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Academic Breeding, or is it Considered Incest?
As I’m sitting here writing my final paper on Sylvia Plath’s Daddy issues and working through an occasional physics problem, I cannot help but let my eyes wander over Mugar’s …
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Prejudice in Literature: Can It Be Taught?
In my British Literature class, we are currently reading one of Shakespeare’s most controversial plays, The Merchant of Venice. Our professor prefaced the play with the fact that there was …
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Poetry vs. Prose: Christopher Ricks’ Perspective
Prose A. n. 1. a. Language in the form in which it is typically written (or spoken), usually characterized as having no deliberate metrical structure. Poetry a. Composition in verse …
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Thanksgiving: The American Holiday Started by Starving Men in Funny Hats
Today people associate the Pilgrims of Plymouth with the image of America (like baseball and apple-pie). Little children in grade school learn about the Pilgrims as the first people to …
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Memory and Modernism
Memory lets us remember what we have read, even this sentence for example. It also helps us with the act of reading, and all of the places the mind seems …
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A Day of Expression: National Writing Day
As I wandered into the GSU on Tuesday I was overcome by magnetic poetry. A large board was full of eccentric phrases that BU’s best passerby poets had put up. …
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Speak For Yourself Spreads Truth Across BU
Speak For Yourself, BU’s slam poetry group, commenced a BU tour on Tuesday, October 20th. Starting in the GSU Auditorium, they plan to preform at the South Campus Lounge on …
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Get Published, Get Heard: The Charles River Literary Fair
Clarissa Keen reports on what literary magazines are doing to keep the talent (and the ink) flowing.
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Socialism and Survival Make a Deadly Cocktail
Koushan Takami’s Battle Royale series tests the limits of human compassion and selfishness. Japan as a national socialist state isolates fifty classes of junior high third years and send them …
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Watchmen: The Little Graphic Novel that Could
When my brother was applying to college this past year, one of the essays he had to write asked: Name one novel that changed your life. Explain how. His answer: …
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Fangs Reveal More About Human Nature Than Blood
Andrea Abi-Karam discusses why it’s so sexy when vampires are out for late-night snack.
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Timing the Choke
The modern (or post-post-modern or contemporary or whatever you want to call it) novel seems to live in the fourth dimension: time. Ever since Faulkner, authors cannot keep their chronology …
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