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Elizabeth and Van Gogh: Case Studies in Madness

*All Van Gogh quotes taken from gallery.com, in “The Complete Letters”*   In the act of creating, there is a level of good vers... read more

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Gaza: Close Up - Reported by Raphael Frankl

I never thought I would be drawing parallels between Americans and Israelis, but when Raphael Frankl made the assessment that the majority of the Isra... read more

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Into the Chaos: Elizabeth's Brutal Honesty

              Luke Skywalker, Harry Potter, and Frodo Baggins: what do they have in comm... read more

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The Vagina Monologues: A Culture of Gender

     The twenty remaining actresses sit backstage, listening to the second to last “monologue” over the monitor. Miche... read more

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"Faith": Masuji Ono vs. Sartre

*All information here credited to Sartre’s philosophies, with minimal exceptions, can be found in Walter Kaufmann’s Existentialism from Do... read more

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Masuji Ono's Jiminy Cricket

                     What is “conscience”? ... read more

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With Utmost Delicacy

With Utmost Delicacy Post-war Japan is in quiet chaos: her streets are peppered with debris, many of her buildings are nothing but rubble and set... read more

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Hestia with Icarusian Tendencies

New Year’s Eve, 2004. 9:30 p.m. I put my jewelry box, my current book, some food, and my purse into a small box. I’m getting ready for my ... read more

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Introducing Jen Bird

My name is Jen McDonnell. I am a senior here at CSUC; I will be graduating in May with my BA in English with Honors. I am currently working on my hono... read more

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