Yes, the first-year writing course can become "a place where we engage productively with the dark realities of our time, those realities being violence, suicide, war, terrorism, fraudulence, complicity and trauma," (Miller, 442). The dark realities of our time can all be expanded upon using the resources available to teachers of humanities, with those being "Reading, writing, talking, meditating, speculating and arguing," (Miller, 423). In fact, this is a great purpose for the course, as teaching others how to read and write with care is becoming, according to Miller, "increasingly irrelevant" (Miller, 423). The reader of "The Dark Night of the Soul" is asked by Miller, "Is it possible to produce writing that generates a greater sense of connection