I loved Oedipus

I love the play Oedipus. It is a classic example of irony at its best. Although the story is quite disturbing it is very good. I like how the story lines says that although you can try to fight fate you will always come back to it. It makes you think if our lives are predetermined and the choices we make are because you supposed too. Or if life is random. I like how the story shows if we are shown our future we would panic and make rash decisions.
I also like how a lot of our culture is based off of this story. "The Oedipus complex". How little girls are in love with their fathers and little boys are in love with their mother when they are young and do not know the difference between love for your parents and sexual love.
Submitted by Cynthia Jimenz

Oedipus the King

This was another story that I enjoyed reading. There was no escaping fate for Oedipus. It was prophesized by an Oracle that he was going to kill his father and sleep with his mother. Despite trying to escape there was no escaping because whatever the Oracle predicted would happen. It was Oedipus’s fate that he would kill his father and sleep with his mother and this is what happened.
Submitted by Daniel Stewart

The Yukon Code...

There is a Yukon code...He travels fastest who travels alone . . . but not after the frost has dropped below zero fifty degrees or more.


Jack London's "To Build A Fire" defines mans constant battle with nature. "Fifty degrees below zero was to him just precisely fifty degrees below zero. That there should be anything more to it than that was a thought that never entered his head."I think this line defines our battle against nature and the fact that we believe we can outdo nature. London points out in the story that the man lacks imagination but he also says the man is a chechaquo, a newcomer so maybe its not imagination the man lacks. The man has all he thinks is required to take the walk through the Yukon to meet his friends and feels he is prepared; it isn't lack of imagination that gets him into trouble, it's the fact that he didn't heed advice from more experienced people who have done the walk and he decided to take the walk alone.

As the man travels London points out the way the man looks for certain dangers on the way. He stayed alert and paid attention. But when he got into trouble he had no one with him to help and this is what really caused his death. The fact that he felt he knew better and could handle anything nature threw his way all on his own shows not lack of imagination but a big ego.
Submitted by Nyle Cooley

Poetry is Our Soul

Poetry is with us in everything we do and everything we experience. It touches us to our very soul. The expression, humor, sadness, or maybe delight is there for us to partake in. It all affects us in one way or another. Poetry stands the test of time and will continue to entrall the reader. I find that the world would be a better place if we slowed down a little and enjoyed the simpler things in life. Poetry is a reflection of life and its purpose is to touch one's heart and merely give pause to the world around us whether from the present or from long ago.
Enjoy this poem by Robert Frost. It is very meaningful.
Submitted by Annette Cleary

Oedipus the King

The play Oedipus the king is a read worthy drama written by a sopholos. By this master piece sopholos depicts the most tragic and unforgettable
character from the past who fell victim of his own fate. Being a reader of the play the most important characteristic of any play or drama is the tone and way of delivering the whole situation in words. In this drama Dialogue is an extremely important means of characterization here because, as a play, the thoughts and opinions of characters are conveyed largely through speech. For example, Oedipus is portrayed as arrogant because of the tone he uses when speaking to the prophet Teiresias. The way in which characters speak (such as meekly or authoritatively) reflects both their status and confidence. This makes the drama read worthy and it holds the readers’s attention quite well through out the drama. The reader knows all the aspects of the plot from the beginning but the tragedy of the character and the immense dialogues of the play holds attention of the reader who is desperate to know the next turn of the play while reading .
The whole play is interesting because of the unbelievable tragedy but it is very sad as well through the end. This play does prove as a tragic piece of work by sopholos. The only thing which I do not like in the drama is the end of it. As Oedipus was destined to kill his father and marry his mother but it was not his fault, It was his fate that is why the play should have taken some other way. Over all drama is a great piece of work I would definitely suggest people to read this drama and would like to read more work of the author.

Submitted by Kiran Sami

A Clean Well Lighter Place

I really enjoyed this short story by Ernest Hemingway. It was my favorite piece of writing we had to read. This story shows three different stages of a person’s life. This story was funny, sad, and entertaining. I recommend reading this story. Watching the video helped too. If you read the story you got to watch the video.
Submitted by Daniel Stewart

"We are Many" but who are we?

In Pablo Nerudo's poem he touches on a lot of subjects that I deal with on a daily basis, and I think everyone else does also. He talks about how he never knows who he truly is and how he never acts in the way that he wants to. When he wants a fireman out comes an arsonist, when he calls for a hero his lazy self arrives. These are problems that I think everyone faces and deals with every day, I know that I do.

I have set certain expectations and standards for myself, even though I know that some of them are absurd and completely unattainable. I want to find a beautiful wife, get a well paying job, travel the world, get my master's, learn all about science, all about history, all about everything. I want to go skydiving, I want to swim at the great coral reef, I want to go into outer space. Some of these things will happen, others won't. I know I expect too much of myself and I know in some situations I don't act the way that I would expect myself too. However we are only humans and humans are imperfect. So we may be many but in reality we are only ourselves and what we make of our lives.
Submitted by Andrew Berard