Final Reflection

Roman Stalick COLT 360 Gender & Identity in Literature   Final Reflection   The readings we completed this term have impacted my relationship with the world around me by making me critically analyze my connection to an ecosystem. In the past, I would have described myself as unconnected to the natural world. However, the readings […]

Artistic Curation

Artistic Curation “Sinking Beauty” By Roy Parks In this artwork called “Sinking Beauty” by Roy Park, it depicts the inevitable effects of climate change that has affected the helpless polar bears. If you look very closely, we can see a detailed drawing of a white polar bear floating in the blue water with its mouth […]

Close Reading

Roman Stalick COLT 360 Gender & Identity in Literature   Close Reading: Page 165-166 Braiding Sweetgrass   There is often a tendency for people to dichotomize scientific and indigenous knowledge. Scientific knowledge is viewed as being more specific, accurate, and real, where indigenous knowledge is seen as unclear, regressive, or just flat out false. Braiding […]

Annotated Bibliography Melnikova

Liza Melnikova COLT 360 June 7, 2022 Final Project Annotated Bibliography Candanosa, R. (2021, December 1). Reducing emissions to lessen climate change would yield dramatic health benefits by 2030 – climate change: Vital signs of the planet. NASA. This article discusses the research that scientists from NASA, Duke, and Columbia University have discovered suggesting that […]

Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography   Anthropocene By National Geographic Society “Anthropocene.” National Geographic Society, 19 May 2022, https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/anthropocene.   In this article written by the National Geographic Society, they discuss the idea of the Anthropocene. Anthropocene is the idea of the world being in a new geological period resulted in the effects humans have had on this […]

Close Reading

Rebecca Daniel Close Reading: Braiding Sweetgrass “People of Corn, People of Light” Pg 343                 After recounting a story of the creation of the perfect people by the gods and their failures before creating the perfect people, of corn instead of mud, wood, or light, our author ponders on the use of corn and what […]

Final Reflection

Rebecca Daniel Final Reflection I came into this class not knowing what comparative literature was or what the course would look like. I was nervous that there would be tons of writing and that I would struggle to keep up. I came out of this class feeling challenged and engaged in a way that I […]

Annotated Bibliography

Rebecca Daniel Annotated Bibliography   Source 1: Benson, Thor. “AI Can Help Fight Climate Change—But It Can Also Make It Worse”. Popular Science, 2022, https://www.popsci.com/environment/climate-change-ai/. Thor Benson’s article on AI and climate change looks at how AI can help slow climate while also being a potential contributor to climate change as well. Benson discusses the efforts […]

Sean Crysler Final Reflection

The readings that were covered in this class had a significant impact on my personal relations with the world around me by providing me with new literature to glean new knowledge from. If we view books of fiction or personalized non-fiction as a lens from which one can view the thoughts and actions of an […]

Sean Crysler Curation

This artwork, a piece titled “Our Future” by 13-year-old Jane Zhang is a painting fundamentally rooted in raising awareness to climate change, as it was submitted specifically into an Ocean Awareness art contest hosted by Bow Seat Ocean Awareness Programs. The artwork depicts a polar bear hosting a large variety of different scenes alongside the […]

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