THE ANTIOCH RECORD

Writing

Ashley McNeely and Juliet Hansen ’11 took Isabella Winkler and Nevin Mercede’s Culture and Interpretation class in Fall 2008. Each of these two poems are riddles to a word. Can you guess what it is? [scribd id=14082358 key=key-24420pt6im28h9vbaiu9] Direct download link poems-julietandashley PDF

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Economics

Molly Thornton ’10 wrote this essay for Hassan Rahmanian and Colette Palamar’s Community Economics and Environmental Sustainability Class in Fall 2008. She comments on Mc Kibben’s concept of “Deep Economy,” which “suggests solutions to the current errors of the failing free trade capitalist system by calling attention to the ecological and social factors limiting its [...]

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Post-Colonial

LIT 325: Postcolonial Theory, Fall 2008, Jean Gregorek Jeanne Kay ’2010 is a Postcolonial studies major. This is her take-home exam for a small seminar which focused on Third World Cinema, the Americanization of the Philippines, art and sexuality in Cuba, cultural globalization, and diasporic literature. The essay posits that neoliberal globalization legitimates itself through [...]

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Philosophy

Culture and Intepretation, Fall 2008, Isabella Winkler and Nevin Mercede Nic Viox is a first year Nonstop Student and a first time college student. He wrote this essay as a final assignment for Culture and Interpretation, a team-taught class which focused on improving students’ writing, crititical thinking, cultural analysis, and visual literacy skills. He wrote [...]

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Literature

LIT 258: Travel Writing and Memoir, Spring 2009, Jean Gregorek This was an informal writing assignment in which all members of the class addressed two required texts dealing with the phenomenon of middle-class investigators of the lives of transients: George Orwell, Down and Out in Paris and London (1933); and Ben Reitman, Sisters of the [...]

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