Recent activity on the blogs of all students in this course. This page will update regularly, though it won't always show the most recent entries. To force an update, post a comment anywhere on this website or the NMJ portal.

At 12:25 PM Mon 09 Jul, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"State of the State" -- "Pennsylvania is taking turn after turn for the worse. It's dizzying, really. Living in the capital now, I feel like I'm walking amongst the angriest bunch of folks as I go to work in the morning, all because of the..."
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At 7:07 AM Sat 07 Jul, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"07-07-07" -- "I feel like I have to blog today... it's the seventh day of the seventh month in the seventh year of this millennium, and everyone is making a huge deal about it. Lucky number 7. It's interesting how we associate..."
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At 4:02 PM Fri 06 Jul, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"An inconvenient (and inconsistent) media" -- "The confusing thing, to me at least, about popular culture is the readily apparent double-standard that plagues the nation's gossip. Now, I made a personal vow to never blog about *gasp* Paris Hilton, but in comparison to the recent incident..."
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At 10:12 PM Thu 28 Jun, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"The "Crackhead" Run" -- "I know I've posted a lot about my puppy lately, but she does some really crazy stuff. Like the "Crackhead" Run... My upstairs neighbor named it that. I'm not exactly sure why, but the name has stuck. Trixie is an..."
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At 11:39 PM Tue 26 Jun, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"How Technology is Taking Over My Life (and How I'm Fighting Back)" -- "There are four devices next to me on my sofa and one in my lap. It's like a game of "Go Fish!"--I have two pairs and another card I'm ready to match... Pair number one: cell phones. I have my..."
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At 3:53 PM Tue 26 Jun, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"How hot is it?" -- "It's so hot outside... ...that when I left my coffee in my car to go to the bank, I came back and it was boiling. ...that the trees want some shade. ...that when the fog burned off from the humidity..."
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At 6:07 PM Sun 24 Jun, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"I didn't start the fire (but I'll have to put it out)" -- "There was a spark today. It pounced upon me, suddenly, while IMing with my older sister. It grew brighter as I typed responses to her--my typing becoming gradually faster, more enthusiastic, even deft. My sister was talking about working on..."
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At 9:47 PM Fri 22 Jun, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"Trixie Walking Tall" -- "My dog Trixie impresses me more every day. Recently I learned that Trixie can walk on her hind legs. We were playing with her new favorite toy (a plush giraffe-print squeaky ball) when I had her jump, but pulled the..."
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At 11:42 PM Thu 21 Jun, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"Again with the errors..." -- "Microsoft has told me before that there are "too many errors" in a merged document... Today at work while I was trying to put together a huge mail merge (over 550 letters and labels) I received the same message (for..."
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At 9:59 PM Thu 14 Jun, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"My Vacuum Really Sucks" -- "I had to do it. I had to break down a buy a vacuum cleaner. Sure, my Great Aunt Peg gave me her itty bitty squealer on a cord, but it got clogged with Trixie's hair just about every five..."
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At 9:46 PM Thu 14 Jun, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"Camera and the Beast" -- "I cashed in on the extra warranty I bought on my old digital camera (the Kodak that wasn't even a year old and stopped transferring photos and videos around March). Office Max has a terrific program--and considering the poor customer..."
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At 10:27 PM Wed 13 Jun, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"Ode to Cruise Control" -- "This past weekend I made my first trip home since moving east. My car was fantastic for the trip, and I got close to 37 miles per gallon (and I don't have a hybrid--just a Volkswagen). Trixie, my puppy, got..."
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At 8:03 AM Fri 08 Jun, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"Dads and Grads" -- "The combination marketing effort for "dads and grads" is slowly but surely driving me crazy. Maybe this has been going on for awhile and I'm only just noticing it now. I guess that's possible since the word "grad" stands out..."
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At 8:40 AM Mon 04 Jun, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"Distracting TV Error: "toddler's minds"" -- "I don't know whether to be hysterical or terrified when I see serious grammatical mistakes on major news networks. Maybe I should send them a resume? Just a few minutes ago I sat down with my breakfast and turned on..."
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At 3:37 PM Sun 03 Jun, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"Tired of being a youngin'" -- "Last week I was typing up an entry about feeling like I'm in the wrong age group. In lieu of that, another experience has led me to believe that age is the key to success in life. Or at least..."
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At 10:02 PM Mon 28 May, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"Arts Fest--Harrisburg style" -- "I got my first taste of Harrisburg culture today at the Arts Fest. My friend Pam (who I met at church and, coincidentally, will be a sophomore at SHU in the fall) picked me up and after we parked the..."
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At 7:54 PM Sat 26 May, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"Look, ma, no wires!" -- "I got really spoiled for the five days I was home between graduation and moving. Like most people with laptops I love wireless internet. I bought a router today (with a coupon! Thanks, Mike!), and when I opened the box..."
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At 7:55 PM Wed 23 May, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"Connected (again)" -- "I finally have the internet and cable at my new abode. Thank goodness... I'm not sure I could've taken much more disconnectedness without going batty. I guess I didn't realize how much I relied on the internet for my news,..."
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At 8:31 PM Sat 19 May, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"Trixie" -- "So my new dog is adorable... but that was predictable, right? I've uploaded a short video to YouTube of her playing with her squeaky T-bone steak. In the mean time, I got through that first rough night okay. Yesterday was..."
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At 8:18 PM Thu 17 May, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"Moved" -- "I've moved today, with the help of my family and my dear Mike. Currently I'm exhausted. I feel sort of strange, and I'm worried about my new dog and if she's running rampant in my place (or still behind the..."
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At 11:39 PM Mon 14 May, DavidMoio updated DavidMoio [Entries: 68]
"A Nice Little Story to Cap off EL312" -- "This may be way too late, but I thought I'd relate a story from my student teaching experience to my EL312 coursemates. For those of you aspiring to teach, pay attention. A major goal of mine in becoming a teacher..."
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At 7:09 AM Sat 12 May, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"The best of times: Class of 2007" -- "Good morning and good bye (for now), Seton Hill. Graduation is among the proudest and happiest days in my young life. I'm glad to share this one last day with some of my dearest friends. I woke up a little..."
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At 11:51 PM Thu 10 May, KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket [Entries: 611]
"Graduation approaches... and everyone knows it" -- "Tomorrow we begin the festivities to celebrate graduation, and to be honest I am quite excited. This is the kind of stuff I've dreamed about for more than the last four years--I'm actually the first person in my family to..."
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At 1:26 AM Thu 10 May, ValerieMasciarelli updated She Never Could Decide [Entries: 46]
"Portfolio 3...Well it's about darn time, eh?" -- "I'm sure everyone reading this is thinking that it's probably time for me to get up my third blogging portfolio. Way past, actually... My "v" key is stuck, which is pretty inconvenient. See, typing "inconvenient" became a chore there halfway..."
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At 7:57 PM Wed 09 May, Diana Geleskie updated A Storybook of Quotes [Entries: 146]
"You Put Your Blog Entry In . . ." -- "You put your blog entry in, You take your blog entry out, You put your blog entry in and you shake it all about! You do the blog portfolio and you turn yourself around, That's what it's all about! Variation..."
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At 7:47 PM Wed 09 May, Diana Geleskie updated A Storybook of Quotes [Entries: 146]
"Backwards Religion = Insanity?" -- "Perhaps the Elizabethan audience would have constructed Lear's insanity as a religious regression. Joy Kennedy "Shakespeare's King Lear"..."
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At 7:33 PM Wed 09 May, Diana Geleskie updated A Storybook of Quotes [Entries: 146]
"The Next Generation - and I Don't Mean Star Trek" -- "Lear's great age is [emphasized] from the beginning; Gloucester is the father of both Edmund and Edgar; and Kent, though young by modern standards (he is 48), is presented as a man in the twilight of his years. Edmund, Goneril,..."
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At 2:17 PM Wed 09 May, Diana Geleskie updated A Storybook of Quotes [Entries: 146]
"Universal Language" -- ""That's where we make our mistake," he said, "-letting all them people onto English. There'd be a heap less trouble if everybody only knew his own language." Flannery O'Connor "The Displaced Person"..."
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At 4:21 PM Tue 08 May, Diana Geleskie updated A Storybook of Quotes [Entries: 146]
"History and Tragedy and Conflated Text - Oh My!" -- "FIRST GENTLEMAN: Contending with the fretful element; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless..."
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At 4:06 PM Tue 08 May, Diana Geleskie updated A Storybook of Quotes [Entries: 146]
"Sibling Rivalry Works, Doesn't It?" -- "CORDELIA: Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth. I love your majesty According to my bond, no more nor less. William Shakespeare The Tragedy of King Lear..."
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At 3:50 PM Tue 08 May, Diana Geleskie updated A Storybook of Quotes [Entries: 146]
"The Name Game" -- "So they boarded a starship and went from world to world. Wherever they stopped, he was always Andrew Wiggin, itinerant speaker for the dead, and she was always Valentine, historian errant, writing down the stories of the living while Ender..."
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At 4:37 PM Mon 07 May, Diana Geleskie updated A Storybook of Quotes [Entries: 146]
"Allow Myself to Quote - Myself (Or Rather, My Term Project Partner)" -- "The study of Disney’s Sleeping Beauty examines the movie in terms of three key literary areas of study- historicism, formalism, and the literary canon. Each can be applied in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty in order to find meaning behind various elements.."
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At 4:34 PM Mon 07 May, Diana Geleskie updated A Storybook of Quotes [Entries: 146]
"The Ends Justify the Means: Isolation Treatment" -- "I told you. His isolation can't be broken. He can never come to believe that anybody will ever help him out, ever. If he once thinks there's an easy way out, he's wrecked. Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game..."
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At 4:12 PM Mon 07 May, Diana Geleskie updated A Storybook of Quotes [Entries: 146]
"The Beauty of an Educated Exchange" -- "VIVIAN: (To the audience) That was a witty little exchange, I must admit. It showed the mental acuity I would praise in a poetic text. But I admired only the studied application of wit, not its spontaneous eruption. Margaret Edson..."
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At 7:07 PM Sat 05 May, LorinSchumacher updated LorinSchumacher [Entries: 210]
"Final Blogging Portfolio - EL 312" -- "Portfolio III -- Jerz EL312 (Literary Criticism) Coverage "Semilogy and Rhetoric" Miko's "Tempest" "Reader, Text, and Ambiguous Referentiality in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'" Chapter 7 Introduction "Culture" "Bodily Harm: Keats's Figures in the 'Ode on a "
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At 4:39 PM Sat 05 May, LorinSchumacher updated LorinSchumacher [Entries: 210]
"Final Blogging Portfolio - EL 150" -- "Portfolio 3 -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Coverage King Lear Acts 1-2 King Lear Acts 3-5 "Shakespeare and the End of Feudalism" "Shakespeare's King Lear" Ender's Game, Ch 1-6 Ender's Game, Finish Wit Depth "Shakespeare and the End..."
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At 9:41 AM Sat 05 May, LorinSchumacher updated LorinSchumacher [Entries: 210]
"Hiding Behind W;t" -- "Wit -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Student 2: I think he's hiding. I think he's really confused, I don't know, maybe he's scared, so he hides behind all this complicated stuff, hides behind this wit. This student, although..."
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At 8:23 AM Sat 05 May, GinaBurgese updated GinaBurgese [Entries: 138]
"B.P. Three" -- "Overall, I think that Literary Criticism took me some time to understand. I think that the concepts and theories were difficult to comprehend. As the course is near completion, I do feel like I actually understand every theory that we..."
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At 2:14 AM Sat 05 May, LorinSchumacher updated LorinSchumacher [Entries: 210]
"A Star With Your Name On It" -- "(Just a little warning, this entry is incredibly long, so if you are short on time, just read the first two paragraphs and then the last one. That makes my point without giving you all the personal details about myself..."
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At 7:25 AM Fri 04 May, DavidMoio updated DavidMoio [Entries: 68]
"Accomplishments Galore Part II" -- "I think the final term paper workshop was a useful way to organize information and thoughts. I enjoyed helping coursemates and greatly appreciate the help I received. I think I have a tighter focus of what it is I am..."
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At 7:48 PM Thu 03 May, MitchellSteele updated MitchellSteele [Entries: 68]
"'This is the end, beautiful friend the end.'" -- "Portfolio III -- Jerz EL312 (Literary Criticism)..."
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At 7:42 PM Thu 03 May, Tiffany Brattina updated ~Luna Dreams~ [Entries: 268]
"Sixteen pages!!!" -- "Well, as I sit here and type this blog, the gracious Valerie is reading my first draft of my paper. She is finding things that I don't know what I would find or not seeing as I haven't even read..."
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At 7:41 PM Thu 03 May, The Gentle Giant updated The Gentle Giant [Entries: 189]
"Reflection of Denamarie Ercolani's Final Paper" -- "After reading Denamarie's rough draft on the psychoanalytical criticism of The Tempest and Cinderella was a bit rough, but had many interesting points. I think that she went into plot summary a bit too much, and needed to place more..."
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At 7:41 PM Thu 03 May, Denamarie updated Denamarie Ercolani [Entries: 68]
"Thanks Jay." -- "I just want to thank Jay for his input on my paper. I looked over his and was unable to find anything wrong with it...."
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At 7:36 PM Thu 03 May, VanessaKolberg updated Special K [Entries: 184]
"Peer Review Fun" -- "So, after working on this paper for God-knows how many hours, the last thing I want to do is look at it. From my eyes and my perspective, this paper is a work of art and should be treated as..."
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At 7:13 PM Thu 03 May, Diana Geleskie updated A Storybook of Quotes [Entries: 146]
"The Wonders and Glory That Make Erin Waite!" -- "Erin is falling into the gaps in my paper and happy to fill them with glitter and cheer! Erin Waite May 3, 2007..."
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At 7:11 PM Thu 03 May, ErinWaite updated ErinWaite [Entries: 246]
"Peer Review Day: I throw this in my porfolio hey baby hey!" -- "The title was my idea of a song of joy that this hell is almost over but I don't think it will be a chart topper. haha. Anyhow, we are feeling so productive that we have managed to correct papers,..."
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At 4:57 PM Thu 03 May, DavidMoio updated DavidMoio [Entries: 68]
"Accomplishments Galore" -- "My biggest accomplishment since January was impregnating my wife who will deliver our fourth child sometime in December. Oh, wait, I think you meant academic accomplishments. Okay. For starters, I completed student teaching and received a perfect sco"
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At 4:48 PM Thu 03 May, ErinWaite updated ErinWaite [Entries: 246]
"Blog Portfolio: The Beginning of the End is Where I'll Be" -- "Portfolio III -- Jerz EL312 (Literary Criticism) Wow, kids! It's been an amazing year! I've never poured out so much heart and soul into blogging or gotten so many great comments from my classmates. Vanessa and Karissa were amazing help..."
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At 4:36 PM Thu 03 May, ErinWaite updated ErinWaite [Entries: 246]
"Rough Draft/ thesis ideas/ help?!" -- " "From Prospero's viewpoint, Gonzalo's obedience to his master (even though it entailed Prospero's suffering and near-death) is praiseworthy because political obedience guarantees the stability of government (Yachnin 42)." While political obedience w"
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