Living in the Bronx was never something that I imagined myself doing. The first images that often come to mind when many people think of the Bronx is the image of the “the Bronx is burning”, poverty, and gang violence. Yes, there is poverty. A lot of it. However, it is entirely possible to live...
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This is as good of a topic as any to start a discussion, and it actually points to part of the purpose of this (hopefully) collaborative blog. Last weekend I came across a group of queer students at NYU that were protesting a blood donation bus. The protestors were loud, and were stopping people asking...
This paper was originally given at the “Death, Sex, and Boredom” conference held at Fordham University, Spring 2010. The format of Thomas Mann’s novel, Death in Venice (1912), leads the reader to believe that it is a classically structured tragedy; however, I assert that this tale of a mature German man that seemingly stalks...
