In which I try to, “Discuss the differences in the ways the image of sunset functions in Wordsworth’s Intimations of Immortality and Coleridge’s The Lime-Tree.” (1994)
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Coleridge and Wordsworth
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VW
How lame! Here is a little something I wrote in my senior year of high school. Through the wonders of modern technology, it is now posted here for you to read. I wrote this one day instead of paying attention to Miss Bowman’s English class just to see if a girl named Karin France would like it.
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Titus Andronicus
Representations of Gender Ideologies in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus
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Writing Collection
This is a collection of papers, take-home exams, class presentations, essays, fiction, bad poetry, whatever … As much of my writing that I could find on this hard drive …
Enjoy!
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list groupings, correct use of commas
Ending Lists
Why does it seem that nobody knows the correct way to end a comma-delimited list? Did they stop teaching this after 1980 or something? Let’s review, shall we?
First let me explain the philosophy upon which the correct use of “commas in lists” rests. It’s another topic that I realize they almost definitely stopped teaching after 1980: mathematics. Take the following expression:
1 + 1 x 3
If you studied mathematics in school you should remember the algorithm that is used to resolve it. There are no special characters in this expression, so we evaluate any division or multiplication first, then addition and subtraction, and we go from left to right. So this expression - in your mind - looks like this:
Grammar must have algorithms or else it’s useless.
1 + whatever I get when I multiply 1 and 3
The expression evaluates to 4, of course. To make the expression easier, you could add brackets or parentheses.
1 + (1 x 3)
That equals 4 as well, and is, in fact, logically equivalent to the first expression.
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Helen Keller
“I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate - that we could mould our lives into any form we pleased … I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life’s struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about. I forgot that I owed my success partly to the advantages of my birth and environment … Now, however, I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.”
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
An essay on “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by David Gagne
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A Farewell to Arms
An essay on A Farewell to Arms by David Gagne
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A Farewell to Arms
An essay on A Farewell to Arms by David Gagne
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The Sun Also Rises
An essay on The Sun Also Rises by David Gagne
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Sudden, Unexpected Interjection
an essay on In Our Time by David Gagne
This is one of the worst things I’ve ever written. I was ashamed to hand it to my professor. It was for AML 3124 and it was completed on 12 / 08 / 95 …
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Across the River and Into the Trees
An essay on Across the River and into the Trees by David Gagne
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The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
“Mr. Wilson is really very impressive killing anything,” an essay on “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by David Gagne.
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To Have and Have Not
“No matter how a man alone ain’t got no bloody [...] chance,” an essay on To Have and Have Not by David Gagne.
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