I only joined season 1 of jazz combo because dance showcase rehearsals are also on Monday lunch, but I found that this year, I have been more confident in my improvising and comping skills, and I used the fairly simple piece All of Me as an opportunity to explore different styles of comping in jazz (LO1). Our combo was a particularly large one, just due to numbers and skill levels…
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During my Viva Voce, I reflected upon how my thinking towards the process of historical writing has developed my understanding of history as a discipline. Self-conducting the historical research made me increasingly aware of the obstacles in the historian’s endeavor, such as the biases of primary sources and the historian’s personal agendas, revealing the subjectivity and malleability of the discipline. Whilst reading Jay Taylor’s “The Generalissimo,” a biography of Chiang which…
While writing the first draft of my EE, I have learned that not only is it important to have quotes from historians in this essay, but to evaluate the reliability of their opinions. My supervisor suggested I cross-check historian quotes with additional secondary sources to build a more convincing argument, as well as to negate any outstanding biases the historians may have. During my research process, I was careful to…
The entire week was definitely one of the biggest highlights of my time here in UWC. It felt like a successful culmination of our group’s effective collaboration with each other for the past few months, and even though we had a couple bumps along the way (like someone forgetting their visa upon arriving at the airport and having to drive back home to get it), we knew that having a…
In my group, I had the shared role of logistics, along with Angelina. The process of getting our service was very troublesome, as our first plan was to go to a dog shelter that a previous year’s group had gone to and loved. However, the service department rejected that idea and recommended we go with Buddha Tzu Chi instead. At this point, we were a bit behind in organizing our…
