Meredith's Blog

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. […]

In class last week, the majority of the Thursday lecture involved analyzing certain effective elements within ‘What is the What’, by Dave Eggers. One such element is the genre of which ‘What is the What’ is a part of, bildungsroman. A major problem or loss occurring in the earliest stages of the novel, and multiple […]