Mark G. Mantho Written Portfolio

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Biography: Author Joe McGinniss
Book Review: “A Civil Action”
Book Review: “Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK”
Book Review: “From the Ramparts: Fred Friendly, CBS News, & the McCarthy Era”
Book Review: “Hiroshima”
Book Review: “In Cold Blood”
Book Review: “Is There No Place On Earth For Me?”
Book Review: “Joe McCarthy and the Press”
Book Review: “Radical Chic”
Book Review: “The Hell’s Angels, A Strange & Terrible Saga”
Book Review: “The Orchid Thief”
Book Review: “Up In the Old Hotel”
Boston Bruins: “The Seguin Deal: Why Now, And Why It Makes the Bruins Better”
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Creative Writing: “God Shuffled His Feet” (One Act Play)
Creative Writing: “The Last Plan” (Playlet)
Creative Writing: “The Rhythm Kings” (Screenplay Treatment)
Creative Writing: “The Rhythm Kings:” Bobbie Lane Backstory
Creative Writing: “The Rhythm Kings:” Lucas Carver Backstory
Creative Writing: “The Rhythm Kings:” Scene One
Creative Writing: “The Rhythm Kings:” Screenplay Overview
Creative Writing: “The Trouble With Christopher” (Playlet)
Design & Graphics (Website): What’s PoliticalPrimer.com?
Design & Graphics: Beatles Concert Poster
Design & Graphics: Business Brochure
Design & Graphics: Detroit Red Wings Poster One
Design & Graphics: Detroit Red Wings Poster Two
Design & Graphics: Magazine Article
Design & Graphics: Magazine Cover & Contents Page One
Design & Graphics: Magazine Cover & Contents Page Two & Three
Design & Graphics: Newspaper Broadsheet Frontpage
Domestic Politics Analysis: “One Nation Conservatism” (2000)
Film & Character Study: Eleanor Arroway in “Contact”
Film & Literary Analysis: “Allegory in Film and Literature”
Film Analysis: “Out of the Past”
Film Review & Analysis: “Gender and Identity in Martin Scorcese’s Taxi Driver”
Film Review: “Pulp Fiction” (1994)
Foreign Policy Analysis: “JFK and Cuba”
Foreign Policy Analysis: “The Bush Doctrine: Origins, Evolution, Alternatives” (4/2004)
Historical Analysis: “Equiano’s Travels”
Journalism & Government: “Press Freedom & Armageddon (The Cuban Missile Crisis)”
Journalism & Government: “Walter Duranty and the Ukrainian Famine of 1932-1933”
Journalism & Politics: “Between the Lines: McCarthy, Little Rock and the Birth of Interpretive Journalism”
Journalism & Politics: “D.C. Journalists and the Revolving Door”
Journalism & Politics: “Losing the Game: Celebrity Journalism, Washington’s Media Elite and the Erosion of Press Credibility”
Journalism & Politics: “Making the Sale: News Management in Reagan’s First Term”
Journalism & Politics: “Nixon, Watergate, and the Media”
Journalism & Politics: “The Selling of the President, 1968”
Journalism & Society: “Common Ground”
Journalism & Society: “Press Freedom & Catastrophe (Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Challenger)”
Journalism & Society: “Race, Poverty, and ‘Immersion Journalism’ “
Journalism & the Law: “Media Law & Ethics, Mark One”
Journalism & the Law: “Media Law & Ethics, Mark Two”
Literary Analysis in Brief: “Book 23 of Homer’s ‘Iliad’ “
Literary Analysis in Brief: “Dr. Faustus”
Literary Analysis in Brief: “Homer’s ‘Odyssey’: Kirke’s Characterization”
Literary Analysis in Brief: “Tales of King Arthur”
Literary Analysis in Brief: “The Castle of Perseverance”
Literary Analysis in Brief: “The Last Wolf,” “Wolf”
Literary Analysis in Brief: “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
Literary Analysis in Brief: Ralph Ellison’s “King of the Bingo Game”
Literary Analysis in Brief: Shakespeare’s “The Tempest”
Literary Analysis in Brief: Tennyson’’s “”Ulysses””
Literary Analysis: “Horror Fiction, Mark One”
Literary Analysis: “Horror Fiction, Mark Two”
Literary Analysis: “James, O’Neil, Howells, Frost, Ginsberg, Fitzgerald, Twain, Freeman”
Literary Analysis: “Pater, Sassoon, Walcott”
Literary Analysis: “Shakespeare’s Hal, in Context”
Literary Analysis: “The Color Purple”
Literary Analysis: “The Things They Carried”
Literary Analysis: “The Yellow Wallpaper”
Literary Analysis: “Three Short Stories by Alice Walker”
Literary Analysis: “West, Conroy, Mailer, Slesinger, Kerouac, Hemingway, Fitzgerald”
Literary Analysis: “Women Are From Venus And…”
Literary Analysis: Alice Walker’s “Nineteen Fifty–Five”; Anna Lee Walter’s “Apparitions”
Literary Analysis: Flannery O”Connor’s “Revelation”
Literary Analysis: Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants”
Literary Analysis: Rita Mae Brown’s “Venus Envy”
Literary Analysis: Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”
Literary Analysis: Shakespeare’s “Henry V”
Literary Analysis: Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing”
Metaphysics: “Near Death Experiences, ‘Reality,’ and the Case for a New Scientific Approach”
Music Review: “Guns N’ Roses, Live (1991)”
Perspective: “All Good Things…”
Perspective: “Dad’s Death”
Perspective: “Growing Up Olympia”
Perspective: “Sculpture”
Perspective: “The Actor’s Craft: Meisner-based American Realism”
Perspective: “With Joe”
Poetry: “August and Everything After”
Profile: “Joseph DeRoche, 1938-2013 (1999)”
Speculation: “The Kennedy Assassination (Conspiracies & Evidence)”
Theater Review: Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”

Book Review: “Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK”

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