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Gender Norms of the 19th Century: “The Story of an Hour”

November 29, 2022

Video Essay Transcript: In the United States of America during the 1890s, women were fighting for their rights, and social norms for women were abnormally restricted compared to now. The ongoing women’s rights movement was pushing for equality in all … Read more

An Hour of Awakening

November 28, 2022

  The author, Kate Chopin, known as a pioneer of feminist literature in the United States, composed the short story “The Story of An Hour” on April 19, 1894, and published it on December 6, 1894, in Vogue magazine. The story … Read more

The Ominous Power of Guilt

November 28, 2022

In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, he portrays a madman who is struggling with guilt. The madman tries to explain his sanity through his narrative of killing an old man. The madman describes how the old man … Read more

“All Summer in a Day”: A Warning

November 28, 2022

    One Drive link: Sequence 02_1.mp4 Transcript “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury, published in 1954, is a science fiction short story about a dystopian society living on Venus, where the sun comes out once every seven … Read more

Identifying Time

November 28, 2022

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Week 15: The Final Approach

November 28, 2022

Gobble, gobble, it’s finally here the holiday season; this week was particularly short, with most of the students only having a final class on Tuesday due to the Thanksgiving break. Although it can be argued against, I think this is … Read more

Technology: Friend or Foe?

November 28, 2022

Video Transcript: Describing the story of a seemingly innocent nursery turned into a deadly African plain, “The Veldt” by Ray Bradbury explores the relationships between parent and child, and how technology can interfere with these relationships. Set in America in … Read more

Week 15: You Win Some, You Lose Some

November 27, 2022

This week was rather short as the majority of us all left Tuesday for thanksgiving break. However with that time that we did have on Tuesday we peer edited the “rough cut” for our video essays which will be the … Read more