Essay One: The Outlook Is Bleak
Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Anna Nicole Smith
Social responsibility
Essay Two: C. S. Lewis and “The Children’s War”
C. S. Lewis, The Chronicles of Narnia
“The Children’s War” exhibit at the Imperial War Museum
Personal sacrifice
Essay Three: A Busman’s Holiday in London
Agatha Christie, The Mousetrap
Dorothy L. Sayers, Busman’s Honeymoon
Appeal of the mystery story genre
Crime and depravity
Essay Four: War Is…
Francis Scott Key, “The Star-spangled Banner”
Concept of “just war”
Essay Five: Face It– We All Need a Lift
Shakespeare, Sonnet 154 with biographical info
Ageing “Baby Boomers”
Essay Six: Victims of Self
Drug Abuse
Cost of selfishness
George MacDonald biographical info
Essay Seven: Reflections for the Easter Season
Poem “Father and Son”
Essay Eight: Fashion Freedom and Fashionistas
“Pop” fashion- “Bling-bling”
Dickens, Bleak House
Essay Nine: If They Tell You It’s Art…
Post-modern art
Beuys, Gormley, Manzoni, Creed, Hirst
Objective standards of beauty
Essay Ten: What Is Truth?
Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great
Greeley Tribune Opinion Column: “The Importance of Being True”
Essay Eleven: Reparations for the (Un)Fairness Doctrine
New media
Freedom of Speech
Liberalism and newspapers in Anna Karenina
Leo Tolstoy biographical info
Essay Twelve: Dumbed-down Architecture
Edith Schaeffer, The Hidden Art of Homemaking
George MacDonald, David Elginbrod
Kristi Goldade, “Ceilings affect our thoughts and feelings”
