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Holiday in a Burning City (Allyson Ye)

Welcome to Hong Kong! The pavement is your runway. Buildings gallop to the clouds, announcing your arrival to the heavens. Mornings, you sail through cool, perfumed malls; shopping bags sway on each arm, awhirl with thumb-sized delicacies, crystal jewelry, designer clothing, paraphernalia of the everyday visitant. (Occasionally, your eyes flit by the stooped old woman […]

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A Broken Marriage Between Reformers: How Nazi Anti-Miscegenation Laws Changed Southern White Reformers’ Understanding of African American Rights from 1935-1945

This is a research paper written by Jenny Guo for her American Studies course at Choate Rosemary Hall during the Spring term of the 2019-2020 academic year. Due to the limits of WordPress blog posts, the proper footnotes present in the original research paper on this site cannot be displayed on this site. However, all […]

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百人一首 (yuko tanaka)

This is a collection of traditional Japanese Wakas and their translations recommended by Yuko Tanaka. 百人一首 contains one hundred Wakas by one hundred poets. They are also playing cards.“Waka” (和歌) is a type of Japanese poetry, that contains syllables: 5, 7, 5, 7, 7 in this order. 2. 持統天皇 春過ぎて 夏来にけらし 白妙の 衣ほすてふ 天の香具山 Spring has passed,And the white robes […]

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