Tag: english major
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Little Things: Routine
In trying to stay true to my first ever list of New Year’s resolution, one of which writing something everyday, if I feel that there may be something remotely close to being good enough to share, I will. I want to talk about routines and how the lack of one gives me almost as much…
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2025…
New year, same busy ass life. It is currently 5:57pm on December 31st, 2024. I hate to name some cliche like “oh what a year it has been”, but damn…what a year it has been. My house flooded due to a burst pipe. I went to Japan and had an amazing time being able to…
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Introduction to Literature- Sylvia Plath
Death by Domestication By Kacie Fowler November 2024 Sylvia Plath’s life, and subsequent death, demonstrated the many of the struggles with societies norms, questions, and shortcomings that are bestowed upon women who find themselves living the ‘American Lifestyle’. Lady Lazarus is a poem that shows us just how mind-numbing and soul-damaging domesticity can be for…
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Find You Van Gogh
When I think what is it I want to write about, many things pass through my mind. I want to write to share experiences, to hear other people’s experiences, to teach, to learn, to express, to make an impression, to create conversation, and most importantly, I want to write to… That’s always the question. I…
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Introduction to Literature- The Hate U Give
A YA book I probably would have not picked up, for the single fact that I do not read YA in general, had it not been for my literature class. What a ride this book took me on, with some…interesting discussions in class. The main thing that surprised me about The Hate U Give was…
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Introduction to Literature- Hills Like White Elephants
As someone who has spent a lot of time (and recently money) on their own brain, there is nothing I find more compelling and attractive in another human than I do emotional intelligence. There is just something about a person that can regulate themselves with decorum and an understanding that they are not the only…
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Introduction to Literature: The Handmaid’s Tale- Double-Standard Mentality of Commander Waterford
For my second reflection on The Handmaid’s Tale, I focused on the double standard that Commander Waterford had for the world he created. I think this plays an integral part of how action have consequences in regard to the world he sough to create. A world we are reaching the cusp of experiencing today. The…
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Introduction to Literature: The Handmaid’s Tale- Complacency of Women
The first novel we read in my Introduction to Literature class was The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. I had had this book on my self for years, but never got around to reading it. I have seen the show and after reading the book with all of its little insights that we miss in…
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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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