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 […]
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 […]
Sofia Tartakovskaya- 09/20/2022 It was hard to elaborate for the full 15 minutes based on what we thought was really good or well done, but the discussion group agreed that for the time that it was made, it was pretty good production value. This is a children’s story so it gave us all nostalgia, but […]
Sofia Tartakovskaya- 09/13/2022 I think this interpretation of the Arabian Nights is very engaging, there are many things that keep you drawn in but compared to modern books that everyone understands, this is definitely different. What was mostly hard to follow was all the different changes throughout the text with no character or story development […]
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 how ‘knowledge is power’, and since the only European knowledge of The Orient is that the Arabs are dumb, dirty, cant follow directions, etc: England wants to take […]
Personally, I like math or science more than writing because those subjects actually have an objective answer. Though I may be creative in some ways because I like to do lighting design for theatre, writing is just not the same. I know not everyone is the same but it is just hard to think of […]
