July to December 2008 – Index of Topics and Sources

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Greeley Tribune opinion column: “Definition of liberalism seriously outdated”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”

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