Opinion

     On May 1, a 1993 Nissan Pathfinder failed to explode as planned in New York City’s Times Square in an attempted terrorist car bombing. Officials found forensic evidence from the suspect inside the car, as well as a complicated mess of gasoline, propane, firecrackers, alarm clocks, a metal gun locker, and eight giant, stinking bags of non-explosive fertilizer.

     One day, on a summer’s night in New York City back in 1981, a small network called “Music Television” began broadcasting with the words, “Ladies and Gentlemen, Rock and Roll.”

     Students that find themselves too lazy or apathetic to read the books assigned in English often rely on SparkNotes. Yet even the coverage provided by the study-guide website does not prepare a student to make a concise, intelligent comment in class. The following are several of the commonly assigned books and the corresponding comments one could make in class.