AADS/ENGL 3328.01
As promised, please find the link to our final project below. If you choose to participate in this asynchronous activity, please let Hannah, Jason, and myself know! And make sure to fill out the feedback form at the end. Please also circulate to any and all of your social circles at BC, so we can…
I’d like to build on my last post by looking at the same area of Incidents and sticking with the idea of family, but this time analyzing a different textual object. I found this section of the text to be incredibly rich for analysis. After talking about Benjamin, Linda then goes on to talk about…
In Chapter I, “Childhood,” the author is giving a description of her “early formative years,” and through this, provides a lot of information regarding her family’s experience with slavery (Jacobs, p. 7). Linda first introduces her grandmother’s youngest son, Benjamin, stating that, “There become so little distinction in our ages that he seemed extra like…
For my creative post, I chose to curate a playlist that represents some of the themes and conversations that resonated with me the most from our time in class together. I created this playlist by going through my own music library and looking for songs that fell under three main categories that I feel like…
In Chapter I, Childhood, the author begins to introduce her family dynamic. She speaks of her grandmother’s youngest son, Benjamin, describing him, and his experience being sold, as such: “He become a brilliant, good-looking lad, almost white: for he inherited the complexion my grandmother had derived from Anglo-Saxon ancestors. Though handiest then years vintage, seven…
While the exact date of this painting is unknown, Vermeyen lived from the year 1500 to the year 1559. Therefore can deduce that the creation of his painting, “The Holy Trinity,” fell somewhere in this range. This painting depicts God welcoming Jesus back to heaven after his crucifixion, surrounded by a bright light that is…
When the extremely rich Rose family loses all of their wealth and possessions due to the actions of a fraudulent business manager, they are left with one possession that the government deemed worthless: the remote town of Schitt’s Creek, which the Rose’s had purchased in the past as a joke due to its comical name.…
Throughout the novel, Stowe presents varying accounts of slaves – some had “kind” masters, some had their children stolen from them, some had their families separated, and some incurred physical abuse – but no experience is more profound than that of Prue’s. Towards the end of chapter XVIII, Prue is introduced as a gruff, scowling,…