“The Dead Grandmother Exam/Syndrome,”

 Paragraph Assignment #1 Seven to Ten Sentences in Response to Mike Adams’ “The Dead Grandmother Exam/Syndrome,”. You will need to download the article from the Web Links page and will need to have read all of it before starting this assignment. 1. Look at the Adams’ credentials just under the title as well as the […]

Alice Bolin’s Dead Girls

 Based on the excerpt from Alice Bolin’s Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession that you read, how does the episode from Dateline Mystery: The Life and Death of Lauren Astley fit into the conventions, or tropes, of the “dead girl show” that Bolin identifies? Name specifics of the show and suggest what purpose […]