You’ve always been curious to see the roof ( Read more... )

To Rid The Disease

Julian G.

Sand. Sand everywhere.
That feeling when you get up from sleeping, although in the back of all our minds we all want to go back to sleep.
I could hear the ocean. Then, getting up, see the shore. Beautiful, but silent and lonely.
There was no one else. They would’ve probably seen my body lying on the shore and ( Read more... )

Julian Guillen

The Gallery of Suicide

Warning:
Some of the content you find in this story may seem offensive or disturbing to read. While the story is, I admit, violent and involving perverse subject(s), I believe art is something that cannot hide away these subjects. If anything, in order for something to really be art, ( Read more... )

Through the mud:

A look into the mer/hobbs ratio, the mer language, and its impact on life

If you come around certain parts of Florida, specifically Tallahassee, you may find a very specific dialect, but one that takes impact on mentality once transgressed into daily thinking and activity. What we are to discuss, of course, is the Mer/Hobbs ratio. ( Read more... )

I like how right after I type in "Cat People" in a library database of a State University, as it is a movie I was researching, and the first thing that comes up is an article entitled "Reel Bad Arabs"...

It’s funny to see how texts work within genre. Even somewhat aware of this construct, it never really occurred to me personally that all texts in a certain genre are just similar situations put together. It never crossed my mind as all these working within the same construct of action because all texts are fashioned differently. While seeming ( Read more... )

The problem I simple, the audience doesn’t know enough. The thing that genre does that denies much freedom to the individual writer is that its audience has been taught too many situations within the constraints of genre. An audience is going to have certain expectations in order to follow the plot as well as understand what is occurring. You can ( Read more... )

After reading this article, I saw that there was concentration in African American churches as a group different from the more “accepted” view of how church is seen functioning. Yet, we still recognize different groups have different cultures that we must respect. Still, why is it that we look at African Americans under the academic eye in a ( Read more... )

Writing outside formal academic discourse is a way for community to form and to address the issues of that world. The article shows how people find a sense of identity through writing. In workshops they read each others material, encourage each other to write and are interested in reading other people’s story. While encouraging the individual to ( Read more... )

What does the word community really mean to the individual? There are individuals who only really write in isolation and as writers we are all told it should be expressive, it should be from within. Personal writing like that tends to be behind closed doors away from audience. Purely academic writing itself is made to be a certain way, but even ( Read more... )