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Hi, I’m Cecilia. A Hofstra University student, I am majoring in Writing Studies and delving into a discussion of how nostalgia affects individuals and society as a whole.
Commemoration Project Draft
In July 2020, a report was released in which it documented that 2,306 Native American women and girls went missing in the U.S. within the past 40 years. Even further, roughly 1,800 of those who went missing were killed or completely vanished. The missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW) is a transnational (severely affecting the…
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Strictly Speaking: Blog Post #4
In his article “Nostalgia: The Abdication of Memory,” Christopher Lasch writes, “Strictly speaking, nostalgia does not entail the exercise of memory at all, since the past it idealizes stands outside of time, frozen in unchanging perfection,” (83). In other words, there is a difference between saying “I remember that” versus “I wish I could go…
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Blog Post #3: Nostalgia in the 50s
We all experience nostalgia, but at what point does it become dangerous?
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