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Reading my first alternate history novel was quite an experience. We are taught history cannot be changed, but rarely do we get to digest what could have happened if events turned out differently. Philip Dick does a superb job in “The Man in the High Castle”, with the main storyline of Germany and Japan occupying…

While reading such a modern interpretation of life during segregation, it can be difficult to decipher between fact and fiction; as most of the text has obvious fictional aspects. As previously mentioned in blog post one, it involves modern cars, technology, thought processes and language. However, readers interpret text in different ways due to the…

Slavery in the United States was a controversial topic back in the 1800’s/early 1900’s. Slave masters had the upmost control of their workers and had policies in place to keep them on the plantation. Once I started reading through Winter’s Underground Airlines, I quickly realized that this is a modern interpretation of the 19th century….

Implausibility can be difficult to recognize. You have to have thorough background information to be able to create such a hypothesis. As I was reading, something that caught my interest was the portrait created by Titian, “The Council”. It describes much detail, reasonings why the detail is portrayed, as well as the significance of the…

Reading through Binet’s Civilizations, I found the concept of the Skraeling’s to be implausible at first. They described short, ill, scared inhabitants. The origin of the Skraeling’s begins in Vinland. The Viking Thorvald discovered Greenland, the country that Freydis was born in. (the daughter of Erik.) Freydis was eager to explore new land (taking after…

Juggling work and school is a tough job no matter how old you are. This can cause unwanted stress and delays in your accomplishments. I myself have been struggling with this, but I have found a few simple ways to make this dilemma easier for students. In my opinion, when it comes to studying and…