Archive for April 2011
Perspectives: Educational Inequality
Posted by: Lindsay on: April 26, 2011
Recently in my Education in American Culture class, we’ve been discussing educational inequality. I grew up in a middle class family that put education as a priority. My family was also religious, and the public schools in many of the districts where we lived were sub-standard. Accordingly, I was placed in a private, Christian school [...]
The Underground Man
Posted by: Lindsay on: April 26, 2011
Dostoevsky’s Underground Man is an intriguing character, to say the least. He’s incredibly paradoxical, which fits in with Berman’s definition of modernity in All That’s Solid Melts Into Air. In the beginning of Dostoevsky’s novella, the narrator describes himself as a spiteful man, but soon contradicts himself in saying that he was not even capable [...]
Job Hunting
Posted by: Lindsay on: April 26, 2011
The past few months of job hunting have taken a huge swing at my self-esteem. Honestly, I’m not used to being unwanted. I’m at a college where I know I’m in the top 10% of the class, so I feel pretty safe. While I don’t have the top scholarship, I know that really, I’m on [...]
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