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Samantha Plate
Play In The City
09/29/2013
What Is Play?
What is play? This is the question that Mary Flanagan tries to answer. She is unable to come up with one specific definition. When asked to describe the reading in class I said “refreshingly indecisive”. The fact that Flanagan admits there are many definitions of play is truly refreshing. Theorists, psychologists, are...
Reflection on Presentation
Since the beginning of this year we have been trying to define where the divide between non-fiction and fiction lies. We have read multiple types of non-fiction narratives such as graphic novels, documentaries, and memoirs. Throughout the year some of my classmates felt that we got caught up in trying to define terms such as “fact” and “truth.” I believe that it was appropriate, however, to begin talking about this because it is...
Isabelle Winer
Contrary to the Teachings of History Teachers:
The Advantage of Forgetting
My mother has anawful memory. When I was 12 yearsold I discovered that my aversion to apples was actually because whenever I hadthem as a child my throat would get tight. Unfortunately, I didn’t know this until one day I rapidlyate an entire apple before horseback...
“Who need be afraid of the merge?
Undrape… you are not guilty to me, nor stale nor discarded,
I see through broadcloth and gingham whether or no,
And am around, tenacious, acquisitive, tireless… and can never be shaken away.” (Whitman 26)
What does this invitation mean to you? Is it sexual? Threatening in its boldness? Which feelings does it evoke in you? Disgust? Offense? Anger? Fear? The desire to distance yourself from this prying person? How would you...
The wait is over! Visit Bryn Mawr College's repository to view recordings of presentations and slides from presenters. Click here to go to the page. Read the post below for a recap of the conference.
A lot of my thoughts this past month have been about cross-dressing in a theatrical setting – what it means for my own gender and other actors’ gender exploration. In my third web event I focused in on this idea and how it relates to feminism unbound. I discussed the idea of cross-dressing in the theater and how Judith Butler’s notion of performativity unbinds gender and can itself be further unbound to allow for more freedom in gender expression and exploration.
David Harris’s interview underscores the fact that everyone has his or her own reality. Even though the documentary makes the point that Adams was not guilty of shooting the police officer, Harris seemed to have convinced himself that Adams was. In his panic, Harris convinced himself of something that wasn’t true. The documentary also brings up the point that “truth” is not by any means absolute. One of the interviewees even said that any attorney can find a guilty man guilty. It takes...
I’ve spent most of my life at a politically and socially liberal school, but until my senior year the politics of the majority of my peers never really factored into my personal life. It was then that I both enrolled in a political theory class with a socialist teacher and increased my presence on the internet. Surrounded by liberal people in a left-leaning discussion-based class, I found my opinions shifting ever more to adjust to my friends’ perspectives, and I didn’t have any...
MichaelF77, "Vaster than Empires, and More Slow"
I. coursekeeping
* due to heavy fog/dense humidity... eetong's taking us inside (w/ some thoughts about advocating...
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