By Jason Soucie Homelessness and poverty are arguably two of the biggest problems facing today’s college-age youth. With the price of living drastically increasing within the last three years, many students have fallen on hard times. Education can not only be used as a ticket to a better life, but it can also allow students... Continue Reading →
Bicycle Thieves: A Heart Wrenching Dose of Reality
By Tammy Midwood A seemingly insignificant, but foreshadowing scene in Bicycle Thieves (De Sica) is one of the first scenes in the movie. The main character, Antonio, is getting ready for his much anticipated first day of work with his son, Bruno. Bruno performs a cleaning and inspection on the bicycle that his father bought... Continue Reading →
Religious and Political Cruelty: Creating Weeping Children and Little Vagabonds in William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience
By Gillian Williams Blake was an instrumental poet during the nineteenth century, and he could arguably be considered one of the most powerful social critics because of his focus on the rampant corruption and hypocrisy that existed in the English society. In the Songs of Innocence and of Experience, he presents a dual-focus approach to man’s propensity... Continue Reading →