Brave
photo by sam d 2006 – be happy 2007 – be yourself 2008 – be creative 2009 – be brave 2010 – be social 2011…
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Does Free Will decide Who we Love?
Wherever there is a ticklish query on my mind that exceeds a few days notice, often I am forced to begin a phase of deconstruction…
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On Doubt and False Belief
Rene Descartes-”So in future, if I want to discover any certainty, I must withhold my assent from these former beliefs just as carefully as…
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The Dream Works as the Mental Modus Operandi
this was a short response for an 2-page assignment, based on Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams: Sections V – VI (except E-F-G-H) – VII (only…
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Hardy’s Penultimate Tess and Casual Savagery of One Day
“For, in spite of its comic gloss, One Day is really about loneliness and the casual savagery of fate; the tragic gap between youthful aspiration…
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Those who Teach
Everyone seems wiser with an alcoholic beverage in hand. Allow me to elaborate. Reading literature is a shortcut to wisdom. The lessons that we learn…
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Systems of Authenticity
Systems of Authenticity: A Literary Criticism of Lupton’s Thinking With Type & Benjamin’s Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Elizabeth Sarobhasa
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The Simulacra, the Simulation and the Subtext
The Simulacra, the Simulation and the Subtext: A Literary Criticism of Socrates’s Phaedrus & Baudrillard’s Precession of the Simulacra (2009) The art of a simulacrum…
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Twitter, from a Historian Perspective
The concept of time stamps on twitter has always frustrated me. Not only are they akin to bullet points, or scratches on the proverbial sun-dial,…
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Friction is a Process to an Idea
kitchen area at workingformat Consuming yogurt without spoons is a daunting task. However, we were on campus and one of our study mates was a…
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Titus Andronicus and the Skewered Limbs
Tonight’s fourth year’ english discussions were borderline sleepy, a grim foreshadowing of empty silences and knock-off’s for the rest of the semester. Attempted thoughts with…
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When Is Free Too Much of a Good Thing?
Electronic Arts, downtown Vancouver, 2008 by me! Last year I was hired to re-design the website of a newspaper club, and since the group was…
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