Am I Becoming Normal?
Wow… What a productive day I’ve had thus far…
I took my literature class exam at nine am this morning, and I have my calculus exam this afternoon at two pm. But this is of no real importance compared to what else happened today.
You see, as of today, I have a legal tag on my car, [...]
Candide Versus “The Prioress’s Tale”
The following is an assigned essay which was completed for a grade. Unfortunately, some formatting has been lost in the transition to LJ.
Author: Eric J. Herboso (EricJHerboso@yahoo.com)
Class: ENG 121.02 (Composition I), for Dr. Schaub
Assignment: Paper 5: Compare & Contrast Candide & “The Prioress’s Tale”
Voltaire is a simplistic writer. His finest work, Candide, exemplifies this simplicity in [...]
Candide Versus The Fountainhead
The following is an assigned essay which was completed for a grade. Unfortunately, some formatting has been lost in the transition to LJ.
Author: Eric J. Herboso (EricJHerboso@yahoo.com)
Class: ENG 121.02 (Composition I), for Dr. Schaub
Assignment: Paper 5: Compare & Contrast Candide & The Fountainhead
Perhaps no two philosophic works seem as though they could not be more different at [...]
On The Existence Of People
I saw the latest Harry Potter movie yesterday. It was pretty good, though the changes they made from the book were too extensive for me to say I really enjoyed the movie all that much.
Last Friday night, I was shown a fan-made music video combining scenes of Vegeta from DragonBall Z and music from Creed and Linkin [...]
Milton’s Description of Hell in Paradise Lost
The following is an assigned essay which was completed for a grade. Unfortunately, some formatting has been lost in the transition to LJ.
Author: Eric J. Herboso (EricJHerboso@yahoo.com)
Class: ENG 121.02 (Composition I), for Dr. Schaub
Assignment: Paper 4 Analyzation of Milton’s Description of Hell in Paradise Lost (PL)
Milton’s description of Hell in Paradise Lost appears to be more than [...]
Analysis of Augustine’s Confessions
The following is an assigned essay which was completed for a grade. Unfortunately, some formatting has been lost in the transition to LJ.
Author: Eric J. Herboso (EricJHerboso@yahoo.com)
Class: THL 101.03 (Western Religious Heritage)
Professor: William Harmless, SJ; Dept. of Theology
Assignment: Analysis of Augustine’s Confessions
Confessions VIII.i.1 (Chadwick, p.133), Rearranged In Verse:
My God,
in my thanksgiving
I want to recall
and confess your mercies over [...]
Milton’s Paradise Lost
Milton’s Paradise Lost
The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n. What matter where, if I be still the same, And wht I should be, all but less than hee Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free; the’Almighty hath not built [...]
Thoughts On Thoughts…
Today, I discovered Milton.
I’d never read Paradise Lost before today, but this morning I read a great deal of it, and I must say that I am quite impressed. Milton is definitely my kind of poet, though I’ll admit his choice of subject matter in Paradise Lost wasn’t entirely appealing to me. Still, it is good to know that [...]
Dominique & Alvah
“We few… We happy few…”
(From Henry V)
::sigh:: I admire Shakespeare, but it is wise to remember that he wrote for the common man, for mankind in general.
From The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand, a speech by Dominique, to Alvah:
“You know, it’s such a peculiar thing — our idea of mankind in general. We all have a [...]
Understanding “The Wife of Bath’s Tale”
The following is an assigned essay which was completed for a grade. Unfortunately, some formatting has been lost in the transition to LJ.
Author: Eric J. Herboso (EricJHerboso@yahoo.com)
Class: ENG 121.02 (Composition I), for Dr. Schaub
Assignment: Paper 3; Evolution Of Midterm Exam Essay
Chaucer didn’t like ‘ordinary’ stories. In his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, he emulated nearly every style of [...]
