Author: Daniel Lim

Word Trend Differences: The Word Trend Differences tool in Voyant allows us to compare two texts to compare word usage between the two through z-scores. Using the tool in Voyant… Read more →

I once heard that rhymes are common in poetry because it makes them easier to remember. I heard that because poems were passed down generations through spoken word, rather than… Read more →

As promised, Carol Ann Duffy delivers in another poem inspired from a famous historical story. “Salome” is a woman known for dancing for Herod and then requesting the head of… Read more →

The poem I signed up to review was “Warming Her Pearls.” After a brief search online, I learned that the poem was inspired by a conversation Carol Ann Duffy had… Read more →

After reading both Selling Manhattan and The World’s Wife, I am curious to puzzle out the use of nature to portray the themes depicted in Carol Ann Duffy’s poems. I… Read more →

I’m going to be honest; I had not read any of “Selling Manhattan” for last Thursday’s class because I unknowingly ordered the book from the UK and it is still… Read more →

Novels are a uniquely human creation. In biological anthropology, a wealth of research has investigated the origins of the human species, from homo erectus to the homo sapien. More specifically,… Read more →

After reading Noreen’s post, “The Clock Stops for Nobody,” I was also struck with the realization that the novel takes place throughout the course of a single day. While the… Read more →

In the first day of class, we discussed the primary objective of English professors: to help students find meaning and explain how they arrived at such conclusions. As an anthropology… Read more →

Stephen Ramsay presents an argument for what he believes should be included in the digital humanities (dh) discipline in his post, “Who’s In and Who’s Out.” In a following post,… Read more →