English @ SUNY Geneseo | Elizabeth Gellman | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/lizziegellman/activity/ Activity feed for Elizabeth Gellman. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 025ee9018410f2e6822dda31fea68915 Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post The Impact of Information in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12547/ Mon, 15 Apr 2019 16:35:09 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 7361c6013eb797673ab78215ca484e0c Elizabeth Gellman replied to the topic One-sentence summaries of the Lessig excerpt in the forum Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/one-sentence-summaries-of-the-lessig-excerpt/#post-1330 Mon, 04 Mar 2019 17:47:30 -0500 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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]]> 0f95d84f760825ceb5e188cb1b86a383 Elizabeth Gellman edited the blog post Using Computers to Join the Conversation in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12296/ Wed, 20 Feb 2019 00:27:20 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 c95ff8108dd166b51ab231cb40da9e37 Elizabeth Gellman joined the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12009/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 16:50:15 -0500 0 21b0b61d96ba6fdb1541c9f6327535c4 Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post Learning to Think(ING) in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11580/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:16:21 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 d8821edac2cfe4c91a5277e4d36f2cac Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post The Benefits of Collaborative Work in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11359/ Fri, 30 Nov 2018 22:25:37 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 be8385b7e4b44f9653f07955f5ab0822 Elizabeth Gellman edited the blog post Earth and Syl Anagist: a Disregard for Human Life in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11115/ Wed, 14 Nov 2018 02:38:03 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 457a45ac355fa23bef98ea87a11b75dc Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post Solarpunk and Solving "Real World" Problems in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11006/ Thu, 08 Nov 2018 04:38:20 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 43c10598311ed6f0a4674b0d66ecd745 Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post Midterm Paper Reflection: Reversing Personal Tendencies and Defying Conventions in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10955/ Fri, 26 Oct 2018 17:19:30 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 56d27416fd270ccde7581aa617648026 Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post Parental Love and the Different Ways it Can Manifest in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10893/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 20:42:47 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 1cb9240c3b37d657209350d6d2285d67 Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post Freedom in Resistance: Ykka in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10846/ Tue, 09 Oct 2018 14:21:07 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 b0620dd02693d8a12d8813258f169122 Elizabeth Gellman edited the blog post Essun's Strength in Murder in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10831/ Thu, 04 Oct 2018 00:52:23 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 feef247d0f9307111b3cd60b4f0234c0 Elizabeth Gellman wrote a new blog post Power Hierarchies and Oppression of Orogenes in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10743/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 20:24:55 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 e610b4b5dd8afa83d4f98baf95451c28 Elizabeth Gellman edited the blog post Function of Second Person Chapters in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10619/ Tue, 11 Sep 2018 23:59:39 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 966a301062a07eab42e984bd70e95d64 Elizabeth Gellman joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10604/ Mon, 10 Sep 2018 16:25:44 -0500 0 0ffc29a58af0a7170395bab45c1a8956 Elizabeth Gellman became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10318/ Wed, 29 Aug 2018 00:17:07 -0500 0