AJ's Home Page 2010
"Those who will stand for nothing will fall for anything." ~ Alexander Hamilton
Allston James, Humanities - Monterey
Peninsula College
ajames@mpc.edu
831.646.4092 Monterey, California
93940 USA
"Good drama tells us who we are, and often who we are turns out to be a surprise." - Allston James
ENGLISH 17 (Shakespeare)
,a classroom section, will be offered spring 2010. And,
yes, you can earn full credit for ENGL 17
and ENGL 16 (on-line
section-Fall only). The two
courses offer a different mix of plays. Both courses transfer to the UC and
CSU systems (3 units).
ENGL 40 American Literature online: Note: This section is closed to further enrollment; there will be no 'adds'. If you wish to take ENGL 40, enroll in the six-week summer section. The required textbook, American Visions (Guth & LaGuardia), may be obtained through Amazon (used, cheap) and other web sources as well as at the MPC Bookstore. the orientation for Spring session of this course is Wednesday, Feb. 3, 5:30-6:30pm in the Library (LTC). Attendance is especially important for students taking an on-line course through iLearn for the first time.
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Annual New Works Festival '10 has announced that One Good Thing, a play by Allston James, is among winning entries that will be performed at the festival at the Santa Clarita (CA) Performing Arts Center .
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New York's Abingdon Theatre presented a reading of The Lated Traveler, Allston's new drama, and also hosted a reading of his earlier play, Foreign Women, the same week. His one-act play, Duet in Platinum, has been published by Porter Gulch Review (CA).
Stephen Bradbury, Aaron Serotsky, AJ, & Elizabeth Gwynne Wilson- THE LATED TRAVELER/Abingdon Theatre, New York
gareth saxe, antoinette lavecchia & jeffrey plunkett -The Pink Brothers, 45th St. Theatre, NYC '09
drive
time / new york
garden talk & drive time- new york collective for the arts 2004 & 2005
duet in platinum, scottsdale, arizona, 2007 |
General Information Office: BH103H Tel: 831.646.4092 ajames@mpc.edu Office Hours ~ MWThF 9:00-10:00am Tues. 5:00-6:00pm No office hours scheduled during Early Spring & Summer Sessions Courses that I teach include ENG 17 [Shakespeare], ENG 16 (Shakespeare on-line) ENG 1A, 1B & 2, ENG 40 [American Lit on-line], COM 5 [Mass Media Methods]. Member, Dramatists Guild of America, New York "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." - Leon Trotsky, 1917 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1776 Of course the people don't want war. . . that is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." - Hermann Goering, Adolph Hitler's Deputy Chief and Luftwaffe Commander at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, 1946 Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion . . . and you allow him to make war at pleasure. . . . If today he should choose to say he thinks it necessary to invade Canada to prevent the British from invading us, how could you stop him? You may say to him, 'I see no probability of the British invading us,' but he would say to you, 'Be silent: I see it if you don't.' - Abraham Lincoln A German, watching the Roman legions passing through the area beyond the Rhine, tearing it up, said, 'They make a wilderness and call it peace.' ~ Tacitus (A.D. 55-120) |
