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Emma Bode wrote a new blog post The AIDS Crisis in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Last Tuesday, I attended the talk “Activism and Resilience During and Since the AIDS Crisis.” Mr. Matthew Burns, Dean of Students at the University of Rochester and a member of the Out Alliance gave the […]
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Emma Bode wrote a new blog post To Help or Not to Help in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Throughout the course, one of the most important topics we have discussed is consent. Recently, Dr. McCoy sent us an article about consent regarding a very uncomfortable topic: death. The article is about a man […]
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Emma Bode wrote a new blog post Finding Justice Without Death in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
In Zone One, there is death written into every page. One death in particular from Zone One has really stuck in my mind — Gary’s death. His death is vivid and violent, and it seems to mark when Zone One falls. I h […]
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Emma Bode edited the blog post A Controversial Issue in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
Like others in class, I have also been thinking about the morality of killing the skels and stragglers, human beings who have been completely changed by a horrible and seemingly incurable disease. What bothers me most about them, and the idea of a “zombie” in general, is that they are human beings that need to be killed if anyone not infected…[Read more]
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Emma Bode edited the blog post Dooming the World in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
The ending of Clay’s Ark has really stuck with me and I find myself still trying to find meaning in it. In particular, I have been thinking a lot about a character that I know many others in class are also thinking about: Blake. After all, he is the reason why the novel ends in the way it does. I have come to the conclusion that I do not like Bl…[Read more]
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Emma Bode edited the blog post What does it mean to be “human?” in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago
After finishing Clay’s Ark, I have been thinking a lot about what it means to be “human.”
The entire novel seems to grapple with the question: are those infected by the nameless disease human? After all, they are hosts to millions (or perhaps even billions) of alien microbes. When Blake samples Meda’s blood, he comes to the conclusion that the…[Read more]
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Emma Bode edited the blog post A Thank You Note to Everett in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
When I finished Zulus, I was left confused and (unsurprisingly) disappointed. Like I mentioned in my last post, it is important for us to examine why the novels we read make us feel the way that we do. We can simply close the book and walk away from it, we can read something that we know may be more fulfilling, but little growth will come from d…[Read more]
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Emma Bode edited the blog post An Answer to an Important Question in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
As we have been reading Zulus and having discussions about the novel in class, I have noticed a common feeling among our class: we do not like being confused. I have read several books that have caused this sort of resentment before. For example, my freshman year the INTD course I took was about metafiction. We read one book in particular that…[Read more]
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Emma Bode edited the blog post What does it mean to be “healed?” in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago
As I was reading the end of Home, I came across the quote that I knew I would pick as the one that meant the most to me from the novel. The quote struck me because it not only has a lot of significance to the book, but also to the overall topics that we are discussing in class. The quote I chose was a popular one; several other people also chose…[Read more]
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Emma Bode wrote a new blog post Why has DACA been repealed? in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago
Ever since we discussed the strategy of the “both/and,” found examples of it from Medical Apartheid, and watched Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s TED Talk, I have been thinking a lot about how I can apply these con […]
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Emma Bode joined the group American Studies 6 years, 6 months ago
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Emma Bode became a registered member 6 years, 6 months ago