Learning To Love The Process: Introduction
As a tribute to the exemplary students who graduated this year and last, we’ve put together an ebook of the best work they produced in an upper division English course. You can download the ebook here. The following is my introduction to the collection.
Word of the Day: Incredulous
Today’s Word of the Day, courtesy of www.wordthink.com’s word of the day, is incredulous. Believe it or not, the adjective does not mean the same thing as incredible, which means […]
Talk Is Easy. Love Is Hard.
The film’s moral is that you should be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. That seems easy, but if you want love? That’ll take some work.
Be Greater: The Power of Fictional Characters
As I’ve grown up, I have attained the belief that we, as people, are characters. That may seem like a bizarre statement to say the least, but let me expound. […]
Pilgrimage: An Elder Scrolls Tale
Written by Grayson Schrader and Josh Johnson He was here. He had made it. There before him were the steps he so long dreamed of. The very steps his father […]
Film as Lit Crit: The Problem With Beowulf
With a $150 million budget, that’s an expensive piece of criticism! I bet it all went into copyediting…
Word of the Day: Hapless
Today’s Word of the Day, courtesy of WordSmith.org, is hapless, an adjective meaning “unfortunate,” according to Anu Garg at A.Word.a.Day. He says that the etymology is “from Old Norse happ […]
Fireside Quarantine Chats (Over the Internet)
This interview was a discussion between, myself, Grayson Schrader, and my friend, James Wagher. Both of us are students and commuters at Southern Wesleyan University. We catch up and talk […]
Word of the Day: Pragmatic
Today’s Word of the Day, thanks to WordThink.com, is pragmatic. Pragmatic is an adjective that means “More concerned with practical results than with theories and principles.” According to www.dictionary.com, it […]
Word of the Day: Saturnine
Today’s Word of the Day, courtesy of the Oxford English Dictionary’s Online Word of the Day, is the adjective saturnine. The OED’s definition is long: “In regard to a person’s […]
Word of the Day: Wistful
Today’s Word of the Day, thanks to the Word Genius website, is wistful. Wistful, according to Word Genius, means “Having or showing a feeling of vague or regretful longing.” According […]
Too Many Villains: The Third Man (1949)
In Carol Reed’s 1949 classic The Third Man, no one is innocent…