Month: September 2017
Lloyd
Marc Ridge, Guest Contributor “When you’ve reached bottom, you hear knocking below.” –Unknown Author It was during the autumn of 1963 that I learned the real difference between being rich […]
CHAPPiE UNWRAPPiE
Aaron Brickle “I have consciousness. I am alive. I am Chappie.” These words closed out the trailer to South African filmmaker Neill Blomkamp’s 2015 action film CHAPPiE. CHAPPiE is a […]
Star Wars: Episode VII-The Force Awakens Review
Jessica Mau Star Wars: Episode VII-The Force Awakens is a continuation of the original Star Wars trilogy. However, instead of George Lucas filming it, J.J. Abrams took over as director […]
Oleander
Michaela Swedberg As soon as she stepped into the garden, the Countess Camille Juliette Bouvier felt the weight of expectation gradually slip off of her erect shoulders. It practically melted […]
The Nightingale Review
Michaela Swedberg Kristin Hannah’s The Nightingale, winner of the 2015 BookBrowse Fiction Award, is a heartbreaking story of two sisters caught up in the terror of Nazi occupied France throughout […]
Between You & Me, this is a Great Book!
Courtney Wallace Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen, written by Mary Norris, makes learning grammar fun. Part memoir and part usage guide, Norris tells her journey climbing […]
Michael Keaton—SWU History Professor by Day, Author When He Has Time
Courtney Wallace ME: I read a little bit about your biography and I noticed that you are a native of Seneca SC. Can you tell me a little bit about […]
The Long Wait for Hachi
Anna Marie Nieves I’m a lot older than you but I tend to think that there’s an element of music that cannot be captured. Life cannot be captured. Human heart […]
The Professor and the Madman
Marshall Tankersley, Student Editor In his book The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (1998), Simon Winchester chronicles the […]
Initium Novum
Sadie Wyant “Welcome to GENEsis Incorporated. My name is Darwin Oswald, and I am the lead geneticist here. How can I help you?” The man was tall and lanky, […]
Context, Creativity, and Service—An Interview with Dr. Basil “Chad” Chisholm, Director at CIFC
Ashton Dickerson Dr. Chisholm is a longtime fan of children’s literature, fantasy novels, science fiction, detective stories, J.R.R. Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis. He has been teaching for several years at […]
Why I declared war on the split infinitive rule (and so should you)
Chad Chisholm, CIFC Director When I was going through the public school system, I got my fingers figuratively bruised a few times by some old school English grammarians: there was […]