Koharu sits in her room looking around at all the things that are hers but seem like a stranger’s belongings. The sun has just begun to say that there is a pink and orange fade across the sky. She looks up at it longingly hoping for someone to take her away. There is suddenly a knock on… Read more The Ending – Redone
Category: Third Major Project, Fall 2020
Third Project- The Dew Breaker Stories Analyzation Game
Kaitlyn Mader Dr. Helms Currents in Global Literature 18 November 2020 Third Project- The Dew Breaker Stories Analyzation Game For my third project, I decided to do another interactive and more visual project for the assignment. I chose to focus my project on Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker stories. I found The Dew Breaker… Read more Third Project- The Dew Breaker Stories Analyzation Game
Sakuntala Lesson Plan
I decided to craft lesson plan for what I would do to teach The Recognition of Sakuntala to a class of college students. My lesson plan centers around the themes in Sakuntala, using the above worksheet as the foundation for a larger discussion questioning what Sakuntala is about. Contemplating the themes in Sakuntala forces students… Read more Sakuntala Lesson Plan
A Return to my Diary Writing Roots (AKA I Wrote my Own Pillow Book)
Things that Fascinate “It’s beautiful the way the water drops hang so thick and dripping on the garden plants after a night of rain in the ninth month, when the morning sun shines fresh and dazzling on them. Where the rain clings in the spider webs that hang in the open weave of a screening… Read more A Return to my Diary Writing Roots (AKA I Wrote my Own Pillow Book)
The Literary Analysis Podcast Episode 3: Chicamatsu and Puppet Theatre Around the World
Script Opening Music Luke: Hello everyone and welcome back to the Literary Analysis Podcast. I am your host, Luke Harding, and today we will be discussing Chikamatsu’s The Love Suicide at Amijima. Now, there are a number of themes that I could discuss, but today I thought I would change the pace of the podcast… Read more The Literary Analysis Podcast Episode 3: Chicamatsu and Puppet Theatre Around the World
Video: Women in Asian Society
As I was reading “The Recognition of Sakuntala” and “The Love Suicides at Amijima” I was fascinated by the way women were portrayed in these texts. Since these were the two works, we read from Asia, I decided to make the connection between the Asian history and the treatment and ideas surrounding women. Both of… Read more Video: Women in Asian Society
Love Suicide at Amijima, jeopardy version
Maddie Bentzlin — 3rd Major Project — 22 November 2020 For my third major project, I have decided to once again create a jeopardy board. I choose jeopardy for my first project but wanted to try it again to improve my style of jeopardy but with a different story. I also chose to connect jeopardy… Read more Love Suicide at Amijima, jeopardy version
Love Is Here To Interfere- Shakuntala Updated
Jack Shebell Global Literature Nicholas Helms November 22nd, 2020 Love Is Here To Interfere “Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul, and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more…”-… Read more Love Is Here To Interfere- Shakuntala Updated
The Scenery of a Love Suicide
I had a hard time deciding what I was going to do for this assignment, until I reread the dreadful scene and I realized how beautiful the scenery had been throughout the love story. I wanted to create a collage, a way to show how I pictured everything in my head. Though I had my… Read more The Scenery of a Love Suicide
Go Go Godzilla
There are a lotta things about Japanese pop culture I could have talked about in response to this part of the class. Anime, the war, which I know not exactly pop culture but god damn there are a lotta WW2 games, the music, idols, karaoke, theater, to keep it on track with the story, puppets… Read more Go Go Godzilla