— Abdulla Al Sudman I feel like this story, The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy, is very relatable especially due to our current circumstances. It speaks on how human beings naturally follow a specific path and for the longest time they believe that that’s the only path that should be taken. And this routine […]
Spring 2020
“Bewitched,” by Ueda Akinari, is an interesting piece of literature…
— Abdulla Al Sudman “Bewitched,” by Ueda Akinari, is an interesting piece of literature for me because it really touches upon something much deeper than a man’s attraction to beauty, instead on how beauty, and as an extension women, are perceived by people. This is a “Great Work” because it illustrates how people thought and […]
Song (case by case) — MetooMovement — in response to Fuenteovejuna…
— Afshara Choudhury MetooMovement: Oh Dear Ladies I just want to tell ya I am a woman of my word You gotta … You gotta Fight… Let me tell ya This Toxic man All they believe All they Think To Shrink.. To Shrink us. One more thing To the list of […]
Letter to a Friend…
— Afshara Choudhury Dear Best Friend, As you know I just transferred to Baruch and I am taking a course named English literature 2800. In the beginning when I registered for this class, I didn’t think I would like the reading material and the process of reading these gigantic plays or stories but after 4th […]
I genuinely love how thought provoking the story is…
— Anonymous I genuinely love how thought provoking the story is. It relates to two things that I often contemplate on, time and life. Ivan Ilyich were driven to become successful before he gets ill. He believes that living to the standard of upper class is to only proper way to live a life. Because […]