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Posted by Jacobo Pastor in College English · Giknis · C Band on

Hello! The JSHow is back! In today’s episode, we will continue discussing the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. We will analyze chapters 9-19 with various literary lenses, such as the Feminist and Marxist lense.

Evidence: “would not consent to take a fraction more than what was due to her.” (22) “I’ll finish all of them in the island” (60) “Mate, it’s because I thinks gold dust of you-gold dust, and you may lay to that! (75)

Hope you enjoy the podcast and see you all next week!

-Jacobo, Shana, Harlem

Little Sisters Podcast James, Kamil, and William

Posted by James Adams in College English · Giknis · C Band on

Title: Different Views
Podcast Title: Little Sisters

Summary:
In this episode we look through three literary lenses and apply them to what happens during our reading of 1984 by George Orwell. We pay special attention to O'Brien and Winston's interaction. We also look Dreams, and women's roles in the society.

Evidence:

  • O’Brien invites Winston to his place to review the tenth edition of the Newspeak dictionary (161)

  • “Do you know that until this moment I believed I had murdered my mother?” (164)

  • The chapters in Goldstein’s book are titled with the same political propaganda that the party delivers over and over: “Ignorance is strength,” “War is peace,” etc. (188)

  • “I don’t mean confessing. Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn’t matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you—that would be the real betrayal.” (170)

  • “The whole atmosphere of the huge block of flats, the richness and spaciousness of everything, the unfamiliar smells of good food and good tobacco…” (171)

  • “The past is whatever the records and memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it.” (219)

  • “It was behind the picture” (227)

  • “It was my little daughter. She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying, and nipped off to the patrols the very next day.” (240)

Mask Off: Episode 2

Posted by Lauryn Lewis in College English · Giknis · C Band on

Podcast Name: Mask Off
Group Members: Zaire, Lauren, Lauryn
Episode Title: Literary Lenses

For this episode, we will dig in once again to "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison. The main focus on this episode is the different lenses that we chose to discuss regarding the book and the characters. We used the Feminist Lens as well as the New Historicist Lens. We used both of the lens to look deeper into how two of the main characters were treated. One was an older lady who spent her life taking care of others instead of herself and the other was a little girl who was always being blamed for things that were out of her control. 

"Suddenly Pecola bolted straight up, her eyes wide with terror. A whinnying sound came from her mouth. 
"What's the matter with you?" Freida stood up too.
Then we both looked where Pecola was staring. Blood was running down her legs. Some drops were on the steps. I leaped up. "Hey. You cut yourself? Look. It's all over your dress."
A brownish-red stain discolored the back of her dress. She kept whinnying, standing with her legs far apart.
Frieda said, "Oh. Lordy! I know. I know what that is!"
"What?" Pecola's fingers went to her mouth.
"That's ministratin'." (27)


The Jash Episode 2

Posted by Hamidou Doumbia in College English · Giknis · C Band on

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It’s catchy and fun it’s not boring.   
The Jash
by: Sydney Rogers, Israt Jahan, Avi Cantor, Hamidou Doumbia
Episode 2:

In this episode of Jash we will discuss the literary lenses. We connect previous chapters to three type literary lenses. We hope you tune in to next week episode and enjoy.

Evidence:

Chapter 11-20

Link:

https://www.wevideo.com/view/1282321919


This Is How We View It: Act 3

Posted by Lilly Roman in College English · Giknis · C Band on

Eggs with a Side of Hamlet by Leo Cassel-Siskind, Lilly Roman, Alan Li, Paxton Wentzell While we all read up both Act 3 and Act 4, we decided to focus mainly on Act 3, due to time. Act 4 will be discussed next week along with Act 5, the end of our book. In our podcast today, we spent a lot of time talking about Hamlet and the revelations that he was faking his outbursts. We also talked about revenge and its impact on many of Hamlet’s actions, specifically his choice not to kill Claudius unless he was actively sinning. Finally, we spent a chunk of time talking about feminism and how women are treated throughout the play.

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“To be or not to be” Act 3, Scene 1, line 58

Hamlet loses his cool with Ophilia regarding his love for her. Act 3, Scene 1, around line 100

Claudius and Polonius spy on Hamlet. Act 3, Scene 1, lines 150-190

Claudius reacts to knowing the Hamlet knew that he kid the former King. Act 3, Scene 3, lines 1-50

Hamlet won’t kill Claudius until he is actively sinning. Act 3, Scene 3, end

Hamlet’s treatment of his mother. Act 3, Scene 4, lines 1-20

Hamlet kills Polonius. Act 3, Scene 4, lines 22-29.

He hides Polonius’ body and won’t say where it is. Act 3, Scene 4, end


The Hydrangea Effect

Posted by Imani Murray in College English · Giknis · C Band on

​Lily, Imani, Kiah, Zoey 

What we talked about :

In the book "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker. We focused on literal and Figurative language. As the podcast begins we started talking about the background of the book and a basic introduction to the main characters. We start focusing on the one character Sophia who shows us that she is very strong and won't take abuse from anyone as Celie does. Zoey brings a quote up that talks about a metaphor that Celie said. She compared herself to a tree. In most of her letters that she writes is metaphors because she may get in trouble for writing the letters. As the talk continues we start to talk about Celie and Netties relationship. When they were separated Nettie said she would write Celie but never did. The last thing that we hit to talk about is"Mr.Blank." We want to know why he doesn't have a name. We felt like it's because she wanted to have her name instead of his. 


Evidence used :

Pg 1-96 

" all my life I had to fight... I never thought that I would have to fight in my own home."
"I make myself wood"

Video :

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.youtube.com/embed/VVge4xeMM1g&sa=D&ust=1546962087634000&usg=AFQjCNGA9jG0G97ebfNnY9RAXsG0H-t8ZQ

Mask Off

Posted by Lauryn Lewis in College English · Giknis · C Band on

Lauryn, Lauren, Zaire

Title of Podcast: Mask Off
Title of Episode: Recovering the Undercover

What We Talked About: 
In this episode we talked about figurative speech and how that has affected us as the readers. The book we are currently reading is called "The Bluest Eye". One of the main things we focused on was the meaning behind marigolds and what they actually represented in the book. The author mentioned that no marigolds rose that season because Pecola happened to get pregnant by her Father which was a sin. The idea of plants, seeds, and growth played a big role in this reading because it focused on becoming a woman, pregnancy, and how sins committed in the world would turn into God punishing everyone about them.

"We had dropped our seeds in our own little plot of black dirt just as Pecola's father had dropped his seeds in his own plot of black dirt. Our innocence and faith were no more productive than his lust or despair. What is clear now is that of all of that hope, fear, lust, love, and grief, nothing remains but Pecola and the unyielding earth. Cholly Breedlove is dead; our innocence too. The seeds shriveled and died; her baby too."

"Quiet as it's kept, there were no marigolds in the fall of 1941."

(All page numbers are not in the book.)


Introducing Hamlet: Act 1&2

Posted by Lilly Roman in College English · Giknis · C Band on

Eggs With A Side of Hamlet by Leo Cassel-Siskind, Lilly Roman, Alan Li, Paxton Wentzell In this episode we introduce the characters ofthe play Hamlet, written by Shakespeare. We attempt to make sense out of whatcan often be complicated text so as to put the listener in the best position moving forward by first delving into the mystical appearance of the ghost of the former king and the response by his son Hamlet. We pressed on into the rather awkward topic of how the former king’s wife had married his brother, the new king. Finally, we tried to get a better understanding of Hamlet’s emotional state and perhaps even more importantly how his emotional state is perceived.

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Evidence/Topics Discussed
 Act 1 Scene 2 > Claudius & Gertrude's Hasty marriage, Hamlet's unhappiness
 Act 1 Scene 3 > Laertes and Polonius warn Ophelia
 Act 1 Scene 4 > Hamlet meets and talks with the Ghost of King Hamlet
 Act 1 Scene 5 > King Hamlet's Death. Hamlet swears vengeance
 Act 2 Scene 1 > Hamlet appears to be insane. Polonius assume he is going through Ophelia withdrawl
 Act 2 Scene 2 > Polonius is spying on Hamlet while Hamlet plans to uses a play to trip a guilty reaction from Claudius

Little Sister Podcast by Kamil, William and James(in spirit)

Posted by Kamil Kielar in College English · Giknis · C Band on

Episode 1: The Literal and the Figurative


This episode is about the novel 1984 by George Orwell. We begin the podcast by discussing the history of the creation of the novel and the inspiration for the novel. We continue by giveing a short summary about the sections of the novel we have read so far. Once all the context for the discussion is given, we begin by focusing on the character of Julia. We talk about her intentions and reasons for the commiting the actions she does. Moving on to the main character we begin a comparison of the two seeing how they are contradictory characters yet end up together in a relationship of sorts. Then we continue to talk about the language of the novel and how they are limited in their speech. The language of newspeak has a very limited vocabulary and character are never really able to truly express themselves. Lastly we end off the discussion by talking about the big oxymorons which are shown throughout the novel.


Evidence


  • “The eyes follow you about when you move” (1)

  • “The black mustachioed face gazed down from every commanding corner” (2)

  • “You had to live in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized” (3)

  • “FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. WAR IS PEACE. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH” (16)

  • “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER” (19)

  • Memory holes (39)

  • “I love you” (110)

  • Renting Mr. Charrington's room (142)

  • Julia brings luxuries that only the inner party gets access to (144)

  • Winston and Julia discuss Brotherhood (157)

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Podcast

Uptop Books Water for Elephants Podcast #1

Posted by Naima DeBrest in College English · Giknis · C Band on

College English Water for Elephants Book Club Logo
College English Water for Elephants Book Club Logo
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  1. The name of your podcast
Uptop Books 

  1. The names of the group members
Naima DeBrest, Kyianna Thomas, Lauren Matthews

  1. The title of the episode
Episode 1: Literal and Figurative 

  1. The podcast logo
Above the video 

  1. A brief blurb (a paragraph) about your episode 
    (make sure this includes the title/author of the book)
The book that we are reading is Water for Elephant by Sara Gruen. It as written in 2006 but it takes place in 1932. It chronicles the life of a young man named Jacob who leaves veterinary school and joins the circus. As the story goes on a love triangle arises and tensions in the foundation of the circusare revealed. For this podcast we will be talking about pages 1-104. 
  1. A list of the evidence used (with page numbers) for listeners to locate as desired
“I used to carry water for the elephants,” says McGuinty. I drop my fork and look up. He is positively dripping with self-satisfaction, just waiting for the girls to fawn over him. “You did not,” I say. There is a beat of silence."

“Here,” he says, pointing at a pair of buckets. “Use these.” “But what about Walter?” I ask, reading the name from the side of one of them. “Oh, I know Walter. He’ll understand. Got a razor?”

. “Auggie says you’re a vet.” At the sound of his name, August spins around. “No,” I say. “Imean, not exactly.” “He’s being modest,” says August. 
  1. A streamable link to your podcast recording that is publicly accessible (10ish minutes)
    (YouTube might be the easiest option here)

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