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The Sum of My Undergraduate Degree

Call it being Type "A", being anal retentive, intelligent, stupid, crazy, on-crack, but I saved every single paper from my undergraduate degree (at least most of them.)

Most people write their papers, wipe their brows with tear-soaked tissues, and say "thank fuck that's done so I can never think about THAT again," before moving onto the next paper.

To me, I thought that was a waste. If I'm going to spend five years of my life writing papers, researching, and learning how to think deeply and critically, how can you measure your actual progress without keeping that record? So. I kept it. And it is very obvious how much I grew even year to year, never mind how much I grew from year one to year five.

Preserved entirely, I present, ALL of my papers that have survived (alas, when my mac died on me, I didn't have every single one backed up, so you can see the gaps in the earlier years). I have published them so it actually adheres to the dates they were submitted, and from most recent to least recent.

The growth is astonishing.

All the essays are available for free below, but a bound edition will soon be available, and the funds from the sales of this book will be 100% going to my student debt.

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Juvenilia: University-Era Essays

Irrationalities Compared in Oedipus Rex and Le Cid

Irrationalities Compared in Oedipus Rex and Le Cid

Amanda Rautio

In Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, there seems to be controversy over whether or not there are improbabilities at all. According to Joseph Margin in, “Aristotle and the Irrational and Improbable...

Irrationalities Compared in Oedipus Rex and Le Cid

Amanda Rautio

In Oedipus Rex by Sophocles, there seems to be controversy over whether or not there are improbabilities at all. According to Joseph Margin in, “Aristotle and the Irrational and Improbable...

Identity Explored Through Mystery and Discovery in Victorian Literature

Identity Explored Through Mystery and Discovery...

Amanda Rautio

The Victorian Era of literature was vast, and the evolution of ideas and stakes grew particularly towards the end of 19th century. The four novels, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens...

Identity Explored Through Mystery and Discovery...

Amanda Rautio

The Victorian Era of literature was vast, and the evolution of ideas and stakes grew particularly towards the end of 19th century. The four novels, Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens...

Editorship Final Project Report

Editorship Final Project Report

Amanda Rautio

As an Online Editor for CreatedHere, a local non-profit Art’s magazine based in Fredericton, NB, I was able to dip my toes in a field of interest to determine if an editorial career path was one suitable...

Editorship Final Project Report

Amanda Rautio

As an Online Editor for CreatedHere, a local non-profit Art’s magazine based in Fredericton, NB, I was able to dip my toes in a field of interest to determine if an editorial career path was one suitable...

Setting Through the Lens of Carnivalesque and Gothic Fiction

Setting Through the Lens of Carnivalesque and G...

Amanda Rautio

Gothic narratives use Carnivalesque themes to set up expectations for the fate of the characters through depictions of gloomy castles, mazes, and ruins. Using The Castle of Otranto by Horace...

Setting Through the Lens of Carnivalesque and G...

Amanda Rautio

Gothic narratives use Carnivalesque themes to set up expectations for the fate of the characters through depictions of gloomy castles, mazes, and ruins. Using The Castle of Otranto by Horace...

The Fall of Constantinople and the Consequences for the West

The Fall of Constantinople and the Consequences...

Amanda Rautio

(No Citations, just memory of the course since it was a 3-hour final exam paper.) After the final crusade, the footholds the Christian west held started to fall and splinter....

The Fall of Constantinople and the Consequences...

Amanda Rautio

(No Citations, just memory of the course since it was a 3-hour final exam paper.) After the final crusade, the footholds the Christian west held started to fall and splinter....

Late Renaissance Poetry & Prose Final

Late Renaissance Poetry & Prose Final

Amanda Rautio

I. PART I i. ‘Why Must I Thus Forever Be Confined,’ Hester Pulter In “Why Must I Thus Forever be Confined,” by Hester Pulter, rhyme scheme and meter play a...

Late Renaissance Poetry & Prose Final

Amanda Rautio

I. PART I i. ‘Why Must I Thus Forever Be Confined,’ Hester Pulter In “Why Must I Thus Forever be Confined,” by Hester Pulter, rhyme scheme and meter play a...