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Similizing Milton’s Satan to Politicians: After Margaret Cavendish

Creatures, Cosmology, and Cavendish: The Importance of Science and Philosophy in “The Blazing-World”

Those within Margaret Cavendish’s social circle described her as “eccentric.” Women of her time most likely regarded the duchess’s boisterous and flirtatious personality as unbecoming of a woman with her age and status. She wrote about science and philosophy of the mid 1600s, which were strictly for male intellectuals at the time, and led herContinue reading “Creatures, Cosmology, and Cavendish: The Importance of Science and Philosophy in “The Blazing-World””

Project 2

REFLECTION For this second project, originally I wanted to do another story about the topic. Instead of Slavery, I wanted to foucs on the mythology of Indian culture. With this in mind, at first I wanted to focus on the Cryptids of India. Crytids, as explained in the video essay, are creatures and animals thatContinue reading “Project 2”

A love song for a puppet suicide

So, I love music. I can play a few instruments and a few different genres and I wrote an admittedly pretty bad song for my last project. However this time I’ve chosen to compose a song related to the love suicide theme of bunraku theatre and Chikamatsu’s Love Suicides’ at Amijima. The song I composedContinue reading “A love song for a puppet suicide”

Project 1 – Yeah I Know

This is a journal entry of Olaudah Equiano. Found many years after his death Hidden in his birth town of Eboe. Although the date is unclear, we can assume given his autobiography that it was written sometime before he was captured for slavery. Dear Journal, My father says that I should start writing in in a journal becauseContinue reading “Project 1 – Yeah I Know”

Third Project

https://create.kahoot.it/share/paradise-lost/6012eadf-49df-4924-8395-70d644fec507 For our Third Project, I decided to do a Kahoot like I did for the last project we had. This time around, I decided to do the Kahoot on another text we focused on in class this semester, Paradise Lost, by John Milton. Just like the last one, there are 20 questions, which areContinue reading “Third Project”

Tasting Knowledge

Written by Lucian Paradise – HELLoFRESH Chef and Foodie So you’ve recently come across some wonderful fruits in Eden, a serpent has approached you, and is making some excellent points as to why you may wish to eat them. After all, what could it hurt to have just a little bit of knowledge? I mean,Continue reading “Tasting Knowledge”

SockCrossed

Characters: Calcetine – the coolest sock, he is very well-liked, possible himbo Chausette – an artist and a romantic, falling out of love with Calcetine Hanes – disillusioned sock, standard hopeless romantic, falling out of love with Fruta Fruta – career driven sock, doesn’t like Hanes’ over-the-top romance Narrator – unclear whether they are aContinue reading “SockCrossed”

Entanglement in Kalidasa

Between Kalidasa and Chikamatsu, I enjoyed Kalidasa much more. For this reason, I have chosen to focus on it for my third project. Although there are many themes present in the play, I wanted to target the role of nature in the play, and touch on the idea of fate. For this project, I alsoContinue reading “Entanglement in Kalidasa”

There is no I in Team

This collection of photographs were taken by myself. They are self-portraits that I took via BlueTooth remote control of my camera. I had a lot of fun with this project and as the pictures were taken they formed a story. I set out to depict good vs bad or heavenly vs evil but it quicklyContinue reading “There is no I in Team”