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Michael Griffin wrote a new blog post Government Intervention as Violence During Katrina in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
I was inspired to write this blog post after reading Madi’s writeup on “cigarettes as a sign of civilization.” Their post represents the pre-apocalyptic feeling of the familiarity of a cigarette and how it repre […]
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Michael Griffin edited the blog post Pseudohistory: A How to Guide by Kanye West in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
Kanye West. Everyone under the age of ~35 has heard his music at least once in their life. He is known for his musical ability as well as his outlandish personality. He has even been named one of Time Magazine’s 1 […]
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Michael Griffin edited the blog post Prosperos’s Retrospection and Anticipation in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
People like to hate on Shakespeare for many reasons – the most common being the poetic style of his chosen diction and how the density of his syntax lacks proper clarity at a surface level. It is only when you r […]
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Michael Griffin wrote a new blog post Subjectivity of Post-Mortem Identity in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
Since writing about my experience at the wake/funeral services that I attended this past weekend, I have had an urge to talk about the body politic and what social factors are capable of altering it. Specifically, […]
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Michael Griffin wrote a new blog post Remembering Katrina via Satire in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago
Parades – all of us have been to one or two at a point in our lives; they’re fun. But why do we enjoy parades, and what is the significance of them? Well, the answer to both of these questions is subjective, but […]
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Michael Griffin edited the blog post Re-establishing Civic Responsibility in Zone One in the group American Studies: 5 years, 12 months ago
What is civic responsibility? And what does it mean to be civically responsible? Typically, when we hear those two words in the same sentence, we are conditioned to focus on suffrage and political elections. […]
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Michael Griffin edited the blog post Class Struggles of Celebration in the group American Studies: 5 years, 12 months ago
This past Friday and Saturday, I went to the calling hours/wake and funeral, respectively, of a loved one’s mother, a former primary school teacher. I have been to wakes and funerals before, but these were d […]
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Michael Griffin wrote a new blog post Doing the Best We Can: X-codes and retrospective memory in the group American Studies: 6 years, 1 month ago
Several classes ago we discussed, in our small groups, how to interpret the FEMA USR signs that were, and still are, widespread across the wretched landscape of New Orleans. At a glance, these symbols (known as […]
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Michael Griffin edited the blog post Linear Memory and How Natural Disasters Can Be Manipulated. in the group American Studies: 6 years, 2 months ago
During our last class discussion, we focused on an excerpt from Joseph Roach’s Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance, which discusses the idea of memory linearity and how memory operates as more than a way of remembering events and information. The brain’s function of memory is incredibly complex and, in literature, can be man…[Read more]
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Michael Griffin joined the group American Studies 6 years, 2 months ago
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Michael Griffin edited the blog post James Bond Films in Response to Growing Tensions During the Cold War in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 4 months ago
Finally, my pièce de résistance for Digital Humanities is complete. This project’s main goal is to show the connections between the precedents set in Cold War influenced reality and how they compare to the fictional life of James Bond – Britain’s most powerful propaganda film series amidst rising tensions during the Cold War. By doing so, I e…[Read more]
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Michael Griffin wrote a new blog post Mike’s Map in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 5 months ago
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Michael Griffin wrote a new blog post Progress: Cold War Constructs and How They Relate to the Bond Films in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 5 months ago
I’ve finally decided on a platform – WordPress. The simplicity of the layout, the editing tools available, and the interface all prove to be most effective in displaying my project. We’ve used WordPress before, […]
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Michael Griffin wrote a new blog post The Story of the Stuff in the group Digital Humanities: 6 years, 6 months ago
“The Story of the Stuff” is an interactive, multimedia project that provides insight to the relief efforts that the people of Newtown, CT suffered on the day of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. This […]
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Michael Griffin replied to the topic Visions of Education in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
Some of the biggest complaints Wells has about the inadequacy of the education system is that it is not universal and that it is too politically entangled. Wells goes on to say that because of these two reasons, as well as others, that “in the race between catastrophe and education, catastrophe is winning.” This is true when in reference to the…[Read more]
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Michael Griffin replied to the topic Gleick on Information in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
- I learned that a computer is much more complicated than it seems. When I was younger I built my own computer with a motherboard, CPU, and all that jazz. This alone was difficult, but in hindsight, the physical assembly of the system was much easier to understand than the internal workings. Before, I had understood a computer as a means of…
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Michael Griffin replied to the topic Gleick on Words in the forum Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
- The fact that most surprised me was that there only remains one worn copy of Robert Cawdrey’s Tale Alphabeticall from 1604. It only makes sense that such a book wouldn’t have many original copies remaining in existence, however, seeing as it is one of the first dictionaries ever produced, it’s puzzling that the book didn’t increase in popular…
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Michael Griffin joined the group Digital Humanities 6 years, 7 months ago
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Michael Griffin became a registered member 6 years, 7 months ago