After reading, “Alive” I felt confused. He loses his family and gains a new one. He seems to have bonded with his new wife and her son and he wants to have a baby with her. Then when he regains his memory, he leaves to go back to his old life. He devastated two families. …
Monthly Archives: September 2019
“Good” Music—Culturally and Personally
I’m a senior music ed major, and in the last 3 years I’ve spent a lot of time developing my personal philosophy for music education. Something that’s become really important to me is cross-cultural and cross-curricular teaching—basically, using music to connect to other subjects and other cultures. Music is a unique and powerful tool in …
Selections From Chuang Tzu
One selection in particular that I leaned towards was, “J.” The big picture on this section revolved around “happiness,” and what exactly is it/what we all say it is? Happiness is a goal everyone strives to achieve, not just for a second, but the point in life where you reach full perfect happiness. If you …
Flame
In the short reading, “Flame,” in the beginning Nimei’s mother kept pushing her to marry this one man. However, Nimei was in love with another man named Hsu Peng, her mother explained she couldn’t marry that man and begged her to marry the man her mother picked (arranged marriage). Plus, her mother added how she …
“Flame” and Our Society Today
Overall, I thought “Flame” was an interesting story with similarities and differences to our society today. In both the story and our society, we tend to want to present ourselves in a better light. This is seen through social media and pop culture. People use photoshop on both their social media and in pictures of …
Helping at Nur-Allah
Today, Anna P., Lauren B., and I went to do our first official service day at the Nur-Allah Mosque. On Sunday’s, we will be helping out with the Sunday school program. The Sunday school program has about ten children enrolled and on Sunday’s the children will learn about Islam, they will pray, and they will …
Are people innately good or innately bad?
Looking back on Tuesday’s class, I continued to wonder whether or not we are innately good, or innately bad. I found an article that talks about a study done at Yale University. In this experiment, the researchers were trying to get a better idea of whether or not humans are innately good though a study …
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Chuang Tzu: Letter H
I thought that section “H” from the reader in Chuang Tzu’s part was very interesting and related to the tree section we talked about in class. In the tree section, we talked about how the lack of perfection of the tree allowed it to live a long peaceful life rather than being cut down and …
Censorship in China: Patriot Act
As I was scrolling through Netflix looking for something to watch, I stumbled upon the show “Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj.” This show is very reminiscent of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” or “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.” I decided to take a look at the episodes to see if there was anything …
Revenge in “Flame”
When I was reading “Flame” not that many scenarios stood out to me as different than in previous stories that we had read. I found the situation of revenge and presentation very comparable to today’s society. We tend to “put on a show” to those around us especially through social media. Nimei was experiencing the …