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Befriending Dante: A Reflection on Readership
Although I have always been bookish in about every sense of the word, I went through a “rebellious” phase in high school when my AP Literature class was required to read Dante’s Inferno. I was adamantly against it and now, as I reread it for the fourth or fifth time, I can explain away this opposition as Continue reading
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Dystopian Reality
Dystopian novels have been “in” for several years now. The Hunger Games and Divergent were the most popular reads of my high school days. Brave New World, 1984, and Anthem were on the AP reading lists. I continue to devour Ray Bradbury’s work. However, we forget the purpose of dystopian fiction, which is to warn and protect us from creating such futures in reality. Continue reading
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The Importance of Being Literate
We live in a world of hashtags and texting abbreviations; gleeful laughter has been replaced by “LOL”, “carpe diem” has been killed by “YOLO”, words are being replaced by numbers 4 heaven’s sake! (That was painful, but consider my point made.) It seems I cannot go through one day without being confronted by enough grammatical atrocities to Continue reading
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Uncle Tom’s Cabin: A Call to Serve a Different Master
“Tom read,—”Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”“Them’s good words, enough,” said the woman; “who says ’em?”“The Lord,” said Tom.“I jest wish I know’d whar to find Him,” said the woman.” ― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin The woman in this excerpt from one of the Continue reading
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