Site-Wide Activity

Earlier, we discussed the symbolism of the train in Hurston’s Jonah’s Gourd Vine, Reverend J.M. Gates’ “Death’s Black Train is Coming,” along with a secondary article, John M. Giggie’s After Redemption: Jim C […]

Prompt 8

I wanted to continue writing about what Carly started writing about in terms of our group discussion on Tuesday. I really like the analysis of “burning” as Gabriel feeling like he is already in Hell. […]

            My project is on the importance of what Gatorade has done
over the years to become so successful, and how it helps people. Gatorade is a
company that is used a lot for its beloved sports […]

In “The Tale of Two Cities in James Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain,” Charles Scruggs of the University of Arizona argues that while many view Baldwin’s work as a Bildungsroman or as a particular […]

Prompt 14

The biggest change between the film and the print text is the chronology and how the flashbacks are worked in. Rather than Gabriel, Florence, and Elizabeth each having their own distinct flashback […]

The use of dirt and filth is very interesting in Go Tell It on the Mountain. Gabriel is always complaining about how dirty he thinks that the house is and saying that his wife should keep it cleaner. His obsession […]

The Tale of Two Cities critical article argues that “Baldwin juxtaposes two cities, the earthly and the heavenly, and together they help to focus the novels various themes: father and son, individual and c […]

Prompt 8

“So he had fallen:  for the first time since his conversion, for the last time in his life.  Fallen:  he and Esther in the white folks’ kitchen, the light burning, the door half open, grappling and bu […]

The first prompt about the differences in kinds of love explored within the novel is really interesting. It seems as though Eros flows through the boys easily and naturally. This is also true of Gabriel. John and […]

Dishes and recipes can be made by anyone of any culture and of any background. Italian people can make a stir-fry. French people can make a chicken tikka masala. There is a beautiful aura about food from a […]

How is it that food alters or influences our behaviors— positively, without guilt? For this project, I look to one of the happiest countries in the world, Denmark. The Danes are known for partaking in the S […]

2020 has been a long year for everyone and it was a challenging to finish my salamander fieldwork for this year. I have several large, ongoing projects with local salamanders but under normal circumstances, I […]

As we settle down for the holidays, we are most likely snacking on our favorite treats and goodies, so I thought this would be the best time to enlighten you on one of the less thought about sweets, white […]

Vietnamese people’s experiences in America and abroad can best be summed up as tumultuous. Not necessarily having a smooth introduction, Vietnamese people first started immigrating to the US during the mid 1 […]

The
American diet is notorious for its poor content. This insufficient quality is
known for contributing to high obesity and disease rates. While many different
forms of advertising and education have been […]

Street
food has been in America longer than the United States has existed. Starting
with some of the first settlers and then developing into the food trucks and
street vendors we see today. Tied with that, street […]