Category: College Assignments
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The Gothic Genre: An Unabated Literary Movement
Another English Composition assignment to build off of our “This I Believe” essay from a few weeks ago. I had a really fun time with this one and it served to reignite my passion for literature, specifically Gothic literature. Humans are naturally drawn to all things morbid, corrupt, and morally grey, whether they want…
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Post-Truth Criticism of The BBC News Interview with Trevor Noah
By Kacie Fowler This is the final assignment from my communications class that tasked us with watching the BBC News interview with Trevor Noah from The Daily Show in terms of how they present news in the form of parody and how that differs from ‘fake news’. This paper answers specific questions we were given…
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Rhetorical Criticism of Malala Yousafzai’s Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
This was the first assignment we had to write in our communications class. The task was to pick a speech of our choosing and analyze it in terms of the use of rhetorical concepts, theories, and paradigms. I had combed through about twelve speeches before choosing Malala’s. One reason I did choose this, outside of…
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Japan: An Intercultural Experience
By Kacie Fowler This was an APA-style assignment from my Communications 101 class and also a bit about my trip to Japan (that came at the perfect time if we are honest). The assignment asked that we describe an encounter we had with a person and/or group from a culture that we are not from,…
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