Ms. Tunik's Public Library

created a golem to defend the Prague ghetto from anti-Semitic attacks^[2], pogroms.

The existence of a golem is sometimes a mixed blessing. Golems are not
intelligent: If commanded to perform a task, they will take the instructions
perfectly literally.

Chastity: Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to
dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation.

A mob of zombies is about to invade your home, and your only defense is an
arsenal of zombie-zapping plants. Think fast and plant faster to stop the
zombies dead in their tracks. And with five game modes

Dr.
Elizabeth McAlister and Dr. Gina Ulysse join Colin to talk about the


mysterious pracitces of Haitian vodou.

The American dream is a mythic structure underlying the founding of the colonies
in America and the literature that emerged in the New World. In a sense, the
concept has its origins in an essay written by John Winthrop aboard the ARBELLA
in 1630. Soon to be governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Winthrop was
pondering the nature of life in a new society, one filled with opportunity for
social and financial advancement but one in which ambition had to be tempered
with charity and decency, especially with regard to the poor. What his people
needed, he argued, was the freedom to make the most of their lives based on the
development of essential inner qualities, justice and mercy chief among them. He
envisioned Boston as fulfilling the biblical vision of a "city on a hill" that
would reward people who possessed the crucial virtues.

So was born the
original American dream of boundless opportunity for material fulfillment as a
reward for ambition, goodness of heart, and purity of soul, which is perhaps why
Winthrop entitled his essay "A Model of Christian Charity." Such thinking lured
immigrants from all the nations of Europe, offering the poor new possibilities,
the oppressed freedom of expression, the downtrodden hope. A century later,
Benjamin Franklin added to this ethic the idea of a disciplined life. In his
posthumous AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1818), he revealed his boyhood program for personal
advancement from utmost poverty to personal stature: a highly regimented day
devoted to self-improvement through study, hard work, and the cultivation of
social qualities. His outline quickly became the paradigm for social progress
for millions of Americans, and in the 20th century F. Scott Fitzgerald used it anew in THE GREAT GATSBY (1925) as the
protagonist's program for rising in the world.