Fishing Far From Home: This was my first article for Bay Weekly. After a reader captured a photo of a roseate spoonbill in North Beach, I was tasked with writing the issue's Creature Feature on the spoonbill. This was, in some ways, an initiation, since it demonstrated my ability to write and work with deadlines.
Riding Past Polio: This was my first article for Bay Weekly. After a reader captured a photo of a roseate spoonbill in North Beach, I was tasked with writing the issue's Creature Feature on the spoonbill. This was, in some ways, an initiation, since it demonstrated my ability to write and work with deadlines.
Talent Machine's 42nd Street: I enjoy the theater, so when Bay Weekly's editor offered me the opportunity to review a local play, I was quick to accept. I wrote this article after attending opening night, so that week's issue would encourage readers to go see the play for its second weekend.
Dining Under Westfield Annapolis Mall's New Sea: In preparation for the grand reopening of the food court, Bay Weekly planned to write multiple articles on the food court, and the changes that had been made to the restaurants and environment. I wrote the article after going to see the food court myself, taking notes on all the different ways it had been redone from the food court of my childhood.
Talent Machine's Hunchback of Notre Dame: After writing a favorable review of 42nd Street, I was encouraged to return to the Talent Machine later in the summer for their teen production. I was happy to do so, and wrote the article to encourage seeing the play in its second weekend.
Writing a Poem to Help End Hunger: For my final article of the summer, I had the privilege of interviewing Hiram Larew, the organizer behind the first annual World Food Day Poetry Competition. The results of the competition, and the poignant, moving poems that received awards, can be found on the Poetry X Hunger Facebook page.
Pride and Prejudice and the Pictures: This is an analytical paper that I wrote for my Intro to Critical Reading class. The assignment was to examine the novel Pride and Prejudice, its 1995 BBC miniseries adaptation, and another book we had read earlier in the semester (in my case, Black Boy), and analyze how effective the adaptation was. I compared Black Boy to Pride and Prejudice with regards to elements transferable to film, and analyzed how those elements were used in the miniseries.
Purity and Love are in the Name: This is an analytical paper I wrote in a class called Forbidden Love in Page and Screen, which examined the narrative of the adulteress throughout history. We were asked to analyze an aspect of one of the first recorded fictional works, The Romance of Tristan and Iseult. I chose to examine how the names of the female characters, and their respective proximities to the color white, related to their greater roles in the story. I used the Bédier translation of the story for my source.
Style Practice: This is a journal entry that I wrote for Readings in Contemporary Literature, where we were asked to incorporate an author's usage of description into our own writing. This brief story is set in a fantasy universe, but it doesn't deal directly with anything fantastical (other than, perhaps, the protagonist's blue hair).