English @ SUNY Geneseo | Catherine White | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/cmw23/activity/ Activity feed for Catherine White. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 6f8d89760c019436d3db8d37186f2860 Catherine White edited the blog post Life is Strange: The Relevance of Video Games in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10209/ Thu, 03 May 2018 03:09:50 -0500 For my final blog post, I want to reflect and talk about video games–specifically one of my favorites: Life is Strange. I’ve gotten more into playing video games as they develop; I have noticed they rely h […]

]]> 0 d7442d767cb58bd2ee579e4046674801 Catherine White wrote a new blog post Is There Such a Thing as an Adequate Response to a Disaster Scenario? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10112/ Mon, 30 Apr 2018 00:18:48 -0500 I’ve been going back and forth with this idea ever since we did our group blog posts on specific hurricanes, and to be honest, I still don’t have a solid answer. We’ve seen–like in When the Levees Broke and in ou […]

]]> 0 aa367f0f564f210899d18425874adf62 Catherine White wrote a new blog post Why is Reading Shakespeare So Important? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10092/ Sat, 28 Apr 2018 01:55:25 -0500 As English majors, we tend to be questioned about what we do in the classroom and how it is valuable to an overall learning experience. This is especially true when reading contemporary “fantasy” novels such as […]

]]> 0 e16685b6dbffb456b11b77e288ef4381 Catherine White wrote a new blog post Mark Spitz is Unstuck in Time: A Comparison of PTSD in Zone One and Slaughterhouse-Five in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10047/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 03:22:30 -0500 After reading Zone One and thinking about the themes in the book, I realized what grounded me amidst the complex timeline of the narratives was my experience not only in consuming zombie media like I mentioned in […]

]]> 0 cfc8b5e4f834f5552f9fb30eae61b037 Catherine White edited the blog post What Does the Zombie Genre Really Say About Us? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10002/ Mon, 16 Apr 2018 04:46:01 -0500 “Usually disasters like this bring out the best in everybody, and that’s what we expected to see. Now we’ve got people that it’s bringing out the worst in.” This is a quote from the Governor of Louisiana Kathleen Blanco in 2005 during the after effects in Hurricane Katrina as presented in When the Levees Broke. I was brought back to this moment an…[Read more]

]]> 0 8e51ceeff55a393f1ecc6c6997a9b686 Catherine White wrote a new blog post What Do You Do at a Traffic Light?: A Response to “The Conundrum of Color-Blindness” and Self-Proclaimed Racially Colorblind Individuals in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9914/ Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:32:23 -0500 After reading Spencer’s blog post, “The Conundrum of Color-Blindness,” and after Beth mentioned the idea of “colorblindness” a couple of classes ago, I was intrigued to go into the topic further. This is especia […]

]]> 0 a7761a21284863abc08bc62e552f482c Catherine White edited the blog post The Power of Art as Experienced in When The Levees Broke in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9811/ Mon, 19 Mar 2018 23:46:13 -0500 I mulled over my thoughts on When the Levees Broke during spring break, and my conclusion was that the film as a whole was incredibly dense, both in factual and emotive value. Since the film was informative, I was able to know more about the timeline of the events during Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans and more about the reactions and stories of…[Read more]

]]> 0 08d0785f4b6b35356adf9f8fe2565771 Catherine White edited the blog post The Infamous Chief Wahoo in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9712/ Tue, 20 Feb 2018 19:21:45 -0500 I’m a huge baseball fan, so it’s no surprise that in class on Monday when Beth mentioned to our group something about the infamous Chief Wahoo logo of MLB’s The Cleveland Indians, I was immediately ready to write a blog post.

A week or two ago, the Cleveland Indians released a statement that they will get rid of the Chief Wahoo logo from…[Read more]

]]> 0 360062efb2c394f0e95a3c87c32c355e Catherine White edited the blog post Cultural Remembering and Forgetting: A Response to the "Tot Tanic" Bouncy Castle in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9543/ Fri, 16 Feb 2018 18:46:16 -0500 “There are certain topics that are off-limits to comedians: JFK, AIDS, the Holocaust. The Lincoln Assassination just recently became funny. ‘I need to see this play like I need a hole in the head.’ And I hope to someday live in a world where a person could tell a hilarious AIDS joke. It’s one of my dreams.” -Michael Scott, “The Office”[Read more]

]]> 0 52715fbc52edeab36feef8186b14947e Catherine White joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9451/ Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:15:53 -0500 0 60c485ac1f9e54819eae329bcdf2895e Catherine White joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/5302/ Fri, 18 Sep 2015 15:01:00 -0500 0