Author Helen Watson
My essay “Canadian Music? What’s That?” is about Canadian music. The thesis of my essay is diversity and different heritage influences are the key characteristics of Canadian music. It goes into detail of different cultures influencing Canadian music. I focus… Continue Reading →
Memoir writing played a very important role in this course because the central primary source was a memoir. What I find the most interesting about the historical method of memoirs is that is through the perspective of the writer. It… Continue Reading →
Storytelling was a historical method that played a large role in my project. Songs are essentially someone telling their story to a melody. One danger to storytelling is that the storyteller tends to play to their audience. This was evident… Continue Reading →
Like all memoirs, this memoir is the story about the author, A. M. Henry. Through her writing, she describes how she and her family became who they did. It contains hilarious scenes and some more serious scenes. In this book… Continue Reading →
I am a fourth year History major student. I love cultural history especially entertainment history. When I started university, I thought I would major in theatre, but that quickly changed when I took a theatre history class and found my… Continue Reading →
“Farewell to Nova Scotia” is a song that I mention in my essay. It has a particular meaning for me because it was one of my favourite songs growing up. I heard it because it was on my Irish Rovers‘… Continue Reading →
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