Mesa Community College
English and Humanities
This paper is a Feminist/Gender bias exploration of Jonathan Swift’s view of women. Is he a misogynist?
This essay explores the synthesis of symbolism of Paganism and Christianity in "Sir Gawain and The Green Knight." The story is rife with symbols of pagan fertility, yet dressed in Christian honor and virtue.
A Psychological Literary Analysis, of the fairy tale "Little Red Cap" using the theories of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud.
A Feminist Analysis of Roald Dahl's short story, "A Lamb to Slaughter."
In The Odyssey, Homer brings forth the gods, and goddesses of Mount Olympus, into an iconic paradigm, as in Metamorphoses, Ovid weaves mythology into the very fabric of the culture of Western civilization. The scope of the influence of... more
A Feminist examination of Anne Bradstreet.
My first explication, a poem by American poet Emily Dickinson.
This paper explores Herman Melville's, meaning of the phrase, "the power of blackness," in reference to his friend, Nathaniel Hawthorne's work.
A critical analysis using the Youth Lens of the Young Adult award winning novel,
"Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by
Benjamin Alire Saenz, for my Young Adult Literature class at ASU.
"Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe" by
Benjamin Alire Saenz, for my Young Adult Literature class at ASU.
Marxist literary analysis of "Anthem" by Ayn Rand
A poem inspired by Antoine De Saint-Exupery's. "The Little Prince."
Keep your inner child alive.
Keep your inner child alive.
A Readers Response literary critique of "The Little Prince", a children’s classic by Antoine De Saint-Exupery.
A Psychoanalytical literary critique of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", by Lewis Carroll. A different perspective.
This paper looks at archetypes in a small collection of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales.
New Historicism critique of "Madeline" by Ludwig Bemelmans
A Deconstructionist look at Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit
When Pigasso Met Mootisse a visual analysis of the picture book by Nina Laden.
A Marxist literary analysis of Roald Dahl's,
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory".
This is a retelling of the Grimm Brother's classic," Ashputtle", and a nod to "Cinderella" Disney style.
My first attempt at an Op-ed created in a summer writing workshop with a focus on genre and social justice.