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Dog with a Blog (2015)

September 9, 2021 By Professor Arielle Saiber

“In Season 3 Episode 7 of Dog with a Blog (time stamp 6:50), the main character, Avery, is talking about some of the quirks that her friend
Max has, including a sign on her bedroom door that says, “Abandon all hope ye who enter here.”   –Sarah Scherkenbach

Contributed by Sarah Scherkenbach (The Bolles School, ’22)

Categories: Odds & Ends
Tagged with: 2015, Abandon All Hope, Blogs, Dogs, Gates of Hell, Hell, Inferno, Television

The 10th Circle of Hell is Southwest Airlines

June 16, 2021 By Ezra Berman '23

 

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In her blog, Geraldine DeRuiter takes issue with her experience with Southwest Airlines’ seating policy, writing, “THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DO NOT HAVE ASSIGNED SEATING. Everyone has an “it’s me or them” mentality that extends to the entire flight.  I want to sit here. . .”

“There is a special circle of hell for all of these people” [. . .]    –Geraldine DeRuiter, The Everywhereist, March 8, 2017.

Categories: Dining & Leisure, Written Word
Tagged with: 2017, Blogs, Circles of Hell, Hell, Humor, Inferno, Planes, Tenth Circle

“The 5 Circles of Hell for Institutional Investment Professionals”

February 7, 2021 By Jasmine George, FSU '24

“If an institutional investment professional were to be guided through Hell (a la Dante’s Inferno), he would pass by five circles of torment … all of which would contain colleagues frantically checking calendars and clocks, desperate to get through to-do lists that grow faster than items can be checked off. Time is indeed a valuable commodity, and the lack of it can be hell on earth.

“While the only way out of the Inferno was through the center of earth, the way out for investment professionals is much easier, thankfully. While it is impossible to add hours to the day, it is possible to reclaim some of those hours and put them to better use. Let’s follow our guide – not Dante’s Virgil, but our own modern-day Technos – through the five circles of hell for institutional investment professionals.”   –Ken Akoundi, Backstop Blog, 2018

Read the full article here.

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2018, Blogs, Circles of Hell, Investment, Professionals

Akash Kumar, “A Dante Who Valorizes Difference” (2020)

December 10, 2020 By Professor Elizabeth Coggeshall

“Teaching Dante’s Divine Comedy in 2020 is not without its challenges. In 2012, the UN-sanctioned human rights organization Gherush92 proclaimed that Dante’s poem was discriminatory, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, and should not be taught in classrooms. For some years now, I have taken this objection as my point of departure in crafting my Dante course and promoted a reading of the poem that interrogates issues of social justice with respect to the representation of religious and cultural difference, gender and sexuality, and social class. In the wake of a summer of protest, I felt all the more impelled to bring such considerations to bear in my Dante class this Fall. [. . .]”   –Akash Kumar, “A Dante Who Valorizes Difference,” The Medieval Studies Institute Blog, Indiana University

Akash Kumar is Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian at Indiana University. Read his full essay on teaching Dante through the lens of social justice here.

Categories: Digital Media, Written Word
Tagged with: 2020, Blogs, Bloomington, Difference, Identity, Indiana, Justice, Pedagogy, Teaching, Universities

“Marcus Berkmann: Circles of Hell”

September 17, 2020 By lsanchez

“‘No, that’s definitely the way you want to go,’ said the same man in the hi-vis jacket, whose integrity we were beginning to doubt. But every route we tried, the satnav eventually led us back to the same roundabout, often by the most circuitous of routes. We had no mobile coverage, so could not raise a map by those means. It was like an episode of The Prisoner. Every wrong turning we took, we expected a huge white barrage balloon to head us off.”    –Marcus Berkmann, The Independent, October 9, 2015

Categories: Written Word
Tagged with: 2015, Blogs, Circles of Hell, Hell, Technology

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