Lewis H. Lapham

The most renowned and classic of the genre of literary nonsense novel, beloved by avid readers over the globe more than a century, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” was written by eminent English author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll during the Victorian era. The inspiration for this fantasy fiction was a real little girl named Alice, the protagonist of the novel and Carroll invents a story related to this little girl which the title of this story ultimately…

The Wasteland is an overwhelming complexity, filled with a plethora of literature references. Ignoring the allusions, the piece itself shifts between different speakers and scenes so blatantly makes this especially difficult to digest. In one moment, a woman is reminiscing about riding on a sled when she was young. Then BAM. She’s suddenly staring at a dead sailor that’s decaying at the bottom of the sea. Needless to say, the plot is probably not the main focal point. Nevertheless, there is a…

Audubon, Meriwether Lewis (who died on the Trace in 1809), and Ulysses S. Grant are among the famous Americans to have traveled the Natchez Trace. One of the most tragic events to occur along the Natchez Trace during its “national” era was the death of Meriwether Lewis. Lewis, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, was on his way to Washington on the Trace when he rode up to Grinder’s Stand to spend the evening. Sometime during the night, the wife of the inn-owner entered Lewis’ room to find…

In the movie, Alice in Wonderland, the place that Alice goes to, Wonderland is not a real place. Wonderland is not a real place because of the following reasons: Alice sees things that could never happen in real life, Alice grows to impossible proportions at impossible speeds, and finally, Alice wakes up at the end. The first example that proves that Wonderland is not a real place is that Alice sees things that are either not real, or could never happen in real life. For example, throughout her…

definition of a city may seem like it would be simple and to the point. The work of several demographers, archaeologists, and philosophers proves that the understanding of a city requires a thorough analysis. E.B. White, Kingsley Davis, Gordon Childe, Lewis Mumford, Kenneth Jackson and Robert Bruegman have their own understandings of what a city is. White has a thought-provoking idea of a city, especially in the way he describes his visit to New York City. He feels that New York is not similar…

Sameera Abbas and Rubina Rahman’s article “Schema Disruption and Identity in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in the Wonderland” argues that our schemas both affect and are affected by the texts we read. Our schemas help us to analyze and make sense out of literature, and at the same time our schema can be called into question, completely disrupted, or, on a different note, be supported by the text. The article applies this concept to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by making the case that…

The book that I have chosen is called Jenius The Amazing guinea Pig by Dick King-Smith and illustrated by Brain Floca. This book is a chapter book with seven chapters, but even though it is a chapter book it has pictures along with it. This book is a very funny book about a little girl and her guinea pig. This little girl named Judy had two guinea pigs and one day they had one little baby. She had told her class she could train a guinea pig and she was made fun of so she thought this was the…

Once upon a time Santa and his elf decided to make Snowman. Not just any snowman, but a creamy, yummy Snowman made out of ice cream. Santa scooped the ice cream out into three round scopes. The first scoop was the largest of the three and was the bottom layer. The next scoop, was a medium size and formed the middle of the snowman. The last scoop of creamy white ice cream was the smallest scope and it was for the Snowman’s head. Once the Snowman’s body was shaped, Santa gave him cinnamon…

The harlem renaissance was a period of African American artistic accomplishment. During World War I large numbers of African Americans began leaving the south to take jobs in northern factories. They migrated from farmlands in the south to the north or the midwest in search of better opportunities such as education, better lifestyle, better socioeconomic status, and to build an ameliorate lives from themselves. Many A.A decided to travel to NYC, in Harlem. Harlem was the foundation of the…

urban scholars and writers of the 1950’s and 1960’s painted the wrong picture of the “hell” suburbia was and is seen today. Her opinion may be difficult to undercover in the beginning of her piece due to her mostly positive regard to Louis Wirth, Lewis Mumford, Jane Jacobs and William White. She sums up the views of these four by stating, “They felt that if the ‘right’ physical environment could be created, a healthy community might come of it-- So when place-based community was not present,…