Site-Wide Activity

Mañana, tengo que hacer mucho. Primer, tengo que asistir a tres de mis cuatros clases. Afortunadamente, mi clase de historia de sexualidad fue cancelada así que voy a tener más tiempo para las cosas que tengo qu […]

MLK Day Reflection

Peyton O’Laughlin

I grew up in a small, predominantly white, rural town in Southwest Ohio and we always got the third Monday of January off for school. I never really knew why we didn’t […]

Tengo que ir de compras porque necesito la comida, el champú y el papel. Voy a ir a la tienda el domingo. Domingo es el dĺa cuando tengo más tiempo. Cuando voy a la tienda voy a Beuhlers generalmente pero po […]

Emilee McCubbins, Marcel Elkouri, Hannah Sullivan, Gerald Dryden

Disney’s Treatment of Accent

In Zootopia, there is typically just stereotypical, general American accents reminiscent of the northeastern U […]

As I mentioned in class, I want to make sure that you all know about this upcoming performance by Alex Alpharaoh on January 31st at 7pm,

Below, I share the announcement from my colleague, Dr. […]

My experience with these three pieces was interesting because I began with the Henry Louis Gates Jr. article, “Ending the Slavery Blame-Game”. I was specifically compelled by a paragraph on page 3 that makes […]

Language varieties

Mr. Incredible – GA (Craig T. Nelson)
Edna Mode – GE (composite)
Syndrome – GA (Jason Lee)
Frozone – RA (Samuel L. Jackson)
Gilbert Huph (Bob Parr’s boss) – GA (Wallace […]

Will Courtney, Patrick Redrick, Sejeong Lee

1/25/16

Language varieties in the film: What are the language varieties used in this film? And which characters are associated with which variety? Do the […]

Our main activity for today’s class was to work in small groups for the Wikipedia Article assignment. Each group was assigned with a primary source that relates to the history of indigenous people in Brazil. We s […]

1. The language varieties used in the film(s) are mostly General and Regional. The main characters, Woody and Buzz, reflect a more general accent while
more minor characters such as Jessie, Mrs & Mr. Potato Head, […]

3:20 – He discusses media and the language used to teach us about the world. Financial gain shapes the way companies produce media and, therefore, the ways media influences the “conversation” based on what […]

We all like to make jokes about stories we hear being ‘fake news’ and poke fun at the politicians who debunk true stories about them as invalid, but the issues of the fake news phenomenon is much more serious tha […]

Louis Austin and the Carolina Times: A Life in the Long Black Freedom Struggle  by Jerry Gershenhorn

Louis Austin (1898–1971) came of age at the nadir of the Jim Crow era and became a transformative leader of […]

The introduction of Wikipedia’s article on the “indigenous peoples in Brazil” contains several interesting pieces of information – most starkly the scale by which the region’s indigenous population declined […]

Last August, the first major exhibition of queer art was shut down earlier than scheduled at the Santander Cultural in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The art exhibition was called Queermuseu or Queer Museum, and […]

Does Lippi-Green sometimes go too far in her accusations of racism in Disney movies? Do the animated medium and the films’ primary demographic justify some decisions made by Disney (e.g. Scar’s distinctly British […]