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December 13, 2016 by Sarah Gompper

The Changing Meaning of Death in “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory”

I wrote the following historicist analysis for Eng 373: Terrible Beauty with Dr. Churchill: W.B. Yeats published “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory” to eulogize his friend, Robert Gregory, after his death in January, 1918 (Witt 112). Gregory was an artist and decorated pilot in World War I (Witt 112) who died when he was struck out of the air over Italy (Pickering 81). Gregory’s death greatly impacted Yeats, who

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Gendering of Domestic Violence: The Violence Against Women Act

I wrote the following paper at Davidson for POL 227: Law, Politics, and Society with Dr. O’Geen.

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Melting Foam

Sometimes, when she’s feeling some in-between of artsy and lonely she curls her hair, fills in her eyebrows, and sits down in a coffee shop to observe how other people play with fading time and failing beauty. She sees the woman sitting with her parents, thumbing a leathery ten dollar bill, and she knows them; when the woman leaves, the parents stay and talk about her, eyeing the one-time frat

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