Author Archive | Park

I don’t even know where to begin sharing what I have learned in ENGL 299 this semester. I was a bit nervous to take this class because I didn’t know exactly what it entailed and I had also changed my major two days before the Add/Drop deadline— basically diving to the waters of an English […]

To Awake the Perpetual Morning: A Transcendentalist’s Approach to Education in Thoreau’s Walden      “All intelligences awake with the morning,” Henry David Thoreau references from the Vedas during his early arrival at Walden Pond (393). “Morning is when I am awake and there is dawn in me” he says (394). Thoreau was fascinated by […]

I thoroughly enjoyed the lectures given by professors Chris Warnick and Emily Rosko today. Both Dr. Rosko’s poetry essay on teaching “The Complaint” and Dr. Warnick’s article “Expressive Pedagogies in the University of Pittsburgh’s Alternative Curriculum Program” hit close to home in my particular interest of English study, which is English Education. I have always […]

Rachel Park Professor Vander Zee English 299 28 March 2016 To Awake the Perpetual Morning: A Transcendentalist’s Approach to Education in Thoreau’s Walden           “All intelligences awake with the morning,” Henry David Thoreau references from the Vedas during his early arrival at Walden Pond. “Morning is when I am awake and there […]

Karen Yamashita’s Tropic of Orange can be read in light of many literary approaches we have discussed in class; one that highlights important characteristics of her novel is postmodernism. The Theory Toolbox explains that postmodernism writing tends to emphasize a style of deliberate confusion and a suspicion concerning neat conclusion (140). The layout of her novel fits […]

I found Chapter 20 particularly captivating in Wednesday’s reading, “Wednesday/Cultural Diversity.” Emi’s disbelief of cultural diversity seems unrealistic, absurd even, but perhaps such a thing doesn’t exist. Maybe it’s bullshit after all (128). At times Theory Toolbox reflects a similar idea, suggesting that culture is becoming an “old-fashioned notion” for a “new world order” (53). […]

In my modern history class we have been reading the book In the Name of God and Country by Michael Fellman. It argues that terrorism has been a constant and crucial driving force in America from the Civil War to the present day. This thought sits like a lump in our throats. We don’t want […]

We live in an era where people can order groceries online and have them delivered to their front doorstep. Yesterday, I watched someone become visibly upset because of having to wait an extra minute for a Starbucks order. Every time I send an instant message to my friend in Spain, I am amazed all over […]

As I’m reflecting on the assigned readings for this post, my head is spinning in an attempt to detangle new threads of information into a recognizable fabric on the screen before me. I’ve always been in wonderment of change, how things transform into something new, like the color of a leaf, my grandmother’s skin, my […]