Brandon Shuler

George Eliot's brand of realism was polarizing and complex. This paper examines the criticisms of her work and whether they were fair or unfair.

Outliers is a provoking and intriguing study into what make people succeed in life. Part Pop-psychology, part truth, Outliers is one of the best books of 2009.

Examines the possibilities of reading Gulliver's Travels as an anti-colonial treatise rather than a strict revelatory parody of Swift's modern politics.

Follow the heroic struggles of Marcus Luttrell and his fallen SEAL team as they battle Afghani warlords and the liberal American press.

Carlton Stowers takes us on a journey of future Presidents, through the 1935 Depression ravaged dustbowl, meetings with future great, Satchel Paige, and ultimately ending with the All-Brothers Baseball Championship in Wichita, Kansas.

Pope flamed the fires of the Ancients versus the Moderns. The Dunciad satirizes the modern booksellers that sold the tripe Pope foresaw as the death of literature.

George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, precedes the theatre of the absurds tenets 300 years before it happens.

Essay On Criticism was Pope's first great work. He wrote it at the age of 23 and it ushered him into the lead in British Arts and Letters.

The Rape of the Lock is considered one of Pope's masterpieces. He critiques the dalliances of his society through the wayward cutting of a cherished tress.

A Satire of Alexander Pope's The Furntiure of A Womans Mind, A Beautiful Young Nymph Goes to Bed, and The Ladies Dressing Room

Learn the best fishing products on the market in 2009.

Book Four of Gulliver's Travels, although typically looked at as a raillery upon man's relationship with morality, also has a decidedly strong skew towards anti-colonialism.

Eliza Haywood had to use metonymic devices to further the advancement of womens equal rights in eighteenth century literature.

Nietzsche would have loved the experiments of anti-control and the disharmonic syncopation of Burroughs writing, themes, and plots.

The EPA has issued a most wanted list for the twenty three most wanted Environmental fugitives.

These are the three best non-fction books for 2008 in the opinion of an idiosyncratic bibliophile.

John Spence exhaustively researches and uncovers the real life Austen that created the characters we have all learned to love. If you are a true Austen bibliophile, you owe it to yourself to read On Becoming Jane Austen.

The theme of vanity explored in Eliza Haywoods "Miss Betsy Thoughtless."

The role of the 18th century woman in Love in Excess is poignantly exposed in this wild and tantalizing tale.

Beach Communities nationwide are using Beach Replenishment Programs to combat eroding beaches and the oceans encroachment on development. What communites think is helping their beaches is actually dangerous to the local ecosystems.

Paris Hilton's new show, Paris Hilton's New BFF is debasing to the moral fabric of our society and sends the wrong message to our nations youth.

Wole Soyinka is a prolific Nigerian playwrite and author. Death and the King's Horseman is often considered his most successful work. He examines the role of duty and trnasition in this heartrending, short play.

Eliza Haywood was one of the most prolific writers of the 18th century. Moreover, she was arguably the first woman to make a successful living as a full-time author. Haywood was extremely instrumental in shaping the modern novel.

In Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, the main character struggles with encroaching imperialism and the Nietzschean principle of master and slave moralities.

Are you dreaming to become the next Kerouac? Kerouac's novels, especially Subterraneans and The Dharma Bums, were essentially an author's How-to write using the spontaneous prose method. Learn more how to write in trance-like meditation the way Kaerouac did.

A critical analyses of the 2008 Democratic and Republican Candidates and their Respective running mates.

One lifelong Democrat struggles with the campaign tactics of Senator Obama.

The Democratic Party may have brought a battle upon themselves. The left moved further left with Senator Barack Obama choosing Senator Biden of delaware as his Vice Presidential Running Mate

Kerouac named Joyce as one of his greatest influences. See how Kerouac developed his spontaneous prose method through the influences of Joyce, Wolfe, and William Saroyan.

Kerouac is renowned for his first draft spontaneous prose work. Go to the source to find how-to's in his writing.

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