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Emma Marris presents us with a new way of viewing nature in the first chapter of her book, “Rambunctious Garden”. She explains that the definition of nature depicted in our “glossy magazines” describing a place “somewhere distant, wild and free” is incorrect, as it “blinds us” from the truth (Marris 1). Marris argues that we must adjust this definition to also include the nature found in “the bees whizzing down Fifth Avenue in Manhattan” and “the butterfly bushes that grow alongside the urban…

Exercise Essay: Guidebook review Guidebooks in question: Buildings of England, London 4: North and The London Architecture Guide Nikolaus Pevsner and Bridget Cherry’s book, The Buildings of England, London 4: North and the Iphone application, The London Architecture Guide, take different approaches in making London’s architectural history accessible. In this essay, I compare and contrast these two guides, ultimately demonstrating that although the application is easier to understand, Pevsner’s…

Reflections on the Revolution in France, ed. Leslie George Mitchell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 10. 41 Sue Chaplin, Gothic Literature (Harlow: Longman, 2011), 15. 42 Joseph Crawford , Gothic Fiction and The Invention of Terrorism ( London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013), 40-41. 43 Bridget M. Marshall, The Transatlantic Gothic Novel and the Law, 1790–1860 (New York: Routledge, 2016 ), 91. 44 Quoted in Eleanor Rose Ty, Unsex'd Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790s…

5 Considerations Lastly, I am going to muse over the book translations and its movie adaptations. The Harry Potter franchising is fruitful, thanks to his international success. There are not only the seven books of the cycle, published by Bloomsbury. There is an incredible amount of material. For example: Movie adaptations, 3 in-universe works, video games, audiobooks, a website, a park and an upcoming book and movie. The movie adaptations belong to Warner Bros, who bought the…

Introduction: Up until today, U.S still falls behind in terms of foreign language education comparing to other countries as most people believed that since English may be the most spoken language in the world, there is no need for them to learn other languages. However that is not really the case when considering there are more advantages than the disadvantage of learning foreign language in colleges/universities. I believed that colleges and universities should continue to require its students…

There have been many studies over the years evaluating the decline in youth reading. In Charlotte Alter’s 2014, TIME magazine article, “Study: The Number of Teens Reading for Fun Keeps Declining,” she cites a study compiled by Common Sense Media. The Common Sense Media study found that while reading rates of children will steadily decrease as the get older, the decline was more significant over the last thirty years. The study found that in 1984, 8% of 13-year-olds and 9% of 17-year-olds said…

Friendship is perhaps the most documented human bond in English literature and betrayal has for long been frowned upon and disapproved of, by the public at large. Yet there is an undeniable interdependence between the two; their existence seems to be somehow dependent on one other. When the distinction between friendship and betrayal starts to lessen, the scenario becomes much more complex. For instance, friendship punctuated with intermittent betrayals typically spell doom for any friendship.…

Janel Jackman Mrs. Hanafin 9 English ¾ A 29 November 2016 Some Stories are Good, But Others are Better. There are millions of stories in the world that are “hookers” or “good reads.” But not all stories are fascinating; some are unsatisfactory or occasionally even extremely lousy. Some people don’t like to read because all the books they have read are not “good” books to them. There are elements of exceptional stories and poor stories. If someone knows the elements of books that that person…

“And at every level, there is a war on drugs, a war for drugs, and a culture of terror, all created by prohibition.”(Hari 84) Before reading the book, Chasing the Scream, by Johann Hari, I did not know much about drug prohibition. What I did know was that drugs were bad and if you were caught with them illegally you would get put in jail. I grew up not really having drugs be a topic of conversation. Drugs and drug use were not really a part of my lifestyle. In school we learned about drugs but…

ECOLOGICAL THEOLOGY AND SCIENCE Johnson, Elizabeth A. Ask the Beasts: Darwin and the God of Beasts. London: Bloomsbury, 2014. 122- 286 Elizabeth brings to our attention the doctrine of continuous creation, where the Creator is continuously present and active in the divine presence; such that creation is continuously happening. In this, there is need of dialogue in attending to the Spirit of God, dynamic ground and bearer of all evolution. This is achieved by examining how ever -present…