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MLA in Word: the basics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24Y31UrG2q4&list=PL4917D9E21FA6EDFF&index=1
My go-to site is Purdue’s OWL. This will walk you through MLA set up.
The Poetry of Repetion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6jxxagVEO4
You should recognize it.
Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney
This is gold.
Within the first minutes you will hear wisdoms that elude the common man.
One of the primary epics.
Things to listen for: the alliteration, especially head rhymes.
The kenning, a two-word metaphor, such as “swan’s road” for the sea, specifically, a voyage.
Movie scenes in Old English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lznhFGGrVE0
Those crazy college kids are at it again!
Your Brain on Fiction
Neuroscience and the reading of fiction.
The stories we tell ourselves
Shekar Kapur is an Indian director who depicted the story of the quintessentially British Queen Elizabeth.
Kingsley Andersen 