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Sami Stern edited the blog post Stigmergencies, a second responder in the group American Studies: 6 years, 2 months ago
A few weeks back Brendan made a post called Stigmergencies whether stigmergy can really help us build a better system. He was responding the work of Heather Marsh who argues for a movement away from representative democracy and towards collaboration. Like Marsh, I believe that we have a system in desperate need of change. Like Brendon, I’m not s…[Read more]
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Sami Stern edited the blog post It’s OK to be a Snob About Reading in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
A couple weeks ago Cassie wrote an interesting blog post about the importance of the visual. In addition to raising some very valid points, she credited a point that I had made in our small group discussion. I felt that it was important to provide some context and credit to the original research.
Maybe it’s my constant need for validation or m…[Read more]
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Sami Stern edited the blog post You Judged that Book by its Cover, Didn’t You? in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Earlier this semester our professor, Dr. McCoy, showed us the original cover of Dawn. I remember being confused for a moment. Where was Lilith? Well, it turns out she was right there, where you would expect her to be. She just didn’t look like you would expect her to look. She was white.
I’ve thought back to this cover a lot over the sem…[Read more]
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Sami Stern wrote a new blog post Cancerous Silver Linings in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
Cancer is, quite possibly, one of greatest tragedies of the human condition. There aren’t words to describe the horror of watching a loved one waste away as the malignant cells multiply—so I won’t try. Peopl […]
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Sami Stern wrote a new blog post The Importance of Intent in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago
While working on our final class project A Brief Guide to the Many Traps of Octavia Butler’s Fiction, we talked about the traps of consent in Butler’s work. As stated in the final project, one trap that Butler set […]
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Sami Stern joined the group American Studies 6 years, 3 months ago
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Sami Stern started the topic Is Mr. Keating the Devil or Angel on their shoulder? in the forum Film Talk 6 years, 11 months ago
Before this week I had seen The Dead Poets Society (1989) in no less (and possibly more) than four times. Through out middle and high school it was a faculty favorite for those days my teachers threw their hands up and said “I think I’ll show a film”. It had always been a favorite of mine. Because who doesn’t love a good story encouraging us to s…[Read more]
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Sami Stern joined the group Film Talk 7 years, 1 month ago
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Sami Stern became a registered member 7 years, 1 month ago