Poetic Devices in Dunya Mikhail’s Poetry
In an interview with NPR, Dunya Mikhail, and Iraqi poet who fled her home country 17 years ago during the Gulf War, reads two of her poems (I Was in […]
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Perspectives Letter
Dear Mr. Sykes and Mr. Picot, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for what you are doing for my people, and owe you a great debt which […]
Modernism
Modernism is the style/era of writing which focuses on the idea of transcending societal beliefs and the general ideas portrayed in literature, especially during the Romantic Period. The crux of […]
La Bohème
Today I saw my second opera at the Seattle Opera in McCaw Hall, La Bohème. Set in Paris in the 1830s, Giacomo Puccini’s Italian masterpiece tells the heart-wrenching story of […]
Free Will
My belief is that free will is extremely limited, and essentially does not exist. Instead, everything that is processed by our mind is part of an extremely advanced algorithm which […]
The White Rose: The Young Heroes of WWII
A portfolio of Sophie Scholl. Why Did I Choose Sophie Scholl? The primary reason I chose Sophie Scholl as the subject of my research was that she was a […]
Justice and Morality in The Stranger
A common theme of modern literature is criticism of the structure of society. The aspect of society most examined in Albert Camus’ The Stranger is justice. Monsieur Meursault, the protagonist, […]
Exploring Distances 2.0 