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Courtney Lyon wrote a new blog post A lesson on Good-faith: Octavia Butler’s Trilogy, Lilith’s Brood, and Hermeneutic Reflection in the group American Studies: 3 years, 4 months ago
“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not…Habit is persistence in practice. Forget talent. If you have it, fine. Use it. If you don’t have it, it […]
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Courtney Lyon wrote a new blog post Reading Octavia Butler’s Trilogy, Lilith’s Brood, with Good-faith in the group American Studies: 3 years, 6 months ago
A common thread of the three course epigraphs for this semester is the topic of learning to grow. What am I trying to grow this semester in our English class 431-01 on Butler’s literature? I think that P […]
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Courtney Lyon edited the blog post Morrison’s Book, A Mercy as a Symbol of the Active Inner Narrative: Rereading and Empathy Cultivation in the group American Studies: 4 years ago
Before an expulsion takes place, a notice is issued. This definition of notice resonates most with this topic and our course concepts: “a formal declaration of one’s intentions to end an agreement, typically one […]
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Courtney Lyon wrote a new blog post The Moral Hazards of Storytelling in the group American Studies: 4 years, 1 month ago
People may find themselves right now picking up books that they had once not imagined having time for. What makes you pick up a certain book from another is sometimes hard to understand. Once you pick up a book […]
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Courtney Lyon wrote a new blog post Entitled Exchanges: Financial Disorder in Kingdom, Community, And the Family Unit in King Lear in the group American Studies: 4 years, 2 months ago
In
Sigmund Freud’s, Civilization and its Discontents he argues that through
gaining citizenship, certain instinctual responses are adopted to adapt to the
cultural terrain of being part of a community. I […] -
Courtney Lyon edited the blog post Final Reflection in the group American Studies: 4 years, 4 months ago
It is now the end of the semester and it is time to reflect
on our courses taken this semester at Geneseo. This assignment is my reflective
essay for my ENG 101 course. The course epigraph is a remark spoken by […] -
Courtney Lyon wrote a new blog post Racial Prejudices and Empathetic Readership in the group American Studies: 4 years, 4 months ago
The epigraph for this course is a quote that was
spoken by Dionne Brand: “my job is to notice…and to notice that you can
notice”. The act of noticing is important in one’s education as it is in
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Courtney Lyon wrote a new blog post Literature and Movies Tackling the Exploitation of the African American Body in the group American Studies: 4 years, 4 months ago
In the movie Get Out, directed by Jordan Peele, the racist history of medical experimentation in the United States is transformed into an iatrophobic individual’s nightmare. The horror film is about an African A […]
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Courtney Lyon wrote a new blog post Body Unknown: Racial Identity in Colson Whitehead’s Zone One in the group American Studies: 4 years, 4 months ago
An important element in one’s social identity is how others view oneself, and this is for the most part within an individual’s control, or is it? In Colson Whitehead’s novel Zone One, the protagonist struggles […]
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Courtney Lyon wrote a new blog post Zone One’s War On Racism in the group American Studies: 4 years, 4 months ago
How can you
describe something you have seen when that something can be traumatizing and
unimaginable to absorb in order to reflect on the experience or event? People
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Courtney Lyon edited the blog post Excavating Burials and the Racial Oppression of the Dead in the group American Studies: 4 years, 5 months ago
Burial rituals are cultural practices that are used by the living to honor the dead. When someone is buried or given a funeral, a person’s life becomes recognized as having come to an end, and that the life had m […]
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Courtney Lyon edited the blog post Blame Game in the group American Studies: 4 years, 5 months ago
In the novel Clay’s
Ark, Octavia Butler challenges readers by presenting them with conflicts
that are of serious magnitude to the human species existence. In particular,
the conflict at the center of the story i […] -
Courtney Lyon wrote a new blog post Toni Morrison’s Home and the Dark Foundations of Gynecology in the group American Studies: 4 years, 6 months ago
Depending on who you are, a person’s view of doctors is usually of admiration and that they can do no wrong. However, as this class is meant to show, there are racist underpinnings in the amount of comfort in r […]
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Courtney Lyon edited the blog post Character and Readership Intimacy in Percival Everett’s Zulus in the group American Studies: 4 years, 6 months ago
In the book, Zulus Percival Everett arranges chapters with abecedarian excerpts. The theme of this abecedarian arrangement is a motif in the book and in the class. Alice, the protagonist of the novel Zulus, is an […]
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Courtney Lyon edited the blog post Noticing Gender and Racialized Oppression through the Exploitation of the Body in the group American Studies: 4 years, 7 months ago
Educating oneself is as meaningful, if not more, than
one who’s instructed, but to do this one must be critical to their own thoughts,
beliefs and perceptions. In the class Medicine and Racism in literature, k […] -
Courtney Lyon joined the group American Studies 4 years, 7 months ago
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Courtney Lyon became a registered member 4 years, 7 months ago