Nearly all of the characters in the film Stranger Than Fiction live up to the stereotypes typically associated with their lifestyle. The character that most prominently displays a stereotype, in my opinion, would be Harold Krick. Mr. Krick makes a living as an IRS agent, and whenever I think of an IRS agent one word comes to mt head. That word is ( Read more... )

On all of our papers that we have written in class there has been a day set aside for writing workshop. Writing workshop is essentially a day where we edit our papers in an effort to perfect them into a final draft. The process begins by breaking down of the class into groups of four where everyone has a copy of each group members rough draft. The ( Read more... )

The biggest lesson that I took away from the film Stranger Than Fiction is the idea that as a society we have very scheduled life’s, do everything the same way, and never do anything differently. In addition, if we do happen to make a change in our routine life’s, there will most likely be a positive effect. We can see this in Stranger Than Fiction ( Read more... )

What does it mean for something to be literary? Well to me it simply means that there should be a deeper meaning in the novel, poem, song, or film. Not only should there be a deeper meaning, but the piece of literature meaning should be applicable to contemporary life. A contemporary song that I would consider to be a piece of literature is “Where ( Read more... )

Well a good place to start would be to introduce myself, for anyone who cant tell by my username, my name is Nick. I was born here and plano and have lived in the same house since then. I had Doc last semester for the learning community along with prof. Gunderson, and they are both great. I am a Freshmen here at Collin College and this will be my ( Read more... )

 Throughout the course of the learning
community we have covered history in the United States from the
eighteenth century all the way up until the early twentieth century.
This great nation started as just thirteen small but influential
colonies, and has evolved into the great fifty states that it is
today and has achieved the goal of manifest destiny. ( Read more... )

 Probably my favorite part about this
class is the opportunity’s that the professors give you to succeed.
I was under the impression that in college you where kind of on your
own and it was up to you weather you sank or swam. Well at the end of
the day it is, but there are many of things that you can use to keep
afloat. The biggest example is the fact ( Read more... )

I would just like to say that this
class has been and excellent experience and without a doubt one of my
favorite classes this semester. First of all I love the idea of
combining two classes into one, especially because what you may lack
in one subject you can make up for in the other and still have a
decent grade. I also like the atmosphere in the ( Read more... )

It seems like the biggest issue in the
United States in the mid nineteenth century was slavery. I think its
crazy that one issue can practically divide the nation into two
completely different parts. Actually, there is no practically, the
nation was divided into two. Its a common misconception that he union
and the confederacy where created all because ( Read more... )

I do not think it is possible to put on
paper how much I despise opening our textbook, if you can even call
it a textbook. Unfortunately, the chapter readings are both crucial
to the success in the course, and very informative. However, it is
with out a doubt the single most boring text I have ever read. I
think its even worse than the scarlet letter, ( Read more... )