Formalist Analysis of the Russian critic, Victor Shklovsky’s technique of defamiliarization, applied to Lucille CLifton’s poem, “Cutting Greens”.

Conspicuous themes, and stylistic elements in Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”
Close reading analysis with a focus on themes and stylistic elements of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay, Self-Reliance”

Black Horror Film vs Blacks in Horror Film
A comparative essay between the films, Night of the Living Dead and Get Out as examples of Black Horror and Blacks in Horror, as exemplified by Robin R. Means Coleman in her essay “Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present”

Ralph Waldo Emerson; Nature, and Language
Academic close reading and analysis of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Book “Nature”, regarding the topics language and the natural world.

Prevailing Themes in Shakespeare’s Richard II
A close reading of the prevailing themes found in Shakespeare’s famous play, Richard II.