Madisen Bentzlin / Themes in Equiano – Jeopardy Game For my visual (displayed in picture form on page three), I decided to choose to do a small jeopardy game including themes in The Life of Olaudah Equiano. On the visual, there are clues being quotes from the reading that the audience or reader would have to… Read more Themes in Equiano / First Major Project
Category: First Major Project, Fall 2020
First Essay – Racism and Social Pressure
*note* *This is the updated version!!* Racism has been a pretty strong theme within the texts we have read so far. We have read accounts from both sides; the racist, and the oppressed. But what if, due to pressure from others, those who oppose racism suddenly turn to ‘fit in’ with society? What if some… Read more First Essay – Racism and Social Pressure
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Literary Analysis Podcast: Colonialism Script: Opening music. Luke: Hello everyone, and welcome to the Literary Analysis Podcast with me as your host, Luke Harding. This podcast is designed to explain difficult and important concepts through their interpretations represented in various literary works. Today, we will be discovering colonialism as represented in Wole Soyinka’s Death and… Read more First Major Project
Adding a scene to Death And The King’s Horseman- Unessay
For my unessay I decided to write about Elesin, and the thoughts he is having before he must transition into the “great beyond.” Throughout this entire play, us, the audience never get to see any characters alone. We never get to learn about the thoughts that the characters are truly having, and ofcourse I focused… Read more Adding a scene to Death And The King’s Horseman- Unessay
The Relationship Between Cultures
Differences between cultures continuously lead to prejudice and conflict. The two pieces of work the class focused on, Death and the King’s Horseman by Wole Soyinka and The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings by Olaudah Equiano, are full of comments on cultural differences and relationships. The different beliefs and behaviors can cause prejudice and can… Read more The Relationship Between Cultures
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For this project, I wanted to look at the commonalities from stories told in the past to the stories that we tell now. Specifically, stories regarding black people have been watered down to appeal to the white mind. For those who don’t know what the image is meant to represent, it is a silhouette of… Read more First Project