'Words of Light' and the Wreckage of the Hibernia Bank
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5 pages. This paper compares the wreckage of the Hibernia Bank in the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to Eduardo Cadava's 'Words of Light', a series of theses on photography. Comparing photographs as ghosts of history or of dead things somehow that keep on living, Cadava's words remind us that the photo of the Hibernia Bank keeps us reminded of the bank as it was before it's fall in the Earthquake of 1906.
Filename: JGAhiber.rtf

(The) Importance of a College Education / Personal Essay
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3 pages in length. Author's personal discussion of why a college education is so markedly important to himself. Written with some reference to his Hispanic cultural background. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: Educlove.wps

2 Original Poems
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A 3 page paper that contains 2 original poems, which the student can use as guides to creating his or her own compositions. No bibliography provided.
Filename: kh2oripm.rtf

2084: 100 Years in a Coma
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A 5 page paper which discusses the awakening from a coma of 100 years from the standpoint of a high school student. The student wakes in the year 2084. No sources cited.
Filename: RA2084coma.wps

212
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A 4 page paper which examines how the short film 212 can affect a person’s college life. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: RA212.rtf