Written
This section currently holds some essays, papers and random scribbles written by me.
Some of the contents are serious, some with a joking twist.
If you'd like to read more, also check out ms.information, an e and print zine.
Hidden Spaces, Forgotten Places in the Athens of Florida
A journal article written as a submission for Reflections, the journal of the Orange County Regional History Center. Focuses again on Centennial Square Park in DeLand, Fl.
Blogging and Meta Fiction as Tools for Historical Analysis
A term paper written as course work for Modern Middle East which deals with the pros and cons of using a blog and a metafiction novel as historical sources.
Lynn H. Nicholas’ The Rape of Europa and an Unfamiliar Aspect of the Second World War
A book review written as course work for Hitler's Third Reich.
How Lovely to be a Woman
A term paper written as course work for Women in American History. Examines Harriet Jacob's Our Nig in terms of an article by Cynthia J. Davis titled Speaking the Body’s Pain: Harriet Wilson’s Our Nig.”
The Puritan Dilemma
A term paper written as course work for American Culture 1. Examines Edmund S. Morgan's The Puritan Dilemma.
Making a Woman in the Early Republic.
A term paper written as course work for Women in American History examining the way in which language and seperate spheres defined gender and race in the early republic. References Ulrich's A Midwife's Tale as does an assingment below.
The Stomach of a Prince
A term paper written as course work for Renaissance and Reformation comparing the film Elizabeth by Shekhar Kapur to the historical documentation of Elizabeth Tudor.
Martin Luther's Crusade
A term paper written as course work for Renaissance and Reformation examining Martin Luther's role in the Reformation.
Martha Ballard: Where Have All The Godly Gone?
A term paper written as course work for Women in Literature evaluating the role of Martha Ballard as a Christian versus a mother.
For more information, view her diary online at http://dohistory.org/diary/index.html
Maria Monk: We're All Mad Here
A term paper written as course work for Women in Literature comparing the character of Mad Jane Ray to the person of Maria Monk.
For additional information as well as "The Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery." by Maria Monk, check out Veil of Fear: Nineteenth-Century Convent Tales edited by Nancy Lusignan Shultz.
Artist's Statement: Wrap Me Up In Always
Arist's statement for a visual final project for Women in Literature.
The visual portion is available here.
The Hidden Shrinking Charm of Centennial Square Park
A term paper written as course work for History and Historians detailing the creation and neglect of a small city park located in downton DeLand, Florida.
The Ragged Edge of Anarchy
A term paper written as course work for American History 2 evaluating why and how the United States of America seemed to be breaking apart at the seams by the end of the nineteenth century.
Where Do We Go From Here?
A term paper written as course work for American History 2 examining how the Cold War and the general policy of containment lead to the emergence of the "Movement of Movements" of the 1960s and 1970s.
Jack = The New Benson?
An essay written as course work for Introduction to Women's Studies comparing and contrasting the current media obsession with homosexuals to the blaxploitation televison of the 1970s.
If you still want more, I do have a journal.
