Perhaps June 16th snuck up on you. You have been going about your day unaware...but you notice something is definitely...off. It seems that wherever you go, people are bellowing what appears to be stream-of-consciousness ranting, slapping one another on the back, and usually hoisting a Guinness aloft. Well, at least that's what happens to ME…
Summer Reading Recommendations
Ahhh...summer. Time to catch up on some reading, but so many choices. Here are some suggestions to sure please every reading taste: Memoir One More Theory About Happiness by Paul Guest When Paul Guest was twelve years old, he broke his neck in a horrific accident on a bicycle. The author takes the reader from…
Twain Tells All: 100 Years After His Death
"Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow," reads a quote on a monument dedicated to Mark Twain. This year, readers finally get a bridge to that starlit strip of history. Twain, in a handwritten note that accompanied his 5,000 page unedited autobiographical manuscript, requested that his memoirs…
But Does It *SPARKLE*? Baby Names From the Twilight Series Are Tops in 2009
I really like your...name. According to the Social Security Administration, the Top Baby Names for 2009 included two names that are familiar to hundreds of thousands of people worldwide: Isabella and Jacob. Isabella, or "Bella," of course, is the name of the protagonist in Stephenie Meyer's internationally best-selling Twilight series. Jacob…
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Why Are College Students Studying Less?
A new study, The Falling Time Cost of College: Evidence from Half a Century of Time Use Data by Philip S. Babcock and Mindy Marks has revealed the college students spend much less time studying today than they did in 1960-- a drop of 13 hours per week. From the study: Using multiple datasets from…
75,000 Questions and Counting in the eNotes Q & A
The internet is full of Q & A sites, each with their particular strengths and quirks. We feel that as far as students are concerned, the eNotes Q & A stands head and shoulders above the rest for many reasons-- chief among them that anyone in the world can pose a question to hundreds of…
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Enotes Revives Dead Poets
In the midst of teaching, my mind often wanders to the great inspiration of Mr. Keating in the film Dead Poets Society. I first saw this film as an aspiring teacher and was so moved that I cried all the way home. There was something about those students standing up on their desks in support…
Poets in Black and White: Remembering Lucille Clifton and Robert Frost
Lucille Clifton and Robert Frost
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