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Collaborative Learning In Context: The Problem With Peer Tutoring, Harvey Kail

English Faculty Scholarship

Describes the effects that institutionalization of peer tutoring is having on the teaching-learning relationship.

Willy Loman And The "Soul Of A New Machine": Technology And The Common Man, Richard T. Brucher

English Faculty Scholarship

As Death of a Salesman opens, Willy Loman returns home “tired to the death” (p. 13). Lost in reveries about the beautiful countryside and the past, he's been driving off the road; and now he wants a cheese sandwich. But Linda's suggestion that he try a new American-type cheese — “It's whipped” (p. 16) — irritates Willy: “Why do you get American when I like Swiss?” (p. 17). His anger at being contradicted unleashes an indictment of modern industrialized America:

The street is lined with cars. There's not a breath of fresh air in the neighborhood. The grass don't grow …