In general, ASTU 100 has taught me various writing tools, how to read scholarly articles and fostered new perspectives. The topics that have stood out to me the most throughout the year were the ideas of reading ethically and the importance of marginalized people representing themselves. However, I found that the issue that changed my […]
In Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill he speaks in large about his family and their experiences of being a Chinese-Canadian family in the early to mid-1900s. Some main focuses are in stories shared about his grandfather like his fondness of gambling and his own father like settling into life in Canada (58, 19). Fred Wah (jr.) […]
The Humans of New York project started by photographer Brandon Stanton has ballooned into somewhat of a phenomenon acquiring about 18 million Facebook likes and produced two books (Stanton “About”), not to mention it has inspired similar projects even here at UBC and Vancouver (links here: https://www.facebook.com/humansofUBC/ and https://www.facebook.com/humansof604/). He even takes his project […]
Life narratives can be represented in many different ways and contain various aspects that reflect the genre or key point the author is attempting to convey. In Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis and Malala Yousafzai’s I am Malala they both share some similar features within their storytelling that helps the reader fully understand their situations and […]
Night in White Satin- Moody Blues Go Your Own Way- Fleetwood Mac American Pie- Don Mclean Summer of 69- Bryan Adams Bailando (feat. Descemer Bueno & Gente de Zona)- Enrique Iglesias Hotel California (Spanish Remix)- Gipsy Kings No Vivere- Gipsy Kings Doubt, Message Man, Stressed Out- Twenty One Pilots Below my Feet, Ghosts That We […]
In Dany Laferriere’s The World Is Moving Around Me he discusses his thoughts regarding Haiti’s reputation and how it is portrayed to the rest of the world. Based upon some of the sections we talked about in class on Thursday, I compared it to a Ted Talk that I had to watch for a Sociology […]
In an interview Shawn Conner from The Vancouver Sun had with Jason DaSilva, a filmmaker and victim of multiple sclerosis, he discusses how people react differently to him because of his disability. In India people stare and question him, whereas in North America he claims there is “an invisibility factor” (DaSilva). He explains that […]
The jacket design for Malala Yousafzai’s I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up For Education And Was Shot By The Taliban, is very powerful in it’s use of imagery. On the areas first visible to a potential reader, it includes two photos (front and back cover) with simple writing stating the title and authors. […]
The Readings from Rigoberta Menchu’s I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Women in Guatemala takes place during a particularly horrifying and bloody period: Guatemala’s thirty-six year civil war. The civil war officially started in 1966, but disruption began when Colonol Castillo gained power with help from the CIA, overthrowing the president who was elected by the […]
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