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Tayler Thompson wrote a new blog post On Being Subjects in the group
American Studies: 1 hour, 45 minutes agoWhen we discussed Suzan-Lori Parks’s Imperceptible Mutabilities in class the other day, Professor McCoy told us how in the performance of the play, actors stare and single out audience members, making them […]
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Brooke Ward wrote a new blog post Understanding the Horseman… and Then Some in the group
American Studies: 2 hours, 55 minutes agoTo further elaborate on my understanding of the horsemen from my last post, I thought it would be a good idea to discuss how I have applied them in my daily thinking and life. Over spring break, I visited my older […]
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Elana Evenden wrote a new blog post ‘These Are Books We Have to Read’ in the group
American Studies: 3 hours, 35 minutes agoAfter Monday’s class when we had to pick out a quote from our reading that stuck out to us, I remembered a quote from earlier in the novel that I kept thinking about: “To be an American is to be a believer! But […]
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Elana Evenden wrote a new blog post The Tail in the group
American Studies: 5 hours, 26 minutes agoThis past weekend I was lucky enough to experience my first Passover Seder with my boyfriend and his grandparents. I have been raised with Athiest beliefs, only briefly educated in Christianity from my […]
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Claire Corbeaux wrote a new blog post Once Again Addressing Force in the group
American Studies: 5 hours, 54 minutes agoThough I am officially no longer a physics major, my life has remained entangled (perhaps quantumly so) with the sciences. It sometimes seems to me as if the sciences refuse to relinquish their hold on me, as this […]
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Nicole Fyvie wrote a new blog post Trust and Doubt in the group
American Studies: 6 hours, 26 minutes agoAs I was trying to find inspiration for my last blog post I started thinking about all the things that we have been doing in class and what would be best fit to end my last blog post. In class we have been talking […]
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Analiese Vasciannie wrote a new blog post Consent and Male Pregnancies in Black Science Fiction in the group
American Studies: 9 hours, 30 minutes agoAs the semester nears the end, I am finally writing about the concept of consent illustrated in Octavia Butler’s fictional short-story, Bloodchild. This blog post is long overdue, but considering how this class […]
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Brian Vargas edited the blog post An Appreciation for The Process in the group
American Studies: 12 hours, 3 minutes agoThe Process
We often aim for specific results and in that desire to achieve that result, forget to appreciate “the process” or journey we took in trying to accomplish that result—people often allow the desir […]
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Melisha-Li Gatlin wrote a new blog post What is Art? in the group
American Studies: 21 hours, 34 minutes agoThere have been two instances where the question “what is art?” has been brought up in conversation. One instance stemmed from Dan DeZarn’s lecture where he attempted to give a definition of art, which is a piece […]
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Mikhayla Graham wrote a new blog post Families, or lack there of. in the group
American Studies: 23 hours, 9 minutes agoWith the course theme of recursion in mind, I wanted to write about something I have been noticing throughout the semester; a trend of family. This is shared between texts such as the Frederick Douglass narrative, […]
