Love In L.A

  “Strange and marvelous things you see…or have seen: Walt Whitman’s “Ethiopia” made generationally personal”… Choose  two historical events  and add your own personal memory and perspective  upon them. What was so “strange and marvelous” about them? What might  you tell your children and grandchildren about these events? What words  of “present-day wisdom” might you…

Students will produce book outlines of the biblical book of Job, read and summarized for the reading assignment. Outlines should be thorough and not merely based on headings found in a particular English version but thoughtful analysis. Outlines should account for important literary movements and changes throughout the book, showing at least three levels of…

   As stated in the Study Guide, the student should begin early in the course by reading pages 11-38 of THE BLESSING by Gary Smalley and John Trent. This will provide an understanding of the concept of “a blessing” and how such a technique can be employed in the context of family enrichment. Then during…

Dickinson (545) “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” Frost (548) “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Hardy (548) “The Man He Killed” Shakespeare (555) “Sonnet 55” Wordsworth (557) “Tintern Abbey” Owen (607) “Anthem for Doomed Youth” Elizabeth Browning (611) “Sonnet 14” Eliot (613) “Preludes” Pound (627) “In a Station of the Metro” Shakespeare…

Conflict drives a story.  It forces the characters into action, and the suspense the conflict creates keeps the audience reading to find out what happens. Please revisit the pdf on Plot posted in Section 1 to refresh your memory on the role the conflict plays in short stories before taking on the following assignment.  In…

  Instructions:  Choose a job announcement in your field that you locate online or learn about from a coworker and write a cover letter.   Effective and ineffective cover letters are included in Chapter 16, and it is necessary for you to study the structure of these letters.    You may use a block letter…