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Byron, Shelley, and Keats: The Poet a...

The teacher asks, “Who will tell me where you are in the textbook?”  A student responds, “We covered the...

posted on: Aug 11, 2011 | author: Mark

Author without Authority: Stephen Cra...

Introduction Stephen Crane would have loved The Matrix. The 1999 film by the Wachowski Brothers hit the Cineplex by...

Author without Authority: Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage
posted on: Jul 7, 2011 | author: Mark

Something at Work in my Soul: Curiosi...

Humans have a problem.  We cannot be trusted.  In horror movies, for instance, some sadistic scientist may twist a...

posted on: Feb 24, 2011 | author: Mark

Biographies: The Choices We Make

We choose to read for various reasons.  At times, our concerns are political or social or both.  In a library we may...

posted on: Jul 3, 2010 | author: Mark

An Essay on Essays

“Let us not be like those people who always seem to be pallbearers at the funeral of the past.  Let us utilize, by...

posted on: Jul 3, 2010 | author: Mark

Devils in My Heart: Human Nature thro...

“A fact as practical as potatoes,” Chesterton calls sin, “The only part of Christian theology which can really...

posted on: Jun 18, 2010 | author: Mark

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