This was the midterm. I’ve been looking around for the final, but that may have been the Smith thing. I know there’s a few things that were lost to mis-saves though, so who knows. In this case, the assignment was a flight of fancy. The lawyer representing Trump had...

The 301 prof was not a big fan of big writing assignments, but he liked to mix things up. For different classes he would identify different media for students to use, and for ours he decided on Adobe Slack. There was a practice assignment, then a presentation assignment. I...

301, the first of the “actual” classes. Political Theory. The assignment here was a one-pager, just a quick compare/contrast between several Declarations. A funny bit of trivia- this class didn’t take much in the way of writing, but the professor was married to the one who assigned tons of...

The cool thing about historical dramas is you know how it’s generally gonna go. You can get attached to characters without worrying about some pretentious writer killing them off before their times. Watching Spartacus for example, you know Spartacus dies. You know Caesar doesn’t. In Rome though, you know...

Just one short essay left here. Gonna roll hardcore and not even proofread. 5. Consider our discussion of cases in the Global South:  Mexico, Brazil, India, Nigeria, and South Africa. Choose any three of these countries and discuss the institutions of colonialism as they pertain to political, economic, and cultural challenges...

I wrote an essay back at PCC on “rape culture”, years before I wrote about ‘Spartacus’ a few days ago. As I’m re-finishing the last season, I’m reminded of how closely related they are. Rape is a storytelling device throughout the series. Male slaves are used by women or...

If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them….maybe you can hire The A-Team. But I don’t remember them ever actually working for money… I was looking for something to watch and somehow wound up with the modern vision of an...

Some professors were sticklers for format, some not so much. Unfortunately for me, the one with the big writing assignments was VERY big on citations. She maintained a large library of related reading materials online for each of her courses, and heavily hinted that they should be read, but...

we were at a policy meeting, they were planning new ways of cheating. i didn’t want to rock your boat but you sent this dangerous note… There was a guy in the mid-80’s. His wife had died after their insurance had denied some coverage. He drove out to one...

Less “gladiator porn” than “porn with gladiators”. I don’t do violence as easily as before Sue’s killing. Walking Dead was expired from the watchlist pretty much immediately. I tried Game of Thrones at one point, but couldn’t make it through the first episode without being sickened. Spartacus is an...