Reflective Essay: The exploratory essay on Sigmund Freud’s lectures and Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” was intended to be written for critical thinkers. Whilst it was very foggy outside and there were no hints of sunshine, I thought it was the best time to go in depth with “The Black Cat”. The narrator that I was writing about was like smoke and cinnamon in the Fall season today. The latter seemed like Freud’s concepts and how it stressed the understanding of the narrator’s mentality. It was intense. Much of the connections I made while writing this essay could have …

      Critical Research Analysis Paper: Nameless Dystopians Charlotte Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” and James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues” both had unnamed narrators despite their significance within the literary texts. A person’s name differentiates the individual from society. It is unique in its special meanings and it’ll always be apart of his or her personal identity. When an individual is anxious and faces much dilemmas in life, such a name no longer holds significance and it is disregarded. In his “Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis,” Sigmund Freud considers the defence mechanisms that people take a-part in to deal with such dilemmas …

My Exploratory Essay:                                       A Black soul, Cats, Violence: Anxiety-induced Insanity          ”The Black Cat” by Edgar Allan Poe illustrated much of Sigmund Freud’s mechanisms on the human mind. Freud dealt with Psychoanalysis by considering the forces that alter one’s mental state. Similarly, in “The Black Cat,” Poe considered the psychology of a man who was once very fond of animals. He eventually went through many psychological changes in his life. It is essential to consider that in some way or another the …

Literacy Narrative:         On my first day of college I was given two literary works to analyze. I was given a 1964 painting called “The Problem We All Live With” by Norman Rockwell. Some of my other classmates were given a political cartoon that depicted secretary of education Betsy Devos which was created by Glenn MCcoy in 2017. Rockwell’s painting “ The Problem We All Live With” seemed to be familiar. However, the political cartoon of Devos wasn’t so familiar because I wasn’t into politics, I did not know who she was. I was amazed after what …

Hello everyone,          My self assessment will reflect much of the readings and writings I have encountered throughout my semester in the composition section of FIQWS. I have always enjoyed writing because of the fact that I am very skilled at it. The essays I have completed throughout high school were always graded with a perfect score and that made me have pride in what I write. I also enjoy reading literature and all kinds of books. I didn’t think twice before choosing Literature and Psycho-analysis as my FIQWS course for my first semester. Writing about literature …