Posted on: 15 Dec 2023
College sports are hard to ignore. Every year, March Madness turns diehards and the sports-uninterested alike into college hoops prognosticators and bettors. College football continues to capture our national attention with its storylines of unexpected heroes, heartbreaking tragedy, and the occasional controversy. College athletics, in other words, have become a fixture in the world of […]
Posted on: 16 Nov 2023
The AP English Literature and Composition exam is made up of two sections: a multiple-choice section and a free-response section. Firstly, in the multiple-choice section, students answer questions pertaining to passages of fiction, drama, or poetry. Next, in the free-response section, students analyze poetry and prose and write an argumentative essay centered on a text […]
Posted on: 06 Nov 2023
College football’s official designation as an amateur sport means players can’t be paid for their on-the-field performance. In 2021, though, a Supreme Court decision made it possible for student-athletes to earn money—just not from their schools. Now, college athletes can sell the rights to their NIL (name, likeness, and image), so they can take advantage […]
Posted on: 17 Oct 2023
Even though it’s a tried-and-true classic, the themes in To Kill a Mockingbird are far from worn out. In fact, they’re just as poignant and relevant today as they were in 1960 when the book was first published. Here, I’ll go through some of the more prominent themes in To Kill a Mockingbird and examine […]
Posted on: 11 Oct 2023
Just like the book itself, many To Kill a Mockingbird characters are classics. Atticus Finch, Scout, and Boo Radley are household names. Here, I’ll go through the central To Kill a Mockingbird characters and try to break them down in terms of their attributes, development, and significance to the novel overall. Related Resources To Kill […]
Posted on: 14 Sep 2023
Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird is a coming-of-age classic that deals with the themes of American racism, social inequality, the loss of innocence, and the coexistence of good and evil (though that’s far from an exhaustive list). By taking a look at some crucial To Kill a Mockingbird quotes, we can see how the […]
Posted on: 31 Aug 2023
I last read To Kill a Mockingbird when I was in the 10th grade. And, to be honest, I can’t say that the book made much of an impression on me. My experience was probably shaped by the recognition that reading it is a must, an academic rite of passage that every American high schooler, […]
Posted on: 21 Aug 2023
American media theorist Neil Postman once gave a presentation titled “Informing Ourselves to Death” at an IBM-sponsored event in Stuttgart, Germany. Postman’s thesis was that modern tech creates a crisis of information-overload. “Information glut,” is what he called it: “[Information] comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with […]