After reading Sor Juana’s Selected Works, I think what surprised me most was how modern some of her arguments felt, considering she was writing in the seventeenth century. I was expecting the poetry to be quite difficult to relate to, especially after some of the older texts we’ve read in this course. Instead, I found […]
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Girls! My petition for the playlist for this book is the song “Who run the World?” by Beyonce. I would like to say that I agree completely and wholeheartedly with this book and the arguments made within. As someone who studied for the LSAT however, if we were to look for flaws within, the argumentation […]
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King Basilio, this guy frustrated me the most, not because he was particularly evil, but because almost every decision he made seemed to create the exact problem he was trying to avoid. The whole play revolves around fate and free will, but I couldn’t stop thinking about how much of the situation was actually Basilio’s […]
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This was a great read! It was very funny and engaging. As someone who did theatre growing up, it felt great to imagine how it would also be acted out in the theatre. I really want to go watch this play now, and hope it will be playing sometime soon! I would say however, that […]
I guess, I’ll start by admitting that I didn’t manage to finish the entire reading this week. I was a little short on time, but I read as much of Columbus’s journal as I could, and even from what I did read, there were a few things that really stood out to me. Going into […]
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Hi everyone! My name is Muhtadi, and I’m a fifth year studying an interdisciplinary combination of Computer Science, Economics, and Commerce at UBC. As you can probably tell from that combination, literature isn’t exactly the most obvious place you would expect to find me, yet somehow I am back for another RMST course. I took […]
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Conclusion post for RMST 202
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Ok now listen.. I may have or may have not forget to make this post on time, I APOLIGIZE I WAS SURFING in tofino… which by the way was my first time surfing it was very intense, I almost got swallowed by a wave but very very fun. ANYWAYS, I will get back on focus…ALAS […]
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Time really flies, I can’t belive this is almost the end of the term, the end of the journey of RMST 202. This course was truly one of the most unique classes I’ve ever taken during my college years. Everything about it—from the teaching style to the content—felt fresh. (Well, at least before taking this […]
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I was pretty hesitant about this course at first, but I’ve ended up absolutely loving it! I have to admit, I only took this class to fulfill my literature requirement so I could graduate but I’m really glad I did, and I’ll definitely recommend the course to anyone who asks. It has been so great […]
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