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<\/p>\nHello! Welcome to my blog dedicated to English 470a.<\/p>\n
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My name is Amelia and I am currently a fourth year student studying Computer Science at UBC. In taking this course I am admittedly delving into unfamiliar territory: not only has it been a while since I’ve taken a literature course, I also have a lot to learn about Canada’s history and colonization. However, I hope to challenge myself and further improve my knowledge on these topics as I am keen to learn more about the country that I have spent most of my life in, through the voices of talented authors.<\/p>\n
Despite being Canadian, I have oftentimes found myself slightly confused as to what being Canadian<\/a> truly means. One of the things that I have long associated Canadians with is the vibrant multiculturalism<\/a> and welcoming culture reflected in movies and the general worldwide reputation for Canadians being “nice.” Although I strongly believe that the two points listed above are not devoid of\u00a0truth, I am sure that Canada has much more to offer than that.<\/p>\n As Professor Paterson briefly stated about Engl 470a, this course aims to provide us with a scholarly study of Canadian literature and history, with a focus on the intersections and departures between European and Indigenous traditions of literature and orator. In short, through this course, I will have the opportunity to examine what being in Canada and being Canadian means to many different people, and thus through this I hope to finally determine exactly what it truly means to me.<\/p>\n Works Cited:<\/p>\n “First Major Poll of 2016 Puts Canada As #2 Country in the World to Live.”Notableca<\/i>. N.p., 20 Jan. 2016. Web. 13 May 2016.<\/p>\n “Canadian Multiculturalism: An Inclusive Citizenship.” Government of Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Communications Branch<\/i>. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n “What Canada Means to Me.” Government of Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Communications Branch<\/i>. N.p., n.d. Web. 13 May 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hello! Welcome to my blog dedicated to English 470a. My name is Amelia and I am currently a fourth year student studying Computer Science at UBC. In taking this course I am admittedly delving into unfamiliar territory: not only has it been a while since I’ve taken a literature course, I also have a lot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38843,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unit-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl470ayap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl470ayap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl470ayap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl470ayap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38843"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl470ayap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl470ayap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl470ayap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl470ayap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl470ayap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/engl470ayap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}