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	Woodstock 1969 music & art festival
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	Dr Seuss
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	Bob Dylan
	Gazette van Detroit
	The Kennedy Curse
	Neil Diamond
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I love America!

American greats and great Americana
To say that the United States have received a lot of criticism in the past few years, is putting it mildly. America's reputation has crashed in the public opinion. American politicians have turned from liberators into warmongers, American society from a shining example into a cradle of violence, and American culture from cool to commercial. Still the “greatest country on earth” has a lot to offer: wonderful national parks, great music, entertaining movies, cutting-edge science and technology, etc. Here's a selection by the students and teacher of the 6th year of English at the CVO Waregem Anzegem Tielt of Waregem, Belgium. The texts have been written or compiled by the students between April and June 2008.

07-06-2008

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Neil Diamond

Neil Leslie Diamond (born January 24, 1941) is an American singer-songwriter and occasional actor. As a successful pop music performer, Diamond scored a number of hits worldwide in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Diamond had sold 120 million records worldwide, including 48 million records in the U.S. His songs have been recorded by a vast array of performers from many different musical genres. Diamond was included into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1984. Diamond's new album Home Before Dark was released on May 6th 2008. One week later, the US Billboard Hot 200 listed the album at number one, the first chart-topping album of Diamond's storied career.

(www.wikipedia.org & www.neildiamondhomepage.com)

Pretty Amazing Grace (2008)

Pretty amazing grace is what You showed me.
Pretty amazing grace is who You are.
I was an empty vessel. You filled me up inside
and with amazing grace restored my pride.

Pretty amazing grace is how You saved me
and with amazing grace reclaimed my heart.
Love in the midst of chaos, calm in the heat of war,
showed with amazing grace what love was for.

You forgave my insensitivity
and my attempt to then mislead You.
You stood beside a wretch like me.
Your pretty amazing grace was all I needed.

Stumbled inside the doorway of Your chapel,
humbled in God by everything I found.
beauty and love surround me, freed me from what I fear.
Ask for amazing grace and You appear.

[You overcame my loss of hope and faith,
gave me a truth I could believe in.
You led me to a higher place, showed Your amazing grace
when grace was what I needed.

Look in a mirror I see Your reflection,
open a book You live on every page.
I fall and You're there to lift me, share every road I climb
and with amazing grace You ease my mind.

Came to You with empty pockets first
when I returned I was rich man,
didn't believe love could quench my thirst
but with amazing grace You showed me that it can.

In Your amazing grace I had a vision.
From that amazing place I came to be.
into the night I wandered, wandering aimlessly,
found Your amazing grace to comfort me.]

pretty amazing, pretty amazing, pretty amazing,

You overcame my loss of hope and faith,
gave me a truth I could believe in.
You led me to that higher place
showed me that love and truth and hope and grace were all I needed.