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Andrew Cook wrote a new blog post Final Reflection Essay in the group American Studies: 5 years, 3 months ago
This entire semester I have found myself faced with increasing apathy towards my classes when compared to my earlier semesters in college. I’m not sure if it’s because I’ve hit a wall now that I realize gradu […]
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Andrew Cook wrote a new blog post Forming an Identity in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
Coming into my final blog post of the semester I was unsure of what I wanted to write about. For most of my previous blog posts I had a general idea either from a class period or from something I thought about […]
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Andrew Cook wrote a new blog post The Briar Patch in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
When we talked about the Uncle Remus stories in class and the association with the briar patch, it was not my first experience with the tales of Br’er Rabbit. All of my prior knowledge of the stories came from a […]
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Andrew Cook wrote a new blog post Reclaiming Language in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
On a comment about one of my previous blog posts, Dr. McCoy raised the question about whether or not “the additive meanings [of words can] survive without being informed/poisoned by the roots?” My previous post […]
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Andrew Cook wrote a new blog post Parasitic and Symbiotic Relationships in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
A passage that struck me while discussing The Stone Sky in class was Nassun’s query into her symbiotic relationship with Schaffa which “she will have already decided that family will do” to define their bond. I b […]
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Andrew Cook wrote a new blog post Breeding in Science Fiction in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
A few weeks ago we read selected passages from the works of Octavia Butler. I noticed that in both Wild Seed and Dawn there were references to breeding practices and I remembered that in Jemisin’s work there is […]
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Andrew Cook wrote a new blog post The Connection towards Home in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
While working on the group blog post about geologic disasters, I was recalled back to The Fifth Season when I read about communities of people who refused to leave their homes when disaster was imminent. T […]
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Andrew Cook wrote a new blog post Sympathy towards Nassun’s Motivations in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
One of the things I’ve most enjoyed about The Obelisk Gate and The Stone Sky is the development of Nassun as she comes to grips with the realities of the world. Her motivations in the third book have developed i […]
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Andrew Cook wrote a new blog post Stone Eaters and Mythological Creatures in the group American Studies: 5 years, 5 months ago
During most of The Fifth Season, I wasn’t sure what to make of the Stone Eaters. In hindsight, it’s clear that Jemisin deliberately wanted to keep me as uncertain as I was in the beginning as the story pr […]
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Andrew Cook wrote a new blog post The Story of Misalem and Historical Revisionism in the group American Studies: 5 years, 5 months ago
When Schaffa tells Damaya the story of Misalem, the evil orogene who tried to destroy Yumenes, he makes it clear that Misalem is the antagonist and that Damaya does not get to envision herself in the role of the […]
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Andrew Cook joined the group American Studies 5 years, 5 months ago
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