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Corinne Scanlon wrote a new blog post Deconstructing my own Expectations in the group American Studies: 3 years ago
I really struggled last semester—and am still struggling—with deconstructing my own expectations of myself. I cannot expect myself to be the same person I was a year ago, a month ago, or even a week ago. Whe […]
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Corinne Scanlon wrote a new blog post Learning to Adapt in the group American Studies: 3 years, 5 months ago
Firstly, I want to talk about consent and choices. Dawn is exemplary of how intertwined the ability to make choices and the ability to consent are. Lilith has been placed in a position that she did not consent […]
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Corinne Scanlon wrote a new blog post The Danger of Numbers in the group American Studies: 3 years, 11 months ago
In Molly’s essay she wrote about how she struggled to gather her thinking to respond to the prompt. She stated, “I felt as if I wasn’t noticing anything closely enough to construct a strong essay, so I decid […]
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Corinne Scanlon wrote a new blog post The Effects of Greed in the group American Studies: 3 years, 12 months ago
My first encounter with mortgages was when I first played the
video game Animal Crossing. The premise of the game is that you play as
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Corinne Scanlon wrote a new blog post The Corruption of Genuine Love in the group American Studies: 4 years, 1 month ago
The opening scene of King Lear is
the most important scene in regard to how much impact it has on what follows.
Lear has decided to give up his properties to his three daughters, but only if
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Corinne Scanlon edited the blog post Connecting Through Art in the group American Studies: 4 years, 10 months ago
While considering what art means to me I realized that in the past I viewed it as, above all, a method of self-expression. But throughout this course I have realized that there is so much more to it than that. Art […]
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Corinne Scanlon wrote a new blog post Why I Don’t Like History in the group American Studies: 4 years, 10 months ago
History has always been one of those subjects that I didn’t like, and only recently have I started to question why this is. Is it that I don’t care about history, or do I just not like the way that it has been tau […]
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Corinne Scanlon edited the blog post Expectations and Retrying Old Things in the group American Studies: 4 years, 10 months ago
Coming into this class, I honestly didn’t know what to expect, and I think that ended up being beneficial to my experience with this course. I have always been a planner—I like to know all of the details of som […]
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Corinne Scanlon wrote a new blog post Art is Useless in the group American Studies: 4 years, 10 months ago
I was recently reminded of a book I read in senior year of high school, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. I enjoyed the book, and I love Oscar Wilde, but the arguments Wilde made in the preface to the […]
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Corinne Scanlon wrote a new blog post I Spy in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
The things that Prince depicts in his artwork pertain to mature subjects but looking at his work also reminds me of my childhood. I used to play these “I Spy” games on the family computer in which the player sim […]
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Corinne Scanlon edited the blog post Progress and Privilege in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
“Progress, I understand, is necessarily ugly.” (73). Upon reading this in W. E. B. Du Bois’ The Souls of Black Folk, I was confused. Before reading this chapter, and before Dr. Levy’s lecture, I had always thought […]
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Corinne Scanlon wrote a new blog post Learning from Art in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
We have already done and learned a lot in this course in merely three weeks, but there was one experience that stood out to me that helped me settle on what my goal for this class, and life in general, will be. […]
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Corinne Scanlon joined the group American Studies 5 years, 1 month ago
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Corinne Scanlon joined the group Reader and Text 5 years, 6 months ago
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Corinne Scanlon became a registered member 5 years, 6 months ago