personal response to James Weldon Johnson’s “Art vs. Trade” Is there no power to rescue her, protect, defend her? There has always been power, Found in the hands of the people who roam the earth:[…]
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Turkish Poetry Seminar (Shyla & Ibukun)
Turkish Red: Vivid Imaginings of Forgotten Glory AP Rhetorical Analysis of “Turkish Red”, by Lale Muldur (Poetry Seminar 2018) Shyla Bharadia (Introduction and paragraph 1) and Ibukun Ojo (Paragraph 2 and Conclusion) “Analyze how the[…]
Mother and Father/Fire and Ice
Consider how the significance of memory of the past has been reflected and developed in a literary text. Discuss the idea(s) developed by the author about the significance of our memory of the past. Here[…]
A Selfless Kind of Love- China Cultural Seminar
Presentation Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yYYV9rVTuFGtrYx6YOMZ2Plt-6KmzOzObwp0bxweOrs/edit#slide=id.p Prompt: Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the conflict between pursuing a personal desire and choosing to conform. Below is my Cold(ish) response to the[…]
When Fame Falters
The following text is Ísland, an 1835 poem written by the Icelandic poet Jónas Hallgrímsson in an effort to rouse the hearts of his compatriots in the centuries-long struggle preceding Icelandic independence. Just beneath the[…]
Que Deseo Poder Explicar: Spanish Civil War Seminar
Spanish Civil War: Cultural, Rhetoric, and Poetry Seminar The poem below is a personal response emulation to the Poem “I Explain A Few Things” by Pablo Neruda who happened to be our poet of choice[…]
Personal Response to Cultural Seminar (Mexico)
Maybe dreaming is the ultimate form of escapism. Because, lately, nightmares have been dropping on us like bombs. But these are not the type of nightmares whose animation relies on our unconscious slumbers. These are[…]