Category Archives: Projects Spring 2024

By Connor Graham The NFL, National Football league, is a league in which people are chosen to play football professionally. Although it may seem like fun and games, football at all levels come with many consequences. It could be broken bones or torn ligaments, but the one one that hurts the most is called CTE.Continue reading “NFL vs. CTE”

By: G. James Farmer PTSD or Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is an issue that affects our society. As defined by the NIMH, or the National Institute of Mental Health, “Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder that develops in some people who have experienced a shocking, scary, or dangerous event.” In the realm of storytelling,Continue reading “Attack on PTSD”

Advocating the strengths of Autism Spectrum Disorder will ultimately lead to greater success of the medical community. The world will always be in need of more doctors, surgeons, and nurses who save lives. The medical community is one of the most important aspects of a functioning society, and neurodivergent people have so much they canContinue reading “Advocating the Strengths of ASD in the Medical World  “

Alexina Gillis Critical Theory Project One Sigmund Freud in Alice in Wonderland: Sigmund Freud has been the originator of many controversial theories, many have been disagreed upon for decades. One I would like to focus on is his theory of the uncanny. Freud defines the uncanny as something that is not familiar to us, thereforeContinue reading “Sigmund Freud in Alice in Wonderland (updated)”

By: G. James Farmer 3/31/2024 Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be’ speech from Act 3, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ is one of the most famous monologues in all of literature. From Hamlet’s emotions whether life or death is more preferable to the many times it’s been said or referenced in non-Shakespearean works.Continue reading “To live or not to live (reissue)”

Savannah Tessier  Professor Helms  EN 3695.01 3/03/2024 In society women have been faced with extreme sexism and viewed as objects for generations upon generations. This has occurred throughout all countries and cultures dripping its effects into literature. Women have been misrepresented in novels in many sexist ways and female authors had even published work underContinue reading “Finding Sexism With Critical Theories in Literature “

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel is many things: a cautionary tale, a harsh critique of scientific progress at any cost, and also in many ways a feminist text, presenting the alarming consequences of what happens when men intoxicated by their own power attempt to play God. In the following essay I will attempt to interpret FrankensteinContinue reading “A Feminist, Assemblage Theory Reading of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein”

Hamlet’s famous quote “to be or not to be” from act three scene one, simply means life or death. He is in a sticky situation as he is contemplating living or actually putting an end to all his suffering and turmoil. Questioning life and its unfairness versus actually committing suicide and not knowing what happensContinue reading “Life or Death?”