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Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post The Impact of Information in the group Digital Humanities: 4 years, 11 months ago
I think the most interesting thing I have learned this semester is about how information is organized and spread. Due to the internet, there is a whole world of knowledge at my immediate disposal, but I never […]
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Elizabeth Gellman replied to the topic One-sentence summaries of the Lessig excerpt in the forum Digital Humanities 5 years ago
Group 3
Instead of protecting certain industries against competition and ensuring they can make the most money, hereby cultivating a permission culture, our goal should be to encourage a free culture in which past creations can serve as inspiration and the building blocks of new creations.
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Elizabeth Gellman edited the blog post Using Computers to Join the Conversation in the group Digital Humanities: 5 years, 1 month ago
As a young adult in our technology-driven society who is constantly within reach of my phone and or laptop, and is able to easily use both to accomplish my daily needs, I came into this course thinking that I was […]
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Elizabeth Gellman joined the group Digital Humanities 5 years, 2 months ago
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Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post Learning to Think(ING) in the group American Studies: 5 years, 3 months ago
I had mixed feelings about this class after our first couple of sessions at the beginning of the semester. First, I was excited: I had not read many science-fiction books before, and thought the topic sounded […]
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Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post The Benefits of Collaborative Work in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
When Dr. McCoy assessed my group’s collaborative blog post, she asked how we accomplished working together and being able to formulate our thoughts as a group. I’ll admit I am usually skeptical about group pro […]
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Elizabeth Gellman edited the blog post Earth and Syl Anagist: a Disregard for Human Life in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
Before class on Monday, I was reading through the blog looking for inspiration for a new post. While I didn’t end up with a specific idea of what I wanted to write about in my next post, I did thoroughly enjoy r […]
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Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post Solarpunk and Solving “Real World” Problems in the group American Studies: 5 years, 4 months ago
On Monday, Dr. McCoy split us into groups and asked my group to research “solarpunk.” We learned that solarpunk inspires Jemisin’s world, Syl Anagist, in The Stone Sky. I had never heard of solarpunk, but I found […]
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Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post Midterm Paper Reflection: Reversing Personal Tendencies and Defying Conventions in the group American Studies: 5 years, 5 months ago
Writing the midterm paper went from being a frustrating process to an extremely rewarding one for me. I originally struggled to put words on paper, as I have a tendency towards perfectionism, where I feel like I […]
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Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post Parental Love and the Different Ways it Can Manifest in the group American Studies: 5 years, 5 months ago
A couple of weeks ago I found myself pondering Essun’s decision to kill Corundum, and what that meant in terms of a mother’s love. I wrote that “Her decision to kill her son is out of love for Corundum, who she k […]
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Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post Freedom in Resistance: Ykka in the group American Studies: 5 years, 5 months ago
Upon finishing The Fifth Season, I was confused about a lot of plot points. A lot of the characters jumbled together in my head and I felt like I was missing things. I felt as if there was just too much in […]
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Elizabeth Gellman edited the blog post Essun’s Strength in Murder in the group American Studies: 5 years, 5 months ago
Essun shows incredible strength throughout the book, persevering through periods of enslavement and great personal loss, including when she forces herself to murder her own son to save him from a life of captivity […]
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Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post Power Hierarchies and Oppression of Orogenes in the group American Studies: 5 years, 6 months ago
Reading Sabrina Chan’s post “Fake News” got me thinking about the concept of power structures and the subjugation of orogenes in The Fifth Season. Sabrina notes that, “Stills maintain their social superio […]
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Elizabeth Gellman edited the blog post Function of Second Person Chapters in the group American Studies: 5 years, 6 months ago
In The Fifth Season, Jemisin uses the unusual literary technique of second person point of view in her chapters focusing on Essun. Essun is an orogene on a journey to find her daughter, who has been kidnapped by […]
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Elizabeth Gellman joined the group American Studies 5 years, 6 months ago
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Elizabeth Gellman became a registered member 5 years, 7 months ago