Entries by Daphne Hanson

Disability Narratives class

What do you hope to learn from the Disability Narratives class? What sorts of positive or negative stories and stereotypes do you notice about disability and disabled people in media, books, television, or online?

History of the English church

What is your impression of Bede’s famous work on the history of the English church? Why is it still regarded as one of the most influential works of early medieval European scholarship? Does he deserve the title of the ‘Venerable’? Why or why not?

The Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx said that the Industrial Revolution divided humans into two classes: the proletariat or bourgeoisie or the upper class, wealthy owners of the business; and the proletariat or bourgeoisie, or lower class workers who were exploited by the former class.

Black American experience

Explain how the narrative of suffering has focused on only the African/Black American experience in this country, even though all suffered and many had the same fate at the hands of colonizers and this nation.