Splash Biography
AMALIA AMBURN, Johns Hopkins junior studying Writing Seminars
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Major: Writing Seminars College/Employer: Johns Hopkins Year of Graduation: 2018 |
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Brief Biographical Sketch:
I am a junior at Hopkins studying writing and philosophy. I have also taken many biology and behavioral biology classes while at Hopkins due to my drive to understand, as best I can, all aspects of human life. I wrote my primary college application essay on my own personal struggles juggling Darwin's evolutionary theory and the religious world view I had growing up and still hold today - prompting me to offer the course on Darwin's own emotional struggles in Feb. 2017. I am eager to share and discuss what I find myself constantly occupied with in my personal life and academic studies. Past Classes(Clicking a class title will bring you to the course's section of the corresponding course catalog)H85: Darwin's Emotional Struggles as Depicted in "Creation" (2009) in Splash Spring 2017 (Feb. 25, 2017)
While many students today are familiar with Darwin’s theory of evolution, most are less familiar with his personal life. Darwin completed his research and had the ideas formulated for his theory long before he published them in On the Origin of Species. There were several personal reasons that he took so long to publish his theory, including his struggle with the implications his theory had on religion, his debilitating health issues, and his sufferings when his daughter Annie died at the age of 10.
This class will look into these emotional struggles due to the implications of his theory and how we might personally identify with or relate to them in general by watching and discussing the film "Creation" (2009).
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