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Shelagh Neeley wrote a new blog post Look at all The People…. in the group
Reader and Text: 8 minutes ago“And so, this became a prophetically, apocalyptically
instructive, even sibylline, moment. I was, in life, to be a gambler, a risk
taker, a swashbuckler, a knight. I accepted then and there, my place in t […] -
Amanda Neri wrote a new blog post Next time won’t you sing with me in the group
Reader and Text: 15 hours, 24 minutes agoThe other day in class we started reading a new book, called re: f (gesture). Inside this book of poems are abecedarian poems, which according to Merriam-Webster means “of or relating to the alphabet; alp […]
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Shelagh Neeley wrote a new blog post The Power of Opinions in the group
Reader and Text: 17 hours, 39 minutes agoPercival Everett’s
“Body” intervenes in the kind of disciplinary tensions that Joe Moran
outlines in “Science, Space, and Nature.” More specifically, the
poems may be understood as arguing, criticizing, and/ or […] -
Mia Sidoti wrote a new blog post Let’s talk about it. in the group
Reader and Text: 18 hours, 44 minutes agoIn my group today there were mixed emotions expressed
as we read through the poems of Body by Percival Everett. We spoke about
how technical and literal each poem was, laying the definitions of the specific
body […] -
Elizabeth Roos wrote a new blog post Description Without Metaphor in the group
Reader and Text: 20 hours, 35 minutes agoPercival Everett’s “Body” intervenes in the blazon form. More specifically, the poems may be understood as celebrating the capability of language to convey an artistic form without the use of literary devic […]
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Cole Barber wrote a new blog post How Genres Effect Entertainment in the group
Reader and Text: 21 hours, 41 minutes agoImagine it’s late at night and you’re laying in your bed actively trying to find a Netflix TV show or movie. There are thousands of movies and shows at your fingertips, but you cannot decide what you want to wat […]
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Hannah Smith edited the blog post Isn’t it Ironic in the group
Reader and Text: 1 day agoIrony is one of the most versatile literary devices. Versatile in the way it can be used in any genre and is in most novels even if just in a small way. Irony, which is defined by The Bedford Glossary of […]
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Mia Sidoti edited the blog post What’s the big picture? in the group
Reader and Text: 1 day, 15 hours agoAs my English 203 class
starts to read through Percival Everett’s poetry book re: f (gesture), I
can’t help but notice how eloquently Everett can make intimate topics sound…not
too dirty. In the book we’ve […] -
Anthony Guttilla wrote a new blog post America’s Closet in the group
Reader and Text: 1 day, 18 hours agoIn
America, one likes to think that it is truly the land of equal opportunity for
all, but that just is not true. Throughout American history, there is clearly
visible racism that is put in place to k […] -
Sarah Ramsaroop wrote a new blog post LET’S BREAK THE RULES! in the group
Reader and Text: 1 day, 20 hours agoWhile reading Percival Everett’s work it can be determined that he dislikes the preset structural guidelines implemented on writers and in specific writing forms. This idea is demonstrated […]
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Leila Sassouni edited the blog post Common Knowledge and the Theory of Multiple Intelligences in the group
Reader and Text: 1 day, 22 hours agoIntelligence, according to Lexico, is “the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills” (Lexico). As a psychology major, I have to take a course called Child Development. In my class we recently had a tes […]
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Sarah Ramsaroop edited the blog post Oppose Structuralism in the group
Reader and Text: 2 days, 20 hours agoAt the beginning of the semester Professor McCoy exposed the class to the quote “it is incredible that a sentence is ever understood” by Percival Everett. This quote became the steppingstone […]
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Amanda Neri wrote a new blog post That Was Deep in the group
Reader and Text: 3 days, 16 hours agoBefore reading the novel, I am Not Sidney Poitier, and knowing little to no background information I was determined that it was going to be a very boring dry novel. When we were in our small groups after reading […]
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Mia Sidoti wrote a new blog post A thank you to one of the greats. in the group
Reader and Text: 4 days, 13 hours agoIn my
first year of college I prided myself in acting like I knew everything there was
to know about William Shakespeare, because as an English major I thought that
acting pretentious and quoting Ha […] -
Susanna Dolan edited the blog post Privilege and Not Sidney Poitier in the group
Reader and Text: 5 days, 22 hours agoRecently for my Sociology
100 class I read an excerpt from an article titled “White
Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Peggy McIntosh. This
article includes a list of advantages that McIntosh fou […] -
Hailey Cullen wrote a new blog post Copy That in the group
Reader and Text: 1 week agoIn
the novel, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, by Percival Everett, Not Sidney
experiences many of the same events as the real Sidney Poitier did in his
movies. I am confident that this is done purposefully by Everett to […] -
Hailey Schiller wrote a new blog post That Not Sidney Sure is Something in the group
Reader and Text: 1 week agoWhile supporting characters within the world of I Am Not Sidney Poitier, are flat caricatures, Not Sidney is characterized as being made real through a combination of story, dream, history, and his own lived […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post The Randomness of Ted Turner in the group
Reader and Text: 1 week agoOne of the books I read in English class was I Am Not Sidney Poiter, a book by Percival Everett about the strange life of a boy named Not Sydney Poiter. One of the most standout characters in the novel was a […]
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Amanda Neri wrote a new blog post Another world in the group
Reader and Text: 1 week, 1 day agoAfter finishing the novel, I am Not Sidney Poitier by Percival Everett, I believe that the author was trying to make a point in his writing. I might not know from personal experiences, what black people in […]
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Audrey Minton wrote a new blog post The Power of Labeling in the group
Reader and Text: 1 week, 1 day agoLast week, I wrote a collaborative blog post with Kevin, Molly, Hailey, and Shelagh focusing on how names can sometimes be misinterpreted, and often lead to labeling. Our main point of this post was that names […]
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