Robinson Crusoe

“Our right to hunt, fish, harvest, and trap when it intersects with settler’s ability to enjoy their summer cottages is a major controversy in this country. It’s one that has to be sorted out ASAP because our hunting and fishing rights are upheld and your summer home, well, isn’t it nice.” In this episode of Red Man Laughing- The Wild Rice Wars, the host, Ryan McMahon, addresses the effects of present-day colonialism on Indigenous Peoples and their inherited rights, specifically the controversy…

SENIOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY The role of your guidance counselor and teachers in preparing “Secondary School Reports” is to provide an overview of your academic and extracurricular achievement, as well as, some sense of your promise for further personal and intellectual growth. We need your help if we are to provide college admissions officers (or people who will be considering you for scholarships) with a clear picture of what makes you, “you.” Please give us an honest evaluation of yourself by…

of Miss Watson, and later Jim, whereas the narrator of the Invisible Man begins his journey as a high-school graduate headed for college. A novel that has been crudely classified as a bildungsroman that would fail this metric, for example, is Robinson Crusoe. Crusoe’s age is much less discernible and appears to a young adult, someone who has been largely educated prior to his misadventures that lead to a predicament of social uncertainty. It is his previous development and knowledge of social…

The Painted Veil is a 1925 novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham. The title is taken from Percy Bysshe Shelley's sonnet which begins "Lift not the painted veil which those who live / Call Life". The biographer Richard Cordell notes that the book was influenced by Maugham's study of science and his work as a houseman at St Thomas' Hospital. The novel was first published in serialised form in five issues of Cosmopolitan (November 1924 – March 1925). Beginning in May 1925, it was serialised…