Professor Laura Westengard
Email: lwestengard@citytech.cuny.edu
Office Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays from 10:30-11:30 am and by appointment
Office/Mailbox Location: Namm 503
Phone Number: (718) 260-5761-
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Blog 9 Essay 3
For essay 3 I will be using the movie “Where The Wild Things Are” based of the book by Maurice Sendak. The gothic metaphor I will be using is monsters, and the social issue I will be relating to is: … Continue reading
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blog post number 9
i think for essay #3 i will be using the TV series The Walking Dead. The series follows a group of survivors in a world overcome by a zombie Apocalypse. zombies and other groups of survirors fighting each other for … Continue reading
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Blog 6 Question 9
In the very beginning of the book when she (Dorothy Allison) and her class get “a substitute teacher right put of college and full of ideas”(pg7). I was extremely intrigued by these four short paragraphs. I felt it set a … Continue reading
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Question #3
In this story there is a wanting and a calling for the American Dream. To be able to get higher in social status, to own a home, to make a good honest living, to be well American. Our narrator is a … Continue reading
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Question 8
Sal from On the Road is similar to David from Giovanni’s room. Through the course of both books, I find they both come to admire and want to be like people that are nothing like their own person. They both … Continue reading
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I agree with you, through out the story David was force or presured by Giovanni or Hella to do something somehow or another, but he didn’t make any decisions for himself that I think got him in the position that … Continue reading
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I think the text approached the controversial subject of homosexuality as neutral. For me I think it was only providing information, for the readers to understand the story better. Telling the story from points of views at time. Also I … Continue reading
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Blog 2, #8
To me i think The actual room represents or symbolizes for giovanni a place of shelter, almost like his reset place, where he would go and in his mind everything is back to normal, in some cases its like that … Continue reading
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blog post 3
I do agree that Dean Moriarty is the center of this novel. I agree with Dean Mariarty beacuse the aurthor introduces Dean before the narrator. Dean’s behavior/lifestyle is that he will do what he wants when he wants. I’d also say … Continue reading
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