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Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Noticing Our Access to Resources And How It Shapes Our Experiences in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago

“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 […]
Emily Tsoi edited the blog post The Incomplete Story of the 2008 Housing Crisis in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago

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 […]
Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Opening Your Eyes to Different Ways of Seeing in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago

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. […]
Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Connecting the Experiences of Women in Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 8 months ago

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 […]
Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Reflecting on Victorian Connexions in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Thoughts on the Descriptions of London in Reuben Sachs in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

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 […]
Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Experiences Help Shape Our Identities in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Pip’s Happiness As A Gentleman in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
Emily Tsoi wrote a new blog post Miss Havisham and Heathcliff in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

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 […]
Emily Tsoi edited the blog post Orphans in Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

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 […]

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