Great Books: Flannery O'Connor

This week we are reading Everything That Rises Must Converge by Flannery O'Connor.

Flannery O'Connor is considered one of the greatest of American writers. About her own fiction, Flannery O'Connor said:

"All my stories are about the action of grace on a character who is not very willing to support it, but most people think of these stories as hard, hopeless and brutal."

Though her fiction often comes off as very dark, Flannery O'Connor always insisted her world view was actually very positive. See for yourself and take part in the discussion! Click the covers below to view the whole story, or the SparkNotes version.

           

To read more about Flannery O'Connor, click here.

ACE and Guided Study: Building Your Resume

This week we will be working on building a working resume, one you can use when looking for a internship, a mentorship, or a job. Mastering the resume is perhaps one of the greatest and most valuable real-world skill we can teach you. We will be working on building up your strengths, identifying your skills, and presenting them all in a clean, professional manner.

We will be working with this Resume Worksheet Packet, to get your ideas down on paper, before typing it up useing one of the templates provided in the back of the packet. (You will need some kind of PDF reader to open that file.)

Great Books: Why War? by Sigmund Freud

This week we are reading Why War? by Sigmund Freud

In 1932 Albert Einstein was charged by the League of Nations to engage in a dialog, in a series of public letters, on a pressing problem or question. He chose psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud. The question he posed was: 

"Is there any way of delivering humankind from the menace of war?" He was asking the question that many of us are asking today: "How can we promote peace?"

This week we will be reading and discussing Sigmund Freud's response, which I have embedded below. For more information on Sigmund Freud click here.

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