Weighing mental illness and treatments in The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman is what I chose as a topic for my proposed paper. Perkins expresses her plea of how misled the medical field is when faced with the dilemma on how to treat women who have done nothing out of the ordinary that isn’t …
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I greatly admire Countee Cullen. He was a phenomenal writer, highly intelligent, and an openly gay black man in a time where that was almost unheard of. The reason I chose Cullen for this week’s post was because I loved the quote I heard in class and I found it in Countee Cullen: A Renaissance …
When I first read T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, I immediately assumed it was about World War II and how Eliot himself was struggling to determine how to behave amongst a clueless and carefree pompous society who lived out their lives feigning normalcy in the midst of chaos. I honestly thought …
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Hello my fellow peers! My name is Zena. Congrats for making it to my blog, make yourself at home, but don’t touch anything. The types of books I like to read tend to fall in the romance or thriller genres (brownie points if it’s a mix of both genres in one). It still boggles my …
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