Tag: essays
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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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