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Caitlin Morazzini wrote a new blog post Noticing: A Self-Reflection in the group American Studies: 4 years, 3 months ago
I’m not good at noticing things. My step dad believes that this will be perilous when I start driving, that I will be too caught up in something else to notice the road before me. When I’m walking places, I not […]
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Caitlin Morazzini wrote a new blog post How Much Consent Do We Really Have? in the group American Studies: 4 years, 3 months ago
I have struggled with this question since it was proposed to me. I have mulled it over and over through my head searching for an answer, and I haven’t found one. Through the readings and discussions within this c […]
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Caitlin Morazzini wrote a new blog post Income Inequality and Disasters in the group American Studies: 4 years, 3 months ago
“The rich tended to escape.” is written on page 62 of Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One. The rich tended to escape. In this case the rich had escaped what one would call a plague, a plague that turned peopl […]
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Caitlin Morazzini wrote a new blog post Harmful Tropes: A Look Into The Walking Dead in the group American Studies: 4 years, 3 months ago
The Walking Dead, a long running TV show, plays on many tropes of zombie culture. Slow, tattered, partly eaten zombies roam the world posing a threat to those not yet infected. It’s a common theme of this p […]
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Caitlin Morazzini wrote a new blog post When We Lack Identity in the group American Studies: 4 years, 4 months ago
Throughout the medical community’s history those used in experiments not only lost their autonomy but their identity as well. Many were not seen as people, and didn’t even have their name reported. This lack of […]
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Caitlin Morazzini wrote a new blog post The Dehumanizing Loss of Autonomy in the group American Studies: 4 years, 4 months ago
In 1961 Fannie Lou Hamer went into the hospital to get a tumor removed, she left unaware, that she had been given “a Mississippi appendectomy” without her consent (Medical Apartheid pg. 109.) The loss of aut […]
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Caitlin Morazzini wrote a new blog post The Historical Lack of Consent in the group American Studies: 4 years, 5 months ago
Race has been long thought to be something biological, something that separated people based on their genetics. This idea of a biological backing for race was used to explain racist differences in IQ, sports […]
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Caitlin Morazzini wrote a new blog post The Treatment of Humans in the group American Studies: 4 years, 5 months ago
Throughout the ages and advancements of medicine, the bodies of those experimented on have been treated with a lack of dignity and respect. From subjecting the unwilling to the very act of dissection after death, […]
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Caitlin Morazzini wrote a new blog post Fixing A Failing Language in the group American Studies: 4 years, 5 months ago
Language is a pre-set thing, the rules have already been made for us, and the use of the words within our language already decided. We naturally use certain words to convey our ideas, even if those words don’t t […]
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Caitlin Morazzini wrote a new blog post Noticing and Fixing in the group American Studies: 4 years, 6 months ago
From the readings and discussions in class this quote has gotten me thinking about a variety of issues. The first one that comes to mind is the way people covered up the wrongdoings of the doctors and professors. […]
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Caitlin Morazzini joined the group American Studies 4 years, 6 months ago
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Caitlin Morazzini became a registered member 4 years, 6 months ago