Cemetery Gates
I’m finding dealing with the global pandemic fallout difficult. The idea that I’m living through a challenging historical event repeats in my brain like The Smiths song ‘Cemetery Gates’. These uncertain times have...
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An Anthro Nerd Talks War
I love Anthro106 (issues and history in popular music), so I thought it’d be awesome to bring my new knowledge into art schol. I wanted to explore the music created during wartime and how it was influenced in the aftermath. I...
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Animal Crossing: An Encapsulation of Peace and Conflict in the Coronavirus Lockdown
Animal Crossing is a social simulation video game released by Nintendo. In the game, the...
Read MoreWar and Peace and All That Jazz!
Briefly, citing written academic articles in a post so entrenched in audiovisual mediums didn’t seem ‘hip’ as the Jazz cats would say, so I’ve also referred to various documentary clips of musicians performing and speaking about...
Read MoreFree Will, Meritocratic Individualism, and Moral Panic During Times of Crisis
Isolation, despite its inconvenience, has given us all an abundance of time to be able to do anything we like – so long as ‘anything’ remains within the confines of our own homes and isolation circles. An entire month of...
Read MoreConflict, Disease and Community
As the article that Sara shared with us said, we should not turn coronavirus into an “imaginary war”. However, I do think the societal effects of disease and war bear some similarities. Siniša Malešević’s reading discussed how...
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Conflict and Denial
In the week 3 reading on Wiremu Tamihana and the Mana of Christianity, Head argued that “[h]ow...
Read MorePre-Qin China: On the Relationship Between Conflict, Thought, and Social Structure
I Introduction Malesevic’s reading explores different views on how conflict, social thought, as well as social structure can be connected and how they each impact one another. With this in mind, the lectures for Global History...
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Cats: Our Furry Comrades in Arms
Hey all you cool cats and kittens- lets talk about the forgotten fallen of World War I
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