Music as a Non-Phonetic Writing System: Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade

An examination of music--and this piece in particular--as a non-phonetic, non-human-language form of writing, and the story it tells.

   Class: LCC3314 - Technologies of Representation
   Date: Fall 2002



Greg Bear's Blood Music and the Genre of Science Fiction

Examining a science fiction work (either literature or film) in terms of the established science fiction genres, and explaining which it would fit into and why.

   Class: LCC3214 - Science Fiction
   Date: Summer 2002
   Copyright: © iBooks/Simon & Schuster



The Evolution of Princess Leia's Womanhood Throughout the Star Wars Series

Our final paper--an analysis of a female figure or character and her environment, based on the themes and ideas we'd covered in class.

   Class: LCC3212 - Women, Literature, and Culture
   Date: Spring 2002
   Copyright: © Lucasfilm/20th Century Fox



Violence in Animation

My final paper for the class--I had to focus on some issue related to media that interested me, if I remember correctly.

   Class: ENGL1102 - Freshman English
   Date: Spring 2000



A "Force" of a Different Kind

My rendition of the different levels of hell, as per Dante's example in the Inferno.

   Class: English 1201 - AP English
   Date: Academic 1998-99 school year
   Copyright: SW is copyright © Lucasfilm/20th Century Fox



Journey of the Samurai

My version of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, except set in this anime series's world.

   Class: English 1201 - AP English
   Date: Academic 1998-99 school year
   Copyright: RW/YST is copyright © Sunrise/Nagoya/Bandai




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Use the links to the left to navigate. These are some of my previous writing assignments--whether papers or creative assignments--I've done for my high school and college English/literary classes.