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Favorite Lectures

Favorite Lectures


Fishbowl!
Every single fishbowl in class just got better and better that I cannot even pick which one I liked the most! I found this idea of teaching to be very fun and engaging which made me really enjoy the topics that were up for discussion. I loved how each person had different ideas and beliefs which made each and every conversation very open-minded which I love. This style of teaching is much better than just a professor reading word for word from the textbook, this shows character and enthusiasm. I loved the one we had outside, it was such a perfect day and Dean sat underneath the Chery blossom tree. I feel that I was very involved with these talks which made me enjoy the conversations and class even more!

A Streetcar Named Desire PowerPoint!
Wow I loved this one! I read this play a couple of years ago and hated it. I believed that the play was so sexually oriented that it disgusted me. However, Professor Mignano-Brady showed me the in-depth symbolism and meaning through the use of her PowerPoint. The idea of illusion intrigued me and honestly made me start questioning everything! The use of the movie was remarkable! Everything from the acting and the cinematography was just amazing. It also showed me the physical reactions of the characters in a much better way than what I imagined from reading the play. 

Poetry!
This was by far the best unit in the class! I never really understood poetry until this unit. I was taught how you are supposed to listen to poetry and not read it. This makes me like poetry even more now. The amount of symbolic meaning in each word truly baffles me. Over the summer I will plan on going to a poetry gathering in the city to see it in person. The clips from live events and the poem P.O.W was so beautiful to me. I felt like I was submersed with the symbolic truth of life. I love poetry so much I even wrote my own! It is about the one percent in America, the rich of the rich, who control everything and let the poor get poorer. I call it The Circle.
              
No money ever breaks off from the circle

Families who work hard, who don't have food on the table

Don't feed in into their lies, open your eyes just a little

No money ever breaks off from the circle

They steal your money for their revenue

People dying while they are buying up on 6th Avenue

No money ever breaks off from the circle

-Don Mahalli

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