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Francheska Colon wrote a new blog post The Power Of StoryTelling in the group
American Studies: 4 days, 1 hour agoThe initial draft of this thesis concentrated mostly on islands, especially islands and their distinctive qualities. When I looked at islands from this angle, I realized why some people only saw them as tiny and […]
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Makayla Williams edited the blog post Jemisin’s World of Love & Pain: Poetry of Languages in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 1 day agoMy life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops? Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell a story of interconnective worlds and realities that define love and […]
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Hannah Fuller wrote a new blog post Building a Better World in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 1 day agoWhat I love most about human beings is the ability for us to change our minds. When we learn new information, we can use it to change the way we think and create something even better. New ideas, art, poetry, […]
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Cheyanne Carney wrote a new blog post Obelisks, Satellites, and The Stone Sky in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 1 day agoBack at the end of February we wrote a reflection essay after our reading of N.K. Jemisin’s The Fifth Season. At that time we had only read one out of the three books in the trilogy and we still had so much to g […]
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Mia Donaldson wrote a new blog post Essun and Fissured Identity in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 1 day agoI. IntroductionHaving read the entire Broken Earth trilogy, I’ve sometimes found myself frustrated at my constant preference and subsequent deference to its first installment, The Fifth Season. I first read The F […]
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Sarah Pleines wrote a new blog post The Predictability of the “Unpredictable” in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 1 day agoMy last post, written just after reading the first book of The Broken Earth Trilogy, can now be read as thinkING with an incomplete understanding of what I was discussing at that current time. The original focus […]
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Emilee Coughlin wrote a new blog post Race In The World Of Orogenes in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 1 day agoEmilee Coughlin
Dr. McCoy
English 468
May 18th, 2022
Race In The World Of Orogenes
In my first ThinkING essay written about the novel, The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin, the most […]
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Charlie Kenny wrote a new blog post Aggregate Love in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 1 day agoOn the first page of The Obelisk Gate Hoa tells the reader that “relationships chisel the final shape of one’s being.” This idea is a concrete theme throughout the series as it focuses on the ways […]
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Kevin Reed edited the blog post The Broken Earth Trilogy; A Reflection Through SEL. in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 1 day agoTowards the beginning of this spring semester at SUNY Geneseo I created my first blog post discussing N.K Jemisin’s The Fifth Season, from her series The Broken Earth Trilogy. In this blog post I discussed w […]
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Elizabeth Roos wrote a new blog post Genre and Justice in N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth Trilogy in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 1 day agoEarlier in this semester I wrote my ThinkING Essay on how in The Broken Earth trilogy N.K. Jemisin uses geological disasters to show how richer classes are more likely to survive, and yet, regardless, how […]
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Lidabel A. Guzman Avila wrote a new blog post To Control What Breathes: A Greedy & Fruitless Endeavor in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 1 day agoEarlier in the semester, I reflected on N. K. Jemisin’s use of unyieldingly strong power—that of Orogenes and the Earth’s in her first novel of The Broken Earth trilogy, The Fifth Season—and how it stands against […]
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Marlee Fancett wrote a new blog post The Broken Earth Trilogy as a Study of the Social Sciences in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 1 day agoThe Broken Earth trilogy tells a story rooted in the social sciences, its gripping plotlines and diverse, complex characters sowing the various branches, with observations and statements about systems of power […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post Love, Hate, and Justice through the Earth in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 1 day agoThere have been few books in recent memory that have gotten me to think quite as much as N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy. A grand fantasy tale involving its own form of magic in various forms as well as f […]
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Jessica D'Antonio wrote a new blog post Love and Catastrophism Within The Broken Earth Trilogy in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 1 day agoIn my first ThinkING essay that I published back in February of 2022, I chose to discuss the loss of power the orogenes experience as a result of the skills that are bestowed upon them and how this loss compels […]
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Zoe LaVallee wrote a new blog post The Reality of Balance and Love in The Broken Earth Trilogy in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 2 days agoLove and geology may not be synonymous, but their relationship in N.K. Jemisin’s, The Broken Earth trilogy, is surprisingly solid. The characters in Jemisin’s trilogy lived lives where unpredictability was con […]
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Marin Goodstein wrote a new blog post Generational Trauma and Cyclical Violence: The Creation of a ‘Broken Earth’ in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 2 days agoIn Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy, continuous geological disasters represent the cyclical violence between orogenes and stills. This violence becomes cyclical when— to create autonomy—the bullied become bulli […]
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Noah Taylor wrote a new blog post Growth & Reflection: Analyzing Geologic Events in The Broken Earth Trilogy in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 2 days agoIt is always strange to have to reflect on yourself, to go back in (meta) time and evaluate your ability to notice things, and see what it is that made you think about those things. Looking back to my ThinkING […]
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Artressia Chapman wrote a new blog post Love and hated of Percival Everett in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 2 days agoIn the black literature course, there were several epigraphs to choose from that could connect it to Everett’s book called The Trees. Cambridge dictionary said that the epigraph is, “A saying or a part of a poe […]
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Hallie Edic wrote a new blog post Fear vs. Love in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 2 days agoThere is power in fear, but there is also power in love. Throughout the entirety of the first novel, the audience can see Essun in all three stages of life– whether as Damaya, Syenite, or Essun– being driven by […]
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Quentin Wall wrote a new blog post Final Reflective Essay in the group
American Studies: 1 week, 3 days ago“Oh, no. No, no, no. There’s too much to learn from examining that tension between the power and the impact of the art and realizing where that art comes from and what the impetus behind that art is. The best w […]
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