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 Krishna Kahn, [...]

The Beneficial Mystery

A religion class.

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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 of all the different religions [...]

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 pointless [...]

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.

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C. Simpson
31 March 2005
If the Shoe [...]

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 had access to some kind of [...]

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, a diving team must [...]

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 of all kinds. The [...]

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.

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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 [...]