Serving Strong
First, a Soldier is a Soldier for life.
Reflecting on Brave Actions – Patriot Day 2021
VA Benefits – VITAL Program for Mental Fitness in College
Many Veterans enter college and university life directly out of the military. This is a significant life transition, and most people need time to adjust to the new setting, culture, and experiences of campus life. This transition is more difficult for some Veterans than for others. They may need more help with physical or mental health issues or . . .
Changing the Guard
2020, was a difficult time for most of us attending college. In the chaos of the last year, we saw several staff members who moved beyond STRIPES VUB. We know they will always continue the important work that we do in one way or another.
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Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Oedipus Rex, and Self-Fulfilling Prophesy
Macbeth is by far my favorite Shakespearean play for several reasons, the most prominent of which is the supernatural element of the Witches and their prophecy which disrupts and changes the fates of the play’s characters. Beyond that, it is a remarkably short play; whose own brevity works to highlight the quick and desperate backslide into madness . . .
Twelfth Night, Masks, and Gender as Performance
Please note: this blog post contains reclaimed and academic instances of the term ‘queer,’ which I recognize has a history outside of academia and reclamation as a tool for hate speech and degradation in the past. If you are someone for whom this word may cause issue, please take heed.
Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night is one of the Bard’s . . .
Othello Cultural History.
Hey, guys! Today we’re going to talk about the play, Othello, and the cultural history behind this work.
Since the beginning of time, the black experience has been complex and hard to look back on.
Whether Shakespeare knew it or not, Othello became part of the black community’s culture the moment he wrote . . .
The Winter’s Tale : Seasons
In The Winter’s Tale, there’s an importance put on the idea of seasons and how they represent the things happening in the play as well as how the people in the settings during the time of the seasons. A prime example of this can be seen in how the play is set up in the acts and scenes.
To begin, In the second Act we are given a definitive . . .
Shakespeare’s ‘“The Winter’s Tale”: From Destructive to Harmonious Relations by Kristen Acevedo
The word Shakespeare can convey all sorts of images and conceptions, some will think of Macbeth and a bloody dagger, or Hamlet holding a skull. But do you ever think about a harmonious relationship between men and women with roles being expanded for women as characters? Most likely not, but that is what this post is . . .
Comparing Shakespeare to Myth: The Winter’s Tale and Rhiannon
William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale depicts a story about a crazed, jealous king and his family’s fate. Loyalty was the strongest theme in this play, followed by forgiveness. King Leontes assumed his wife, Hermione, had betrayed her loyalty to him by having an affair with the King of Bohemia. Many had tried . . .
Othello, Blackness, and 16th and 17th Century Art
A central idea in discussing Othello is “blackness”. As much as the European canon questions the existence of Black people in an attempt to erase them from history, they occupied as much space . . .