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BY SOPHIA WELLINGTON
Humanities Core Reflection
As I come to the end of my Humanities Core experience, I can’t help but thank the course for teaching me so much about the world and...


Immigration, Family & the Philippines
The first few lectures that Professor Vo presented were about Manifest Destiny of the Philippines and their situations of labor and...


Racecraft & Sexuality
This quarter of Humanities Core has been very interesting to me so far because the concept of empire being controlled by factors like...


Passive vs. Active: BLM Movement
Personally, when it comes to a situation where I have to be either passive or active, I normally choose to be passive. Confrontation or...


Appropriation vs. Adaptation: The Tempest
There are a number of literary and cinematic appropriations and adaptations of the classic Shakespeare play called The Tempest written in...


Signs of Hierarchy
Within all hierarchies, the groups or individuals of power normally have obvious features about themselves that make them identifiable to...


Is hybridity real? What is more powerful in the upbringing of a person: nature or nurture?
This world is full of thousands of hybrids in every form you can think of. The formal definitions of the word ‘hybrid’ is: “the offspring...


What does a Trump presidency mean for the future of college campuses in this country?
On November 8th 2016, Donald Trump was elected to be the 45th president of the United States. As a controversial candidate, him being...


How does Rousseau's ideas (against rationality) connect to the idea of ruins?
In Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book, The Basic Political Writings, he discusses his beliefs on morality, rationality, sciences and arts,...


What is morality?
Every society that has ever existed has had a system of morals that people abide by. But beliefs held in societies are constantly changing w
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