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Maria Papas edited the blog post Just Another Number in the group American Studies: 4 years ago
When thinking about the housing crisis in 2008, I think about how inhumane and insensitive we must have become as a human race in order to get to the point that it came to. The housing market crash is directly […]
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Maria Papas wrote a new blog post The Importance of a Narrative in the group American Studies: 4 years, 1 month ago
Ever since I was a young girl, I was infatuated with storytelling. I’d beg my parents, my grandparents, my aunts and uncles, anyone who I deemed as “old and wise” to tell me a story, a true story. I think the […]
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Maria Papas edited the blog post History Repeats Itself in the group American Studies: 4 years, 2 months ago
In my Expulsion and the Housing Crisis Course, Dr. McCoy asked our class to play close attention to certain terms while reading, watching, and listening to Shakespeare’s King Lear. These terms are […]
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Maria Papas edited the blog post Use Your Voice…It Matters in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
This semester, I truly feel as though I have grown as a student and an overall member of society. Professor McCoy’s class is more than what the course description says. We read the incredible works of A […]
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Maria Papas edited the blog post Faith and Doubt in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
Growing up in a Greek Orthodox home, religion was and has been a huge part of my life. We did the typical things you would expect of a religious family; go to church every Sunday followed by a brunch with the […]
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Maria Papas wrote a new blog post Judgement: We Are All Guilty in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
This blog post is inspired and in response to Jenna Doolan’s post, “How often do you judge a book by its cover?”. Her post spoke about how at a young age she was told to never judge a book by its cover, however […]
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Maria Papas edited the blog post How Do Institutions Fail You? in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
Throughout the semester, we talked about how institutions fail us, whether it is related to academia or something on a larger scale. This concept came up again on Friday as we were discussing as a group what our […]
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Maria Papas wrote a new blog post Bloodchild vs. Big Machine in the group American Studies: 4 years, 12 months ago
After Friday’s class, I left with so many questions…just like the rest of you. One thing that I left with was how similar Big Machine by Victor LaValle has become to Bloodchild by Octavia Butler. When we r […]
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Maria Papas edited the blog post What Wall Are You On? in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
Leaving home and being forced to play the game of college, I have noticed a lot about my peers and the campus as a whole. The other day, I was having a friendly discussion about the role media plays on our lives; […]
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Maria Papas edited the blog post Bam! Distracted! in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
As I approach the end of the semester, I feel myself becoming overwhelmed with all the things we have due. As the sun comes out and the warmth surrounds us, it is so difficult to stay focused and push through. […]
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Maria Papas wrote a new blog post Half Glass Full…or Half Glass Empty? in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
The concept of recursion has been an ongoing theme in Dr. McCoy’s class. We are consistently going back, cross checking, and returning from where we came from. The first couple weeks of this class, I truly didn’t […]
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Maria Papas wrote a new blog post Dealing With Expectations in the group American Studies: 5 years ago
When I first started to write this blog post, I began with “I have been struggling…” and immediately hated how that sounded. As a student and future teacher, I have decided to never use the word “struggling” […]
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Maria Papas wrote a new blog post The Straddle Never Ends in the group American Studies: 5 years, 2 months ago
Snead said that “we define ourselves by what we say we are not”, meaning we can easily describe our identity by stating the things we don’t associate with ourselves. We tend to do this to define many things, such […]
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Maria Papas joined the group American Studies 5 years, 2 months ago
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Maria Papas became a registered member 5 years, 2 months ago