Project Narrative  Music is a prominent force in everybody’s lives. To hear symphonies grace, bless us with the sound it produces, as it guides its way to our ears is phenomenal. Many people use music to help them through the roughest days that they could ever be going through. Music can help people physically, to get a workout going, mentally, from nostalgia and emotionally with lyricism. With all of this being said there is an issue at hand. The beautiful grand piano that resides within the NAC building of CCNY is tarnished. The piano has CCNY’s culture and history stored …

Zeenat Qanoongo Writing for the Arts and Humanities Spring 2022 Prof Brener   Self Reflection Essay Throughout this course of writing for the humanities and arts, there were many things I was hoping to learn and improve on throughout the semester. On my part, I did slack in this class and it was my mistake of taking such an early morning class, so as a result I was not there for most of the time, and I doubt I actually achieved the majority of the course objectives. I do think I slightly improved as a writer in terms of forming …

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 Masculinity and Challenges for Women in Indian Culture. https://vc.bridgew.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2461&context=jiws  This link takes us to an article of a study in a book called Journal of International Women’s Studies Volume 22, Issue 5, and Article 26. It was published June 2021 and it’s called Masculinity and Challenges for Women in Indian Culture. It talks about the standards that women in desi culture face and have to hold themselves to. I think that this would be a good addition to my paper because it talks not only about standards that women are held to but standards men are held to. Due to …

me and my partner are working on a grant propsal where we find a problem in the community and we propse a grant to get it fixed. In our case we were talking about the piano in the NAC that is broken. Some of the keys dont play and the other keys are broken and its something you cant enjoy. Were proposing to have it fixed so that students can enjoy the piano thats a huge part of ccny culture. We wanted to choose the piano because everyone else would choose something like the escelators or elevators that dont work …

Although i have a lot of homework, tests and other stuff going on for me, i tried to get some reading in because i havent been reading latley. I ended up finishing two book’s in two days which was a little surprising considering i havent read in a long time. I’m also in the middle of another book called November 9. The other two books i completed were called It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover and Reminder’s of Him also by Colleen Hoover. I personally loved It Ends With Us because it was a book that hit really close …

For my op-ed i decided to swtich my topic from cultural apropriation to how women are precieved in desi culture. I decided to do a topic that was more personal to me after looking at other people’s op-ed’s. Cultural appropriation was a good topic, and i had known of it through a genre of music but it wasnt something that i felt like i could speak on personally. Although it was something i had experinced, i think it didnt affect me too much because i was in a position where i had expected it. After looking at a few examples …

In class right now we are talking about doing intervwies between our partners and we have come up with the type of interviews that we want to do, and we are making an outline of the questions we want to ask each other. Me and my partner have started to put out a few questions that we thought was appropriate to ask each other. we also created our bios. Wr were also asked to start to choose our topic for our essay and i chose the topic of cultural apropriation because i feel like its something that happens often and …

I am from Matilda,  from Nestle and Barnes and Nobles. I am from the dull lavender walls. I am from the red roses,  the green leaves that wither too quick  I am from the bright colorful clothes  and chocolate brown eyes ,  from her and him and me.  I am from the voices that sing together and the quills of feathers that have run out of ink. From Santa isn’t real and don’t grow up too quickly . I am from the moon and the star Embodied by mosques with the hard carpeting and warm hearts I’m from the villages …

Zeenat Qanoongo Writing for the Arts and Humanities Spring 2022 Prof Brener         Women and Men in Desi Culture Women as an entire struggle so much in their daily lives with everything they have to go through. Aside from daily struggles, sometimes culture plays a hand in making their lives ten times harder. Take desi culture for example, where women tend to be put down often or belittled. As someone who is desi, I, myself, have a lot of experience with this. Growing up, I heard a lot of phrases that all came from a similar perspective. …