English @ SUNY Geneseo | Brianne Briggmann | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/bmb15/activity/ Activity feed for Brianne Briggmann. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 183346dc54bec39d8d547c51fdd1e7de Brianne Briggmann wrote a new blog post Blog post #2: What I learned, what I didn't learn, and what I hope I will learn in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12808/ Fri, 03 May 2019 22:25:30 -0500 “By the time I respond to this post at the end of the semester, I hope to have a greater proficiency in html and a better understanding of what can be done with a VM and why we should want to do these things. But […]

]]> 0 d1627f7b378154813d9d03c66b4a942c Brianne Briggmann changed their profile picture https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12574/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 04:14:39 -0500 0 a0f64c1b75826d2eceaf4279a410a81e Brianne Briggmann's profile was updated https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12573/ Tue, 16 Apr 2019 04:13:03 -0500 0 ac068a8cff70659e66d240ceeedc76fe Brianne Briggmann edited the blog post A Whole New World: The unveiling of the cloak that is my computer screen in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12308/ Wed, 20 Feb 2019 07:16:43 -0500 These are words.
Here are some more words.
What happens when I do this?
And what about this?
Ceci n’est pas un lien.*
Here is my first blog post.
The above few lines are the result of my messing-around in […]

]]> 0 52c4d3578903906e1d04d54c8b0b329b Brianne Briggmann joined the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12083/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:42:05 -0500 0 3918a14c3c6dc690fa63eba7e8228919 Brianne Briggmann wrote a new blog post "Moving on to an outcome" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10406/ Sat, 01 Sep 2018 19:06:57 -0500 I haven’t posted in a long time. I’ve been getting lost in rabbit holes every time I sit down and try to write a post, and I’m finding myself attempting to make some massive work displaying the parallelism Morri […]

]]> 0 4a50a46c4510bd307b4fdd0b9d0442c7 Brianne Briggmann edited the blog post Does time heal us? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9885/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:35:12 -0500 “The more one learns, the more one comes to hate the waste of time.”
Purgatorio III:78

“Distraction skills are important because (1) they can temporarily stop you from thinking about your pain and, as a result, (2) they give you time to find an appropriate coping response.”
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workboo…[Read more]

]]> 0 56401ae57fe0a53b1e037ade0e61ce1a Brianne Briggmann edited the blog post Additional Comment on Parrots, Self-Harm, and That Violet in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9884/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:34:26 -0500 I posted this little tid-bit of written thinkING as a comment onto the last post that I made, but we all know that nobody reads the comments so here it is as a stand alone post (A.K.A. it’s not worth reading if you haven’t read the original):

I wonder if Toni Morrison is furthering the symbolism of Rose Dear’s death along with Violet’s ‘dis…[Read more]

]]> 0 69f9cc7920f91e85a5124298538fe7f6 Brianne Briggmann commented on the post, Parrots, Self-Harm, and That Violet, on the site (Im)Possibilities http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/02/17/parrots-self-harm-and-that-violet/#comment-1588 Sun, 18 Feb 2018 20:59:14 -0500 I want to add one thought to this that may or may not be important, but is certainly worth recording: I wonder if Toni Morrison is furthering the symbolism of Rose Dear’s death along with Violet’s ‘dissociation’ […]

]]> af5237e8570b6e7e386a160f6ddaf308 Brianne Briggmann edited the blog post Parrots, Self-Harm, and That Violet in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9686/ Sun, 18 Feb 2018 02:05:41 -0500 “Maybe everybody has a renegade tongue yearning to be on its own. Violet shuts up. Speaks less until ‘uh’ or ‘have mercy’ carry almost all of her part of the conversation. Less excusable than a wayward mouth i […]

]]> 0 3f768be102e382c3eb62b1460a982dd6 Brianne Briggmann edited the blog post Ascending Through the Texts in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8618/ Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:18:27 -0500 I will be the first to admit that I do not have much background knowledge on the Harlem Renaissance coming into Lewis’ book. I do take some blame for this myself as I haven’t done thorough independent research on Harlem in the 1920’s, but I’m going to shed most of the blame on current high school curricula. However, as I am beginning to read When H…[Read more]

]]> 0 8392ee9538382f6d658262f77b6cfa8a Brianne Briggmann edited the blog post Some Defining Fun in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8412/ Tue, 29 Aug 2017 13:20:04 -0500 Hello folks!

So during our discussion today when we were trying to answer the questions “What brings people together?” and “What binds people together,” I was thinking about how helpful it would be if I had the definitions of the words ‘bring‘ and ‘bind‘ right in front of me. Even if I had looked them up in class, we would not have had enough…[Read more]

]]> 0 62371be770c4531fa493265c7276a382 Brianne Briggmann edited the blog post Churning Thoughts on Circulation in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8300/ Sun, 30 Apr 2017 02:44:43 -0500 In Parable of the Sower, Lauren and her group (well, really everyone who is not super rich) have had to revert to preindustrial methods of survival. (Disclaimer: that statement is flawed; those ‘preindustrial’ methods have been used in modern times, but not to the extent that people in Butler’s world have used them). Agriculture is a highly pre…[Read more]

]]> 0 4c02c8eb3d4a8358cf4fd5dd07a5b3e7 Brianne Briggmann wrote a new blog post Research and Ramblings in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7991/ Tue, 21 Feb 2017 01:37:43 -0500 Okay, so I’ve been wanting to do a blog post on the relationship between personal pride and hermeneutics. Basically, I want to do a ton of research on the psychology of pride, and do more research on h […]

]]> 0 e14b6027847b0c963879027275040f57 Brianne Briggmann wrote a new blog post Narrative Foreclosure in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7785/ Tue, 24 Jan 2017 04:29:26 -0500 So on the syllabus, in an asterisked note, Beth included that there are multiple meanings of the word “foreclosure,” explicitly stating that it can be applied to narratives/storytelling. This sparked my int […]

]]> 0 b7a93343d60c7cc39e7fddefdf7352a3 Brianne Briggmann wrote a new blog post Dante and Beatrice in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7597/ Tue, 08 Nov 2016 23:33:50 -0500 In class on Monday, my group began to question what (real, not fictional) Beatrice’s relationship was to Dante. Ari looked it up, and told us that Dante and Beatrice had only met twice before she had died at a v […]

]]> 0 14003af3740bf12f11cf442202071280 Brianne Briggmann wrote a new blog post Episode Two of "The Name Game" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7394/ Wed, 12 Oct 2016 07:43:55 -0500 A few weeks ago, Frank discussed in his blog post the important role names play in understanding the significance of a character. When reading Jazz, the name Dorcas really stuck out to me, so I decided to do so […]

]]> 0 3789a23c4f2ff3b4e6fd69a4fceda241 Brianne Briggmann edited the blog post White VS. Non-White in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7119/ Sun, 11 Sep 2016 16:01:17 -0500 For my first blog post, I want to answer the question Dr. McCoy presented to us on Wednesday after watching Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery. The question was, “Given what you have seen so far, how does the video cross check with what you have read in A Mercy?” The film discusses the slow transition from impermanent…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1633896dd14ecb21beddc04d2d3880f Brianne Briggmann joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6902/ Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:03:35 -0500 0 1df920280be4b70a472ad6982f87c5df Brianne Briggmann became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6900/ Wed, 31 Aug 2016 11:01:59 -0500 0