Question 5: Is there anything else you’d like us to know about you?
Not that I know of! Excited to work with everyone this semester.
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- Jan 2022
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Question 4: What are your interests outside of academia? Do you have any hobbies? Are you into anything interesting or quirky?
Anything with my husband - hiking, cooking, reading, taking photos, traveling, or just talking. As a personal hobby, I like to write and enjoy graphic design!
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Question 3: What do you enjoy reading in your spare time? Be specific.
I really quite like anything by Tolkein. One author aside, "On Evil" by Terry Eagleton and "But What If We're Wrong?" by Chuck Klosterman are a few of my favorite titles that I read over and over. Currently re-reading "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath!
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Question 2: What do you know about American literature already? For example, what courses in college or high school provided you with some kind of foundation? What American lit authors, books, or poetry have you enjoyed? What did you not enjoy?
I took one a long time ago, but more recent was an English literature class and I quite enjoyed that. Moreover, I took American Lit I with Professor Gladd before and enjoyed how that class was taught immensely! If it's the same format as 2 years before, I imagine I'll like it just the same. As for authors I like F. Scott Fitzgerald, some Nathanial Hawthorne, and Walt Whitman.
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Question 1: Why are you taking this course?
I had taken an English literature course while I was an exchange student. When I returned home and had to begin my studies here, I chose American literature one of my first courses and now I'm here to complete American Lit II!
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They asked Turquoise Boy if he would become the sun, and they asked White Shell Girl if she would become the moon.
This I love and wonder if this is why we now, traditionally, paint the moon as female and the sun as male irregardless of modern Western beliefs. Surely, this could be the start of that view point.
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“The women think they can live without us,” he told them. “Let us see if that is true.”
More or less, this paragraph is risible. It surprises me, sometimes, just how stories are created and what went through one's head to have rationalized these set of interactions and decisions.
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He told First Man and First Woman that he had been hatched from an egg, and knew all that was under the water and all that was in the skies. First Man believed him. Then a second coyote, Áłtsé Hashké, First Angry, appeared. He said to the three, “You believe that you were the first persons. You are mistaken. I was living when you were formed.” First Angry brought witchcraft into the world.
This entire passage reminds me closely of the bible's story - could be mistaken on which book it is - of Adam and Eve. Of course, it's not clearly alike, but has the same underlined trope built out of jealousy and hate.
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“Beauty” and “harmony” refer to how one lives in relation to the environment, but these forms of hózhó also apply to the crafts and products that the Navajo make
Hózhó encloses not only morals and ethics, but is also applied to aesthetics. It is a philosophy that attempts to express concepts that a human may attempt to live and not necessarily a religion, much like Buddhism.
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“right relations of the world, including human and nonhuman beings, who are of the world as its storied and dynamic substance, not in the world as a container.”
Much like many Western beliefs, the point of religion and culture is to weave together humans. The Navajo is no different, tying together those non human and human.
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hózhó was given to the Navajo by the female deity Yoołgaii Asdzáá
Already, I am able to see what is unique in contrast to Western beliefs. Typically, a female - much less a deity - would not be so idealized or used as a key factor in a Western Religion.
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