Incantation as Linguistic Disruption: Magic in Postcolonial Literature
The grammar turned and attacked me.
Adrienne Rich, “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning”
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Imaginary, Frivolous and Nauseating: Feminine Domestic Space and the Boundaries of Liminality in the Early Eighteenth-century
In Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina (1725), Richard Steele and Joseph Addison’s The Spectator (1711-1712, 1714), and Jonathan Swift’s “The Lady’s Dressing Room” (1732), all three writers present female communities and private feminine space, but play with the boundaries of the public sphere in order to convey these spaces as liminal to suit their purposes.
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Spring 2024
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Normalize Menstruation, End Period Poverty
Audience Analysis: The audience for this paper will be all people who menstruate. Even though my paper is specifically addressing solutions to period poverty, it is still an important issue for those who are unaffected because they can use their privilege to help those less fortunate by enacting these solutions. Furthermore, though period poverty is undoubtedly a global public health crisis, the scope of my paper focuses on the United States. So, my paper will likely be more relevant to menstruators in the United States.
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Cultural Appropriation and Fashion: A Digital Literature Review
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Reforming our Zoos
In 1998, the “world’s ugliest tiger” was born. He was a white Bengal tiger with a smashed-in-looking face that went viral, with the public incorrectly believing that he had Down syndrome. Kenny was the result of poor, recessive genetics that both of his parents had, because they were siblings (Davis). Animal traffickers and zookeepers routinely use inbreeding to create Bengal tigers with white-colored fur, an extremely rare phenotype that would never exist in zoos if it were not for captive breeding programs.
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Race-Based Admissions in Higher Education: Addressing Systemic Inequality in American Society and Achieving True Equity
“If only the principle of color-blindness had been accepted by the majority in Plessy in 1896, we would not be faced with this problem in 1978. We must remember, however, that this principle appeared only in the dissent. In the 60 years from Plessy to Brown, ours was a Nation where, by law, individuals could be given ‘special’ treatment based on race.
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Academic Summary of “Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office”
In the article “Why Girls Beat Boys at School and Lose to Them at the Office,” clinical psychologist Lisa Damour explores how notions of confidence and competence can hold women back in the workplace. She does this by introducing shared concerns that others have had regarding their daughters’ confidence levels and school, and then provides suggestions as to how this confidence gap can be resolved.
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The Extent of Rationality: Reason and Perception in Edgeworth’s Belinda and Austen’s Emma
Michel Foucault wrote of “Reason as despotic enlightenment” (d’Entrèves 338), critiquing the way that Enlightenment principles perpetuate systems of institutional power and marginalization. He asks us “How is it that rationalization is conducive to a desire for power?” (343), a question which can be applied to criticism of the nineteenth-century novel and the rise of rational desire and domestic power.
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