Magdalena How's Student Blog ENGL 372 99C

Assignment 1:5 | The Witches’ Conference, Re-told

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Spoken: **************************************************************************************************** Written: I have a great story to tell you. It begins, as you might expect, like this: Once upon a time… …In a land far away, there lived a group of people who knew nothing of evil. Every night, this community would gather around the fire and listen to the Storyteller. Some nights the Storyteller told new stories; other nights the stories were familiar. But the best stories were told when the Storyteller would answer a question. For if anyone in the community had a question they couldn’t…read more

The World of Words | Assignment 1:3, Q3

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In “If This is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories: Finding Common Ground”, Edward Chamberlin unravels the myriad and complex roles stories play in our lives, describing how stories “bring us close to the world we live in by taking us into a world of words” (Chamberlin, Introduction). What exactly is this “world of words”, and how does it accomplish this marvellous feat? The Story of Schrödinger’s Cat Before we can unravel the complexities of the world of words, we must first understand the paradoxical nature of words. Chamberlin introduces…read more

Assignment 1:1, An Introduction

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Hello, everyone! My name is Magdalena How, and I’d like wish you all a warm welcome to my blog for ENGL 372 99C! Before I continue with my introduction, I would like to acknowledge that I am writing this post from my apartment located on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish Peoples, including the territories of the səl̓ilwətaɁɬ təməxʷ (Tsleil-Waututh), Skwxwú7mesh-ulh Temíx̱w (Squamish), S’ólh Téméxw (Stó:lō), and xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam) Nations. If you’d like to find out more about the history of the land on which you…read more

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