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.
Juvenilia: University-Era Essays
A Study on Voice and Diction: A Discussion of "...
What effect does the run on nature of Carroll's first two sentences have on the following narrative, and why did he choose to use that sentence structure? Lewis Carroll’s intentional...
A Study on Voice and Diction: A Discussion of "...
What effect does the run on nature of Carroll's first two sentences have on the following narrative, and why did he choose to use that sentence structure? Lewis Carroll’s intentional...
The Power of Belief: A Discussion on "The Pictu...
The centrality of Basil’s masterpiece portrait of Dorian creates many questions about art, representation, responsibility, character, craft, society, life….. what do you make of the artist – Basil – and...
The Power of Belief: A Discussion on "The Pictu...
The centrality of Basil’s masterpiece portrait of Dorian creates many questions about art, representation, responsibility, character, craft, society, life….. what do you make of the artist – Basil – and...
Symbolic Depictions in Fiction Using Animals: A...
Characters – People and/or Animals? Create character profiles for each of the main characters – do you naturally include the animal characters? Do you treat them the same or differently than...
Symbolic Depictions in Fiction Using Animals: A...
Characters – People and/or Animals? Create character profiles for each of the main characters – do you naturally include the animal characters? Do you treat them the same or differently than...
A Warning About the Eternal Man-Child: A Discus...
The lost boys, too, have become culturally important. Who are the boys, why are they lost, for what do they look and will they every find it? I don’t know...
A Warning About the Eternal Man-Child: A Discus...
The lost boys, too, have become culturally important. Who are the boys, why are they lost, for what do they look and will they every find it? I don’t know...
Mature Mythological Depictions in Children’s Li...
Children’s literature is a genre of novel that is typically read by children and adults alike. As such, the content has to be appropriate for the children—or at least go...
Mature Mythological Depictions in Children’s Li...
Children’s literature is a genre of novel that is typically read by children and adults alike. As such, the content has to be appropriate for the children—or at least go...
On the Nature of an Impressionable Disposition:...
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is a text as much about irony as it is about ethics and morality, juxtaposed with the nature of art and beauty....
On the Nature of an Impressionable Disposition:...
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is a text as much about irony as it is about ethics and morality, juxtaposed with the nature of art and beauty....