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Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Embracing Nature in the group Digital Humanities: 3 years, 11 months ago
I was never the most active child. I was in fact pretty lazy. I preferred to sit in my house and watch movies and soap operas, rather than go for a walk or do something to minimally increase my heart […]
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Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post My Final Reflection in the group Digital Humanities: 4 years ago
I came into the English minor knowing that I loved learning about grammar, and that I also enjoyed writing for the school newspaper. I have been writing for the school newspaper since I was in middle school. My […]
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Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Communication and the Coronavirus in the group Digital Humanities: 4 years ago
James Gleick’s popular science book The Information also approaches the idea of communication as it was previously seen in 1948. Gleick writes that aside from cable and telephone sets, “The [Bureau of the Cen […]
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Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Ignorance and COVID-19 in the group Digital Humanities: 4 years, 1 month ago
After 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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Leila Sassouni edited the blog post The Humanities and Computing in the group Digital Humanities: 4 years, 2 months ago
On the first day of class, Professor Schact led a conversation regarding the concept of the humanities. He encouraged the class to interpret this definition. While Google simplifies the term as “academic d […]
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Leila Sassouni joined the group Digital Humanities 4 years, 3 months ago
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Leila Sassouni edited the blog post My Direction in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
I applied and came into Geneseo undecided. While
I had vague ideas of the future career path I wanted to pursue, a therapist who
also writes for a newspaper, I still did not feel ready to declare a field of […] -
Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Identity, Creation, and Direction in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 4 months ago
Micha’el Leventhal said, “The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.”
I am the creat […]
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Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Logic and Common Sense in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 5 months ago
I tend to associate the term logic with the idea of common sense, or practical sense. I assume that it takes basic knowledge or common sense to be able to break down a math problem, such as 5 times 5. As a […]
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Leila Sassouni edited the blog post Common Knowledge and the Theory of Multiple Intelligences in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 5 months ago
Intelligence, according to Lexico, is “the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills” (Lexico). As a psychology major, I have to take a course called Child Development. In my class we recently had a tes […]
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Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Control and Apathy in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 5 months ago
Professor McCoy commented on one of my previous posts, Mindfulness,
suggesting that I consider an alternative interpretation of Percival Everett’s I
am Not Sidney Poitier. While I had originally based that post o […] -
Leila Sassouni commented on the post, The Power of Names in Establishing Character, on the groupblog Reader and Text 4 years, 5 months ago
I really like the thesis you guys provided and the connection established between its association to an individual’s characteristics and personal values. You guys really broke every element of your post down; good job!!
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Leila Sassouni edited the blog post ‘A Rich Man’s World’ in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 5 months ago
Collaborated by: Leila Sassouni, Amanda Neri, Anthony Guttilla, Julia Yakowyna, and Lauren Silverman
Sidney Poitier’s 1963 film Lilies of the Field, draws on the relationship between five nuns and the main p […]
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Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Mindfulness in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 6 months ago
In communications, there is a term called “self-monitoring”.
Self-monitoring means that an individual pays more attention to his or her
behavior in a situation. For example, if an individual is speaking to her […] -
Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post The Prevalence of Racism in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 6 months ago
Percival Everett’s novel
entitled I am Not Sidney Poitier, contains a lack of temporality
in the context of the novel. Being that this novel is strongly focused
surrounding the issue of racism, I initially as […] -
Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Sarcasm as a Tool in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 6 months ago
Percival Everett’s novel I Am
Not Sidney Poitier, uncovers the story of an African American boy Not Sidney
who is raised during a time of racism. He is raised before 1954 since
segregation was declared u […] -
Leila Sassouni edited the blog post Survival and Power in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 6 months ago
Since Monday’s class, I have felt mind-boggled. I have felt this way because of a quote from our assigned Frenzy reading. In the beginning of Percival Everett’s novel Frenzy, Dionysos tells Vlepo that he is “a […]
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Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Interpretation is in the Eyes of the Individual in the group Reader and Text: 4 years, 7 months ago
Quite frequently, I doubt myself. I question my interpretations of a text, and I also compare my thoughts to others which leads me to doubt my abilities as a writer and a thinker.
Upon embarking on Professor […]
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Leila Sassouni joined the group Reader and Text 4 years, 7 months ago
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Leila Sassouni joined the group American Studies 4 years, 8 months ago
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