This is a presentation that I did on the Taíno people. They are an indigenous group of people who live in Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and the Bahamas. When I did this presentation, I was in the first semester of my sophomore year, so right at the beginning of my Global …
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Democratic Backsliding
Paper reflection for a Javanese Gamelan Concert from my Javanese Gamelan Class
This is a reflection that I wrote in my Javanese Gamelan class. The Javanese Gamelan is an instrument that is played in Indonesia and takes influence from a variety of cultures. Gamelan is from Indonesia, but has some Indian influence because of their close history. The instrument and the ensemble have evolved over time, and …
Climate Change in Indonesia
This is a policy proposal I wrote for my Environmental Studies class, Polycrisis: Investigating Our World Crisis of Ecology, Economics, Empire. I took this class in the fall of my senior year. In the class, we looked at how the environment, financial, and geopolitical crises in our world intersect, paying close attention to the dynamics …
Democracy in El Salvador
This is the final paper I wrote for my class, Erosion of Democracy. I took this class in the spring of my junior year. Even though this class is a government class cross-listed with Latin American Studies, we actually ended up spending a lot of time talking about the United States and the state of …
Democracy in Turkey
This is the final paper that I wrote for my class, Comparative Politics of the Middle East. I took this class fall of my senior year. In the class, we focused each week on a different country in the Middle East, and learned about its politics and prospects of democracy. The final paper was introduced …
Crossing Borders
This is a reflection that I wrote about a documentary that I watched for GEM205 fall of my sophomore year. Upon first read, my interpretation of this piece was of me being very close minded to the ideas in the documentary. However, I think that some good points were raised. The documentary is only the …
