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Could Disney's John Carter help inspire a comeback of classic adventure lit for kids and young adults?

Written on Feb, 07, 2012 by MOS Staff | 9 comments

The list of major creative minds who, in their boyhood, discovered Edgar Rice Burroughs’ world of Barsoom and were inspired by it are legion: Ray Bradbury, Arthur Clark, Carl Sagan, and James Cameron are just a few who are on record as having…

Could Disney's John Carter help inspire a comeback of classic adventure lit for kids and young adults?

Written on Jan, 11, 2012 by MOS Staff | 7 comments

THE MAN IN THE ARENA

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Read Michael D. Sellers' Essay on Roosevelt's "Man in the Arena" and "Citizenship in a Republic", the speech from which it is taken.