When I first wrote my close reading essays, I spent hours combing through scholarly articles on JSTOR and other databases, reading each work from front to back. Although helpful with producing relevant quotes or ideas to use in my prose, this strategy prevented me from […]
Author: Katelyn Duffy
Primary Source Research Journal
When I started writing my very first close reading essay, I already had an inkling of an idea for a theme to explore throughout the semester. I deliberately chose Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence and Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus” because they both redefined aspects […]
Reimagining the Nation: Immigration, Gender, and Refuge in Emma Lazarus’s “The New Colossus”
https://www.wevideo.com/view/3925063595 Intro Since the birth of democracy in the United States, immigrants have made significant contributions to the ever-evolving American identity. At the age of 34 in 1883, American poet Emma Lazarus was aware of this fact yet existed in an era of xenophobic nationalism […]