https://create.kahoot.it/share/the-life-of-equiano/82851adc-adb7-4162-a098-edac6324c8f6 For my first project, I decided to take a different route with an Unessay and create a game. Kahoot is an easy platform that makes learning fun and engaging. In my Kahoot, I talk about the Life of Equiano. The hardships that he faced and had to witness. I think that the questions that… Read more Project 1- Equiano
Category: First Major Project
Reflection Project 1
Now I know that this project is a long time coming and I am sure you guys have been asking yourself “where is Monique’s first major project?” Well here you are ladies and gentleman I present my first project. Projects as a whole can feel daunting and that has never been more apparent to me… Read more Reflection Project 1
Project 1 – Yeah I Know
This is a journal entry of Olaudah Equiano. Found many years after his death Hidden in his birth town of Eboe. Although the date is unclear, we can assume given his autobiography that it was written sometime before he was captured for slavery. Dear Journal, My father says that I should start writing in in a journal because… Read more Project 1 – Yeah I Know
Revised First Project
Kaitlyn Mader Dr. Helms Currents in Global Literature 27 September 2020 The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Religious Analysis Olaudah Equiano’s narrative is an extremely devastating account of his life and the way that him and those of his culture are treated. By the end of his emotional narrative, he is able to… Read more Revised First Project
the long awaited First Major Project
Explanation I was granted an opportunity to flex my adaptation skills for this first project. While I was reading “The Book of the Dead” from Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker, I realized how theatrical it is. Right off the bat, Danticat uses conversational dialogue to do some exposition, which read like a script in my… Read more the long awaited First Major Project
Project 1: Themes of Equiano and Django
In this essay I will be comparing scenes and themes between “The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Django Unchained”. Obviously both share the main conflict of slavery but both are from different times. In “The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano” the reading takes you through events in his life starting with when… Read more Project 1: Themes of Equiano and Django
The Life of Olaudah Equiano
I want to start by talking about the word “Slave” because I do not particularly like using it. Throughout all my schooling, every teacher used the word slave and every time I heard it, I hoped they would use a different word, or bring up how it isn’t a good word to use. “A debate… Read more The Life of Olaudah Equiano
The Magic: The Gathering Deck of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
As an unessay, I’ve created a Planeswalker Magic: The Gathering card based around Olaudah himself, and, (because MTG is short the blue/white pirate cards I was looking for by a large margin) to go with him, an Olaudah Equiano Legacy Deck. (This is a deck containing at least 60 legal cards from any set of… Read more The Magic: The Gathering Deck of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
First Project (Colonialism Brochure)
The thing I decided to do for my project was to cover the overarching theme of colonialism that can be found in any piece of literature that we have read so far. The idea of a brochure came to me because I thought it would be funny if a group of colonizing soliders handed out… Read more First Project (Colonialism Brochure)
A Symbol Worth A Thousand Words (Unessay)
Explanation (I’m sorry it’s long): Chains hold a thousand and one meanings and then some. Literal or figurative, we’re held down by chains everywhere. Every person, place, and object needs to be kept in line – in society’s standard of a line. Each society, no, each situation has a different standard of freedom or chains.… Read more A Symbol Worth A Thousand Words (Unessay)