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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post A Seat at the Table is Necessary in the group American Studies: 4 years, 10 months ago
What I hoped to learn from this class is the importance of equality within an academic setting. To me, taking a course like “African-American Literature” seemed like an answer to dealing with a lack of rep […]
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Analiese Vasciannie edited the blog post Read, Discuss, Reflect, and Repeat in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
For my last blog post of the semester, I usually reflect on the growth I’ve seen within myself. More specifically, how I’ve grown in terms of my writing skills, how I analyze information as a student, and how I […]
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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post Doubt is the Big Machine in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
Big Machine by Victor LaValle has easily become one of my favorite books to read in my whole academic career. If it weren’t for all the analytical discussions we had in class, carefully examining every literary […]
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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post Consent and Male Pregnancies in Black Science Fiction in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
As the semester nears the end, I am finally writing about the concept of consent illustrated in Octavia Butler’s fictional short-story, Bloodchild. This blog post is long overdue, but considering how this class […]
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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post My Theory Between “Big Machine” and “Us” in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
During the “Into the Lungs of Hell” section in Big Machine, protagonist Ricky Rice is assigned by the Dean of Washburn Library to complete a mission in Garland, California. With the Gray Lady as his accomplice, […]
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Analiese Vasciannie edited the blog post My Newfound Appreciation of Claude McKay and Poetry as a Whole in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
When I read a work of literature in my downtime, I tend to stray away from poetry. Personally, I’ve always held the assumption of poetry being abstract and meant for modern philosophers who could waste their time […]
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Analiese Vasciannie edited the blog post What is Real Anymore? in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
In class on Friday, we were talking about the Momo Challenge and the damages this hoax has caused internationally. For the longest time, I just assumed that the creator of this character had evil intentions, when […]
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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post Intersectionality 2.0 in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
Joan Morgan’s interview for the Annual Hip Hop Symposium was genuine, organic, and a breath of fresh air. What was an extra credit opportunity for many turned out to be a moment of reassurance for me because I was […]
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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post Labels: Necessary or a Nuisance? in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
When it comes to the human race, we have a tendency to create hierarchies amongst ourselves to get further ahead in society, so to speak. The etymology of the word label comes from Old French meaning “narrow ba […]
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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post I Do Belong in this Space and So Do You in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
Reading the epigraphs in the course’s syllabus, I felt somewhat empowered. The one that really stood out to me is Dionne Brand’s quote, “my job is to notice…and to notice that you can notice.” To me, this is a […]
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Analiese Vasciannie joined the group Reader and Text 5 years, 6 months ago
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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post From What I’ve Learned in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Throughout this semester, I can say without a doubt that my writing style and sense of critical thinking has significantly improved. Prior to this course, I thought that I was a terrible writer and that I would […]
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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post Is Helping People Harmful? in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
In class, we’ve discussed medical voluntourism and how it effects others in foreign countries. Usually when people hear about such programs, they assume that traveling abroad and providing medical […]
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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post My Medical Voluntourism “Dilemma” in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
In class, we discussed different aspects of medical voluntourism and how certain elements can be detrimental towards low-income countries. Recently, I attended a GOLD workshop revolving around planning service […]
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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post Mutato Nomine, De Te Fabula Narratur in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
For those of you that don’t speak Latin (myself included), the title of my blog post reads “With the name changed, the story applies to you.” In class, we’ve read stories that had a tendency of revolving around […]
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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post My Opinion about Zone One in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
Before we even started to read Zone One by Colson Whitehead, I had a negatively biased opinion about the book. Personally, I’m not a fan of the zombie apocalyptic genre, so I assumed that I wouldn’t enjoy reading […]
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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post Racial Tampering in America in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
***Please be mindful and considerate of this post. It’s from personal experience and is a sensitive subject for me. I think it’s important to acknowledge racial tampering and distancing within a community, but I’m […]
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Analiese Vasciannie edited the blog post Justifying the Times in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
For the past few weeks, I’ve been contemplating if I should write a blog post about consent. I didn’t want to come across as disrespectful. As a forewarning, I don’t want to seem insensitive to anyone who has experienced abuse by discussing controversial current events and making my own interpretations/connections to the past. In no way am I…[Read more]
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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post A Political Take on Medical Voluntourism in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
As we’ve discussed in class, Racism, Medicine, and Literature are all interconnected and are incorporated in other fields of study beyond their boundaries. I’m a Political Science major and right now I’m taking a […]
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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post Personal Connection between Medical Terms and Race in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
Being enrolled in this Top Lit: Lit, Medicine, and Racism, I have learned that topics like race and medicine play a role in other aspects of society. I am also enrolled in a Civil Rights course for my Writing […]
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