Our final project in my Humanities Core writing class was to craft a research paper using concepts we learned over the course of our year in Core. Our theme was "Animals, People, and Power," but our class discussions transcended these three categories. We explored film analysis, literary and rhetorical analysis, and visual analysis by consuming all types of media - Twilight, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Kafka's The Metamorphosis, the "Krazy Kat" comic strip, and King Kong, to name a few. Within our analysis, we discussed dehumanization, oppression, race, class, and gender relations, the concept of "othering", and how humans and animals interact and push species binaries.
For my final research project, I wanted to do something slightly more unique than what we did in class - analyze a reality TV show (Survivor) through the lens of power, dehumanization, and Indigenous survivance. Crafting this essay was, by far, the most challenging academic endeavor of my life and ultimately a piece I'm incredibly proud of. I've attached it here.
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