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Month: May 2024

Literature Archives Part 2: Lightness in Literature, New Perspectives

Literature Archives Part 2: Lightness in Literature, New Perspectives

Since 2004, my undergraduate university has offered something called URECA, Undergraduate Research on Campus. It is designed “to cultivate a research culture and nurture research capabilities early in undergraduates’ university education.” All URECA invitees upon successful completion and submission of their research would be conferred the impressive sounding title, “NTU President Research Scholar.” While the primary audience of the URECA program are engineers and scientists, the bread and butter of a university aptly named Nanyang Technological University, it was extended…

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Literature Archives Part 1: Edward Morgan Forster’s Religious Ruminations

Literature Archives Part 1: Edward Morgan Forster’s Religious Ruminations

In 2013, I wrote a thesis to fulfill the requirement of my Bachelor’s Degree with Honours in English Literature at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. It was an invigorating experience, and I’m proud of my work. I received a distinction for the thesis and first-class honours for the Undergraduate degree overall. Before my final year, as I pondered over which text or author to devote a thesis to, Edward Morgan Forster came to mind. I had read A Passage to India…

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