The Awakening

Ann Baranowski Monday July 25th, 2005 RE 348DE The Awakening Everyone has to struggle with finding their own personal portion of peace in this world. In a modern world fashioned to draw us into its own reality of materialism and amorality, the struggle to find ‘self’ becomes every individual’s plague. Just contemplating the nature of [...]

Kids with Guns

Another Religion class. Title taken from that Gorillaz song “Kids with Guns” RE 348DE Anne Baronowski June 28th, 2005 Kids with Guns The movie “The Followers” proves, from a Freudian point of view, that the followers of the Krishna Kahn way of life promote living in an infantile, immature, and unrealistic way. Infantile in that [...]

The Beneficial Mystery

A religion class. RE 313 DE C. Simpson 11 April 2005 The Beneficial Mystery You can travel to any corner of the earth and find people who have pondered the meaning of life. Religion exists to give life purpose and there many different doctrines explaining life’s meaning in a wide variety of ways. The inception [...]

Untitled, from a Philosophy class 2005

Awareness of my mortality makes my life meaningful                         For those questioning the meaning of life, it is always difficult to keep on living. When questions about things on such a grand scale tie up the mind’s resources it is next to impossible to carry on with life’s day to day routine of seemingly [...]

Some touchy subjects here, I only read the first few lines and was like “whoa!”. I’m not sure how i feel about these things. I think now, three years later, that gendre roles are not so easily defined.  People, men and women, come in all kinds of forms. Anywhooo…enjoy. PY 233b C. Simpson 31 March [...]

Chivalry and its Faults

More Medieval Literature Examination. I hope you understand Middle English. EN 391 J. Weldon 4 April 2005 Chivalry and its Faults Geoffrey Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde is so intricate that it is called the first modern novel. In fact, Chaucer is often thought to be a modern poet writing in medieval times, as if he [...]

Deep See Diving Poets

Romantic Poets Class…not the romance you think it is, this stuff is from the Romantic Period, there is a difference. EN 294 M. Moore 29 March 2005 Deep Sea Diving Poets To find the most spectacular and rare things in the ocean, whether they be forms of aquatic life or ancient shipwrecks containing priceless treasures, [...]

Walking Through the Darkness

Great class. Film Noir. All we did was watch old gangster movies and write about them. I was introduced to Bogart here. Good times. Title from the essay was taken from a Wu-Tang song. Paul Tiessen FS 252 23 November 2004 Walking Through the Darkness The world of film noir is one that embraces stereotypes [...]

Higher Loving

Great class. Great Professor. Knights, Chivalry, oh the good old days, everybody’s talking about the good old days…enjoy Dr. Jim Weldon English 390 6 December 2004 Higher Loving The Middle Ages were preoccupied with the dream of order. Aristotle, Hippocrates, Galen, and other great philosophers, postulated that the world and all its parts were somehow [...]

The People of Tomorrow.

Children’s Literature class. I really didn’t like this course. EN 201 010217140 Sylvia Bryce-Wunder Monday December 6, 2004 The People of Tomorrow The best thing about fairy tales, as I see it, are what Tatar seem to fear are false implications about a form of literature she seems to feel is not getting its proper [...]