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Ready to Return: A Revised Approach to Shakespeare in the Classroom
No full textIn today’s world, both children and adults are constantly surrounded and influenced by visual media. How great would it be if educators could use texts that are often considered dated and irrelevant by students to teach them forms of critical visual literacy that would enable them to make informed decisions about the media that they encounter every day? Critical visual literacy refers to an analysis that seeks to uncover the effects of social and political power dynamics through visual manipulation, distribution, and misinformation in visual media such as advertisements, propaganda, political campaigns, etc. The misconception and stigma surrounding visual literature in the classroom as “dumbed-down” or juvenile has inhibited students from becoming proficient in multiple literacies beyond the textual.
William Shakespeare did not write novels or short stories–he was an author of drama. How different would Shakespeare instruction look if educators honored the original intent of Shakespeare’s work and brought the plays to life? Works of Shakespeare, originally intended to be a visual form of media, is a perfect vehicle for teaching our students real-world visual critical literacy skills. In addition, I will discuss a twenty-day long unit plan utilizing Romeo and Juliet as a tool to prepare students to evaluate the visual media that surround and influence their perceptions of the world
Thinking The Flaneur
No full textThe idea of the flaneur is not new. Made popular by the radical poet Baudelaire, it was taken up into the world of the philosophers by Walter Benjamin. In thinking the Flaneur, I aim to explore the history and development of the concept, examine its appearance in culture and literature, and contemplate its relevance and application to the distanced and digital world we now live in
Carbon Dioxide\u27s Role in Global Warming
No full textDo carbon dioxide emissions truly cause an increase in the global average temperature? Despite the efforts that have been done to mitigate global warming by reducing carbon dioxide emissions, it appears that the global average temperature is still rising. Is this fact still true? The purpose of this research is to check and see if this is truly the case. This will be answered by using correlation through SPSS to check and see whether carbon dioxide emissions are correlated with the global average temperature. Also, if this is the case, this research will also see if the objectives of the 2015 Paris Agreement can be met at the current rate for both carbon dioxide emissions and global average temperature. This will be done by using the Trend function in Excel since this function can predict/estimate values for the future. The result show that both carbon dioxide emissions and global average temperature are correlated, but even though the objectives will be met for the 2015 Paris Agreement, it might not be the case for long proving that something needs to change soon to stop this or who knows what will happen to Earth
Gentrification in Cincinnati, Ohio
No full textThis paper assesses the impact of gentrification on downtown neighborhoods in Cincinnati, Ohio. It also addresses the issues of gentrification from social and economical standpoints and the effects that gentrification has on not only the people in the areas but the housing market as well. There are a lot of discrepancies that go hand in hand with gentrification and this paper\u27s main goal is to bring to light the income discrepancies of residents in places that have been gentrified as well as places that have changed as a direct result of the gentrification. For Example, the median house price for Hyde Park in Cincinnati, Ohio is around 62,000. The housing market isn\u27t the only place that shows discrepancies with gentrification and this is important to understand why gentrification has such drastic impacts on the neighborhoods within city limits such as Cincinnati. Most of the data that addresses this issue comes directly from the census and other housing and real estate websites to accurately show the differences between neighboring areas in Cincinnati that have either gone through gentrification or were pushover areas for gentrification
What Can We Ask of Art? A Reading of Heidegger and Benjamin
No full text1935 is something of the landmark year for continental aesthetics, seeing the writing of Martin Heidegger\u27s The Origin of the Work of Art and Walter Benjamin\u27s The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Revisiting and rereading these essays, I aim to explore the question what can we ask of art? and what does it tell us about history, modernity, and ourselves
From Gorgeous George to Golden Lovers: An Examination of Queer Representation in Professional Wrestling
No full textProfessional wrestling is an intricate, multi-modal storytelling medium which builds narratives around heroic babyfaces and villainous heels. But because the genre is highly performative and embedded in cispatriarchal representations of masculinity, it has a deeply complex relationship with gender and sexuality. Over the years, pro-wrestling has catered to hegemonic masculinity through its depictions of male power fantasies, objectification of female talent, and vilification of queer and gender-nonconforming characters. In this essay I provide an analysis of some of the most prominent queer(-coded) characters throughout the history of pro-wrestling, showing how its narratives have successfully and unsuccessfully represented the LGBTQ+ community. Ultimately, I argue that the best way to resist systemic homophobia and transphobia in pro-wrestling is by showcasing diverse and complex queer characters
“The Uses and Gratifications of Second-Screen Devices During Live Televised Events: A March Madness Case Study”
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July 22nd Letter from Don Yeager to Yeager Family.
Get PDFLetter from Don Yeager to Yeager Family in which he describes an incident where friendly soldiers almost shot each other in the darkness of the jungle.https://mds.marshall.edu/yeager/1200/thumbnail.jp