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Corinne Scanlon wrote a new blog post Deconstructing my own Expectations in the group
American Studies: 3 months, 2 weeks agoI really struggled last semester—and am still struggling—with deconstructing my own expectations of myself. I cannot expect myself to be the same person I was a year ago, a month ago, or even a week ago. Whe […]
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Sydney Bosworth wrote a new blog post Spirituality, Transformation, and Destruction: Octavia Butler’s Human Contradiction in the group
American Studies: 4 months, 1 week agoSince moving from home, beginning college, and gaining independence, I have become an increasingly spiritual person. For me, this involved both extensive introspection and contemplation of ideas bigger than […]
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Sydney Bosworth wrote a new blog post Sydney Bosworth on the Interdependence of Change, Learning, and Violence in the group
American Studies: 5 months agoWhen I first heard the phrase “Learn and Run!”, my immediate train of thought led me to images of guidance counselor posters featuring books and smiling children. In Octavia Butler’s Dawn, however, I was impac […]
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Jenna Murray wrote a new blog post Academic Partnership: A Balance between Risk and Reward. in the group
Critical Writers: 6 months agoOctavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” was the center of our course, INTD-105, which focused on the risks and rewards of an academic partnership. While the novel may not have an obvious, direct link to the risks and rew […]
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Julianna Klimow edited the blog post The Four Essential Building Blocks of Partnership in the group
Critical Writers: 6 months agoThe major theme of this course was based on risks and rewards, and a quote from one of the readings that really represents what this course is all about. “”If we’re not your animals, if these are adult things, a […]
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Wendy Atkin-MApes wrote a new blog post Final Essay in the group
Critical Writers: 6 months agoThroughout life we all have to weigh the risks and rewards of our choices and actions. It can be difficult to make these choices, but as we go through life, we learn the correct tools to help us make the best […]
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Amina Diakite wrote a new blog post Butler Based Q&A in the group
American Studies: 6 months agoHow have you developed and deepened your habits of thinkING this semester? And how are you now moving on as an “independent life” free from the constraints of the Octavia Butler&Social Ties course?
At the […]
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Gianna Algeri wrote a new blog post The risks and rewards in INTD105 in the group
Critical Writers: 6 months agoThroughout this semester, in the class The Risks and Rewards of Academic Partnerships we returned to the main themes of our course epigraph. This epigraph is from the short story “Bloodchild”, written by Oct […]
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Emily Loughlin wrote a new blog post The Risks and Rewards on a College Campus in the group
Critical Writers: 6 months agoThe short story Bloodchild, by Octavia Butler has been a text we return to throughout this semester in the course INTD 105 . In Bloodchild,Octavia Butler wrote, “If we’re not your animals, if these are adult thin […]
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Joshua Rogers edited the blog post Change and Challenge: 2020 as a Challenge to Change in the group
American Studies: 6 months ago2020 has unquestionably been a year of immense change for both our nation and the world at large, so it is appropriate that this semester I discovered Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, which features change a […]
