Author: Lyssa Henry
“God Invented Music!”: A Conversation with Dr. Amber James
In this interview, Lyssa Henry speaks to Dr. Amber James about her experiences at SWU as a student and a teacher, about her directing musicals both this year and last year, about her exciting summer trip to Germany, her life working in New York City, and the importance of music in everyday life and her life specifically.
Falling Into Snowflake Culture: Is the Milky Way Special?
Lyssa Henry In Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards’s book, The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos is Designed for Discovery, the question is brought up about the […]
An Expert’s Opinion on The Meaning of Everything
Lyssa Henry What would the world be like if nobody understood each other? If no two people spoke the same language, how would anyone get along? These are problems that […]
The Place Where Science and Religion Merge
Lyssa Henry When you think about science, what kinds of people are automatically associated in your mind? Are there people in lab coats and goggles, mixing together chemicals that may […]
Happily Never After
Lyssa Henry Why do we think we need a happy ending for every story? Culturally, Americans seem to be very sensitive. In old fairy tales from other countries, things didn’t […]
The Science and Ethics of “Bartleby the Scrivener”
Lyssa Henry After reading Herman Melville’s “Bartleby the Scrivener,” I became stuck on one concept that is nearly irrelevant to the story itself but gave me both a scientific and […]
Why Frederick Douglass Didn’t Need His Appendix Removed
Lyssa Henry At the end of the autobiographical Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, the writer included an appendix to explain his view on Christianity. Douglass was not like […]
Edgar Allan Poe’s Plot Twist To Top All Plot Twists
Lyssa Henry Edgar Allan Poe wrote a lot of short stories and poems that captivate people even now, over 100 years after he died. The one that has surprised me […]
Nathaniel Hawthorne May Have Been On To Something
Lyssa Henry At risk of sounding like an ultra-judgmental-of-other-Christians “Christian,” I would like to address something that I am reminded of upon reading Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Celestial Railroad. Hawthorne’s tale, […]
How Do You Write About Something You Haven’t Experienced?
Lyssa Henry James Fenimore Cooper was a phenomenal writer. He took readers to places they had never been to feel things they had never felt, which is a big goal […]
Rip Van Winkle’s Life Choices: Terrible or Genius?
Lyssa Henry Washington Irving’s short story “Rip Van Winkle” is about a man who is not entirely satisfied with his life and decides to go hunting to avoid his wife, […]
Phillis Wheatley Makes Poetry Readable for Everyone!
Lyssa Henry I have never been the kind of person that liked poetry. I have nothing against those who write poetry, but I never really enjoyed it. I could not […]