I am going to write on something I do not typically write on: I am going to do a movie/documentary commentary and review. I find it difficult to define what this film actually is. It is part movie, part documentary, part engaging information. So I will call it just this: a film. Alien Intrusion: Unmasking a …
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Living the Wasted Life: “The Beast in the Jungle”
A paper I wrote during my Undergrad studies reformatted as a speech I gave at the same University. Author: Henry James Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Review The story of The Beast in the Jungle is to many a great unrealized romance. Throughout the tale, there are underlying sexual tensions, unrequited love, and overwhelming heartbreak, the loss …
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Review: If on a winters night a traveler
Since you are about to begin reading a rather unique review on Italo Calvino's If on a winters night a traveler, I will begin with this disclaimer: I am not a fan of the postmodernist movement. In fact, I particularly dislike most of what came of this time, including works from art and music. However, there …
Manliness in Euripides’ “Medea”
After finishing Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series, I decided to begin reading a series of smaller plays, books, and poems from various points in history. I began this "quest" with reading Medea. I have read a handful of Greek plays and various peices of Greek literature in the past, but it was not until researching …
Review: The Kingdom Series
While the books were a gift to my brother and not for me, one of my favorite series in middle school and high school was Chuck Black's The Kingdom Series. While this series is a little different than what most might expect, a few people have asked me to write about a decent, well-grounded novel or …
Madelyn Rose Craig 