Ali Smith

The “Skelf” of Existence in Hotel World

December 13, 2016 by Sarah Gompper

I wrote the following short paper on Ali Smith’s Hotel World for Eng 220: Literary Analysis with Dr. Fackler.

How Form and Diction Reflect a Lover’s Loss and Confusion in “Reconciliation”

I wrote the following short, close reading of W.B. Yeats’s “Reconciliation” for Eng 373: Terrible Beauty with Dr. Churchill: Yeats’s “Reconciliation” depicts two lovers back together after a time apart, with a central theme of love as intimately connected to creative passion. The speaker anguishes how his ability to think and write vanished along with his lover when she left him, and notes that when they are reunited the “world

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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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Reauthorizing the Higher Education Act: Strict Regulation Leads to Information Overload

This blog was originally published by Sarah Gompper for FreedomWorks 6/1/2015 This month the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions held a hearing on the Higher Education Act, which was originally passed in 1965. The primary topic for the duration of the two hour hearing was the collection and dissemination of data from colleges and universities. The federal government mandates that institutions of higher education release a

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