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(Writing a book) What are some good reasons to travel to another country (please read)?

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 08:51:21 +0000

Me and a friend of mine are writing a book together, and in the book these people travel to another country and something happens… but we have no reason to say WHY they went to another country…

Holiday
Funeral
Wedding
Win a competition
Catch the wrong plane/bus
School/University trip/excursion
Go to live/visit with a relative/friend
Boarding School
School/University
Won the lottery
Met someone on the internet that they want to meet
Running away from home
On the run from the police
Mistaken Identity

Hope I helped

Tocqueville Lectures: Amy Kaplan

admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:37:46 +0000

3:00 p.m. in Jepson Hall, Room 120
Amy Kaplan, Edward W. Kane Professor of English at the
University of Pennsylvania, presented the lecture
Transnational Melville as part of the Tocqueville Lecture Series.

Professor Kaplan is the author of The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture (2005) and The Social Construction of American Realism (1992), and co-editor of Cultures of U S. Imperialism (1994), as well as a series of recent essays that examine culture and imperialism in the twenty-first century. She is currently working on two projects, one titled In the Name of Homeland Security, and the other a study of American Zionism, which explores the cultural dimensions of the United States support for Israel in the twentieth century. She was president of the American Studies Association in 2003. Professor Kaplans lecture examines Melville’s travel writing in order to interrogate today’s evolving paradigm of transnational literary criticism. Treating Melville as a writer whose fiction theorizes the relations among national, colonial, and international spaces in the nineteenth century, she will explore how texts such as the novel Clarel relay transnational circuits of knowledge and imagine collectivities not bound by the nation state.

Duration : 0:46:10

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Is it really possible to make a living doing travel writing/photography?

admin — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:41:28 +0000

I have the ability to travel for very little or no money, even to unusual places, but it seems like there is so much competition out there.

Is it possible? Yes.
Will it be easy? No.

You do have the "potential" to make a living as a travel writer, especially since you can travel for cheap, but as with everything else in life, you will have to work for it. Yes there is a lot of competition, but if you truly are talented the you should be able to rise to the top.

If you want to succeed as a travel writing then you will need to focus more on the traveling and the writing instead of the competition.

منير بشير – بساط بغداد Munir Bashir

admin — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:35:28 +0000

Images of Iraq taken between 1900 and 1958. Some are from my private collection, others were taken by
Sir Wilfred Thesiger, a distinguished explorer and travel writer. Some of Thesigers photographs appeared in his famous books of travel writing, Arabian Sands (1959) and The Marsh Arabs (1964), and more recently through books dedicated to his photography alone, such as Visions of a Nomad (1987)
Munir bashir was born in Mosul (Iraq) in 1930 into a long established family of musicians. He began to learn the oud at the age of five, along with the cello. He studied oud in Baghdad under the great masters and then moved to Hungary, where he gained his doctorate. He is regarded as the greatest oud player of all time and a master of Iraqi maqamat. Munir Bashir died in 1997.
You can also hear Munir Bashir on the “Rare Recordings” page at www.mikeouds.com

Duration : 0:7:59

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Spiritual Dimension of Time Travel – Fred Alan Wolf (3 of 7 )

admin — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:48:02 +0000

In this excerpt from a talk presented by the Theosophical Society in America in Chicago, Fred Alan Wolf, PhD discusses spirituality and the concept of self from his unique perspective as a physicist, explains some of the fundamental premises of quantum theory including the observer effect, and how the concepts of time and mind are reconcilable and can, in fact, have the same meaning.

Fred Alan Wolf is a physicist, writer, and lecturer who earned his Ph.D. in theoretical physics at UCLA in 1963. He continues to write, lecture throughout the world, and conduct research on the relationship of quantum physics to consciousness. Dr. Wolf has taught at the University of London, the University of Paris, the Hahn-Meitner Institute for Nuclear Physics in Berlin, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and San Diego State University in the United States. Aka “Dr. Quantum,” he is a member of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collegium of Scholars and the author of eleven books, including the National Book Award-winning “Taking the Quantum Leap.” Wolf’s work in quantum physics and consciousness is well known through his popular and scientific writing, and his radio talk show, television and film appearances across the United States and abroad.

For more information about Dr. Wolf, vist: http://www.fredalanwolf.com

To see this video in its entirety, including a post-talk Q&A, visit: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1658659590738896184

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0r9AIO6Ms8

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2lk4H-ZCIw

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jei5RucKIg8

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V2xrXEEnyU

Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs3xtprO0I0

Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWkg6QLTjrE

Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne2fFgwUHJs

Duration : 0:9:58

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“All Aboard!” – Getting Around…Where it all started…

admin — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:51:51 +0000

gettingaroundtravelhttp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/gettingaroundtravelPeopleMultimedia, Travel, Journalism, Travel Journalism, Travel Writing, Old Forge, The Adirondacks, Getting Around, Pilot, Pilots, Trains, Upstate New York”All Aboard!” – Getting Around…Where it all started…

Duration : 0:8:49

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Spiritual Dimension of Time Travel – Fred Alan Wolf (2 of 7 )

admin — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:27:37 +0000

For more information about Dr. Wolf, vist: http://www.fredalanwolf.com

To see this video in its entirety, including a post-talk Q&A, visit: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1658659590738896184

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0r9AIO6Ms8

Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2lk4H-ZCIw

Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jei5RucKIg8

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V2xrXEEnyU

Part 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs3xtprO0I0

Part 6: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWkg6QLTjrE

Part 7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne2fFgwUHJs

Duration : 0:9:58

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Black Books

admin — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 19:58:19 +0000

Duration : 0:0:0

Teen Travel Writing Scholarship – Monica A.

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:01:10 +0000

Teen Travel Writing Scholarship Entry – 2010 By Monica A.

Duration : 0:3:30

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Game Trekking: An Introduction

admin — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 14:43:37 +0000

My name is Jordan Magnuson, and I have a plan: to travel the world, and make computer games about the things I see and experience; to use computer games as a form of travel writing, if you will. To put my plan into action, I need your help. Visit http://gametrekking.com for more info.

Duration : 0:4:10

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