Posts tagged “writing”

Meditations on First Philosophy

Meditations on First Philosophy

This is a philosophy paper I wrote in my sophomore year at the University of Florida.

Coleridge and Wordsworth

Coleridge and Wordsworth

Discuss the differences in the ways the image of sunset functions in Wordsworth’s Intimations of Immortality and Coleridge’s The Lime-Tree.

Titus Andronicus

Titus Andronicus

An essay on gender roles I wrote in college in 1994

Ending Lists

On list groupings and the correct use of commas

I had once believed that we were all masters of our fate — that we could mould our lives into any form we pleased… I had overcome deafness and blindness sufficiently to be happy, and I supposed that anyone could come out victorious if he threw himself valiantly into life’s struggle. But as I went more and more about the country I learned that I had spoken with assurance on a subject I knew little about. I forgot that I owed my success partly to the advantages of my birth and environment… Now, however, I learned that the power to rise in the world is not within the reach of everyone.
from Midstream: My Later Life, by Helen Keller

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

The Snows of Kilimanjaro

An essay on “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” by David Gagne

A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

An essay on A Farewell to Arms by David Gagne September 18, 1995

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.