Rachel: Well, I have Nurse Lauren. I wouldn’t have my sanity without her. She and I became best friends over the course of Adam’s treatment because I spent more time here than I did at home. And, when I was home, none of the other moms knew what it was like to have a child...
Knight in Paper Armor is what you are looking for to fill that need. I’m just not sure anyone needs this much preaching from an otherwise decent story. Keep in mind this is a dystopian novel set in the future, but it is playing with metaphors of today’s news reports. Natalia ...
What did he do and what does that mean? Will he and Ivy be the same since we know that they have both changed, and we know that Ivy has put up walls against him. What does all this mean for Westfall, and of course what’s going on with Ivy’s sister and Father? All of these ...
What is dystopian about "There Will Come Soft Rains"? Dystopian Fiction: The adjective "dystopian" is used to describe fictional narratives that describe a negative future environment, usually in the context of a future in which the novel or short story is set. Ray Bradbury many narratives that...
Yes, now we know about the importance of handwashing, but that doesn’t mean everyone does it. We have not become wiser in our personal lives. We have not become wiser in our politics. And we certainly have not become wiser in our behavior when faced with disease. Happily, as awful ...
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As a baby, you learn your first language by inferring connections between things and sounds – you make up your own discourses about what words mean and how to use them, and refine from there (is this linguistic assertion a theory or just a discourse? Well in this essay we’re calling ...
in flame in the next. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t try. Concentrate on creating a world worth achieving. Think those ideas that are currently unspeakable due to politics, social or cultural mores and challenge them. Make them go away or turn them on their heads and run with it. ...
even though they don’t always work or protect everyone equally. They try to maintain control over civilians, and if that goes away something else will fill the vacuum. Power is never destroyed; it just changes hands. When it does, will the new leaders use their control to uplift others ...
We kicked off our dystopian book clubs this week and the students are pretty excited. This genre of books is my favorite, and the favorites of many students, and yet there are also some who have never experienced it. For the past month, we have been ac