November 19, 2007
Writing in International Studies
“What is your major?” the professor of my continental world literature class asks me. Contrary to popular belief, there is a right and a wrong answer to this question. The right answer is “world literature;” anything else is unacceptable. Unfortunately, I don’t like to lie even for the sake of answering a question correctly.
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November 12, 2007
Valuable Archiving?
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone – to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone.
1984 by George Orwell
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October 05, 2007
Stories in Art and Graffiti
In a poem about his native Buenos Aires, Jorge Luis Borges writes, “Y la ciudad, ahora, es como un plano / De mis humillaciones y fracasos.”
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September 28, 2007
Visiting Virtual Case
A corner of an old stone building and the glistening silver roof of the Peter B. Lewis Building appear in a photograph on Case Western Reserve University’s homepage. The photograph is labeled with the words “Visitors: A Guide to Campus.”
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September 20, 2007
Understanding the Words We Wear
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September 14, 2007
Writing on the Third Floor Cutler
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August 31, 2007
Academic Integrity in High School...
“If you all don’t learn how to cite your papers correctly before college, you will fail out of freshman English and probably get expelled,” the teacher of my high school Literature and Composition class warned us.