When retelling a story, no matter the contents it is always exaggerated in order to make it interesting for the audience; Arabian Nights is no different. In this case, these authors trying to reenact The Thousand and One Nights are really just succumbing to Orientalism and not displaying the true culture of the Middle Eastern […]
Throughout the course, my writing has actually improved quite a bit. That being said, I am not the best writer and I procrastinate a lot. I am also a perfectionist so it is hard to be happy with my work, and I won’t submit it unless I’m happy. All of that combined is why some […]
Sofia Tartakovskaya 11/20/2022 I attended the Poetunity: Poetry Open Mic Night because I am interested in poetry and wanted to hear the people of the Muhlenberg Communities’ views and their creations. A lot of the poems were about diversity and the hardships within that, which I found very interesting. This poetry open mic night included […]
Sofia Tartakovskaya 10/18/2022 I attended the World Views event which had someone from the North American Tibetan Community speaking to teach more about Buddhism, specifically in his community. I’ve only ever really learned about Christianity and a bit of Judaism and I wanted to learn more about different cultures and what they believe in so […]
Sofia Tartakovskaya 9/13 The study abroad fair was a great way to get started out with our future plans while just getting used to the school. It happened a few weeks after all the freshmen entered the school, so to have the opportunity to see all the possibilities in the future was just a really […]
Watching the Thief of Bagdad was a bit of a shock. It had a lot of similarities to Disney’s Aladdin as well as many differences. For instance, most of the characters like Jasmine, Genie, and Jafar were there, even Abu: Except Aladdin’s name was different and Abu actually had a storyline instead of just being […]
Aladdin tells the magnificent story of a poor ‘street rat’ who is actually the rare diamond in the rough who can save the fall of the kingdom. This broken kingdom is trying to illustrate a third-world country in the Middle East with many problems, but throughout the movie, these problems don’t actually get solved. Agrabah […]
Years after trying to take the crown, Jafar finds himself stuck in a cramped lamp, waiting to be let out by some lucky stranger that will have complete control over him. That’s the only thing that he could look forward to because there was no other way out. In the lamp, he lost count of […]
In class, we discussed the importance of notetaking and how it helps with understanding. Personally, I feel like, in a discussion-based class where we have to be aware and comment on what people say, it is harder to write notes in that setting than in a lecture class where the teacher is talking at you. […]
“The article purports itself to uncover “the inner workings of Arab behavior,” which from our point of view is “aberrant” but for Arabs is “normal” ( Said 48). Throughout the article Said uses multiple people trying to explain how the Western world is above Egypt because of how they act and govern themselves. He explains […]
