By Megan Attwood
Big Brother is already watching, but does the warning in George Orwell’s 1984 still hold true in the twenty-first century? In 1984, the ministries of Truth, Love, and War controlled Oceania by lying to the public, monitoring their actions and thoughts, and maintaining a constant war no matter the enemy. Today, those […]
Book Review
By Dr. Jessica Magnani
In his introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Interdisciplinarity, Robert Frodeman argues that “interdisciplinarity represents a resurgence of interest in a larger view of things,” (xxxi) and consequently a shift away from the insularity of disciplinary thinking, a sentiment echoed in […]
By Ashley Powers
Frederick Douglass once said, “The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.” As a man who came to realize his own oppression, he recognized that he, and all of the other slaves who endured terrible injustices, had to somehow oppose the inhumane system that was American slavery. Frederick […]
By Carly Diaz
Sister Juana Inés de La Cruz was born in 1651 in New Spain. She entered Spanish court life when the Viceroy, the Marquis de Mancera, invited her to Mexico City. Juana was well-educated before arriving at court and had a mind of her own. She often challenged the ways in which society viewed women. In […]
By Nathan Garrett
When many of us think of all the extraordinary women authors from the days of yore—the incredible women who have made important and substantial contributions to history’s canonical body of written works—names that most often come […]
by Christopher Hizer
The inspiring Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass is an amazing, first hand account of slavery. With great wit and courage, Douglass walks us through the experiences of his youth, such as sleeping in an empty corn bag on a damp clay floor (Douglas, 34). We […]
By Nathan Garrett
In all things, there is nothing quite like inspiration. It drives feelings. It drives creativity. It drives the yearning for discovery. In the Romantic imagination, it was inspiration that led poets toward what William Wordsworth called “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.” In Romanticism, such emphasis was placed on inspiration—inspiration that produced “an […]
By Christian Smith
The Liberal Arts are both practical and efficient—as showcased by their scholars who have achieved timeless success. In the Sixteenth Century, one such individual, Baldassare Castiglione, argued that interdisciplinary education was […]
By Justine Murray
Interdisciplinary studies are a combination of two subjects or disciplines to make one learning experience. This is a technique that has been in existence for thousands of years. In the world of Ancient Greece, proof of interdisciplinary studies is obvious in many areas. Plato […]
“The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks.”
Albert Einstein, 1921
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