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English (ENGL)
General Information
Courses numbered from 100 to 294 (introductory courses) are designed for non-majors and majors alike. With the exception of 200-level creative writing courses these courses have no prerequisites. English 295, "Critical Methods," requires prior completion of one Foundations course and another 6-credit English course. (English 295 is not open to first-year students.) Literature courses numbered 300 and above (upper-level courses) require prior completion of one Foundations course and another 6-credit English course. Intermediate courses in creative writing (200-level) require prior completion of one 6-credit English course; admission to upper-level courses in creative writing (300-level) is by portfolio submission. English 395, "Advanced Seminar," requires prior completion of English 295 and one 300-level course.
Requirements for a Major
Seventy-two credits in English, including the following:
1. Foundations: One designated 100-level course that develops skills of literary analysis and introduces the concept of genre
2. Historical Eras: 36 credits in literature courses numbered 200-395 (excluding 220 and 295) which must include:
a. Group I: 12 credits in literature before 1660
b. Group II: 12 credits in literature between 1660 and 1900
c. Group III: 12 credits in literature after 1900
3. English 295: Critical Methods
4. English 395: Advanced Seminar
5. English 400: Senior Integrative Exercise (A senior may choose one of the following):
a. Colloquium Option: A group option in which participants discuss, analyze and write about a thematically coherent list of literary works.
b. Research Essay Option: An extended essay on a topic of the student's own devising. Open only to students who have completed their Advanced Seminar by the end of fall term senior year.
c. Creative Writing Option: Creation of a work of literary art. Open only to students who have completed at least two creative writing courses (one of which must be at the 300 level) by the end of fall term senior year.
d. Project Option: Creation of an individual or group multidisciplinary project.
Of the 72 credits required to complete the major:
1. at least 6 credits must be taken in each of the following traditions:
a. British literature
b. United States literature
c. English literatures other than British and United States
2. at least 24 credits must be in courses numbered 300-395
3. up to 6 credits may be in literature other than English in the original or translation
4. up to 12 credits may be in creative writing
Double-majors considering completing the integrative exercise during the junior year will need written approval from the departmental chair.
Workshops in Writing
The Department of English offers workshop courses in the writing of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction for those students who wish to gain experience in writing. Students are encouraged to submit their work to college publications such as The Lens, manuscript, the Clap, and Carleton Progressive.
Writers on the Carleton faculty include poets Gregory Hewett and Susan Jaret McKinstry and novelist Gregory Blake Smith. In addition to those courses offered by regular faculty members, the department brings visiting writers to campus to read and to conduct workshops in their specialties. Visitors have included playwright Tony Kushner, memoirists Richard Rodriquez and Patricia Hampl, poets Robert Creeley, Carolyn Forche, Sharon Olds, and Andrew Hudgins, nature writers Dan O'Brien and David Rains Wallace, and fiction-writers Jane Hamilton, Ann Beattie, Maxine Hong Kingston, Marilynne Robinson, Jonis Agee, Paul Auster, and Siri Hustvedt.
English Courses
ENGL 099. Summer Writing Program Emphasizing a writing process approach, the Summer Writing Program helps high school seniors learn to compose academic papers that are similar to those they will write in college. Students read both contemporary and traditional literature from classic texts by writers such as Plato and Shakespeare to a variety of modern short stories, essays, and poems by authors such as August Wilson, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and Adrienne Rich. This literature then becomes the focus of their papers. Students write every day, and although occasional creative writing exercises are included, the main emphasis of the course will be on expository prose. Cannot be used for the Writing Requirement. 6 cr., S/CR/NC, NE, SummerStaff
ENGL 100. Autobiography How do we, how should we, respond to the autobiographical writings of public figures, private citizens, academics, or movie stars? Are there common strategies employed in these acts and processes of self-mapping? Does accuracy matter to us if we happen to find these textual self-portraits appealing? We will keep questions like these in mind as we read, discuss, and write about autobiographies and memoirs by Maya Angelou, Sidney Poitier, James McBride, Barack Obama, bell hooks, and John Hope Franklin. 6 cr., AI, WR1, FallK. Owusu
ENGL 100. Writing Within the Liberal Arts Writing makes thinking visible. In this course, students will conduct research projects that involve posing a problem, collecting data (in many forms), choosing what data are relevant, and making a case for action. Readings will range from the Western rhetorical tradition to current events. All students will participate in peer review and oral presentations. 6 cr., AI, WR1, QRE, FallC. Rutz
ENGL 100. Imagining a Self This course examines how first-person narrators present, define, defend, and construct the self. We will read an assortment of autobiographical and fictional works, focusing on the critical issues that the first-person speaker "I" raises. In particular, we will consider the risks and rewards of narrative self-exposure, the relationship between autobiography and the novel, and the apparent intimacy between first-person narrators and their readers. Authors will include James Boswell, Charlotte Bronte, Harriet Jacobs, Sylvia Plath, and Dave Eggers. 6 cr., AI, WR1, FallJ. Leiman
ENGL 100. Spirit of Place We will consider a range of texts (in fiction poetry, drama, nonfiction) that explore the intangible and multifaceted nature of "place" in literary works. We will attempt to determine what influence place has on human perception and behavior and study the variety of ways in which writers have attempted to evoke a "spirit of place." Authors read will include Shakespeare, Hardy, Frost, Erdrich and Heaney. 6 cr., AI, WR1, FallM. Kowalewski
ENGL 100. Visions of the Waste Land In his great post-World War I poem, T. S. Eliot described the waste land of western civilization as "a heap of broken images." We will explore how the writers of the first half of the twentieth-century invented ways of reshaping those broken images into a new literary art that has come to be called Modernism. Writers studied will likely include Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, and Faulkner. Attention will be given to the writing of literary critical papers, and to supplying students with the foundational tools for more advanced literary study. 6 cr., AI, WR1, FallG. Smith
ENGL 100. Drama, Film, and Society With an emphasis on critical reading, writing, and the fundamentals of college-level research, this course will develop students' knowledge, understanding, and appreciation of the relationship between drama and film and the social and cultural contexts of which they are (or were) a part and product. The course explores the various ways in which these plays and movies (which might include anything and everything from Spike Lee to Tony Kushner to Christopher Marlowe) generate meaning, with particular attention to the social, historical, and political realities that contribute to that meaning. Attending live performances in the Twin Cities will be required. 6 cr., AI, WR1, FallP. Hecker
ENGL 100. Literature and Science Literature and science will seem to most of us disparate enterprises arising from fundamentally different kinds of knowing. This course investigates how nineteenth-century literature responded to the burgeoning authority of newly professionalized natural sciences and what the new sciences borrowed from literature. Reading both literary and scientific texts and paying attention to how writers of either kind understand themselves and their tasks, we will seek to observe how science and literature both threatened and served each other. In the second half of the term we will sample some twentieth-century examples of this fraught and fruitful relation. 6 cr., WR; AI, WR1, FallP. Balaam
ENGL 109. Introduction to Rhetoric English 109 is the single Carleton course devoted exclusively to the study and practice of expository prose. It is designed to provide students with the organizational and argumentative skills they will need in order to write effectively at the college level and beyond. All sections of the course feature diverse readings, weekly writing exercises and essays, and individual tutorials. 6 cr., NE, WR2, Winter,SpringP. Balaam, C. Rutz
ENGL 112. Introduction to the Novel This course will explore the history and form of the British novel, tracing its development from the eighteenth century to the present. Among the questions that we will consider: What are our expectations for novels, and what makes them such a popular form of entertainment? How did a genre once considered a source of moral corruption become a legitimate, even dominant, literary form? Authors will likely include: Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, and Jean Rhys. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Offered in alternate years. WinterJ. Leiman
ENGL 114. Introduction to Medieval Literature This course surveys the poetry and prose of later medieval England, from about 1350-1475--an era of great accomplishment and considerable variety in English writing and great changes and considerable upheaval in English society, a period of plague, heresy, rebellion, and civil war. Readings (in modern translation) will include travel literature and autobiography, dream visions and Arthurian romances, sermons, saints' lives, and allegories. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Offered in alternate years. Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 115. The Art of Storytelling Jorge Luis Borges is quoted as saying that "unlike the novel, a short story may be, for all purposes, essential." This course focuses attention primarily on the short story as an enduring form. We will read short stories drawn from different literary traditions and from various parts of the world. Stories to be read include those by Aksenov, Atwood, Beckett, Borges, Camus, Cheever, Cisneros, Farah, Fuentes, Gordimer, Ishiguro, Kundera, Mahfouz, Marquez, Moravia, Nabokov, Narayan, Pritchett, Rushdie, Trevor, Welty, and Xue. 6 cr., LA, WR2, SpringK. Owusu
ENGL 117. African American Literature This course pays particular attention to the tradition of African American literary expression and the individual talent that brings depth and diversity to that tradition. The course's broader aims will be complemented by an introduction to the concept of genre and by the cultivation of the relevant skills of literary analysis. Authors to be read include Baraka, Ed Bullins, Countee Cullen, Douglass, Ellison, Nikki Giovanni, Hughes, Weldon Johnson, Larsen, and Wheatley. 6 cr., LA, WR2, IDS, FallK. Owusu
ENGL 118. Introduction to Poetry We will look at the whole kingdom of poetry, exploring how poets use form, tone, sound, imagery, rhythm, and subject matter to create what Wallace Stevens called the "supreme fiction." Examples will be drawn from around the world, from Sappho to spoken word. Participation in discussion is mandatory; essay assignments will ask you to provide close readings of particular works; a couple of assignments will focus on the writing of poems so as to give you a full understanding of this ancient and living art. 6 cr., LA, WR2, WinterT. Raylor
ENGL 119. Introduction to U.S. Latino/a Literature We will begin by examining the forefathers and mothers of Latino/a literature: the nineteenth century texts of exile, struggles for Latin American independence, and southwestern resistance and accommodation. The early twentieth century offers new genres: immigrant novels and popular poetry that reveal the nascent Latino identities rooted in (or formed in opposition to) U.S. ethics and ideals. Finally we will read a sampling of the many excellent contemporary authors who are transforming the face of American literature. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, IDS, Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 129. Introduction to British Comedy "And those things do best please me / That befall prepost'rously." A survey of comic plays, novels, short stories, films and television from Shakespeare, Austen, Lewis Carroll, Gilbert and Sullivan, Oscar Wilde, through P.G. Wodehouse and beyond. 6 cr., LA, WR2, FallC. Walker
ENGL 131. Reading Fiction Selected texts to be read in this course include those by Daniel Defoe, Thomas Hardy, Charles Johnson, J.M. Coetzee, Zadie Smith, and Sherman Alexie. We will pay close attention to the language of fiction, to the nature of narrative, and to narrative traditions in our ten-week journey from the world of Defoe's Moll Flanders to that of Alexie's Part-Time Indian. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 135. Imperial Adventures Indiana Jones has a pedigree. In this class we will encounter some of his ancestors in stories, novels and comic books from the early decades of the twentieth century. The wilds of Afghanistan, the African forest, a prehistoric world in Patagonia, the opium dens of mysterious exotic London--these will be but some of our stops as we examine the structure and ideology and lasting legacy of the imperial adventure tale. Authors we will read include Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Rudyard Kipling and H. Rider Haggard. 6 cr., LA, WR2, IS, SpringA. Chakladar
ENGL 144. Shakespeare I A chronological survey of the whole of Shakespeare's career, covering all genres and periods, this course explores the nature of Shakespeare's genius and the scope of his art. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between literature and stagecraft ("page to stage"). By tackling the complexities of prosody, of textual transmission, and of Shakespeare's highly figurative and metaphorical language, the course will help you further develop your ability to think critically about literature. Note: Declared or prospective English majors should register for English 244. 6 cr., LA, FallP. Hecker
ENGL 160. Introduction to Creative Writing This course offers training in the writing and revision of poetry and prose fiction, supplemented by examples from published writers and some essays on the creative process. Discussion of each participant's writing is the central mode of instruction. 6 cr., ARP, WR2, Fall,Winter,SpringS. Jaret McKinstry, C. Martin, G. Smith
ENGL 194. The "Great War" and the Literary Imagination The First World War shaped the world that we recognize as ours, creating new ways of remembering and forgetting as well as new forms of artistic expression. Writers shattered poetic forms and visual artists traditional modes of representation in order to register the previously unimaginable horrors of mechanized trench warfare and industrial-scale slaughter. Focusing primarily on poetry we will follow the arc of this aesthetic engagement from both British and German perspectives, starting with the late-Romantic musings of Rupert Brooke, through the haunting poems of Wilfred Owen, on to the various short-lived movements that marked the birth of modernism. 6 cr., LA, WR2, IS, FallT. Raylor, P. Petzschmann
ENGL 202. The Bible as Literature We will approach the Bible not as an archaeological relic, nor as the Word of God, but "as a work of great literary force and authority [that has] shaped the minds and lives of intelligent men and women for two millennia and more." As one place to investigate such shaping, we will sample how the Bible (especially in the "Authorized" or King James version) has drawn British and American poets and prose writers to borrow and deploy its language and respond creatively to its narratives, images, and visions. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Offered in alternate years. Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 203. The Age of Beowulf Although the Age of Beowulf ended almost one thousand years ago, its influence endures. Just as the CGI adaptation of Beowulf uses Old English--the language in England during this period--to mark the monstrous, the History Channel's Vikings uses this era as a historical backdrop, and Tolkien's LOTR finds much of its inspiration in Old English literature. In this class, then, we'll return to the source--to tales of demons, dragons, heroes, and saints found in various chronicles, poems, riddles, and more from the Age of Beowulf--and, hopefully, start to understand why this particular epoch looms so large. Texts will be read in modern translation. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, WinterC. Flack
ENGL 210. From Chaucer to Milton: Early English Literature An introduction to some of the major genres, texts, and authors of medieval and Renaissance England. Readings may include works of Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton, and the lyric poets of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, SpringP. Hecker
ENGL 211. Neoclassic, Romantic, and Victorian Literature Readings in eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 212. Nineteenth-Century American Literature A survey of the major forms and voices of nineteenth-century American literature during the Romantic and Realist periods, with attention to the historical and intellectual contexts of that work. Topics covered will include the literary writings of Transcendentalism, abolition, and the rise of literary "realism" after the Civil War as an artistic response to urbanization and industrialism. Writers to be read include Irving, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Douglass, Dickinson, Whitman, Twain, James, and Wharton. 6 cr., LA, WR2, WinterE. McKinsey
ENGL 213. Christopher Marlowe Christopher Marlowe lived fast, died young, and left behind a beautiful body of work. The course will explore the major plays and poems, as well as the life, of this transgressive Elizabethan writer. 3 cr., LA, WinterP. Hecker
ENGL 214. Revenge Tragedy Madness, murder, conspiracy, poison, incest, rape, ghosts, and lots of blood: the fashion for revenge tragedy in Elizabethan and Jacobean England led to the creation of some of the most brilliant, violent, funny, and deeply strange plays in the history of the language. Authors may include Cary, Chapman, Ford, Marston, Middleton, Kyd, Tourneur, and Webster. 3 cr., LA, WinterP. Hecker
ENGL 215. Modern American Literature A survey of some of the central movements and texts in American literature, from World War I to the present. Topics covered will include modernism, the Harlem Renaissance, the Beat generation and postmodernism. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 217. A Novel Education Samuel Johnson declared novels to be "written chiefly to the young, the ignorant, and the idle, to whom they serve as lectures of conduct, and introductions into life." This course will explore what kinds of education the novel offered its readers during a time when fiction was considered a source of valuable lessons and a vehicle for corruption. We will read a selection of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels, considering how they engage with contemporary educational theories, notions of male and female conduct, and concerns about the didactic and imaginative possibilities of fiction. Authors include Richardson, Lennox, Austen, Edgeworth, and Dickens. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Offered in alternate years. FallJ. Leiman
ENGL 218. The Gothic Spirit The eighteenth and early nineteenth century saw the rise of the Gothic, a genre populated by brooding hero-villains, vulnerable virgins, mad monks, ghosts, and monsters. In this course, we will examine the conventions and concerns of the Gothic, addressing its preoccupation with terror, sex, and the supernatural. As we situate this genre within its literary and historical context, we will consider its relationship to realism and Romanticism, and we will explore how it reflects the political and cultural anxieties of the age. Authors include Walpole, Radcliffe, Lewis, Austen, M. Shelley, and E. Bronte. 6 cr., LA, WR2, SpringJ. Leiman
ENGL 220. Arts of Oral Presentation Instruction and practice in being a speaker and an audience in formal and informal settings. 3 cr., S/CR/NC, NE, Winter,SpringM. Kowalewski, T. Raylor
ENGL 222. The Art of Jane Austen All of Jane Austen's fiction will be read; the works she did not complete or choose to publish during her lifetime will be studied in an attempt to understand the art of her mature comic masterpieces, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Persuasion. 6 cr., LA, WR2, SpringS. Jaret McKinstry
ENGL 223. American Transcendentalism Attempts to discern the nineteenth-century Zeitgeist come down, Emerson says, to a "practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live?" This interdisciplinary course will investigate the works of the American Transcendentalist movement in its restless discontent with the conventional, its eclectic search for better ways of thinking and living. We will engage major works of Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, and Whitman alongside documents of the scientific, religious, and political changes that shaped their era and provoked their responses. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Offered in alternate years. Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 224. Children's Literature A literary investigation of children's literature with close attention to the particular aesthetic issues that follow from the genre's mixing of delight and didacticism, whimsy and pedagogy. We will trace the nineteenth and twentieth-century rise of works written for a child audience back to origins in the power struggles and wish fulfillment of oral tradition tales, the Enlightenment "fairytale," and the Romantic-era "invention of childhood." Works by the Grimms, Straparola, Basile, Perrault, d'Aulnoy, Bettelheim, Wordsworth, Burnett, Kipling, E.B. White, and Sendak. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 226. Modernism In the first decades of the twentieth century, modernist writers, artists, and thinkers confronted a modern world of rapidly accelerating industrialization, urbanization, and militarization with radically new ideas and forms that, by the estimation of many, upended twenty centuries of culture. This course, while centered on literature, will explore the modernist movement on both sides of the Atlantic and across genres and disciplines. We will study William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Pablo Picasso, Igor Stravinsky, Albert Einstein, and Sigmund Freud, among others. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Offered in alternate years. Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 228. Sensation, Seduction, Sympathy: The American Novel to 1850 Still a new and distrusted genre in the 1790s, the novel became in the post-Revolutionary era a vehicle through which writers such as Susannah Rowson and Brockden Brown expressed the hopes, disappointments, illusions, and anxieties of life in the democratic republic. We will consider how these early Gothic and melodramatic narratives used pathos and sensation to both mask and articulate popular rage and uncertainty, and how they influenced the works of later writers Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Fanny Fern, and Melville. Warning: like life in the early U.S., this course offers drastic encounters with freedom and captivity, sex and obsession, marriage and whale hunting. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, IDS, Offered in alternate years. Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 229. The American Novel: Romance to Realism (1850 to 1910) Post-Civil War writers refashioned the cultural work of fiction to express the new taste for realism and the even more chastened mode of naturalism. The novels of this period have a documentary feel, as though charged with representing and re-envisioning the drama of real American lives in a disenchanted, industrialized, and rapidly consolidating world. Readings from Howells, James, Crane, Jewett, Gilman, Dreiser, Chesnutt, and Wharton. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, SpringP. Balaam
ENGL 234. Literature of the American South Masterpieces of the "Southern Renaissance" of the early and mid-twentieth century, in the context of American regionalism and particularly the culture of the South, the legacy of slavery and race relations, social and gender roles, and the modernist movement in literature. Authors will include Allen Tate, Jean Toomer, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Zora Neale Hurston, Eudora Welty, Katherine Anne Porter, William Percy, and others. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, IDS, WinterE. McKinsey
ENGL 235. Asian American Literature This course is an introduction to major works and authors of fiction, drama, and poetry from about 1900 to the present. We will trace the development of Asian American literary traditions while exploring the rich diversity of recent voices in the field. Authors to be read include Carlos Bulosan, Sui Sin Far, Philip Kan Gotanda, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jhumpa Lahiri, Milton Murayama, Chang-rae Lee, Li-young Lee, and John Okada. 6 cr., LA, WR2, IDS, FallN. Cho
ENGL 236. American Nature Writing A study of the environmental imagination in American literature. We will explore the relationship between literature and the natural sciences and examine questions of style, narrative, and representation in the light of larger social, ethical, and political concerns about the environment. Authors read will include Thoreau, Muir, Jeffers, Abbey, and Leopold. Students will write a creative Natural History essay as part of the course requirements. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 238. African Literature in English This is a course on texts drawn from English-speaking Africa since the 1950's. Authors to be read include Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ayi Kwei Armah, Buchi Emecheta, Bessie Head, Benjamin Kwakye, and Wole Soyinka. 6 cr., LA, IS, SpringK. Owusu
ENGL 244. Shakespeare I A chronological survey of the whole of Shakespeare's career, covering all genres and periods, this course explores the nature of Shakespeare's genius and the scope of his art. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between literature and stagecraft ("page to stage"). By tackling the complexities of prosody, of textual transmission, and of Shakespeare's highly figurative and metaphorical language, the course will help you further develop your ability to think critically about literature. Note: non-majors should register for English 144. 6 cr., LA, FallP. Hecker
ENGL 245. Bollywood Nation This course will serve as an introduction to Bollywood or popular Hindi cinema from India. We will trace the history of this cinema and analyze its formal components. We will watch and discuss some of the most celebrated and popular films of the last 60 years with particular emphasis on urban thrillers and social dramas. 6 cr., LA, WR2, IS, Offered in alternate years. Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 247. The American West Wallace Stegner once described the West as "the geography of hope" in the American imagination. Despite various dystopian urban pressures, the region still conjures up images of wide vistas and sunburned optimism. We will explore this paradox by examining both popular mythic conceptions of the West (primarily in film) and more searching literary treatments of the same area. We will explore how writers such as Twain, Cather, Stegner and Cormac McCarthy have dealt with the geographical diversity and multi-ethnic history of the West. Weekly film showings will include The Searchers, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Unforgiven, and Lone Star. Extra Time Required, evening screenings. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, Offered in alternate years. FallM. Kowalewski
ENGL 248. Visions of California An interdisciplinary exploration of the ways in which California has been imagined in literature, art, film and popular culture from pre-contact to the present. We will explore the state both as a place (or rather, a mosaic of places) and as a continuing metaphor--whether of promise or disintegration--for the rest of the country. Authors read will include Muir, Steinbeck, Chandler, West, and Didion. Weekly film showings will include Sunset Boulevard, Chinatown and Blade Runner. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, IDS, Offered in alternate years. WinterM. Kowalewski
ENGL 249. Irish Literature We will read and discuss modern Irish poetry, fiction, and drama in the context of Irish politics and culture. Readings will include works by W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Patrick Kavanaugh, Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel, Edna O'Brien, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and Ciaran Carson, among others. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 250. Modern Indian Fiction In this course we will follow the various paths that the novel in India has taken since the early twentieth century. Reading both works composed in English and some in translation we will probe in particular the ways in which questions of language and national/cultural identity are constructed and critiqued in the Indian novel. We will read some of the most celebrated Indian writers of the last 100 years as well as some who are not as well-known as they should be. The course will also introduce you to some fundamental concepts in postcolonial studies. 6 cr., LA, WR2, IS, Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 251. Contemporary Indian Fiction Contemporary Indian writers, based either in India or abroad, have become significant figures in the global literary landscape. This can be traced to the publication of Salman Rushdie's second novel, Midnight's Children in 1981. We will begin with that novel and read some of the other notable works of fiction of the following decades. The class will provide both a thorough grounding in the contemporary Indian literary scene as well as an introduction to some concepts in post-colonial studies. 6 cr., LA, WR2, IS, Offered in alternate years. SpringA. Chakladar
ENGL 252. Caribbean Fiction This course will examine Anglophone fiction in the Caribbean from the late colonial period through our contemporary moment. We will examine major developments in form and language as well as the writing of identity, personal and (trans)national. We will read works by canonical writers such as V.S Naipaul, George Lamming and Jamaica Kincaid, as well as by lesser known contemporary writers. 6 cr., LA, WR2, IS, Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 257. Ireland Program: Contemporary Irish Literature In this course students will read contemporary Irish literature and meet with writers. Students will learn how to write short book reviews and how to interview an author. The goal of the course is for student writers to become familiar with the rich, unique world of Irish letters today, and more generally, to understand how a community of writers works. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, IS, SummerG. Hewett
ENGL 258. Contemporary American Playwrights of Color This course examines a diverse selection of plays from the 1960s to the present, exploring how different theatrical contexts, from Broadway to regional theater to Off-Off Broadway, frame the staging of ethnic identity. Playwrights and performers to be studied include Amiri Baraka, Alice Childress, Ntozake Shange, George C. Wolfe, Luis Valdez, David Henry Hwang, August Wilson, Philip Gotanda, Maria Irene Fornes, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Anna Deavere Smith. There will be occasional out-of-class film screenings, and attendance at live theater performances when possible. 6 cr., LA, WR2, IDS, WinterN. Cho
ENGL 260. Ireland Program: Creative Writing in Ireland Students will be asked to do journal writing covering their experiences of place, people, history, legend, contemporary events and conflicts, etc.--out of which they will produce a portfolio of creative nonfiction (a hybrid of personal essay and expository writing). The goal of this course is to synthesize experience into creative writing. 6 cr., WR; ARP, WR2, IS, Offered in alternate years. SummerG. Hewett
ENGL 270. Short Story Workshop An introduction to the writing of the short story (prior familiarity with the genre of the short story is expected of class members). Each student will write and have discussed in class three stories (from 1,500 to 6,000 words in length) and give constructive suggestions, including written critiques, for revising the stories written by other members of the class. Attention will be paid to all the elements of fiction: characterization, point of view, conflict, setting, dialogue, etc. Prerequisite: One prior 6-credit English course. 6 cr., S/CR/NC, ARP, WR2, Fall,WinterG. Smith
ENGL 271. Poetry Workshop This course offers newer poets ways of developing poetic craft and vision. Through intensive writing and revision of poetry, supplemented by reading and discussion of poetry, each member of the group will create a portfolio of poems. Prerequisite: One prior 6 credit English course. 6 cr., ARP, WR2, FallG. Hewett
ENGL 272. Telling True Stories: A Journey in Journalism In this workshop class, the classroom becomes a newsroom and students create and publish their own works of journalism in digital media of their choosing including but not limited to personal blogs, podcasts, videos, still photography, online graphics and multimedia. Journalism as a truth-finding and truth-telling discipline--using vernacular language and digital tools to communicate critical social truths accessibly--is the underlying skill set taught in a "learning by doing" (as opposed to lecture style) format. Short classroom discussions on ethics and craft, based on recent published journalism and current events, are interspersed throughout. 6 cr., ARP, WR2, Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 273. Writing Memoir This writing workshop allows students to explore the craft of memoir through intensive writing, critique, and revision in order to create their own memoir. To develop their skills, students will read and discuss memoirs in varied forms (including visual arts), and consider the competing demands of truth, narrative, fiction, and non-fiction in this rich and complex genre. Prerequisite: One prior 6 credit English course or instructor permission. 6 cr., S/CR/NC, ARP, WR2, FallS. Jaret McKinstry
ENGL 274. Ireland Program: The History and Culture of Ireland through Literature Through selected readings, discussion, lecture, and site visits this interdisciplinary course will provide the necessary intellectual foundation and context for understanding Ireland past and present. The goal of this course is to provide a comprehensive introduction to Ireland. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, IS, Offered in alternate years. SummerLocal faculty
ENGL 275. Rhetoric and Self-Presentation Given that 75% of Carleton graduates enroll in graduate or professional school within five years of graduation, today's undergraduates can expect to be required to present themselves, their personal histories, their ideas, and their career goals in writing for various prestigious audiences. In this course, we will examine the rhetoric of self-presentation in contexts such as personal statements, fellowship applications, and research proposals. Students should expect frequent peer workshops and extensive revision toward polished, formally written products. Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or higher. 6 cr., NE, WR2, QRE, Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 277. London Program: London Studies Project In consultation with the director, students will work in pairs or groups of three to design an independent research project that demonstrates their knowledge of London. The projects will focus on particular London sites chosen by students--a street, a tube station, a city square, a store, a public artwork--the possibilities are vast. Student groups will design a presentation format (e.g., digital slideshow, poster board, artistic collage, etc.) and present their projects at the end of term. 3 cr., S/CR/NC, NE, SpringN. Cho
ENGL 279. London Program: Urban Field Studies A combination of background readings, guided site visits, and personal exploration will give students tools for seeing London itself as a multilayered text under constant expansion and revision. Starting from the city's pre-urban geology and the still visible structures of its Roman past, students will gain a sense of London's rich history, its esthetic inspiration for writers and artists, and its complex status as a global metropolis. 3 cr., S/CR/NC, NE, SpringLocal Faculty
ENGL 280. Crafts of Writing: Creative Non-Fiction This course explores the translation from event to effective writing through a variety of creative non-fiction forms, including memoir, journalism, and personal essay. Discussion of each participant's writing is the central mode of instruction, supplemented by examples from published writers, current magazines and newspapers, and essays on the creative process. Each student will create a portfolio of their work. Prerequisite: One prior 6 credit English course. 6 cr., ARP, WR2, SpringD. Cass
ENGL 281. London Program: Imagining London: Literature and the Metropolis How have modern writers depicted the city of London? Considering London in diverse ways--as marketplace, bohemian enclave, war-torn city, and transnational metropol--this course examines the portrayal of London in selected works of twentieth and twenty-first century literature. As we explore how writers confront the freedoms and pitfalls of modern urban life--e.g., speed, consumption, experimentation, redevelopment, and class and race conflict--we will relate the London around us to the London of our texts. Readings include E.M. Forster, G.B. Shaw, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene, Colin MacInnes, Sam Selvon, and Zadie Smith, as well as visual and theoretical works. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, IS, SpringN. Cho
ENGL 282. London Program: London Theater Students will attend productions (at least two per week) of classic and contemporary plays in a range of London venues both on and off the West End, and will do related reading. We will also travel to Stratford-upon-Avon for a three-day theater trip. Class discussions will focus on dramatic genres and themes, dramaturgy, acting styles, and design. Guest speakers may include actors, critics, and directors. Students will keep a theater journal and write several full reviews of plays. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, SpringLocal Faculty
ENGL 286. Eat the Story What happens when kids stop playing with their food? We write about it, Instagram it, Tweet it. Our obsession has also inspired a bumper crop of new food prose: call it desk-to-table. "Eat the Story" will be a writing workshop, with a focus on foodways, heirloom crops, and community/urban ag. Our reading menu will draw on contemporary post-Pollan food journalism. (Depending on our appetite, we may visit with local food producers.) These samples will serve as fodder for our main course: practical field reporting and writing projects, from blog posts to longer features. Prerequisite: One prior 6-credit English course. 6 cr., WR; ARP, WR2, WinterM. Tortorello
ENGL 287. Storytelling in a Changing Media Landscape There have never been more platforms available to journalists--from Twitter to full-length films and everything in between. But each of these platforms has is own strengths and weaknesses as a way to communicate, and simply porting older forms like newspaper and magazine writing to new platforms is doomed to be unsatisfying to both storyteller and audience. We'll look at the tools and technologies available to today's journalists, identify how they might be most effectively deployed, and do case studies on some of the best work happening at the frontier of the media business. Prerequisite: One prior 6 credit English course or Cinema and Media Studies Digital Foundations course. 2 cr., S/CR/NC, ARP, FallM. McClusky
ENGL 295. Critical Methods Required of students majoring in English, this course explores practical and theoretical issues in literary analysis and contemporary criticism. Not open to first year students. Prerequisite: One English Foundations course and one prior 6 credit English course. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Fall,WinterA. Chakladar, P. Balaam
ENGL 310. Shakespeare II Continuing the work begun in Shakespeare I, this course delves deeper into the Shakespeare canon. More difficult and obscure plays are studied alongside some of the more famous ones. While focusing principally on the plays themselves as works of art, the course also explores their social, intellectual, and theatrical contexts, as well as the variety of critical response they have engendered. Prerequisite: One English Foundations course and English 144 or 244. 6 cr., LA, WR2, WinterP. Hecker
ENGL 319. The Rise of the Novel A study of the origin and development of the English novel throughout the long eighteenth century. We will situate the early novel within its historical and cultural context, paying particular attention to its concern with courtship and marriage, writing and reading, the real and the fantastic. We will also consider eighteenth-century debates about the social function of novels and the dangers of reading fiction. Authors include Behn, Defoe, Haywood, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Walpole, and Austen. Prerequisite: One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course. 6 cr., LA, WR2, WinterJ. Leiman
ENGL 323. English Romantic Poetry "It is impossible to read the compositions of the most celebrated writers of the present day without being startled with the electric life which burns within their words"--P. B. Shelley. Readings in Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, and their contemporaries. Prerequisite: One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course. 6 cr., LA, WR2, FallC. Walker
ENGL 327. Victorian Novel We will study selected British novels of the nineteenth century (Eliot's Middlemarch, Dickens' Bleak House, Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Du Maurier's Trilby, C. Bronte's Jane Eyre, and E. Bronte's Wuthering Heights) as literary texts and cultural objects, examining the prose and also the bindings, pages, and illustrations of Victorian and contemporary editions. Using Victorian serial publications as models, and in collaboration with studio art and art history students, students will design and create short illustrated serial editions of chapters that will be exhibited in spring term. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 328. Victorian Poetry Victorian poets are prolific, challenging, inventive, and deeply engaged with the intersection of words and visual images in poetry, painting, and photography. We will read the competing aesthetic theories that frame their art, and study works by Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, Matthew Arnold, Dante Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll), Gerard Manley Hopkins, and others. Prerequisite: One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Offered in alternate years. SpringS. Jaret McKinstry
ENGL 329. The City in American Literature How do American authors "write the city"? The city as both material reality and metaphor has fueled the imagination of diverse novelists, poets, and playwrights, through tales of fallen women and con men, immigrant dreams, and visions of apocalypse. After studying the realistic tradition of urban fiction at the turn of the twentieth century, we will turn to modern and contemporary re-imaginings of the city, with a focus on Chicago, New York and Los Angeles. Selected films, photographs, and historical sources will supplement our investigations of how writers face the challenge of representing urban worlds. Prerequisite: One English foundations course or one other 6 credit English course, or instructor permission. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, Offered in alternate years. Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 332. Studies in American Literature: Faulkner, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald An intensive study of the novels and short fiction of William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald. The course will focus on the ethos of experimentation and the "homemade" quality of these innovative stylists who shaped the course of American modernism. Works read will be primarily from the twenties and thirties and will include The Sound and the Fury, In Our Time, Light in August, The Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, and Go Down, Moses. Prerequisite: One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course. 6 cr., LA, WR2, SpringM. Kowalewski
ENGL 334. Postmodern American Fiction We will get lost in the funhouse of postmodern fiction, in whose mirrored rooms we will encounter Maxwell's Demon, a depressed Krazy Kat, and the icy imagination of the King of Zembla. (Time will be budgeted for side-excursions into pastiche, dreck, and indeterminacy.) Authors read will include Nabokov, Pynchon, Barthelme, and DeLillo. Prerequisite: One English foundations course and one additional 6 credit English course. 6 cr., LA, Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 335. England in India/India in England This class will begin by exploring the representation of India in the colonial British imagination and segue into the representation of Britain by contemporary South Asian immigrant writers. We will examine the ways in which British and Indian identities are staged, contested and constructed in both the colonial and postcolonial period. Primary texts will include novels by Kipling, Forster, Kureishi and Kunzru; we will also read a range of postcolonial theory and watch related films and television shows. Prerequisite: One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course. 6 cr., LA, WR2, IS, Offered in alternate years. Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 337. Art and Argument in U.S. Literary Realism From the 1870s to World War I, the realists produced novels they hoped would be aesthetically superior to those of the past as well as deeply responsive to the rapid social and moral changes of the era. Readings will be drawn from the fiction and theory of Twain, Howells, James, Crane, Jewett, Gilman, Wharton, Dreiser, and Du Bois. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 350. The Postcolonial Novel: Forms and Contexts Authors from the colonies and ex-colonies of England have complicated understandings of the locations, forms and indeed the language of the contemporary English novel. This course will examine these questions and the theoretical and interpretive frames in which these writers have often been placed, and probe their place in the global marketplace (and awards stage). We will read writers such as Chinua Achebe, V.S Naipaul, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Salman Rushdie, Nuruddin Farah, Arundhati Roy and Zadie Smith as well as some of the central works of postcolonial literary criticism. Prerequisite: One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course. 6 cr., LA, WR2, IS, FallA. Chakladar
ENGL 352. Toni Morrison: Novelist Morrison exposes the limitations of the language of fiction, but refuses to be constrained by them. Her quirky, inimitable, and invariably memorable characters are fully committed to the protocols of the narratives that define them. She is fearless in her choice of subject matter and boundless in her thematic range. And the novelistic site becomes a stage for Morrison's virtuoso performances. It is to her well-crafted novels that we turn our attention in this course. Prerequisite: One English foundations course and one other 6 credit English course or instructor permission. 6 cr., LA, WR2, IDS, WinterK. Owusu
ENGL 362. Narrative Theory "Does the world really present itself to perception in the form of well-made stories?" asks Hayden White, metahistoriographer. To try to answer that question, we will read contemporary narrative theory by critics from several disciplines and apply their theories to literary texts, films, and cultural objects such as graphic novels, television shows, advertisements, and music videos. Prerequisite: One foundatiions course and one other 6-credit English course. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Offered in alternate years. Not offered in 2015-2016.
ENGL 370. Advanced Fiction Workshop An advanced course in the writing of fiction. Students will write three to four short stories or novel chapters which will be read and critiqued by the class. Students wishing to register for the course must first submit a portfolio of creative writing (typically a short story) to the instructor during Registration (see the English Department's website for full instructions.) Final enrollment is based on the quality of the submitted work. Prerequisite: Permission of instructor based on portfolio submission. 6 cr., S/CR/NC, ARP, WR2, SpringG. Smith
ENGL 371. Advanced Poetry Workshop For students with some experience in writing poetry, this workshop further develops craft and vision. Readings and exercises will be used to expand the poet's individual range, and to explore the power of poetic language. Over the ten weeks, each poet will write and revise a significant portfolio. Students must submit three poems to the instructor prior to registration. Final enrollment is based on the quality of the submitted work. Prerequisite: Submit three poems to instructor for consideration. 6 cr., ARP, WR2, SpringC. Martin
ENGL 395. T. S. Eliot and the Metaphysical Poet We will examine the impact of Donne and his followers on T. S. Eliot and the founding documents of modernism (especially The Waste Land); assess Eliot's role in canonizing the metaphysical poets; and try to account for the literary and philosophical qualities which led Eliot to champion their work. Prerequisite: English 295 and one 300 level English course. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, SpringT. Raylor
ENGL 395. James and Wharton Focusing on major fiction of Henry James and Edith Wharton, we will also read criticism to learn a bit about their lives and literary friendship and to examine the ways they use American and international materials to explore human relationships, gender and national identities, the intersections of economic and social structures, and the nature of human consciousness. Prerequisite: English 295 and one 300 level English course. 6 cr., WR; LA, WR2, FallS. Jaret McKinstry
ENGL 395. Narrative Necessity "Does the world really present itself to perception in the form of well-made stories?" asks metahistorian Hayden White. To try to answer that question is to explore the nature of representation, and confront literature's distinctive blend of fiction and nonfiction. We will read classic and contemporary narrative theory to understand how narrative works in a range of literary genres and forms, including their adaptation into films, graphic novels, and images. Prerequisite: English 295 and one 300 level English course. 6 cr., LA, WR2, WinterS. Jaret McKinstry
ENGL 395. Whose Freud?: Debates in Psychoanalytic Criticism For more than a century, assessments of Freudian psychoanalysis and the value of psychoanalytic approaches to literature have risen and fallen, zigged as well as zagged. We will interrogate this situation for ourselves, examining Freud's major theories, the checkered history of their application to literary study, the privileged position Freud granted to literature in his work, the roles of narrative and interpretation in his case histories and conception of "the talking cure." Reading Freud and his followers alongside works of twentieth-century literature, criticism, and critical theory, we will debate whether (or to what extent) psychoanalytic approaches put an end to fruitful inquiries or inspire and enable them. Prerequisite: English 295 and one 300 level English course. 6 cr., LA, WR2, Offered in alternate years. FallP. Balaam
ENGL 400. Integrative Exercise Senior English majors may fulfill the integrative exercise by completing one of the four options: the Colloquium Option (a group option in which participants discuss, analyze and write about a thematically coherent list of literary works); the Research Essay Option (an extended essay on a topic of the student's own devising); the Creative Option (creation of a work of literary art); or the Project Option (creation of an individual or group multidisciplinary project). The Research Essay Option is open to students who have completed a senior seminar in the major by the end of fall term senior year. The Creative Option is open only to students who have completed at least two creative writing courses (one of which must be at the 300 level) by the end of fall term senior year. 6 cr., S/NC, Winter,SpringStaff


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The June 3 letter about bathing patients shocked me. I run a special respiratory care unit that is well known for its high acuities, and it is extremely demanding, physically and emotionally. The nurses and PCAs on the unit work as a team. Our patients are bathed daily and as needed with a smile on our face. If they have a central line, they receive a Hibiclens bath.
Patients with Foleys receive care every four hours, patients on vents are positioned at 30 degrees and oral care is given every four hours — no exceptions. The level of care is incredible. Obviously the nurse who wrote the letter encountered disengaged staff who have been allowed to behave as she described. Shame on them. We have zero tolerance for this. If you do not have heart, you should not be in this field.
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Director: Devinn Lane
Company: Sin City Entertainment
Cast: Demi Delia, Aubrey Addams, Shannon (III), Sativa Rose, Sammie Rhodes, Tiffany Price, Kimberly Kole, Roxy DeVille, Trina Michaels, Annette (German), Vivian West, Lorena Sanchez
Critical Rating: AAAA
Genre: All-Sex
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Sammie Rhodes fantasizes about being a submissive and gets treated to a rough, darkly lit and passionate scene. Trina Michaels shows up for a massage that quickly turns hardcore. Shannon Kelly's fantasy is to be a prostitute in a cheap motel room. And Vivian West gets the signature treatment: a completely invasive, full body rubdown by a trio of staffers.
The uniqueness of each scene keeps this title interesting from beginning to end.
Pre-nom Best All-Girl Release.
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L3 routing to to the host. An idea whose time has come, again.
Switch Prices Will Get Cheaper. Design Models Will Change.
For the last 20 years, L2 tree-based network topologies meant that the only practical design methodology was to buy large, vertically scaled switch chassis for the core of the data centre. This limitation was largely due to the tree-structure forced on LAN networking by Spanning Tree Protocol. For every new device at point Access/1 we […]
Response: Bare-metal Switches And SDN controllers At Facebook
Facebook has telling people more about it's in-house designed and developed whitebox Ethernet switching based on Broadcom silicon (not sure if it's Trident2 or Arad), their own Linux distribution and OpenCompute standards.
Overlay Networking & VXLAN Means MPLS in the Data Centre is Dead
Overlay networking has been around for a year or so now and the ideas behind it are well established. It was about 3/4 weeks ago while researching VTEP functionality in Dell and Arista switches that I realised I could build manually configured tunnels with VXLAN and get the same results as an EoMPLS x-connect with almost zero effort. More importantly, I don't have to pay for expensive hardware that has MPLS functions or pay again for software licenses to upgrade with MPLS features.
Response: IPspace.net – Redundant Data Center Internet Connectivity
Ivan Peplnjak posts an outstanding summary of the myriad networking challenges when designing a dual Data Centre . Complete with cynical commentary and live action diagrams, he explains the problem and some suggestions for the solution. Recommended for everyone! We have a network with two data centers (connected with a DCI link). How could we […]
◎ Brocade's Data Centre Ethernet Strategy
I attended the Brocade Analyst and Tech Day last week as a guest of Brocade where I got to learn more about product, technology and strategy. In particular, the event was led by the launch of the Brocade VDX 8770.
TL:DR version: I have a better understanding of Brocade's market strategy, insight into the technology and believe that Brocade has a a good product here. The proof will be in the delivery, and whether Brocade can let go of it's storage legacy (FibreChannel) and properly commit to Ethernet. They will need to convince networking professionals that their product managers understand the market and requirements to get them to switch to Brocade. At this time, I think Brocade has a chance of making that happen based on the emphasis of VCS Fabric and Automation.
Where I'm less comfortable is that Brocade will rely on external parties to deliver the software automation – that's a strategy that has NOT worked in the last 20 years. There is no reason to believe this anything has changed.
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10 Safety Tips on Electrocution for the Network Engineer
Short version – I'd like you to read just these if nothing else.
- A data centre uses a lot of electricity. It's dangerous.
- Just in case you didn't pay attention – Electricity is really dangerous. Right, can we move on ?
- You should be scared of being electrocuted. That will keep you safe.
- When electrocution happens, the muscles in your limbs contract. This causes arms and hands to wrap around or clench objects.
- Someone who is being electrocuted can't let go because of this
- If you touch a person being electrocuted, you will get an electric shock too, and may also be injured.
- The BEST thing to do is to turn the power off.
- Know where the power kill switch is for Data Centre. Or at least the breaker for the area that you are in.
- Don't work in the Data Centre alone.
- Learn resuscitation. People who have been electrocuted are likely to have breathing problems and heart failure.
People shouldn't die at work. Think seriously about going home everyday and what you can do to make that happen.
Size Differences – Cat5 and Cat6 Cable Bundles
I've talked bit about the problems of using Category 6 copper cabling in the data centre. The sheer size and weight of the cable is a serious problem. Here are some photos showing the comparison of Category 5 and Category 6 cable bundles.
How TRILL (and SPB) can reduce STP risk and mitigate impact
In this post, I'm looking at network designs with ECMP cores using TRILL or SPB, I'm realising that STP is equally improved in terms of risk and performance by reducing the STP domain size which leads to better stability, reduced risk and impact mitigation
Responding: On optimizing traffic for network virtualization
I'm responding to Brad Hedlund's post "On optimizing traffic for network virtualization" where he seems to missed a key point. It's about cost of ownership in terms of ability to troubleshoot.


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Choose from a variety of frame styles, colors and sizes to compliment your favorite Society6 gallery, or fine art print - made ready to hang. Fine-crafted from solid woods, premium shatterproof acrylic protects the face of the art print, while an acid free dust cover on the back provides a custom finish. All framed art prints include wall hanging hardware.
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Mazda Drops Preview of New SKY Clean Engine Seriesby George Delozier
It is no secret that Mazda refuses to separate driving excitement with environmentally friendliness. The engineers and designers are adamant that a car can be fun to drive, and still be clean and efficient. It is from this thinking that Mazda has been able to create the SKY clean engine concepts.
Suzuki Prepares 3 Fuel Cell Concepts for Tokyoby George Delozier
It has been known that Suzuki is planning on bringing the hybrid powered Swift to the Tokyo Motor Show for quite some time. What they didn't tell us, was they have been working on 3 other fuel cell powered vehicles they are going to unveil alongside the Swift Hybrid.
Top Ten Social Shopping Sites (Just In Time) For The Holidays!by Ron Callari
Holiday Shopping habits are going through a transition states OneUpWeb.com. The recession has changed consumer habits and according to their report on shopping trends, "social" search engines will be used more than traditional search for data regarding holiday purchases. And beyond Twitter Search, the social networking niche gaining the most traction in this area is social shopping sites.
Mixi & Poupeegirl vs Twitter Strategy in Japanby Ron Callari
Can Twitter become a game-changer in Japan, where it just recently launched a new mobile platform? Or will cultural differences and native social networks like Mixi and Poupeegirl thwart its efforts?
Flying Panties Are A Thong Of Beautyby Steve Levenstein
Japanese anime has been a huge influence on comic book, TV and movie animation for decades. Does it still have the power to captivate and charm? Follow the flying panties and find out!
Honda Bicycle Simulator: Not As Fun As You Thinkby Chris Weiss
Thinking about trading your sedan in for a bicycle? Consider getting up to speed on traffic safety before that first commute.
Top Ten Social Media Halloween Costumesby Ron Callari
As much as social media occupies our everyday lives, I was surprised at how few social media costume actually were being packaged for sale. Perhaps retail manufacturers are in such an economic slump, they are focusing more on unloading existing inventory versus created new merchandise. However on the "home-made-create-your own" front, there are dozens of folks who have spent their time and creativity to craft some very unique social media costumes for this Halloween.
SIMPLE Concept from BMW Leans Like a Motorcycle, Seats 2, and Gets 118mpgby George Delozier
Back in 2002, BMW revealed a tricycle-based concept that called the CLEVER. It stood for Compact Low Emissions Vehicle for Urban Transport and was light enough to be powered by a small compressed natural gas engine. Now, BMW has released another of their tricycle-based concepts that has been dubbed the SIMPLE.
Falcon's Faux-Flight Of Fancy, the Reality Show?by Ron Callari
It started with a helium aircraft hovering over Fort Collins, Colorado and the belief that a 6-year-old boy climbed in and floated away Thursday, October 15, forcing officials to come up with a rescue plan to save him. Update at 3:35 p.m. ET:The balloon slowly spun to a crash-landing, surrounded by rescuers. Mystery widens, no one was inside balloon? It was at this time we learned that the father was a stormchaser, thus the balloon, and the family was involved in ABC's "Wife Swap," thus the reason for part of the craziness that unfolded. But the story didn't end there. The rest is only something that could make up a real-time Reality Show! Was it Truth or Hot Air? Or Balloonacy?
The Mono-copter: Unconventional, Ungainly, and the Future of Flight Design?by John P. Barker
Flight has always been an obsession with some inventors. Around 1914 two gentlemen, Alphonse Papin and Didier Rouilly, came up with this crazy flying device with a single blade of 130 square feet in area that rotated around the device's center of gravity. During initial testing it became unstable and was abandoned in the water.
Yet inventors keep striving for this odd, single bladed flying machine...
PR2 Robot Knows When (and How) to Take a Breakby John P. Barker
What's that you say? A robot that can open doors, find an outlet, and plug in to get some sweet power? All by itself? That's crazy talk!
New Active Safety System to Debut on Next Volvo S60by George Delozier
Few automakers can match the safety and reliability Volvo has been able to work into nearly every one of their vehicles. Their innovative methods and cutting edge technology have gotten them more than a few life-long customers and more are sure to come. Their latest piece of safety hardware could very well be one of the key factors in driving these new customers in.
Large, Sperm-Like Snowmobile Conceptby Chris Weiss
A new concept in the world of snowmobiling, this design promises to perform better than it looks.
Lotus Engineering Releases Range Extending Engine Designby George Delozier
Over the years, we have come to expect great things from the Lotus Engineering team, which they have been more than able to provide. The research and development they accomplish has been used in a myriad of applications extending far beyond their automotive realm. Recently, they unveiled a new range extending motor that will most likely follow the same path of global application.
If The Price Is Right, Is $1 Million Worth 1 Million Twitter Followers?by Ron Callari
How much would you pay for additional Twitter followers? Pennies, Two-bits, a dollar? Would you pay $1 million for one million followers? In an unprecedented move, Drew Carey, comedian and host of the Price is Right rose to that challenge and in exchange for a million followers, he has offered to donate a million dollars to Lance Armstrong's Livestrong Foundation.


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Various forms of literature are studied, with emphasis on developing writing, reading, and analytical skills. Also emphasizes development of grammar skills through exercises Incorporates grammar activities into writing assignments. Introduces literary concepts and terms and encourages students to build communication skills. Each assignment contains a substantial writing component. Reading selections include modern and classical fiction and nonfiction and reflect diverse cultures.
Objectives. The objectives for each lesson will help you focus your efforts. They indicate the concepts and skills you must understand or master when you complete the lesson.
Reading Assignments. Each lesson specifies the selections that must be read.
Introduction. The Introduction section of each lesson provides key terms and concepts that give you background for the lesson.
Self-Assessment Activities. These activities help to build your knowledge and skills and to identify your specific strengths and weaknesses. Some activities direct you to Internet sites with supplemental material for the lesson. All activities prepare you for the graded assignments and for mastering course materials.
Graded Assignments. Each assignment provides information about how your work will be assessed and how credit will be given for your responses. Most assignments will be submitted online and graded by your instructor. Some assignments will be computer-graded. The average of your assignments counts as 75 percent of your course grade. The Final Examination counts as the other 25 percent. You can apply to take the Final Exam after 100 percent of your graded assignments have been submitted, and at least 70 percent have been graded and returned to you.
The final examination is comprehensive; it covers the material from all of the lessons. To pass the course, you must receive a grade of 70 percent or better.
Format: Multiple-choice, short answer, and essay questions testing literary terms, characterization, fact and opinion, cause and effect, knowledge of grammar, and vocabulary.
Time Allowed: 3 hours
Materials Allowed: #2 pencil
Total Number of Lessons: 9
Total Number of Activities: 53
Total Number of Graded Assignments: 15
Instructor Graded (Online submission): 13
Computer Graded: 2
Lesson 1: Reading Fiction
Activity 1: Plot Stages in "Plainswoman"
Activity 2: Setting Chart: "The Necklace"
Activity 3: Comprehension Questions: "The Most Dangerous Game"
Activity 4: Vocabulary Exercise: "The Most Dangerous Game"
Activity 5: Character Web: "Where Have You Gone, Charming Billy?"
Activity 6: Comprehension Questions: "Two Kinds"
Graded Assignment 1: Lesson 1 Review
Graded Assignment 2: Autobiographical Essay
Lesson 2: Suspense and Surprise
Activity 1: Plot Line for "The Sniper"
Activity 2: Comprehension Questions: "The Sniper"
Activity 3: Comprehension Questions: "The Possibility of Evil"
Activity 4: Irony and "The Censors"
Activity 5: Understanding Mood: "The Cask of Amontillado"
Activity 6: Vocabulary Exercise: "The Cask of Amontillado"
Graded Assignment 3: Lesson 2 Review
Graded Assignment 4: Recording Assignment
Lesson 3: Narrative Poetry
Activity 1: The Elements of Poetry
Activity 2: Plot and Style in "The Wreck of the Hesperus"
Activity 3: "O What Is That Sound"
Activity 4: "Incident in a Rose Garden"
Activity 5: "The Bells"
Activity 6: Analyzing a Ballad
Graded Assignment 5: Lesson 3 Review
Graded Assignment 6: Analyzing a Ballad
Lesson 4: Nonfiction
Activity 1: Comprehension Questions: "Nonfiction"
Activity 2: Distinguishing Fact from Opinion: "Games People Probably Shouldn't Play"
Activity 3: Cause and Effect in Angela's Ashes
Activity 4: Credibility and "Mary Mallon's Trail of Typhoid"
Activity 5: Finding Facts in "The First Appendectomy"
Activity 6: "On Being Seventeen, Bright-and Unable to Read"
Activity 7: Working with Analogies
Graded Assignment 7: Lesson 4 Review
Graded Assignment 8: Biographical Interview and Essay
Lesson 5: The Odyssey, Part 1
Activity 1: "Homer's World" and "The Epic"
Activity 2: Reading Map: Book 1, "Invocation"
Activity 3: Reading Map: Book 9, "New Coasts and Poseidon's Son"
Activity 4: Identifying Characteristics of the Epic: Book 9, "New Coasts and Poseidon's Son"
Activity 5: Reading Map: Book 10, "The Grace of the Witch"
Activity 6: Reading Map: Book 12, "Sea Perils and Defeat"
Activity 7: The Travels of Odysseus
Graded Assignment 9: Computer Graded Assignment
Lesson 6: The Odyssey, Part 2
Activity 1: Comprehension Questions: "The Homecoming" and Book 21, "The Test of the Bow"
Activity 2: Irony in Book 21, "The Test of the Bow"
Activity 3: Comprehension Questions: Book 22, "Death in the Great Hall"
Activity 4: Comprehension Questions: Book 23, "The Trunk of the Olive Tree"
Activity 5: Comparing Translations
Graded Assignment 10: Lesson 6 Review
Graded Assignment 11: A Travel Brochure for the Odyssey
Lesson 7: Drama
Activity 1: Diagram of a Stage
Activity 2: Comprehension Questions: Trifles
Activity 3: Staging Trifles Differently
Activity 4: Theme in "Sorry, Right Number"
Graded Assignment 12: Lesson 7 Review
Lesson 8: Taking Chances
Activity 1: Comprehension Questions: "The United States vs. Susan B. Anthony"
Activity 2: Fact and Opinion in "The United States vs. Susan B. Anthony"
Activity 3: Credibility in "Into Thin Air"
Activity 4: Foreshadowing in "Into Thin Air"
Activity 5: Imagery in "To Build a Fire"
Activity 6: Cause and Effect in "To Build a Fire"
Activity 7: Style and Symbolism in "My Wonder Horse"
Graded Assignment 13: Computer Graded Assignment
Lesson 9: Animal Farm
Activity 1: Background to Animal Farm
Activity 2: Study Questions: Animal Farm, Chapters 1-5
Activity 3: Animal Farm as Allegory
Activity 4: Study Questions: Animal Farm, Chapters 6-10
Activity 5: Propaganda in Animal Farm
Graded Assignment 14: Lesson 9 Review
Graded Assignment 15: Analyzing an Advertisement


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- Paul Paul Feb 3, 2006 07:49 Flag
well er it is a big deal actually, probably why everyone on this board is still crying about it.... just check.... yes I can honestly say I'm still finding it pretty funny..
- Paul Paul Feb 3, 2006 07:03 Flag
I agree about Harlow that's why I moved out 2 years ago, just never bothered updating my profile... I can move where I like in this country and I was actually born near Canonbury closer to Arsenal than Essex, but you will always just be a total tit mate..
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paulpattenby DC Feb 2, 2006 23:15Paul Paul Feb 3, 2006 06:50 Flag
cheers, that's reasonable comment and reasonable argument. got p'd off when just got thrown abuse..
- Paul Paul Feb 2, 2006 22:05 Flag
Still resorting to name calling is that the best you can do ... lost the argument, the plot and the game... Still laughing my head off...
- Paul Paul Feb 2, 2006 22:01 Flag
Better still, nothing constructive to say, resort to abuse... and you're calling me pig ignorant...
- Paul Paul Feb 2, 2006 20:37 Flag
"from what you heard"..... Not even an armchair supporter.. a second hand one.... gets better all the time... Get an opinion of your own 1st then comment...
- Paul Paul Feb 2, 2006 20:29 Flag
get stuffed... Reo Coker Out paced the twat for the 1st, and Zamora dumped him on his fat arse for a superb 2nd... Credit where credit is due... So the arse were stuffed by a, quote "woefull" team... say's a lot for the arse.... still can't stop laughing....
- Paul Paul Feb 2, 2006 20:15 Flag
Blah blah blah..... you lost accept it...
- Paul Paul Feb 2, 2006 20:05 Flag
Blah Blah Blah........... Wesh Ham, tactically were better than you please give them credit rather than all this "we lost the game bollox's" WEST HAM WON....
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Conspiracy?by A Yahoo! User Dec 20, 2005 02:02Paul Paul Jan 8, 2006 21:19 Flag
Frenchman was a generalism not your id....
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Becks Vs Wright Philips? Who rules in the right flank?by sabeeh m Dec 12, 2005 16:53Paul Paul Jan 8, 2006 04:27 Flag
How can you play Wright Philips when he can't even command a starting position for his league club.
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England vs Brazilby A Yahoo! User Jan 6, 2006 22:57Paul Paul Jan 7, 2006 02:13 Flag
God is this supposed to be insulting or humerous? God I'm pee'ing my pants laughing (not)....
- Paul Paul Jan 7, 2006 00:16 Flag
There are two sides to every story, lets take item 1 in 1974.... Although I'm not a Spurs supporter I was at that game and saw the so called trouble. The incident was sparked by Dutch supporters throwing beer cans and coins at the Spurs supporters. The Spurs supporters threw them back, the reaction of the police was to rush into the Spurs supporters indescriminately batoning them. I saw one young girl of 14/15 with bruises on her forearm wher she just tried to protect herself. Heysel I've covered and I dare say there are people who witnessed the other incidents and can have their say. There are two sides to most stories unfortunately there have been incidents of Soccer hooliganism by supporters in this country, but I notice your last mention was in 2000. The English have moved on, it is now a problem in other European countries where they have not grown up yet....
- Paul Paul Jan 6, 2006 18:55 Flag
Well Said.....
- Paul Paul Jan 6, 2006 08:15 Flag
Only mentioned it because it one of the entries in Ricky Tomlinsons book on footballing anecdotes that I am reading (without the names). It's always been denied by the club and players concerned, but can anyone say if the story is true or not?
- Paul Paul Jan 6, 2006 07:59 Flag
And in adition to my earlier comments, after talking to two seperate friends one an actual eyewitness who were there.
The Trouble was sparked off by Italian Supporters throwing missiles and spitting at the Liverpool Supporters.. The Stadium was falling to bits and UEFA had to take some of the blame for putting on the final in a delapidated stadium. The Italian Supporters in block Z were in the Liverpool part of the Stadium and their tickets were supposed to be for neutrals. The Liverpool Supporters in response to the provocation charged at the Juve supporters, all that stood between them was a thin wire fence and some totally unenthusiastic policemen.
So get your facts straight, the Italians were as much to blame for that day as were the English...
- Paul by Paul Jan 5, 2006 19:56 Flag
There were several rumours about an incident between two West Ham players in which one got stabbed in the butt by the others wife (alledgedly) after she caught them in bed together. Without naming names in case of libel I would like to know if anyone knows any MORE(ly) about this? and if its a true story... I wonder, if it is true and the player got divorced does he now have to bash the Bishop for sexual release?
- Paul Paul Jan 5, 2006 18:56 Flag
Without condoning hooliganism, the tragic events at Heysel were directly linked to events at Roma one year earlier which the European press choose to ignore, after Liverpools victory.
What received rather less coverage than the match was the roaming scooter gangs hunting down Liverpool supporters, stabbing and slashing dozens, many of whom were family groups returning to hotels in the area. One 13-year-old boy was almost ripped apart, needing 200 stitches in his face alone. Many hoteliers refused to let their English guests in, either out of spite or for fear of subsequent attacks on their premises. There was little protection from the Police, who routinely attacked and robbed English supporters in revenge for the defeat of the local team. Before the match, stewards and gate attendants had taken hundreds of watches, cameras and items of jewellery from visiting supporters. That night, many desperate English fans, deserted by Italian coach drivers booked to drive them to Rome airport, sought sanctuary at the British Embassy.
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Are we heading for Europe?by Peter Dec 16, 2005 22:20Paul Paul Jan 2, 2006 05:36 Flag
Can still get there as FA Cup winners, we're overdue for that one...
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We've had the good now the bad and ugly.by Paul Dec 17, 2005 07:14Paul Paul Dec 30, 2005 05:15 Flag
Only ever won serious money betting on West Ham once. When we beat Man U at OT in the FA cup, with the famous (Taxi for Barthez incident). I Had £50 on a 1-0 West Ham win at 33-1 and Di Canio first Scorer at 13-1 for another £10.. I backed them to win the FA cup every year since 1979.. Only had one return, stopped doing it 2 years ago... Mind you my Man U bet has more than paid my yearly stakes..


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Nightingale, Florence, 1820-1910.
Florence Nightingale on society and politics, philosophy, science, education and literature.
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|Acknowledgments; Dramatis Personae; List of Illustrations; Florence Nightingale: A Précis of the Collected Works; Introduction to Volume 5; Key to Editing; Society: Essays, Letters and Notes on Social Physics and Social Statistics; Politics: Essays, Notes and Letters; Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature; Appendixes; Bibliography; Index.
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Florence Nightingale on Society and Politics, Philosophy, Science, Education and Literature, Volume 5 in the Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, is the main source of Nightingale's work on the methodology of social science and her views on social reform. Here we see how she took her "call to service" into practice: by first learning how the laws of God's world operate, one can then determine how to intervene for good. There is material on medical statistics, the census, pauperism and Poor Law reform, the need for income security measures and better housing, on crime, gender and the famil.
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Built-In Fantasy: An Aspen Howdunit
By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN
Published: October 3, 1996
ASPEN, Colo.— SOMEWHERE near Aspen, on vast, undulating rangelands where elk and movie stars roam, there exists a house like no other in the world.
It looks perfectly ordinary (or as ordinary as an 11,000-square-foot log cabin can look). But then curious things happen. ''May I take your coat?'' asks the owner, who steps into the hall closet only to reappear mysteriously in the dining room. His wife leads you to a loft bed with a chest of drawers tucked beneath. She unlatches one, climbs in. Then the lady vanishes.
Stay awhile at the home of Doug Carlston, the chairman of Broderbund, the maker of interactive children's software, and his wife, Tomi Pierce, a software designer, and your world view shifts. Twist that innocuous-looking clothes hook, and a secret door opens. You are now voyaging to the bottom of the house, a labyrinth of eerie catacombs where treasure -- a chest of costume jewelry -- glistens in a grotto.
It may be the world's first house loosely based on the visuals, sounds and surrealism of an interactive video game. Any similarities to ''Myst,'' Broderbund's best-selling game, are intentional.
So, too, is its allusion to ''The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,'' the C. S. Lewis novel. Visitors to the house suddenly feel like Lucy, Lewis's heroine who steps into an armoire and finds herself in the magic Land of Narnia.
It is ''fantasy as built-in.'' Mr. Carlston sums up the prevailing design philosophy like this: ''There should be more to things than meets the eye.''
And there is, lurking just around the corner, in rooms so tasteful and quote-unquote normal that you could live here for ages and never guess their secrets. The house deftly conceals about 1,700 feet of secret passageways and staircases and 1,100 square feet of catacombs accessible only by tripping inconspicuous latches and buttons.
''I need space for two or three wooden cabinets,'' Mr. Carlston commanded his designers when planning his new home office. ''Secret escape hatch vital.''
Walk tentatively (Nancy Drew would). Follow Mr. Carlston as he bushwhacks his way through his own house. See the front panel of an innocuous file cabinet give way to a secret door. Stoop and enter a small room with a spiral staircase that threads its way down to the catacombs bathed in eerie blue light, geologically correct outcroppings constructed for $500,000 by the company that fabricated Jungle World at the Bronx Zoo. Be a tourist. Marvel at caverns alive with fake stalactites, phony calcium deposits and bogus bats.
Try not to think about possible exclusion clauses in your life insurance policy as Mr. Carlston urges you through a swiveling-rock doorway into the Room of Doom, a rocky ledge situated behind a waterfall. You have only two ways out: swim through a chute or jump through the waterfall into the swimming pool. (Wimps can plaintively request a turnaround.)
Why build a house a la Houdini?
''We needed a place to put buried treasure,'' Mr. Carlston explained.
For Ms. Pierce, 43, a geologist's daughter, and Mr. Carlston, 49, the decision to build an enchanted house is a profound reflection of the roles imagination and fantasy play in their lives.
In designing the house, they tried to give life to what Ms. Pierce called ''the what-ifs.'' ''You're always thinking 'what if' or 'wouldn't it be great if . . . ,' '' she said, talking not merely of building. ''Ninety-nine percent of the time,'' she added, ''people are afraid to act on those ifs.''
The catacombs were not optional. ''This may not seem vital,'' the couple wrote in an early memo to the designers, ''in that many homes do without.''
A theology professor's son, Mr. Carlston has been tantalized by the idea of a hidden world since his childhood in Dubuque, Iowa. He and his brother, Gary, a creator of the first Broderbund megahit, ''Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?'' took their reading of the Hardy Boys literally. In their boyhood home they created a secret room under the staircase, hidden from their parents and accessible only by a trapdoor. They invented postage stamps from imaginary countries, making perforations for them by hitting the period key on an old Remington typewriter.
''We had a highly developed fantasy life,'' he recalled. ''Growing up in Dubuque, Iowa, you need one.''
Family car trips in the summertime often included visits to nearby caves. 'There were lots of kids, one station wagon, and it was hot,'' he explained. ''A cave sounded very refreshing.''
After attending college and law school at Harvard, with a year off in Botswana teaching math and geography, Mr. Carlston began a career as a lawyer before deciding it was a ''terrible mismatch.'' To earn extra money to pay for school, he had worked as a computer programmer, creating a game called ''Galactic Express'' that was a commercial success. In 1979, he loaded up the Chevy Impala and went to Eugene, Ore., where his brother lived. Together, they started Broderbund (the word is Danish for brotherhood) because Mr. Carlston's car gave out and he needed to raise money to buy a new one. Broderbund Software is now a $200-million-a-year company in Novato, Calif. The Aspen house is a weekend and vacation home, to which Mr. Carlston and Ms. Pierce commute, often accompanied by Colleen Carlston, his 10-year-old daughter from a previous marriage.
''The house expresses Doug's personality on a very deep level,'' said Jordan Mechner, who created the Broderbund game ''Prince of Persia,'' which takes place in a sultan's catacombs.