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RadicalStreetFighter on Xanga. The next month or two of work on Xanga 2.0 is going to be busy, so I wanted to share with everyone a roadmap of how we’re thinking about things! We’re dividing the work on this project into four basic phases. Phase 1. Data migration As described here, we’ve imported over every account that we have on Xanga over to the new system so that anyone who could sign into Xanga can still sign into Xanga 2.0.

(Try it here!) We’ve also imported over everyone’s subscribers and friends, so that if somebody was subscribed or friended to you on the old system, they’re now following you on the new one too. And f you had turned on privacy features like friends lock, then we imported that over as well. Finally and most important of all, we’ve imported over 2 million blogs from the old system. And of course, a lot of you guys archived your own blogs using the old Xanga archive generator. We”ve just finished the core of Phase 1 tonight, and will commence with Phase 2 upon launching the site! Phase 2. The 15 Books You Must Read in 2010 - Education.

Literature Project - Free eBooks Online. The Literature Network: Online classic literature, poems, and quotes. Essays & Summaries. Full text books free to read online in the full text archive. The Best English-Language Fiction of the Twentieth Century - Alternative Rankings. C. 150-Point Scale. Albert-camus-freedom-quote.png (350×517) The Oscar Wilde Collection.

50 Best Books for American History Buffs. While a young country in comparison to many others around the globe, the United States nonetheless has a rich and engaging history. From the early days of settlement on the East Coast in Maryland, to the wild days of outlaws and Indian wars in the West, from shore to shore, there is plenty to learn about when it comes to studying how our country came to be the nation that it is today. Best of all, you don’t have to major in history to do it. All you need is a passion for history and a few good books. Here we’ve compiled a list of just a few of these wonderful books on America’s past that offer an education on the complexities of the history of our country you likely didn’t even touch upon in your previous history courses.

Historical Figures Check out these books for the lives of some of the most important and distinguished figures in American history. John Adams by David G. 1600-1815: The Founding of a Nation 1816-1900: Westward Expansion and the Civil War WWI, WWII, and the Great Depression. 10 Great American Dystopias. Totally agree - these are dystopias ABOUT America, not necessarily spawned in America. I also included Julian Comstock, which is another novel by a Canadian author that is in fact set partly in Saskatchewan. I don't really agree that they're about America though.

Especially the Haidmaid's Tale. I guess I didn't really articulate myself well. Atwood's biggest contribution is probably her work on Frye's Garrison Mentality. So even though Gilead is in the eastern states and Offred lives in what used to be Cambridge or Boston, I think it's still a book that's more about how Canadians feel about America than about America itself. As for Gibson, while he is American I don't think there's any denying that a big part of what makes the world of the sprawl the world of the sprawl is the conspicuous lack of America.