My final project proposal is about the Blue Humanites ocean thinking and history that involved the meaning of the ocean floor and what does it mean to people who perceived the ocean as a non living we don’t care about and in the article from Eric Paul Rooda and what he interprets how do we communicate with the ocean and how it impacts our own lives like in politics and history itself with meanings that humans don’t understand.

For my thesis statement in progress: In modern history the ocean isn’t recognized that much and how do humans interpreted as something to forget or use of a tool instead of thinking as one with the Earth core elements needed for others to survive and hustle humans have done so much damage that we tend to ignore Enviroment as if were nothing. This explores the idea of what it means to have an understanding of the Ocean as a place to be named and how should we the value in it.

After viewing everyones feedback aqnd ideas for their final projects, I have decidedto write an essay that incorporates another essay and blog post to discuss Ocean as a language and history, unique in its relationship with the human race. I plan on using the works of Mentz, Roonan, and African Mermaids for use of close reading and analysis. I will have a main question on how the human relationship with the Ocean has evolved over time and how the Ocean itself is a recognized Nation and State, with individual identity and history.

Thesis as of now:

Through the works of Rooda, Mentz, and African Mermaids, exposes modern humans to the ideology of Ocean as an identity and history. Humans are exposed to the ocean as the bases for modern human language and the relationship between all humans across the seas. In our exposure, we connect back to our Oceanic and mythical roots that set the foundation for the modern human race. 

For my final essay, I plan to expand my Discovery 1 about The Romance of the Faery Melusine by Andre Lebey. In my first essay, I focused on how the story reveals humanity’s fear of nature and the desire to control what cannot be fully understood. For my final project, I will develop this idea further by connecting it with Helen Rozwadowski’s Vast Expanses: Introduction: People and Oceans. Using Rozwadowski’s discussion of how humans turn the ocean into a concept shaped by knowledge and power, I will explore how Lebey’s portrayal of Melusine reflects the same human impulse to dominate and define the natural world. My essay will analyze how both texts show that human curiosity often becomes a form of control, turning nature, from the sea to the supernatural, into something that must be explained, contained, or destroyed.