CUNY Academic Commons | Zarin Tasneem Nishat | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/nish/activity/ Activity feed for Zarin Tasneem Nishat. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 c6474931f7731f8984e3791aa730284c Zarin Tasneem Nishat (She/her) wrote a new post on the site ENG 102: Writing Through Literature https://eng101fa1102.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1594 Sun, 01 Dec 2024 23:22:34 -0500 Blog Post 1Both Edgar Allan Poe in his poem “Ulalume: A Ballad” and Emily Dickinson in her poem “The Soul Selects Her Own Society” direct my thought […]

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]]> 910b3c1ad2373c80bdbfa0b6691061d5 Zarin Tasneem Nishat (She/her) commented on the post, Prompt: Blog Post 1, on the site ENG 102: Writing Through Literature https://eng101fa1102.commons.gc.cuny.edu/prompt-blog-post-1/#comment-374 Thu, 31 Oct 2024 03:45:57 -0400 These poems get me thinking about how we choose who or what really matters to us and how those choices shape our lives. In The Soul Selects Her Own Society, Dickinson shows the soul as super selective, choosing […]

]]> d5f3932ac014e14ad6f4cb2c95b3b49c Zarin Tasneem Nishat (She/her) commented on the post, Prompt: Blog post #3, on the site ENG 102: Writing Through Literature https://eng101fa1102.commons.gc.cuny.edu/prompt-blog-post-3-2/#comment-373 Thu, 31 Oct 2024 01:29:19 -0400 In “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,” Walt Whitman makes a strong case for the connection between individuals and the crowd of commuters by turning an everyday ferry ride into something meaningful. He kicks things off by […]

]]> 77725946fe8d21be58286ea98d73dece Zarin Tasneem Nishat (She/her) wrote a new post on the site ENG 102: Writing Through Literature https://eng101fa1102.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1308 Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:13:24 -0400 Week 5, Act I of The TempestAct I of The Tempest opens with a brushed-up portrayal of a shipwreck emphasizing the characters’ incapacity to read what nature will t […]

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]]> a6ae61f22e4a2b7f70ec991687da5857 Zarin Tasneem Nishat (She/her) wrote a new post on the site ENG 102: Writing Through Literature https://eng101fa1102.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=1300 Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:25:57 -0400 The Tempest: Ariel and Caliban in Act IIIIn Act III of The Tempest, Shakespeare explores servitude and freedom through Ariel and Caliban, who both serve Prospero but in […]

]]> 320212ae2be6c3286ca1c20933c13fc1 Zarin Tasneem Nishat (She/her) wrote a new post on the site ENG 102: Writing Through Literature https://eng101fa1102.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=876 Sat, 14 Sep 2024 05:21:30 -0400 IntroductionHello! My name is Zarin Tasneem Nishat. I’m an international student majoring in computer science. This is my second semester at L […]

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