Andrew Yang Extra Credit Event

I thought that this was an interesting event, and it opened my eyes to a lot of new concepts I had never heard of before. One of these is open primaries. Open primaries are where voters don’t have to necessarily be registered with a specific party to vote for candidates. I’m not super well-versed in the political systems right now, but to me, this makes sense. If you don’t closely…

Final Two Books

For my last passion blog, I thought that I would write about two of the books I didn’t get a chance to get to. The first is a book that I would genuinely recommend you read, and the second is a book that I wouldn’t want to subject anyone to reading. (Try and guess which is which from the slideshow. Trust me, it’s not hard.) The Poppy War by R.F.…

TED Talk Slides

Here I have linked my rough draft slideshow presentation. Ted Talk Presentation The order of the slides follows this format: First topic: Women in the workforce. Here I will talk about how in the 1950s many middle-class white women only worked so that families could buy more luxury goods, but as second-wave feminism began, more and more women overall joined the workforce. This meant that the household chores needed to…

The Man in the High Castle by Philip Dick

Today I am going to discuss one of my least favorite book/tv show combinations. Man in the High Castle is a fairly popular TV show on Amazon Prime. It was adapted from the novel of the same name by Philip Dick. It’s a Hugo-Award-winning novel that was extremely influential in the science fiction genre. However, I hate it. This is one of the few book-to-TV adaptations where the show is…