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Bring Back The Bookstores
I love reading! There is nothing better than going to a bookstore and perusing the shelves for a short read or finding exactly what you are looking for with the help of the friendliest sales associates I have ever met. However, finding good bookstores can be a challenge. With so many ways to consume information, technology is growing, and bookstores are dying. Even ones that have had movies and books made about them end up replaced, and in the case of Marks & Co (the adorable English bookshop), it was by a McDonalds. Before becoming nothing more than a plaque and a story, Marks & Co was a hub of…
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The Circle of Crafting a Thesis
There is nothing more stressful than trying to draft the perfect thesis. It’s crazy that so much pressure is put on just one sentence, and most of the time, I don’t honestly know what my thesis is until I finish a paper. I usually start with a great idea, but it takes me writing the paper to realize what I am trying to prove. Yes, I could hypothetically write the paper first and decide on the thesis after, but so often, teachers ask for the thesis first, and doing things in reverse order will only make things more complicated for me. So I have often questioned: what is the perfect…
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Perfecting the P.S.
Olivia dives deep into Ray Bradbury's famous letter "I Am Not Afraid Of Robots" to reconsider the positive uses for these robots that Bradbury is in support of.
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Weekly Writing #1
Epistolary Explorations My immediate thought, when asked about epistolary explorations, is to think about the impact letters have on my daily life: my mother makes me hand write thank you notes for all of my birthdays, my grandmother writes to me in college and send me $20 every time, I write to my friend you in in the navy because it is my only form of communication with him. Letters surround my daily life and although I find myself turning more towards technology, it will never take the place of paper and pen. Epistolary explorations means understanding why writing letters is so important both in our history and today. So…
