Essay: Get Smart with Social Media

This essay is about how social media can be used for educational purposes.  It was originally turned in on April 4, 2010.  Please note that the works cited are published in the old style, and the rules for formatting the works cited page have since changed (so don’t imitate the formatting when you do your [...]

Global Warming: Fact or Fiction?

  I was originally going to re-write this in a more informal, blog style, but I decided to post it in its current essay form.  I wrote this for a college composition course.  Students working on similar projects will hopefully get a lot ouf of it, and I think the subject is one that will appeal to the [...]

Essay: Victorian British Patriotism in Literature

This is a compare/contrast essay written for a literature class.  It is about a song and a poem published in Britain in the Victorian era:  “Far, Far Upon the Sea” by Charles Mackay and “Opening of the Indian and Colonial Exhibition by the Queen” by Alfred Lord Tennyson.  It was originally turned in on February [...]

Essay: A Farewell to Arms

I seriously hated this book (A Farewell to Arms).  Here is a copy of the research paper I wrote for my English class if it helps any other students struggling to write something about this craptastic novel.  I did the paper based on gender roles and homosexual references. A Farewell to Gender Expectations by Edie [...]

Essay: Death and Beauty and Edgar Allan Poe

This is a compare and contrast essay about two of Edgar Allan Poe’s poems: For Annie and The Sleeper. Death and Beauty and Edgar Allan Poe by Edie Montgomery-Pool Edgar Allan Poe wrote many superb poems about various subjects, but one of his favorite subjects seemed to be death. Poe was no stranger to death. [...]