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Christina Inter wrote a new blog post Meme-icry in the group
Digital Humanities: 2 days, 8 hours agoWhen coming across the chapter in Gleick titled “Into the Meme Pool,” my mind immediately jumped to the captioned photos and videos blasted across the internet in succession, each changing slightly in form to the […]
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Emilio Garcia wrote a new blog post Storytelling in the group
American Studies: 2 days, 22 hours agoThe housing crisis of 2008 had a terrible impact on hundreds of millions of lives all across the world, but especially in the United States. So far we have looked at several texts that all put this catastrophe in […]
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Danielle Crowley wrote a new blog post Reverse Walden in the group
Digital Humanities: 3 days, 13 hours agoAs of Saturday, March 14st, 2020, I have been at home social distancing myself amid the COVID-19 outbreak, with my computer, my phone, my tv, and Netflix. Between moving from my bed, to my brothers room, to the […]
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Christian Lanzetta wrote a new blog post Shorting and the Risks it Presents in the group
American Studies: 5 days, 16 hours agoThe
amount of gears that rotate when dealing with the financial crisis of 2008 is
unimaginable. One of the most important
aspects that light has been shed on if the aspect of shorting an asset, or
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Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Ignorance and COVID-19 in the group
Digital Humanities: 6 days, 10 hours agoAfter Governor Cuomo’s announcement recently where he said that CUNY and SUNY schools would be engaging in “distant learning,” for the rest of the spring semester, I have only felt more and more dazed. My immed […]
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Isabella Higgins wrote a new blog post The Power of Perspective in the group
American Studies: 6 days, 12 hours agoEvery
event that occurs has multiple perspectives, interpretations and stories. Today’s
political climate and current health crisis illuminates that for me even more. Take
people who think they […] -
Corinne Scanlon wrote a new blog post The Effects of Greed in the group
American Studies: 1 week agoMy first encounter with mortgages was when I first played the
video game Animal Crossing. The premise of the game is that you play as
a human who arrives at a town of animals. The first thing you do is pick out […] -
Sandy Brahaspat wrote a new blog post Intent and Consequence in the Big Short and The Turner House in the group
American Studies: 1 week agoIn my first
reading of The Big Short, to say that I was confused was a bit of an
understatement. I couldn’t wrap my head around the lack of responsibility that
Wall Street displayed in response to the 2008 H […] -
Maria Papas wrote a new blog post The Importance of a Narrative in the group
American Studies: 1 week agoEver since I was a young girl, I was infatuated with storytelling. I’d beg my parents, my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, anyone who I deemed as “old and wise” to tell me a story, a true story. I think the […]
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Lara Mangino wrote a new blog post The Moved and the Shaken of the 2008 Financial Crisis in the group
American Studies: 1 week agoJust as King Lear depicts a war started by powerful actors without discussion of the commoners who died or were wounded on the battlefield, The Big Short presents a financial war. The “tug-of-war” between the sho […]
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Courtney Lyon wrote a new blog post The Moral Hazards of Storytelling in the group
American Studies: 1 week agoPeople may find themselves right now picking up books that they had once not imagined having time for. What makes you pick up a certain book from another is sometimes hard to understand. Once you pick up a book […]
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Kaitlyn Papaccio wrote a new blog post Liquidity of Narratives in the group
American Studies: 1 week agoIn light of the recent Coronavirus pandemic, we as a society have been forced to look upon the structure of a narrative. Going into this global crisis, we may understand that we are dealing with a historical and […]
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Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post How The Big Short and The Turner House Work Together in the group
American Studies: 1 week agoThe Turner House and
The Big Short work well together to
give us as a class a holistic view of the 2008 recession. Initially, both
novels seem considerably different, especially in the writing styles of […] -
Tessa Hensler wrote a new blog post More to The Story: Seeing the Whole Picture of the 2008 Housing Crisis with The Turner House and The Big Short in the group
American Studies: 1 week agoBoth Michael Lewis’s The Big Short and Angela Flournoy’s The Turner House shed light on the 2008 housing crisis. Yet, comparing these two works right off the bat proved to be a rather difficult task as the per […]
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Micayah Ambriz wrote a new blog post Motives Behind Madness in the group
American Studies: 1 week agoAs humans, we are faced with infinite choices and it’s natural for us to judge the choices of others especially when they don’t align with what we believe to be best. The Turner House sh […]
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Kelly Parrett wrote a new blog post Addiction and Human Interconnection in the group
American Studies: 1 week agoSince humans are inherently interconnected, one person’s addiction, whether it be to a substance or to something else, affects other people. Merriam-Webster defines addiction as “a strong inclination to do, use […]
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Alice Chen edited the blog post A House Doomed to Fall in the group
American Studies: 1 week agoIn The Big Short, Michael Lewis provides an investigative approach to explaining the involvement of those in Wall Street and the implications of fraudulent behavior that caused the 2008 financial crisis. The […]
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Amanda Sheps edited the blog post How The Turner House Elevates the Working Class Experience While The Big Short Fails to Incorporate It in the group
American Studies: 1 week agoAlthough Michael Lewis’ The Big Short is captivating and offers an insightful glimpse into the events leading to the 2008 housing crisis, it falls short by missing the perspective of those affected most by the n […]
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Elena Ritz wrote a new blog post Glass Houses in the group
American Studies: 1 week agoHow often do we pause to think about the spaces that have formed us? I don’t do it often, but I recently drove past my uncle’s old apartment and had the stark realization that I would never form another memory […]
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Stephanie Wall wrote a new blog post The Human Flaw: The Big Short/ The Turner House in the group
American Studies: 1 week agoWhen starting the book The Turner House by Angela Flournoy, I did not know where the story was going to go, or how it was going to connect to The Big Short by Michael Lewis. In fact, when life was starting to […]
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