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A Descent Into The Maelstrom ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: Edgar Allan Poe |
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By: D. Candis Paule & Gary Zupkas |
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Trapped within the Moskoe-Strom - the immense whirlpool of the Maelstrom - after a fierce storm at sea, three brothers struggle to escape before the spinning whirlpool grinds their ship on the rocks covering the ocean floor below.
Time Length: 47 minutes 37 Seconds (47:37) |
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A Malemute Dog ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: Pat O'Cotter |
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By: K. Anderson Yancy |
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Would you go to Heaven, if you couldn't take your dog? Listen to one man's answer.
Time Length: 1 minute 21 Seconds (1:21)
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A Message to Garcia ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: Elbert Hubbard |
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By: Kevin Yancy & K. Anderson Yancy |
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A Message to Garcia is an inspirational essay on excelling at tasks and in the work place. In the essay, during the Spanish American War, U.S. Army Major Rowan dispatched to Cuba to find the Cuban general Garcia fighting against the Spanish asked no questions, made no objections, requested no help, and accomplished the mission.
A Message to Garcia, written by Elbert Hubbard, has been made into two motion pictures. It was originally published as a filler without a title in the March, 1899 issue of the Philistine magazine which he edited, but was quickly reprinted as a pamphlet and a book. It was wildly popular, selling over 40 million copies, and translated into 37 languages by the time of the Manchurian Campaign, Russo Japanese War February 10, 1904 – September 5, 1905. It also became a well-known allusion in American popular and business culture until the middle of the twentieth century.
The essay celebrates the initiative of a soldier, Major Andrew Summers Rowan, a West Point graduate of 1881 who was assigned and accomplished a daunting mission to find General Garcia, the leader of Cuban insurgents fighting for independence against Spanish rule when the Spanish American War began in April and ended August 1898, over the issues of the liberation of Cuba. The war began after American demand for the resolution of the Cuban fight for independence was rejected by Spain. Strong expansionist sentiment in the United States motivated the government to develop a plan for annexation of Spain's remaining overseas territories including Cuba, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam.
The revolution in Havana prompted the United States to send in the battleship USS Maine to indicate high national interest. Tension among the American people was raised because of an explosion on board the USS Maine and its sinking on February 15, 1898 when her forward gunpowder magazines exploded. Nearly three-quarters of the battleship's crew died as a result of the explosion.
While the cause of this great tragedy is still unsettled, whether the explosion was internal and a result of the Americans or Spanish forces shelled the warship, contemporary American popular opinion blamed Spain, and war followed, propelling the United States into battle with Spain.
At onset of the Spanish-American War, as the American army prepared to invade the Spanish colony of Cuba, they wished to contact the leader of the Cuban insurgents who controlled the plains of the Cauto to coordinate or at least prevent conflicting strategies. This was Calixto García e Iñiguez, who had been fighting the Spanish for Cuban independence since the Ten Years' War of 1868–78, and sought the help of the United States. He was then residing in the city of Bayamo.
In the essay, Major Rowan dispatched to Cuba to find general Garcia asked no questions, made no objections, requested no help, and accomplished the mission. The essay exhorts the reader to apply this attitude to his own life as an avenue to success. Its wide popularity reflected the general appeal of self-reliance and energetic problem solving in American culture. Its "don't ask questions, get the job done" message was often used by business leaders as a motivational message to their employees.
It was given to every U.S. Navy enlistee and U.S. Marine in both world wars, and often memorized by schoolchildren. It is studied by plebes, first year students, at the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, and U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis. A copy of it is often given to Marine Non-Commissioned Officers upon their promotion. It is estimated to be one of the highest-selling books in history, essentially due to American employers purchasing copies in bulk to distribute to their employees.
This "enlightened, inspirational" interpretation prevails today, despite the fact Rowan was hidden by Cuban rebels in Jamaica before being taken to Cuba; was met by 200 cavalry and delivered to Garcia; was held by the British quarantine in the Bahamas for ten days; and the sole immediate recognition he received was to be given combat command of a company of U.S. Army "Immunes," who were African American/Black troops assumed to be immune to jungle diseases. However, the Immunes died as quickly as any troops once infected, in a brief war that killed more U.S. personnel by malaria than by bullets.
But the reality is despite all this, Major Rowan took responsibility for his task and accomplished it.
In fact, "A Message to Garcia" may have been intended to embarrass Hubbard's son, Bert, into more responsible action at the Philistine magazine and other elements of Hubbard's egalitarian gathering of artists and craftsmen in East Aurora, New York.
Elbert Hubbard died with the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915, by a German U-boat, en route with his wife to England and Berlin on a mission to encourage an end of war. He was optimistic in this endeavor, despite a notice in the New York Times warning that vessels flying the flag of Great Britain, or any of her allies, could be sunk.
Major Andrew Rowan died obscurely in the Presidio of San Francisco. It was 22 years before the Army decorated him for this mission.
Time Length: 20 minutes 46 Seconds (20:46) |
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M.S. Found In A Bottle - Manuscript Found In A Bottle ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: Edgar Allan Poe |
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By: K. Anderson Yancy & Gary Zupkas |
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After a sudden storm at sea, a man finds the entire crew of his ship dead and he and one other passenger the sole survivors of an out of control ship destined to collide with a gigantic vessel from mythology, where he will seek to learn the secrets of its ancient crew and their unimaginable destination.
Time Length: 37 minutes 11 Seconds (37:11)
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Paul Revere’s Ride ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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By: Sandy J. Hotchkiss & K. Anderson Yancy
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Listen my children and you shall here of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. Thus begins Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s tribute to a great figure of The American Revolutionary War: Paul Revere (1735-1818), American silversmith, engraver, and patriot, whose famous midnight ride warned colonists about the approaching British army and the resulting battles that started The American Revolutionary War.
Time Length: 8 minutes 14 Seconds (8:14) |
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Reparations I: The Attorneys - ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: K. Anderson Yancy |
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By: Joyelle Cabato, Rosalie Celestial, Mary Cherwink, Tabitha Christopher, Melissa Coleman, Sarah De La Isla, Monique Gaffney, Katya Martin-Gullans, O. P. Hadock, J.C. Hamby, Anthony Hamm, Sandy J. Hotchkiss, Antonio T. J. Johnson, Trina Kaplan, Jair Dean Kamperveen, Kevin Kornburger, Kevin Yancy, A. G. LaMont, Lissa Lia, Michael Angelo Manocchio, Jeni Maples, Ernie McCray, Lesha Montoya, Walter Murray, Jennie Olson, David R. Pearson, Lesley K. Pearson, Brad Potts, Larry Richardson, Radhika Rao, Walter Rusniaczek, Wendy Savage, Kevin Six, Elaine Sotko, Michael Sotko, Irene Tiger, Joseph Vitaliano Jr., Shaunda Walker, Heather Wood, K. Anderson Yancy.
Music courtesy Dez Yancy of Soul Joint Productions and Sound Ideas of Canada. |
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Available - Columbus Day! - October 11, 2010
Two African-American attorneys find their friendship at odds and themselves at the center of national controversy as they represent opposing sides in a legal battle nearly 400 years in the making, one seeking reparations from the U.S. Government for the descendants of slavery, the inheritors of the harm that legacy brought.
Listen to a selection form the work. Exhibit/Chapter 38 of 69 by clicking a link below.
Time Length: 18 minutes 54 Seconds (18:54)
During the course of Reparations I: The Attorneys, the shared legacy of other reparations battles against the U. S. Government are explored as well as other infamous horrors of slavery:
German-American, Italian-American & Japanese-American Reparations — Due to the United States mass, unlawful actions — arrests, internment, and “exclusion” of these people during WWII.
The racial neutrality of slavery in the enslavement of Jews, Muslims, non-Christians, white women, . . . in the United States.
Hawaiian Reparations — Per international Law Hawaii is a nation illegally seized by the United States.
The abduction of white children, white adults, Mexicans, and foreign nationals who were sold as “mixed race” African-White slaves.
Is the United States an Empire or Democracy? — Why does the United States have millions of sub-citizens deprived the rights of full U.S. citizenship in Puerto Rico, Guam, The U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa and The Northern Mariana Islands — territories it’s held over 100 years?
Chinese Slavery and defacto Slavery in the U.S.
Mexican-American Reparations — For violations of The Treaty of Hidalgo, signed February 2, 1948, which ended the Mexican American War. The civil rights violations began almost immediately after ratification of the treaty and continue today, over 160 years; and for violations of the U.S. Constitution during the “Mexican Repatriation” (1929-1939), the first U.S. Mexican/Mexican-American ethnic cleansing and “Operation “Wetback” (1954), the second U.S. Mexican/Mexican-American ethnic cleansing. Combined these two programs forced 2.3 million people of Mexican heritage in the U.S. out of the U.S. to live in Mexico, 60% of which were U.S. citizens.
And More . . .
Reparations 1: The Attorneys
Reparations I : The Attorneys
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Sea Fever ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: John Masefield |
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We all have things we love and to some of us . . . that's the sea!
Time Length: 5 minutes 25 Seconds (5:25)
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The Shooting of Dan McGrew ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: Robert W. Service |
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By: K. Anderson Yancy
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During the Yukon Gold Rush, a jilted lover returns to settle his score.
Time Length: 10 minutes 57 Seconds (10:57) |
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The Wreck of The Hesperus ( mp3 – Stream Free )
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By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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By: Lesley K. Pearson, Sandy J. Hotchkiss & K. Anderson Yancy |
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An over confident captain imperils the life of his crew and daughter when he puts to sea amidst a ferocious storm.
Time Length: 8 minutes 17 Seconds (8:17) |
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