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CAP Conference Reflection

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Melissa Lee

Today I attended the CAP Conference to watch my colleagues, and other students from all the CAP streams, showcase some of the work they’ve accomplished throughout the year. To clarify what the CAP Conference is, according to the CAP Arts … Continue reading →

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Importance of Rhetoric upon Marginalized Groups

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Melissa Lee

This week in my ASTU class, we have been studying memoirs of marginalized groups, particularly people with disabilities, in terms of representation and roles of hegemonic society in reinforcing stigmas upon the group. This is crucial to study because, as … Continue reading →

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TRC Testimonies: “Empathic Witnessing”

Posted on February 14, 2014 by Melissa Lee

lolAs my ASTU class enters into the next unit of “‘Vulnerable Subjects’ and Testimonies”, we got the chance to revisit the TRC by dropping by UBC’s Museum of Anthropology to bear witness to mostly textual and visual testimonial expression, compared to last … Continue reading →

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“Faking It” is Still Well Alive

Posted on January 31, 2014 by Melissa Lee

Ever since my ASTU class started to look into the theme of “faking it” from Fred Wah’s Diamond Grill, I found the psychology behind the mechanism quite intriguing. In Fred Wah’s case, we learn that he follows a front-stage “performance” or … Continue reading →

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Online Personal Archives (Facebook)……and the “Creepiness” of the Timeline!

Posted on January 16, 2014 by Melissa Lee

  Simply put, archives are accumulated collections of historical records and are original records themselves, unlike books or magazines that have been published and/or copied several times.  Archives can come in many different forms such as: historical documents, computer files, … Continue reading →

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The Power of Music in Raising Awareness

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Melissa Lee

In my last three recent posts, I made an implication on how powerful media can be in globally spreading messages to raise awareness of issues. Here I want to focus on the particular media of music, because I think it … Continue reading →

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Anonymity on the Web: A Double-Edged Sword

Posted on November 17, 2013 by Melissa Lee

The creation of the Internet has undoubtedly given millions of opportunities (to name a few: access music/videos, access news, access help, retrieve answers, communication, etc.), but one I’d really like to draw your attention on is the basic ability to … Continue reading →

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Spread the words! “Speak out, act up”

Posted on November 16, 2013 by Melissa Lee

“Russian’s brutal treatment of sexual minorities is nothing new. For me, growing up gay in Russia felt like I had a terminal disease.” – Wes Hurley I recently found a website called “Out“, an online magazine news website, and ran … Continue reading →

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War’s Traumatic Effects: Child Development?

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Melissa Lee

Trauma is a powerfully distressful and disturbing experience in many ways, however the trauma of, for example, watching a horror movie would only traumatize you for a day (or a couple…) and cannot compare to the trauma of seeing and literally … Continue reading →

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Censorships and Filter Bubbles, and How to Break Free of Them

Posted on November 9, 2013 by Melissa Lee

I honestly don’t know what I would do without Google, I’ve become so dependant on it that it is frightening to imagine about its non-existence. We’ve all heard of the expressions, “Google it” or “Look it up on Google”, and … Continue reading →

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