A dystopia is a world created based on fears the creator faces within present society. In the duration of this course, we have talked a lot about dystopias and their different components. Though I understood the roles the type of leadership and technology play in dystopias I found myself continuously Continue reading
This podcast project has definitely been a small hurdle in my semester but I truly enjoyed the work. I haven’t had the best experiences working in groups during my undergraduate career. I always had the issues of taking over due to classmates that were slacking or just being bossy and Continue reading
A utopia is defined as “an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect”. While I know that one can never achieve perfection, I do believe that one can strive towards it. The same is true in understanding the goals of society. The writer Kim Stanley Robinson Continue reading
When dealing with the severe circumstances that usually plague dystopian societies, it is a bit uncommon for characters to rely on religion. In Brown Girl in The Ring, the main character, Ti-Jean, not only relies on her deities for guidance but also uses them to fight against the injustices she Continue reading
So my group is doing our podcast on iRobot. I think things are going pretty well and we’ve been collaborating nicely. One of the main things we haven’t discussed for the podcast are our outside sources of things to talk about in relation to any outside audio. Though we haven’t Continue reading
My experiences in groups for classwork have been pretty mixed between good and bad. I started out with really bad experiences, especially my freshman year. I just had a really hard time getting everyone on the same page and getting my group mates to get their work done. That, in Continue reading
A dystopia is an imagined civilization based on the very real downfalls of today’s society. When I think of dystopian societies I often think of literature like The Hunger Games, Divergent and Fahrenheit 451. One of the main things I’ve noticed in these novels is that the issues at the Continue reading
