MG, perhaps you should anonymously slip some interesting fun topics in the teachers mailbox.
Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan. River: He takes so much looking after.
'Objects In Space'
Spike's Bitches 28: For the Safety of Puppies...and Christmas!
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Laura - Jan 14, 2006 5:30:41 pm PST #4542 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
erikaj - Jan 14, 2006 5:41:51 pm PST #4543 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
hookers writing about the pox and such...
WindSparrow - Jan 14, 2006 5:50:22 pm PST #4544 of 10001
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
MG, does the instructor grade these projects in a reasonable fashion? By which I mean, does one get penalized for writing a woman's request to join the Mayflower? Will quoting Martin Luthor King, Jr. (or just having his modern sensibilities) get one a crappy grade when protesting the Virginia Black Code?
brenda m - Jan 14, 2006 5:59:31 pm PST #4545 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
For the record, there were people who contemporaneously protested things like that.
§ ita § - Jan 14, 2006 6:00:59 pm PST #4546 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
But would they have had sensibilities of our time doing so?
Trudy Booth - Jan 14, 2006 6:04:22 pm PST #4547 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
hey, if mayflower women wrote you could write it as a slave...
which, actually, did happen some (though not necessarily there)
For the record, there were people who contemporaneously protested things like that.
Alexander Hamilton, my favorite founding father.
brenda m - Jan 14, 2006 6:11:57 pm PST #4548 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
But would they have had sensibilities of our time doing so?
Some of them? Not so far off. I'm reaching here, but I used to have a book that - focusing more on the miscegenation laws than the property issue - demonstrated that these things were far from the settled questions that they appear looking back with the perspective of everything that came after. But pre-1800 race matters weren't as - excuse me - black and white as they seemed, or as they later became.
ETA: I'll see if I can dig it up around here somewhere. And I sure as shit wouldn't turn in a paper using that sensibility without appending documentation that I wasn't just pulling this shit out of my ass.
§ ita § - Jan 14, 2006 6:17:53 pm PST #4549 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not debating the existence of vigourous opposition to slavery at the time. Been there, wronte the paper. However, I can't buy a 20th century mindset transplanting itself seamlessly into any debate pre-1800, whether pro or con--too much water under the bridge.
Trudy Booth - Jan 14, 2006 6:24:17 pm PST #4550 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I hate to think what the 20th Century pro arugment might be.
brenda m - Jan 14, 2006 6:24:57 pm PST #4551 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I think it's not impossible, but like I said, I wouldn't want to do it off the cuff. But I didn't mean to sound like I was lecturing.