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=Welcome to No Man is an Island!=

Original quote from John Donne, Meditation XVII
//"...all mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated; God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice; but God's hand is in every translation, and his hand shall bind up all our scattered leaves again for that library where every book shall lie open to one another.” //

Modernized John Donne 2.0- Authored by Scott Cox and Melissa Day
“All mankind is of one programmer, and is one web; when one site crashes it is not sent to the recycle bin, but uploaded into the World Wide Web and every site must be so uploaded; the programmer employs several portals; some webs are uploaded to Youtube, some to Twitter, some to Wikis, some to Moodle; but the programmer’s keystroke is in every upload, and his keystroke shall bind up all our scattered sites again for that web where every site shall be hyperlinked to one another.”

I began this site after a conversation with Keystone staffer, Mike Baker. He and I were discussing the connections made to one another through social networking. The English teacher in me quoted John Donne's famous quotation, "No man is an island..." Mike asked that I send him the quote, and then I began to think about the extended metaphor used by Donne when describing each person's connection with others, both known and unknown.