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Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Showing Proper Care Towards Black Americans Through Self Examination and Call for Reparations in the group
American Studies: 2 years, 5 months agoAs I move away from this course towards an “independent life,” I feel as though I have the tools to apply thinkING to various other aspects of my life, specifically in order to be a responsible citizen that eff […]
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Cameron Luquer edited the blog post Setting the Goal to be Rid of Implicit Bias for the Destruction of Division and Promotion of Connection in the group
American Studies: 2 years, 8 months agoAs I have read the readings, specifically, Octavia Butler’s Dawn and William Darity and Kirsten Mullen’s From Here to Equality, I have been thinking much about this course’s central question of ‘what brings […]
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Cameron Luquer joined the group
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Cameron Luquer commented on the post, Chapter 4, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 5 months agoChurchyard
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Cameron Luquer commented on the post, Chapter 1, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 5 months agoChurchyard
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Cameron Luquer commented on the post, Chapter 7, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 5 months agoMr. Wopsle’s Great Aunt’s Educational Institute
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Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Social Darwinism is Bad in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 6 months agoThe most interesting thing I learned this semester is the widespread effects of Darwin’s theory during the Victorian Era. While, of course I’ve known about Darwin’s theory, I’ve never quite known about the ext […]
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Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Reuben Sachs and the Influence of Victorian England on Jewish People in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 6 months agoThe discrimination and marginalization of Jews in Victorian London described in this section is not surprising being that this was a time in which society worked to actively suppress groups based on criteria like […]
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Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Shame in Great Expectations in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoIn both of today’s readings shame is shown to be a result of the Victorian criminal justice system. In particular, “Ballad of Reading Gaol” reflects the huge role of shame in crime and punishment during this […]
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Cameron Luquer commented on the post, Chapter 53, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 7 months agoPip paranoid about the way other people may view him after death.
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Cameron Luquer commented on the post, Chapter 51, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 7 months agoshows Mr. Jaggers doesn’t have a complete view of Wemmick as he truly is
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Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Beauty and the Beast and Great Expectations in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoIn Jessica A. Cambell’s “‘Beauty and the Beast’ and Great Expectations,” she compares Dickens’ Great Expectations to the 1740 version of La Belle et la Bête by Mme de Vileneuve. Cambell introduces this connect […]
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Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Social Class and Crime and Punishment in Great Expectations in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoIn this section of Great Expectations, I was shocked to feel badly for Magwitch. While he is a criminal, it seems like Dickens makes readers feel pity for him. We get background information about Magwitch in […]
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Cameron Luquer edited the blog post Men’s Pursuit of Money/Power in Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoIn chapters 20-29 of Great Expectations, readers discover that Miss Havisham once came very close to marrying a man that she loved deeply, but when it came time to marry, her fiance stood her up and stole her […]
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Cameron Luquer commented on the post, Chapter 8, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 7 months agoHere Pip suddenly starts looking at himself in a totally different light. Before visiting Miss Havisham’s house, he did not seem to mind or notice his working-class characteristics like his coarse hands and t […]
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Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Social Class and Self Improvement in Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 7 months agoAs I read the first ten chapters of Great Expectations, one of the prominent themes that I noted was social class. Pip is an uneducated, rough looking, working class boy who is sent to the wealthy Miss […]
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Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Response to Wuthering Heights in Wake of Scientific Discoveries in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoEdmunde Gosse’s Father and Son shows readers how intellectuals, scientists and the general public felt about these new scientific discoveries in the Victorian Era. This passage reveals the extreme faith and d […]
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Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Wuthering Heights’ Response in Wake of New Scientific Discoveries in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoEdmunde Gosse’s Father and Son shows readers how intellectuals, scientists and the general public felt about these new scientific discoveries in the Victorian Era. This passage reveals the extreme faith and d […]
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Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Romanticism and the Supernatural in Wuthering Heights and Sartor Resartus in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 3 years, 8 months agoThe final chapters of Wuthering Heights reminded me of Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus because of the prominence of themes like romanticism and the supernatural in both texts. In Sartor Resartus, while Carlyle u […]
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Cameron Luquer commented on the post, Chapter 33, on the groupblog
Marginalia 3 years, 8 months agoIt is interesting that after all that Heathcliff has done to Hareton and his horrible that Hareton continues to treat Heathcliff with respect. Hareton says to Cathy that no matter what he will stand by Heathcliff […]
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