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Notes from the Dismal Science: When America’s Colleges Don’t Teach and Students Don’t Learn: Two Recent Books Reviewed
(Oakland University, 2011-10-01)
Since the 1983 publication of A Nation at Risk, America has been said to be in a “crisis of education”; however, during the subsequent years grades K through 12 education and higher education have faced very little scrutiny. ...
The Culture of Correspondence in Nineteenth-Century America
(Oakland University, 2011-10-01)
Letterwriting, in other words, binds disparate individuals and groups together into a union; the mail is what puts the United in the States of America.
The American Family Saga in Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex and Jonathan’s Franzen’s Freedom
(Oakland University, 2011-10-01)
This essay focuses on two American family sagas from the early twenty-first century, Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides and Freedom by Jonathan Franzen, both chosen for the diversity of gender constructions and sexual identities ...