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And Then Some Publishing has just released a new video via ANTworkstudio YouTube Channel!

Who Wrote William Shakespeare? Part 2, by Edgar E. Willis

Part 2 discusses questions about William Shakespeare. Is it mad house chatter? Is it ridiculous? Heretics or as described, Anti-Stratfordians who subscribe to the notion that William Shakespeare did not write the volume of material associated with him. In this video many questions are answered for the numerous reasons he is questioned about his writing, including a history of the postcard of information that is truly fact about William Shakespeare.

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Thursday's Essay Preview

This is the sixteenth of 17 essays that cover our Southeast Asia cruise (March, 2010).  The first paragraph of the sixteenth essay reads as follows:  "On our third day in Beijing, we took a taxi to Tiananman Square and the Forbidden City.  When you take a taxi you must have your present location as well as your destination written in Chinese so you can get to where you are going and return to your hotel. (Hotels provide this information as a regular and necessary part of their service.)  Taxi drivers speak no English at all!  Even with it written in Chinese, some drivers will refuse the fare because it is not enough.  That is, they would prefer waiting for customers going a longer distance so they can make more money.  For example, at the Silk Market, we were refused service back to our Beijing Marriott City Wall Hotel by six taxi drivers before we found a seventh to return us to the hotel."

Thursday's Essay Excerpt - from the last two paragraphs of the essay

All of the 800 buildings (originally built between 1406 and 1420) have been rebuilt more than six times throughout the centuries because of fires.  They are decorated in bright, clean colors of yellow, red, green, and blue often with gold-plated highlights, however, as pointed out at the AsianArtMall.com website, “With the color yellow being the symbol for the royal family, you will find it to be dominant throughout the City.  For example, the roofs have yellow glazed tiles, palace decorations are painted yellow, and the bricks found outside are yellow.”  All the buildings that can be seen today are post-18th-century.
    
The Forbidden City was home to 24 different Chinese emperors, and it is the best-preserved collection of ancient architecture in China.  Because of its place in history, importance, impressiveness, and my memories of our time there, I will continue my discussion of it in Beijing IV — my fourth Beijing essay.

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Who Wrote Shakespeare? Part 2 Release Date and Essay Preview - Is there an erosion of standards?

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We know so little about William Shakespeare that it has been said of what we know could  be written on a postcard. What does Shakespeare reveal about himself through his plays and sonnets?

1. Asking first, When were the plays written?
   
2. The writer had a broad expansive education.
   
3. You couldn't write these plays without a profound knowledge of the law.
   
4. The writer of the Shakespeare plays was a great traveler.
   
5. These plays and sonnets were written by someone very familiar with court scenes and the ways of the aristocracy.
   
6. The writing displayed extensive knowledge of the theater and that further developed his craftsmanship as a playwright.
   
7. The writer had a deep understanding of human nature.
   

It's Stratfordians vs. Anti-Stratfordians! People who believe William Shakespeare wrote his own works versus those who say he didn't. Why ask if Shakespeare authored his own poems, sonnets, and plays? Anti-Stratfordians contend it couldn't be possible for a person to be born in Stratford, in the kind of atmosphere, environment, and at that time, could have possibly written the plays that are now credited to him.

Part 2 of the video Who Wrote William Shakespeare? by Edgar E. Willis is next Tuesday's News, August 24, 2010. Edgar has more videos on his website... check out How to Funny on Purpose at EdgarEWillis.com.

Thursday's And Then Some Essay preview:

Thursday’s essay is called, “Is there an erosion of standards?"  In reading a column in the Toledo Blade I was struck by the fact that the erosion of standards in America’s public high schools (which the column discussed) isn’t the only area where erosion is taking place.  It can be seen in higher education, language, manners, honesty, television, and sex as well as in many other areas.When there is an erosion of standards in manners, honesty, and sex, you would expect it to be reflected in the area of ethics as well.  Read this essay---which takes a very definite and strong position---and see if you agree. 

Is there an erosion of standards?
by Richard L. Weaver II

Excerpt:

This essay has barely touched the surface of an enormous erosion of standards, but one fact is clear, such erosion undermines individual responsibility and civic values, harms individuals, generates a loss of public trust in the institutions of our society, and leaves everyone searching for guideposts—instructions on how to proceed when faced with complex emerging issues.

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