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Delaney O'Shea wrote a new blog post Unearthing the Roots of My Procrastination in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
While I rushed to complete the required amount of blog posts in the week before they were due, I found myself wondering why it had taken me the entire semester to finish the assignment, and Dr. McCoy prompted me […]
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Delaney O'Shea wrote a new blog post Collaboration and the Tuners in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
While analyzing the way that my group accomplished our blog post, I at first thought to compare the experience to use-castes and the ways in which members of different castes make specific contributions to their […]
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Delaney O'Shea wrote a new blog post Art as History (LIVE IN ART?????? part 2) in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
During the work on our collaborative blog post, my group really ruminated on the use of art as a medium for history. Sabrina Bramwell, specifically, had a lot of really good points about stone eaters as both […]
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Delaney O'Shea edited the blog post Magic Systems: The Restricted Section in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
Thinking about world-building and the different components necessary to flesh out a story before the actual drafting process begins brought me to the concept of magic systems. In The Broken Earth, orogenes’ m […]
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Delaney O'Shea wrote a new blog post Building the Stillness in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
As someone who has always been interested in reading and writing, the intricacy of Jemisin’s fictional world in The Broken Earth really threw me for a loop. How do you create a world? What makes it actually w […]
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Delaney O'Shea wrote a new blog post Like Mother, Like Daughter in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
I already spoke about parent-child relationships in this post, but I thought I might talk more in depth about the relationship between Essun and Nassun, since that is what a majority of The Broken Earth’s n […]
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Delaney O'Shea wrote a new blog post Solarpunk Syl Anagist in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
I found the idea of Solarpunk to be fascinating when we talked about it in class. It’s a huge contrast to the dystopian and pessimistic themes we often see in popular literature or film. But, that said, I’ve als […]
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Delaney O'Shea edited the blog post “Blockbusting” in the Stillness in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
In my midterm thinkING essay, I discussed the ways in which Jemisin has drawn upon other areas of my education, like topics from a class I’m currently taking about queer nineteenth-century literature. But, as I […]
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Delaney O'Shea wrote a new blog post Parental Figures as the Driving Force in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
Something that both interested and perplexed me while reading Jemisin’s novels was the way in which parenting was portrayed and approached by various characters. Alabaster, for example, comes off as quite aloof w […]
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Delaney O'Shea wrote a new blog post “Death of the Author”: Lovecraft vs. Jemisin in the group American Studies: 5 years, 6 months ago
While reading about H.P. Lovecraft and his racist and anti-Semitic beliefs in class, I was struck with the memory of a concept that I learned about in the first literature course that I took at Geneseo. “Death o […]
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Delaney O'Shea joined the group American Studies 5 years, 7 months ago
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Delaney O'Shea became a registered member 5 years, 7 months ago