English @ SUNY Geneseo | Avery Georgakis | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ag36/activity/ Activity feed for Avery Georgakis. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 9ef5091c6a44a39dc653ed6a1792bd3b Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post Procrastination at its Finest in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9315/ Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:11:45 -0500 I was browsing the blog, reading everyone’s work and trying to decide what I should include in my final post to this forum. I stumbled upon Kyra’s post. Her and I share something in common, we both seem to hav […]

]]> 0 651602504dc6de429ec2c82404010cfb Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post SUNY Geneseo as a Place of True Education in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9314/ Tue, 12 Dec 2017 19:09:43 -0500 I was speaking to a friend of mine the other day about her classes and her professors. She attends a community college in my hometown. She said that her professors are constantly cancelling classes and that they […]

]]> 0 48d2e1661e95918c1fd8e27eb404bd5c Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post Is Race Something to be Ignored? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9303/ Tue, 12 Dec 2017 04:51:13 -0500 In another class of mine, we started to discuss the idea of race and if identifying one’s race was important when naming an accomplishment of an individual (i.e. “He was a black Nobel Prize winner). One girl in […]

]]> 0 ec6f54d20adc327e41849b06dfa8fea6 Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post Putting Things into Perspective in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9290/ Tue, 12 Dec 2017 02:33:25 -0500 While looking over Zone One in preparation for the paper that’s due on the 14th, I remembered us talking about Mark Spitz’s encounter with the skell that reminded him of his 6th grade English teacher, Miss Alc […]

]]> 0 6880faa06870c7e554560e906b964e1a Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post Gender/Race in Science and Medicine in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9250/ Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:40:22 -0500 This semester has been an extremely interesting and insightful one. I am currently enrolled in two courses with similar topics; this one and a sociology course titled “Gender and Science”. I signed up for both thi […]

]]> 0 662b83dc7e2b63a7fc581ef293cc0a13 Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post Secrets, Secrets Are No Fun in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9231/ Sun, 10 Dec 2017 22:51:13 -0500 Upon reading the follow-up article about Alabama and the hookworm crisis that Dr. McCoy emailed us, I started to think about our government and its structure in a new way. I find it very interesting that this […]

]]> 0 00f74ca83b1109ab66e300300c3951cd Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post Consent: Does "Yes" Really Mean "Yes"? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9157/ Tue, 05 Dec 2017 03:20:06 -0500 Upon reading “An Unconscious Patient with a DNR Tattoo” from the New England Journal of Medicine, I was very perplexed by their decision to not resuscitate the patient based on the tattoo. We have learned in Hom […]

]]> 0 14ae2e2c134735279f11697053db75fb Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post Studying Abroad: What's Your Real Purpose? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9117/ Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:55:48 -0500 Thinking more in depth about medical volunteerism has forced me to contemplate everything regarding studying abroad. I was on scrolling on twitter when I saw my friend tweet something along these lines, “I c […]

]]> 0 5ce113b15ee0f6ff3f7ae104024e3213 Avery Georgakis edited the blog post Persuasion vs. Awareness in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9096/ Tue, 28 Nov 2017 16:57:59 -0500 I find that I’m often carrying on conversations outside of the classroom with my friends that relate to this course’s content. Every time we read an article or a chapter from Medical Apartheid that is absolutely appalling to me, I’ll bring it up to my friends in conversation. Nearly all of the things we discuss or read in this class is too impor…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0cf5bf2de49c9746783f453532e04cf Avery Georgakis wrote a new blog post The "God Complex" and Doctors in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8901/ Thu, 26 Oct 2017 01:26:09 -0500 Today in class, we discussed Blake in Clay’s Ark and his tendency to act as though he has the “God Complex”. The “God Complex” is when one tends to believe that they are above all else due to their place in […]

]]> 0 4bf7027487fc51b915c752f5562443e9 Avery Georgakis commented on the post, My experience with the term race, on the site (Im)Possibilities http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2017/10/03/my-experience-with-the-term-race/#comment-772 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 00:16:23 -0500 Serhiy, although I did not deal with a situation quite like yours, I did not realize that there was such a large discrepancy in how one was treated based on their “race” in society until a much older age. I grew […]

]]> 1e79ca3a50ecc1d4a7dec58f169a6a66 Avery Georgakis joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8680/ Sun, 24 Sep 2017 22:27:42 -0500 0 d71ed3ec12abb5aa37d0a670518c6835 Avery Georgakis became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8455/ Wed, 30 Aug 2017 09:51:53 -0500 0