Sierra Jorgensen

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6th December 2023

The Dark Humanism within Mr. Hyde

Dive with me into how this Victorian novella approaches the complexity of recognizing the dangers of inner demons, roles in society, and the descent into both.

19th October 2023

George Harrison and The Guilty Subconscious

In a United States Courthouse in Manhattan, New York, a public spectacle of a trial takes place in the case of George Harrison versus Bright Tunes Music, a small New York-based publisher, who heard Harrison's new hit song on the radio, "My Sweet Lord".

18th October 2023

Reading Journal: Jamaica Kincaid - A Small Place

It draws you in with this sense of fleeting pleasantries, and then immediately breaks you down and degrades you for the audacious attempt to relish as a tourist in a country that is known for treating its natives less than favorable.

7th December 2020

Beowulf's Layers

If we take a look at some of the descriptions given to us through several different characters in this epic poem, we see how accurate Beowulf's personality is considered to be "historically specific" in regards to being a hero.

27th February 2020

Comedy of Errors Analysis

In The Comedy of Errors, this specific imagery with food, with lunch and with being hot and cold, is quite brilliant, only in the fashion of an early era first making merry with the somewhat awkward context that sex usually brings to a conversation.

21st February 2020

Haunting Escapes & False Characters

Are the writings of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne windows to the inevitability of escaping hauntings of past traditions? Or are they allegorical tales to help those recognize the importance of using new traditions and newer standards in place of repeating the same mistakes with different approaches?

20th April 2019

Fantasy In Human Reality

Is real life better than fantasy? Do we really see how people who don't quite fit in a "normal" gender category can erupt new ways of acting in society, be it good or bad? Both feminist and queer theory have radically contributed to the way humans interact with their romantic interests.

19th April 2019

Love, Loss & Looking Back

Building a character is necessary in creating a successful story. Being able to create a fictional person so relatable to the readers is never as easy to do as one might think. Creating flaws in a character instantly brings a level of humanity within the fiction person, changing our minds to accurately see them and create their development easier.

20th April 2018

Take Away the Chains and You Have Sex Trafficking

Sex trafficking is not a crime to be taken lightly. The violent ordeals that innumerable victims have suffered cannot be undone. There are prevention plans, rescue operations, multiple organizations who major in giving insight to people who are not aware of what sex trafficking is capable of. Despite these constant efforts to help, the world is too big to eliminate such a threat.