English @ SUNY Geneseo | Leila Sassouni | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/ls36/activity/ Activity feed for Leila Sassouni. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 714163d882633cedce1034e856605afe Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Embracing Nature in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15174/ Mon, 04 May 2020 17:54:57 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 bf104a9b4519d29c6bbfb5f7ba8a7b25 Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post My Final Reflection in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15149/ Tue, 21 Apr 2020 16:07:05 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 84d68b95a16ac588c345eb2319341c0d Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Communication and the Coronavirus in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15117/ Mon, 13 Apr 2020 16:15:01 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 5e8a908bc8dc1208e64e7185150f3608 Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Ignorance and COVID-19 in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15085/ Sun, 22 Mar 2020 00:42:23 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 8e5447fd29cc8eac34edb124dfe87aa1 Leila Sassouni edited the blog post The Humanities and Computing in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14881/ Wed, 12 Feb 2020 17:37:29 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 6447116869edb3ec0a370f06721c587e Leila Sassouni joined the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14667/ Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:40:40 -0500 0 0b4e0ba6feff74b73964888c5034dd07 Leila Sassouni edited the blog post My Direction in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14521/ Thu, 12 Dec 2019 18:05:09 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 caf927ce14135511df3d78a69a1569a1 Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Identity, Creation, and Direction in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14415/ Fri, 06 Dec 2019 22:04:12 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 10fa012bad531962a602cc4f510317fd Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Logic and Common Sense in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14211/ Mon, 25 Nov 2019 21:13:06 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 b5d9fd671b589b3559a75c7275f002f3 Leila Sassouni edited the blog post Common Knowledge and the Theory of Multiple Intelligences in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14122/ Sun, 17 Nov 2019 20:08:53 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 5ab81a3d790a7db68f2c044406880660 Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Control and Apathy in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14021/ Thu, 07 Nov 2019 05:22:26 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 ed4f3847403499b1b74ae2c3097ed9ec Leila Sassouni commented on the post, The Power of Names in Establishing Character, on the site Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13954/ Sat, 02 Nov 2019 21:19:47 -0500 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!!

]]> 0 bf721aeff0b869659b939f22f3f50237 Leila Sassouni edited the blog post ‘A Rich Man’s World' in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13952/ Sat, 02 Nov 2019 19:59:14 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 9f3e982f64efd5808877886d3d531f0c Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Mindfulness in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13873/ Thu, 24 Oct 2019 19:48:55 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 97e41ea6a4fc93a874ed8e63fa5708ca Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post The Prevalence of Racism in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13798/ Sun, 20 Oct 2019 01:28:05 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 f1c22ff1c91971d228cc8b5430eeea5e Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Sarcasm as a Tool in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13700/ Sat, 12 Oct 2019 16:50:24 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 fd638a85b09f191b6c1d2df948d401e5 Leila Sassouni edited the blog post Survival and Power in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13625/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 14:41:00 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 85d32c44cd5882144051985c85cd2d2d Leila Sassouni wrote a new blog post Interpretation is in the Eyes of the Individual in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13520/ Thu, 19 Sep 2019 01:55:11 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 bc5523883f07ee7f63ca9c2bb6c31cb1 Leila Sassouni joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13176/ Fri, 30 Aug 2019 18:44:04 -0500 0 b437fdb503aa1ff6c7b119a01cb29ff4 Leila Sassouni joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12975/ Tue, 27 Aug 2019 00:58:46 -0500 0 4025dac097b164538a814cb2e1808d1c Leila Sassouni became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12964/ Mon, 26 Aug 2019 16:25:03 -0500 0