The goal of this project is to highlight the importance of birds, in both literature and in life, now and during medieval times. I chose this topic because I have always been interested in birds. Birds are always noticeable, visibly and/or sonically, but this ubiquity actually tends to make them less noticeable, or easily dismissable.… Read more Literature is for the birds! (remastered)
Category: Archived Projects
Thomas More’s “Utopia” (Final Project: paper)
Jordan Smith
Project 2
You will never believe the week I have had. Everyone has gone mad! I’ve never seen anything like it in my three short years of life. It’s like we have finally been handed the key to our existence and nobody was prepared for it. I’ve been a lone fish since a few days after I… Read more Project 2
Wishful Thinking and Parallel Universes
Parallel universes are not an uncommon idea, both in the past and in more modern examples of literature and film. These stories tell of worlds that are more fair, just, and interesting than our own. Worlds where animals can speak and have levels of intelligence similar to or equal to those of humans. In stories… Read more Wishful Thinking and Parallel Universes
Medieval Feminism; the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Project 2)
For my first half paper I wrote for this class, I wrote all about toxic masculinity in medieval literature. The summary was problems with men and “manly” thinking basically. An issue with my paper, just like medieval literature as a whole, I completely ignored women. I figured the only just way to rectify this situation… Read more Medieval Feminism; the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Project 2)
Final Essay: Rethinking “Othello”
In the contemporary era of having constant access to an ever-evolving canon of literary works, there is skepticism over what to spend time reading or watching, and often, for good reason. In the case of Shakespeare, much of his work is blatantly discriminatory and relies heavily on stereotypes and bias to develop characters or forward… Read more Final Essay: Rethinking “Othello”
Second Project-The Blazing World Pitch
A show pitch/summary adapted from Margaret Cavendish’s “The Blazing World” (1666) to Netflix producers I am presenting to you a T.V. show called “The Blazing World”, adapted from Margaret Cavendish’s 1666 science fiction novel “The Blazing World”. The show will feature Anne Hathaway as the empress. The show will begin with Hathaway being abducted by… Read more Second Project-The Blazing World Pitch
Oil spills and Pollution Vs The Fish Army (Project 2)
Once Finishing the story “The Blazing World” we then discussed how different aspects of symbolism and real-world problems that we as a class could connect this story, to our world today. There is a certain type of symbolic meaning within this story, the Empress being a person in charge of beings that are humanlike/animal entities.… Read more Oil spills and Pollution Vs The Fish Army (Project 2)
The Monomyth and Tragedies (Project 2)
The Hero’s Journey: we’ve all heard of it. For a long time, stories have been basing their plots around this outline, whether intentionally or not. This pattern was discovered by Joseph Campbell, a mythologist in the 1930s. Throughout the stories he read, he noticed that there were certain themes and events that reoccurred. In 1949,… Read more The Monomyth and Tragedies (Project 2)
literature is for the birds!
The goal of this project is to highlight the importance of birds, in both literature and in life, now and during medieval times. I chose this topic because I have always been interested in birds. Birds are always noticeable, visibly and/or sonically, but this ubiquity actually tends to make them less noticeable, or easily dismissable.… Read more literature is for the birds!