English @ SUNY Geneseo | Clare Corbett | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/clc18/activity/ Activity feed for Clare Corbett. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 9cd25eda56d7ec94ada74bd773add7ac Clare Corbett commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14379/ Thu, 05 Dec 2019 02:41:05 -0500 Pip states that he “alighted at the Halfway House, and breakfasted there, and walked the rest of the distance.” (Chapter 49, Paragraph 1) His stay there led him to witness Miss Havisham go up in flames in her hou […]

]]> 0 0e195d07e77239fab70622db25841056 Clare Corbett commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14378/ Thu, 05 Dec 2019 02:39:58 -0500 Pip states that “we went to Gerrard Street, all three together, in a hackney-coach: And, as soon as we got there, dinner was served.” (Ch 48, paragraph 13) While at dinner, Pip realizes that Molly is the per […]

]]> 0 328f32a51caca52d0ab6ab8b975b51ff Clare Corbett commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14377/ Thu, 05 Dec 2019 02:38:50 -0500 While on a boat, Pip “came ashore at the wharf at dusk. [He] had pulled down as far as Greenwich with the ebb tide, and had turned with the tide.” (chapter 47, paragraph 6) Once arriving in Greenwich, he goes to […]

]]> 0 dbcaf723971b0c21965b5fce6b4fb580 Clare Corbett commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14376/ Thu, 05 Dec 2019 02:37:16 -0500 [The Castle battlements arose upon my view at eight o’clock.]

Once Pip enters the Castle, he is greeted by Wemmick. If Pip had not visited, Wemmick would not have told him that Compeyson was trying to pursue M […]

]]> 0 953242bfc6b5965963da0837cbeeee41 Clare Corbett commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14375/ Thu, 05 Dec 2019 02:35:40 -0500 Visiting Miss Havisham and Estella for the last time is a big turning point in Pip’s life. Once the maids informed him that Estella had traveled “to Satis House, as usual,” Pip decides to go there to see them.

]]> 0 3bdb704dc12cac9424524b774baf3682 Clare Corbett commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14374/ Thu, 05 Dec 2019 02:34:13 -0500 [ Leave a comment on paragraph 73 0 It was past midnight when I crossed London Bridge]

In Pip’s quest to see Miss Havisham and Estella one last time, London Bridge serves as his gateway to see them. 

]]> 0 01c09b877f54684d13ae6b1b9f111c11 Clare Corbett commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14372/ Thu, 05 Dec 2019 02:31:47 -0500 Essex Street

]]> 0 22035f1645721f04e451f7d5eddc8626 Clare Corbett edited the blog post The Prison System: The Most Interesting Topic I Learned About The Semester in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14215/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 22:44:46 -0500 When this class first began in August, I knew very little about Victorian literature and I was unsure of what to expect. However, as the class progressed, I learned more than I was anticipating. Some of my […]

]]> 0 4bf08593d802006aac4082925125cc93 Clare Corbett edited the blog post Judaism During the Victorian Era in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14132/ Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:12:13 -0500 While reading Reuben Sachs, a passage about religion stood out to me. On page 24, it states that Lee-Harrison “joined a set of mystics, and lived for three months on a mountain, somewhere in Asia Minor. Now he […]

]]> 0 fa06e87ccf16290d04880b1119f416f1 Clare Corbett wrote a new blog post Prison Conditions During The Victorian Era in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14063/ Mon, 11 Nov 2019 18:16:18 -0500 While reading The Ballad of Reading Gaol, the part in which Oscar Wilde discussed the conditions of prison struck me. He questions how one man could place another man in such an awful setting. His true feelings […]

]]> 0 2ce3f357e6ef7a5356676f21bfc91595 Clare Corbett commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14027/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:39:02 -0500 [The figure showed itself aware of me, as I advanced. It had been moving towards me, but it stood still. As I drew nearer, I saw it to be the figure of a woman. As I drew nearer yet, it was about to turn away, […]

]]> 0 7db5b31dddee8f88e5d9d1fc79589053 Clare Corbett edited the blog post The Relationship Between Social Ranking and Love in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13947/ Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:29:48 -0500 While reading Great Expectations, Pip’s concern with his social standing stood out to me because he decided that he could not love Estella and have a high social ranking. In chapter 43, Pip asks himself “why […]

]]> 0 6f0374f04b68dcd9ab712ca701ad4cc6 Clare Corbett wrote a new blog post Strong Female Characters In Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13902/ Mon, 28 Oct 2019 20:30:59 -0500 While reading Great Expectations, Estella’s description stood out to me. In line 15 of chapter 22, she is described as being “brought up by Miss Havisham to wreak revenge on all the male sex.” Due to heartbreak f […]

]]> 0 f48b91131c98455688d13cb707c9ba9e Clare Corbett commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13824/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 21:30:58 -0500 [I fully expected to find a Constable in the kitchen, waiting to take me up.]

It’s interesting that even though Pip helped feed the convict, he feels so much guilt at the same time because of the man’s criminal […]

]]> 0 e2fac4ca1051352ac66c7784830bf7d4 Clare Corbett wrote a new blog post Orphans During the Victorian Age in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13822/ Mon, 21 Oct 2019 20:28:53 -0500 Upon reading Great Expectations, Pip’s character stood out to me because he reminded me of Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights. Both Pip and Heathcliff were orphaned as young children, which caused them to face […]

]]> 0 bb4a721c454e2a8f2903f5ed7cf4664f Clare Corbett edited the blog post The Concept of Religion During the Victorian Era in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13660/ Mon, 07 Oct 2019 19:07:23 -0500 As seen in many of the pieces we have read this semester, religion was a large part of the Victorian Era. The father in Father and Son based many of his beliefs on science and realized that “there had been […]

]]> 0 8f40802f016c720376b23a4d7fedca29 Clare Corbett wrote a new blog post The Concept of Masters in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13588/ Sun, 29 Sep 2019 01:06:56 -0500 As I was reading the remaining chapters of Wuthering Heights, the term “master” kept reappearing. In Chapter 30, the master tells Zillah to “walk out of the room” and “let [him] never hear a word more about h […]

]]> 0 05625164a25967258188ba356157cb9d Clare Corbett commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13579/ Thu, 26 Sep 2019 02:40:43 -0500 [I shall be your father, to-morrow—all the father you’ll have in a few days—and you shall have plenty of that.  You can bear plenty; you’re no weakling: you shall have a daily taste, if I catch such a devil of […]

]]> 0 d70e084dad71db2dd4bd375d171f3a93 Clare Corbett commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13575/ Wed, 25 Sep 2019 20:50:17 -0500 [If a servant chanced to vex her, it was always—‘I shall tell papa!’  And if he reproved her, even by a look, you would have thought it a heart-breaking business]

This comment about Cathy represents the class […]

]]> 0 c0e753823e1868283ca24e1898d26a74 Clare Corbett wrote a new blog post Heathcliff's Relation to Lower-Class Victorian Children in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13537/ Mon, 23 Sep 2019 17:24:05 -0500 While reading chapter 17 of Wuthering Heights, a passage describing Heathcliff stood out to me. The narrator states that he had “been a stranger in the house from last Sunday till to-day.  Whether the angels […]

]]> 0 95b21f39df4405eecc87b066f2d39ffe Clare Corbett edited the blog post The Struggles of Poor Victorian Children in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13425/ Sat, 14 Sep 2019 22:23:44 -0500 While reading Wuthering Heights, my heart ached for the child who was taken in by the Earnshaw’s. He was heavily mistreated by the family because of the way he looked and his position in society. As the evening […]

]]> 0 71918f1b9a594fdfe48d9b9bfe50ea88 Clare Corbett edited the blog post Equality In Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13299/ Sun, 08 Sep 2019 22:54:00 -0500 Equality in society seemed to be a contradicting concept during the time of Victorian literature. Concerning this, I found two passages that related to the idea of freedom during the nineteenth-century. On the […]

]]> 0 9c5a84e12f8893f02c06971e9fba54d5 Clare Corbett commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13298/ Sun, 08 Sep 2019 20:41:44 -0500 [Governments in the United States have power to tax women who hold property; to divorce them from their husbands; to fine, imprison, and execute them for certain offences. Whence do these governments derive their […]

]]> 0 6462e5ad3ea6a12828f794af381e3840 Clare Corbett wrote a new blog post What I Hope to Learn About Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13216/ Sun, 01 Sep 2019 19:34:30 -0500 During my time as an English major, I have read several pieces of Victorian Literature, but I have never learned about the characteristics of the subject. While carefully reading different works this semester, I […]

]]> 0 c677f181b762560d483d3f499d46928d Clare Corbett replied to the topic Favorite work of Victorian literature in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/favorite-work-of-victorian-literature/page/2/#post-1445 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:12:55 -0500 A Christmas Carol

]]> 46975f31536e5257370dae9a648bbcba Clare Corbett joined the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13051/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 01:39:56 -0500 0 216794bc29bc9c1fcc28b2b0f0e22f9e Clare Corbett joined the group Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13050/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 01:39:51 -0500 0 1600bf369237a44f9bd7d1d3b0d4830b Clare Corbett edited the blog post Abandoning Social Media in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12819/ Mon, 06 May 2019 21:14:01 -0500 One weekend in April, I was trying to do homework at my desk, but I did not feel like I was accomplishing anything. The reason was not that I was tired or hungry, it was because I was continuously getting […]

]]> 0 c2d2d1b810a10bfa36e101b448e502ba Clare Corbett edited the blog post The Endless Possibilities of Google Maps in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12556/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:36:00 -0500 When most people think of an English course, they likely think about literature and writing. It would be rare for a person’s first thought to be about using digital technology to better understand concepts that a […]

]]> 0 f6043327363468facef525e256a18f38 Clare Corbett started the topic Group 1 Discussion Question 2/27 in the forum Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/group-1-discussion-question-2-27/ Wed, 27 Feb 2019 18:06:15 -0500 Will it be possible to be an active member of society as the digital age continues to progress? Or are we already at that point?

]]> 2c80da971af586ae4a7e09d40c1f343b Clare Corbett wrote a new blog post An Unusual Relationship: Computers and the Humanities in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12276/ Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:19:57 -0500 Prior to taking English 340, I never associated computers with the humanities. In most of my classes that have been related to the humanities, I have used sources such as textbooks and the teacher’s notes to […]

]]> 0 907ba9fc0eb2b7887cd8e7dd5570b06a Clare Corbett started the topic Group 1- 2/13 in the forum Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/group-1-2-13/ Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:16:40 -0500 How did electricity create a shift in a communities culture?

]]> a68c3205cb6ae5bde66f2614b6b29a5c Clare Corbett joined the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12061/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:20:46 -0500 0 19b6a5d4f764e5e2402052f41fd66a67 Clare Corbett joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10500/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 18:01:00 -0500 0 d48e25033a190297368b4b0a6f6bab90 Clare Corbett edited the blog post Reflecting on the Blogging Process in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10162/ Tue, 01 May 2018 02:05:03 -0500 When I first entered my INTD 105 class, I was apprehensive towards the blogging requirement that Dr. McCoy assigned. When we were told that we would have to write ten posts without a set deadline or a prompt, I […]

]]> 0 45099d179b8b6d01023e39f5de62157d Clare Corbett edited the blog post Life Lessons Can Arise From Tragedy in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10156/ Tue, 01 May 2018 00:31:10 -0500 I grew up in a loving household that was built on the foundation of respect and care towards one another. My family rarely argued and we enjoyed being in each other’s presence. I always felt lucky to live in a h […]

]]> 0 468d18f40f22c6e4fad3141cbc12e314 Clare Corbett wrote a new blog post Growing Closer Through Distance in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10142/ Mon, 30 Apr 2018 19:16:56 -0500 While looking through my classmate’s blog posts, I came across a post by Laura Skrzypczyk titled “Parental Partnerships.” She discussed how college has caused her relationship with her parents to equalize, rathe […]

]]> 0 fa8e0a6cc2e14c340293bdd340739dd3 Clare Corbett edited the blog post Partnerships with Professors in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10134/ Mon, 30 Apr 2018 16:53:01 -0500 As I reflect on my freshman year of college, I recognize how different it has been from high school. My high school education experience was fulfilling, but I never felt as though as I could successfully confide […]

]]> 0 f6f05ef39397452988cddb14b7acd9a3 Clare Corbett edited the blog post Lessons From Freshman Year in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10104/ Sun, 29 Apr 2018 05:12:00 -0500 While reading through my classmate’s blog posts, I came across Theresa Richmond’s post titled “Unpacking Freshman Year.” She discussed the challenges she faced while at Geneseo and how she has learned from them. […]

]]> 0 fe994dca83968c881f611168dea41f62 Clare Corbett edited the blog post The Benefits of Challenge in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10064/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 06:06:03 -0500 While reading through blog posts written by my INTD 105 classmates, I came across a post titled “Risks and Mistakes” by Mikaela Freeman. She wrote that “taking a risk and trying something new or facing a challenge often provides more benefits than downfalls.” This point stood out to me and made me consider a time that I faced a new challeng…[Read more]

]]> 0 f77d572b59cc3f54f24bed51d83f9046 Clare Corbett edited the blog post The Risks of Group Work in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10031/ Sat, 21 Apr 2018 03:15:09 -0500 Dr. Cecelia Easton, the Dean of Academic Planning and Advising, recently discussed Geneseo’s letter of academic probation with my INTD class. After examining the letter with us, she said that her goal is to change its negative tone. To involve students in the process, Cecelia asked our class to revise and rewrite a new version of the letter. Our I…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f8350fcdb7c82684d4536cb7918a3c6 Clare Corbett edited the blog post Academic Probation in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9946/ Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:47:59 -0500 Our INTD class recently welcomed Dr. Celia Easton, the Dean of Academic Planning and Advising, to speak about SUNY Geneseo’s current academic probation letter. She wanted to share with us her goal of revising the letter to discard of its negative tone. As of now, the letter has tendencies to make students feel as though they have no chance of i…[Read more]

]]> 0 2051c083da08d30af9a1d87341017440 Clare Corbett wrote a new blog post Working towards improved writing through academic partnerships in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9813/ Tue, 20 Mar 2018 01:51:57 -0500           Throughout my high school career, my teachers always assigned essays that were to be written quickly and in one sitting. This tactic was done to prepare us for essay prompts that might have been on stat […]

]]> 0 05b74835b885ceb7cd593a0fd6c890c7 Clare Corbett wrote a new blog post The Positives of Being Undeclared in the group Critical Writers https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9612/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 01:19:17 -0500 When asked what my college major is, I often respond with an uneasy “I am not sure yet”. During my first semester of college, I felt shame in not knowing what job I wanted for the rest of my life and jealousy tow […]

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