Author: Grace Li

Recently, Jiang Zemin, a Chinese politician, and president of China from 1993-2003 has died. Among Chinese social media, themes of toads and frogs have resurfaced in forms of memes to commemorate his death. The Chinese government heavily censors criticism about political figures, and historically, the toad was a meme used to criticize Zemin. Here, one… Continue reading Grace Li -Reading Journal 12

I have chosen the key-word The Body . DEFINITION: Physically, I think it means the flesh of an individual. Socially, it is powerful in how it is able to define the worth of an individual in society via racism, health, and sexuality. PURPOSE: I intend to create a visual either artistically or graphically that shows the way in which… Continue reading Reading Journal – 10 Grace Li

For my final research project, I will either do a visualization, infographic, or craft. I would like to choose the word “body,” so I think it would be interesting if I could incorporate the body as a visual representation somewhere within the project. I think my rhetorical community covers many discourse communities. It covers women,… Continue reading Reading Journal 9 – Grace Li

After writing my midterm essay, I realized that I had trouble making my ideas flow. I think I struggled with making sure the ideas that I had were conveyed in the most appropriate way. The poem by Matthew Buxton “vii,” was content heavy. It included multiple discourse communities and contained many different heavy themes related… Continue reading Reading Journal 8 – Grace Li

On a Saturday night on October 9th, I baked an apple cake using fresh apples that I had picked from a few weeks ago. My roommates and friends went to bars that “Halloweekend” night but since I was feeling a bit under the weather and decided to bake by myself. It was nice doing something… Continue reading Reading Journal 7 – Grace Li

https://time.com/6220661/xi-jinping-third-term-china-ccp/ The author of this article is Charlie Campbell, who is the East Asia news correspondent for TIME magazine. Campbell seems like he could be part of a “discourse community” that is interested in learning about different current events in East Asia. Upon research, I found that Campbell has covered other events such as “turbulent… Continue reading Grace Li – Reading Journal 4

https://poets.org/2021-vii/?fbclid=PAAaYop561EtwJiZc1zrhRR1re4mgo6-j8RM173Q6WhXXQktCanbBmPUbvDWo I have chosen the poem “vii” by Matthew Buxton as the text for my close reading which I linked above. This text is meaningful to me because not only is it written by a friend of mine, but its religious imagery speaks to me as I myself identify as Christian while my friend identifies… Continue reading Reading Journal 5- Grace Li

I chose the piece of music Ballade No.2 in B minor by Liszt. The genre of music is a romantic piece. One can recognize that this piece is romantic. because it is very lyrical, expressive, and also has chromatic phrasing. Chromatic phrasing is what happens when to notes run up and down. The Ballade is… Continue reading Prompt 3- Grace Li

“In order to be utilized, our erotic feelingsmust be recognized. The need for sharing deepfeeling is a human need. But within theEuropean-American tradition, this need is sat-isfied by certain proscribed erotic comings-together. These occasions are almost alwayscharacterized by a simultaneous looking away,a pretense of calling them something else,whether a religion, a fit, mob violence, or… Continue reading Journal 2- Grace Li

My name is Grace Li, and I am a fourth-year double major studying both Anthropology and Human Biology (BS) and Music on the pre-medical track. Although I did plenty of reading and writing in high school, I would say that besides the general education requirements, my reading and writing opportunities have been limited at Emory… Continue reading Grace Li