This week we only read two things, a textbook chapter and a Tang Dynasty story. The chapter titled “Explaining the Extraordinary and the Creation of Fiction” talked about stories and fiction. Giving the many reasons why people would compile and record stories but I found the Buddhists reason for doing it very interesting. Essentially Buddhists […]
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February 15, 3020 Center City, Arcus To Myself, Sometimes, I can barely tell one day from the next. It’s like there’s a fog in my mind that just won’t lift and I don’t know why. Mom and Dad don’t know about this, imagine if they did? Their head son who’s supposed to one day take […]
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? Is just a circle of causes and effects. It all starts with Lee’s anger and frustration which can stem from her dissatisfaction with her career. She had a book on the New York Times bestseller list and yet no one knows who she is; her books are barely selling and […]
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This week we read/listened to a variety of sources that all talked about Buddhism or Buddhist hell. Chapter 17, titled, “Buddhist Hell: Overview and Structure” talked a lot about the ten kings and how karma was now playing into people’s beliefs about the afterlife. Now your actions while you were living decided the type of […]
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Surprisingly, throughout The Gift, Lily May Bell (who was renamed Mabel) was discussed in every single letter despite not actually writing any of her own letters. The only information the reader of her is from the letters of her adopted and biological parents and the afterword. She has such a strong presence in the work […]
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This week I read an article called Beyond The Terra-cotta Warriors and generally it was a main overview of what the terracotta warriors were but didn’t go into much detail. When looking further into the author of the article I found out that the author was a student at Vassar college, completing this article as […]
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During times of great turmoil, there’s an increased fervor to protect your loved ones which results in various forms of censorship. This leads to a forced attitude that portrays a false sense of security to the public. This concept, along with the forms of censorship, is shown to be universal even between warring countries like […]
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Something that I found particularly interesting was not only soldiers but recipients’ habit of burning or discarding letters sent to each other. It was done by Martha Washington with her letters from George under the idea that she wanted her relationship with him to remain private. It was also done by soldiers abroad because they […]
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This class is nothing like I expected it to be but I’ve really enjoyed how it’s turned out so far. At the beginning of the course I wasn’t as open as I could have been concerning the readings. I was looking at the information we were learning not only in a modern context but my […]
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This week all of our readings were centralized around the terracotta warriors, the discovery of and history behind them. Nearly all the readings were textbook chapters each specializing in a different topic like being a simple introduction, the absence of women in the tomb, the past and present, and the people who built the tomb. […]
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