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.

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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Weapon (book of art and poetry)

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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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