Month: March 2018

The Major of Universal Study

The Major of Universal Study

As I have recently reached my twentieth year of life and have read most texts of the English literary canon – I just finished War and Peace last week – It is at this point that I feel qualified to speak frankly about the American higher-education system. And this system is fantastic.  There is not …

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The First Person to Climb The Puufy Tree

The First Person to Climb The Puufy Tree

This is a short story which is set in a fictional location realized by my good friend Robert Congdon and I back when we were in the fourth grade.  I have provided a section of the original map which the Puufy Tree exists in. When the man arrived in the village and said he wanted …

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A Call to Arms; the Impact of Colonialism on Nigerian Society Through Teju Cole’s Eyes

A Call to Arms; the Impact of Colonialism on Nigerian Society Through Teju Cole’s Eyes

If only Charlotte from A Book of Common Prayer had spent time in Lagos instead of Boca Grande. I think that she would have found it more truly “A land of contrasts” (Dideon 13). This is because of the exceptional portrait that Teju Cole paints of Nigeria, specifically Lagos, in his novel Every Day is …

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