Tag: Books
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Leaving WordPress…
My reasoning for leaving WordPress and starting writing over on Substack for more community engagement and high quality writing and discussions.
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A Literary Reflection of: When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
A literary reflection on how Paul Kalanithi’s book When Breath Becomes Air looking specifically on death, cancer, neuroscience, connection with literature, and looking back on life feeling fulfilled.
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Analysis of Why Read the Classics? By Italo Calvino- Martin McLaughlin Translation
A personal reflection and literary analysis of Italo Calvino’s Why read the classics essay written in 1981. Italian writer. Translation work. Literary criticism.
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For the Love of Books
To read a book more than once out of personal interest rather than requirement is not only and ode to the author but a display of love from a true bibliophile. As someone who jumps from one book to the next the second my eyes pass over ‘The End,’ I rarely do reread books. The…
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Literary Analysis: The Linear Theme of Narcissistic Men in The Yellow Wallpaper and My Last Duchess
This comparison and synthesis essay of The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and My Last Duchess by Robert Browning was assigned during a 2024 college English Class. All ideas and text below is my own intellectual property unless directly cited. The Linear Theme of Narcissistic Men in The Yellow Wallpaper and My Last Duchess…
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I Believe in the Transformative Power of Books
For your final portfolio for my English class, we were asked to create a new “This I Believe” essay based off of the research we did during our persuasive essay research and how our beliefs and perceptions changed. My persuasive essay was on the Gothicism movement and genre, and as an epitome about how books…
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I Believe in the Power of Books
This I Believe essays are prompts that ask anybody and everybody what it is they believe in. These collections of personal narratives follow genre constructs that use a belief statement followed by personal experience that support their belief. This is exactly what we studies in my English Composition class earlier this quarter. Below is…
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VICTORIA CANADA
NOVEMBER 2023 BLACK BALL FERRY PORT ANGELES, WA (Photo By: Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News) With the husband back home for the month, we wanted to take a trip and have a night to ourselves. My mother was gracious enough to stay with the kids at our house for our weekend trip. We had each been…
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Openings
We all know that the first lines of a story needs to leave an impact. They need to pull the reader in and make them want to stay, make them want to stick around and see what happens. There is a number of ways that an story can start. A hook can be a fight,…
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Novel Research
Definitely not the type of person to think that I know everything, but the amount of research I’ve done so far for this novel has kind of surprised me. The story I’m writing is set around the late 18th century. It is a fantasy world, but relates to our world for most things. The moon…
Everything With Nothing 