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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Welcome

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Welcome to the English Language and Literature wiki space!

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Friday, September 18, 2009

MLA Handbook 7th edition

Last changed Sep 18, 2009 16:47 by Elizabeth Parang

What's new in the 7th ed. of the MLA Hanbook?

Payson Library's handout on creating a 'Works Cited" list using the MLA format has been updated. According to the MLA Web site, changes include the following:

_The seventh edition introduces student writers to a significant revision of MLA documentation style. In the past, …

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Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories Carol Sklenicka’s biography and a long-overdue “Collected Stories” spotlight Carver’s growth as a writer and illuminate his poisonous relationship with the editor Gordon Lish.
Andre Agassi’s Hate of the Game Bracingly devoid of triumphalist homily, Andre Agassi’s is one of the most passionately anti-sports books ever written by a superstar athlete.
My True Story A history of memoir, from St. Augustine to James Frey.

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What do soldiers read? It was only while serving in an army barracks in Bangalore that the young Winston Churchill began reading books. At the comparatively late age of twenty-two he tells us in My Early Life, the desire for learning came upon him. He had always liked history at school and decided to begin with Gibbon; from there he went on to Macaulay. He already knew by heart (as so many children of his generation did) the Lays of Ancient Rome. He progressed to philosophy, beginning with Plato’s Republic and ending with Schopenhauer and Darwin’s Origin of Species. For Churchill, this was a preparation for life. He learned, for example, for the first time, that “ethics” did not mean “playing the game”, or esprit de corps; he learned that it concerned not just knowing the things you ought to know, but also the way you ought to do them. His greatest discovery was the “Socratic method” which was “apparently a way of giving your friend his head in an argument and progging him into a pit by cunning questions”.
How the Americans bought the French Resistance In the spring of 1943, shortly before the Nazis captured and murdered Jean Moulin, the highest circles of the French Resistance were profoundly split by allegations of treason and double-dealing. The incident had nothing to do with the Nazis: Moulin accused Henri Frenay’s Resistance movement, Combat, of setting up a cash-for-intelligence deal with the Americans. The implication, said Moulin, was that Frenay had shifted his support from General de Gaulle to Henri Giraud, the hapless and malleable general whom the United States had put in charge of French North Africa in the vain hope that he would replace the querulous de Gaulle as leader of the Free French. Moulin described the deal as a “betrayal”, while Frenay accused Moulin of being guilty of a “crime” against the Resistance because he blocked the deals; in the tense and dangerous world of Occupied France, these allegations could have had terrible consequences.

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