Collecting Notions
For a presentation last year, I researched Joseph Campbell’s “Hero’s...
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Category: ARTSCHOL 100 2020
Obscure War
We are very fortunate to be able to talk about war in theoretics. We are able to keep war at an...
Read MoreHistory A, History B
Recently, while I was listening to a series of lectures on Herodotus, the lecturer distinguished between what she called History definition A and History definition B*. She also briefly mentioned the confusion caused when people...
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Perception
As Halloween recently passed, my mind shifts to the commodification of culture. Nowadays you can...
Read MorePoliticians and the Media
Our discussions surrounding positionality have been great and allowed me to have a lot of self reflection. Following Tova O’Brien’s recent interview with Jami-Lee Ross and the large positive reception it’s had, my thoughts...
Read MoreConnections and research across different faculties
As someone who’s grown up (like many of you, I’m sure) with literature as my ‘found family,’ a way for me to connect with others while staying safely holed up in my room, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that this love of...
Read MoreEmpathy for Debate and Positionality
When we engage in debate, it is important to acknowledge that our emotional responses come from our experiences and our origins. This reveals the need for empathy in understanding our differences not as an objective truth which only one has discovered but as co-existent interpretations that deserve understanding and compromise if we are ever to diverge from the hostility that seems to be the focus of much modern political discourse.
Read MoreTranslation is Positional
Translation is a simple process, right? Take a word in one language, change it into the other language, repeat for the whole text. A tried and true method, except… obviously not, please don’t translate things like...
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The World of Fantasy
*content warning* mentions of sexual assault After Brooke and Hela mentioned Percy Jackson...
Read MoreLike a Peacock
It’s been a long year. The world has changed in so many ways in only a few months, yet things are still oddly the same. Time has blurred. Things that have happened only a week ago feel like old hat. Movements have...
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