Tuesday, 30 September 2014

Interview with Music Legend Bob Dylan

Recently I've had the pleasure of interviewing Bob Dylan, an American singer-songwriter. Dylan is known as one of the best-selling artists of all time and has received numerous awards throughout the years. Tyler: So we'll go ahead and jump right in. I know our readers sure have a lot of questions about you and the early years of your career. In the early years of your career you were known for writing a lot of protest songs. A famous example...

Monday, 15 September 2014

Mother Tongue

I recently read an essay by Amy Tan titled "Mother Tongue" which addresses the idea of a language of intimacy and also brings attention to the struggles and unfair treatment that some people face due to the fact that English is not their first language. So I'll go ahead and just give you guys a quick summary of the essay just so we're all on the same page. In the essay writer Amy Tan talks about her mother whose first language is not English. While...

Sunday, 7 September 2014

Just A Quick Introduction

Let's see... I've spent much more time than I probably should have trying to find a way to keep this first post as un-embarrassing as possible. I'd love to skip this step all together but it's got to happen sometime and like they say first impressions are everything right? So I'll do my best to keep things interesting and maybe you'll actually be able to stay awake while...