It is a weekday afternoon, and I and a supervisor are sitting down with a student who plagiarized a portion of his essay. The student hasn’t fessed up to his crime, so we are awaiting a fourth party, the school’s tech person, to conclude an investigation into the student’s document history. The atmosphere among myself,… Continue reading Plagiarism as the fulcrum of anarchy
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Lessons from Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road follows an unnamed man and his son as they attempt to survive in a post-apocalyptic landscape. In this world, the earth is slowly dying due to causeless cold and loss of sunlight, and most of humanity has resorted to cannibalism. As the man and boy head south in the unfounded hopes… Continue reading Lessons from Cormac McCarthy’s The Road