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Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post Procrastination at its Finest in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
I was browsing the blog, reading everyone’s work and trying to decide what I should include in my final post to this forum. I stumbled upon Kyra’s post. Her and I share something in common, we both seem to hav […]
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Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post SUNY Geneseo as a Place of True Education in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
I was speaking to a friend of mine the other day about her classes and her professors. She attends a community college in my hometown. She said that her professors are constantly cancelling classes and that they […]
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Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post Is Race Something to be Ignored? in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
In another class of mine, we started to discuss the idea of race and if identifying one’s race was important when naming an accomplishment of an individual (i.e. “He was a black Nobel Prize winner). One girl in […]
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Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post Putting Things into Perspective in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
While looking over Zone One in preparation for the paper that’s due on the 14th, I remembered us talking about Mark Spitz’s encounter with the skell that reminded him of his 6th grade English teacher, Miss Alc […]
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Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post Gender/Race in Science and Medicine in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
This semester has been an extremely interesting and insightful one. I am currently enrolled in two courses with similar topics; this one and a sociology course titled “Gender and Science”. I signed up for both thi […]
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Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post Secrets, Secrets Are No Fun in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
Upon reading the follow-up article about Alabama and the hookworm crisis that Dr. McCoy emailed us, I started to think about our government and its structure in a new way. I find it very interesting that this […]
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Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post Consent: Does “Yes” Really Mean “Yes”? in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
Upon reading “An Unconscious Patient with a DNR Tattoo” from the New England Journal of Medicine, I was very perplexed by their decision to not resuscitate the patient based on the tattoo. We have learned in Hom […]
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Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post Studying Abroad: What’s Your Real Purpose? in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
Thinking more in depth about medical volunteerism has forced me to contemplate everything regarding studying abroad. I was on scrolling on twitter when I saw my friend tweet something along these lines, “I c […]
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Avery Georgakis edited the blog post Persuasion vs. Awareness in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
I find that I’m often carrying on conversations outside of the classroom with my friends that relate to this course’s content. Every time we read an article or a chapter from Medical Apartheid that is absolutely appalling to me, I’ll bring it up to my friends in conversation. Nearly all of the things we discuss or read in this class is too impor…[Read more]
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Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post The “God Complex” and Doctors in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago
Today in class, we discussed Blake in Clay’s Ark and his tendency to act as though he has the “God Complex”. The “God Complex” is when one tends to believe that they are above all else due to their place in […]
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Avery Georgakis commented on the post, My experience with the term race, on the site (Im)Possibilities 6 years, 6 months ago
Serhiy, although I did not deal with a situation quite like yours, I did not realize that there was such a large discrepancy in how one was treated based on their “race” in society until a much older age. I grew […]
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Avery Georgakis joined the group American Studies 6 years, 7 months ago
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Avery Georgakis became a registered member 6 years, 7 months ago