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Oliver Callahan Professor Helms Global Literature 10/1/21 Modern Apocalypses – Project 1 Transcript Before the apocalypse, there was the apocalypse of silence. Silence from those who are not persecuted. Not oppressed based on factors they cannot control or circumstances they were born into. Silence rooted in complacency and content. Before the apocalypse, there was aContinue reading “Ode to Choi”

Elisabeth Thompson Professor Helms Global Literature 29 September 2021             Death and its various connotations has been a topic of much discussion throughout the texts we have thus far covered in class. Death and the King’s Horseman, a play written by Wole Soyinka, is an especially important example of this topic, though its coverage spannedContinue reading “Death and its Connotations”

I knew I wanted to do something creative for our first project, mainly in writing since that’s what I felt most comfortable with. But because all of our readings and topics revolved around distinct cultures I had no real knowledge or experience with, I felt uncomfortable trying to emulate them. So it took me aContinue reading “Cooperative Collie – A Children’s Story”

As the story of Death and the King’s Horsemen is told a man must commit ritual suicide and the play goes through how people try to stop it and inevitably fail but it never talks about what was going on in the minds of the men completing the ritual, which is what I am goingContinue reading “First Project”