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Difficulty putting together my Thesis for Philosophy of Art.

Posted in English, annoyance, art, beliefs, books, classics, college life, conversation, freewrite, help, history, hope, interesting, labor, language, life, opinion, perception, philosophy, philosophy of art, question, questions, random, reality, school, thoughts, trial and error, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 9 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Putting together my thesis for my Philosophy of Art paper… and I’m finding trouble really making everything come together. If it gives you any more reason to help me, it is my 20th birthday today.
I’m hoping someone out here will please put some thought into this as well. I’m going to put on my bullets [...]

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Shylock’s Struggle: Losing Sight of Stability

Posted in art, beliefs, classics, college life, history, interesting, play, playwright, reading, school, writing, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on 8 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

“Shylock      
      My Deeds upon my head! I crave the law,                  204
      The penalty and forfeit of my bond.                            205”
                                                      —Act IV.1, pg 79, 204-5
 
                  At Shylock’s pinnacle of quasi-control, in The Merchant of Venice, he has himself the opportunity to show Antonio, the court, and the Christian order mercy and salvation; but he instead comes to appear [...]

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A Puzzling Story

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on 8 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

When I look back in the past year, or so, I see in all of my short fiction writing one story. Every separate piece seems to be around one character who needs to be developed and put together. I’m now beginning to realize that maybe it is just one man, one story? Could I be beginning to [...]

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One of my favorite poems

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on 5 March, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I wanted to share with anyone who reads this one of my favorite poems. Maybe someday I’ll even break it down to say what it means to me.
I’ve developed a love for E. E. Cummings and here it is!
In the book of poetry I had it was just titled “315″
 
you shall above all things be glad and [...]

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Where life has placed me right now…

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 4 March, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Thanks to my own passive-ness(?) and my orientation advisor I’ve been placed in a place I’ve never thought I’d be.
I have a physics exam in less than 3 hours and lots of Linguistics homework to do.
It’s not terrible that all I’m doing lately is measuring “how much of the sun’s mass reaches the earth in [...]

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