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Jonathan Kalman edited the blog post Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: Smoking in Movies in the group Film Talk: 7 years, 7 months ago

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 […]
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: 8 years, 4 months ago

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 […]
Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post The “Z” Word in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

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 […]
Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post World Building in Literature in the group American Studies: 8 years, 4 months ago

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 […]
Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Making a “True” Statement vs. Stating the “Whole Truth” in Photo-Journalism in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

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 […]
Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post “When The Levees Broke” Credits in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

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 […]
Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Effigies: A Performance of Waste? in the group American Studies: 8 years, 5 months ago

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 […]
Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post The United States: Hollywood’s Effigy For Earth in the group American Studies: 8 years, 7 months ago

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 […]
Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Autonomy. Is it achievable? Part two. in the group American Studies: 8 years, 7 months ago

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 […]
Jonathan Kalman wrote a new blog post Autonomy. Is it achievable? in the group American Studies: 8 years, 7 months ago

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 […]

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