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Munday, Anthony. The Honourable, Pleasant, and Rare Conceited Historie of Palmendos: A Critical Edition. Ed. Leticia Álvarez-Recio
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Featured Artwork: The Girl and the Garden
No full textThe message in this painting is to be brave and to own your life. I think it is also important that everyone should not feel imprisoned due to what others think and feel about them. In my opinion, if doing something makes you feel happy and it is important to your personal life, take a risk. In my opinion, to be free is to feel happiness in life. I want viewers to feel empowered, to not feel trapped by life decisions. In my experience, most people that are afraid of being adventurous, are often regretful about their decisions to live happily. I invite viewers to reflect on this
Dante’s Choreographies of Celebration
No full textNumerous episodes in the Commedia present themselves as “scenes,” as interactions between characters that have a highly dramatic quality. These “scenes” would resonate, for medieval audiences, with their personal experiences of live performance events as well as depictions of related scenes in the visual arts that were visible in local churches and baptisteries. This essay takes Dante’s staging of the encounter with Sordello in Purgatorio 6 as a central case study of a scene of celebration with multiple resonances, exploring the ways in which that episode might bring to a reader’s mind visual and textual performances of the Visitation. By contextualizing the scene within relevant medieval modes of performing and viewing affectively powerful scenes, the essay proposes that known scenes of the Visitation might be implicitly employed in Dante’s text to enrich the affective charge of the depiction of the meeting with Sordello
Guya Armstrong, Simon A. Gilson, and Federica Pich, eds. Petrarch Commentary and Exegesis in Renaissance Italy and Beyond: Materiality, Paratexts and Interpretative Strategies
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No full textThe digital revolution has expanded public access to Canada\u27s immigrant history through online archives. These archives offer digital versions of primary sources—including diaries, newspaper articles, interviews, and photographs—making historical materials more accessible to students and the general public. However, my research at OurDigitalWorld (ODW) from 2022 to 2023 reveals a concerning issue: despite increased accessibility, these digital collections may present incomplete or biased narratives of Canada\u27s diasporic communities. My study specifically examined how Chinese and Portuguese immigrant communities are portrayed in ODW\u27s VITA digital archive. I discovered striking differences in how these two communities are represented. By analyzing these disparities, this paper evaluates both the advantages and limitations of the VITA database as an educational resource for high school students and the general public learning about the development, challenges, and contributions of these communities—topics often overlooked in public education. This research addresses a critical question: Can digitized historical primary sources in the VITA database present unbiased images of Canada\u27s diasporic communities? The paper concludes with recommendations for improving digital public history collections to help users understand Canada\u27s immigrant history without unconsciously absorbing biases and misinformation
Girl Guides of Canada
No full textThis article outlines my experiences as a student intern at Heritage Mississauga, located in Mississauga, Ontario. My task as a student intern was to create a collection taken from a donation of items from the Girl Guides of Canada. I was then tasked with presenting some of these items from the finished collection in a virtual exhibit. Through the process of creating this collection and presenting it to the public, it was discovered that the Girl Guides of Canada had a meaningful impact on women and girls in Mississauga. Through reading this article, readers will gain a better understanding of the process of creating and presenting a collection, and the importance of the preservation of local artifacts and the stories that accompany those artifacts
Forgotten History of Canada\u27s Giants
No full textThe Forgotten History of Canada’s Giants is a paper based primarily on research conducted utilizing a series of Avro Canada news & The Orenda newsletters, published by A.V. Roe Canada Limited and Orenda Engines Limited, respectively, during the companies’ operations. The paper discusses the historical development of A.V. Roe Canada and its group of companies, as well as its social, political, and economic impacts on a local, national, and global scale. In our modern day, with ever increasing anti-capitalist sentiment, following extreme economic events, companies, especially large conglomerates, have been villainized extensively and have gained a certain notoriety associated with their financial position. This categorization of a plethora of diverse and distinct entities as actors of evil, as seen with movements such as Occupy Wall Street, have largely diminished the reputation of businesses, by reducing them to simple tools of financial accumulation which uphold wealth inequality and result in political corruption. This paper attempts to examine the history of an industrial giant in A.V. Roe Canada, in order to analyze its direct historical impact, but also to provoke a revision of the modern-day negative perspective on corporations, corporate history, and corporate contribution to society
