ENG L371 Critical Practices: "Equipments for Living" (in uncertain times)

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If you love TED talks, or are perplexed by how a third world communist country can grow so fast, or are interested in how Confucius is inext...

In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock introduced one of the most influential killer thriller's of the 20th century.  Of any century really.  Psycho....

There's a distinct relationship between Locke's "mixed modes" (818) and McCloud's icons. Most notably when thinking a...

I was staring at the poster in my room I bought after watching Takarazuka for the first time in Japan, and I couldn't help wondering how...

I found it rather interesting that during our in-class discussion regarding Up the Yangtze we took some time to assess the ways in which the...

The corrupted communistic ideal is presented clearly in the Yangtze dam.  As the dam splits the Yangtze, so does it split the country furthe...

     Awhile ago I talked about education vs agency. Now I want to talk about education vs agency vs representation. It seems to me like a pe...

Throughout the duration of the film Up the Yangtze , I was overwhelmed with Cheng's careful attention to  his representation of Cindy...

Let's face it, there has never been a truly communistic country.  Sure, there have been countries that consider themselves communist, bu...

One question that I seem to be struggling with is whether Jerry can be considered part of the subaltern.  A reigning factor in what makes so...

I’m trying to figure out why Cooper chose the title of the excerpt from A Voice from the South entitled “Our Raison D’Etre” (Our Reason f...