Travel less this summer and learn more about the works of American poets and laureates such as Wallace Stevens, Kay Ryan and Robert Frost, and Nobel Prize for Literature winner John Steinbeck. Debate the question of who changed California history; was it Cesar Chavez, William Randolph Hearst or Julia Morgan? Travel the globe through film from countries such as Israel, China, Australia and China. Take a local field trip to a Native American rock site or, even closer, a personal journey through your past. A look toward France will have you laughing at humorous medieval tales and then on to the stage to analyze some of the greatest plays on film such as "A Streetcar Named Desire" or "Romeo and Juliet." Now that you have optimal performance of your brain, you can end your journey by creating slideshows of your digital photographs and identifying new habits that will bring a sense of internal success and peace using The Eightfold Path.

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