To see a video of The Raven, acted by The Simpsons and narrated by James Earl Jones,
go to the "Links" on the left side of this page and click on "The Raven".
Then, write to me and tell me what you think about it, and about the poem itself!
Happy Halloween!
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
Random Thoughts
This is the place you can write your thoughts about literature, languages,your university, and your future - whenever you want! Other students are invited to encourage you, help you with things you don't understand, or simply converse with you in this type of format. Try it - it's fun and interesting, if you make it that way. Just one idea - let's try to keep it positive, and not use it to complain about the usual things.
To start, click on the word 'comments' below, read what others have written, and write your own thoughts.
By the way, if you want a specific assignment, there is one below. Enjoy!
To start, click on the word 'comments' below, read what others have written, and write your own thoughts.
By the way, if you want a specific assignment, there is one below. Enjoy!
Friday, October 20, 2006
Travelling with Mark Twain
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, satirist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.
Although Twain was confounded by financial and business affairs, his humor and wit were keen, and he enjoyed immense public popularity. At his peak, he was probably the most popular American celebrity of his time. In 1907, crowds at the Jamestown Exposition thronged just to get a glimpse of him. He had dozens of famous friends, including William Dean Howells, Booker T. Washington, Nikola Tesla, Helen Keller, and Henry Huttleston Rogers. Fellow American author William Faulkner is credited with writing that Twain was "the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs." Twain died in 1910 and is buried in Elmira, New York.
He wrote:
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." —Mark Twain, 1857
What does this mean to you? How has travelling changed your life, if at all? Do you think modern tourism encourages this kind of thinking, or not? Write your thoughts and post them to this site. I look forward to reading them all!
Although Twain was confounded by financial and business affairs, his humor and wit were keen, and he enjoyed immense public popularity. At his peak, he was probably the most popular American celebrity of his time. In 1907, crowds at the Jamestown Exposition thronged just to get a glimpse of him. He had dozens of famous friends, including William Dean Howells, Booker T. Washington, Nikola Tesla, Helen Keller, and Henry Huttleston Rogers. Fellow American author William Faulkner is credited with writing that Twain was "the first truly American writer, and all of us since are his heirs." Twain died in 1910 and is buried in Elmira, New York.
He wrote:
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." —Mark Twain, 1857
What does this mean to you? How has travelling changed your life, if at all? Do you think modern tourism encourages this kind of thinking, or not? Write your thoughts and post them to this site. I look forward to reading them all!
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