Death by Culture and Waste in "Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders"
Copyright (c) 2018 by Michael Rickard II Editor's Note:The U.S./Mexico border is a hot topic right now but there are many issues besides...
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by Michael Rickard II
- Jul 28, 2018
- 4 min
Not So Safe Spaces in "Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories"
Copyright (c) 2018 by Michael Rickard II Editor's Note: Here's an essay I wrote on Women Hollering Creek and Other Stories for a class I...
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Michael W Rickard II
- Jul 20, 2018
- 4 min
The Subalterned Life in "Bless Me Ultima."
Copyright (c) 2018 by Michael Rickard II Here's an essay I wrote on Bless Me, Ultima. Spoilers abound: Rudolfo Anaya employs magical...
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Michael W Rickard II
- May 30, 2018
- 3 min
The Fur and the Fury: Fetishism and Masochism in "Venus in Furs"
I Copyright 2018 by Michael W. Rickard II Editor's Note: In 2017 I read Venus in Furs for a comparative literature course. Here's a short...
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Michael W. Rickard II
- Apr 23, 2018
- 4 min
The Exile of Leopold Bloom: Joyce's "Ulysses"and Anti-Semitism
Copyright 2018 by Michael W. Rickard II Editor's Note: Last fall, I took a graduate-level class concerning James Joyce's Ulysses. Here is...
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Michael Rickard II
- Feb 19, 2018
- 4 min
"Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois"
Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois No, this isn't an "Epic Rap Battle," but a look at the conflicting theories of Booker T....
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Michael Rickard II
- Feb 14, 2018
- 3 min
"The Vicomte de Valmont: Portrait of a Psychopath."
In honor of Valentine's Day, I thought I'd share an essay I wrote in 2017 on the French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses aka Dangerous...
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Michael Rickard II
- Jan 29, 2018
- 4 min
"Damned By My Fellow Americans: Examining the Horrors of Xenophobia, Racism, and Hybridity in &
It's been said war is hell, but hell can be found on the homefront as well as the battlefront overseas. Julie Otsuka's novel When the...
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Michael Rickard II
- Jan 22, 2018
- 3 min
"Duplicity and Reality: How Great Expectations Ruin Characters in 'Madras on Rainy Days.
Here is part two of a paper I wrote last year on Samina Ali's novel Madras on Rainy Days. The park is a symbol of patriarchal society’s...
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Michael Rickard II
- Jan 15, 2018
- 6 min
"Duplicity and Reality: How Great Expectations Ruin Characters in 'Madras on Rainy Days.
Here is a paper I wrote last year on Samina Ali's novel Madras on Rainy Days. Samina Ali explores the conflict between fantasy and...
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Michael Rickard II
- Oct 11, 2017
- 2 min
"A Literary Odyssey Begins: Reading James Joyce's 'Ulysses.'"
My literary odyssey is about to begin as I read James Joyce’s Ulysses as part of my Masters’ program. The text is challenging, long, and...
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Michael Rickard II
- Sep 20, 2017
- 3 min
"Melancholy Survival as Depicted in Sherman Alexie’s 'The Long Ranger and Tonto: Fistfight
Last spring I had the pleasure of taking a class called Ethnic American Minority Literature. The books were excellent and here is a...
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Michael Rickard II
- Sep 13, 2017
- 5 min
"The Huntress Displaced Examining Lourdes’ Self-Exile and Quest for Fulfillment in 'Dreamin
Last spring I had the pleasure of taking a class called Ethnic American Minority Literature. The books were excellent and here is a...
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Michael Rickard II
- Aug 9, 2017
- 2 min
“Almost Persuaded: Doctor Faustus’ Tragic End. Part Two of Two."
Editor's Note: Here's an essay I wrote for a British Literature class. The essay is two years old so the MLA formatting is a different...
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Michael Rickard II
- Aug 2, 2017
- 5 min
“Almost Persuaded: Doctor Faustus’ Tragic End. Part One of Two."
Editor's Note: Here's an essay I wrote for a British Literature class. The essay is two years old so the MLA formatting is a different...
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Michael Rickard II
- Jul 26, 2017
- 2 min
"Piercing the Veil: The Narrator in 'The Tell-Tale Heart.'"
Here's a blast from the past (2015), an essay I wrote on Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart." The narrator in “The Tell-Tale Heart” (hereafter...
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Michael Rickard II
- Jul 18, 2017
- 4 min
"Captured by American Indians. 'A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mar
Continuing our look at Puritan Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative, A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary...
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Michael Rickard II
- Jul 11, 2017
- 3 min
"Captured by American Indians. 'A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mar
Puritan Mary Rowlandson’s captivity narrative, A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson (hereafter...
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Michael Rickard II
- Jul 4, 2017
- 3 min
"The American New Man: Crèvecœur and the Promise of early America."
As America celebrates its independence, I thought I'd share an English project I wrote two years ago about one of America's earliest...
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Michael Rickard II
- Jun 2, 2017
- 4 min
"Through a Pearl Darkly: Hester Prynne’s Id Channeled in Pearl."
In The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne defies the Puritans’ draconian laws both by her passive resistance and by subconsciously channeling...
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