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The Promethean, Volume 03, Number 01, Fall 1994, English Department, Concordia University-Portland
The Promethean, Volume 03, Number 01, Fall 1994, English Department, Concordia University-Portland
The Promethean
The Promethean is in it's third year of publication. With each year and issue the journal is growing. I hope that it will continue to grow and become an integral part of Concordia. This journal is a valuable means for Concordia students, staff and friends to share their creativity. I hope that all who read this issue will enjoy it's contents and find a piece with which to identify.
I would like to congratulate Bennett Tracy Huffman for winning our staff over with his poem. The poem A Jiifto for Somalia is the recipient of the $25 prize for this …
The Promethean, Volume 02, Number 03, Spring 1994, English Department, Concordia University-Portland
The Promethean, Volume 02, Number 03, Spring 1994, English Department, Concordia University-Portland
The Promethean
How does information affect noise? Information, we must steadily remember, is a measure of one's freedom of choice in selecting a message. The greater this freedom of choice, the greater is the uncertainty that the message actually selected is some particular one. Thus greater freedom of choice, greater uncertainty and greater information all go hand in hand.
From The Mathematics of Communication, by Warren Weaver.
I have been asked by several people, "What is The Promethean?" It dawned on me that in none of the previous issues has the origin of The Promethean's name been addressed. Prometheus was a …
The Promethean, Volume 02, Number 02, Winter 1994, English Department, Concordia University-Portland
The Promethean, Volume 02, Number 02, Winter 1994, English Department, Concordia University-Portland
The Promethean
During the course of the term, I have been fortunate enough to have studied the many complex ideas behind the question, "What is a hero?" It has occured to me that heroes may do very little but stand for very much. Consider the "hero" whom we applaud for saving someone's life: the action, in itself, may take very little time and is done with even less thought; the "hero" places herself in a perilous position in order that someone else may live, not to gain attention or reward. It is this force, this respect for humanity which holds us together. …