"Two Parts Passion, One Part Pragmatism", Browner Chides:
"Two Parts Passion, One Part Pragmatism", Browner Chides:

By Charles Badger

On March 3, Carol Browner granted a half hour interview with Apollon following her convocation. “The nation that leads in green jobs will be the leader of the 21st Century,” she declared in her speech before the student population. In wide-ranging remarks, she cited everything from melting polar ice caps to U.S. military’s transportation cost in Afghanistan to “knowing your neighbors” as reasons to support the United States’ transition to a cleaner and more sustainable future.

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In the Wake of Fukushima
In the Wake of Fukushima

During Carol Browner’s March 3rd Convocation lecture, she discussed many of the alternative energy sources being considered for development as a means to kick the United States’ oil addiction. As Charles Badger noted in his editorial, some environmentalists in attendance were in disagreement with Browner’s policy-driven approach to environmental pragmatism. 

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The Universal Panopticon: Julius as an Authoritative Figure in Charles Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales"
The Universal Panopticon: Julius as an Authoritative Figure in Charles Chesnutt's "The Conjure Woman and Other Conjure Tales"

By Brittany Collins 

Charles Chesnutt's collection of stories entitled The Conjure Woman, which involve the telling of past plantation stories by an elderly former slave named Julius McAdoo to a curious white couple named John and Annie, were originally published in 1899.

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How Quickly Nature Falls Into Revolt
How Quickly Nature Falls Into Revolt

By Mike Strumpf

When the first folio edition of William Shakespeare's works was published in 1623, "it was not clear whose idea the collected volume was or even what was the precise motivation for it" (Proudfoot, Thompson, & Kastan-1998, 8), but the inclusion of two actors that worked with Shakespeare in the publication process underscores the importance of accuracy of authorial intent in the volume.

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Archives, Volume 2Content EditorsShakespeare, history, classic, literature, theory, play, analysis, language, genre, DocuscopeComment
Ron Rash on AVM
Ron Rash on AVM

Ron Rash's first published work was the collection of short stories, The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth and Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina. The ten stories in this collection are told through the voices of a chicken farmer, a carpenter, and a man who has recently returned home to visit his mother. 

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