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Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Morphing Constellations and The Inevitability of Change in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago

The most important piece of the process of interpretation and collaboration is that in doing so, there is often not a clear and solid answer or solution waiting at the end of the process. In fact, the process […]
Ashley Daddona edited the blog post Taking the Last Penalty Kick in the group American Studies: 7 years, 8 months ago

I walked out of the very first meeting of this class at the beginning of the semester imagining myself in a situation that I knew I could understand:

You’re standing in front of a soccer goal. The ball is pl […]
Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Contemplating the How in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

As our blog posts are coming to a close, I wanted to start getting myself into the reflective mindset in preparation for our final reflective essay. Reflection is something that I have touched on already in a few […]
Ashley Daddona edited the blog post Can The Present Shape The Past? in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

In light of the poem we read recently in class by Yusef Komunyakaa, “Facing It”, I began to contemplate the relevance of the past, present and future, both within Jemisin’s books and within this class as a whole. […]
Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Kinetic Sand! in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

I don’t know about everyone else, but I vividly remember those commercials on TV when I was younger advertising what is known as kinetic sand; that colorful, half sand, half playdough stuff that looked and felt […]
Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post What’s the Harm in Learning? in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

At the end of The Obelisk Gate and leading into the beginning of The Stone Sky, we as readers are well aware of the power Essun holds: she is literally the most powerful orogene in The Stillness (now that […]
Ashley Daddona edited the blog post Starting Over After the End of the World in the group American Studies: 7 years, 9 months ago

Authors: Sarah Bracy, Ashley Daddona, Steven Minurka, Lauren Ngo, Elena Ritz, & Jose Romero

“They came from diverse tribes and countries, and their traditions had no word for what had happened. But they were o […]
Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Backtracking in the group American Studies: 7 years, 10 months ago

After reading through some feedback from Dr. McCoy on my first few blog posts, I have decided to go back through those previous blog posts to sift through and think about some of the things that I had begun to put […]
Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Parallel Fulcrums in the group American Studies: 7 years, 10 months ago

I made a very interesting and unintentional connection a few weeks ago between Jemisin’s work and the occurrences in my every day life; I forgot about this connection (in the moment I didn’t even think to write it […]
Ashley Daddona wrote a new blog post Optical Illusions in the group American Studies: 7 years, 10 months ago

With some inspiration from Brigid’s post about comparing The Stillness with the Earth that we all call home, I want to expand on another idea related to this, that we have also briefly brought up in class: Jemisin […]

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