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Cole Barber edited the blog post Something About Pants in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
Who has the audacity to overlook the prompt, to shoot from the hip and run into an essay, head on, with no outline? Surely no Education major with a concentration in English would have the boldness to commit […]
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Cole Barber wrote a new blog post Is Everett Messing With Us? in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
Percival Everett is an extremely intelligent author and English professor who has a knack for getting readers to think deeply about his literature. Everett is a genius when it comes to English concepts, expertly […]
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Cole Barber wrote a new blog post Percival Everett’s Use of Allusions in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
There are many commonalities among Percival Everett’s many works. Few authors utilize allusions as frequently as Percival Everett. Everett expertly alludes to countless other works in his novel “I Am Not Sid […]
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Cole Barber wrote a new blog post The Strength of The Sciences vs. The Weakness of Language in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
The sciences are strong, concrete and often undeniable. There is an undeniability to math because “1+1=2” can in no way be refuted. The arguments that prove gravity and other physics based theories are ext […]
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Cole Barber wrote a new blog post EmBODYment of Beauty in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
Beauty through a scientific lens is a very unique way to admire something. Percival Everett portrays the beauty of the female body in his archive of poems titled “re: f(gesture)”. The poems in this coll […]
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Cole Barber wrote a new blog post How Genres Effect Entertainment in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 5 months ago
Imagine it’s late at night and you’re laying in your bed actively trying to find a Netflix TV show or movie. There are thousands of movies and shows at your fingertips, but you cannot decide what you want to wat […]
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Cole Barber wrote a new blog post Racism In The Word “Boy” in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 5 months ago
The word “boy” is not fundamentally racist in any form, but was very clearly used as a racial slur towards African American men. The word “boy” was in no way created in the English language to belittle grown b […]
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Cole Barber wrote a new blog post Can We Believe Not Sidney? in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 5 months ago
Often readers pick up a book and automatically believe everything that the narrator is telling them. However, narrators are not always to be trusted. A prime example of an unreliable narrator is in Mary […]
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Cole Barber wrote a new blog post A Reflection On The Subjectivity of Writing in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 6 months ago
Proper English literature is dependent on many different variables that can either please or displease the reader. Different readers, since all humans are inherently unique in preferences and tastes, want […]
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Cole Barber wrote a new blog post Suspicious Godly Pants in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 7 months ago
You may be currently asking yourself questions such as: who owns godly pants? What do godly pants even look like? Why exactly are these godly pants suspicious? Are godly pants even capable of being suspicious? Or […]
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Cole Barber joined the group Reader and Text 4 years, 7 months ago
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