English @ SUNY Geneseo | Melissa Maliniak | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/melissamaliniak/activity/ Activity feed for Melissa Maliniak. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 b53fd6f93ca0a11685d9d4abf598b025 Melissa Maliniak wrote a new blog post Forced Trust in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15111/ Sat, 11 Apr 2020 20:40:38 -0500 In October 2018, I signed my first lease. It consisted of five-ish pages and very small font. It also included terms I didn’t know and things I have yet to comprehend. I also knew already that the landlord had a […]

]]> 0 342d90b3533712007d9d7f79b8bf2be3 Melissa Maliniak wrote a new blog post What’s the Difference Between a $1 Chip and a $100 Chip? The Risk Factor in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/15061/ Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:30:50 -0500 The Big Short describes the 2008 stock market crash from the points of view of those who work on and around Wall Street. Michael Lewis, the author, tells the stories of multiple people in the industry such as […]

]]> 0 9c78a70b5f9ec9f0fcb747849c025424 Melissa Maliniak wrote a new blog post King Lear's Detrimental Swap in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14943/ Sat, 15 Feb 2020 22:00:03 -0500 Economic terms are not just for
Wall Street bankers. Every day, in one form or another, we participate in economic
transactions. There is so much complex jargon that accompanies these
transactions, yet three […]

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]]> 0 df3615f9c24baffe59625850b79bca1a Melissa Maliniak edited the blog post On a Need-to-Know Basis in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12311/ Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:14:02 -0500 I have never been one to excel at technology. The first main piece of technology I ever “owned” was my brother’s Wii (we basically shared it but don’t tell him that). I knew how to turn it on and off, use it, and […]

]]> 0 ba800ced1b4684cb55372cf658681d4b Melissa Maliniak started the topic Group 3 Discussion 2/13 in the forum Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/group-3-discussion-2-13/ Wed, 13 Feb 2019 18:12:17 -0500 How did “shortcuts” evolve over time? For example, sending a telegraph with the message shortened to be cheaper as to us now texting “u” instead of “you?” How have they changed? How have they remained the same?

]]> ddd2c7ae650e7cb62e60cfe31bd175de Melissa Maliniak joined the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12060/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 18:20:45 -0500 0 4f9b3d96fa098101f49ac55d945235f8 Melissa Maliniak started the topic The Unpopular Opinion of "Georgia" in the forum Film Talk http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/the-unpopular-opinion-of-georgia/ Sun, 07 May 2017 15:07:22 -0500 Many people hated Georgia (1995) but I found it unrelentingly honest. Everything about the main character, Sadie, is honest. She at times seems to be able to replicate the honesty of a child. Our first impression of her is in the opening scene, she is curled up in the front seat of a car peacefully sleeping. She never has bad intentions; she just…[Read more]

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