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Researchers that serve

by | May 11, 2020 | ARTSCHOL 200 2020 | 0 Comments

In reflecting on this seminar, I was drawn to the ideas of Dr Tiatia-Seath as researchers being leaders who serve. This idea was illustrated by a Samoan proverb she shared with us ‘to be a leader one must serve.’ Although the idea of leadership through service is not...
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What’s the Tea?

by | April 6, 2020 | ARTSCHOL 100 2020 | 3 Comments

Since being stuck at home, I’ve been drinking an excessive amount of tea. Somewhere around my hundredth cup of the day, I started thinking about how strange it was that such a warm, friendly drink could be the center of so many global conflicts. Tea-related violence...
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Is Old Enough Getting Old? Do Age Limits Promote Equality or Discrimination?

by | May 24, 2020 | ARTSCHOL 200 2020 | 0 Comments

Jenifer Frost discussed how youth activism to lower the voting age emphasised education and maturity as well as disparities in their responsibilities, hence the phrase "Old enough to fight old enough to vote". This got me wondering about which age barriers could be...
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Don’t Get Too Attached Honey

by | May 9, 2020 | ARTSCHOL 200 2020 | 0 Comments

Although I failed to attend the discussion session with Tracey McIntosh, Jemaima Tiatia-Seath, Nicole Perry and Carisa Showden, I managed to get some ideas off the lecture notes.  Carisa mentioned how much emotions we should invest in the process of research, and she...
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Hi, I’ve just got a “few” questions

by | May 21, 2020 | ARTSCHOL 200 2020 | 0 Comments

Historian Jennifer Frost is publishing a book titled, “Let Us Vote,” dedicated towards the significant events that led up to the 26th amendment in 1971, which granted youth voting rights in America. Admittedly, I’m unfamiliar with American politics. Although I am more...
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“Hey Siri – Define Beauty”

by | May 24, 2020 | ARTSCHOL 200 2020 | 0 Comments

Has the definition of beauty changed due to new technologies and resources? During early modern Europe, “Recipe books” were used as a step by step guide to reach beauty ideals. Dr Erin Griffey sourced over 400 recipes that focused on complexion alone. The extensive...
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What would draft resistance look like today?

by | October 30, 2020 | ARTSCHOL 100 2020 | 1 Comment

        There’s an obvious reason why people evaded the draft in the Vietnam War- the belief that the war was pointless and thus pointless to participate in, pointless to risk one’s life in. However, this is not what I want to talk about. Society’s view on draft...
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The Hypocrisy of Social Justice in the French Revolution

by | May 31, 2020 | ARTSCHOL 100 2020 | 1 Comment

To what extent does popular rule achieve social justice? Modernist scholars romanticize the French Revolution, where the common people rose and overthrew a corrupt establishment. A social pinnacle, where the foundations of feudalism and old order were torn up to...
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Challenging the “Facts”

by | May 11, 2020 | ARTSCHOL 200 2020 | 0 Comments

On Friday evening while watching One News, my attention was drawn to a graph reporting an increase in the New Zealanders receiving a job seeker benefit due to the COVID 19 pandemic. To an unsuspecting eye, there seemed to be a major increase as the once flat line shot...
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‘The chaste and the unchaste’ – Virginia Woolf’s and Katherine Mansfield’s heated relationship

by | October 26, 2020 | ARTSCHOL 100 2020 | 2 Comments

Friendships are complicated, full of conflict, love and, hopefully, lots of fun. They encouraged the sexual escapades of Percy Shelley and Lord Byron and the riotous drinking excursions of Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tragically the relationships between literary women have been side-lined …

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Food Fun From the Archives!

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On 14 March 1896 William Hatton, a manufacturing confectioner from Dunedin, registered an application to patent 'hokey pokey'. He submitted his application under the Patents, Designs, and Trademarks Act 1889, along with a detailed recipe for producing...

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Be Our Guest!

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Welcome Arts Scholars of 2019! I am so excited I couldn't resist a Disney reference, even though I do not believe the "grey stuff" would be delicious no matter how charming the candlestick. Food is at the heart of so many aspects of life from biology to the...

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