Classics, classics, everywhere
Classical mythology has been consistently inspiring art and entertainment over the years for a...
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Category: ARTSCHOL 100 2020
The Evolution of Fairy Tales
For centuries, the whimsy of fairy tales has been ingrained into childhoods. They are...
Read MoreA Marxist Defence of Modern Conservatism
In too many ways, the Conservative label has been polarised to suit the unfolding narrative of political unrest in the Trump era. A combination of Politics 106 lectures and a video article by the former Canadian Prime Minister...
Read MoreFinding Middle Ground
Reading the article on the Smithsonian’s Enola Gay exhibition and visiting the Auckland War Memorial Museum, there was a clear theme. Both acknowledged the tension between commemoration and scholarship in relation to conflict....
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A tale of two histories
Set in the four walls of the museum lies the material evidence of worlds long gone. It is a temple...
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Come back ‘with your shield or on it’: A case for Spartan Women
Women in ancient Greece were purely domestic beings. Cloistered and confined to the Oikos (home), each woman was trapped in her Odyssean hellscape …
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Violent Video Games? Conflict (or lack thereof) in the Grand Strategy genre.
The Australian outback: unexplored, uninhabited, dangerous. You’re an explorer setting out for the first time across the new frontier.
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Hot men dying for their epic countries
When we walked into the World War I memorial in the museum my feeling was one of disconnect and...
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Conflicts in the Media
I always wondered how conflicts were shown in the media overseas. This is because I used to watch the news and think about why we only got to see a certain perspective of the conflict. It usually is seen to make your own country...
Read MorePoets of Resistance
I know we began this course by saying we wouldn’t bring up war poets, and though I’d love to spare everyone the Dulce et decorum est, I feel like in order to understand the human aspect of conflict, we need to look to poetry....
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