http://web.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.lib.ipfw.edu/ehost/pdf?vid=18&hid=114&sid=bee4f6f0-304f-4c04-a702-c28839c45044%40sessionmgr103

This is a link to an article that i have found particularly interesting.  I haven't yet finished the article, but it appears it would be safe to assume that any writing I write this semester will argue almost the opposite points.  Manfred Weidhorn appears to be arguing that Shakespeare is a skeptic in complete entirety, that he only undermines political governance and offers no alternative improvements or method of measurement to determine good or evil.  I happen to believe differently.

I am not sure what to link to, or what would be an appropriate link for describing my research process.  Almost the entirety of my research is done through reading the texts themselves, so I will link to the online versions of the texts.  The most helpful, and I guess only, research tool that I use that is on the internet is the online version of the Oxford English Dictionary.  It gives historical definitions of a particular word and examples of the word being using in a text.  It is extremely helpful because I often find that most editors of Shakespeare and I don’t find the same words, or group of words to be important.  Therefore, they often offer little help in contextual support.  The online availability of the OED has to be the greatest (slight hyperbole) thing on the internet.  

http://dictionary.oed.com/entrance.dtl

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/

 Well, I have decided to completely change my topic for  my paper.  I am now going to basically just write about my feelings and experiences from my years here at IPFW.  The idea came to my head mostly after my mother asked be a few questions about my future.  I knew I could not answer them sufficiently for her because we have radically different views on the purpose of a university education.  She tends to believe, as do most people, that education is for the sole purpose of getting a job afterwards.  Going to college just means you get a better job than if you only finished high school.  I happen to believe that a university education should be aimed at teaching an individual how to think - how to at least ask the important questions in life for that is when a human begins to reach its potential.  As a result of my now minority view towards education, I have often come in conflict with professors and others on campus.  I have not always been happy here at IPFW.  I have had my moments, but overall I always think that if I went somewhere else it may have been different.  Even though I know that is probably not true. Anyway, I am now going to write a reflective essay that is a combination of a creative short story.  I plan on using the short story aspect and approach only to fictionalize actual moments that have happened, but may hurt some individuals if told from my point of view.  The problem of perhaps hurting others with the telling of my story has always kept me from writing it, but I think I have created a way to solve that problem.  We shall see.  I envision my story beginning like an epic, in medias rea, at a dinner table surrounded my entire family while being asked the most important question, "what have you learned at school" from the loudest opponent of my choice of education, my grandfather - a former professor turned patriarch of our family business.  It will then detail what I have learned from my vague, yet true, response "the ways of Gods and Men" and should end returning to the dinner with my family still confused and me on my way to graduation thinking about what I have learned truly means.

I also wanted to add the few things that have provided, i guess, any type of research for this project.  The form is obviously a shortened, butchered form of an epic, although its semi-fiction, so that kind of idea comes from two novels that I've been reading in an American Lit class - How to Tell a True War Story and Tonto and the Lone Ranger Fist-Fight in Heaven.  My interpertation of the books that I have read comes from the Leo Strauss and Alan Bloom books that I have read.  My particular favorite and most applicable for this project has been The Closing of the American Mind.  I also have to admit indeptedness to The Republic, W.E.B. DuBois' The Souls of Black Folk, and an article called "The Education of the Soul: THe Forsaken Ideal of Literary Study" by Michael Bonin.  It's an article that a professor printed out for me because she felt that it summed up my frustrations well - it does.