David Youngblood
To Thine Own Self Be True But At What Cost? Multiculturalism and the Canon
We learn as readers, or we should learn if literature is to have any value to us beyond mere entertainment and time passing.
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""Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become."
--C.S. Lewis
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David Youngblood
- May 16, 2020
- 2 min
Welcome to the World of Literature: Where Are We Going?
Our stories are populated with heroes. Always with the hero examples, we work to slay the ego--the true dragon
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Rachel Beck
- Apr 28, 2020
- 9 min
A-Not-So-Romantic-Love-Story
“When two people are really happy about one another, one can generally assume they are mistaken.” -- Goethe
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David Youngblood
- Apr 11, 2020
- 1 min
Your One Care Full Act
It is often easy to forget that these servants too have anxieties just as we do, these too have families just as we do.
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David Youngblood
- Apr 6, 2020
- 3 min
The Big Lie
As educators, our job is to create a union between experience/encounter and knowledge and reflection.
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Rachel Beck
- Mar 17, 2020
- 3 min
Their Eyes and the Dark Night of the Soul
In The Color Purple, God seems out of sight, especially for those who need him most. However, as the story unfolds, we find that God was the
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David Youngblood
- Mar 15, 2020
- 4 min
Perhaps the Poets Have Something to Teach Us about Covid 19
I've always tried to take comfort when under stress in the words of writers and thinkers both absent and present.
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David Youngblood
- Nov 30, 2019
- 6 min
The Incredible Lightness of Grief
And this lightest of possibilities is the fuel for the hope that we as observers must feel-- it is the substitution of chance for fate.
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Rachel Beck
- Nov 21, 2019
- 5 min
Death of a Salesman and the Plight of the Teacher
"Funny, y'know? After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive."
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Rachel Beck
- Sep 23, 2019
- 3 min
"It ain't my prairie"--A Little Feminism Never Hurt
“How many of you think of your mother as not ‘my mother’ but as a separate human being?"
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David Youngblood
- Sep 21, 2019
- 2 min
Delight in Disorder
As 17th-Century poet Robert Herrick suggests, “when art is too precise in every part” it loses its attractiveness and charm...
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David Youngblood
- Sep 1, 2019
- 2 min
Shift Happens
There’s a distinct yet hard to identify point in the early part of the school year ...
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Rachel Beck
- Jul 29, 2019
- 3 min
Whip Out Moby Dick!
Freud said there are no accidents.But he also said, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.”I have to remind seniors of this amid my many Freud.
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David Youngblood
- Jul 29, 2019
- 3 min
As You Look Forward, Keep Your Eye on the Past
Engaged reading triggers memory. Its fundamental to the experience of what we call “getting into” a work.
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David Youngblood
- Jul 24, 2019
- 2 min
The Abstract Relationship
The more relationships move toward abstractions, the farther we move from true intimacy.
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David Youngblood
- Jun 14, 2019
- 2 min
Uncompassed in a sea of sentences
Uncompassed in a sea of sentences: helping readers help themselves
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David Youngblood
- Jun 7, 2019
- 3 min
Why Dissent Matters
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”--Leonardo da Vinci
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Rachel Beck
- May 31, 2019
- 3 min
Saving Literature
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated.
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Rachel Beck
- May 26, 2019
- 6 min
Old and New Ideals in The Great Gatsby
Classics are always relevant-- that’s why they are called classics.
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David Youngblood
- Jun 26, 2020
- 4 min
To Thine Own Self Be True But At What Cost? Multiculturalism and the Canon
We learn as readers, or we should learn if literature is to have any value to us beyond mere entertainment and time passing.
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Life, Lessons,
and Literature
"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
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