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What are your thoughts on the quarter versus the semester system? The school I go to is on the quarter system and one of my teachers complained often that the state only does it for extra money. He felt that most classes could not be taught properly in ten weeks without shedding too much material. I personally like the quarter system because I feel that I am able to take more classes on a broader range of subjects but I can also see how I am missing out on going more in depth by losing six to eight weeks worth of extra instruction.
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Brainworm posted:If you want to read novels or plays, I'd start by choosing pairs that respond to one another. You can do this with poetry, too, but influence there is more of a tangle. I'ma suggest Paradise Lost and Frankenstein, Robinson Crusoe and The Hobbit, Macbeth and American Psycho, or Gatsby and Less Than Zero/Rules of Attraction. I'm curious as to what your reasoning is for suggesting Less Than Zero/Rules of Attraction with The Great Gatsby. It's one of my favorite books and I'm always looking for a fresh perspective for when I re-read it.
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Have you read the Man Who Was Thursday, and if so, what are your thoughts on it? I picked it up the other day and read through it quickly, and I really enjoyed it up until the end. I'm guessing the weird ending has a lot to do with G.K. Chesterton's Christian upbringing but I'm still not totally sure what occurred. The book reminded me of the Jungle in that everything was going really well until the author couldn't end the book right. It was like one of those painful SNL skits where they continue the joke for too long because they can't figure out how to end it. Except in this case, Sunday's head grows, he quotes Jesus, his head explodes and then Thursday wakes up mid-conversation? Was it really all just a dream? I can't believe that lame device existed prior to the advent of lovely movies and TV shows. cosmic gumbo fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Oct 2, 2009 |
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