Makensie Roderick Project # 3 Professor Nicholas Helms 11/28/2020 Representation of Ghost of the Past– Unessay Representation of the theme Ghost of the Past is obvious to us readers in Edwidge Danticat’s, The Dew Breaker. The Dew Breaker is a collection of nine separate but interconnected stories. The first entry, The Book of Ka, is… Read more Project #3
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Weekly post!
For this week’s last blog post and or reflections I’ve been seeing and hearing a lot of my fellow peers comment and talk about love at first and whether it’s real or not. In the play, love is a key theme throughout the play. Koharu and Jihei fall in love but because of their socially… Read more Weekly post!
Week 11 reflection
The poet was born in Rarotonga, Cook Islands, in 1925. His mother Teu (nee Bosini) was a descendant of the Tongarevan ariki or high chief Paroa. His father Jock Campbell was a successful island trader from Otago, New Zealand, who emigrated to the islands in 1919 after his service in the Gallipoli campaign. The poet… Read more Week 11 reflection
Weekly reflection
For this week’s weekly reflection, I decided to reflect on my second major project that I turned in this past week. For my second project, I created an interactive game where players can create their own ending based on Kalidasa’s Shakuntala. I at first had some difficulties getting the website I used to create the… Read more Weekly reflection
Project #2
https://plymouthstate-my.sharepoint.com/personal/mlr1047_plymouth_edu/Documents/Microsoft%20Teams%20Chat%20Files/Shakuntala.html For my second project of the semester, I knew I wanted to do something with the story of Shakuntala. I considered doing something like my last unessay but after meeting with professor helms I decided to take an alternative route. We had talked about me creating a possible text quest following the storyline of… Read more Project #2
Shakuntala Weekly Questions
As I began reading more of Kalidasa’s Shakuntala, many different ideas and theories have popped into my head as to how this story could still go. One of the first questions that popped in was the connection to Shakuntala and the ring that the king had given her. I was wondering if that ring was… Read more Shakuntala Weekly Questions
Week 1/Fictional character
This is quite the throwback or “tb” as some people might say but if I could be a fictional character for any time I think this time I would have to pick the character, Hannah Montana. This girl lived the best of both worlds(literally). One side of her she is a typical everyday high school… Read more Week 1/Fictional character
Weekly Reflection
Although I was only able to contribute to one of this week’s past synchronous sessions I feel as if I’m still prepared to write a reflection on what we read and say my thoughts without being able to speak about it as a whole with the class. To get a more in-depth idea for what… Read more Weekly Reflection
The Dew Breaker/ Weekly questions
Why did Ka never question more about her father’s life? It was rumored that Ka’s father had been imprisoned Haiti for many, many years. Now Ka lives in New York. She has never been to Haiti or heard many stories about it. It was until Ka went on a vacation but more like a business… Read more The Dew Breaker/ Weekly questions
First major project
Makensie Roderick/Dr. Helms/Currents in Global Literature/09/27/2020 Project 1: One of the most familiar games known around the world. This game is a childhood memory for me at least. Have you ever heard of the game called Jeopardy? Jeopardy is played by tons of people. Jeopardy is a universal game played by millions. Jeopardy can be… Read more First major project