Fanny Hill

1913 and was a little late getting married by the standards of the time. However, he did like associating with the girls when he could. In the first week of September of that year he was guiding two young ladies both 21 year olds, Hannah Pender and Fanny Wilcox. Both girls lived north up the Blackstone Road from the Jennings. No doubt with Arthur’s expert knowledge of the lake the girls caught a 40 pound…

Freedom of expression is a uniquely American tradition, at least to the extent we have here. Amy Witherbee, a researcher who studies how democracy and censorship go hand and hand said “At the core of censorship is always a parallel belief in the ability of an idea to alter lives and change nations. The challenge is to let those ideas wreak their havoc, and trust in our capacity as the citizens of a democracy to make of the damage something better than what was there before. If, on the other hand…

Mary Shelley’s frame story Frankenstein (1818) explores the dangers of scientific discoveries alongside challenging father-child relationships in a patriarchal society. Caryl Churchill’s play ‘A Number’ (2002) examines the ethics behind human cloning and questions if a patriarchal society can adjust to this through assessing father-son relationships. The unsuccessful way the men handle situations involving their children is the backbone for most of the troubles in the frame story and play. For…

command. We must “understand the times” and discern the best course to take which is reaching a postmodern audience where they are—online. Social media is our “Athens” online which we cannot ignore just as Paul did not ignore those gathered on Mars Hill. To the critics of social media, social media is not the Holy Grail, the magic bullet, Internet church, or replace face-to-face interaction—it is a means of grace to join God in God’s mission…

surrounded by stacks of Commentary magazines and books on the British empire and the Middle East.” In other words, an armchair warrior—literally. Is it any wonder Feith has been Ineffective? By contrast, the Highly Effective Imperialist gets off his fanny and “goes native.” We might consider, for example, Richard Francis Burton—now he was Effective. In the days before jets or mints on your hotel room pillow, Burton made his way across five continents. He helped discover the source of the Nile;…