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A Final Look Back

EL 266 has been a fruitful class for me. I feel not only as if I have learned a lot about literature, but also a bit more about the country which I call home. It is nice to sit down … Continue reading

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Something Learned

I think I’ll have to connect this Envoi chapter to the idea that there is something behind what is obvious. I also I feel as if I have taken steps throughout this course to consciously be able to pick out … Continue reading

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A Letter From the Monster In the Wall

She just kept peeling back the wallpaper. She loved to tear away at my prison. It is not that I am complaining- far from it, actually. The more she ripped away, the closer I was to getting out of here … Continue reading

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Bag Of Tricks

When Oz, who is reveled to be less than the great wizard he claimed, shows the four how he tricked them, I was honestly a bit disappointed. It is a different world, I’m quite aware that things would be seen … Continue reading

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Portfolio 5

With yet another addition to my portfolio in the American Literature class for Dr. Jerz at Seton Hill, I will attempt to show the amount of work I’ve been doing over the course of the past few weeks. Depth: These … Continue reading

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Ironic Isn’t It?

Reading the Chapter Is He Serious? And Other Ironies, I couldn’t help but connect it to the other reading we had for tonight. To start off, Foster describes irony as using “deflection”. That is, what we expect to happen doesn’t … Continue reading

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First Half Of A Classic Child’s Book

Of course I’ve seen the movie version of this book. I find it hard to believe there is a person out there that has not seen it. However, I think few have read the actual book that it comes from. … Continue reading

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Academic Essay

Peterson, Christopher. “Slavery’s Bestiary: Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus Tales.”Paragraph 34.1 (2011): 30-47. Web. My paper, which I have decided to write on the Uncle Remus tales that we’ve read for class (and I might read a few more just … Continue reading

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Blinded

I’m sure we’ve all heard the term ‘blinded by faith’, where you are so sure of something that you ignore all evidence that contradicts your point of faith. Of course, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, faith is not the only blinding … Continue reading

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Grimsted Essay: A Read Through

In the first half of the essay, I picked up on the passage “Aiken adhered to the dictum that that drama is essentially ‘action’ and often failed to see that the effectiveness of action grows from the interplay of incident … Continue reading

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