Tag: Writing
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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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Spring is Here and So is the Existential Dread
Never experienced 80 degree weather in April before, but here we are. As the air warms so does the stress of life. Through the winter, we hunker down, keep stock of what we have to survive off of, and plan for the warmer days. This is good in theory but difficult when you never get…
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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- 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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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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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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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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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…
Everything With Nothing 