... Ya know, I'm all for "doing your own homework". But not everybody is a natural at interpreting & analyzing literature....and sometimes hearing another's...
... on society ... everybody is a ... would ... My reaction is a bit between John's and Mindy. I have no problems to share my thoughts on any of LeGuin's books...
... [big snip] In fact, I agree with every word of what you said. ... The difference between us, I think, is that I'm 45 and have seen waaaay too many...
... Maybe not. But she'll have trouble in a literature class in that case. ... I am indeed willing, indeed eager, to discuss any of Le Guin's works. But I am...
... I agree entirely with Mindy and hardly at all with John. I am not a member of a "hacker culture" and I don't see any reason to privilege an, essentially,...
... I agree that questions imply ignorance of a subject. I don't think that makes them stupid intrinsically. There are dumb questions and smart ones. Smart...
Op 4 Dec 2003 om 11:50 was dsalo@... zo lief om te schrijven: If the only ... I share your concerns about elitist (unspoken) rules that exclude those...
Another good possibility is that 'Christine' is actual a professional-essay writer for lazy students! I've seen "professional research" (sigh) infect listservs...
I get a couple of these kind of requests a day, so I'm not terribly sympathetic to them. I have seven hundred odd book reviews on my web site, and you'd be...
... <knip> "What can you tell me about the ... I once got "what in the history of the Netherlands can explain he attitude towards sexuality of the Dutch, and...
... Someone(s) remarked that nobody had bothered answering the question... the first answers that spring to mind are: 1. Yes 2. No 3. It is a book which...
... What they *hope* to get is a brief introduction followed by the statement of a thesis which answers the question, supported by verifiable facts constructed...
Blah! Blah! Blah! The question, "How is Ursula Le Guin's 'The Dispossessed' a commentary on society and the individual?" is clearly a homework assignment. I've...
I teach English in France and have come across a few students using Internet to do homework assignments. The results are usually comic and they never try it...
... I'm not responsible for your mumbo-jumbometer, Roddy; but I'd suggest you get it recalibrated. "Privilege" (verb) means "to characterize or to assume to be...
Christine's recent post asking about the Dispossed has raised some marvelous intellectual honesty issues (is she going to plagiarize? or just get real help?)....
Am 08.12.2003 10:51 Uhr schrieb "the-ekumen@yahoogroups.com" unter ... That sounds unjust. But then imagine a society that values property higher than justice:...
About students' questions. I once read somewhere about a study that recorded question sessions with a teacher at the end of each lesson of a course that ...
Wow! away from my PC for a few days and what happens to the Ekumen site which has been so quiet for so long - 23 unread messages! Judy has already said...
Hannah, I don't know about academic, but that was a beautiful and thought-provoking discussion of The Dispossessed and I'm going to go back and read it again...
Dear members of the group, My name is Mychal and I am (nearly) 17 years old from Israel. As a project for my matriculation, I translate an excerpt from Ursula...
Dear members of the group, My name is Mychal and I am (nearly) 17 years old, from Israel. As a part of a project for the matriculation, I am to translate an...
... I'm sure others can provide better references or more learned counsel. But I strongly advise transcribing invented-language names by sound, and _not_ ...
... Allegory. ... Sometimes a familiar situation can be made to seem shockingly new by placing it in a new setting. I suspect that was part of Le Guin's...
Hi. I'm new to the list after having read The Other Wind in awe and wonder. When I read the first three Earthsea books as a child, I loved the maps involved....
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