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Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post How The Big Short and The Turner House Work Together in the group American Studies: 4 years, 1 month ago
The Turner House and
The Big Short work well together to
give us as a class a holistic view of the 2008 recession. Initially, both
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Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post Identity Intertwined with Liquidity in the group American Studies: 4 years, 2 months ago
The concepts of identity and liquidity intertwine between the character’s relationships in Shakespeare’s King Lear. Lear conflates his daughter’s love with inheritance in the first act of the play, Edmun […]
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Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post Awareness and Responsibility: Final Reflective Essay in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
To me, Dionne Brand’s epigraph “my job is to notice… and to notice that you can notice” speaks about how actively we must listen and pay attention, both in school and in life. Beyond that, we should use what we […]
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Ian Oxman replied to the topic Cultural Implications in The Thing (1982) in the forum Film Talk 4 years, 11 months ago
After discussing the potential political message behind Carpenter’s The Thing in class yesterday, it made me think of a particular scene that plays well into the Cold War allusions pointed out by Alison. I’m talking about the scene where they find the bags of blood tampered with, causing them to lose faith in the current station chief Garry. T…[Read more]
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Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post Fly on a Wall in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
Fly on a Wall film making refers to a style of shooting in which the camera crew is as unobtrusive as possible. The people who are filmed are real people, not actors, and the situations they are put in are also […]
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Ian Oxman edited the blog post Faith, Doubt, and the Big Machine in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
Yesterday in class when discussing in groups some of the ways Big Machine connected to large course themes, Andrew Weber brought up an interesting point about the concept of doubt. For me, doubt and faith have […]
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Ian Oxman edited the blog post Bloodchild: Master to Slave or Partner to Partner? in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
After reading Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild and the afterword, controversy was sparked in class over Butler’s dismissal of the reading of her sci-fi short story as alluding to slavery. As I recall, there were a few […]
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Ian Oxman edited the blog post The Face of Goodness May Surprise You in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
In class discussion yesterday, Maria Papas brought up this passage from Big Machine to support her argument that the book does not glorify substance abuse:
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Ian Oxman edited the blog post The Hero’s Journey in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
I’m currently taking American Visions: The Hero in Film with Professor Gillin. In this class we discussed the classic hero structure presented in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces. This book ana […]
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Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post The Theme of Outcasts in African American Literature and Societal Views on Persons with Disabilities in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
Our society rarely recognizes how negatively we view those who are different from us. This motif is rampant in Big Machine as well as present in other works we’ve read throughout the class like “Bloodchild”. We c […]
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Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post For Gus (thank you for cleaning our suite sophomore year) in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
Right now I’m sitting in Newton 213 frantically attempting to finish these blog posts that I so irresponsibly left to the last minute (classic, I beg forgiveness) as maintenance workers mop the floor around me and […]
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Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post Possession, Interpretation, and Octavia Butler’s Bloodchild in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
With the development of Ricky Rice’s pregnancy in LaValle’s Big Machine, I thought it the perfect moment to reflect on one of my favorite readings from this semester, Butler’s sci-fi short story “Bloodchild”. If […]
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Ian Oxman started the topic Deliverance and the genre of Film Adaptations in the forum Film Talk 5 years, 1 month ago
It often seems that films based on novels rarely live up to the expectations set by their inspired work. Even the best film adaptations still feel like they miss out on something. This is not to say that one medium of storytelling is worse than the other, just that each medium has its strengths and shortcomings. Along with the pressure of…[Read more]
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Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post Circles on Circles on Circles in the group American Studies: 5 years, 2 months ago
This class will definitely be the most rigorous English course I have taken to date my college career, and as I move towards the culmination of my academia, graduation, I feel encouraged to look behind and c […]
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Ian Oxman joined the group Film Talk 5 years, 2 months ago
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Ian Oxman joined the group American Studies 5 years, 2 months ago
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Ian Oxman became a registered member 5 years, 2 months ago