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SMCC Business Club Speaker Series – April 14, 2016
vKellie Coulter Business Major On April 14th, students gathered in Jewett Auditorium for the Business Club’s Speaker Series. The first portion of the evening was an open discussion about transferring to the University of Southern Maine. USM speakers suggested that students should motivate and lead, network and make contacts, and they encouraged participating in… Read more
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The SMCC Business Club volunteers at The Ronald McDonald House in Portland
(article and photo by Steve Strand- Professor, Business Dept. and Facility Advisor, SMCC Business Club) Someone once said, “You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.” It is so true! On Saturday, April 16th, members of the SMCC Business Club volunteered their time to make… Read more
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Poetic License: Steve Luttrell
Katelynn Ouellette Neeli Cherkovski writes that “Steve Luttrell tailors life down to essential and luminous moments that celebrate our humanity.” Explain how the poems in this collection (Plumb Line) illustrate the truth of this comment. Be sure to cite specific poems in your response. Steve Luttrell’s Plumb Line is a collection of poems filled… Read more
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Poetic License: Understanding Du Fu
Laura Falls Du Fu has the ability to show a large portion of an individual’s adventures through life in only a few short lines of poetry. Du Fu gives us the opportunity to see what life was like back in the 8th century by showing us the experiences of those living during this time.… Read more
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Poetic License: Charles Bukowski: The Writer You Either Love Or Hate
Kelly Corbett Charles Bukowski is considered to be either one of the most famous, or one of the most infamous American writers of the 20th century. The view you adopt is most likely related to what side of the “tracks” you are from. His writing represents the under-privileged people and shoves them in the… Read more
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Eye in the Sky Review
Ness Hutchins CNMS Major Eye in the Sky, directed by Gavin Hood, is a military drama about British Colonel Katherine Powell, Helen Mirren, whose military operation to capture terrorists in Kenya is jeopardized when a young Alia, Aisha Takow, crosses into the kill zone and elicits an international dispute over the consequences of combat… Read more
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