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Verbal Bullying: An Experience
Whilst I was on my undergraduate degree, I was unusually popular and because I had never been popular before, I tried my utmost to keep out of everyoneās drama and just befriend everyone. (Note: if you read the previous article in which I was not popular on my postgraduate then please understand I am talking about two different university institutions. I enjoyed my undergraduate university so much more because the people were a billion times nicer and my course head was a mind-blowing genius. Go and read her books, her name is Dr. Elizabeth Jayne Bennett). Yes, as I was saying, when I was on my undergraduate degree, I was just trying to be friends with everyone, help people out where need be and just be a nice person and treat everyone equally. Unfortunately, this does not work apparently and even then, I got treated a bit questionably by someone on my course. I am not going to name names so let us just call her B - no her name does not even start with B so donāt get snooping around.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Humans
Some Men Don't Read Female Authors...
V.S Naipaul, author of the legendary book āA Bend in the Riverā, once stated something along the lines of the fact that female writers are overtly emotional and so their writing is not as good as menās writing. Since then, there has been a massive discussion about men who actively do not read female writers due to the fact that:
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Man on the Street: The "Time Out of Mind" Experience
Whilst I was on my postgraduate degree, as you know, I did not have many friends. That was not due to bullying or malice on someone elseās part towards me but instead it was because I chose to. I chose not to befriend these people because I found them snobby, especially the way they talked about literature and how it āwas not intelligentā to read popular novels etc. They were very arrogant about the community of people who like to read things like beach reads, YA and mainstream Sci-Fi and would make jokes about it. They would make jokes about people who were less well-off than them and honestly, it made me feel uncomfortable and sick even though may parents had to pay to send me to school. I still cannot fathom how people can be so nasty. When I was studying poetry, I would like to choose a random Bob Dylan album to inspire me in order to get my mind off other people. The album I chose here was āTime Out of Mindā.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Beat
Book Review: "The Truce" by Mario Benedetti
When I first heard about this book I was very surprised I had not read it and this was because a few months ago, I took it upon myself to read all the books written by Mario Benedetti and somehow I missed this one. āThe Truceā is about a man who falls in love with a woman - so thatās pretty simple isnāt it? No, it isnāt. A man sees his life falling apart and falls in love with this woman who he has been crushing on for a while, clearly. When they get together, the book gets incredibly happier and happier. Their lives are on the up, but then the climactic point of the book comes and changes the entire situation. It is something that I do not want to actually say but it is really, really upsetting and it is literally something I did not see coming. But the book itself is as well written as the last book I read by him which was āSpringtime in a Broken Mirrorā and his writing always has this tone of a mix between romanticising life and being brutally honest about opinions. When he wrote this into āThe Truceā, he used the voices of the main characters as the narrators through diary entries and, by doing this, has heightened the experience of love, romanticisms of life and brutally honest reflections to the point of no return. It is pure brilliance.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Ginger, Toffee and Lime Cupcakes [+ a Surprise Inside!]
In this chapter of āthe filmmakerās guideā weāre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the āfilmmakerās guideā - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youāre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerās guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Feast
A Filmmaker's Guide to: 50 Visually Stunning Films
In this chapter of āthe filmmakerās guideā weāre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the āfilmmakerās guideā - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youāre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerās guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Wall Street (1987)
In this article, we will be looking at 2019ās book ā1001 Movies to See Before You Dieā and going through each film in a random order that I have chosen. We will be looking at what constitutes this film to be on the list and whether I think this film deserves to be here at all. I want to make perfectly clear that I wonāt be revealing details from this book such as analyses by film reporters who have written about the film in question, so if you want the book itself youāll have to buy it. But I will be covering the bookās suggestions on which films should be your top priority. I wouldnāt doubt for a second that everyone reading this article has probably watched many of these movies anyway. But we are just here to have a bit of fun. Weāre going to not just look at whether it should be on this list but weāre also going to look at why the film has such a legacy at all. Remember, this is the 2019 version of the book and so, films like āJokerā will not be featured in this book and any film that came out in 2020 (and if we get there, in 2021). So strap in and if you have your own suggestions then donāt hesitate to email me using the address in my bio. Letās get on with it then.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Literary Snobbery...
Literary Snobbery is when people who read literature think that there is a ārightā kind of literature to read. Normally these are people who think that if you read then you should read the āclassicsā. These āclassicsā are the sort of old-world literature that is normally found in the āgreat western canonā by Harold Bloom or something like that. Now, there is nothing wrong with reading the classics. I love to read classics and mostly, that is what I read. However, telling people that this is what they should be reading and using that to gate-keep the literature community is just downright wrong. Not everyone is going to enjoy reading classic literature and to say that someone is lesser of a bookworm that you because they like to read something else is a form of bullying.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
Ignorance Inside the Gates of Eden
āGates of Edenā is one of those songs that all bobcats make the effort to learn all the words to off-by heart. It is one of those songs that is very difficult to figure out and many a Dylanologist and Bobcat has toiled away at finding different meanings within the song, including myself. I want to discuss this song in the way that it shows us ignorance. Especially the ignorance of the rich regarding the normal working person. This is a problem we as a society face today. Where Hollywood celebrities try their hardest to be ārelatableā by taking pictures of themselves eating pizza from a normal pizza place, or thinking that telling vulgar jokes on television is ārelatableā content. But in reality, they understand nothing of the normal working world. We know this, but they continuously make themselves look like idiots by discussing and preaching to us how we should be living our lives when they, in fact, are the most disconnected people in the world. Bob Dylan takes this, in his own time, and applies to to the rich-man Rockefeller-esque culture instead.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Beat
Book Review: "Weights and Measures" by Joseph Roth
Ever since I read āThe Radetzky Marchā, I have been totally and utterly interested in the works of Joseph Roth. Unfortunately, I kind of put him to one side in order to finish my TBR. But now weāre back and I am going to be reading more of him. I know people who have read quite a bit of Joseph Roth and know far more than I do about his works. āWeights and Measuresā is one of those books I have seen talked about a lot. It is a very short book and much shorter than what Iām used to. Standing at about one hundred pages, there is not much to take in since the typeface is also quite large. But, this means that you have to focus on what the story actually is. Unlike his book āThe Radetzky Marchā, Joseph Roth now crams in one manās partial lifespan into this tiny book and is able to cover storylines and emotional breakdowns at an efficiency rate that you will not even realise it is happening. Anselm goes from being the model citizen to being a man in need, to being a man corrupted. Whilst he works at the border, whilst he conducts his life which is crumbling, he quickly tries to keep it together by any means necessary. When it becomes impossible, he turns to the implausible and at first, it seems entirely out of character, but as the book progresses, it is more and more normalised.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
In this article, we will be looking at 2019ās book ā1001 Movies to See Before You Dieā and going through each film in a random order that I have chosen. We will be looking at what constitutes this film to be on the list and whether I think this film deserves to be here at all. I want to make perfectly clear that I wonāt be revealing details from this book such as analyses by film reporters who have written about the film in question, so if you want the book itself youāll have to buy it. But I will be covering the bookās suggestions on which films should be your top priority. I wouldnāt doubt for a second that everyone reading this article has probably watched many of these movies anyway. But we are just here to have a bit of fun. Weāre going to not just look at whether it should be on this list but weāre also going to look at why the film has such a legacy at all. Remember, this is the 2019 version of the book and so, films like āJokerā will not be featured in this book and any film that came out in 2020 (and if we get there, in 2021). So strap in and if you have your own suggestions then donāt hesitate to email me using the address in my bio. Letās get on with it then.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
A Filmmaker's Guide to: Internal Conflict II
In this chapter of āthe filmmakerās guideā weāre actually going to be learning about literature and film together. I understand that many of you are sitting in university during difficult times and finding it increasingly hard to study and I understand that many of you who are not at university or not planning on it are possibly stuck of what to do, need a break or even need to catch up on learning film before you get to the next level. This guide will be brief but will also contain: new vocabulary, concepts and theories, films to watch and we will be exploring something taboo until now in the āfilmmakerās guideā - academia (abyss opens). Each article will explore a different concept of film, philosophy, literature or bibliography/filmography etc. in order to give you something new to learn each time we see each other. You can use some of the words amongst family and friends to sound clever or you can get back to me (email in bio) and tell me how youāre doing. So, strap in and prepare for the filmmakerās guide to film studies because it is going to be one wild ride.
By Annie Kapur5 years ago in Geeks
