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“But Sometimes They Hurt”: The Disability Representation of Barbara Gordon as Oracle Despite backlash arguing for her cure, comic book writers John Ostrander and Kim Yale persisted in their portrayal of Barabara Gordon as the superhero Oracle, being the first to revive her character after her apparent death in the story The Killing Joke, wherein… Continue reading Throwback Thursday: “But Sometimes They Hurt”: The Disability Representation of Barbara Gordon as Oracle
Performative Existence: Using Kundera’s Taxonomy of Looks To Examine Character Motivation and Nature In his 1984 philosophical novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera gives an explanation of four categories of people. These categories are separated by the “kind of look [they] wish to live under.” This so-called taxonomy of looks is as follows: “We… Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Performative Existence: Using Kundera’s Taxonomy of Looks To Examine Character Motivation and Nature
Adapt or Fail: On Movie Adaptations Film adaptation of novels is an increasingly common practice. For her part, Virginia Woolf was vocally against the practice of adaptation. She referred to cinema as a “parasite” and literature as the “prey.” This sense of the biological could be seen in another light however. Adaptation is the key… Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Adapt or Fail: On Movie Adaptations
The Virgin Suicides: On Controlling The Narrative The Virgin Suicides (2000), directed by Sofia Coppola, begs the question: who is in control of the narrative of the five Lisbon sisters? The boys who recount the story of their deaths? Their parents, particularly their mother, who is increasingly overbearing after Cecelia’s death? The girls themselves, through… Continue reading Throwback Thursday: The Virgin Suicides: On Controlling The Narrative
“May You Find Your Way As Pleasant”: Captain Pike’s Disability and Cure in Star Trek’s “The Menagerie” The Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) episode “The Menagerie” (1966), a two-part episode, reintroduces viewers to the character of Captain Christopher Pike, who had not been featured since his debut in the original pilot episode “The Cage”. It… Continue reading Throwback Thursday: “May You Find Your Way As Pleasant”: Captain Pike’s Disability and Cure in Star Trek’s “The Menagerie”
All About Ageism: The Interplay of Sexism and Ageism in All About Eve Abstract: The film All About Eve (1950) follows aspiring actress Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) as she idolizes, and attempts to usurp, aging actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis). Margo is pressured into conformity of traditional femininity through marriage and homemaking when she begins… Continue reading Throwback Thursday: All About Ageism: The Interplay of Sexism and Ageism in All About Eve
The Barrier to Translating Faith in “Jesus Shaves” by David Sedaris The main reason the students in “Jesus Shaves” by David Sedaris have trouble explaining the concept of Easter to a Moroccan classmate in their shared French class seems to be that none of them have enough French vocabulary to explain the concept. While the… Continue reading Throwback Thursday: The Barrier to Translating Faith in “Jesus Shaves” by David Sedaris
Contextualizing Anna Barbould’s “On the Expected General Rising of the French Nation in 1792” Using Thomas Paine’s “The Rights of Man” Rise mighty nation! in thy strength, And deal thy dreadful vengeance round; (Barbould 1-2) Begins Anna Lætitia Barbauld’s 1793 poem, “On the Expected General Rising of the French Nation in 1792." Barbould’s poem is… Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Contextualizing Anna Barbould’s “On the Expected General Rising of the French Nation in 1792” Using Thomas Paine’s “The Rights of Man”
“It Takes A Village”: An Analysis of Lazulisong’s “Graduate Vulcan For Fun and For Profit” There are, at this moment, 28,933 fan fiction based on the rebooted Star Trek movies on the site Archive of Our Own (AO3), not including the fanfictions on other sites, or for other series of Star Trek itself. The rebooted… Continue reading Throwback Thursday: “It Takes A Village”: An Analysis of Lazulisong’s “Graduate Vulcan For Fun and For Profit”
Our behavioral pharmacology class ended with a discussion of drug addiction and treatment. In this Tedx Talk, Dr. Michael Nader from Wake Forest University discusses three facets of tackling drug addiction: how should efforts to reduce drug use be directed? Should drug addiction be viewed as a brain disease, requiring treatment? And is animal research… Continue reading Throwback Thursday: Reflection on “The Value of Drug Addiction Research by Michael Nader”
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