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- Love = Need for Connection + Need for Survival + Bullshit
- Presidency
- Pulling the wings off M. Butterfly: Dramatic Irony, Performance and the Third Space in Hwang’s dramatic script and film adaptation
- Failing to Cope
- The Two Oroonokos
- Inventing Identities: Becoming a Mestiza in Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican
- An Investigation of Langston Hughes’ “Third Degree”
- Irony and Immortality: An Explication of A. E. Stallings’ “Arachne Gives Thanks to Athena”
- The Duty of Man in Austen’s Mansfield Park and Emma
- Critique of Last Child in the Woods
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Love = Need for Connection + Need for Survival + Bullshit
By Chelsea Lenoble Love is one of the most intricate and baffling concepts that humans have attempted to tackle for as long as we could communicate. Although recent studies have attributed its potency to simply neurotransmitters fired in the brain, … Continue reading
Posted in Edition: Fall 2010, Science, Uncategorized
Tagged literature, love, science, Stetson, Writing
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Presidency
By Thomas Lutz Ronald Wilson Reagan, nicknamed ‘Dutch’ by his father, was the fortieth President of the United States of America and the thirty-third Governor of California. Serving two terms in the White House, from 1981-1989, President Reagan saw his … Continue reading
Posted in Edition: Fall 2010, Politics, Science, Uncategorized
Tagged Political Science, Politics, Presidency, Stetson, U.S. Government, Writing
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Pulling the wings off M. Butterfly: Dramatic Irony, Performance and the Third Space in Hwang’s dramatic script and film adaptation
By Leah Knapp M. Butterfly is, by nature, “deconstructivist” (95), at least as Hwang describes it. Of course, authorial intent factors into an interpretation of a work, however it ultimately comes down to whether or not he accomplished his goal. … Continue reading
Posted in Edition: Fall 2010, Gender, Uncategorized
Tagged gender, Hwang, literature, Stetson, Writing
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Failing to Cope
By Suzanne Reffel One traumatic event can shape the course of an entire life. On the whole, humans are adept in their ability to cope with painful, taxing experiences; however, sometimes an experience is too traumatic and people fail to … Continue reading
Posted in 200 Level Papers, Edition: Fall 2010
Tagged literature, Mrs. Dalloway, Stetson, Virgina Woolf, Writing
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The Two Oroonokos
By Suzanne Reffel It is fascinating how the same story, told differently, can achieve two completely different purposes. One perfect example of this the tale of Oroonoko as told by Aphra Behn in her romantic novel Oroonoko, The Royal Slave … Continue reading
Posted in 300 Level Papers, Edition: Fall 2010
Tagged Aphra Behn, literature, Oroonoko, Play, Stetson, Thomas Southerne, Writing
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Inventing Identities: Becoming a Mestiza in Julia Alvarez’s How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican
By Shauna Maragh In the first chapter of Julia Alvarez’s novel, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Yolanda Garcia struggles to resolve a dilemma she faces her entire life: “What language […] did she love in?” (Alvarez 13). Alvarez … Continue reading
Posted in Edition: Fall 2010, Uncategorized
Tagged Esmeralda Santiago, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, Identities, Julia Alvarez, literature, Stetson, When I Was Puerto Rican, Writing
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An Investigation of Langston Hughes’ “Third Degree”
By Sarah Starchak In Langston Hughes’ poem “Third Degree,” the short lines, visual imagery, and repetition of sounds help create the defiant tone and dark atmosphere. The elements express the theme of abuse, and their effect on the reader is … Continue reading
Posted in 200 Level Papers, Edition: Fall 2010
Tagged Langston Hughes, literature, Poetry, Stetson, Third Degree, Writing
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Irony and Immortality: An Explication of A. E. Stallings’ “Arachne Gives Thanks to Athena”
By Claire Stubblefield Irony and Immortality: An Explication of A. E. Stallings’ “Arachne Gives Thanks to Athena” It is no punishment. They are mistaken – The brothers, the father. My prayers were answered. I was all fingertips. Nothing was perfect: … Continue reading
Posted in 200 Level Papers, Edition: Fall 2010
Tagged A.E. Stalling, Immortality, literature, Stetson, Writing
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The Duty of Man in Austen’s Mansfield Park and Emma
By Claire Stubblefield A first reading of any of Jane Austen’s novels will often leave the reader with a strong impression of the leading female, along with perhaps a lingering tingle of romance sparked by her hero, dashing or otherwise. … Continue reading
Posted in 300 Level Papers, Edition: Fall 2010, Gender
Tagged Emma, gender, Jane Austen, literature, Man, Mansfield Park, Romance, Stetson, Writing
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Critique of Last Child in the Woods
By Eli Witek Author Richard Louv provides a heartfelt if flawed case for the necessary existence of what we refer to as ‘nature’ for the healthy growth of a child in the United States in his book Last Child In … Continue reading
Posted in 300 Level Papers, Edition: Fall 2010, Environment, Nature Writing, Science
Tagged environment, Last Child in the Woods, literature, Richard Louv, Stetson, Wildlife, Writing
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