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Taylor Knowles wrote a new blog post War and Paradise in the group American Studies: 9 years, 9 months ago

As I was astounded by how little work has been done regarding Morrison’s Paradise, I looked up my thesis regarding the women’s scenes in “Save-Marie”, and eventually landed on an article discussing some quotes […]
Taylor Knowles edited the blog post Scapegoats in the group American Studies: 9 years, 9 months ago

scapegoat

/ˈskeɪpˌɡəʊt/

noun

1.
a person made to bear the blame for others

2.
(Old Testament) a goat used in the ritual of Yom Kippur (Leviticus16); it was symbolically laden with the sins of the Israelites and sentinto the wilderness to be destroyed

verb

3.
(transitive) to make a scapegoat of…[Read more]
Taylor Knowles edited the blog post The Danteum in the group American Studies: 9 years, 10 months ago

As I’ve been sick at home with Bronchitis, I decided to do some research into other forms of adaptations of Dante and his Divine Comedy, and came across the Danteum. As you’ll see in the many links I’ll have pasted below, the Danteum was Giuseppe Terragni’s proposal to Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime, to build a monument in honor of the Poet in…[Read more]
Taylor Knowles wrote a new blog post Slavery and the Prison System in the group American Studies: 9 years, 10 months ago

Ever since we read the article in class, and made the connections between the prison system and slavery, I’ve been interested in reading further into this. And so in the process of researching, I found this […]
Taylor Knowles wrote a new blog post Women and Mental Illness in the group American Studies: 9 years, 10 months ago

In class today, I brought up the dichotomy of two forms of protection utilized by the women in Morrison’s works- those with mental walls, and those wielding physical weapons. It seems to be the case that the […]
Taylor Knowles wrote a new post on the site Medieval Studies 11 years, 4 months ago

In February 2015, the New York Times released a post titled “Rats may be Exonerated in European Plague, Say Scientists with a Gerbil Theory.” In the short post, they detailed the possibility that the origins of […]

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