April 2010
3 posts
Print Quota CE #3
Ashley Dean
English 190
Dr. Field
April 21, 2010
Print Quota at Clemson University
On Monday, April 19, 2010, at noon, “Inside Clemson” sent out an e-mail to Clemson University students, informing them that the Administrative Council had approved a Print Quota, to begin enforcement during the Fall 2010 semester. The Print Quota will cap students at three hundred and fifty pages per semester. ...
Proven Wrong
So in my 2nd CE I mentioned how you never hear anything about pirates these days. Well, I just saw an article about how the Navy just captured a pirate ship. Go figure.
CE #2 - William Fly
My assigned poem from Habeas Corpus was “July 12, 1726: William Fly.” I felt that McDonough’s choice to use this “pirate” was an interesting one, not because of the crime itself, but partially because of the punishment, and partially the way Fly conducted himself during his sentencing and punishment. After performing a close reading of the sonnet, I saw a parallel between McDonough’s apparent...
February 2010
2 posts
Orwell
I was trying to think back to essays I’ve read recently for school to use as an example for this class. However, I haven’t read any for my classes lately that are current, so I went to The New Yorker.
http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2010/02/08/100208fi_fiction_bolano
This feature fiction piece used conjunctions to begin sentences and ended sentences with prepositions, but...
CE #1
Last weekend, I set out from Clemson to visit my aunt in Piedmont, South Carolina. You may be wondering how this journey does indeed count as a cultural event, but let me assure you, the thirty minute drive between my college pad and my aunt’s home is only the beginning of the many things that set her culture apart from my own. First of all, in my own home, there are remnants of fast food...
January 2010
1 post
Introducing Myself
Name: Ashley Dean
Major (Minor): English (Social Sciences)
Hometown: Berkeley, CA
Favorite Book: A draw between about any John Irving novel, David Copperfield by Charles Dickens, or Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
Favorite Movie: I don’t really have a favorite movie (I’ll watch anything, really), but I like old musicals and I like the 80s miniseries they made of...