The last words of a book often give readers closure. Many theses and dissertations are on the last words of a book and what they mean to a story. Have you read any last words that leave you wanting more? Read on to see how many you recognize.
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We are all English Majors and we love it. There could be no greater major than ours. See how many things from Buzzfeed you agree on from 17 signs you are an English major Check out some literary needlepoint of Hemingway, Woolf, Salinger, Plath, and more. I think I want these on my walls. Below is a menu of Literary books and Coffee from BookRiot.com
Enjoy this Monday, it is the first of many during Summer break; sleep in, watch Netflix all day, and eat some carbs. You can workout and get up early tomorrow.
Today's Monday Madness is in honor of Shakespeare's belated birthday. Here are 17 insult quotes from Shakespeare to use daily. It is for Britain, but I think they can be use here, too. Check it out here. Some examples:“Thou smell of mountain goat.”
“I do desire we may be better strangers.” “You are not worth the dust which the rude wind blows in your face.” “Out of my sight! Thou dost infect my eyes.” “Thou art a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker…” This one is my favorite, "hourly promise breaker," This should be used when talking about the weather forecast. The actors who play literary characters almost never look how we imagine them. Sometimes, they are much hotter than one could imagine. Here are a few of literary characters that the "beautiful" have played. ![]() Benedict Cumbercatch and Martin Freeman as Sherlock Homes and John Watson in TV's Sherlock (Also Freeman in The Hobbit) ![]() Cate Blanchette as Galadriel in Lord of The Rings ![]() Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice ![]() Miranda Otto as Eowyen in Lord of The Rings ![]() Joel Edgerton as Tom Buchanan in The Great Gastby ![]() Rachel McAdams in The Time Traveller's Wife ![]() Leonardo Dicaprio in The Great Gatsby ![]() Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games ![]() Daniel Craig as James Bond ![]() Rooney Mara as Lisbeth Salander in The Girl With The Drago Tattoo ![]() Matthew Lewis as Neville Longbottom in Harry Potter ![]() Nicole Kidman as Gertrude Stein (and Virginia Woolf by the way) and Clive Owen as Ernest Hemingway ![]() Mathew Macfadyen as Mr. Darcy in the Kiera Knightly Pride and Prejudice ![]() Crazed by grammar mistakes? Take the quiz from Buzzfeed and see just how irritable grammar mistakes make you. Read one-star reviews of literary classics. Some are funny, some are written poorly, and others have missed the point of the book. What do you think about these reviews? Just some English major memes to get your week started off right. It's Monday Madness today (yesterday)! Today's Monday Madness focuses on an article from the Chronicle of Higher Education's website on the "Open Syllabus Project." This project is amassing syllabi from various Universities and interpreting the data. What data does a syllabus have to offer someone who is not taking a required course you may ask? A lot more than previously thought. The group behind this project are hoping to look at, for example, a syllabus from Columbia and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to compare plagiarism requirements the schools have: how they differ, how they are the same, if one state is more lax than another when it comes to ethical standards (and I always skip over that paragraph in the syllabus). Other information gathered traces class offerings throughout the years and why they have stopped or continued offering them and how "interdisciplinary" a course really is. Syllabi offer us more than a timeline of quizzes and tests and how much work we can put off until Spring break where we can catch up. Syllabi seem to be the lifeblood of our college courses so it begs the question: should we be treating our syllabi as the DNA of our classes?
Read the full article by Marc Parry. Planet ebook is a website with access to hundreds of free classic literature: 1984, The Great Gatsby, Les Miserables, Pride and Prejudice, A Christmas Carol, Moby Dick, Oliver Twist, Little Women, Paradise Lost, Madame Bovary, and more. They can be read online or downloaded for free to your desktop. No need for a kindle or Nook.
Open Culture, a website with free college courses, has a section for literature. Take a free course in Creative Writing, American Literature, or Shakespeare. It's a good way to keep sharp over summer or a quick reminder for your Fall courses. Here's a fun website to play some Shakespeare games. Explore the website and travel into history, science, and the world of Tolkien, Disney, Poems, Novels, Children's books, Young Adult novels, and more. The games range from fill in the blank to guessing an answer that is the beginning of the next question to the next answer and so on. Brush up on your Shakespeare references for April 23rd's Shakespeare's Birthday Celebration on campus. ![]() The Monday of your Spring break. You probably got up at noon and are taking this day to "relax." You've got four more days (seven if you count the weekend and eight if you count the Monday you return) of break to work on your papers and presentations. Take this day, procrastinate, binge watch tv shows on Netflix (I recommend Sherlock and Arrested Development) and get to your studies tomorrow, or the next day. 16 signs you are too ready for spring break by Buzzfeed The secret world of jump rope may make you rethink every life decision you've ever made. In spirit of writing papers, read a few of the best opening lines in literature |
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