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Mr. Marineau, I Regret to Inform You That You Didn’t Ruin My Life, or: If I Taught High School English

Posted on 8 February 2011 by The Urchins

By Geo Ong I used to hate reading. In high school, I had a string of English teachers that did quite a job of having their students hate reading forever. My 10th grade Language Arts teacher Mr. Marineau was the … Continue reading →

Posted in Geo, Literature | Tagged aldous huxley, books, brave new world, charles bukowski, english, ernest hemingway, everything that rises must converge, f. scott fitzgerald, fiction, flannery o'connor, high school education, hunter s. thompson, john steinbeck, lolita, margaret atwood, mark twain, nathaniel hawthorne, novels, reading, school, short stories, teenagers, the adventures of huckleberry finn, the grapes of wrath, the great gatsby, the handmaid's tale, the scarlet letter, vladimir nabokov, william shakespeare | 16 Comments

Confessions of a Part-Time Protester, Part Two

Posted on 28 December 2010 by The Urchins

By Louisa Dunnigan [Louisa continues her report of the UK student protests. Catch Part One here!] They say Tories, We say scum! 24th November 2010 I arrive at the Radcliffe Camera ready to collect some books only to find it … Continue reading →

Posted in Guest Urchins, Politics & Global Issues | Tagged brave new world, david cameron, demonstrations, education, education maintenance allowance, education reform, ema, england, labour, london, london student protests, louisa dunnigan, malet street, money, mps, nick clegg, oxford, parliament, parliament square, police, protest, radcliffe camera, riots, student debt, student protest, students, tory, uk, uk government, ulysses, university, vandalism, westminster, whitehall | 1 Comment

Tag Archives: brave new world

Mr. Marineau, I Regret to Inform You That You Didn’t Ruin My Life, or: If I Taught High School English

Confessions of a Part-Time Protester, Part Two

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