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Ecology can be fun. Nothing taught me that more than the corny 90’s cartoon “The Adventures of Captain Planet and the Planeteers”. At age five, I had dreams of becoming an environmentally responsible super-hero??definitely not the guy with the Heart ring, though. Let’s face it: They could have used one more Fire dude instead. At age 20, I still have the desire to incinerate agents of waste and entropy, but spend most of my time writing away at my laptop...
...Guitar Hero?? and masturbation: what do these two things have in common? The answer is simple: they aren’t as good as the real thing—and no one likes getting carpal-tunnel syndrome.You’re sitting there right now, and you’re probably thinking, “No, he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. ‘Guitar Hero?? is the best thing since Sparknotes started doing Shakespeare.” I don’t hate “Guitar...
...beat it.” Second-year Kennedy School student Maureen “Molly” E. Kinder, who said she interned last summer in the Liberian Ministry of Finance, was equally enthusiastic. She said that Johnson-Sirleaf—the woman she calls her “hero??—received the interns warmly. “The President arranged a private reception in her house for us,” she said. “Not long after we arrived she had dinner for us and we all got to meet...
...Odyssey” hasn’t prejudiced me against all the novels with a Homerian essence. Before I was halfway through Bernhard Schlink’s “Homecoming,” I had decided that it was time to return to the original hero??s journey.But what makes “Homecoming” such a compelling read is its contestation of the very idea of a Homerian journey. Must a hero??s journey end with a homecoming? Such broadly philosophical questions permeate the novel—at times to the point...
...Frieda had one magic quality that reached deep into ‘Peanuts’; she was an adult in a child-shaped body. In Norse mythology, dwarfs, present at the creation, representing order and reason, had magic powers to fashion a god’s or hero??s life-partner weapon...Frieda, present at the creation of ‘Peanuts,’ helped to forge Schulz’s greatest instrument: his characters’ union of constrained size with irreducible strength.” While it is true that Schulz wanted his characters...