Rei Wolfsohn

City University of New York - Hunter College | Hunter CUNY · Department of English

Centralization, De-Centralization & Regionalism of European Governments Proceeding the Middle Ages CC-BY-NC-SA

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In early 20th century America, racism against Asians was on the rise, based on a particular series of rationalizations. First, a deep distrust of Asians, that they lacked the quality and allegiance to be good citizens or residents: this racism held that they couldn't prove they would uphold the safety and power of the state. In short, they couldn't...

Two moments in Bolivian history have much in common: The Bolivian Revolution of 1952 (led by the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement, or MNR), and the ascendancy of Evo Morales with his Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) at the end of the 20th and beginning of the 21st century. Both were largely supported by the indigenous people of Bolivia. Both were...

Linguistic Analysis of the film "Idiocracy" CC-BY-NC-SA

Conference in Reference: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/08/05/the-seen-and-unseen-in-supernatural-literary-contexts-of-the-long-nineteenth-century Systems of patriarchy exist throughout 19th century literature. Phillips Stevens writes that reproduction (widely restricted in religion) is usually seen as either spiritual elevation or...

Morgan le Fay is perhaps the most well-known goddess, fairy, witch or enchantress in Western culture. She begins her life as a goddess, valorized and powerful. Then, through the medieval era, she becomes demonized and associated with lewd dealings through the dark arts of witchcraft, as the betrayer of Arthur. Morgan doesn't start out as Arthur's s...

An essay about love and honor in The Knight of the Cart.

A poem focusing on anaphora and rhythm in craft.

A poem focusing on line break in craft.

A poem about where I grew up.

A cento and an essay about it.

short story, "A Rose for Miss Emily" (1930), there is chaos, futility, pessimism, instability, a collapse of morality and values, and a confused sense of identity in the world. In short, it is a wholly modernist piece of literature. There are three main ways that this short story falls under the modernist heading: First, there is a constant sense o...

There are at least three ways in which Emerson's essay "The Poet" describes the new kind of American poet he is looking for which can be applied to Walt Whitman through his poem "Crossing Brooklyn Ferry". The first way is in how Whitman goes beyond the five senses to describe a supernatural way of being. The second way is the use of nature as a sym...

The novel I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith is rife with allusions to an adored past of English pastoral life. It is also a novel about a family distinctly set in the interwar period of the twentieth century. Dodie Smith is ambivalent about modernist features in her novel I Capture the Castle, as seen through how she has written it. At times it d...

In this excerpt from William Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper" in Songs of Innocence, Blake depicts a dream that the chimney sweeper's fellow sweeper friend Tom had. The thousands of sweepers are more than the mind can fathom and certainly more than Tom knows, so this is meant to depict an immensity and intensity that goes beyond normal life into hyper...

These five lines from The Canterbury Tales evoke various emotions and notions in the reader/listener. Each word is chosen specifically to imply a certain ethos of the character. This section of the book has its own themes as well as the greater themes in the book at large. The rhyming scheme is exact and symmetrical here. Overall, it is a playful j...

The fact that the Justin Kurzel film version of the play, starring Michael Fassbender, starts off with a scene of mourning a child really sets the mood for how dark and somber the Macbeth's lives really are. It forces the audience to sympathize with the characters and allows for an interpersonal beginning rather than the alienation of the battlefie...

In The Tempest, Prospero uses narrative to exert his power, justify his actions sufficiently and share his plans with the audience so that we are in a privileged position compared to the other characters and we know the machinations of his work. This is similar to The Winter's Tale in that Hermione demonstrates her moral and factual authority over...

Shakespeare treats self-knowledge differently in his two plays Othello and Measure for Measure. One being a tragedy, it is a lack of self-knowledge on Othello's part which creates tension and plot and begets the tragedy. In the other, a dark comedy, the proper self-knowledge of Isabella creates tension and plot and begets the comedy. In Othello, Ot...

Conspiracy Theories in Climate Change Conspiracy theories are an insidious form of disinformation that erodes our shared reality. In Elements of Journalism, Bill Kovach and Tom Rosenstiel say that truth is "complicated," but that journalism can "get at it" over time, "by stripping information of any attached misinformation, disinformation or self-p...

Thevenot tells a story of horrific violence, an explosion of deaths and a struggle to count them in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. Unfortunately, the credibility of the story is nullified by its lack of direct evidence and unreliable sources who provide baseless assertions and rumors, and hinges on our tendency to perpetuate fabulous stories....

Parable of the Sower is a piece of literature in which the world has regressed from panopticism back to violence-power, as Michel Foucault has interpreted power. The main character, Lauren, rebels through constructing a counter power-knowledge to produce a counter-narrative in the face of her violent world. Meanwhile, Lauren subverts Polanyi's "bad...

Heroism and Self-Discovery, Black Childhood and Education

Black Representation in Science Fiction

The purpose of short fiction is to be poignant, offer escape, or both. Good short fiction achieves at least one of these. This is evident in stories like “Wants” and “A Conversation With My Father” by Grace Paley, “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank” by Nathan Englander, and “Non-Zero Probabilities” by N.K. Jemisin. It is especially o...

At various points in the history of literature, new genres must be invented in order to explain a certain body of work. This is the case with Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale. The book exhibits elements of what one would call anti-fantasy. There are elements which are antithetical to the fantasy genre, while there are elements which hint at bu...

Of all the literary elements, character is the most essential to short fiction. Motivations are determined by character, which thus determines the plot. It is shown through dialogue, giving meaning to the dialogue, and the characters interact with and give lens to the setting, which in turn encodes other elements of the story. It is because of char...

How was it different coming to New York through Castle Garden as compared to coming through Ellis Island? Were the people coming through Castle Garden subject to better conditions aboard vessels? What about conditions when they got here — was the environment in Castle Garden more comfortable, friendlier or more amenable to travelers? Were they safe...

Caudillismo is the system of organizing a faction, city, or state under the leadership of a strongman archetype. A leader, the caudillo, reorganizes process and hierarchy in their territory according to their own beliefs and expediency, with the might of their perceived strength backing them. Most often, the caudillo is a military man. There were m...

Ellis Island is a place many of us know about, but few are familiar with it. The journey starts at the docks, in a line much unlike the one that immigrants used in their day. Tourists flock to the well-organized queue, where people are spaced a respectful, healthy distance from each other. Each of us dressed in our best, ready to experience a piece...

The discipline and domain of Historic Preservation must be expanded to include the preservation of intangible heritage, with a greater emphasis on oral history, if it is to remain relevant for the changing times. Museums, historical societies, historic sites, and especially living museums rely on speculation to recreate the feelings we want visitor...

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An essay on worldviews and cultures in terms of core tenets, the general validity and relativity of all worldviews, the differential usefulness of worldviews based on desired outcomes, and the need for applying the contextual worldviews to understand that context. Focusing on digesting and expanding beyond Wobogo's Two Cradle Theory, and the applic...

Seven short essays (the last four from the course final). CC-BY-NC-SA

Media literacy and ethics in Game of Thrones CC-BY-NC-SA

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Postmodernism and Anthropology, mainly but not wholly focused on Harvey's Condition of Postmodernity CC-BY-NC-SA

Postmodernism and Anthropology, mainly but not wholly focused on Harvey's Condition of Postmodernity CC-BY-NC-SA

In modern human society, news stories, human interest pieces and folk theories are rife with the concept that (certain or all) religions are a burden or an impediment to social justice; claiming religion or muslims or christians or jews are the cause of much violence (economic or armed) that is enacted. But those who make such claims are in fact re...

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Sustainability & Poverty Questionnaire (Accepting Responses, Please Participate!) CC-BY-NC-SA Email Answers To: wolfsohnrei@gmail.com ODT Version here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285299425_ODT_Sustainability__Poverty_Questionnaire_(Accepting_Responses_Please_Participate!) DOCX Version here: https://www.researchgate.net/publicatio...

Questionnaire about sustainability and poverty. CC-BY-NC-SA Email Answers To: wolfsohnrei@gmail.com DOCX version here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285600427_Sustainability__Poverty_Questionnaire_(Accepting_Responses_Please_Participate!) PDF version here: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/285600195_PDF_Sustainability__Poverty...

Monotheistic Conquest and Capitalist Colonialism CC-BY-NC-SA

The Necessity of Non-Local Fields for the Facilitation of Long-Range Telepathy(or Higher-Order Information Transfer as Emergent from Lower-Order Encoding & Non-Local Storage) (Term Paper) CC-BY-NC-SA

This was a working/preliminary outline of privacy issues, concerns and dynamics, for CeReB, CC-BY-NC-SA COLLABORATIVE FINAL VERSION: https://issuu.com/genameldazy/docs/cereb_privacy_guidelines_2015.docx?e=23980379/34114225

If you want a more reliable book about pirates than the one I critique here, try 'Bandits at Sea: A Pirates Reader ' (collection of essays edited by Pennell). It's thorough, intriguing and much more fair-minded: https://g.co/kgs/2t7vHA .... CC-BY-NC-SA

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