English @ SUNY Geneseo | Emily Tsoi | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ent3/activity/ Activity feed for Emily Tsoi. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 7363548dec75f6b25391bba9c1fcdb00 Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Noticing Our Access to Resources And How It Shapes Our Experiences in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15096/ Fri, 10 Apr 2020 20:03:33 -0500 “My job is to notice…and to notice that you can notice”- Dionne Brand

When I first began Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, I had noticed how different characters noticed and reacted to their environment out in natur […]

]]> 0 5f9e7f5eea088628bf1c30acd4c51f11 Emily Tsoi edited the blog post The Incomplete Story of the 2008 Housing Crisis in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15063/ Thu, 19 Mar 2020 22:58:02 -0500 When we first began Michael Lewis’ The Big Short, I was quite apprehensive while reading it as I had no clue about what was happening with all of this business/finance talk. I found myself referring to Google s […]

]]> 0 65a9fdc9d71f0f0f61d3ff668ff541dc Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Opening Your Eyes to Different Ways of Seeing in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14912/ Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:14:21 -0500 As with anything in life, there are always multiple ways of seeing or understanding things. Take our key terms for the class for example. As we quickly discovered, there are multiple definitions for each of them. […]

]]> 0 c4c15382a646d3e3bf90e8ff48e87401 Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Connecting the Experiences of Women in Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14574/ Tue, 17 Dec 2019 01:54:08 -0500 Project by Group 2- Logan Carpenter, Hayley Jones, John Serbalik, and Emily Tsoi

Blog Post Written By Emily Tsoi and Hayley Jones

Process and Challenges Faced in Creating the Project:

When we were first […]

]]> 0 7d48ff76a70ccfc8af8391ff0a39daac Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Reflecting on Victorian Connexions in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14189/ Sat, 23 Nov 2019 18:07:38 -0500 In my first blog post titled “What I Hope to Learn About Victorian Literature”, I discussed how I was interested in learning about how Victorian writers connected their lives and world around them to their wri […]

]]> 0 0ef67b2fbb1a24a49473a1aa09645cd3 Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Thoughts on the Descriptions of London in Reuben Sachs in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14119/ Sat, 16 Nov 2019 19:16:06 -0500 After reading the first half of Reuben Sachs, I was drawn to the descriptions of London as it brought me back to the discussion we had in class a few weeks ago while reading Great Expectations and Pip’s view on L […]

]]> 0 7ef0cc522e1f8df504390939a1336f1a Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Experiences Help Shape Our Identities in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14053/ Sun, 10 Nov 2019 18:06:49 -0500 In Oscar Wilde’s De Profundis, I found paragraph 26 to be the most interesting. Here Wilde writes about how people had advised him to forget his past when he entered prison and is now being advised to forget p […]

]]> 0 dbf0a198b7a238bcf8421ba0caa7ac7f Emily Tsoi commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14029/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:39:50 -0500 [now, when suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape. Be as considerate and goo […]

]]> 0 2a33f24153e93d1eece8586f51b61193 Emily Tsoi commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14024/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 20:37:07 -0500 Pip is expressing how his perspective has changed about his pursuit of Estella.

]]> 0 2b2befda05ab698125b85bddf41e5dfa Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Pip's Happiness As A Gentleman in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13956/ Sun, 03 Nov 2019 02:29:13 -0500 Pip’s journey toward becoming a gentleman is starting to remind me of John Stuart Mill’s Autobiography about happiness.
In paragraph 2 Mill talks about how he had set his whole life and happiness around a dis […]

]]> 0 127e416ecff4bf45db00104269413b7e Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Miss Havisham and Heathcliff in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13889/ Sun, 27 Oct 2019 14:41:10 -0500 Now that we know a little bit more about Miss Havisham and her motives, I’m noticing how similar she is to Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights in terms of motives, which for both of them is revenge.

They are both c […]

]]> 0 5af2b7eb1e3849092bf7f4e429956219 Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Orphans in Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13796/ Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:12:06 -0500 While reading the first several chapters of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, I noticed a handful of connections to Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, but the one I’m most interested in so far is between the c […]

]]> 0 58821ed79403b9d4dfc24044cbaeea22 Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Adaptation and Survival in Wuthering Heights in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13646/ Sun, 06 Oct 2019 18:41:25 -0500 In Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, the reader sees that by the end of the novel the only two characters of the Earnshaw/Linton family line left alive are Cathy and Hareton. All of their predecessors- Hindley, C […]

]]> 0 45993c584048c2e897eb96ad6f3ec985 Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Health in Victorian England in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13638/ Thu, 03 Oct 2019 04:28:31 -0500 As requested in class on Tuesday, we looked at a couple of articles focusing on health in Victorian England. As we know after reading Wuthering Heights, many people were dying off during this time period. In fact, […]

]]> 0 1614cc59dee7dae62d2f470f33438048 Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Heathcliff’s Obsession with Catherine in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13599/ Mon, 30 Sep 2019 20:21:41 -0500 This was the first time I read Wuthering Heights and so I went in not really having an idea of what it was about. Now that I have finished it, if I could summarize it in three words I would say ”abuse and o […]

]]> 0 f2a4ac2d54fa3abdf6b70b07f3a41fa9 Emily Tsoi edited the blog post The Self-Willed Women in Wuthering Heights in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13535/ Sun, 22 Sep 2019 20:01:24 -0500 While continuing to read Wuthering Heights, we continue to see how strong-willed and passionate Emily Bronte has written her female characters. The women of the novel continue to act according to their own […]

]]> 0 814ff69b608c2944f8315f7108bd3540 Emily Tsoi commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13460/ Mon, 16 Sep 2019 19:18:37 -0500 [’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn’t have thought of it.  It would degrade me to marry Heat […]

]]> 0 1636f3d995222ac5d4e72b78d56ea470 Emily Tsoi edited the blog post The Mistreatment of Children By Familial Figures in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13443/ Sun, 15 Sep 2019 20:55:22 -0500 While reading the first few chapters of Wuthering Heights, I was drawn to the treatment of Heathcliff by his new “family” throughout his childhood. Everyone except for Catherine and Mr. Earnshaw don’t seem to li […]

]]> 0 b36ab4aa5b2a6fca028e7024e20b8650 Emily Tsoi edited the blog post The Representation of Women in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13301/ Sun, 08 Sep 2019 23:57:48 -0500 While reading the assigned works for Tuesday, I was particularly drawn to Harriet Martineau’s Society in America as she discusses the role of women in a democratic society. As Martineau notes, women did not have a […]

]]> 0 ab5679928a0d0e3ef37d4509ef8c6d08 Emily Tsoi commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13224/ Mon, 02 Sep 2019 14:27:23 -0500 Here we see Teufelsdröckh coming to terms with his lack of belief in his faith. We then see that he feels a great disconnect from the rest of society and life as whole which shows how this impacted him mentally. […]

]]> 0 92909a2a7c64c05ee1cecdd127e3b2ee Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post What I Hope to Learn About Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13220/ Sun, 01 Sep 2019 21:07:07 -0500 I haven’t read a lot of Victorian literature thus far so there is still much for me to learn about this period in literature, but I do know of a few things involving it which I hope to expand on throughout the […]

]]> 0 e9205a3902fba0cc5d678b91cee00cb9 Emily Tsoi 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-1439 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:11:24 -0500 I haven’t really read much Victorian literature so far, but I did enjoy A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.

]]> c3bd7902e69877c3a103ba54f5a9c03f Emily Tsoi joined the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13029/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 20:23:27 -0500 0 f8dd82920badea15ce7548dc341b1906 Emily Tsoi joined the group Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13028/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 20:23:05 -0500 0 6b069df9dc16db709f55ba77815c466f Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Moving on From the Either/Or to the Both/And in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12842/ Tue, 14 May 2019 14:00:44 -0500 “My job is to notice… and to notice that you can notice”-Dionne Brand
Something that I’ve always found myself doing is categorizing things as I’ve always thought I was making my life simpler by doing this. H […]

]]> 0 f720103697d8d64355319bb775023ceb Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post A Blog Post About Blog Posts in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12670/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 00:36:27 -0500 As the end of the semester approaches and I write my final blog post, I am beginning to reflect on the beginning of the semester and how I felt about the idea of blogging for this class as opposed to writing the […]

]]> 0 39cc5b4ddb85cbd33bbd8e753ba5628d Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post The Theatre-Going Experience in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12596/ Fri, 19 Apr 2019 22:44:35 -0500 In my previous blog post I wrote about making connections across the different classes I am taking. I had another one of those lightbulb moments as we were talking about the theatre and audience’s expectations. I […]

]]> 0 036f4e92aedaf19e5de31aea224e7920 Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Making Connections (And a Bracelet) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12534/ Sun, 14 Apr 2019 23:22:45 -0500 While watching A Raisin in the Sun on Monday, I had multiple moments in which a lightbulb went on over my head and I was jotting things down because it had reminded me of something we’ve already read or watched t […]

]]> 0 84270e4ea4d66c58128fb0bdfb861c02 Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Yes, This All Mattered! in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12492/ Sun, 07 Apr 2019 03:34:22 -0500 The first question on the self-reflective questionnaire given to us at the end of class on Friday was something along the lines of ‘Did this process really matter?’. After looking at it for a few moments there was […]

]]> 0 31badef44eaa12b4acf30ff966b69b23 Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post The Necessity for Diversity in Children's Literature in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12451/ Tue, 26 Mar 2019 22:14:32 -0500 Seeing the Dick and Jane reference in Larry Neal’s The Black Arts Movement sparked an interest in me to further research the history behind the famed children’s books.
For those who are unfamiliar with Dick and […]

]]> 0 78db922d5043989170d4f4bb87edd7ed Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Daring to Differ in the World of Poetry in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12433/ Fri, 22 Mar 2019 03:05:41 -0500 When Dr. McCoy had asked us to find our favorite poem from Angles of Ascent I thought it would be a daunting task as there were so many poems to look through, however after glancing through the anthology, one […]

]]> 0 8daa63e5f202772cecf52f89f4d5380a Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Power and Consent Between Teachers and Students in the Classroom in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12360/ Sat, 02 Mar 2019 18:27:33 -0500 During class on Monday February 25th, each member of the class took a turn reading a couplet from “A Cabin Tale” by Paul Laurence Dunbar. Several students (myself included) admitted that they found it difficult to […]

]]> 0 5387222a396d8e2a079829425044b22e Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Recursion in Hollywood in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12249/ Wed, 13 Feb 2019 02:05:31 -0500 The past few classes have sparked me to think about the concept of originality, particularly when it comes to Hollywood with films and television. Ask yourself- how many films or TV shows have you seen that are […]

]]> 0 b069aae7fa546b7d2f56815e021f7ac6 Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Everybody's Words Matter in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12200/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 04:15:50 -0500 Toni Morrison said, “Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference – the way in which we are like no other life. We die. That may […]

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