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Bitter Waters: And Other Stories
No full textThis collection of short stories is a work of speculative fiction. In “Bitter Waters,” a married couple contemplates the validity of a so-called truth serum. In “The Invitation,” a woman is drafted to repopulate the county after an illness kills most of the men. And in “Saint Maria’s Home for Murdered Girls,” a young woman learns the rules of the afterlife after she is killed
The Tetralemma of Nothingness
Get PDFGrammatically, the question is rather simple. It is when we set out to answer the question that it suddenly becomes complex. What is nothing? Its very asking seems almost impossible because the ‘is’ within it brushes up against its meaning, producing paradox. How do we even begin to get at a something that is not a something? Immediately, you remark how similar this task is to a child chasing fairies in the forest or hunting for ghosts in the attic. Will we be doomed from the outset? If so, then what is the point? Our many predecessors have had varying degrees of success and interpretation, why should we come any closer? How does the fish come to dream of the mountain top? How does the being come to dream of nothingness? Following in the footsteps of the greatest Greek, Chinese and Indian philosophers, let us strive for an answer or lack thereof
The Colby Echo (March 25, 2021)
Get PDFPublished by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present
The Colby Echo (April 15, 2021)
Get PDFPublished by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-presen
On Track
Get PDFAt 29, Charlotte Wilder ’11 has arrived. She’s the youngest senior writer at Sports Illustrated, where her contract was negotiated by her agent at Creative Artists Agency. Her long-form stories about everything from the NFL to the demolition derby at Maine’s Union Fair are both finely crafted and digitally successful
Neo-Colonial Actors?: Analyzing French NGOs in Francophone West Africa
Get PDFNon-governmental organizations (NGO) have the reputation for being benevolent organizations that help populations in need. Globally, these organizations promote this particular image to the public, but international NGOs also often work in tandem with other neo-colonial structure systems to maintain Western domination over poor and underdeveloped countries in Africa and elsewhere. This thesis looks at this phenomenon through the lens of French neo-colonialism and the Françafrique regime to study the extent to which French NGOs participate in this neo-colonial system in Francophone West Africa. Using interview data and data collected from the European Commission’s ECHO, this thesis looks at the role that donor funding and bureaucratization play in upholding neo-colonial structure systems and values. Additionally, I identify certain human elements related to insensitivity, Western superiority, and paths for the future. This thesis finds that, knowingly or not, French NGOs participate in this neo-colonial system through the creation of dependency structures, lack of technological development, and the prioritization of the superiority of Western values in Francophone West Africa
The Colby Echo (April 22, 2021)
Get PDFPublished by the students of Colby College since 1877, The Colby Echo is the weekly, editorially independent student-run newspaper of Colby College in Waterville, Maine. Published monthly, 1877-1886; semi-monthly, 1886-1897; and weekly, during the academic year, 1898-present
Bassam Khabieh: Syrian photojournalist
Get PDFBassam Khabieh is the 2018 Oak Human Rights Fellow at Colby. A Syrian photojournalist, he has documented the conflict there, including the siege of Ghouta, where he and his family lived
Q&A Tanya Sheehan: On Photography, Human Migration, and What Their Intersection Does and Doesn\u27t Tell Us
Get PDFWilliam R. Kenan Jr. Associate Professor of Art Tanya Sheehan is the editor of Photography and Migration, a timely collection of essays about photography and its role in portraying this ongoing humanitarian crisis (See P. 38). At Colby she launched the Photography and Migration Project, which draws connections between global migration and Waterville’s history as a destination for immigrants. She spoke to Colby Magazine Managing Editor Gerry Boyle ’78 about the ways photographs shape our perception of migration