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This semester, I grew as a researcher. I used the GMU library system more than I have ever before and found some very neat sources for my projects. I found first-hand accounts from survivors and news articles from the day the rescue happened. I even read a book! You should know, that does not happen… Continue reading Final Reflection

When I googled myself, I simply put “Lelia-Noor Hawkins” into Google. The things that popped up only pertained to me. It is interesting that I didn’t have to enter anything else to find myself. I guess that is the result of having a very uncommon first name. The first results that came up were my… Continue reading Security & Personal Data

Making a game was very different from just writing a narrative essay. It was enjoyable to think about how it is a “choose your own adventure” style narrative instead of one that just explains the story while you sit there and read it. I think one of the benefits of this is definitely that you… Continue reading Twine Game

I played the Oregon Train for the first time and I’ve got to say, it definitely lived up to what I’d heard about it. It is based on the actual Oregon Trail that was trekked by people in the 1800s. The trail was 2,170 miles long (or 3,490 kilometers), and it was a wagon route… Continue reading Game Review: The Oregon Trail

In my podcast, I will talk about how the flight 571 rescue effort came to be, describing the struggles of the survivors that lead the rescue mission. Transcript: Hello there and welcome to the Morbid Mountains Podcast I am your host Lelia-Noor and in today’s episode we will be discussing the how the rescue mission… Continue reading Podcast Episode: Surviving the Mountains

One of the challenges Dr. Stephen Robertson encounters while creating Digital Harlem is undifferentiated space. While trying to name buildings and spaces of the Harlem area that we mostly inhabited by black residents, the maps that focused on these places simple characterized them as “undifferentiated space”. As Robertson states, “Thinking about Harlem at this scale,… Continue reading Digital Harlem: Challenges and Traffic Accidents

My timeline describes the most impactful events of the plane crash in the Andes Mountains, starting from the crash to the rescue. This entire event takes place over the course of about three months. I chose a matter-of-fact perspective that is not judging or assuming. I think that my chosen events represent that because they… Continue reading Timeline

For my N-Gram, I wanted to use a word that related the most to my topic, one that states a key component of its story, and one that is specific to this event. In the top search bar, I typed in “Andes Mountains”, “Cannibalism”, and “Rugby”. To state the obvious, I typed “Andes Mountains” because… Continue reading N-Gram Viewer

I have narrowed down my research topic to how the survivors of the 1972 Andes plane crash approached cannibalism. I was able to get 5 primary sources for my topic, although they were a little tough to find. I had found many newspaper articles from just days after the rescues took place and a book… Continue reading Tropy Primary Sources

Book 1: Miracle in the Andes : 72 days on the mountain and my long trek home This source is a book written by Nando Parrado, one of the survivors of the plane crash in the Andes in 1972. It is reliable because it is a first-hand account of the event. I think that this… Continue reading Zotero Sources