Defending John Milton's Paradise Lost can be challenging, mainly due to the content of the work. Despite the religious objections people may have to...
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One would imagine there would be little need to defend William Shakespeare. After all, he is William Shakespeare, the greatest writer in the English...
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To continue the defense of the classics, for those who argue that students in schools today would be better off without them, let us move along to the...
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Over the past two weeks, I have found myself engaged in the same discussion with a variety of people. It seems that the belief is, according to...
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Twitter has the world, well, a-twitter. Now, two college freshmen at the University of Chicago are capitalizing on Twitter's success with the upcoming...
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Newsweek released a new book list, but it is not like others. This is not just one more list that reminds readers of the greatest classics, and makes...
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An exciting television guilty pleasure available this summer is the CBS mystery series Harper's Island. The show's tagline is "13 weeks. 25...
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In school, students are regularly given a standardized curriculum full of classic literature. The reaction is often the same: a mix of disinterest and...
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J.D. California's so-called sequel to The Catcher in the Rye has caused enough havoc as of late, but now it seems to be reminding the masses that they...
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