Friends | Lara Mangino | English @ SUNY Geneseo

Sorry, no members were found.

Recent Blog Posts

Lara Mangino wrote a new blog post The Power of Knowledge and The Powerlessness of Ignorance in the group American Studies: 6 years, 4 months ago

It is an old adage that knowledge is power. Understanding the how and why of life allows one to maneuver and manipulate their surroundings more easily. However, from this adage, we can garner a parallel truth: if […]
Lara Mangino wrote a new blog post The Moved and the Shaken of the 2008 Financial Crisis in the group American Studies: 6 years, 5 months ago

Just 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 […]
Lara Mangino wrote a new blog post Exchanging Something for Nothing in King Lear in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 months ago

“Nothing will come of nothing,” Lear tells his daughter in one of the most famous lines of Shakespeare’s tragedy, King Lear. The idea Lear expresses is one that can be found in disciplines ranging from commer […]
Lara Mangino wrote a new blog post How Alone Was Thoreau, Exactly? in the group Digital Humanities: 8 years, 5 months ago

In her scathing attack of Henry David Thoreau and Walden, Kathryn Schulz implies that Thoreau deliberately misleads readers into thinking he is more secluded from society than he is. However, defenders of Thoreau […]
Lara Mangino wrote a new blog post On Revision in the group Digital Humanities: 8 years, 6 months ago

I had the rather meta idea while doing this to “word vomit” and publish, just to make a point about how important revision is. I wound up being unwilling to risk my grade for such a point, but as I revise this […]
Lara Mangino wrote a new blog post On Annotation in the group Digital Humanities: 8 years, 7 months ago

Recently, I have taken the time to reflect on annotation. I annotate a lot. Generally, it follows predictable patterns: red ink means I have written it on my own time, blue ink means I heard it from a teacher or […]

More Blogs