English @ SUNY Geneseo | Jonathan Kalman | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/jik2/activity/ Activity feed for Jonathan Kalman. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 a24dd4312d9aab88059439f764992b2b Jonathan Kalman replied to the topic Cool Hand Luke Review in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/cool-hand-luke-review/#post-1349 Mon, 11 Mar 2019 18:21:12 -0500 “Throughout the film, Luke maintains a strong sense of character.” This line really stuck with me after reading your post. Luke knows who he is and no one is going to tell him otherwise. Maybe he has some kind of death wish or PTSD (being a war veteran and all), but regardless of his reasons for being so impulsive, Luke lives his life to the…[Read more]

]]> 290978fa5480662e83a4983d0f9961b7 Jonathan Kalman replied to the topic Appearance vs Reality in Big Fish in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/appearance-vs-reality-in-big-fish-2/#post-1314 Mon, 25 Feb 2019 18:31:16 -0500 Firstly, I want to say that you present a great description for the story as a whole, primarily on your analysis of the “stories” element of the film in that it was used to “make reality a bit better”. I would like to ask however, when you say, “By the end of the movie, Will realizes that there was more truth to his father’s tales than he t…[Read more]

]]> 8c7a7c3e81fbe47705596f6c90007b7f Jonathan Kalman replied to the topic The Selfless Hero in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/the-selfless-hero/#post-1308 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 18:37:00 -0500 I must agree that Rick does act selfless on many occasions, most notably sending Ilsa and Victor out of Morocco to escape the Germans; however, I must agree with Gabrielle in that he does act fairly jaded towards most other characters in that he does not give many the time of day. He even acts petty towards Ilsa, and although he is reasonable for…[Read more]

]]> 8dc1be2dd20674ff36379a50a9a4f6aa Jonathan Kalman edited the blog post Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: Smoking in Movies in the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12166/ Wed, 06 Feb 2019 01:14:30 -0500 I had this post done and ready to go yesterday, however, an error popped up when I tried to save and everything I wrote had been deleted. So here is take two of this blog post. Apologies if it falls short of the […]

]]> 0 faaee181644ca1d8c40d72389f0a2190 Jonathan Kalman replied to the topic A Review of The General, 1926 in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/a-review-of-the-general-1926/#post-1254 Mon, 04 Feb 2019 21:14:59 -0500 When we first watched this film last week, I did not even think about how the technical aspects of the film and how they affected our perception of each scene. Something as simple as the right camera angle or lighting can greatly affect how we interpret moods and anticipate what events are right around the corner. As for your interpretation on the…[Read more]

]]> e3dff1e659de512df6ce9ca20104444b Jonathan Kalman joined the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12142/ Sat, 02 Feb 2019 21:01:14 -0500 0 483349cf2ed7339f5d5e1cc0e9cc739f Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Making a "True" Statement vs. Stating the "Whole Truth" in Photo-Journalism: Expanded in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10095/ Sat, 28 Apr 2018 16:08:05 -0500 A while back I had created a post called, “Making a “True” Statement vs. Stating the ‘Whole Truth’ in Photo-Journalism”. As I was going through some of the blog posts other people have created on this page, I not […]

]]> 0 a5c4507622dd1332f29dc4047559dc0b Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post The "Z" Word in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10034/ Sat, 21 Apr 2018 23:07:55 -0500 Is there an outright ban in using the word, “zombie” to refer to zombies in literature, television, and movies? While reading Colson Whitehead’s Zone One, he never refers the zombies as zombies. There’s actually […]

]]> 0 7157698cc3022e5a30e6c60fbe4ef61e Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post World Building in Literature in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10004/ Mon, 16 Apr 2018 16:34:36 -0500 How many ways can an author attempt to build a world within a books plot? The simplest way could be to just let the story begin within the context of the real world. Let the setting start within that of the actual […]

]]> 0 061212c2adfc2d6078f48f5281ec4127 Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Making a "True" Statement vs. Stating the "Whole Truth" in Photo-Journalism in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9961/ Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:43:28 -0500 What does it mean to be a journalist? In my mind, it means reporting on local, regional, and even international events that can effect any number of people. I believe that the news should always be truthful and […]

]]> 0 b82b7ff5a90530aaff23c62751c4b3c0 Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post "When The Levees Broke" Credits in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9929/ Thu, 05 Apr 2018 16:43:53 -0500 It was about the time right before Spring break when our English 432 course watched the credits for the Hurricane Katrina documentary , When the Levees Broke. It was during this class period that we analyzed each […]

]]> 0 0b54fb7d23ba613d458a2bca9cf54ead Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Effigies: A Performance of Waste? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9851/ Fri, 23 Mar 2018 18:46:24 -0500 One of the many topics that we discuss in Professor McCoy’s English 432 course is a concept provided by Joseph Roach’s, “Echoes In The Bone”. This concept which claims that violence is the performance of waste, is […]

]]> 0 7935eae36d65973a374aa67bdf3045ef Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post The United States: Hollywood's Effigy For Earth in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9666/ Mon, 05 Feb 2018 20:52:34 -0500 Why is it that almost every disaster movie, whether it is natural, alien, zombie, etc, occurs in the United states. I’m not saying that there are not plenty of disaster movies that occur in other countries. One […]

]]> 0 acc1382f511669d9756347cb89b2352d Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Autonomy. Is it achievable? Part two. in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9595/ Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:02:05 -0500 Hello again everyone. Before I continue with part two of, “Autonomy. Is it achievable?”, here is a link to part one. http://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2018/01/27/autonomy-is-it-achievable/.

Before we begin […]

]]> 0 2f14c0368b23c82987ad28123789398c Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Autonomy. Is it achievable? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9529/ Sat, 27 Jan 2018 17:53:30 -0500 Dictionary.com defines autonomy as, “independence or freedom, as of the will or one’s actions”, “the condition of being autonomous; self-government or the right of self-government”, and, “a self governing […]

]]> 0 802ee8adfbe8de7916bdc5ba6bd7ae91 Jonathan Kalman edited the blog post A Better Way? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8697/ Tue, 28 Nov 2017 23:39:14 -0500 Jonathan Kalman

In the world of Octavia Butler’s “Clay’s Ark”, those infected by the Proxi Two symbiont have strong sexual urges that cannot be easily restrained. According to Stephen Kaneshiro, a resident of the Clay’s Ark enclave, the symbiont makes you, “like having kids. Makes you need to have them” (Butler, Page 532). As far as the reader…[Read more]

]]> 0 22b8ca8d7d3d0d654da1d20619564f34 Jonathan Kalman edited the blog post "Free Will" Part 2 in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9065/ Tue, 28 Nov 2017 23:26:09 -0500 Earlier in the year, I had made a blog post in relation the concept of free-will. I evaluated this concept through Butler’s work, “Fledgling”, but now, I want to look at it through “Dawn”. This is not to say that the other two parts of the Lilith’s Brood trilogy are unimportant, but that I feel that this question is best analyzed through the first…[Read more]

]]> 0 09bfa86a80283c44640870a1902d2b21 Jonathan Kalman edited the blog post Oankali and Humanity in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8962/ Tue, 14 Nov 2017 15:57:16 -0500 One of the main questions formed when reading Octavia Butler’s Lilith’s Brood trilogy, is, “what does it mean to be human?”. Within this work, an alien species called the Oankali, find the Earth nearly destroyed by a nuclear war and try to preserve what is left of humanity. The Oankali do this by incorporating some of their own DNA into the rem…[Read more]

]]> 0 ef33e8e0b56117746905d433cbf1ac31 Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post "Free Will" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8836/ Tue, 17 Oct 2017 18:13:08 -0500 Is there such a thing as free will? Octavia Butler’s Fledgling has made me rethink this philosophical debate. Within this work, as those who’ve read it know, the saliva of an Ina bite addicts humans to the Ina […]

]]> 0 d763223ed91c45b4521070011863fc44 Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Reaction to Bloodchild in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8527/ Fri, 08 Sep 2017 00:05:13 -0500 Before diving into the main focus I wish to present within this blog post, I would just like to say that I thoroughly enjoyed Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild. I was completely unable to predict where the story would g […]

]]> 0 c2ade477a90bd90647632d32ec1c1fe7 Jonathan Kalman joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8394/ Mon, 28 Aug 2017 17:53:16 -0500 0 6f40ffcda54e3c06ca1bb03e9f2bcd34 Jonathan Kalman joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6788/ Mon, 29 Aug 2016 16:36:31 -0500 0 40877e6e08bf52732b55c58f4a590c43 Jonathan Kalman became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6778/ Sat, 27 Aug 2016 21:51:20 -0500 0