Post 7

Post 7

Cool magic with different tribes but was destroyed because the king sucks. Maji are people w/ magic and diviners are the people yet to get magic, both are identified by white hair. Amari is a princess who ran away with a way to save magic. Zelie is a diviner turned maji (spirit/death magic), and is […]

Post 6

Post 6

Cool magic with different tribes but was destroyed because the king sucks. Maji are people w/ magic and diviners are the people yet to get magic, both are identified by white hair. Amari is a princess who ran away with a way to save magic. Zelie is a diviner turned maji (spirit/death magic), and is […]

Post 5

Post 5

Summery & words to know: Cool magic with different tibes but was destroyed because the king sucks. Maji are people w/ magic and diviners are the people yet to get magic, both are identified by white hair. Amari is a princess who ran away with way to save magic. Zelie is a diviner turned maji, […]

Post 4

Post 4

Cool magic with different tibes but was destroyed because the king sucks. Maji are people w/ magic and diviners are the people yet to get magic, both are identified by white hair. Amari is a princess who ran away with way to save magic. Zelie is a diviner turned maji, and is the only person […]

Post 3

Post 3

Background info: A magic world where there were different tribes with different kinds of magic but were taken away by the king who then killed all of the people who had magic. People with magic are called Maji and the people who don’t have magic yet are called diviners and can be distinguished by their […]

Post 2

Post 2

Summary & words to know: This is a world with magic, but it was taken away by the king. Maji is the people who have magic, and Divîners are the children who do not yet have magic (or right now all of the Maji people). The Maji and Divîners are distinguished by their bright white hair. Kosidán […]

Post 1

Post 1

This book has been crazy so far. I feel as if I have already read a whole book. It’s a little unoriginal for a fantasy book, but so far it’s been okay. I mean, lost magic, runaway royalty, and what is going to be forbidden love? I could be describing a million books. I’m just […]

Post.5

Post.5

I am reading “Children of Blood and Bone” by Tomi Adeyemi with Lola. The last book I read was a memoir, so I had to mix it up with a fantasy also Alex has been telling me to read this for years so I figured it was the perfect opportunity. Also even though you shouldn’t […]

How does this fit into the topic of “Cultural Encounters and Frontiers”? What insights or messages about cultural encounters or frontiers does this text show?

The excerpt from “The Very Brief Relation fo the Devastation of the Indies” by Bartolome de las Casas illudes to the message that cultural encounters are often violent and leave one party oppressed. He shows this when talking about how, “the Spaniards made a rule among themselves that for every Christian slain by the Indians, […]

Do you think any of these (de las Casas’, Columbus’, Red Cloud’s) accounts changed the audience? How? Why yes or no? If no, what could they have done to more affect their audience?

The accounts of de las Casas, Columbus, and Red Cloud all changed the audience’s opinions of their time. In the expert from The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of the Indies, de las Casas uses his experiences to expose the horrors being committed by the Spaniards. He created the text with the purpose of […]

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