Hi everyone ☺︎I am Chiko Yamamoto, a 4th-year student at UBC, studying human geography 🌏The reason I began to explore my interest in Latin American culture is because of my name. Chiko (chico) means little boy in Spanish, and my parents had no ide…
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Hey there! My name is Neko Smart and I am a third year Creative Writing Major from the traditional territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən People (Victoria BC). I live in East Van with my roommate and cat, Gremlin. I am a spoken word poet trying my hand at playwriting for the first time. I am also […]
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Hello! My name is Julia and I am a second year student studying psychology. I am taking this course for my literature requirement, but also because I have a budding interest in Spanish culture. I have a small background in Spanish (culture and language) as I took Spanish language for four terms at UBC, and […]
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Hello! My name is Alyssa Almerling, and I am a third year studying sociology and family studies at UBC. I am taking this course for my arts literature requirement, but I did take RMST 202 with Professor Beasley-Murray last year. I really enjoyed his st…
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Hello! My name is Alyssa Almerling, and I am a third year studying sociology and family studies at UBC. I am taking this course for my arts literature requirement, but I did take RMST 202 with Professor Beasley-Murray last year. I really enjoyed his st…
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My name is Kelly and I am a second year student planning to major in economics and political science. I really enjoy reading in my spare time, although my Want to Read list is always outpacing my Read list and I never end up reading as much as I want. So hopefully, this course can […]
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Hello everyone! My name is Daniel Choi, I am a third-year arts student majoring in International Relations and minoring in Law and Society. As evident from my minor, I am interested in law and how it affects—and, in turn, how it is shaped by—society. I am by no means a natural reader—if there ever is […]
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When I first signed up for this course, like others in the class, I was taking it as a literature requirement that sounded somewhat interesting. It ended up being my favourite course I was in this semester. Firstly, I really enjoyed the format of this course. It made me feel like everything I was doing […]
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Amulet, to me, was a simple read. It did not feel as though the story was as hard to follow as some others we have read this term. Just like many other novellas we’ve read, the story focused a lot on the past and reflection of important moments of the narrators life, primary being locked […]
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