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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
My review and critique of 6 Degrees of Separation.
“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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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. ...
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...
An Analysis of one of Blake's most popular and troubling poems. Blake famously subverts the biblical tradition he appropriates in this brilliant work.
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...
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...