Category: Student Posts

The first step I took when writing my presentation was figuring out a strong argument. I chose Stitches and Kindred because I felt I knew the most about them and could effectively support my argument. Using Judith Lewis Herman’s framework, we can see how both Stitches and Kindred give voice to trauma, explore the possibility […]

In my playlist, I focus on creating a rhetorical situation for someone that is walking in a very urbanized city alone (could be a cyberpunk style or modern style urban setting), ideally the city is raining. The emotion that my playlist is trying to convey would be loneliness. Many of the songs I selected have […]

One of the biggest challenges with the Halfa Kucha was the strict time limit. I was proud of the depth in arguments and I spent a lot of time developing and refining my thesis, reworking it multiple times until it felt solid. However, when it came time to present, I realized I didn’t have enough […]

In the Halfa Kucha prfoject, I decided to work on my favorite comics we read this semester, The Talk, and It’s Lonely at the Centre of Earth which I thinks suits the bestg with the topic trauma to write a thesis. I set the thesis as empathy is the key in recovering from trauma because […]

Presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTQYzQkiA_KPewuW89XPlKW1NIJpf7KQ4xDQ7c0TrYNkCgiugi4WrTYogn_TD7OR7yOv5wFaWsmRoYs/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=10000 Reflection: Making my argument came with a couple of smaller challenges and decisions. I refreshed myself on all of the books and then began to piece together common threads. The common thread that I found most interesting was how each book seemed to have a character with ‘two separate lives’. I don’t mean […]

Writing for the halfa kucha was a lot different than writing for an essay. It had to be written in a way where you talked about everything evenly, which is difficult to do and then you had to be very concise and didn’t have space to have any fluff in the slightest. For a lot […]