Rhetoric and Civil Life | Shwetanc Bothra

This I Believe The fat old lady in the third row yawned loudly, certain that I was going to bore. I took a deep breath and looked in front of me, assessing the sheer beauty of the crowd and of the situation I was in. It was the fifth month of my Study abroad in Italy, studying in a school and city where anyone barely spoke English. I was facing a hall of students and officials from over 90 schools of the country, about to present one of the last acts of the National Summit. For weeks I tried convincing my class to enact a play with me, but English scared the Italians, and Shakespearean English, more so. When I walked into the President’s office to ask if I could perform alone, he laughed and told me in his heavily gesticulated Italian, that no one’s going to help me, but yes, I could. I smiled. I was given one of the last slots, not because they expected it to be great, but because they expected most people to have left. But they hadn’t, and I was not going to disappoint. ...

Blog Idea for RCL2018 For my RCL Blog, in this semester, I wish to talk about an ideal world, and all the reasons why they do not work. I shall discuss movies with hypothetical/futuristic civilizations, and the rules they create for a 'better world'. There have been tons of films, especially in the past decade, which aim to solve the problems that our world currently faces, issues that we currently have no potential solutions to. Writers, with their wild imagination, have provided us with several new 'constitutions' that could, perhaps, be our own future one day . Image by the YA Shelf For my Passion Blog, I am considering continuing my old passion blog, which spoke about death and everything related. I am certain that there are several aspects to my topic that are yet to be covered, and the fact that most people find the idea weird makes it exciting for me to write about it. For the "This I Believe" podcast, I am yet not decided. I wish ...