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The Little Things
My senior year of high school I joined a program called AmeriCorps. I didn’t know what to expect from it but I knew I wanted to do it because I’d get to be let out of school early to do … Continue reading
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Now That’s What I Call Memoir!
As a music fanatic, rather than “fan”, I’ve always been staunchly anti-pop music–in theory. It seems all it takes these days for music to launch itself into pop-level stardom is outrageous costume and some repetitive auto-tuned vocals. But even I … Continue reading
Life Lines Project
I’ve decided to collect sentences written by a random assortment of people about their own conceptions of identity for my 20% Project. I solicited people through Facebook, e-mail, and face to face in order to generate around 50 Life Lines— sentences … Continue reading
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Marginalia as Autobiography: My Mother’s Confirmation Bible
From Apr 19, 2011 Please click on the image above to zoom in and read the slide. I think something that many people find troubling about the genre of autobiography is that despite claiming to have some large share … Continue reading
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Man’s Best Friend: Charleston Tails
Charleston Tails For my 20% project, I surveyed the people of Charleston about their dogs and the relationships between them and their pets. Having always had a dog growing up, I know the grand importance animals can play in people’s … Continue reading
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handmade cookbook: preserving memory rather than recipes.
My handmade cookbook is nearly finished. All it needs is a little binding and the front cover sewed and attached to the rest of the pages and the 20% project will be 100% complete. I have collected about twenty-three recipes, … 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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Seamus McDonagh Wikipedia Entry
My earliest memory of Seamus was of the fight he is most famous for, pictured above. It was 1990 and I was 6 years old. At 6, I didn’t understand much about boxing, and couldn’t have told you any professional … Continue reading
An Autographic Autobiography of an Auto/Biography
For my 20% project I utilized the resources available at the Avery Research Institute. I wanted to focus my project on an African American family from Charleston and hope to create a linear time line of their history. I chose … Continue reading
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Major-General Evander McIver Law
For my 20% project, I have extensively researched my great-great-great grandfather General Evander McIver Law, work that resulted in a hybrid biographical / genealogical / meditative essay. General Law began his military career as the captain of a volunteer … Continue reading
