Category: Questions and Reflections

Before I begin with my brief analysis of this text, I want to first explain why I chose writing about it. I chose this article over our main reading due to the fact that I’m super behind on my blog posts and everyone’s already discussed the love suicides’. I am happy however that I decided… Read more Well, That Was Weird (Breasts and Eggs)

I can relate to what the author was saying during this article, due to my dad being very similar to the authors dad. Even though I cant relate to the Vietnamese part, my father felt early on in my life, somewhere in the 10-14 mark, I needed to start watching the movies that are considered… Read more USA! USA! USA! We Know Best! (Ken Burns)

This beginning of the story makes me cringe a little bit while reading. When the king first comes upon the heritage, he hides himself in the shadows so he can watch the girls go water the trees., describing it as a “charming sight”. As he eyes Shakuntala, things start to get semi creepy. He goes… Read more Its Okay, I’m The King I Do What I Want (Shakuntala Prologue- Act 3)

An over arching them present in any culture is a sense of honor and tradition. When one culture invades another, these acts of tradition might seem weird to the other and they might feel a civic duty to stop it. That is what happens in Death and The Kings Horseman. We are introduced to a… Read more Honor, Death, and Tradition (Death and the Kings, Act 3-4)

Throughout this class, I was constantly thinking to myself, ‘what are we going to read next? What sort of experiences are we going to hear about now?’ A lot of this came from the fact that this was a global class; I’ve taken 3 classes on works from a specific country, so this was a… Read more Class reflection

While reading through these poems, I found it interesting how a decent amount of them seemed to deal with changing identity, or the possibility of a changed identity. Names is the poem that seems to deal with this the most; the number of names and different birthdays reflects an almost different person. Or, at least,… Read more Teresa Mei Chuc poems reflection (post catch-up)

I really enjoyed this course. I loved the reading material throughout the year. I think we all did a really great job considering the circumstances. I really enjoyed the student interaction and the feedback that I received on each and every assignment that had comments under it. The in-class discussions were enthralling, all while keeping… Read more Class Reflection

Hey everyone, I wanted to finally ask what you folks thought about the course. What do you think of the pieces that we read? What was your favorite piece to read. My favorite piece was Dew Breaker. I love to read a good story that has a looming secret throughout it. Do you think this… Read more Class Questions

From what I took away from this play is the idea of the hero’s journey. I believe that this is a perfect example of what we as the readers should expect from the hero’s journey when reading a story. I wanted to ask what others thought about it. Is there ways that this format can… Read more Shakuntala Question