Technology Diary
Video games are underrated. We all grew up hearing stay away from the T.V. and stop playing video games, those things will rot your brain, the violence will corrupt you… all that jazz, but what people don’t know is that video games can actually be good for you. I grew up playing Super Mario on […]
Technology Diary
In China, there is a system called Rent-A-Boyfriend where Chinese women rent boyfriends in order to please their parents. In China, finding a partner before a certain age is very important so parents are constantly pressuring their daughters, especially around Chinese New Year’s or Chinese Single’s Day when women come home to see their parents. […]
The Year of The Flood
The Year of The Flood describes this uneasy relationship between science and religion. The God’s Gardeners are an eccentric, eco-friendly, seemingly religiously oriented group that may be the future of religion. The Gardeners respect science and don’t believe the creation story should be taken literally, a belief that’s not very common in this seemingly Christian group. […]
Reading Response
“As for writing, it was dangerous, said the Adams and the Eves, because your enemies could trace you through it, and hunt you down, and use your words to condemn you.”(pg. 5) From the start this idea of words being used a tool for destruction floats around the book. As the novel progresses, we see […]
Reading Response 10/24
I had a really good time reading the first few chapters of Year of the Flood. I thought it was really interesting to note the balance between the futuristic and archaic aspects of the Gardeners society, a balance that’s very similar to our modern day world. When the Waterless Flood hits Atwood structures the book so that […]
Reading Response
When I first began reading this article I was really interested to see how Somerville would be able to tie race with homosexuality. To me, the only gaping connection I could make is the discrimination that’s generally associated with the two. Somerville starts out by saying that sex is the problem. Crazy, right? But, not […]
Reading Response: De Lauretis
In our society, we constantly look for a way to put a label on things, a way to identify and categorize, and as our society evolves our labels also evolve to suit the way we’re thinking, to accommodate how we are shaping our world. When we think about feminism, the first thing that usually comes […]
Introductions
Hey Everyone! My name is Myrna Hanna and I’m a sophomore at CCNY. I’m currently undecided, but I’m leaning towards majoring in chemical engineering. I was just added to this course, because there were some techinicalities with my ePermit, but I’m very excited. This is the second Macaulay class I will be taking this semester, […]
