Liz Zarb trying to navigate life
According to the Merriam - Webster Dictionary, a sestina is "a lyrical fixed form consisting of six 6-line usually unrhymed stanzas in which the end words of the first stanza recur as end words of the following five stanzas in a successively rotating order and as the middle and end words of the three verses … Continue reading A Feminist’s Sestina
My final essay for one of my classes was on Frankenstein and how Elizabeth Frankenstein fits into the "Final Girl" trope as laid out by Professor Carol Clover in her essay "Her Body, Himself." I'm really proud of how this essay came out because it's about two things that I'm fascinated by. Enjoy! In the 1996 … Continue reading His Monstrous Body, Herself… and Herself and Herself and Herself
Sometimes, it’s hard to be an aspiring artist. Whether your art of choice is writing (hello!), drawing, painting, filming, editing, auditory, or the hundreds of other different forms of art that I’ve left off this list, it can feel like you're not going to get anywhere if you're not already in the Big Leagues™. However, … Continue reading Practical Folks: The Self-Made Artist
Today is the ten year anniversary of The Dark Knight, one of my favorite movies ever. In honor of this, I've decided to publish an essay I wrote for my research writing class on Batman and the Joker, and how important their dichotomy is. It's pretty academic, but it's on a subject that I find absolutely … Continue reading “One Bad Day:” How Batman and the Joker Represent Two Sides of the Mental Health Debate
One of the biggest perks of being a One Direction fan during 2013 was the emergence of 5 Seconds of Summer: a pop-rock band from Australia that made every “Directioner” feel as though they were just the tiniest edgy since their music featured guitar-heavy motifs. The band’s debut, self-titled album came out in 2014 and … Continue reading 5 Seconds of Summer’s Youngblood and the Death of Pop Rock
