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Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Noticing Our Access to Resources And How It Shapes Our Experiences in the group
American Studies: 4 years, 5 months ago“My job is to notice…and to notice that you can notice”- Dionne Brand
When I first began Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, I had noticed how different characters noticed and reacted to their environment out in natur […]
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Emily Tsoi edited the blog post The Incomplete Story of the 2008 Housing Crisis in the group
American Studies: 4 years, 6 months agoWhen we first began Michael Lewis’ The Big Short, I was quite apprehensive while reading it as I had no clue about what was happening with all of this business/finance talk. I found myself referring to Google s […]
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Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Opening Your Eyes to Different Ways of Seeing in the group
American Studies: 4 years, 7 months agoAs with anything in life, there are always multiple ways of seeing or understanding things. Take our key terms for the class for example. As we quickly discovered, there are multiple definitions for each of them. […]
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Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Connecting the Experiences of Women in Victorian Literature in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 9 months agoProject by Group 2- Logan Carpenter, Hayley Jones, John Serbalik, and Emily Tsoi
Blog Post Written By Emily Tsoi and Hayley Jones
Process and Challenges Faced in Creating the Project:
When we were first […]
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Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Reflecting on Victorian Connexions in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoIn my first blog post titled “What I Hope to Learn About Victorian Literature”, I discussed how I was interested in learning about how Victorian writers connected their lives and world around them to their wri […]
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Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Thoughts on the Descriptions of London in Reuben Sachs in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoAfter reading the first half of Reuben Sachs, I was drawn to the descriptions of London as it brought me back to the discussion we had in class a few weeks ago while reading Great Expectations and Pip’s view on L […]
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Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Experiences Help Shape Our Identities in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 11 months agoIn Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, I found paragraph 26 to be the most interesting. Here Wilde writes about how people had advised him to forget his past when he entered prison and is now being advised to forget p […]
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Emily Tsoi commented on the post, Chapter 59, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 11 months ago[now, when suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape. Be as considerate and goo […]
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Emily Tsoi commented on the post, Chapter 59, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 11 months agoPip is expressing how his perspective has changed about his pursuit of Estella.
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Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Pip’s Happiness As A Gentleman in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 11 months agoPip’s journey toward becoming a gentleman is starting to remind me of John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography about happiness.
In paragraph 2 Mill talks about how he had set his whole life and happiness around a dis […] -
Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Miss Havisham and Heathcliff in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 11 months agoNow that we know a little bit more about Miss Havisham and her motives, I’m noticing how similar she is to Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights in terms of motives, which for both of them is revenge.
They are both c […]
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Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Orphans in Victorian Literature in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 11 months agoWhile reading the first several chapters of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, I noticed a handful of connections to Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, but the one I’m most interested in so far is between the c […]
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Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Adaptation and Survival in Wuthering Heights in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years agoIn Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, the reader sees that by the end of the novel the only two characters of the Earnshaw/Linton family line left alive are Cathy and Hareton. All of their predecessors- Hindley, C […]
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Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Health in Victorian England in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years agoAs requested in class on Tuesday, we looked at a couple of articles focusing on health in Victorian England. As we know after reading Wuthering Heights, many people were dying off during this time period. In fact, […]
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Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Heathcliff’s Obsession with Catherine in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years agoThis was the first time I read Wuthering Heights and so I went in not really having an idea of what it was about. Now that I have finished it, if I could summarize it in three words I would say ”abuse and o […]
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Emily Tsoi edited the blog post The Self-Willed Women in Wuthering Heights in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years agoWhile continuing to read Wuthering Heights, we continue to see how strong-willed and passionate Emily Bronte has written her female characters. The women of the novel continue to act according to their own […]
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Emily Tsoi commented on the post, Chapter 9, on the groupblog
Marginalia 5 years ago[’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn’t have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heat […]
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Emily Tsoi edited the blog post The Mistreatment of Children By Familial Figures in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years agoWhile reading the first few chapters of Wuthering Heights, I was drawn to the treatment of Heathcliff by his new “family” throughout his childhood. Everyone except for Catherine and Mr. Earnshaw don’t seem to li […]
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Emily Tsoi edited the blog post The Representation of Women in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years agoWhile reading the assigned works for Tuesday, I was particularly drawn to Harriet Martineau’s Society in America as she discusses the role of women in a democratic society. As Martineau notes, women did not have a […]
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Emily Tsoi commented on the post, The Everlasting No, on the groupblog
Marginalia 5 years, 1 month agoHere we see Teufelsdröckh coming to terms with his lack of belief in his faith. We then see that he feels a great disconnect from the rest of society and life as whole which shows how this impacted him mentally. […]
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