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Michee Jacobs wrote a new blog post “My job is to notice…” in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
Most recently I have felt internally challenged by some of the events that have taken place on campus this year and in the three previous years that I have attended this institution. I have also been concerned and […]
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Michee Jacobs edited the blog post Procrastination, Growth and Less Pressure in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
I put off writing this final blog post more than Ricky Rice kept putting off using the bag of drugs he was carrying. Procrastination can come in many forms, some that are positive and some that are negative. In my […]
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Michee Jacobs edited the blog post Allowing the Face of Goodness to Surprise You in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
Naturally as a historian it is my job to be inquisitive about both sides to every story. Of course not every historian does this, in fact many don’t, but in my opinion it is the best way to examine history and […]
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Michee Jacobs wrote a new blog post Afro-Futurism… What the… Never mind in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
Throughout our African-American literature class, a common place that I have found my self is in the realm of “what is actually going on.” This is not just a recurring question but an entire “realm” of confusion. […]
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Michee Jacobs wrote a new blog post Once Again We Must Address Consent… in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
What legitimizes a group of people who feel they have been done an injustice on the part of another person or group of people? This question has been circulating around in my mind all week considering the recent […]
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Michee Jacobs wrote a new blog post Can One belong to Two worlds? in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
Throughout my childhood my father would always say to me “Michee, you can’t serve two gods.” I’ll come back to that idea towards the end because I believe it aligns with the conclusion I drew after class last […]
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Michee Jacobs edited the blog post Response to Analiese Vasciannie’s Post “My Theory Between ‘Big Machine’ and ‘Us'” in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
First of all, I would like to thank Analiese for her post, specifically because I did not draw the connection between the movie being called “Us” and the U.S. This was something I overlooked on my mission to watch […]
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Michee Jacobs wrote a new blog post Anticipating Repetition in Jordan Peele’s “US” (No Spoilers) in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
Talented screen-writer and actor, Jordan Peele, just debuted his new movie Us in theaters last week and the box office went crazy. Jordan Peele is fairly new to the horror movie scene but has come in strong from […]
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Michee Jacobs edited the blog post Whose Story is it Anyway? in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
When thinking about ownership in the context of literature, I can honestly say that I am at a crossroads. While I would agree that the author should maintain ownership over their ideas and the ways that they are […]
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Michee Jacobs edited the blog post The Question of “Why” in a Cycle of Growth and Shrinkage in the group American Studies: 5 years, 2 months ago
One of the most important questions I ask when attempting to understand tradition in any realm of life, social, religious, or cultural, is the “why?” I have never been one to take things for what they are, I am […]
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Michee Jacobs edited the blog post Michee Jacobs: On Exploring the Unknown and Attacking Fear in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
One of the most important questions that I’ve asked myself throughout this semester is, “where did my growth begin?” I acknowledge that I made significant strides this semester, not solely academically, but all a […]
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Michee Jacobs edited the blog post A Response to Jose Romero: Catching a Drift of Fear in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
First I would like to say, oh my goodness, I am ecstatic to see that Jose wrote his blog post about fear and fear of writing because I would have thought I was the only one feeling this way throughout the […]
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Michee Jacobs wrote a new blog post Nobody Panic: I am an Orogene in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
I have a confession, both myself and Sabrina Bramwell are academic orogenes. I know how that must sound, crazy, but its something that we both noticed after dicsussing our different approaches to writing blog […]
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Michee Jacobs wrote a new blog post Writing History that Bleeds in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
Throughout the Jemisin books that I’ve read so far, The Fifth Season most demonstrates the underlying themes of social injustice, and systematic oppression. It was not until after class on Friday that I came to […]
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Michee Jacobs edited the blog post The New Starbucks Cups DO NOT Need a Straw in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
Just the other day at Starbucks I noticed the new style of to- go cups that the baristas were serving. My immediate thought was, “these cups are so dumb, why is the straw hole so big, I’m going to spill my drink.” […]
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Michee Jacobs edited the blog post The De-humanization of Civilization in the group American Studies: 5 years, 5 months ago
With all of the atrocities that have been occurring around the world, a question that I find to be at the forefront of human suffering is, do we suppress our emotions and desensitize for the sake of progression, […]
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Michee Jacobs wrote a new blog post Noticing My Implicit Race Default in the group American Studies: 5 years, 6 months ago
During class discussion on Friday, I noticed that I put all of the characters introduced in The Fifth Season into purely human racial groups based on my own sub-conscience assessment of earthly characteristics. […]
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Michee Jacobs edited the blog post Civil Disobedience or Un-civil Disobedience? in the group American Studies: 5 years, 6 months ago
Dr. Spencer Crew, former president of the National Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, gave a lecture based on the relationship between civil disobedience, the Underground Railroad and Henry David Thoreau. […]
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Michee Jacobs wrote a new blog post Themes of Dependency and Power Structure in the group American Studies: 5 years, 7 months ago
I am beginning to see the parallels that Jemisin is trying to draw between the real world and the literary world. The demonstration of power structure and divisions among races is something that the book is doing […]
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Michee Jacobs edited the blog post Occam’s Principle Analysis in the group American Studies: 5 years, 7 months ago
Amos Nur quotes F. Heylighen’s definition of Occam’s Principle as the practice of applying only the minimum amount of assumptions when considering possibilities. This idea is called the principle of parsimony. U […]
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