Story Audit
Looking back through my work this semester offered insight into myself. Contrasting my essay on Dean Koontz, which lacked several important writing forms, to my relatively organized and effective multimedia essay shows my progress throughout this course. My stylistic and thematic choices however are consistent across the four essays, which is either a blessing or a […]
Use the System: Racism in the United States and its Relationship to the Governing Documents of America
The final draft of my essay is up and ready to be experienced! Follow the hyperlink to read it on Scalar. Thanks for spending some time to read it. You’ll find the works cited at the end of the essay. On my Honor, I have neither giver nor received unauthorized aid regarding this work, […]
A Leader among the Institutionalized
R.P. McMurphy and Nurse Ratched vie for control of the ward in Ken Kesey’s One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. McMurphy and Ratched use opposing tactics to establish this control. Dr. Peter Northouse, a psychology professor at Western Michigan University, has distinguished leadership traits from managerial traits that one may use to compel a group […]
The Vicious Cycle – Broken
I had no idea where to begin with my spatial representation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. I looked at A Periodic Table of Visualisation Methods to find an idea, and when I came across it, my brain literally fired so many connections and ideas about the structure of the story. The Cycle Diagram method seemed […]
Insight of the Transition: McCloud’s Theory and Bechdel’s Message
Alison Bechdel carefully relates the events of the relationship between the narrator-protagonist, Alison, and Alison’s distant father in a fusion of text and image in her graphic novel/memoir, Fun Home. Alison’s father committed suicide, and Alison suspects it was due to his homosexuality and Alison’s coming out to her parents (Bechdel, 86). Alison is acutely aware […]
Page 52, or the Ghost of Bechdel Past
The concern of Fun Home is the relationship between Alison and her father: his particularity in the style adorning their home, his demeanor towards his children, his homosexual affairs, and his alleged suicide that occurs highly coincidentally with Alison’s coming out to her parents. There are indications that the Bechdel children suffered trauma from their father in […]
Dean Koontz on the Idea of Human Innocence
Gwyneth and Addison, the protagonists of Dean Koontz’s novel Innocence, live in hiding in a nondescript city, the inhabitants of which want nothing more than to be rid of the protagonists when they catch a mere glimpse of them. While Gwyneth and Addison try to evade and survive the aggression of their neighbors, they also endeavor […]
Blueprint of Refugee Republic
Domiz Camp in Iraq shelters Syrian refugees. The explanation given of the camp virtualized a tour of the sprawling camp, which has grown to shelter 20,000 more individuals than the camp’s capacity was expected to accommodate. Its population is 57,953 Syrian Kurds, all having fled from the violent situation in Syria. The site allows the […]
Nick
If you have always had an interesting story, even the slightest story would capture your imagination. Being diagnosed with Type One Diabetes Mellitus at the age of two, for instance, and being unable to remember a time when you did not have to take extraneous care of yourself, is a story that can leave you … Continue reading My Story-The Exchange of Stories
