by altha-admin | Oct 9, 2011 | Articles
"This should work"."You should care.""I should think so.""Should" is quite a loaded word, one that permits people to hold on to the ideal while facing an unpleasant "real"."I should have done this."The nasty...
by altha-admin | Oct 9, 2011 | Articles
"But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses." (Matthew 6:15)Ouch! I though that the forgiveness of God was everlasting?!"Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou...
by altha-admin | Oct 9, 2011 | Articles
What was Madame Bovary's problem?She was striving for something. She was striving.Flaubert's omniscient, ironical narrator diagnoses her as resistant to faith, whose mystery she refuses to submit to.The human mind rebels against what it cannot understand our...
by altha-admin | Oct 9, 2011 | Articles
Hawthorne was terrible. At least, my experience there was.Lawndale was bound to be better. And in many ways, it was."Mr. Schaper, we know that you're a good teacher, but we don't respect you."This coming from one senior. How clairvoyant he must have...
by altha-admin | Oct 9, 2011 | Articles
I won a hundred bucks once in a lottery.Actually, it was a couple of movie tickets, and the movie wasn't that great.Still, the fact that I won something was very rewarding. The main point being that I did nothing to earn it.That's what I call rewarding.Now,...
by altha-admin | Oct 9, 2011 | Articles
I liked my English teacher in high school.I learned a lot from him. At least, that's what I thought for a long time.Yet since accepting the hulking fraud which passed for public education, I had to reevaluate my esteem for this English teacher.Originally, I liked...
