Recent Blog Posts
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Emily McIntosh wrote a new blog post Final Reflection: In relation to The Trees and Course Epigraphs in the group
American Studies: 2 months agoMy semester’s story as told through Percival Everett’s The Trees and one of our course epigraphs could be a long one. But nonetheless, it’s still a story to tell. There are many ways in which to wr […]
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Francheska Colon wrote a new blog post The Power Of StoryTelling in the group
American Studies: 2 months, 3 weeks agoThe initial draft of this thesis concentrated mostly on islands, especially islands and their distinctive qualities. When I looked at islands from this angle, I realized why some people only saw them as tiny and […]
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Makayla Williams edited the blog post Jemisin’s World of Love & Pain: Poetry of Languages in the group
American Studies: 2 months, 3 weeks agoMy life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops? Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell a story of interconnective worlds and realities that define love and […]
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Hannah Fuller wrote a new blog post Building a Better World in the group
American Studies: 2 months, 3 weeks agoWhat I love most about human beings is the ability for us to change our minds. When we learn new information, we can use it to change the way we think and create something even better. New ideas, art, poetry, […]
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Cheyanne Carney wrote a new blog post Obelisks, Satellites, and The Stone Sky in the group
American Studies: 2 months, 3 weeks agoBack at the end of February we wrote a reflection essay after our reading of N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season. At that time we had only read one out of the three books in the trilogy and we still had so much to g […]
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Mia Donaldson wrote a new blog post Essun and Fissured Identity in the group
American Studies: 2 months, 3 weeks agoI. IntroductionHaving read the entire Broken Earth trilogy, I’ve sometimes found myself frustrated at my constant preference and subsequent deference to its first installment, The Fifth Season. I first read The F […]
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Sarah Pleines wrote a new blog post The Predictability of the “Unpredictable” in the group
American Studies: 2 months, 3 weeks agoMy last post, written just after reading the first book of The Broken Earth Trilogy, can now be read as thinkING with an incomplete understanding of what I was discussing at that current time. The original focus […]
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Emilee Coughlin wrote a new blog post Race In The World Of Orogenes in the group
American Studies: 2 months, 3 weeks agoEmilee Coughlin
Dr. McCoy
English 468
May 18th, 2022
Race In The World Of Orogenes
In my first ThinkING essay written about the novel, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, the most […]
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Charlie Kenny wrote a new blog post Aggregate Love in the group
American Studies: 2 months, 3 weeks agoOn the first page of The Obelisk Gate Hoa tells the reader that “relationships chisel the final shape of one’s being.” This idea is a concrete theme throughout the series as it focuses on the ways […]
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Kevin Reed edited the blog post The Broken Earth Trilogy; A Reflection Through SEL. in the group
American Studies: 2 months, 3 weeks agoTowards the beginning of this spring semester at SUNY Geneseo I created my first blog post discussing N.K Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, from her series The Broken Earth Trilogy. In this blog post I discussed w […]
