Holiday Observation #19 (specifically regarding study schedules and busy lives)

It's all about troubleshooting.

Motif Madness

A few thoughts on motifs, for your consideration. I apologize that this comes from 2015; I am hopeful, gentle historian, that it is not too dated.

Kite Runner Meets Amazon

We are closing down on conversation on Hosseini's The Kite Runner. So, gentle reader, it is time to consider some more not-our-own ideas to tally a well-rounded consideration of themes, characters, motivations, and outcomes.

Click here for Timothy Aubry's essay from 2009, when The Kite Runner was dominating attention on Amazon and other book-selling outlets. 

Scholarly Research: "The Lay of Finn"

Okay, gentle reader, we want better than Wikipedia or Sparknotes on this one...

What is the purpose of The Lay of Finn as it appears in the first agon of Beowulf? Digressions serve a function, if only to compare, heighten, contrast, or emphasize the main narrative action to the new "story-within-a-story." So. Which one is it here?

 Try JSTOR to start your research.

Catcher in the Rye questionnaire

Hello, junior readers. Please visit here to take the Catcher in the Rye questionnaire.

Turnitin.com Launch Codes: 2017-18

Here, gentle reader, is this year's www.turnitin.com info:

0 Hour
Class ID: 16046881
P'word: English0

2nd Hour
Class ID: 16046914
P'word: English2

3rd Hour
Class ID: 16046930
P'word: English3

5th Hour
Class ID: 16046951
P'word: English89893849fj93jfijsafkdsjrokjfkaljafjdsafj;sjaf493493
Just kidding: English5

6th Hour
Class ID: 16046975
P'word: English6

Top Five Fears, anyone?

Click here to share your top five fears.

Like clowns.