GHS208-05 Fall 2019 China and the Islamic Middle East
Global and Historical Studies at Butler University
This will be a relatively short post, but I spent some of last night and this morning trying to find digital copies of our textbook (the information within it) so I could help out Dr. McGrath with his creation of an online book so his future students are saved from the massive amounts of textbooks …
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Last week, I went about searching for an authentic Chinese restaurant where I could order some traditional Chinese food and review it and discuss my experience for some extra credit. My mom and I went to Tian Fu Chinese Bistro on 86th street, right off of Michigan road. Before I continue, I must say this …
For some extra credit in our GHS course, I interviewed my father on his experience doing business in primarily China and over the past 10 years. A brief background on my father: he graduated from Purdue University majoring in Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering and then went on to work on ballistic missile rocket motor development …
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As my prior blog post indicated, I was a new student at Butler University this semester. I had previously changed my major and had to change it again so I was able to compete for the baseball team under eligibility and compliance rules. Registering for classes and finding houses was all done three days before …
This semester, I chose to volunteer for the IACA for the Butler ICR program that was instated within Professor McGrath’s GHS course. As of the beginning of this academic year, I was new to Butler University and really didn’t know the different core requirements within the university. Upon talking to Dr. McGrath and some classmates, …
Yesterday evening, Kylie and I met with Benny in JH170 to discuss some of the current happenings in Hong Kong. Benny is one of our leaders for our IACA ICR credit and is the one who took us to the IMA earlier this fall. Benny offered to meet with us this week as one of …
The end of the semester for our GHS 208 course meant the final project of creating a website, something that I’m sure the majority of the class (besides Gerry) had not had much experience with. Being an engineering student prior to switching to business, I dealt with a lot of different forms of coding, computer …
Way earlier this fall, Professor McGrath told us about two terracotta warriors which would be in Jordan Hall for us to visit and take a selfie with for extra credit! I honestly totally forgot that I had gone to see the warriors earlier this fall and looking back I have a photo from when I …
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This past Friday, myself with along with a few other classmates participating in the IACA ICR component of our course went to Noblesville to participate in a Taiji Sword Class hosted by Master Ling. None of us really had expectations. Personally, I have had no prior experience with any type of martial arts so this …
On the 4th of December, Professor McGrath hosted a discussion with regards to the impact new technologies are having on religion today. It was a very interesting discussion, and very open to the opinions of the group. Dr. McGrath introduced us to the subject through some of the new forms of technology impacting religion in …