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The Grey Islands By John Steffler, Robert M.W. Brown Feb 2016

The Grey Islands By John Steffler, Robert M.W. Brown

The Goose

Review of John Steffler's The Grey Islands.


On Voice In Poetry: The Work Of Animation By David Nowell Smith, Rebecca E. Varley-Winter Feb 2016

On Voice In Poetry: The Work Of Animation By David Nowell Smith, Rebecca E. Varley-Winter

The Goose

A review of On Voice In Poetry: The Work of Animation, by David Nowell Smith.


Earth Joy Writing: Creating Harmony Through Journaling And Nature By Cassie Premo Steele, Anne Milne Feb 2016

Earth Joy Writing: Creating Harmony Through Journaling And Nature By Cassie Premo Steele, Anne Milne

The Goose

Review of Cassie Premo Steele's Earth Joy Writing.


Spatial Engagement With Poetry By Heather H. Yeung, Deborah C. Bowen Feb 2016

Spatial Engagement With Poetry By Heather H. Yeung, Deborah C. Bowen

The Goose

Review of Spatial Engagement with Poetry by Heather H. Yeung.


Field Notes For The Alpine Tundra By Elena Johnson, Claire Caldwell Feb 2016

Field Notes For The Alpine Tundra By Elena Johnson, Claire Caldwell

The Goose

Review of Elena Johnson's poetry collection, Field Notes for the Alpine Tundra.


Second Growth By Fabienne Calvert Filteau, Josephine M. Massarella Feb 2016

Second Growth By Fabienne Calvert Filteau, Josephine M. Massarella

The Goose

Review of Second Growth by Fabienne Calvert Filteau.


Cabalcor: An Extracted History By Sun Belt, Alec Follett Feb 2016

Cabalcor: An Extracted History By Sun Belt, Alec Follett

The Goose

Review of Sun Belt's Cabalcor: An Extracted History.


Devil In Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl By Anahareo, Patricia K. Mitton Feb 2016

Devil In Deerskins: My Life With Grey Owl By Anahareo, Patricia K. Mitton

The Goose

Review of Anaharea's Devil in Deerskins: My Life with Grey Owl.


As If A Raven By Yvonne Blomer, Kelly Shepherd Feb 2016

As If A Raven By Yvonne Blomer, Kelly Shepherd

The Goose

A review of As if a Raven by Yvonne Blomer.


Invasive Species By Claire Caldwell, Emily Mcgiffin Feb 2016

Invasive Species By Claire Caldwell, Emily Mcgiffin

The Goose

A review of Claire Caldwell's debut poetry collection, Invasive Species.


The Demons Of Coed Intramural Sports, Amanda M. Schleper Feb 2016

The Demons Of Coed Intramural Sports, Amanda M. Schleper

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

The purpose of this assignment was to select a topic within the realms of gender issues, complete research in the library, and conduct personal research in the form of a survey or an interview. I knew I wanted to select a topic that was relative to me and my community. After talking to several of my peers, I realized there was a large controversy over the topic of gender specific rules in coed intramural sports. Thus, I decided to delve into the issue by undertaking it as my essay topic. Researching in the library and finding many scholarly sources as …


'Let It Go': Disney's New Approach To Copyright Enforcement, Kathryn W. O'Rourke Feb 2016

'Let It Go': Disney's New Approach To Copyright Enforcement, Kathryn W. O'Rourke

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

After the research paper had been assigned, I began researching possible topics. Once I found an area that interested me, I narrowed down my research and formulated a working argument. There have been many writings about Disney's strict enforcement of copyright; I however took a different approach. I gathered scholarly and popular sources that ranged from background information, similar arguments, and counter points. For the rough draft, I first crafted an outline, then wrote the body paragraphs, and finally the introduction and conclusion. In class, we had a peer review session and my professor gave us constructive notes on our …


Black Widow: Avenger Of Feminism, Elizabeth G. Michalenko Feb 2016

Black Widow: Avenger Of Feminism, Elizabeth G. Michalenko

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

The purpose of the assignment was to construct a well-researched argument regarding a socially different superhero and their role in society. The argument needed to address the super’s social difference, as well as how that social difference defines the super’s role. Through class brainstorming sessions and individual research, I determined that emerging gender issues in American society and culture would provide the impetus for my investigation. I searched for the quintessential female hero and found Black Widow from the Marvel universe. Black Widow defies the stereotypes of women and superheroes by living within the constraints of both worlds without succumbing …


Flawed Heroes, Flawless Villain, Lauren N. Geiser Feb 2016

Flawed Heroes, Flawless Villain, Lauren N. Geiser

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

This assignment was a textual analysis of the graphic novel Watchmen. The two course objectives of ENG 200H were addressed: to “demonstrate abilities to read complicated and complex texts closely and critically” and to “explore the relevance of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) in reading, writing, and rhetoric.” Reading Watchmen, we aimed to demonstrate how the novel is related to the CIT, either through connections or disconnections. Because the assignment is a textual analysis, I had to pay close attention to the context of Watchmen and the CIT, include a summary of the text though a specific angle, narrow …


Copyright Laws In The Music Industry, Elise M. Erhart Feb 2016

Copyright Laws In The Music Industry, Elise M. Erhart

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

This assignment was to write an argumentative research paper on a topic related to the course theme, which was Remix Culture. After browsing through a list of suggested topics and reading about a number of famous copyright cases, I finally chose my topic. My biggest struggle during the composition of this paper was figuring out how to organize all of my thoughts and weave them into the research that I gathered. Having both a peer review day in class and a conference with my professor was very helpful and gave me a fresh perspective on my work, making it much …


Women In Engineering: Shifting The Balance, Samuel A. Barnhart Feb 2016

Women In Engineering: Shifting The Balance, Samuel A. Barnhart

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

This writing was submitted as the final research paper for my English class. The paper includes analysis of multiple sources and my original research done via survey of female engineering students at the University of Dayton. The paper underwent several peer reviews in class, assessed by the professor before submission, and was critiqued at the Write Place before submission.


Changing Princess Peach, Christian A. Matico Feb 2016

Changing Princess Peach, Christian A. Matico

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

The main assignment for this paper was to gather sources from academia and various news sources and create a synthesis argument on a topic dealing with women in a certain field. All of the students chose a topic they felt strongly about and that showed how women have been encompassed in my field. Due to my admiration of video games, I decided to show how specifically female characters were being portrayed in popular titled games. A lot of research came from our presentations we had to do before hand on our topic and further research was done to gather statistics …


Fake Characters: Real Suffering, Brian P. Callahan Feb 2016

Fake Characters: Real Suffering, Brian P. Callahan

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

In this paper, I was asked to describe positive or negative literacy sponsors I have encountered in my life.


A Letter To A Struggling German Catholic During The Reformation, Rachel G. Zinck Feb 2016

A Letter To A Struggling German Catholic During The Reformation, Rachel G. Zinck

Line by Line: A Journal of Beginning Student Writing

The assignment presented was to write a position paper in the format of a letter to a German Catholic friend undergoing an existential crisis during the Reformation period. First, we needed to analyze Martin Luther's 3 Walls of the Romanists, and then take a stance either choosing to follow or ignore Luther. In writing this essay, I spent a lot of time reading over Luther's arguments and reflecting on my own personal views and compared them with careful consideration. I was aware that the situation at the time was a matter of life and death for many, and attempted to …


Frye As Forefather?: The Bush Garden And Canadian Ecocriticism, Matthew Zantingh Feb 2016

Frye As Forefather?: The Bush Garden And Canadian Ecocriticism, Matthew Zantingh

The Goose

This review considers the importance of Northrop Frye's collection of writings on Canada in The Bush Garden from an ecocritical perspective. It asks how Frye's thinking remains problematic but might also be re-engaged from a contemporary perspective.


Contemporary Vietnamese Fiction Written About The War From The Gender Perspective, Thai Phan Vang Anh Feb 2016

Contemporary Vietnamese Fiction Written About The War From The Gender Perspective, Thai Phan Vang Anh

Bahasa dan Seni: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, Seni, dan Pengajarannya

The nature of every war is the same, whether in Asian countries, in Vietnam or anywhere else. However, in reality and literature, war always brings many faces, depending on which aspects and which perspectives it is seen and explained. From the gender perspective, we believe that under a certain aspect “a war has a female face”. Contemporary Vietnamese fiction describes war from the view of “feminine disposition”, realizes women’s beauty during and after war and condemns the brutal destruction of war from the fate of women. From the feminist perspective on war, contemporary Vietnamese fiction also mentions the instinctive desire, …


Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick, Joshua Schuster Feb 2016

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? By Philip K. Dick, Joshua Schuster

The Goose

A retrospective review of Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?


Dead And Out Of Place? Revisiting Roughing It In The Bush, Elise J. Mitchell Feb 2016

Dead And Out Of Place? Revisiting Roughing It In The Bush, Elise J. Mitchell

The Goose

Review of Susanna Moodie's Roughing It in the Bush.


Honk If You Love Book Reviews! Looking Back At 10 Years Of Book Reviews In The Goose, Amanda M. Di Battista Feb 2016

Honk If You Love Book Reviews! Looking Back At 10 Years Of Book Reviews In The Goose, Amanda M. Di Battista

The Goose

This editorial looks back at 10 years of book reviews in The Goose to consider how book reviews have helped to shape the landscape of Canadian ecocriticism. It also looks forward to suggest how book reviews will continue to be an integral part of The Goose.


Henning Wrage, Assistant Professor Of German Studies, Musselman Library, Henning Wrage Feb 2016

Henning Wrage, Assistant Professor Of German Studies, Musselman Library, Henning Wrage

Next Page

In this issue of Next Page, Assistant Professor of German Studies, Henning Wrage reveals the book that caused him to become a vegetarian—for a short time at least, and the unusual reading matter that literally surrounded him as a child.


Summer Sunlight And A Blackness Ten Times Black: Nathaniel Hawthorne's Problem Of Sin, Kaitlyn Lindgren Feb 2016

Summer Sunlight And A Blackness Ten Times Black: Nathaniel Hawthorne's Problem Of Sin, Kaitlyn Lindgren

Religion: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

Nathaniel Hawthorne has typically been understood as an anti-Puritan. However, much of his work suggests that he was not rejecting Puritanism. Rather, Hawthorne was using narrative to deconstruct the doctrinal dichotomies of Puritanism and Unitarianism, which were prevalent during his lifetime.


Oceanic Turns And American Literary History In Global Context, Michelle Burnham Feb 2016

Oceanic Turns And American Literary History In Global Context, Michelle Burnham

English

Narratives of American literature and history like to begin with what was wrong about this older map, and scholars such as Peter Hulme and others have taught us to understand that it was the power of maps like Toscanelli’s that convinced Columbus that Cuba was really Cathay, and that Hispaniola must be Japan.1 Anecdotes about Columbus’s cartographic and continental confusion now usually circulate as humorous early modern warnings about the failure to ask for directions or the humiliating consequences of bad geography. But this perspective only encourages students and scholars alike to ignore what is perhaps most revealing about this …


Apprenticeship In Learning Design For Literature Courses, Thomas Luxon Feb 2016

Apprenticeship In Learning Design For Literature Courses, Thomas Luxon

Dartmouth Scholarship

This essay explains how research in Physics education by Eric Mazur, arguing from the pedagogic deficiencies of instruction through lectures, has been applied successfully in a thorough revision of two undergraduate courses in English, one on John Milton and another on William Shakespeare." (supplied on the final publisher version)",This essay explains how research in Physics education by Eric Mazur, arguing from the pedagogic deficiencies of instruction through lectures, has been applied successfully in a thorough revision of two undergraduate courses in English, one on John Milton and another on William Shakespeare.


“Are We Playing A Game Today?” Classroom Engagement And Assessment Through Gamification, Tracy A. Hudson Ms, Kendall Lentz Feb 2016

“Are We Playing A Game Today?” Classroom Engagement And Assessment Through Gamification, Tracy A. Hudson Ms, Kendall Lentz

Winthrop Conference on Teaching and Learning

Today’s classroom demands a different style of engagement and assessment, primarily due to the changing nature of today’s learners. In fact, according to Liz Dwyer in “How Gaming is Changing the Classroom,” by the time students are age 21, they will have participated in over 10,000 hours of video gaming. As a result, using traditional pedagogies and “skill and drill” teaching strategies aren’t as effective with students who are more inclined to favor a controller over a book. Therefore, regardless of the discipline, adding gamification to the classroom can dramatically increase student engagement and also provide instructors with instantaneous assessment …


Getting The Picture: Engaging Student Learning Using Pinterest, Jo Koster Feb 2016

Getting The Picture: Engaging Student Learning Using Pinterest, Jo Koster

Winthrop Conference on Teaching and Learning

In a digital environment, teachers and students have access to a wide variety of material that can be used to create discussion, spark inquiry, and prompt critical thinking. One of the social media tools that can be used for this is Pinterest, a free online visual discovery, collection, sharing, and storage tool that allows users to curate and share information through the creation of visual bookmarks called “boards.” Users can “pin” material to their boards either by linking to other online sites or by uploading materials of their own; boards can be grouped by similar characteristics, themes, events, questions, ideas, …