When considering a piece of writing, it is imperative to also examine the circumstances under which it was written. Often, circumstantial implications are either deliberately or inadvertently manifested in the idea put forth, suggesting a particular authorial intent. In each Continue reading
In Virginia Woolf’s extended essay, A Room of One’s Own, the author contends that writing is contingent on two major conditions: £500, and a room of one’s own. This assertion traces the intersectionality of institutionalized socioeconomic and gender subordination: £500 Continue reading
In “The Conversion of Christianity” from The World of Late Antiquity, the author, Peter Brown, traces the expansion of Christianity through chronological methodology and biographical reasoning. Larry Hurtado performs a similar task using a distinct approach: he evaluates the manifestation Continue reading
The word “brassiere” made its first debut in the Spring issue of Vogue– the edition that manifests the epitome of top female fashion– in the year 1907, where the inception of the taxonomy of the modern bra occurred in a fashion Continue reading
Picture this: You are sitting at a desk, for hours on end. You read hundreds of essays from applicants, all trying their best to seem impressive (but without overdoing it), unique (but not to the point where they wouldn’t fit in Continue reading
It is the first week of my first year in college, and my professor has assigned a reading, Navigating Genres, by Kerry Dirk. Subsequently, each student is to write a 250 word response to the reading. This is my first Continue reading
