Author: Anna Wicker
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lack of media literacy: the succession fandom
The Succession fandom does not need to be reminded the show is about awful people. It’s impossible to watch more than 3 minutes of any episode and not get that impression, and I want to address this topic without having to constantly cram the obvious into everyone’s skulls. The issue…
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Cementing Final Legacies: Malcolm X’s Death in Autobiography and Biopic Form (2021)
The biography and biopic both have an important role in cementing a legacy, with the author and director’s intentions shaping how the world will see a figure in cinema and literature. For a powerful historical persona like Malcolm X, his autobiography, collaborated with Alex Haley and published in 1965, and…
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Complications Between Dialect and Race in the Southern Life Histories Project (2022)
Introduction Text analysis provides insight into writing style and common themes among a large body of work. For the Southern Life Histories Project, a product of the Federal Writers’ Project under the Works Progress Administration that gathered hundreds of oral interviews to represent Southern American, rural life, analyzing the body…
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The Dying Wish and Poetic Inspiration in John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” (2021)
John Keats’ collection of odes can be read as the speaker’s development through using poetry to contemplate the outside world and his internal musings, with “Ode on Indolence” refusing to give in to the lure of love, ambition, and poetry, while “Ode on Melancholy” openly rejects lying in sadness and…
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rainy day (2020)
droplets splatter brick-paved streets, coat the hair in grease of those unlucky enough to forget their shelter. well, some just choose not to care. after all, what does a little water do, other than soak the remains of your dignity, wash the clothes already washed the night before, create a…
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overthinking (2020)
i shred my skin and run it through the teeth of a knife my blood runs and settles in a black cave by my feet if you listen closely, you can hear an echo. wait for the scream, or is it more of a cry. the noise tends to be…
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how to tell if you still have a soul (2020)
how to tell if you still have a soul 1 i’ve given everything up more times than i would have liked. despite swearing to the heavens there was nothing inside of me except a still storm of microscopic dust. how do i keep finding parts of me to lose inside…
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letter (2020)
dear someone (or multiple someones), (because this could apply to several of you) i used to watch the clock tick down to your response, the black hands circling around moving through time. i’m forcing time to skip forward just to see a message i know might not come. most of…
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it’s hard to talk about (2020)
i started to write words on a blank page to pretend to be someone else to create a world through white space to feel like typing on a keyboard is worth more than the click of nails and straining of eyes now i write a feeling i can’t describe to…
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if i had to be you (2020)
her eyes had sunken, the last time i saw her, and bubbled up whirlpools that refused to swirl and spill over down the ridges of her cheeks, but i was still caught drowning and head pushed further underwater because, really, that would be my only fitting punishment. she laughed when…
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