So I’ll wear no convict’s uniform Nor meekly serve my time That Britain might brand Ireland ‘s fight Eight hundred years of crime. ~ from “The H-Block Song” by Francie Brolly, Dungiven 1976 “I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.” ~Bobby Sands, MP Born 03/09/1954 ...
Journal writing reminds us that our interaction with a text (whether it be a written text or a visual one) takes place in a much larger place than just in the traditional ways that students often associate with their academic work – essay questions, research papers, poetry explications, or even lab reports. Our cultural conversation ...
If you were invited to play the game of free association and the phase “dirigible disaster” was mentioned what would be your first thought? My bet is you would instantly recall the black-and-white image of a large 1930s airship catching fire and crashing in a fiery ball before a scrambling ground crew. If your recollection ...
I’ll bet most of you think of Mardi Gras as one big free drunken party in New Orleans, Rio and a few other cities in the world. It is the run up to Lent and starts on the Feast Day of the Ephiphany, January 6th, 12 days after Christmas. Can you see that Mardi Gras ...
Before explaining what, exactly, Freud meant by the Oedipus complex, one must first become familiar with the myth on which his now famous complex is based. Oedipus, who was the son of Laius and Jocasta, was a member of a family who had been cursed. Because of the curses of Pelops, Oedipus was destined to ...
