In today’s BBC article about the new South African film about Nelson Mandela, Milon Nkosi highlights the disparities of race even in today’s society. The film, which is a life narrative of Mendela’s life, struck well with most who left the theatre after it finished, which is the method with which Nkosi collected his qualitative data. […]
Evan Aluyen’s post about Malala Yousafzai was particularly striking, for it’s evaluative comments on censorship. His main arguments involved the positive elements of censorship, in that officials reserve the right to censor the media produced in the country due to cultural sensitivity. He also made the point though that banning the book is a violation […]
Facebook is an intriguing source for an autobiographical site due to it’s relative newness and the structure it has which makes it so successful. The site has unique features which make it continually popular, and with frequent updates it is constantly adapting to the public’s improvements to the site. While the company gets larger and […]
The novel ‘What is the What’, written by Dave Eggers, concerns the migration of children across South Sudan and into Ethiopia and Kenya. In it, Eggers provides the detailed memories of one such boy, deemed the ‘Lost Boys’ for their nomadic nature, in a rich autobiographical site. The problem lies within just this element of […]