Category: Academic Writing

  • Growing Up Through the Lens of Music Genres

    Growing Up Through the Lens of Music Genres

    Allison Binning

    Kelefa Sanneh’s “Part-Time Punk” is a coming-of-age narrative just as much as a personal narrative of music. Through his descriptions of punk and hip hop, Sanneh’s analysis of music becomes more nuanced, which encapsulates his transition to maturity. Sanneh’s contradicting descriptions of punk and hip-hop introduce a grey area in his coming-of-age narrative that wasn’t… Read more

  • Mass Media and Mass Shootings: How Current United States Journalism May Result in a Contagion Effect

    Mass Media and Mass Shootings: How Current United States Journalism May Result in a Contagion Effect

    Allison Binning

    A thesis submitted to the Faculty of The Episcopal School of Baton Rouge in partial fulfillment of the requirements for Distinction in Thesis in 2021. Acknowledgements I dedicate my thesis to all victims of mass shootings, but specifically the courageous victims of the Parkland high school shooting. These students survived a violent crime and immediately… Read more