Student Discussion Posts

Before watching The Mission, I thought of the Jesuit missionaries as forceful colonizers, similar to the way that the Spanish and Portuguese were portrayed. While …

Gauvin Bailey’s “The New Plant of the Primitive Church” provided me insights into how theology and history can be revealed and conveyed through plants and …

I was very intrigued by The Mission. I had never really been exposed to the relationship and interactions between different European states as it related …

I have always been skeptical about using film as an educational resource in school, but in many of my classes so far, film is an …

Sitting down to watch The Mission, I was plagued with curiosity. I loved Robert De Niro’s roles as an American-Italian mobster in Martin Scorsese films …

In “The Mirrors of Las Meninas,” Byron Ellsworth Hamann analyzed Diego Velázquez’s painting Las Meninas as an artwork that shows the global connection of the …

Hannah Im | Discussion Post #5 Just last month, I went to a restaurant in Midtown called The Consulate. The restaurant has a rotating menu, …

Unlike globalization in the 17th century, which mainly focused on the exchange of goods, people today give less attention to the place of production of …

Globalization in the 21st century has created a far more interconnected world, through the access of not just goods and people, but information and ideas …

“The Mirrors of Las Meninas” by Byron Ellsworth Hamann focuses on the movements of goods and artwork as central to globalization in the 17th century. In the …