Author Archives: Morgan Marzolf

Alison Bechdel’s Use of Artifice in Fun Home

Fun Home; A Family Tragicomic author, Alison Bechdel captures the story the of her childhood through comic book elements. Text is accompanied by a visual media, which allows the reader to not only visualize the story through the reading, but … Continue reading

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The Intertwining Pieces to Life

Who am I? What defines me? These are the questions that seem to linger over some high schooler’s head at the beginning of some 90’s teen movie. Yet, although one may want to pass off these seemingly pre teen ideas … Continue reading

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Finding a Major

As a freshman in college I was expected to be a biology major. With a brother in medical school and a sister in dental school, it was almost a family tradition. But, after a year of fulfilling my first year … Continue reading

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Class of 2011, a Sorority Tale

As I discussed last Friday, every senior in Kappa Alpha Theta leaves her journal with the sorority. A senior journal includes summaries of one’s time at college, stories of some of her best nights in Charleston and some of her … Continue reading

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13 Words to Incorporate into Your Life

1. Love always give it and you will receive it in abundance 2. Passion you either have it or you don’t, but if you don’t, find it 3. Trust if one never gives it, one will never receive it 4. … Continue reading

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Who Stole the Cookie from the Heart Shaped Tin?

So I live in a sorority house on campus and whenever a holiday roles around all of the fraternity and sorority houses give each other seasonal presents. For Halloween each house gives buckets of candy to one another and at … Continue reading

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Memory Disabled, the Limited Details of an Inescapable Experience of Cabeza de Vaca

Smith and Watson explain that memory and trauma are often “the problem of recalling and re-creating a past life [that] involves organizing the inescapable but often disabling force of memory and negotiating its fragmentary intrusions with increasing, if partial, understanding” … Continue reading

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Embodying an In-din

Sherman Alexie embodies an In-din at the very beginning of “The Unauthorized Autobiography of Me” by stating, “(t)en Indians are playing basketball” (4). Alexie could have easily just wrote that boys were playing basketball, but he didn’t. Alexie understands that … Continue reading

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