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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: 6 years, 5 months 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
novels seem considerably different, especially in the writing styles of […]
Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post Identity Intertwined with Liquidity in the group American Studies: 6 years, 6 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 […]
Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post Awareness and Responsibility: Final Reflective Essay in the group American Studies: 7 years, 3 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 […]
Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post Fly on a Wall in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 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 […]
Ian Oxman edited the blog post Faith, Doubt, and the Big Machine in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 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 […]
Ian Oxman edited the blog post Bloodchild: Master to Slave or Partner to Partner? in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 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 […]
Ian Oxman edited the blog post The Face of Goodness May Surprise You in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 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:
“Go and tell someone the worst thing about yourself. C […]
Ian Oxman edited the blog post The Hero’s Journey in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 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 […]
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: 7 years, 4 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 […]
Ian Oxman wrote a new blog post For Gus (thank you for cleaning our suite sophomore year) in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 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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