"Scheduled Topic" Forum
Sunday, April 12, 2009 - 10:30 a.m.
Red Bank Charter School - 58 Oakland St. - Red Bank, NJ 07701
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Topic #1: A discussion of the Gary Hart-Huffington Post article
that ran on February 25th...“Restore the Republic”
Gary Hart Article
The modern republican theorist, Quentin Skinner, has put it this
way: "performance of our public duties is indispensable to the
maintenance of our own liberty."
Can our Republic be restored?
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Topic #2:
Six Word Memoir:
Write one, share it, we'll talk.
(See! Only six words.) |
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The concept of Six Word Stories apparently started, or at least gathered a great apocryphal origin, when someone bet Ernest Hemingway he couldn’t tell a story in such a short space. The response of the great man - “For sale: baby shoes. Never worn.” - still carries a real punch today, where in these times of Twittering and Flash fiction the six worders have made a real comeback. Check out this website for examples of six word stories. (when you're there, scroll to bottom of page to see hundreds more) http://www.smithmag.net/sixwords/
Samples:
Cynical optimist: Never surprised, Always disappointed.
Polish mother. Catholic upbringing. Tremendous guilt.
Dead relationship haunts like a ghost.
One kiss was all it took.
Write one or two or three. Bring them to the Forum to share.
