Written by Sophia Magliocca for Prof. Andrea Strudensky “Does she love me, does she love me not please let me know” he said this game of chance most lovers play it was much pressure to sublime a single petal and much persistence to uphold such a pitied wish and yet he didn’t ponder, not a single second for what passionate soul had enough love left in their pocket to pretend to even care “Does she love me, does…
Written by Gajanan Velupillai for Prof. Irene Ogrizek Alice Munro’s acute sense of human interactions and relations is often perceived as being driven by a feminist ideology. Through reading her short stories, the reader instinctively casts Munro as being a writer on the woman’s side. Although most of her stories are indeed centered on their emotional and spiritual growth and development, Munro’s concerns are not limited to female subordination; she is not demanding equity assuming only the woman is being…
Written by Meghan Elcheson for Prof. Shalon Noble In William Wordsworth’s two poems “Michael, a Pastoral Poem” and “Tintern Abbey,” the spirit of nature provides the foundation for a covenant between humanity and the natural world, a covenant gifted through love and experience to guide and protect the self. To Wordsworth, the spirit of nature is ultimately truthful and thus nature becomes authentic in and of itself. Through the contrast of upholding and breaking this covenant, these works impart manifold…
Written by Morgan Rowe for Prof. Jeff Gandell All the shiny metal phones seemed to magnetize me, drawing me to them. I wanted badly to replace my scratched up Motorola for the better and newer iPhone, until I saw the Apple advertisement hanging on the wall at the Telus store. The ad was simple – just a picture of a green forest with the following statement: “over 99 percent of the paper in our packaging is recycled or sustainable….