Posted on October 21, 2009Erotic Literature Requires Thoughtful Insightful Erotic Stories and...
Erotic literature is not an oxymoron as religious zealots everywhere would have you believe. There are relatively few but, at the same time, some very important works of Erotic Literature we can point to, as well as volumes of critical praise for...
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Posted on October 21, 2009Erotic Literature Requires Thoughtful Insightful Erotic Stories and...
Erotic literature is not an oxymoron as religious zealots everywhere would have you believe. There are relatively few but, at the same time, some very important works of Erotic Literature we can point to, as well as volumes of critical praise for...
Posted on October 23, 2009Erotic Stories can Stimulate the Brain: Erotic Stories, a Reiteration
Erotic stories inflame the libido. We have made this point in these pages before. Erotic stories can send one of those major electrical signals coursing through the brain which can cause physical responses elsewhere in the body. To better understand...
Posted on October 8, 2009Erotic Literature is Rarely Recognized as Art; Most often, lumped with Erotic Stories, It is Set Aside
Erotic Literature is Rare. Even expending the effort to try to write Erotic Literature is uncommon because anyone with any writing ability will usually recognize the difficulty of having his writings taken seriously once they contain more than a few...
Posted on September 24, 2009Great Gatsby Character Study. Jay Gatsby: The Myth, the Legend, the… Really Straightforward Guy
A comparison of key Great Gatsby characters. For most readers, “The Great Gatsby” is a story about mystery, intrigue, and deception. Even those big floating eyes on the book cover have an enigmatic, come-hither dreaminess.
Posted on September 12, 2009Erotic Stories Can Also Become Erotic Literature
Erotic Stories may simply captivate a reader allowing him to imagine a situation whereby he can grow or understand new possibilities for himself or new relationships he may find attractive or interesting.
Posted on September 11, 2009Erotic Literature, Pop and Pulp Fiction, Erotic Stories, Glamour Photography…It's On the Net
An occasional erotic novel or partial erotic or fiction novel, other contemporary fiction, book reviews, a few literary reviews and a few other genres make up the selections you can find readily available on the internet in various e-magazines and...
Posted on August 20, 2009Lies, Innuendo and Oneupmanship in Shakespeare's Poetry: “Sonnet 130” and the Fair Youth Series
A comparative reading of Shakespeare’s Poetry: “Sonnet 130” and the Fair Youth Series. Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130” is unique in its unglamorous portrayal of the so-called “Dark Lady” to whom it is addressed.
Posted on August 20, 2009For the Girls: Performing Gender in To Kill a Mockingbird and “Twelfth Night”
Concepts of femininity in To Kill a Mockingbird and “Twelfth Night”. For most of us, the long, lazy days of summer conjure up memories of fortbuilding, skinned knees, sleepovers, and an influx of summer bugs befitting a biblical plague.
Posted on August 20, 2009J. Alfred Prufrock, and the Dilemma of Teaching 21st Century Students
Teaching stodgy classics like “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in a relevant and hip manner for today’s students. Now that the fall semester is gearing up, you’re probably cooking up new ways of getting today’s students engaged in their studies....
Posted on August 19, 2009From Hemingway's Novels, Keats' Poems to Nin's Erotic Stories: Less Words Say More
From the succinct, tight prose of Earnest Hemingway, to the hyper extended imagery of John Keats, to the intense social observations of Anais Nin, again and again we find that brevity is not only the soul of wit, as Shakespeare noted, but also the...
Posted on August 13, 2009The Columbian Exchange Beginning with Spanish Colonization
Recapping the devastating impact that Spanish Colonization and the Columbian Exchange had on the indigenous civilizations of the New World. The Europeans’ so-called discovery of the so-called New World goes down in history as one of the most...
Posted on August 12, 2009Romeo and Juliet, Sweat, and the Value of Vulgarity in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Exploring Twain’s use of crudeness in the “Romeo and Juliet” scene of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. “To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin.” Okay, so maybe this isn’t the first line that jumps to mind when you think of the great American...
Posted on October 17, 2009Online Bachelors Degree in Romance Language and Literature
This article provides information on Online Bachelors Degree program in romance language and literatures, Course Structure and Translation Workshop. The demand for this field is expected to grow exponentially in the years ahead.
Posted on July 28, 2009The Lesser-Known Facts: A WWII Study Guide to American (Non-)Involvement
A study guide of lesser-known facts from WWII, including the 65th anniversary of a major turning point in World War II on the European front. This July 24th marks the 65th anniversary of the German retreat from Brittany and Normandy just a month and...
Posted on July 25, 2009Visions of Dystopia in The Giver and “The Lottery”
A study of dystopia in Lois Lowry’s The Giver and Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery. Lois Lowry’s The Giver is only one in a huge series of classic “dystopian” literature. (Think “utopia,” then think Third Reich.) What makes it stand out from novels like...
Posted on July 25, 2009Why Shakespeare Breaks Basic Writing Rules in “Sonnet 18,” “Hamlet,” and “Romeo and Juliet”
Exploring Shakespeare’s use of artistic self-reference in “Sonnet 18,” “Hamlet,” and “Romeo and Juliet.” Shakespeare famously opens his “Sonnet 18” with the question, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” and then proceeds to do exactly that....
Posted on July 22, 2009Transience, Destruction, and Other Pick-Me-Uppers in “Ozymandias” and The Great Gatsby
The significance of destruction in Ozymandias and The Great Gatsby. “Ozymandias,” by Percy Bysshe Shelley, is a poem about the “colossal wreck” left over from what used to be a fantastic empire. The Great Gatsby, which, as you’ll notice, also happens...
Posted on July 22, 2009Southern Gothic Writing in “A Rose for Emily” and To Kill a Mockingbird
A comparative reading of the Southern Gothic style in William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird.Southern Gothic is an American subgenre of the Gothic style, which is probably most familiar to you from the Brontë...
Posted on July 7, 2009Review of the Children's Book "Tales My Ghanaian Grandmother Told Me"
Review of the Children's Book "Tales My Ghanaian Grandmother Told Me" Tales My Ghanaian Grandmother Told Me by Dzagbe Cudjoe is overall a well written collection of stories. The Author shows imagination and creativity , a natural story-teller....
Posted on June 18, 2009Shakespeare, Poetry, and the Power of Art
Poetry can have an incredibly polarizing effect: people tend to either swear by at or swear at it. What gives? Well, aside from the fact that good poetry can be dauntingly elitist while bad poetry is, as a rule, truly god-awful, art in general is a...
Posted on June 18, 2009Corruption and Power According to Shakespeare, Ibsen, and Metallica
As Metallica awesomely misquoted from Shakespeare, “heavy is the head that wears the crown.” Probably because most heads actually willing to wear a crown are a wee bit on the swollen side. And since big head + big crown + huge responsibility almost...
Posted on June 27, 2009Summer Literature
For an increasing number of students, summertime means mandatory summer reading. Long gone are the carefree summer breaks of childhood, which stretched on for the better part of an eternity and actually made you miss class ever so slightly.
Posted on June 18, 2009A Good Man is Hard to Find – Especially during Hard Times
There’s something in the human heart that’s drawn to darkness and chaos and this mischievous tendency, which Edgar Allen Poe famously referred to the “imp of the perverse,” sits just below the surface of most people’s everyday lives.
Posted on May 30, 2009Black History Month
This February, we honor Black History Month for the 84th time since Professor Carter G. Woodson began the tradition as "Negro History Week" all the way back in 1926. In 2009, though, something about our national recognition of the African-American...
Posted on February 9, 2009President Barack Obama – What Does It Mean?
This January, Barack Obama became the President of the United States. It was truly a remarkably moment in our history, for a wide variety of reasons. Obama’s inauguration marked a dramatic reversal in our national politics, likely ending a...
Posted on December 30, 2008Individual Management Report
On the very first day on this module we were separated into different tutorial groups. The first job in this tutorial was to organize our selves into groups to work on the business plan. I knew people in the class so I decided that I would go into a...
Posted on November 10, 2008How Important is the Study of Literature in High School?
Is the emphasis on the study of literature in secondary schools helping or hurting our students? Students are not required to demonstrate a knowledge of literature on standardized tests, nor will they need to possess that knowledge in order to...
Posted on July 6, 2008Russian literature
Mythopoetics and Intertextuality of postrevolutionary Soviet Literature. The present article called "Mythopoetics and Intertextuality of postrevolutionary Soviet Literature" is dedicated to the most complex aspects of the problem of correlations...
Posted on May 18, 2008Education and Computers
Education has been changing so much in the last few years with the introduction to the computers both in the classroom and at home with the students. Students are no longer expected to write papers but type them up.
Posted on April 10, 2008Animal Books Can Be Educational
Children will probably love any animal books you offer them, no matter how old they might be.
Posted on April 2, 2008Art, Music and Literature Based Communities
What drives people? Some may say inspiration, our ambitions and needs; this is not very far from saying that people are driven by the inspiration provided by art and music as well as by the need to quench our literary thirst.
Posted on October 14, 2007William Carlos William's Spring and All
The poem begins in a very straight forward set of words that cause the reader numerous impressions of the landscape being described. It starts with the words "contagious hospital" and it is obvious from the language the author uses that the hospital...
Posted on October 14, 2007Robert Frost
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874 however after his father's death when young Frost was eleven the family moved to the opposite side of the country- to Massachusetts. This moving was symbolic in a boy's life as it was an attempt to begin...
Posted on October 14, 2007Character Review: Othello
Tragedy is a unique and very powerful tool in classic literature. As a common standard in tragedy, the protagonist, or "tragic hero" is of high standing who is faced with some opposing force whether internal or external. This writing style is of...
Posted on October 14, 2007Female perspective on marriage
Quite a different perspective on marriage and the role of women have female writers. It is worthy of mention that there were just few female writers who had managed to gain public recognition and popularity in the epoch and, what is more, there views...
Posted on October 14, 2007Hamlet: Play Review
Any play or literary work by Shakespeare is a masterpiece of a kind. Regardless of the genre, tragedy or comedy he is able to unmistakably affect the reader to the depth of the soul and reveal the biggest fears and secret desires of human as he is a...
Posted on October 14, 2007Colonial Authors
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe's first novel, was published in 1958 in the middle of the Nigerian renaissance. This book tells the story of an Ibo village of the late 1800's and one of its great man, Okonkwo, who has achieved much in his life. He...
Posted on August 28, 2007Conversation with China Photojournalist Tom Carter
CHINA: Portrait of a People author and photographer Tom Carter expounds on Chinese censorship, peasant riots and how insolvency helped inspire his new book in this first exclusive interview.
Posted on July 27, 2007Where to Begin When Writing a Screenplay
If your dream is to write the next great movie or play, you need to know how to get started. More often than not, many people go into this practice blindly and become more confused and frustrated by the whole experience. Instead of floundering around...
