This week our only reading consisted of a story called “The Golden Days. Vol. 1 of The Story of the Stone.” Honestly, it’s a bit hard to recap twenty pages of a story so I’m just going to say what stood out to me. In chapter one there’s a magical rock left behind by the […]
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This week was interesting for me. Though I’m entirely aware that writing a cover letter is an important step in finding a job, a part of me doesn’t want to write one because I’m scared of what it might mean. The future is unknown and the vagueness of it scares me. I like knowing what […]
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This week we started out reading a chapter from the textbook titled “Dragons.” It talked about how there were three theories of their origin: dinosaurs, snakes, and crocodiles. But it’s important to realize that a dragon can look like anything you want it to look like. The Chinese used dragons as a way to explain […]
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When I was in elementary school I read a book called “The Time-Traveling Fashionista On Board the Titanic (The Time-Traveling Fashionista” and though I didn’t know it at the time, that book was the start of my Titanic interest. Around that same time, I walked into my future middle school library, and right there, front […]
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I remember at the beginning of the year I felt very overwhelmed by what was going on around me. This was in part due to my classes, there was no true transition in my opinion. You walked into class and day one was syllabus day but that didn’t mean it was a calm day. I […]
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Though in the end, Titanic did crash into an iceberg and sink, it was the luxuriousness and miscommunication issues that led to its downfall. People chose to believe that Titanic was unsinkable causing misinformation to circulate before and after the ship sunk. Built from 1909 to 1911 and launching in 1912 Titanic was the most […]
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This week, all of our readings had to do with foxes and their significance in Chinese traditions. Of the two textbook chapters we read, the first one, Fox Spirits, first details how foxes are a very complex creature, being called both mischievous and honorable. They also serve as a spotlight on women in China, since […]
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Something I found intriguing in my first letter, Your First Line, was that it encouraged you to embrace complexity. Colum McCann likens writing your first line to, “being told to walk a tightrope. Go ahead, then, walk the tightrope! Relax yourself into the tension of the wire.” Often in writing it’s very easy to lose […]
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This week we read two textbook chapters, a PDF document, and a scroll painting. The first chapter, “Mount Kunlun, the Jade Mountain, and the Queen Mother of the West” talks about the symbolism behind each mountain and what it represents in Chinese culture. The Queen Mother of the West lived on Jade Mountain which incited […]
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This week, one of the letters I read was Grace Bedell to Abraham Lincoln and I honestly loved it so much. What struck me was how she doesn’t fully realize the depths of what it means to not have the ability to vote, she considers herself to have so much power. A belief she’s able […]
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