The Canterbury Tales are explicated.
This posting offers help with locating a passage of not more than 15 lines that you regard as a particularly effective description of one of the characters. Using that passage as evidence, it deduces 2 or 3 "rules" that an effective character description must fulfill.
Poems about Women in Business are listed.
Poem resources about women in business in the corporate world are suggested.
Poetry about Women, Workplace, and Social Change are offered.
These areas are covered: •Meaning and implication of the poem? •Analytical argument about the role literature can and should play as businesses cope with social change •Illustrating examples from poem •Does literature from different cultures focus on different aspects of business? •How do the changes characters experien ...continues
The fundamentals of a story are briefly overviewed.
These areas are covered: Your team has been given a new project to create content for a chapter focusing on the fundamentals of a story. Beforehand, you take the individual task to start a discussion group to brainstorm ideas for the chapter. You put together an outline for the discussion to make sure it remains on-task. Your ...continues
Emily Dickinson's poems are examined.
Hidden pain and woe are repeated themes in Emily Dickinson’s poems. Note the two ideas in “A wounded Deer -- Leaps Highest” (poem # 165): the idea of compensation and the idea that we cloak our anguish in outward joy -- and the more apparent the joy, the greater the likelihood of anguish within. Is the argument of the poem oppos ...continues
Nathaniel Hawthorne is examined.
“My Kinsman, Major Molineux” has been read as a fable of the relations between youth and age, between America and England. What elements of such a fable are evident in the tale? What aspects of the tale do not seem to fit such a reading?
What do you think of the narrator, Ishmael? Describe his character – is he reliable? What do we learn about him?
The Color Purple by Alice Walker is briefly mentioned.
Why does Celie’s husband marry her?
Poetic Imagery and Political Realities are discussed.
During this period poets focused heavily on imagery in their poems. A school of poetry exists called “Imagism,” which put much emphasis on the importance of extremely clear imagery in poetry. How do the images used by poets from this period relate to the larger political realities of the period?
The Color Purple is briefly examined.
This posting cites five pairs in conflict.
