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Building And Firing A Ceramic Kiln With Alternative Fuels, Clay Sewell
Building And Firing A Ceramic Kiln With Alternative Fuels, Clay Sewell
Faculty Publications & Research
As high school budgets shrink and equipment becomes more expensive and as energy prices become less stable, why not build a kiln that is entirely off the grid? This session will investigate the logic for such systems, and the materials and technology that are required to build and run them.
An Instance Of Apparent Plagiarism, Liam Mcparland '16
An Instance Of Apparent Plagiarism, Liam Mcparland '16
2014 Spring Semester
To the men whose lives were forever altered by them, Marian Forrester and Daisy Buchanan were always just out of reach. Be it age or water that separated them from their prizes, Niel Herbert and Jay Gatsby yearned for their remarkably similar objects of fascination. They were so similar that F. Scott Fitzgerald, the author of The Great Gatsby, wrote to Willa Cather, the author of A Lost Lady, to explain the apparent plagiarism of her character. Mrs. Forrester and Daisy Buchanan resemble each other in almost every aspect of their character.
A Concert Full Of Actors, Shreya Santhanam '14
A Concert Full Of Actors, Shreya Santhanam '14
2014 Spring Semester
Eager whispers travel through the crowd. The anticipation is building. The clock strikes 7:30 and then the lights go off, and the performers come out on stage. The crowd goes wild as the band launches into their first song. Music lovers frequent concerts in their free time. Concerts are not enjoyed by everyone. Some people claim they cannot stand the loud rock music blaring from the speakers. Instead they would rather go see a play, because they are considered classier. Rock concerts are perceived as loud and noisy, while plays appear to be elegant and perfect for a quiet night …
She’S Dogging Him, Ana Curtis '15
She’S Dogging Him, Ana Curtis '15
2014 Spring Semester
It should come as no great surprise to readers of Victorian fiction that Charles Dickens makes great use of symbolism in his stories. This practice proves especially useful for his serialized stories, like Oliver Twist, where he uses criminals, including prostitutes like Nancy, to make an overall political point. At the time of this novel’s publication, prostitutes were looked down upon, sometimes as sub-human, and Dickens, though largely sympathetic to Nancy, takes this degradation a step further by directly comparing her to an animal. In Oliver Twist, Sikes’s dog acts a surrogate for Nancy, experiencing similar treatment from …
The Name Of The Game: Great Expectations In Dickens’ Great Expectations, Daniel Collins '15
The Name Of The Game: Great Expectations In Dickens’ Great Expectations, Daniel Collins '15
2014 Spring Semester
Charles Dickens’ seminal classic Great Expectations has received widespread acclaim from many critics, including George Bernard Shaw and Algernon Charles Swinburne. Shaw, for instance, has lauded Great Expectations as Dickens’ “most compactly perfect book” (qtd. in Trotter vii), while Swinburne has gone so far as to call it his “last great work … the defects [of which] are as nearly imperceptible as spots on the sun or shadow on a sunlit sea” (qtd. in Trotter vii). Such praise sets the bar high for Great Expectations, inducing readers to expect of the novel great things, as it were. As it …
A Changed Opinion On “A Small Good Thing”, Sai Somasundaram '14
A Changed Opinion On “A Small Good Thing”, Sai Somasundaram '14
2014 Spring Semester
Suspense, surprise, shock, and awe are all parts of a great story, especially when intertwined together to keep the reader guessing until the last second. In Raymond Carver’s “A Small Good Thing”, the main characters go through a tragic story in which they come face to face with the vastness of the world, and the sincerity of human nature. When Scotty, the young boy who the story is centered around, is involved in an accident and hospitalized, his parents Howard and Ann, end up embarking on a journey to understand who is leaving them mysterious calls about their ailing …
Raw, Michael W. Hancock
Raw, Michael W. Hancock
Faculty Publications & Research
Raw magazine (published from 1980 to 1991) was the premier English-language showcase for avantgarde and international comics in the 1980s and a harbinger of the graphic novel boom of the early 21st century. It was coedited by future New Yorker art editor Francoise Mouly and her husband, veteran underground cartoonist Art Spiegelman, whose seminal graphic novel Maus was first serialized in Raw. Raw promoted the idea of comics as a serious adult literary and artistic form by publishing formally innovative contemporary comics, translating the work of established international cartoonists, and reprinting works by early 20th-century artists. Its wide-ranging subject matter …
Before Ptsd: Combat Trauma In The Civil War Short Stories Of Kate Chopin, Adam Kotlarczyk
Before Ptsd: Combat Trauma In The Civil War Short Stories Of Kate Chopin, Adam Kotlarczyk
Faculty Publications & Research
“The Civil War,” writes Robert Penn Warren, “is, for the American imagination, the single greatest event of our history” (3). Indeed, it has been estimated that the American imagination has been inspired to the tune of some 60,000 historical books on the subject (Lafantasie). Kate Chopin, probably best known for The Awakening and short stories like “The Story of an Hour,” spent her adolescence in a divided and tumultuous St. Louis during the Civil War. Like the women in her family with whom she lived, including her mother, grandmother, and two aunts, young Kate was a southern sympathizer (Ewell 7). …