I am considering centering Project 3 around the topic of cultural history of the Philippines and how it has been greatly influenced by other countries such as Spain and China. I am interested in this because I have a Filipino background and lived in the Philippines for a large part of my childhood, so I […]

In the excerpts mentioned, the idea of access varies across the different topics the authors focus on, but ultimately have the same idea: access is to provide every person with the same opportunity as everyone else in daily life. In Andersen’s article Navigating Through Ableist Architecture, she clearly addresses the problem of architectural restrictions for […]

The issue of whether the use of body scanners in airport security is ethical to transgender and androgynous-looking passengers has arisen in recent years because security workers often misgender them, causing the scanners to go off and the passenger to go through additional inspection. The body scanners themselves are not unethical; they simply scan the […]

Both the Oak Alley Plantation and Whitney Plantation have held slaves in the past, as given in their websites. Both websites have information about the plantations and its former residents, but differ greatly in the presentation of the history and services of the houses, as seen in the design of their sites.   The Oak […]

Museums are an important part of today’s society; they are essential to the diffusion of cultures and ideas, the presentation of the world’s history, and the display of the ornate works of artists throughout it. However, the actual background of these artifacts are often concealed to mask how they were actually obtained. The short movie […]