Archive for May, 2007

Literary Overload
May 26, 2007

This is an aside, a vent, an escape…
I can’t accomplish anything because there are too many things going on at once.
Abrogation, appropriation, mimicry, code-switching, gender politics, stereotypes, nihilism, death, love, lust, Shakespeare, drama, Socialism, post-colonialism, post-modernism, feminism etc…
I am in the middle of three essays right now and I have not had time to write [...]

Shakespeare the Honest Lover
May 14, 2007

Many people are familiar with this sonnet, but it has always been my favourite so as it was brought up in class this week I thought I would post it.
Sonnet 130
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red.
If snow be white, why then her breasts are [...]

My Australian Education
May 3, 2007

Since beginning my studies in this country I have had the privilege of learning things from a new and different perspective…the Australian Perspective. At a time when most of the world finds it easy to hate Americans I have decided to put myself out there and accept the blows. However, I don’t turn the other [...]