New Fences

The barn has a roof again and so does our home. The concrete floor has been poured for the new storage shed and most of the yard is clean. It has been a long wait to see progress, five months and counting. Others still wait for reconstruction. One relative told…

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Everyman or Doctor Faustus

My British Literature students recently studied two very disparate texts – Everyman, written in 1485, author unknown, and The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, written in 1594 by Christopher Marlowe (a contemporary of William Shakespeare). Everyman, the main character of the morality play, is summoned by Death and begins the…

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