The story of Alice in Wonderland is a classic, thanks to Disney’s 1951 animated adaptation. However, Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is the origin… Read more “Alice’s Adventures In Quarentine”

In chapter ten of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Shelley includes the final two stanzas from her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem Mutability. Seemingly, this quotation comes at an… Read more “The Mutability of Frankenstein”

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is a novel written by William Blake in the 1790s which compares the beauty of heaven and the horrors of hell,… Read more “Hell Wearing the Mask of Heaven”

The following research paper was produced in collaboration with Jacob Palmer and Josh Sloan. In Tara Westover’s memoir, Educated, she recounts her life growing up in a… Read more “The Struggles of Having a Parent with Bipolar Disorder: Educated Annotated Bibliography”

Educated is a memoir written by Tara Westover which tells the story of a young girl torn between her, to say the least, conservative family and education… Read more “Tipped Scales”

The first time I ever conducted research, I was in fourth grade. My class had been instructed to write a “research paper” on any subject we wanted,… Read more “Research and Formatting: About as Interesting as it Sounds”

I will be the first to admit that my music taste is atrocious, so much so that sharing the music I listen to with other people causes… Read more “Underrated Albums”

When I received my syllabus at the beginning of my spring semester, I’ll be frank and admit that I was not particularly thrilled about the coming months.… Read more “Improvement”

In a Lenoir-Rhyne University advertisement featured in Our State, the university attempts to appeal to the youth of today by showing five college-age “students” dressed in somewhat… Read more “A Tragic Misrepresentation”

For as many years as I can recall, I’ve been enthralled with books. Being the child of an avid reader, I was always environed by books overflowing… Read more “A Lifetime of Stories”