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Native American Perspectives: Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions on European American Culture and Religion
Living in America today, we often take for granted several things about ourselves, our country, and our relationship with the land we live on. This is not a bad thing. It is, in fact, only human. However, we should not always limit ourselves...
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Literature and Philosophy: Cartesian Dualism, David Hume, and Immanuel Kant's Copernican Revolution
Immanuel Kant (1724 – 1804) is one of the most significant philosophers in Modern philosophy. This is because of many reasons far too broad for an article of this scope to examine. We can, however, examine one of his major contributions to...
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American Literature: Contemporary views on Charlotte Temple
Perhaps the first American best-selling novel, Charlotte Temple has been called "the biggest bestseller in American History until Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom's Cabin in 1852" by Anne Douglas, editor for the Penguin Book edition of the...
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American Literature and Culture: The Roots of Manifest Destiny
The discovery of the New World and the experience of colonialism in America produced a society independent of the Europe it left behind. This independence, forever cemented by the Declaration of Independence in 1776, was born from the common...
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20th Century Classical Music: Analysis of Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber
Samuel Barber (1910-1981) composed Adagio for Strings during a very successful period of his work from 1936 to 1938.[1] It was originally the second movement of a string quartet before Barber rearranged it for string orchestra. The fact that it...
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Literature, Philosophy and the Absurd: Voltaire's Candide
At the age of sixty-five, Voltaire, who had already established a name for himself as a philosopher, satirist and playwright, published his most famous work, Candide. The fictional work is a farce on the popular romances written at the time....
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Film Review and Criticism: Themes in Six Degrees of Separation
My review and critique of 6 Degrees of Separation.
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The American Literary Landscape: William Faulkner's Mississippi
“You’re a country boy, and all you know is that little patch up there in Mississippi where you started from; but that’s alright too.” -- Sherwood Anderson (Thompson). The only thing that could possibly be more detrimental to a writing...
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90s Indie Rock: The Rock Legend Who Almost Was: Brainiac's Tim Taylor.
Brainiac is a curious band with a curious name and a curious history. Unfortunately for the band and their fans, the curiosity that blossomed into a band with incredible potential never became anything more than that. As too often happens, tragedy...
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Literary Criticism: The Tragedy of Joe Christmas from William Faulkner's Light in August
A character analysis of one of William Faulkner's most enigmatic and troubling characters: Joe Christmas from the novel, Light In August. The analysis examines the root of Joe Christmas's crime against society, his questionable lineage, and examines what that crime says about society as much as it...
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Literature and The Modern Short Story: Analyzing Nick Hornby's "Nipple Jesus"
Embedded right in the center of the new collection of stories edited by Nick Hornby, Speaking with the Angel, is a story by Hornby himself. “NippleJesus” is the title of the work which is narrated by Dave, a bouncer and art museum security...
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The Great American Anti-Hero: Faulkner's Thomas Sutpen as the Uniquely American Version of Joseph Campbell's Archetype
“We have a few old mouth-to-mouth tales; we exhume from old trunks and boxes and drawers letters without salutation or signature, in which men and women who once lived and breathed are now merely initials or nicknames out of some...
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Linguistic Origins & Etymology of the English Language: An Etymological Study of the Curious English Word, "Strapping".
An etymological study of a word or term is one that traces its development and usage throughout the past. These studies are often interesting because language always develops and changes for reasons. This is a fairly basic etymological study. ...
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Literary Origins: Shakespeare's Creative Wordplay: A Linguistic Analysis of Catachreses in Hamlet.
The reputation of Hamlet as one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays often times overlooks one of the greatest achievements of the play. While many scholars acknowledge the play as the birth of the modern man,[1] few seem to place as much...
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Kurt Vonnegut's Version of the Fairytale Bluebeard: Writing About Writing for People Who Don't Read
Bluebeard, which came out in 1987, was one of Vonnegut's last proper novels. Though it is different in style than his earlier works, it is a very rewarding novel. Kurt Vonnegut, one of the most prolific if not best American writers of the second...
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Evolution in Literature: An Analysis of William Blake's "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" and the Bible.
An Analysis of one of Blake's most popular and troubling poems. Blake famously subverts the biblical tradition he appropriates in this brilliant work.
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Literary Origins: Virgil's Appropriation of the Homeric Epics
An examination of the first appropriation in Western Literature yields an informative glimpse at the blueprint for appropriation that writers and artists would use for the next few thousand years.
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Video Game Culture, An Online Dissertation pt. 1: Atari 2600, Nintendo Entertainment System, and the Sega Genesis
Somewhere between pop culture and computer software there lies an intriguing industry of multimedia entertainment that wholly did not exist thirty years ago. Video games are not only the fastest growing of all the entertainment industries, they are...
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90s Indie Rock Bands and Albums: The coolest band? Pavement.
This is the first installment in the '90s Indie Rock series. The point of these Hubs are to discuss several of the most meaningful, original, successful, and important bands of a scene that I loved dearly as it happened and shaped my musical...
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The World According To Clark
Clark Waggoner is a 33 year old freelance writer and Novelist in Portland Oregon. With a degree in Literature and linguistics, Clark has written for most of his life, with his first stories being typed at age six. Clark is working establishing his presence on the web as well as shopping for an agent for his first novel.
Most of what you will find on here of Clark's work are editorials and reviews of different types of books, music, beer and film.