Alissa's Blog

I couldn't be more relieved about this class finally being over! This semester was for sure my hardest semester at LMC and this is my third year here. I get to transfer this year and I'm so excited. These past 17 weeks in this class were tough with all the weekly readings and analysis'. I didn't really enjoy the whole commenting on each other's blogs because it took up a lot my time and I don't have much time to begin with. I took 5 classes this semester and I work so now that all my classes are over I can finally just focus on work without worrying about homework during my shifts. I hope everyone had a wonderful semester and good luck to all those taking classes in the summer and/or in the fall! Completing this class feels like a huge accomplishment.

Recitatif  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recitatif "Recitatif" is Toni Morrison's only published short story. It was first published in 1983 in Confirmation: An Anthology of African American Women,  an anthology edited by Amiri Baraka and his wife Amina Baraka. Opera  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera Opera is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers. The work is a collaboration  between a composer and a librettist and incorporates a number of the performing arts, such as acting scenery, costumes and sometimes dance or ballet. Singing   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singing Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques. A person who sings is a singer or vocalist. Pop Music  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern fo...

The growth mindset challenge I chose to do was explore the random growth mindset cats. The cats are so cute! I kept refreshing the page until I found a picture I really liked. The one I landed on was this image of a cat leaning on a fence with the caption "Everyone can change and grow through application and experience." I believe that quote is very true because without experience, you don't grow as a person and your mind can't develop new things.

Extra Credit - Mo Yan (1188-1198) Mo Yan burst onto China's literary scene in 1986 with the publication of his novel Red Sorghum , which won high critical praise and was subsequently made into a film directed by Zhang Yimou since then he has published a host of novels and short stories, many of which have been translated into English by Howard Goldblatt, his longtime laborator much of Yan's fictions is set in his native Gaomi County, in Shandong province- a real place, albeit one that Mo Yan's fictions enhance and transform almost into a myth many critics describe Mo Yan's work as exemplary of the literary movement called "Roots Seeking" this movement arose in the 1980s, one of many waves of response to China to the collective experience of swift modernization in the preceding decades the Roots school tends to favor a masculine aesthetic, celebrating raw potency, toughness, and bravado, a tone that some feminist critics have challenged  the story, ...

Mahasweta Devi (1147-1165) Mahasweta Devi is the most important fiction and prose weiter in the Bangali language since India's decolonization (1147) she is also the premier social activist in Asia of the past fifty years dedicated to the cause of aboriginal peoples, having worked tirelessly for the little-known Lodhas and Shabars on West Bengal her unflinching novels, stories, plays, and essays about these and other disenfranchised people provided the literary foundations for what would later be called "subaltern studies" Devi was born in 1926 into a Hindu brahmana family in Dhaka, then in East Bengal in British India, and now the capital of Bangladesh her proper name is is Mahasweta, as devi is simply an honorific term attached to many Indian female names she was educated in schools in East Bengal and at Viswa Bharati, the experimental institution established by Rabomdranath Tagore her graduate studies in English literature at Calcutta University, in the mid-194...

Salman Rushdie (1129-1143) Rushdie was born into a wealthy Muslim business family in Bombay in 1947, a few weeks before the end of British colonial rule and the Partition of the subcontinent into the two new nations of India and Pakistan he published his 4th novel, The Satanic Verses,  in England in September 1988 after early education in the city, Rushdie attended boarding school in England and received his undergraduate and master's degree from the University of Cambridge, where he studied Islamic history he worked in advertising in London for several years, and wrote his first book with the publication of Midnight's Children  (1980) and its immense literary and commercial success, however, Rushdie was able to turn writing full time, contributing to periodicals throughout the anglophone world in the 1980s while producing his next 2 novels, Shame (1983) and The Satanic Verses Rushdie described himself as a "historian of ideas," and many of his novels are ...