Essay One: Arts! Shvarts!
Evaluating art
Canon of western art
performance art
Aliza Shvarts
post-modern deconstructionism
D. L. Sayers, The Mind of the Maker
Essay Two: Name Calling
conservative vs. liberal
Greeley Tribune opinion column: “Definition of liberalism seriously outdated”
Essay Three: The War of the Words
reason vs. emotion
image vs. words
pop culture
Nigel Smith, Literature and Revolution in England: 1640-1660
Policinski, “More fences springing up to retrain wild, wild web”
Essay Four: Dying to Live
symbolism, metaphor, analogy for death in literature
Calvin Seerveld
Poem, “New Birth” “Moving Day”
Essay Five: Yard Work
cleaning up our lives
Poem, “Yard Work”
Essay Six: A Summer Ramble
spirituality in literature
David McCasland, The Quotable Oswald Chambers
George MacDonald: Literary Heritage and Heirs
George MacDonald biographical info
Essay Seven: Remind Me
Dottie Rambo, “Remind Me”
homeschooling for varieties of reasons
humanism in government education
Documentary “The Rock from which We Were Hewn”
Danger of government “freebies”
Essay Eight: Neo-Orwellianism– Religious Tenets of the Democratic National Convention
“Green” health food requirements of convention
religious nature of liberal beliefs
George Orwell, Animal Farm
Essay Nine: Give Yourself a Hand
Anna Grossman, “The Fountain of Youth at Your Fingertips”
Being enslaved to beauty regimens
Value of manual labor
Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, Bleak House
Durer, “Praying Hands”
Essay Ten: The Audacity of Despair
Hope vs. despair
The Pilgrim Fathers
Don’t put trust in man
Essay Eleven: Stabs of Joy
C. S. Lewis, The Space Trilogy
smuggled theology in symbolism
Essay Twelve: Christmas Colors
materialism vs. gift giving
Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages
O. Henry, “The Gift of the Magi”