Dudes in Distress: The Weakening of the Patriarch

 I have spent the last few weeks looking at the female characters in Madame d’Aulnoy’s fairytales. This week, I have been examining her treatment of the male characters, nearly all of whom take on roles traditionally associated with male power (kings, princes, fathers, husbands, suitors, etc…). These figures are ubiquitous in folklore and often appear as the wise old king or the classic Prince Charming, but the men of the 17^th century conte des fées are much more complex.

Age Old Wisdom – by Emma

This past Monday I finally had my first course at Henderson! As I mentioned in earlier blogs, part of my course work is to take a three week long night class outside of school that is taught by my mentor. It is designed to be slightly more writing intensive than my week to week assignments, involving actual one on one interaction and a classroom atmosphere.

Connection between the interfaces — by Chester

One of the requests that the weekend coordinator made is that he wishes to have a drop down box for all the weekend duty crew list. Because of the way the data base is set up right now which is to have the event list independent from the weekend list, it hard to accomplish the object. Here are some solutions that I have came up:

College Supplements – by Isabel

I have been working on my college supplements and for one of them wrote a short piece about  my performing at Carnegie Hall last spring as a Silver winner in the Golden Key Musical Festival. I just wrote this recently, and have not finished editing but thought I could share it as part of my blog regardless:

Where I performed Weill Recital Hall of Carnegie Hall

Wanderlust and Fernweh — by Conor

“Wanderlust” is a German word that found its way into the English vocabulary somewhere in the 20th century. It means “a strong desire to travel” coming from the German roots “wander-” meaning “hike or trek” and “-lust” meaning “desire.”

College gets in the way – by Tristan on his way to Hamilton College for a visit

“With college seeping away the time I have in the week, I have not had much time to write this post.  This week I will be writing at least three more pieces of poetry to be included within our book and tumblr page.  With little time left to write this I leave you with a poem for this week.”

Blueprint by Habeeb Onitiri

Throughout this week Tristen and I have been creating a blueprint for our book. As we’ve decided to make the book about a relationship between two people we’re almost finished with the beginning. As a story should have a timeline or a story line to  it, the beginning of the story will uncover all the good things about the start of their relationship.

Defining My Thesis – by Nate

This past weekend, I wrote almost all of the history section of my paper.  I began during World War I, and quickly moved to the Husseyn-McMahon Correspondence, Sykes-Picot agreement, and T.E. Lawrence.  I continued through the French Mandate and spent a lot of time on how the Baath party changed its ideals to become a militaristic dictatorship, and the origins of Alawaite control of the military (ethnic discrimination by Sunnis).  It was a lot of hard work, but it was also a ton of fun.

Friends’ School education- week 2- by Eric

Following up from last week’s general information concerning the introduction of Friends’ School in PA, I have more research this week on the “Mission Statement” of the four Friends Schools. The statement is very important because it tells us what the school values the most and how will the community works as a whole.

All the Single Ladies: Love and Marriage in 17th Century Contes des Fées – by Lyra

I have been writing for the past few weeks about the feminist narratives of 17^th century salonnière Madame d’Aulnoy’s fairytales and the use of storytelling for female empowerment. At the intersection of fairytales and feminism we inevitably fall upon the issue of marriage. In 17^th century France, the institution of marriage constituted a reference point in the formation of a model for female behavior. Consequently, marriage was often at the center of popular folklore, used as a means of closure and the key to every ‘happily ever after.” It is therefore imperative to our study of the feminist fairytale to examine the conteuses’ position on love and marriage.