The journalism students are required to keep their own, separate blogs.  By my logic, keeping my own blog and then summarizing those thoughts less completely and carefully for the group blog seems like a pointless task. I have been recording my extreme and highly informative experiences in as vivid detail as I please on this account […]

I have received this very question on many assignments quite similar to this; but I will not regurgitate.  Being American, except for the obvious ‘being born in the United States’ is to wander into situations that one does not fully understand and to adapt nevertheless.  America’s protectionism of the past has completely disappeared since World […]

My most horrifying nightmare of late occurred the night I arrived in Armagh.  I found myself in a whitewashed basement dressed entirely in white.  The only way to walk was forward, so I did.  I went through a door that led into an industrial kitchen; but dust and rubble littered the floor.  I heard thump […]

Northern Ireland appears more British than Britain proper.  There are hundreds of Union Jacks, flags of Orange and those of Ulster loyalist terrorist organizations.  In response to my peer Alison’s remark that the Union Jacks seemed out of place, our driver responded vehemently “you’re damn right.”  Although it is part of Ireland, Northern Ireland is […]