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Public Group active 9 months agoA group for students in INTD 105, Critical Writing and Reading, and other courses with a focus on writing fundamentals.
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Jenna Murray wrote a new blog post Academic Partnership: A Balance between Risk and Reward. in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 2 weeks 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: 11 months, 2 weeks 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: 11 months, 2 weeks 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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Gianna Algeri wrote a new blog post The risks and rewards in INTD105 in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 2 weeks 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: 11 months, 2 weeks 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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Mandy Xiang wrote a new blog post The Reward of Risk in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 3 weeks agoIn the recent class discussions focusing on good faith, bad faith, harm and repair, the short story “Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler reminds readers to connect it all back to the throughline of the INTD 105-04 cou […]
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Megan Greene wrote a new blog post Growth in INTD 105 through risks and rewards in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 3 weeks agoRisks and rewards are two important elements that play a key part in anyone’s form of life. In the short story “Bloodchild” written by Octavia Butler, she uses the quote “If we’re not your animals, if these are a […]
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Samantha Kerrigan wrote a new blog post Achieving Success Through Collaborative Risks in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 3 weeks agoIn Octavia Butler’s story “Bloodchild”, there is a recurring theme of partnership, along with the risks that go along with it. A line that really conveyed this idea was “If we’re not your animals, if these are […]
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Jess Aughenbaugh wrote a new blog post thinkING on Risks and Rewards in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 3 weeks agoIn Dr. McCoy’s class, we broke down risk and reward in literature as it applies to our own lives. Throughout the semester, I found it difficult to see the big picture, focusing in on small details of each […]
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Chester Pergan wrote a new blog post INTD FINAL Essay in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 3 weeks agoIn the course INTD 105, we learn about the risk and rewards of academic partnership. Within the course we read “Bloodchild” by Octavia E. Butler, which contains an epigraph that provides a throughline for the […]
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Bradley Hall wrote a new blog post Efficient and Expandable Connections Created with the Central Idea of “Risks and Rewards”. in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 3 weeks agoRisks and rewards. A simple, yet powerful polar phrase in the sense that the two factors given are completely opposite of one another. Author Octavia Butler acknowledges and brings to life these terms that can be […]
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Macy O'Neil edited the blog post Taking a Risk for Growth in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 3 weeks agoIn the syllabus, INTD-105 students were given the epigraph “If we’re not your animals, if these are adult things, accept the risk. There is risk, Gatoi, in dealing with a partner.” This epigraph is a quote from […]
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Ellie Linder edited the blog post Take the Risk and Grow in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 3 weeks agoOctavia Butler’s short story “Bloodchild” shows the protagonist Gan’s decision making as he makes problems requiring risks and rewards of his actions. Growing up, Gan knew he would have to bear a child for […]
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Erica Towne wrote a new blog post It’s Worth The Risk in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 3 weeks agoWhen given our syllabus in the beginning of the semester it included this epigraph, “If we’re not your animals, if these are adult things, accept the risk. There is risk, Gatoi, in dealing with a p […]
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Dayna Sterner wrote a new blog post Learning to Take a Risk and Trust Oneself in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 3 weeks agoOctavia Butler’s Bloodchild is a love story like no other, the partnership of Gan and T’Gatoi is quite unique. Gan is set out to become a host for T’Gatoi’s children but having witnessed a terrible birth of anot […]
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john kippley edited the blog post Covid Cant Stop us From Learning in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 3 weeks agoThe course epigraph states “If we’re not your animals, if these are adult things, accept the risk. There is risk, T’Gatoi, in dealing with a partner.” –Octavia Butler, “Blood child.” In this course we talked a […]
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Emma Kay wrote a new blog post How Feedback Can Lead to an Excellent Academic Partnership in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 3 weeks agoThroughout Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild,” the idea of partnership is explored in a unique way. Gan has just threatened to kill himself and let T’Gatoi implant her eggs into his sister, Hoa. At this point, when […]
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Lexis Maurer wrote a new blog post How I’ve changed as a student in INTD-105 in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 3 weeks agoAs a first-year college student, reading the course syllabus was something new to me. I have never seen a syllabus with a class epigraph. This course’s epigraph comes from the book Bloodchild. The epigraph is, […]
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Nicole Malley edited the blog post What it Means to Take Risks in a Partnership in the group
Critical Writers: 11 months, 3 weeks agoIn Bloodchild, Octavia Butler wrote, “If we’re not your animals, if these are adult things, accept the risk. There is risk, Gatoi, in dealing with a partner.” (Butler 26). This is in context to the character Ga […]
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