by Kenneth L. Foster Walt Whitman wrote his most famous poem “Song of Myself” in 1855 and Allen Ginsberg wrote “Howl” one hundred years later. Although, the two poems are a century apart in time and also lie at opposite poles texturally – one a celebration and the other a lament – both succeeded in…
by Kenneth L. Foster In the beginning of Walter Benjamin’s essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” he states that “art has always been reproducible,” but he quickly makes a distinction between human-made and mechanized reproductions (218). It is the mechanized variety which stimulated thought on what constitutes the essence of…
by Kenneth L. Foster The strategies and fallacies used by creationists who attempt to disprove evolution and other scientific discoveries are nothing new, and there is a repeated pattern to this denial as evidenced by history. In this paper I will explore the stages of this circular reasoning, and I will use historical examples to…
by Kenneth L. Foster (presented to The Conference on Gender and Sexuality in April of 2014 at the University of Houston Downtown) “Do you come from a land down under – where women glow and men plunder?” (From an eighties pop song by the group, aptly named, “Men at Work” (Men at Work Web)) Even…
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