scott does scotland: travel adventures

Gender in relation to ‘public’ and ‘private’

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Today’s class sparked some interesting thoughts for me, some of which were not coherent enough to voice in class (or which developed further after leaving the room, as good thoughts inevitably do). In no particular order, some more stuff: Karol’s presentation was titled “Kaleidoscopic frames”. The visual of a kaleidoscope is a powerful one, reminiscent almost of puzzle pieces; each shows a fraction of the whole image, but none independently complete the picture. Are we like this too? Each of us leads a private life (relatively) unknown by others, but we…read more

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opening the coffin …

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I was completely sure that after I finished Arts One, I would never use this blog again. Not so. Here I am, pursuing my dream degree (which is kicking my butt, by the way), and taking a class where blog posts are worth 20(!)% of my final grade: ENGL 491, a seminar on Media Studies. This post will follow my Arts One posts closely in terms of format – I find it easiest to break down dense texts into ideas I can actually understand, using quotes from the authors so I don’t have…read more

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