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Tessa Hensler wrote a new blog post “Ignorance Is . . .”: A Look Into How a Lack of Knowledge & Understanding Play Hand in Hand With Expulsion in the group American Studies: 4 years ago
In my lifetime I have often heard the expression “ignorance is bliss” used by those around me. The idea that if you don’t know something, you don’t need to let it be of your concern. This makes me think of a di […]
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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: 4 years, 1 month ago
Both 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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Tessa Hensler wrote a new blog post Taking A Second Glance: The Flow of Corruption, Fraud, and Character Development in William Shakespeare’s King Lear in the group American Studies: 4 years, 2 months ago
Many things in life often require a second, or even third glance. The definitions of terms that seemed fairly economic, and then relating those terms to William Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear, was s […]
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Tessa Hensler and Madisun Edmond are now friends 4 years, 2 months ago
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Tessa Hensler joined the group American Studies 4 years, 2 months ago
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Tessa Hensler joined the group Unplugged 4 years, 6 months ago
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Tessa Hensler became a registered member 4 years, 6 months ago
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Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Data-Mining Walden: Tools for Literary Analysis in the group Digital Humanities: 4 years, 11 months ago
Henry David Thoreau had a fraught relationship with technology. As we discussed in our presentation, it is difficult to tell whether he would be on board with our digital projects regarding his work. What we can […]
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Sean McAneny edited the blog post Reflecting on the Semester with Lucille Clifton in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
surely i am able to write poems
celebrating grass and how the blue
in the sky can flow green or red
and the waters lean against the
chesapeake shore like a familiar
poems about nature and landscape
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Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Big Machine, Intertext and Allegory in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
In class on Friday, 4/26, our group put Big Machine in conversation with a few other texts that we had encountered earlier this semester, as well as a few others from outside the class. In addition to The Last An […]
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Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Sydney Smith and “Who Reads an American Book”: Some Remaining Questions in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
“The Americans are a brave, industrious, and acute people; but they have hitherto given no indications of genius, and made no approaches to the heroic, either in their morality or character….Where are their […]
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Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Some Additional Thoughts on Sustainability and Interdisciplinary Study in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
Upon registering for classes last fall, I made the decision to venture outside of my major, English, and take a few classes in the sciences. I wanted to try out a different way of thinking, one that I hadn’t […]
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Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Democracy and Digitization in the group Digital Humanities: 5 years ago
Like the human brain or the deepest parts of the ocean, the potential for discovery in the digital age seems boundless, especially to someone new to computing like me. Literature and Literary Study in the Digital […]
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Sean McAneny edited the blog post A Semiotic Reading of a Courthouse in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
Two weeks ago, I traveled to St. Louis with six other English students and Dr. Paku to present a paper at the Sigma Tau Delta International Convention. During the last day of our visit we went to a courthouse that […]
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Sean McAneny edited the blog post Light and Shadows, Dope and Paint, Sociology and Art in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
When we speak of a “diamond in the rough,” are we being ironic? For when we say this do we not ignore the dark and organic geologic history of the shiny diamond’s formation? A diamond comes from the rough; it is […]
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Sean McAneny edited the blog post On Favorites and Doing What You Love in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
Upon its first consideration, the task of choosing a favorite poem from Angles of Ascent seemed difficult, if not daunting. Beyond the difficulty of pinning down one poem in anthology of hundreds, this a […]
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Sean McAneny edited the blog post “Call and Response” in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
Call and Response, our massive anthology, sets up texts of African American traditions in such a way that pieces begin to function as questions and answers to each other. This clever formation allows for […]
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Sean McAneny edited the blog post “Now hear this mixture, where hip-hop meets scripture” Bringing Lauryn Hill to Dunbar, Douglass, and Jacobs in the group American Studies: 5 years, 1 month ago
“The songs are a way to get to singing” –Bernice Johnson Reagon
On Monday, Paul Laurence Dunbar allowed us to engage with an homage to his poem, “We Wear the Mask:” the Fugees song, “The Mask.” This […]
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Sean McAneny started the topic Group 5 Discussion Question 2/27 in the forum Digital Humanities 5 years, 1 month ago
We feel flooded with information and anxious about its totalizing power. Despite the toxicity of some social media platforms, many of us continue to use them because of a fear of missing out. Is our feeling unique to this moment in the digital age, or have previous generations felt the same about mechanisms like telegraph, telephone, or even the…[Read more]
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Sean McAneny wrote a new blog post Thinking and Living with Computers: Making a Digital Humanist in the group Digital Humanities: 5 years, 2 months ago
I can remember a time when I believed computer science and the humanities represented what Stephen Jay Gould would call non-overlapping magesterium. In other words, the two fields emerged from completely different […]
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