Feminine Fear and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Snake in Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat”

Here is my latest ENC 1102 thesis. I turned it in today. I was much more involved than my previous paper. We’re working up to our term thesis and research paper, which I “think” is 50% of our final grade. Olofin help me! I’m just not that good at this academic writing stuff.
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Feminine Fear and [...]

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Well, folks, this is my rewrite of my first paper. I made corrections, and restructured the conclusion. Let’s hope this gets me a few extra points so I get a “higher” A!
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Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life begins with a short story titled “The Book of the Grotesque.” In it, [...]

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These are a few notes from my studies this morning. I’m gearing up to write my thesis statement for Zora Neale Hurston’s “Sweat,” and needed to spend some time studying various theories on literary criticism. The subject area is huge. I’m looking forward to my professor’s lecture on this subject.
Critical Approaches to Literature
 
Our textbook teaches [...]

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I don’t have the paper with its corrections; however, I got an “A” on my first paper. The numerical score was 91, and while that qualifies as an “A” I don’t feel it’s my best work.
When I get the graded paper back, I’ll go over the errors I made and learn from them. I’ll post [...]

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An argumentative essay! Here are the guidelines for the paper:
The Argumentative Essay
 
TOPIC: Choose a controversial element within one (or multiple) works we have read.  Take a stance on the inclusion of this element.  Write an argumentative essay citing sources to back up your argument.  Please run the topic by me before you start researching.
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I turned my paper in today. My MLA formatting wasn’t quite right. Ugh. So, I did some web-work, and have found a wonderful resource for MLA formatting:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/675/01/
The professor isn’t taking off points for MLA this paper; however, she is correcting it. When I get my corrected paper back, I’ll make the corrections in my final [...]

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Here it is, the final draft.
Folks, it has been a long week. Between Kelvin getting sick, Kelvin going to the E.R., Rebecca and I both getting sick, and jury duty, I’m amazed I got to a final draft at all. I have to be honest — I don’t feel this is my best work. But, [...]

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I meant to post this last night after I finished writing it; however, there was a bit of chaos at my house, and those who follow me on facebook (Stuart Myers) will know what that was. So now I’m posting the rough draft of my literary analysis for everyone to read . . . and [...]

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I have two quick announcements that I would like to make — we have new staff blogs up and running on the server of litdotorg!
The first one is well-deserved and overdue. HeroComplex, a.k.a. David Moore, has his blog up and running at this URL: http://davidmoore.lit.org/wordpress. Content is coming soon!
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To make my first writing project for ENC 1102 simpler, I needed to step away from the story I was planning and move into the analysis of another story; unfortunately, once I got into this story, I dug deeper than I needed to dig. Still, this is (as far as I can tell) exactly what the [...]

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