Throughout the semester, I thoroughly enjoyed the many conversations, projects, posts, and ideas that I was able to engage with and partake in. For both of the major projects that I completed this semester, I chose to go with my strengths and write traditional research papers on some of the larger pieces that we covered… Read more Final Blog Post – My First Project
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“Similizing the Brain to a Garden” Reaction and Reflection
“Whereon the dew of sleepy eyes doth fall” Cavendish, 5 I have read a handful of reflections on this piece and, in conjunction with the class discussion, I felt inspired to write my own reflection on it. Lately, I have rediscovered my passion and care for education and education policy. I have been reading up… Read more “Similizing the Brain to a Garden” Reaction and Reflection
Reflection on Jones-Pierce’s Essay on Shakespeare and Beauty Standards
“Poetry and disability are linked” (Jones-Pierce, 5) In Bellee Jones-Pierce’s piece entitled Forming Beauty in Shake-speare’s Sonnets Jones-Pierce calls attention to typical depictions of beauty in Shakespearian pieces and other texts throughout European history. She highlights her experience as a teacher and how students tend to identify the typical structure of sonnets and she looks… Read more Reflection on Jones-Pierce’s Essay on Shakespeare and Beauty Standards
Milton and the Environment
“As whom the Fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr’d on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, whom the Den By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th’ Ocean stream:” Milton, 197-202 One of the things that stuck out the most about this… Read more Milton and the Environment
Project 2
Luke Harding Helms Rethinking Medieval Literature November 5, 2021 Using Things of Darkness to Analyze Themes of Race in Othello and American Moor Things of Darkness by Kim F. Hall introduces a number of racial analysis methods and themes that can be applied to a variety of works, particularly early British and Medieval literature such as… Read more Project 2
Brainstorming for Project 2
Overall I was happy with the results from my first project. I believe that my abilities to write essays, likely due to tons of practice, have developed significantly and I have a passion for academic and argumentative writing. Because of this, I do think I would like to do another traditional essay for project 2.… Read more Brainstorming for Project 2
Hamilton Cobb and Mandela
“My anger, Othello’s anger, the guard dog, forever snarling at his chain’s end, sooner to strangle himself than acquiesce to your energy, he does not see you. He sees all the hovering forces in this room, in that senate chamber, in the world that have made you you, as they are all the self-same forces… Read more Hamilton Cobb and Mandela
Communication vs Masculinity in Othello
“O perjured woman, thou dost stone my heart And mak’st me call what I intend to do A murder, which I thought a sacrifice!” (Act 5, Scene 2; Lines 78-80) Communication is a major plight when it comes to relationships. When couples don’t feel comfortable demonstrating their feelings and concerns toward each other, a relationship… Read more Communication vs Masculinity in Othello
Project 1: Ecological Criticism and Beowulf
Luke Harding Helms Rethinking Medieval Literature September 30, 2021 Beowulf and the Ecosystem Ecological criticisms range in their application and practice within literature. They include analyses in individual close readings of a text’s representation of human and environmental relationships as well as overall studies into the interpretation and expression of the natural world across texts… Read more Project 1: Ecological Criticism and Beowulf
Grendel’s Mother and Colonialism
“She who’d ruled these floodlands proudly for a hundred seasons, ferocious, tenacious, rapacious, yes, she felt his presence in her realm, and knew a man from above was invading the below.” (Headley, 1497-1500) Although Beowulf was written long before the imperialism of Great Britain permanently transformed the international landscape of the world, I can’t help… Read more Grendel’s Mother and Colonialism