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Paris VI: L’américanisation
I had a pleasant surprise today when I went to my first Introduction to Contemporary Cultural History class today at La Sorbonne: this semester, the class will be focused on l’américanisation. The nerd in me was a little disappointing to miss out on the theory the class did last semester (now that I’m going to…
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Paris V: Une Exhibition
Today I went to a museum. We saw Robert Frank and Sophie Ristelhueber exhibits. We started with Robert Frank. There were two Robert Frank expositions, one of his influential book, The Americans and the other of his time in Paris during the après guerre. I spent a good amount of time in The Americans room.…
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Paris IV: Les Manifestations
I knew yesterday was going to be an interesting day. Public transportation was largely going to be shut down, and massive protests were scheduled: France was doing la grève. The eight largest union conglomerates had come together to organize a national strike in response to Sarkozy’s response to the financial crisis. For background, check out…
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Paris II: L’Apprentissage
Funny how good it feels to relearn the idealistic truths one was forced-fed as a second grader. I finally broke down the barrier that was separating me, the temporary American student, from the French inhabitants of my foyer last night. Virgile can often be found working on his graphic design in the common computer room…
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Paris I: L’Etranger
Paris feels to me right now like the color that is used on the metro maps to represent the line I use to get back to my foyer— it is a non-ostentatious pink. And something about being in this city of non-ostentatious pink makes me want to use exclamation marks when I type.
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How I felt on November 4th, 2008
I am writing this post partially as a diary post; I want to be able to look back on what I was thinking when Barack Obama was elected President: I started off the day by skipping two out of three of my classes to help organize and participate in our phone bank. We made over…
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My Ukulele, Happiness, God and Ethics
Those of you who know me well know I spend a lot of time thinking. A lot of this time thinking is spent thinking about how to make myself happy. Recently, I have found that I am a lot happier than I used to be. What happened? Why am I more happy now? To begin…
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Road Trip Post 1: Iron Man, Metaphysics and 400 miles
As promised, I will be blogging my thoughts on the roadtrip with Will and Ken and later my thoughts on my stay in Minneapolis. Leaving Middlebury was definitely sad; I had my last meal in Proctor and it was especially stirring to saying goodbye to Thom who I won’t see until I go to France…
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Wikipedia Editing
Inspired by Media Technology and Cultural change class, I edited two pretty well known Wikipedia pages. First I edited Andrew Sullivan’s page. This may seem like a minor edit, but I thought it made an important substantive change, and it made me feel important. Next I got a little more ambitious. I was surprised to…
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