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Arabian Nights: A mad King filled with rage is scorned by an unfaithful wife and comes to a faulty realization that all women shall not be trusted. From there, he decides he is going to sleep with a different woman every night just to kill her the next day. This story told by several different […]

Going into FYS I was not sure what to expect. I only knew that it was a writing based course and that my literacy skills were about to be challenged. However this was not the case. Yes, I did get critiqued on my literal writing ability, but we also were introduced to finding why we […]

Right from the start of the film, it was shocking to see such good camera quality in a film dating back to the 1940s -not to mention the film was in color. The moving picture did not fall short of great action shots, scenic panoramas, and great music. The movie was obviously a baseline story […]

by Jackson Smith In the story, Aladdin, directed by Ron Clements, a poor street rat roams the streets of Agrabah striving for a better life. He survives by stealing from vendors and living off of scraps. Further, into the story, he meets a girl named Jasmine and discovers that she is a rich princess that […]

Jackson D Smith Introductions 10/30/2022 The overall claim/thesis: “My aim here is to offer not an exhaustive inventory of the features of the Orientalist photograph but a preliminary description of some of its discontinuous and scattered traits, situating them specifically in the historical context of their formation.”(Behdad 11) The view of Orient has not been […]

Paraphrasing Have you heard? Changing meanings With just one word Rewrite life With just a pen Paraphrase once Then do it again It may seem hard It may seem tough Switching words up is easy Till you can’t get enough Change the past  It’ll be a blast Be the best there is Don’t wind up […]

10/20/22 Reading the Scope of Orientalism, Chapter 1, for the third time, allowing for me to obtain a better understanding of the text. Reading a third time through allowed me to use context information from the text to identify the meaning of unfamiliar words. In the first few pages, rereading made me realize just how […]

Final Draft Essay #1 Jackson Smith Dr. Albert FYS Arabian Nights 16 October 2022 Aladdin Analysis The wind blows with sand in the air while a merchant and his camel go riding in the hot and dry deserts of Agrabah as he begins to sing, “I come from a land. From a faraway place. Where […]

This film was a great source to shine a light behind the closed doors of Hollywood. Hollywood has been painting a bad picture for Arabs and Muslims since the early 1950s and the stereotype of Arabs being terrorists has been engrained into American culture. Jewish, Black, and Asian stereotypes have at this point been diminished, […]

Jackson Smith 10/3/2022 FYS Essay 1 Rough Draft “I come from a land. From a faraway place. Where the caravan camels roam. Where they cut off your ear if they don’t like your face. Its barbaric, but hey, it’s home”(Ashman). This quote is stated within the first minute of the Disney movie, Aladdin. However, what […]