… I like to do the picture thing so that people don’t get bored, but once in a while I should actually write - so that, some time in the future, I can look back and think, “Gee …

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As I get to it, I’ll be adding lots and lots of very old journals, chats, poems, etc. Stay tuned (as if you are actually reading this)

Also, I’m testing the image uploader:Click for image? Maybe?

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I have now abandoned my www.MySpace.com blog, because it sucked! This one will be so much better once I get it set up - now I just need to move all of my MySpace.com blogs….

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1. I would not mind using Gattaca’s selection method in choosing my child. While the child would be less a result of chance, the fact that I chose how I wanted my child to be would make the child closer to me, because he or she would resemble my vision …

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