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This semester in english, I feel that I have improved a lot. One area I’ve seen improvement in is in class discussions. Towards the beginning of the year, I was very hesistant to share thoughts with the class. As I progressed, I became more comfortable and began to share out more. This resulted in meContinue reading “1st semester in review”

Clive Staples Lewis was born November 29, 1898 in Belfast, Ireland to Albert James Lewis and Florence Augusta Lewis. His father was a minister and his mother was a mathematician. However, his mother was not only good with numbers. She taught a young Clive, who went by “Jack”, English and Latin from a young age.Continue reading “C.S. Louis”

In the book “The Screwtape Letters” by C.S. Lewis, a young demon is mentored by his experienced uncle Screwtape. Wormwood, the student exchanges letters with his uncle about his “patient”, a newly converted Christian, about how to lead him astray from the good life. The name “Wormwood” is not just a random name. In realContinue reading “Wormwood”

The novel “The Screwtape Letters” by Clive Staples Louis is a collection of letters written from an experienced demon to his nephew, a younger inexperienced demon, about tips for “securing” a man for “Our Father Below”. My first impressions of this book are that is very sarcastically written, giving the reader an uneasy kind ofContinue reading “The Screwtape Letters”

Julius Caesar was historically the end of democracy in Rome. By declaring himself permanent dictator, he had taken a formerly neutral title and given it a negative connotation. Having total power would allow tyranny to occur. Cassius took it upon himself to rid Rome of this threat. His first move was to employ Brutus, anContinue reading “The Caesar Paradox”

Since the dawn of time, man and dog have been living among each other, each side helping the other out. One major task that dogs helped to fill early on was helping in hunting. Developed for these tasks were sight hounds and scent hounds, dogs in the same family, but with very different strategies. TheContinue reading “Sight vs. Scent- a look into hounds”

Today in class, we did an activity called a tableau vivant with “Julius Caesar”, where groups had to act out scenes, but couldn’t move. “Tableau vivant”, a French phrase, looks like it would mean “live tablet” from previous experiences with other languages, but it literally translates to English as “live painting”. This would make senseContinue reading ““Live Painting””

Cassius: “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141)               I see this quote as meaning that Cassius trying to tell Brutus that problems are not caused by fate, but by personal choices. This differs from the superstition in the story such asContinue reading “Julius Caesar”