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News Coverage of Non-Profit Hope Loves Company and its Misalignment with the Company Purposes
This article is a bit different than anything else I’ve ever written, but it’s also about a subject that’s incredibly important to me and I’m proud to share it. Introduction The news coverage of Hope Loves Company, like all media, has influence on the perspectives of its viewers. The focus of the articles I examined Continue reading
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Humanity, Alterity, and the Responsibility of Creation: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein and Milton’s Paradise Lost
I’ve written before about the theme of responsibility in creation as seen in Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley’s Frankenstein, and today I want to go a step further by pointing out the parallels between the aforementioned novel and another culturally significant literary work- John Milton’s Paradise Lost. The original paper I wrote on this was ten pages Continue reading
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Is Lydia Bennet a ‘Feminist’ Character?
Lydia Bennet does not conform to the traditional expectations for a woman of her age and marital status within the setting of Pride and Prejudice, but that is not because she is a feminist ‘ahead of her time,’ instead, the patriarchy’s expectations and structure are what dictate her actions in the novel. In her book, Continue reading
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Notes on Disability in Johanna Spyri’s Childhood Classic Heidi
Before I begin I’d like to make a note that I am aware this article is nit-picky. Heidi is a children’s book, and it is quite an older one at that. I do not expect some sort of politically correct representation from it, nor do I dislike the novel in any way. In fact, I Continue reading
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Pride and Prejudice- Charlotte’s Marriage was just as Logical as Elizebeth’s (if not more so)
Jane Austen’s classic 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice stars a girl with ideas and goals that are seen by her father, and evidently by the narrator, as more mature than her peers, including her mother, sisters, and best friend Charlotte. The portrayal of Charlotte’s marriage in the book ultimately illustrates how the novel fails to Continue reading
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Frankenstein and the Responsibility of Creation
Is the creator of a living being directly responsible for the care of the creature after birth and are they indirectly responsible for the creature’s mistakes? I was thinking of what the central theme of Frankenstein could be, and I settled on this. In Mary Shelley’s novel the central character, Victor, after years of studying Continue reading
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Poems as Maps
The art of poetry is an approach to communicating information in a richly visual way, one which has the ability to describe places beyond the extent of maps. Instead of literal pictures with labels, poems map the human train of thought and how one may respond to a place if present. Taiyon J. Coleman wrote Continue reading
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The Other Mother isn’t the Scariest Monster in Coraline
Coraline by Neil Gaiman is a creepy but child-friendly book that has achieved worldwide success as well as being adapted into a movie. While the central story follows an escape from an evil doppelganger, this bestseller is hiding something so much bigger than the “Other Mother.” By reading closely the contradictions of the Other Father’s Continue reading
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My name is Madeline, and I’m a reader and a writer. On this platform I will be sharing my analyses and observations on what I read in addition to some reviews.
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