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April 1, 2007

A Twist on a Twist

O'Connor, "Good Country People" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "'And you needn't to think you'll catch me because Pointer ain't really my name. I use a different name at every house I call at and don't stay nowhere long.'"

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Reflection Papers Sound So Weird in Verse!

O'Connor, "Good Country People" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

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April 3, 2007

We're all displaced people

O'Connor, "The Displaced Person" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

"'This is my place,' she said angrily. 'All of you are extra. Each and every one of you are extra!'"

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Blogging Portfolio: the Sequel

Portfolio 2 -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

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April 7, 2007

You Can't Always Get What You Want

Shakespeare, King Lear Acts 1,2 -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

"O, reaon not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life is cheap as beast's."

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April 10, 2007

What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger (Or Kills You)

Shakespeare, King Lear Acts 3-5 -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

"Vex not his ghost. O, let him pass! He hates him
That would upon the rack of this tough world
Stretch him out longer."

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April 13, 2007

That Crazy Green Man!

Kennedy, "Shakespare's King Lear" -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

"Perhaps the Elizabethan audience would have construed Lear's insanity as a religious regression."

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April 14, 2007

Tonight I'm gonna party like it's 1999!

Zunder, "Shakespeare and the End of Feudalism..." -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

"And it immediately establishes a parallel, by displacement, between action of the play, firmly placed in the British past, and the current times in which Shakespeare and his fellow Londoners were living."

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April 16, 2007

Blogging Checkpoint

Blogging Checkpoint -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) Blogging Checkpoint for Portfolio 3

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April 18, 2007

Kid Empowerment!

Card, Ender's Game Ch 1-6 -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study)

"Then he settled down to the serious business of designing a security system for his desk, since the safeguards built into the system were obviously inadequate. If a six-year-old could break them down, they were obviously put there as a plaything, not serious security."

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April 21, 2007

Human Buggers

Card, Ender's Game Finish -- Jerz: EL150 (Intro to Literary Study) "If we had kissed, it would have been the miracle to make us human in each other's eyes. Instead we killed each other."

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