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Hey! Our last assignment for our English Composition class is to synthesize everything we’ve learned into one place for the world to view. Hope you enjoy!
1 One of the first learning outcomes that we tackled was understanding what rhetorical situation is. By exploring two forms of media, a political cartoon and a painting, as one of our first assignments, among other genres as well, we learned about literary elements such as stance, purpose, etc. Our first paper in this class… read more »
During the first day of my Composition of Literature and Psychoanalysis class, my professor handed out both a painting and political cartoon of two female beings that have shaped and are still shaping America. Upon seeing the first work, a painting of young African American girl Ruby Bridges, exercising her right to being educated in… read more »
When I initially was asked to look at the 2 works of the media one day in my English class, ideas immediately started churning in my mind. I had never seen the painting by Norman Rockwell about Ruby Bridges before; however, the political cartoon on Betsy DeVos rang a bell. I had often heard her… read more »
When I was first given this assignment, the class was prompted to pick a story to explore and write a brief discussion on what Freudian concepts we see in the story of our choosing. I originally wanted to psychoanalyze “The Black Cat” by Edgar Allen Poe. I had previously read this, and a few other… read more »
The phrase ‘Once upon a time’ has the ubiquitous meaning as the opening to a fairy tale. A critical chunk of a child’s emotional and social growth, fairy tales and their respective conflicts are ones young readers can empathize with. By inviting the youth into the lives of fairy tale characters, these tales are a… read more »
When initially given the critical research paper assignment in class, it was genuinely hard to pick a topic because none of the prompts genuinely spoke to me at first glance. Upon discussing it with a few classmates, it seemed that many people in the class were choosing their own topics. Hesitant on pulling something that… read more »
Bettelheim, Bruno. The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales. New York: Vintage Books, 1989. Print. Freud, Sigmund. “Five Lectures on Psycho-analysis.” 1955. PDF file Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979. Print. Grimm,… read more »
