The Musings of Dan

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Welcome to the site for some of my collected written work.
KNOWN AS... THE MUSINGS OF
DANNY KELLY A romp through the ether.

The collection below is comprised of a variety of essays and creative writings from not only university but my years at MacKillop College Swan Hill, my own personal scribblings and those I actually saved or obtained copies of from the Ozchat Posting Board. Comments are most welcome, as are any contradictions, updates, alliances and inspirations that may arise from your reading - My email address.

NOTE - It is inevitable that some of the notions, references, musings and ideas that are presented below may be found either: 1) Fraudulent 2) Offensive 3) Hilarious 4) Plagiaristic...indeed, it may summon any manner of the wide range of reactions that humans are capable of. So, I apologise, wax apathetic, understand and humbly accept all manner of aforementioned diversity in human responses.

Creative Writing

1. MINDS ON SOMETHING ELSE
(Written as part of VCE English Writing Folio - Age: 18)

2. Her eyes are beautiful
(Written as part of VCE English Writing Folio - Age: 18)

3. Time Slips Away
(Written as part of VCE English Writing Folio - Age: 18)

4. MacKillop Memoria
(Written for 'MackChat', not submitted - Age: 19)

5. Joan
(Written for Writing Folio Year 10 - Age :16)

6. "Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups,parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule"
(Written for Writing Folio Year 11 - Age :17)

7. Script for 'Year 12 Breakfast' Skit
(Written for Performance at Breakfast to Celebrate Year 12 Graduation - Age :18)

8. Invisible Wit OR Wizzing With the Door Open
(Written for Writing Folio Year 12 - Age :18)

Honours Thesis - Literary Studies
'The Faustian Pact as Gothic Monomyth:
A Schizoanalytic Perspective on Anne Rice's Supernatural Dark Numen'

COMING SOON

University Essays - 1. Philosophy

1. Sartre on Bad Faith (student presentation)

2. To what do mortals aspire in living toward death? In what sense is such a life a good life?

3. What is Freud's image of human existence?

4. NOTES : Introduction to Existentialism - Freedom and Existence
Written as a brainstorm during my first few weeks of philosophy...VERY ACCESSIBLE!

5. Aristotle - The Grounds of Friendship

5. A Sense of Justice
An essay on John Rawls theory of justice.

University Essays - 2. Psychology
NOTE: It's taken me years to actually put these here as I've had some bizarre personal conflict over whether a. people would be interested and b. it would somehow constitute an ethical violation in terms of the material (which I've decided is crap). Also, more often than not, many Of these essays will be referring to specific psychological reports or articles - but that really shouldn't matter. However, references are supplied if you want to find these articles for further research.

1. Dual Relationships.
(The ethics of counselling family and friends within professional practice)

2. The Fundamental Attribution Error.

3. Evaluation of the Beck Depression Inventory - Second Edition (BDI-II).

4. Article Review - Hypnosis, Memory and the Ethics of Uncertainty.

5. The Validity of Recovered Memories.

6. Central Traits, Halo Effect and Impression Formation.
(NOTE: Results tables not yet included)

7. An Analysis of the Efficacy and Factors of CBT Therapy Contributing to Long-Term Change in Depressed Clients.

8. Sex differences in the intensity of emotional experience.

9. Covert Sensitization and Behavior.
(NOTE: Results tables not yet included)

10. A reliability and validity evaluation of the Kaufman Brief Intelligence Test (K-BIT).

11. Visual Capacities and Preferences of the 3-Month-Old Infant.

12. Projective Testing
(NO REFERENCES)

13. Animal Rights and Research.
(NO REFERENCES)

University Essays - 3. Literature
NOTE: The following essays will refer to particular texts and novels; listed in parentheses after each title. If you are familiar with the text, more power to you. If not, some of the ideas addressed and references may escape you...but try your luck regardless.

1. Tirra Lirra by the River (Creative Response)
('Tirra Lirra by the River' by Jessica Anderson)

2. The Chosen View
(Poem - 'The Chosen Vessel' by Barbara Baynton)

3. Strange Objects - The Sequel (Creative Response)
('Strange Objects' by Gary Crew)

4. Subversion of the Real
('The Changeover' by Margaret Mahy & 2 stories from 'The Picador Book of The New Gothic', edited by Patrick McGrath and Bradford Morrow : 'Freniere' by Anne Rice (an excerpt from 'Interview with the Vampire' pg.44-54), and 'The Smell' by Patrick McGrath)

5. Romantic Visions of Nature
(Romantic Poetry; Percy Bysshe Shelley's 'Ode to the West Wind' and 'Ozymandias (of Egypt)' & Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 'Frost at Midnight' and 'Rime of the Ancient Mariner')

6. Gothic and the Supernatural
(Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Black Cat' & Henry James' 'The Turn of the Screw')

7. Student Presentation on 'Circe'
(James Joyce's 'Ulysses')

8. Hamlet is a play about spiritual defeat. To what extent would you agree with this?
(William Shakespeare's 'Hamlet')

9. The Complexity of Shakespeare's Work in Respect to Character and Plot
(Will Shakespeare's 'The Tempest', 'Othello' & 'Antony and Cleopatra')

10. Postmodernism - The Age of the Image

11. Prufrock and the Modernist
(T.S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. NOTE: This is quite possibly one of the worst essays I've ever written.)

12. The Gothic Tradition in Literature

13. Schizoanalysis
(The philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari)
(NOTE: This essay would be an invaluable introduction for those thinking of reading essays 14&15 and/or my honours dissertation)

14. The Cyberian Self
(William Gibson's 'Neuromancer', Philip K. Dick's 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?', and other literature dealing with cyberspace and identity)

15. MARXISM: Ideology, Capitalism & Schizophrenia

University Essays - 4. Fantasy for
Children/Representations of Reality
NOTE: Again, the following essays will refer to particular texts and novels; listed in parentheses after each title.

1. Fantasy, and its Importance in Children's Poetry
(Selected poems of Jack Prelutsky)

2. Fantasy is a Literature of Desires
('The Indian in the Cupboard' by Lynne Reid Banks)

3. Growth and Change in Contemporary Fiction
('Came back to show you I could fly' by Robin Klein)

4. "Take me away from all this reality...PLEASE!"
('Uncanny' by Paul Jennings & 'A Dream of Stars' by Brian Caswell)

Old Posting Board Posts
The following posts were placed on the Ozchat Posting Board at some point during my chatting life. Readers may find that they feel something i missing if they're clapping eyes on these posts for the first time, and you are. Most posts are made in response to something somebody has said, and unfortunately I was lucky enough to get copies of these posts, let alone what prompted some...so you miss out. Nevertheless, most are 'stand alone' posts, so, ENJOY.
My thanks to SAM/Cherri/Cassandra/Ken/The Evil Brainwasher/etc for dredging most of these up for me from what she saves here and there.

1. Extracts from Dr. Baker's Journal

2. Bloodsports

3. 'SAM goes to the library', and other tales of woe

4. Burn, Baby, Burn

5. Mighty ManOWar

6. The Swansong of Venkman

7. Turfies

8. Valentine's Day at 'Venkman Heights'

9. Talkin' to the 'Swedish Chick'

10. The Adventure of the Thong Bikini

11. 'Virgin Run' OR 'Bares in the Woods'

12. 'Nighty Night' OR 'Venkman : Super Paternal Mode'

The Journal of Doctor John Baker
or,
The Venkman Dialogue
(A Fool's Journey)

COMING SOON

Return to the womb, the place where it all began, The Lair of Dan.
I've heard they exist, but is there such a group as The Friends of Dan?
All are "well met" in the forests and dungeons in The Worlds of Dan.

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