English Composition Assignment - Your Mind to Paper

Hi all. By popular demand (hee) I am going to be posting classwork from all of my classes, not just my graphics classes. As such, here is my first assignment from my English Composition class. Please note that the copyright on the writing here belongs to me. As such, please do not plagiarize my work. If you want to share something, link it to here, kthxbai!

The title of the assignment was From Your Mind to Paper. What we had to do was read an excerpt from Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and then write our own description of Gregor the Bug Man, so....here is my assignment of what I decided Gregor the Bug Man looks like:

With his relatives pounding on the doors around him, Gregor tried in vain to raise himself from his bed. He realized that his body, before soft and human and flexible, was now long and hard and unyielding. He glanced down to see himself a foreign entity entirely. His soft, light skin had been replaced by a kind of hard, dark green body shell. Where once he had two strong legs, he now saw nothing. He attempted to raise his left hand to pinch himself, only to find that the physical response to his mental command no longer raised one arm but four long, dark green feelers covered in rough black hairs. A glance to his right showed four answering feelers in concert to the ones on his left. As he rolled his eyes in agony, he looked up to see two more feelers sprouting from his head. An angry sort of rustling, like the sound of sandpaper rubbing against itself, turned his head further to the side to see a translucent white wing rubbing against his bedding. He felt a strange pulling and fullness in his mouth that he could not define. With a great deal of effort, he managed to roll himself off of his bed and land awkwardly on two of his bottom feelers. With speed he could not comprehend, he found himself across his bedroom standing in front of his mirror. He could not believe the horror he beheld there. The fullness in his mouth came from two large pincers, like those of a large spider. His eyes were a bright, sinister red, and his head was covered with large, jagged protrusions of what appeared to be bone. Unable to handle the enormity of what he had become, his eyes rolled back into his head and Gregor the Bug Man fainted dead away.

Also for my English Comp class, we have to write a research essay on the topic of diversity in our chosen field. I am getting my Bachelor's in Digital Design and Animation, and my focus is going to be on animated film. As such, here is the research essay topic decision I turned in:

I have chosen to focus my diversity research project topic on the need for more women in the animated film industry. My research and arguments will address the need for more women in the film industry in general, and the animated film industry in particular, as not only inspiration for the following generations of young women, but also as pioneers in striving to achieve a more accurate and positive portrayal of women and girls in animated films. My research and arguments will show that the current portrayals of women and girls in animated film are distorted, and that with an increased diversity of more women in higher level positions in the industry (i.e. directors, story creators, etc.), that these issues can be addressed and the images of women and girls changed to more accurately reflect real society.

Know what I like best of all about that? You can't tell one little bit that I'm a militant feminist, can you? (wink wink nudge nudge) Heee...So....thought's y'all? Post 'em! Laters!