Advanced Essay Workshop/ENGL 2270
 

Completing The Circle: How One Youth Found Their True Self

Indigenous culture varies throughout every tribe in the Americas. In several Native American and Indigenous First Nations tribes, a sacred traditional type of medicine is through dance. Indigenous dances are very different than what’s popular in the mainstream now. Additionally, there is also a unique gender identity that is specific to many Indigenous tribes, which is called …

Number Nine: A Look Into The “White Album”

The Beatles are a band renowned across the universe. A small portion of that eminence comes from their changing sound throughout their active years. The sound from their albums Please Please Me, Help!, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Abbey Road all have very different styles. Typically, when someone mentions The Beatles, many people think of their earlier albums, such as A Hard Day’s Night. However, a defining album of theirs is arguably the “White Album” (1968). …

What Really Happened: The Original English Invasion

We were all taught about the European arrival to the “New World” in grade school. We were also taught that the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas got along with the European settlers. Iron Maiden’s “Run to the Hills” (1982) is a song that tells a simplified version of what really happened when the colonizers arrived on this …