William Schraufnagel

Self-Improvement I see and learn. If I see and do not learn, I am restless and I walk. As I walk I wrestle until The puzzle is jarred loose And the continual stream Of learning re-commences. How to Use the Silence There is something of a spell-caster in us all. Whatever it was called in other times Remains. Find it in the waiting, the what we dread, That is your time. Whatever interval comes between now And what you next expect Is yours. ~~~ So we craft, on verge of tears

Billy Schraufnagel English 410b, Stepto March 10, 2002 Short Essay Looking Across at You There are two faces on the front cover of Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father, by Richard Rodriguez. They have the same features, but they are inversions of each other. One looks from the upper left-hand corner down to the bottom right. The other, turned upside-down in the lower right, looks up and to the left. The face on top seems normal, the bottom one strange. Fli

Bill Schraufnagel February 11, 2003 English 438b, Alderman Mini Paper # 2 The Fixed Subjectivity To some extent, Wordsworth’s Prelude of 1799 endeavors to illustrate to his reader (Coleridge) how Nature, in all its various forms, “with its steady cadence tempering / Our human waywardness, composed my thoughts” (First Part, 11-12). In so doing, however, he wishes to eschew the constricts of human logic, “that false secondary power by which / In weakness we create distinctio

Billy Schraufnagel English 281, Otten February 25, 2002 Mid-Term Paper, Topic # 1 A Womanly Way to Write The Female Writer was a blossoming cultural phenomenon in the 19 th Century United States. Or at least, She was enough of a phenomenon to inspire one of her ranks to compose a poem on her behalf. Phoebe Cary wrote the poem “Advice Gratis to Certain Women (By a Woman)” to help guide her sisters in the production of important and effectual literature. Cary war

Bill Schraufnagel RWS 601B, McLish April 11, 2008 Paper # 1 – Montaigne Defense and Invention in Montaigne In his dialogue of...

Here's my tribute to the best teacher I ever had. And I've had good teachers. From my father, through Brad McAdon at the University of...

Bill Schraufnagel English 597B, Selzer and Hawhee December 16, 2009 Final Paper – Draft 2 Proportional Differences: Kenneth Burke’s...

Billy Schraufnagel English 277a, Schirmeister December 12, 2000 Final Paper Swallowed by a Whale At the beginning of Chapter 55 of Moby...

Billy Schraufnagel Theater St. 111b Amy Rogoway, TA March 2, 2000 The People’s Theater (1935-1939) In 1935, Harry Hopkins, director of...