Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
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3:10 pm - Looking for college with online BA in English or Creative Writing
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tsunary
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To keep from going tl;dr on my situation heres the basics: Live in a crap state and city with no jobs or public transportation, ending up spending more this year in classes than anticipated, need to leave my community college after this year, and won't have the funds to move somewhere better to attend a university in person.
So what I'm wondering is are any of the online schools fully legit? I've heard bad things about Phonix, DeVry, and Full Sail. But has anyone heard/have input on SNHU? I also briefly saw some state colleges do have programs, but I'm not sure which so recs would be helpful.
Has anyone on here got there degree from an online university?
And FYI I'm looking to go into either an BA in English but preferrably with an emphasis in Creative Writing or Poetry.
I'd love any recs or input you could give me.
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
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4:24 am - A question
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sechilles
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My friends and I are having a major fight over the usage of punctuation in relation to quotation marks and I would really appreciate if any of you guys could tell me if there is any possible circumstance where it would be OK to use full stop (.) on either side of a quotation mark.
Like this: .".
I apologize but you guys are our last hope. PLEASE ANSWER ME BEFORE I GO ON A KILLING SPREE!!!
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Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011
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7:39 pm - The Hidden Hand by E.D.E.N. Southworth
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butterflywings3
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Hi, all,
I'm creating a curriculum unit around Southworth's The Hidden Hand; it's a 19th century novel that was first published in The New York Ledger (1859) in serialized format. Do any of you know where I can find an image of the serialized story (cover page, a chapter, anything?) I've done numerous Google and library searches looking for information about The New York Ledger and this book, but I'm coming up short. My next step is to go to a library that has this on microfilm, but I thought I'd try here first.
Thank you for any help!
x-posted, sorry if you've seen this twice.
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Sunday, May 1st, 2011
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11:26 am - Paper help
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krazykat_neko
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Hi! I'm an English major and I'm currently taking a Studies in Shakespeare class. I have a major paper due tomorrow that I've badly procrastinated on and I need a little help fine tuning my thesis. My paper is comparing/contrasting Ophelia (Hamlet), Lady Anne (Richard III) and Isabella (Measure for Measure) and my thesis is that all of these characters were manipulated in some form by the male characters in the plays. It feels kind of broad to me but I'm kind of scratching my head and trying to think of a way to focus my paper on. This is supposed to be a 6-7 page paper btw.
I know I'm coming off as a bad English major here but I still have trouble coherently forming my thoughts on academic essays. I feel like I'm all over the place when start writing this stuff.
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Sunday, April 24th, 2011
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10:31 pm - Question
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aramis_chan
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Hi! I'm new here, and I hope I'm not being rude in asking a question right away.
But if not... I have the following sentences:
- How come he went back to that place etc.
and
Ah! It's that there was a person etc.
Is that free indirect, or simple indirect/reported speech? I'd assume the former, but I'm unsure because the "how come" and the "it's" function like a "she said", and then you have a subordinate clause like in indirect speech. Any thoughts?
current mood:  confused
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Sunday, March 27th, 2011
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9:46 am - Kind of Nervous to Ask This
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gunsofporn
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Hello fellow English Majors!
I want to ask some questions, but I'm worried I'll come off as rude and I hope that doesn't happen. I'm towards the end of my degree, so I'm hoping no one says "Well just change your major".
Since high school, I have found that my love for reading outside of the classroom has diminished because of the amount of reading I had to do in class. Now as a college student, when I talk with my fellow English majors, I feel as though I'm seriously behind on "good" literature. I put good in quotation marks because I'm not sure what qualifies as good literature anymore. I've always felt that as long as you were reading, it can't be bad. My eyes have opened up since.
So my questions to you are:
1. How do I rekindle my love of reading? Will it come back to me when I graduate? Will I shout from the rooftops "Finally! I can read again"?
2. What should I read? I don't know what is "good" literature and what is "bad" literature. Who are the authors that are in right now? I don't really have a favorite genre, so I'm hoping to read works from all different kinds of genres. Even comics.
3. Do you sometimes feel judged based upon what you've read?
Again, I hope I do not tick off anyone with these questions, as that was definitely not my intent. Thank you for reading this.
current mood:  curious
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Saturday, March 5th, 2011
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8:51 pm - English Words
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narcissus1
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Hello everyone, I've been following this community for a while, but this is the first I'm posting here. The thing is, I need some help. I hope its okay for me to ask here.
Do any of you know where I can find some info/stats on English words? I mean something like number of words, number of nouns and verbs, number of compound words, loan words...stuff like that. Preferably, I need the breakdown for Modern English along with Old and/or Middle English.
Some background, just in case: I'm doing an assignment for an introductory morphology class, and my group is looking at the changes that the English language has undergone (and is undergoing) to try and 'predict' how English will look like in the future.
Thanks in advance :)
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Monday, February 21st, 2011
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12:23 am - Praxis II
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cathubodva
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Any educators or future educators here who have recently taken the Praxis II in English Content Knowledge? Did you use a study guide? Which one, and do you feel it prepared you for what was on the exam?
I've been out of college for almost four years now, and am taking the exam next month. The study guides are overwhelming me, and I'm not sure how difficult this is going to be. I did well in college but didn't take any real "grammar" classes (besides History of the English Language and Latin, which count in my mind!) and I'm not sure how much of a negative impact that's going to have on me.
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Monday, December 13th, 2010
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5:47 am
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xicarus_complex
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Hi! I'm new to the community, so, if this type of post is frowned on, please let me know and I'll delete it. I have an essay due Tuesday for my Renaissance Lit class, but I can't seem to articulate a strong, clear thesis and I didn't have time to see my prof during her office hours this week. I've decided to write about Queen Elizabeth I's use of possessive adjectives in her "Speech to the Troops at Tillbury" (1588) and I'd appreciate feedback on my tentative thesis statement: "The repeated use of possessive adjectives in Queen Elizabeth I's "Speech to the Troops at Tillbury" shows that she is as reliant on her people as on God for legitimacy". I don't feel like that's an accurate representation of the argument I want to make, nor am I even sure if the argument I'd like to make is sufficiently textual or if it's more historical, but she establishes her right to rule by identifying with the English people and by identifying as divine. Don't hesitate to tell me that that's utter nonsense and/or I'm beyond help. I did want to tackle an argument about all the "mys" in that text, but it's not a subject with which I'm entirely comfortable (obviously) and I can definitely switch to a topic I'm better acquainted with if I have to. Ideally, I want to take on a challenge and I don't want to disappoint my professor because she knows I planned to tackle this one, but I'd much rather write a quality essay on a "safe" topic I know well than write a cruddy essay for no reason.
Gah, I ramble when I'm tired. Thanks in advance for all your help and I hope you have a wonderful day!
current mood:  tired
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Monday, December 6th, 2010
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5:03 pm - Emergency help needed: What is "Proustian paralysis"?
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funkyturtle
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I'm writing a paper (due tomorrow) on humanity/loss of humanity/retention of humanity in "Ghosts Have Warm Hands," the memoirs of a Canadian soldier in WWI. I'm examining this using a psych theory book on the conceptualization of persons via narrative self-construction. At one point it says:
"A person emerges when such an individual does the psychological work required to organize this experience in an ongoing, self-reflexive
narrative. It is obviously impossible that this narrative should contain each and every event befalling the human being in full detail--such a goal would result in a Proustian paralysis in which the recognizable general features for a coherent story would be lost in the richness of information."
I have no idea what a Proustian paralysis is. Wikipedia is not helping. I really need to understand it because the selection of which details to include (and the very idea of richness of information vs plain story) is very important for my analysis of this book. I'm arguing that the author's choice to include encounters on the battlefield with his dead brother's ghost are part of what defines and retains his humanity in the horror of the trenches. I really need to know if the Proustian paralysis comment is providing evidence for or against my idea. Either way I can make it work, I just need to know if I'm agreeing with this person or arguing with them on this point.
Does anyone on here have the ability to briefly explain or send me to a link where I could go to get a good sense of "Proustian paralysis" ? I have zero knowledge of Proust other than that he's French and famous.
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Wednesday, December 1st, 2010
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8:05 pm - Realism
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regn_espere
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In American Realism is it fair to say that a single character can be representative of a collective group? So a female character representative of a "typical female" during that time period? Or a African American character representative of "all slaves" during the 17th Century?
I've asked my professor, but he keeps swimming around the answer. Is that part of realism, that a character can represent a whole?
One of the notes he gave us that all of my fellow classmate-friends are confused about as well is "Characters appear in their real complexity of temperament and motive; they are in explicable relation to nature, to each other, to their social class, to their own past."
So I feel like that is saying No to my question and then Yes.
Thoughts?
current mood: curious
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010
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8:49 pm - Quick Matthew Arnold Question...
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kalenel
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I've decided to change my paper topic at the last second for a class that ends in two weeks. Yes, I know it's stupid, but I feel really passionate about this idea, and I cannot claim the same for the previous one.
My question is whether any Matthew Arnold scholars know if he wrote any criticism on John Milton--in particular, on "Paradise Lost". I've looked through the short essay he wrote in his second series, and its complete rubbish as far as actual, particular criticism on any of Milton's works, really. I'm going to keep looking, but in the interest of time, I thought I'd pick your collective brains as well.
If anyone is interested, I'm looking at analyzing the Miltonic influences in Arnold's "Balder Dead". I need Arnold's thoughts on Milton to see where Arnold might be coming from as he's writing "Balder Dead".
Thanks in advance!
current mood: curious
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Monday, November 22nd, 2010
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5:27 pm - Free 2-day shipping at Amazon.com for students
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Saturday, November 20th, 2010
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8:59 pm - An article by Mark Sanders
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butterflywings3
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Hi, all,
Has anyone read the article "Truth, Telling, Questioning: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Antjie Krog's Country of My Skull, and Literature after Apartheid" by Mark Sanders?
I'm having difficulty with the concepts in this article; I think his prose is throwing me off and I can't wrap my head around what he's trying to say/accomplish with this article. I can't locate an abstract or a summary anywhere, but maybe someone knows of one.
I've read Krog's Country of My Skull already and have done other research about South Africa after apartheid.
Thanks for any help!
current mood:  frustrated
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Sunday, October 31st, 2010
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7:15 pm - Halloween Reading?
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orpheus78
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Are there any authors or stories that you enjoy reading around Halloween?
I am huge on Poe around Halloween. I am also partial to haunted house stories such as Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House.
current mood:  chipper
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Monday, October 4th, 2010
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9:09 am - lolcats, WWI, media and cultural commentary
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funkyturtle
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I'm in an undergrad elective course called Media & Memory which is examining how film altered how people depict and remember the first world war in Canadian lit.
One of the basic tenants of my prof is that every time there is a new media the culture reacts by using the new media to undercut the old. Plato ripped apart oral storytellers for not remembering exactly what they just said when he interrupted them mid-stanza. The availability of a printed copy of the bible enabled laypeople to correct/argue with the interpretations of the clergy. And film gave people the sense of the real, the "truth" about the war that journalists and other writers were hiding. Film then was copied by books (in a form of verbal cinema) so that books about WWI after the famous propaganda film "the battle of the Somme" reflected a more cinematic approach to structure and imagery. After film came TV. (Somewhere in there is radio but I can't remember where and the prof hasn't gone into detail.) After TV came the Internet. The big thing film, tv and the Internet share are images, however we have depicted images in an increasingly skeptical and/or ironic way.
In class, the prof made the statement "no one is analyzing how their new ipad impacts their culture, but someone years from now will be commenting on it." and I immediately went "but I am thinking about that now."
And so we come to the image macro - an image with text which often contradicts and/or comments on and/or uses ironic snark to make people laugh and/or smirk. I'm thinking of everything from the bunny with the pancake on its head to the picture of the two women protesting in Iran with the caption 'these women are probably dead by now' to dunecat himself telling us the spice must flow. I'm also thinking of a T.V. variant of this on the Colbert Report: the segment known as "the word" where Colbert says one thing and the split screen text to the right says another.
I want to write a paper on this. I want the title of the paper to be "im in ur medias, undercuttin ur messages."
Other than Marshall MacLuhan, can anyone think of any good scholarly resources I could use to explore the implications of image macros and the Colbert Report with respect to new media vs old media? I'm also wondering if I want to come up with a conclusion other than "hey look! it's just like what happened in WWI" because I'm not comfortable equating lolcats with people telling the truth about the horrors of war. I am wanting to make a valid point about how popular culture is using image macros to comment on itself, I'm just not sure, at this point, exactly what my conclusion will be.
I'm of course not asking anyone to do research for me, but this is such a whacked out topic that I'm having difficulties figuring out where I should start looking.
Any suggestions?
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Friday, September 10th, 2010
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2:29 pm - hunting for a used book
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Monday, September 6th, 2010
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12:53 am - Free Amazon Prime for students
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theonlytime
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Amazon is currently giving free 1 year memberships to Amazon Prime (free 2 day shipping, $3.99 overnight shipping) to current students with a .edu email address: http://www.amazon.com/gp/student/signup/info I'm not sure how long they're offering this (it doesn't say on the site).
Just thought i'd give fellow students the heads up on this in case you haven't heard about it yet. This is going to save me a ton on shipping textbooks this year!
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Sunday, September 5th, 2010
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11:34 am - M.A. Programs
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rosesstink89
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Hi everyone,
I'm a senior in college right now and will be graduating in the spring with a B.A. in English. I'm beginning the application process for grad school and my school/advisors have really fallen short in helping me find programs. I'm looking for M.A. English programs. Can anyone recommend some schools beyond the near-impossible to get into?
Thanks!!
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