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Christina Woodson Dr. Penner English 207 21 October 2021 Loss Of Faith in Young Goodman Brown Nonconformity is a recurring theme in literature deriving from the Puritan times. When looking at why it is because the Puritans had a society that was highly contradicting itself. The short story Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne, tells a definitive horror story that critiques Puritan times and how they impacted individuals’ Christianity. The story is a tale that exposes the Puritans from a negative point of view by Hawthorne. What occurs to the titular character through his night in the forest is one that ultimately tests his faith, but does not rob him of his Christianity completely. Taking one night in the forest, represented by the devil and all the evil in the world, he stumbles upon some of the holiest people in his town. The revelation is shocking and disturbing and shakes Goodman Brown of his courage at points, but never robs him of his faith. Though the night drastically ch...

  Christina Woodson English 380 Professor Saunders 10 March 2023 Post Modernism in Jaime Becerra’s King Taco Postmodernist theory is a literary convention that encapsulates metafiction, and intertextuality and thematizes both historical and political issues. In Michael Jamie-Becerra’s King Taco, he uses settings, contextual reliance, diction, and even existentialist questions to drive this poem toward finding meaning when none can be found. The poem takes on elements such as Marxist critique as well, as the whole poem is riddled with questions and ideas that ultimately relate to economics. It presents itself as a simple day, influenced by the woes of capitalism, but with strategic critiquing, any reader can infer many deeper meanings to the existential whimsicalness that is this King Taco worker.  The first introduction to this poem is the title, King Taco, which begins to enact a stipulation for readers who can contextualize this place. King Taco is located in East Los A...

Christina Woodson Professor Michael-Smith English 250A May 1, 2023 Bodies Through Oroonoko Morality, and its functions within topics such as racism and racism through slavery, is a topic that changes and will not function with a single answer. A good example of this, and how slavery as well as racism functioned depending on time, who is in charge of narratives, where it took place, and especially ties with the past. Oroonoko is a story that tells of an African slave whose experience functioned and changed, not only because of his narratively written superhuman beauty but also because the narrative was written by a white woman who clearly had some affection towards him for these traits and attributes. This story juxtaposes the slave narrative written by Equiano in a later part of the Norton Anthology that carries both of these depictions. With such contrasting stories, readers, whose main exposure to slavery may only be the context of the late eighteenth century, as well as only Ameri...

Christina Woodson Professor Saunders English 380 19 April 2023 Cultural Appropriations and the Adjustments Made Through Socioeconomic Changes Percival Everrett’s work The Appropriation of Cultures presents an interesting perspective on how economic value functions, primarily in the South, and how it moves around race, even when least expected. The protagonist of the story, Daniel, is put in the circumstance to purchase a truck with a racist adornment from a, presumably racist white couple. Through the course of the story, there are multiple examples and instances where it is implied that, if not for Daniel’s access to wealth, the juxtaposing white couple’s absolute lack of wealth, and economic need, the situation would not be able to present itself or advance further in the actual sale of the truck. Considering these ideas, seeing how the functionality of economic status prevents and hinders this white couple from being able to have more access or say in who they are selling their truc...