Michael Neely
Member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
From Los Angeles, California
From Los Angeles, California
Summa Cum Laude graduate, Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi member, and departmental honors English degree bearer from the University of Southern California (USC). I have recently submitted a seventy-page, senior, honors thesis centering on American Construction versus Reconstruction through the lens of "liberty" versus "equality," with particular attention to Enlightenment considerations of the friction between those two conceptions as well as its pervasiveness in cross-generational fiction. I am currently looking for work as a legal assistant or paralegal, and I plan on attending law school.
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Michael Neely Inducted into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Michael Neely of Pico Rivera, California, was recently initiated into The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, the nation's oldest and most selective all-discipline collegiate honor society. Neely is ...
February, 04 2019 - Verified by The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
Michael Neely was recognized for graduating
I graduated with departmental honors upon submission of my senior thesis.
Spring 2020 -
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Michael Neely was recognized for graduating
I graduated summa cum laude.
Spring 2020 -
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Michael Neely was recognized for earning a spot on the Dean's List
I was placed on the Dean's List.
Fall 2018 - Fall 2019 -
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Michael Neely was recognized for earning a spot on an honors list
I graduated with honors an associate's of arts degree in English literature.
Spring 2018 -
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Phi Beta Kappa
I was inducted into the Honors Society of Phi Beta Kappa.
Spring 2020
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University of Southern California
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Phi Kappa Phi
I was inducted into the Honors Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
Spring 2019
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University of Southern California
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Phone Banker at Merino, Barajas, & Allen
September 2020 - Present
Literacy Leader: Wise Readers to Leaders at Stephen Wise Temple
Cultivated long-standing relationships with low-income elementary students from
disadvantaged backgrounds
Reduced learning loss by adjusting curriculum to students learning habits, thereby
advancing retention rates (over 85% of 2nd through 5th graders met or exceeded grade-level
expectations by the end of summer)
Boosted parental involvement over social media in company-sponsored activities and
events, such as field trips to Underwood Family Farms and the California Science Center
June 2019 - August 2019
Tutor at Rio Hondo College
Enhanced first-generation students reading and writing skills in preparation for transfer
to a four-year institution
Spearheaded an intermediary writing development course that promptly transitioned
students to introductory college-level courses
Reacquainted older students with English and mathematics competence necessary to
acquire training certificates
January 2017 - August 2018
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall Creative Close Reading: "Epilogue: A Confession and a Resolve"
A creative assignment I wrote for my course, ENGL 425: English Literature in the Victorian Age. A "fan fiction," it presents an explanation for how the Reverend Michael Millward, a Puritan in both his constitution and demeanor, came to develop his identity.
May 2020 -
Classwork
The Return to Paganism: Upending Judeo-Christian Hierarchy in Willa Cather's O Pioneers!
A paper I wrote for my course, ENGL 441: American Literature, 1865 to 1920. It argues that one of Cather's aims is to disintegrate the Judeo-Christian paradigm that treats land as a commodity and place in its stead a paradigm that levels humans with land, thereby achieving a higher degree of egalitarianism.
May 2020 -
Classwork
A More Perfect Union? Liberty Versus Equality in American Construction and Reconstruction
A senior, honors thesis I submitted for my course, ENGL 496: Senior Honors Thesis. It centers on the American Construction versus Reconstruction through the lens of "liberty" versus "equality," with particular attention to Enlightenment considerations of the friction between those two conceptions as well as its pervasiveness in cross-generational fiction.
May 2020 -
Research Projects
"Really at Honoria's Chambers in Chancery Lane Every Day:" Vivie Versus Gender Conventions in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession
A term paper I wrote for my course, ENGL 425: English Literature in the Victorian Age. It argues that the first scene in the play is a brawl between gender conventions and is thus the microcosm for the capitalistic critique by Shaw within the play.
April 2020 -
Classwork
Passing the Bar: Article II Standing and California v. Texas (2020)
A paper I wrote for my course, POSC 340: Constitutional Law. It discusses the doctrine and legal history of Article III Standing before writing my own Supreme Court opinion, arguing that the individual plaintiffs should be denied standing but the state plaintiffs should be conferred standing.
April 2020 -
Research Projects
Dual Spheres or Sole Sphere? "The Yellow Wallpaper" and The Awakening's Martial Spheres Crossover
A paper I wrote for my course, ENGL 441: American Literature, 1865 to 1920. It argues that the texts repudiate the separate spheres doctrine in favor of a crossover, thereby challenging the status quo of the time.
March 2020 -
Classwork
Perchance to Dream: Shakespeare and the "Offstage"
A paper I wrote for my course, ENGL 430: Shakespeare. It covers the ways in which Shakespeare's artistic choices bifurcate with respect to what is presented onstage versus what is relegated to offstage, and it argues why his offstage choices optimize the thematic presentation of the play.
December 2019 -
Research Projects
The Fulfilling of the Old: Renaissance England's Protestant Rendering of the Judaic "Messias"
A paper I wrote for my course, ENGL 491: Senior Seminar in Literary Studies. It covers the Medieval conceptions of the Abrahamic "Messiah," and how these conceptions clashed among Christian and Judaic circles.
December 2019 -
Research Projects
Lives Not Worth Living: Nazi Doctors and Their Biomedical Actualization of Scientific Racism, Social Darwinism, and National Socialism
A paper I wrote for my course, JS 211: The Holocaust. It discusses the medicalization of the Holocaust in the form of doctors working for and reaffirming the white supremacist tenets of the Third Reich, and how their work greatly contributed to the dissemination of these notions among the medical intelligentsia.
November 2019 -
Research Projects
The Spanish Tragedy, The Knight of the Burning Pestle, and Proprietary Framing
A research paper for my English Drama to 1800 course. It compares and contrasts two plays: Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy and Francis Beaumont's The Knight of the Burning Pestle.
May 2019 -
Research Projects
"It is Not Necessary to Accept Everything as True, One Must Only Accept it as Necessary:" A Treatise on the State and Ideology
A research paper for my Ideology and Political Conflict course. It argues why the State must inculcate ideology if it seeks to govern most effectively.
April 2019 -
Research Projects
Misconceptions and Certainties Concerning the Impetus and Effects of the "Prison-Industrial Complex"
A research paper for my Law, Slavery, and Race course. It discusses the "Prison-Industrial Complex." It dispels various misconceptions concerning its impetus for development, and in doing so, locates the true impetus.
November 2018 -
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