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DongWon Oh wrote a new blog post Dante & Morrison’s Reminders about Control, Communication & Kindness Amidst the Pandemic in the group American Studies: 3 years, 10 months ago
Morrison’s Paradise seems more relevant than ever in the face of a global pandemic that emphasizes the need for collaboration, at personal, local, communal, interstate, and global levels. What’s fortunate for thi […]
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DongWon Oh joined the group American Studies 3 years, 10 months ago
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Aliyha Gill wrote a new blog post The importance of sharing your poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 4 months ago
As we approach the end of the semester and I sift through all my poetry to form a cohesive portfolio, I am forced to reflect on my writing and what I aim to accomplish as a poet. Like some of my peers have […]
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Aliyha Gill wrote a new blog post taking critiques into consideration in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 4 months ago
Upon recently workshopping my poem “Unheard: An Introvert’s Inner Monologue” (still working on the title), I realized how much I’ve changed not only as a person, but as a writer. First as a person, I noticed […]
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Aliyha Gill wrote a new blog post Translating a language I don’t speak in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 4 months ago
A few years ago, I helped a friend with a poetry project for her Spanish literature class. She spoke fluent Spanish, whereas I could barely count to ten in the language. Still, I agreed to help her out, 1) […]
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Patrick Ruehle changed their profile picture 4 years, 5 months ago
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Patrick Ruehle joined the group Unplugged 4 years, 5 months ago
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Aliyha Gill wrote a new blog post on Plath in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 6 months ago
I made it my mission to analyze all of Sylvia Plath’s poetry. So far, I’ve read her collections “Ariel” and “The Colossus.” As a whole, her poems had melancholy tones, including “Morning Star,” which was writt […]
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Aliyha Gill wrote a new blog post transformation of poetry in the group The Contemporary Poem: 4 years, 6 months ago
My vision of poetry has changed drastically throughout the years. As a young girl, I wrote blocks of texts full of description. They were hybrids of prose poems and fiction pieces. I scrawled my words on every […]
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Aliyha Gill joined the group The Contemporary Poem 4 years, 6 months ago
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Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Memory and Compassion in the group American Studies: 4 years, 10 months ago
“[…] herein lies the tragedy of the age: not that men are poor,—all men know something of poverty; not that men are wicked, —who is good? not that men are ignorant,—what is Truth? Nay, but that men know so litt […]
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ALISON AMES started the topic Universal Message in Leave No Trace in the forum Film Talk 4 years, 10 months ago
The first thing I would like to comment on is the portrayal of runaway culture. As someone who as dealt with the system in three different states, New York, Colorado, and Oregon, I found the depiction of the police state presence farcical in the face of reality. Go to Portland, and under any number of bridges you will find a heterogeneous…[Read more]
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ALISON AMES started the topic Complacency in Children of Men in the forum Film Talk 4 years, 10 months ago
As a dystopian film, Children of Men draws attention to fears that resonate not just because it may someday happen but because things like this have happened (not global infertility obviously, but genocide, internment, police states, etc.). The film provides no answers- to how humanity has gotten to this point, to the problem of infertility, or…[Read more]
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ALISON AMES started the topic Response to… Plot Armor in The Thing in the forum Film Talk 4 years, 11 months ago
I could not figure out how to reply to the blog post unfortunately so I hope this is okay…
The concept of plot armor is something that I was actually going to post about so I’m glad someone decided to!
I would add that this concept is first apparent in the opening scene when the chopper is attempting to shoot the Thing (as a dog). The shooter…[Read more]
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ALISON AMES started the topic Cultural Implications in The Thing (1982) in the forum Film Talk 4 years, 11 months ago
I think The Thing (1982) is far more complex than it appears at first glance. I first noticed, and this could be due to the similarities it shares with my research paper, the cultural implications. Kurt Russell plays the man-of-action cowboy hero quintessential to the Reagan-era Hollywood hero. In 1982, nearing the end of the Cold War, this movie…[Read more]
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ALISON AMES started the topic The Call of Cthulhu in the forum Film Talk 4 years, 11 months ago
The Call of Cthulhu suggests that there exists some form of collective consciousness, the forgotten knowledge of the past only accessible through artistic minds. However, the forgotten knowledge and “stirred memories” of this ancient knowledge destroys us; like our inferior means of communication, our physical bodies are not fit to digest divine…[Read more]
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Noah Mazer wrote a new blog post Visual Continuity in Prince’s Work in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
In the process of putting together our blog post “Untangling Sustainability,” the group I was a part of spent a good chunk of time finding a definition for sustainable/sustainability that wasn’t attached to a […]
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ALISON AMES replied to the topic Does "The Station Agent" Have a Plot? What About a Hero? in the forum Film Talk 4 years, 11 months ago
I do agree that The Station Agent has plot elements and is a movie with a plot. I think one reason that it may be considered as lacking a plot is that the conflicts are predominantly internal. Each of the central characters struggle internally rather than some opposing force which must be overcome. I also think, the fact that the central…[Read more]
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ALISON AMES started the topic "Angel-woman" & "Monster-woman" Undertones in Georgia in the forum Film Talk 4 years, 11 months ago
After watching the film, Georgia, I could not help but draw parallels between the reading from Gilbert & Gubar’s “Snow White and Her Wicked Stepmother” and Georgia. Sadie’s obsession with her sister and her subsequent attempt to live up to her in her fathers eyes is brought to attention in the first scene the two women are together, “What is it…[Read more]
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ALISON AMES replied to the topic Cinematic Parallels & "Noble" Heroism in the forum Film Talk 4 years, 11 months ago
Commenting on your hero in Wind River response, I agree with you. I left the film feeling as though there was an absence of heroism in the film. Although Cory appears to mentor Jane through the investigation, he is driven by a want for vengeance not justice. As Jane stumbles around behind him, not every truly understanding the gravity of her…[Read more]
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