By Shelby Trapid for the course 603-103-MQ 00036 Instructor: L. D’Antoni “Moving House”: Discrimination, Nationalism and the Universality of Music In Pawel Huelle’s short story “Moving House”, a Polish boy is drawn to the brilliant musicality of an elderly German woman with whom all interactions have been forbidden by his parents, an encounter that ultimately reveals the dark post-war reality of his family and the country that he calls home. The presence of discrimination and social tension in…
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By Michelle Lee for the course The Castaway Narrative Instructor: Rebecca Million Belief in Life of Pi The novel Life of Pi by Yann Martel is, on the surface, the story of a boy named Pi Patel, who gets shipwrecked on a voyage from India to Canada and is left on a lifeboat with only the company of an adult Bengal tiger for 227 days. On a deeper level, the story displays the idea of belief in an interesting…
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By Natasha Truttmann for the course Watching the Detectives Instructor: Laura Mitchell The Epitome of Lousy Dates Ever since detective fiction gained popularity in the nineteenth-century, we have observed the establishment of many significant detectives. To date, the most famous continues to be Sherlock Holmes, created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1886. Sherlock Holmes is well known for his deductive reasoning, as well as his practical use of forensic science. Holmes, unfortunately, is burdened with some unflattering…
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By Amanda Sirois for the course Introduction to College English Instructor: Gina Granter Culpability in “Dead Girls” In Nancy Lee’s “Dead Girls,” the reader is introduced to an anguished woman who is both a mother and a wife. As the story progresses, the reader learns that the mother’s depression is caused by the evanescence of her daughter, a young girl who has been missing for over a year. Though there have been brief telephone calls between the daughter…
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By Nicholas Lénart For the course Introduction to College English-Liberal Arts Instructor: Liana Bellon Another Approach to Serenity: An Analysis of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis Much like the Romantics who idealized the act of deliberately withdrawing oneself from society, Kafka, in his novella entitled The Metamorphosis (1915), stresses the remedial benefits of alienation. Throughout the course of the novella, Gregor Samsa, a middle class traveling salesman, having ostensibly been transformed into a “gigantic insect” (Kafka 414), experiences the great tribulations…
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By Rachelle Zipper for the course The Green Fuse Instructor: Prof. B. Sentes Analysis of “August” by Christopher Dewdney In Christopher Dewdney’s “August”, the author looks back at the title month from the end of October. In doing so, he is reminded of the brevity of life, thus evoking melancholy. This emotion is evoked both by depicting atemporal aspects of life, as well as contrasting the atemporal with descriptions of temporary entities. Dewdney explores the concept of atemporality by…
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By Alessandro Rea for the course English 101 Instructor: Gina Granter Is Hockey a “low culture” Event? The essay, ‘‘Hockey Etiquette for the Beginner”, written by Albert Koehl, discusses how hockey is a legitimate cultural event with its own social rules. According to Albert Koehl, hockey deserves to be considered as a “high culture” rather than “low culture” activity (91). In his essay he compares opera and hockey, and Koehl tries to attract people unacquainted with hockey to look…
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