Author: Maddie
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Essay 2: Representing The Other
Aladdin and Thief of Baghdad movies all have something in common. This commonality is orientalism and racism. In each of these classic popular films there is a blatant misrepresentation of Middle Eastern culture. The main characters are americanized and europeanized to increase movie attendance by pleasing a largely white audience. It is hard to make…
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Essay 2 Draft
Aladdin and Thief of Baghdad movies all have something in common. This commonality is orientalism and racism. In each of these classic popular films there is a blatant misrepresentation of Middle Eastern culture. The main characters are americanized and europeanized to please a largely white audience to attend the movies. It is hard to make…
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Psychology Day Event
I recently went to the Psychology day event and was really taken by the key note speaker and her research. The key note speaker specialization is in women’s health, specifically reproductive and perinatal psychology. Her researcher focused on the PPTSD caused after and before birth specifically to Black Women. Black Women are especially overlooked and…
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Mega Jewish Unity Event
I attended the Mega Jewish Unity Event held by Chabad at the Seeger’s Union event space. It advertised a massive challah bake, mitzvot for Israel, student speakers, refreshments, and music. After learning about this through the Rabbi’s wife Rivka, I felt so ecstatic to participate in this event and be with many of my fellow…
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Writing Portfolio: Reading Our Colleagues
Jenny: After reading Jenny’s writing portfolio I saw how she makes so many interpersonal connections in her own writing. My favorite connection shown is in her creative writing and I would never think to relate messy college students to The Nights book. I love that in this piece she brings up the question, “How can…
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Writing Portfolio: Reading Ourselves
In the beginning of the year I wrote that, “I need to work on my writing flowing together and have ideas thoughtfully planned out”. Throughout the semester this was my focused goal in my writings for class. In the fifteen-week span of this course I have seen some improvements that align with my original goal…
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Longer Reflection
One assumption I brought to this class that has been challenged to some extent is that the Disney movie Aladdin is problematic, but I didn’t know as to why this is true. In class we talked about the characters in the movie carrying white features. The reading assigned, by Staninger, highlights Disney’s problematic description of…
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Biology Seminar Event
The biology seminar I attended on November 6 was titled the Mechanisms of Synaptic Plasticity and Neuronal Excitability. The lecture focused on the Par1 and Par1b proteins. The first lesson I learned in the seminar was that Par stands for partitioning-defective proteins. There is much more I took away. Par1 is involved in cell polarity,…
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“10 on 1” The Thief of Bagdad
In the movie it was clear that the cast in the high powered position were white actors who follow the standard “Hollywood” beauty standards. Controversially, the minority actors were cast in subservient roles such as slaves, servants, or sidekicks. The film continuously ridiculed these actors because they were seen as inferior to the white actors.…
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Adding Our Own Stories to The Nights
Some people think they know about the world but they don’t, Some people try to spread this around to other folks, Some people believe that this is generalized to a population’s bulk. Perceptions are altered because of these stereotypical tropes, People need to let go of the rope, People holding onto this need to look…
