Group D Check In
Our Group will be conducting our event on Wednesday, May 11th at 8:30 pm in the Library of the Baruch Residence Hall.
Group D Audience Questions Check-in
Who is your audience? Our audience are freshmen college students at a college’s Residence Hall. Why did you pick this audience? College freshmen are exiting liminal adolescence to the point where they are able to recognize that people have value…
Group D: Teaching Check-in Questions
Group D: Meghan Scala, Brittany Reid, Aalfee Rahman What does you want to teach? We want to communicate the way that many initial judgement that people pass on each other based on appearance and how these judgement are socially constructed and do not necessarily reflect the…
CR Post #3 – A Lesson Before Dying
As I read the novel, A Lesson Before Dying, by Ernest Gaines, there were many recurring details such as the hog, the chair and religion. Alongside those three, there was another object, the Pecan tree. At first, it simply felt that…
Critical Reading Post #3: Women In A Lesson Before Dying
Martyrdom in A Lesson Before Dying is an massive theme, apparent in the Christ mythos that pervades the novel and the comparison that Gaines draws between the Savior and Jefferson. Less overt, however, is the running compliment of the Virgin…
Critical Reading Post #3 A Lesson Before Dying
In the novel A Lesson Before Dying there is the recurring idea of heroes and what it means to be a hero. The first time this is really seen is in the Rainbow Room after Grant has returned from seeing…
CR#2- FRANKENSTEIN
What I found very intriguing in reading Frankenstein is the fact that Justine, who was convicted of murdering William, was convicted of this crime. There was only circumstantial evidence found on her. This gets brought up when Victor is talking…
The Fallen Angel
“Oh Frankenstein, be no equitable to every other and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due. Remember that I am thy creature; I ought to be thy Adam, but I…
CR #2 – Frankenstein
Before I begin, I would like to say that I am using an online website in order to read Frankenstein. The problem is that there are no pages, and just chapters. So, if I cite anything I’ll be using chapters. I…
Drug Allusions in the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown Narratives
Drugs have played an overwhelming role in villainizing minorities, despite the fact the fact usage of illegal substance is, statistically, evenly distributed between all ethnicities. In both entertainment and news media, the image of even the most casual Hispanic or…