Shane Harilall Professor Maria Hernandez-Ojeda HONS 2011J – Spanish Civil War in Literature and Film 18 December 2020 Personal Statement I initially elected to partake in this class due to a total lack of knowledge concerning the Spanish Civil War. As far as I was concerned, the Spanish Civil War was another pointless conflict with…
Month: December 2020
Sylvia Welch THHP 2011J Hunter College-CUNY Prof. Hernandez-Ojeda Virginia Malbin Personal Statement In the fall semester of 2020, I enrolled in a course on the Spanish Civil War. Prior to this class, I didn’t know anything about this period of history. Throughout the semester, our class engaged with riveting and emotional works of art, literature,…
Vasilis Kontodimas Professor Hernandez-Ojeda HONS 2011J, Section 01 8 Dec. 2020 Nicholas Ioannou Demas’ fight “to stop the barbarians” Personal Statement: Before I selected Nicholas Ioannou Demas as the one Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteer to research, I knew how treacherous the life for the Greek population had been in the early twentieth century. My…
Mei Meadow HONS 2011J Final Essay Professor Maria Hernández-Ojeda Vincent Lossowski Personal Statement While researching the life and involvement of Vincent Lossowski in the Spanish Civil War, I initially came upon several interesting facts about his numerous military services and affiliation with the Communist Party online; however, it was only when I interviewed Paul Lossowski,…