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Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Morphing Constellations and The Inevitability of Change in the group American Studies: 3 years, 11 months ago
The most important piece of the process of interpretation and collaboration is that in doing so, there is often not a clear and solid answer or solution waiting at the end of the process. In fact, the process […]
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Ashley Daddona edited the blog post Taking the Last Penalty Kick in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
I walked out of the very first meeting of this class at the beginning of the semester imagining myself in a situation that I knew I could understand:
You’re standing in front of a soccer goal. The ball is pl […]
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Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Contemplating the How in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
As our blog posts are coming to a close, I wanted to start getting myself into the reflective mindset in preparation for our final reflective essay. Reflection is something that I have touched on already in a few […]
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Ashley Daddona edited the blog post Can The Present Shape The Past? in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
In light of the poem we read recently in class by Yusef Komunyakaa, “Facing It”, I began to contemplate the relevance of the past, present and future, both within Jemisin’s books and within this class as a whole. […]
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Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Kinetic Sand! in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
I don’t know about everyone else, but I vividly remember those commercials on TV when I was younger advertising what is known as kinetic sand; that colorful, half sand, half playdough stuff that looked and felt […]
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Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post What’s the Harm in Learning? in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
At the end of The Obelisk Gate and leading into the beginning of The Stone Sky, we as readers are well aware of the power Essun holds: she is literally the most powerful orogene in The Stillness (now that […]
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Ashley Daddona edited the blog post Starting Over After the End of the World in the group American Studies: 5 years, 5 months ago
Authors: Sarah Bracy, Ashley Daddona, Steven Minurka, Lauren Ngo, Elena Ritz, & Jose Romero
“They came from diverse tribes and countries, and their traditions had no word for what had happened. But they were o […]
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Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Backtracking in the group American Studies: 5 years, 5 months ago
After reading through some feedback from Dr. McCoy on my first few blog posts, I have decided to go back through those previous blog posts to sift through and think about some of the things that I had begun to put […]
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Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Parallel Fulcrums in the group American Studies: 5 years, 5 months ago
I made a very interesting and unintentional connection a few weeks ago between Jemisin’s work and the occurrences in my every day life; I forgot about this connection (in the moment I didn’t even think to write it […]
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Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Optical Illusions in the group American Studies: 5 years, 6 months ago
With some inspiration from Brigid’s post about comparing The Stillness with the Earth that we all call home, I want to expand on another idea related to this, that we have also briefly brought up in class: Jemisin […]
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Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Fallen Angels in the group American Studies: 5 years, 6 months ago
Throughout the past few weeks, I have been finding it extremely difficult to find inspiration for a blog post. I have many thoughts that come to mind when reading, but have also been struggling to create coherent, […]
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Ashley Daddona edited the blog post Why Am I “Here”? in the group American Studies: 5 years, 7 months ago
I began thinking about our class discussion that we had on September 10th about the meaning behind Jemisin’s choice of titling the prologue of The Fifth Season as “you are here”. LeiBin made the comment that Je […]
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Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Over and Out in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
In honor of finals week and the semester nearly coming to a close, I found myself almost sad that this would be my last ever blog post. It’s crazy to think that I actually feel sad about being done with school […]
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Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post The Uncertainty of DNR Tattoos in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
After reading Dana’s post, I became much more interested in reading the article about DNR tattoos and how it raises concern and uncertainty in terms of consent. The line from Dana’s post that read “…this could […]
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Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Mark Spitz’s Ark in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
As I am working on my opening-out essay and revisiting my ideas and notes on Zone One, I came across my note about the use of water-related vocabulary, and how I was wondering about the reason behind why […]
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Ashley Daddona edited the blog post Being Joyfully Self-Critical in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
After working on the collective course statement over the course of the last few classes, I have come across a lot of my notes from earlier in the class that I forgot about. Particularly, I came across the sentence “we must be joyfully self-critical, and never have a goal“, capitalized and starred. This was within my notes regarding the discussion…[Read more]
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Ashley Daddona edited the blog post Armor Laced With Letters in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
When reading Zone One and discussing the use of the complicated vocabulary during class, my mind went to the familiar phrase of “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me”. Although it doesn’t exactly follow the meaning of the phrase, I associated this phrase with Zone One because of the dangerous nature of the sto…[Read more]
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Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Humanity in Death in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
I really enjoyed Taha’s blog post, Rest In Peace, in which he discussed the idea of putting people out of their misery and how in Zone One, Mark Spitz has the mindset of doing just that. He is ultimately fin […]
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Ashley Daddona edited the blog post Super Heroes vs Super Villains? in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
On October 23rd when we first began discussing Clay’s Ark, we briefly discussed the physical appearance and attributes of Eli and the rest of the people in the enclave as opposed to Blake, Rane and Keira. Because of this, I began reflecting on how the appearance of people can give off a certain vibe about someone, causing us to go against the…[Read more]
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Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Feeling vs Seeing Race in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago
Bringing it back to our conversation regarding race and its origins, we talked about how exactly the idea of race came to be. After a detailed discussion and the viewing of a film in class (in which the name of i […]
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