essays

Some essays that I have written—mostly for school.

Misc:

Holding the Mirror up to Nature
essay: On The Novel’s Importance (doc)

Poets: Something Beyond Man
essay: On Poet’s as demigods (doc)

Metropolarities: The New Urban Restructuring: L.A. in Tropic of Orange, and Crash
essay: “…Yet, recently, within the last 40 years, there has been a new development taking place–an urban restructuring” (html)

Artificial Intelligence: Human Beings as Determined by Ideology
essay: “In a lot of ways, the game of chess resembles reality” (html)

The Art of Transposition: Jane Austen’s Persuasion into Roger Michell’s Persuasion
essay: Although Jane Austen’s novel, Persuasion, is the last of her completed works, it’s not the least in its complexity. (html)

Fyodor Dostoevsky: Hope in Siberia (religious):
essay: This is a short biography of the famed Russian author — focusing on him as a Christian. (html)

Prose:

A Rose For Emily by William Faulkner (full-text)
essay: An Analysis of Miss Emily Grierson (doc)

Poetry:

Death Be Not Proud a poem by John Donne (full-text)
essay: A Critical Analysis of Death Be Not Proud (doc)

Sadie and Maude a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks (full-text)
essay: Sadie and Maud, a Critical Analysis (html)

The Iliad by Homer
essay: War or More than War, a Critical Analysis (pdf)

Greek/Roman Drama:

Philoctetes by Sophocles(full-text)
essay: Philoctetes and Utilitarianism (doc)

Electra by Sophocles
essay: Electra, the Unrecognized Central Dilemma (doc)

Medea by Euripides
essay: Medea, the Power of Emotions (doc)

Ion by Euripides
essay: Rape and Abandonment, the two crimes of Ion (doc)

Aeneid
essay: Dido, “The extreme positive influences of Fate in the life of Aeneus, is seen in equal proportion inverted, and balanced, by the portentous fate of the character known as Dido.” (doc)

Research Papers:

Shakespeare in Star Trek
Topic: The role Shakespeare plays in the popular science fiction franchise Star Trek (doc)

Postmodernism in Computers
Topic: Glimpsing tendencies of Postmodernism within computer technology (doc)