In honor of the recent release of the new XBox 360 game Halo Wars, I thought I would look around for some Halo-inspired freebie titles for this week’s free game. Considering the popularity of the Halo series, I felt it was a safe assumption that there would be numerous flash games sporting some variation of [...]

Released on February 17, Rockstar Games launched the long awaited expansion to Grand Theft Auto IV over XBox Live. The Lost and Damned, an Xbox 360 “exclusive,” brings more that just a few new missions and some extra neat-o cars for Niko Bellic to rampage through the streets of Liberty City. In fact, Niko isn’t [...]

 
“What? A free game?”
I know few people who don’t enjoy a free game to pass the time away. Maybe you’re in class during a boring lecture, or perhaps you’re at work and you just need 10 minutes to let your brain cool down. Regardless, I thought I would take it upon myself every week to [...]

 
Like any other evening, I sat down on my couch in front of my TV, grabbed my game controller, pressed the guide button to power my XBox 360, and prepared to immerse myself into gaming goodness. But instead of hearing the familiar start-up jingle, I was greeted with a grinding internal whine from the system, [...]

In the three presidential debates between John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL), we’ve heard a lot about their voting records in the Senate. Votes on funding the troops in Iraq, stem cell research, equal pay for women, childrens’ health care, and energy policy have been raised by the candidates several times. Here’s [...]

For the first time ever, two sitting senators are running head to head as the major party candidates for President. This gives us a unique opportunity to look at the legislative records of the candidates – John McCain (R-AZ) and Barack Obama (D-IL) – to find solid clues about their governing styles and policy [...]

Rachel Carman
Translation Paper
ENL 360
11/9/06
            Translations can offer many different ways to look at a literary work. Translators use their own interpretation of the text in its original language in order to render it into English. With this need to interpret ancient texts, different meanings of the same text arise. In the case of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, [...]

Rachel Carman
ENL 360
12/12/06
            Mowbray Allen wrote an article, “Does Dante Hope for Virgil’s Salvation,” that explores the proposed salvation of Virgil, in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Hopelessness, Divine Justice, and human consciousness of the Divine are explored, among other things, in order to better understand the ambiguity of Virgil’s salvation, or lack thereof, which has been [...]