English @ SUNY Geneseo | robph | Group Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/robph/activity/groups/ Public group activity feed of which robph is a member. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 a1e2d78b83d6cc7937e299b8d622ed00 Lily Scobbo joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/17094/ Wed, 25 Sep 2024 03:41:05 -0500 0 619257e31488f037ca8632cb3422c17e Victoria Slade joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16736/ Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:43:09 -0500 0 c328ba8e82162976482fdbac44a14cd7 Chloe Dion joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16692/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 22:05:03 -0500 0 e41cb9516aabd8506adebf9efd290be0 Ashley Tubbs joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16681/ Mon, 22 Jan 2024 16:17:04 -0500 0 d4774f6a74172894d55457da8f379cdb Emma Pozak wrote a new blog post Final English 203 Essay in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16270/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 23:54:34 -0500 Throughout our course this semester we have read different works of literature and learned how to comprehend them on our own. At the beginning of the semester, we had help understanding what we were reading. […]

]]> 0 f2161413f6d2889726332f63009e7e49 Nina Avallone-Serra wrote a new blog post ENGL 203 Final Essay: Dimensions in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16269/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 05:31:44 -0500 By Nina Avallone-Serra

“It’s incredible that a sentence is ever understood. Mere sounds strung together by some agent attempting to mean something, but the meaning need not and does not con […]

]]> 0 3f9d29b88b69b3add6ffdc177b859ab5 Isabelle Hoff joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16267/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 03:51:14 -0500 0 a17d614464535963ccee0328f3738d36 HANNAH PHILGENCE edited the blog post I Am Who I Choose to Be in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16266/ Wed, 21 Dec 2022 02:16:39 -0500 “It’s incredible that a sentence is ever understood. Mere sounds strung together by some agent attempting to mean something, but the meaning need not and does not confine itself to that intention.”–Percival Eve […]

]]> 0 0f4bcd473957d90613ca69f416a68fde Amber Ellis wrote a new blog post Road to Self-Acceptance in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16265/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:04:56 -0500 Through college and the courses that I am enrolled to take I have come to confront myself as a person. Specifically, in Dr. McCoy’s class, I’ve learned to think about my work ethic and what I contribute to a cla […]

]]> 0 ff273f6de1f8d3de1d90d73c1a28bc80 Hanna Proaper wrote a new blog post Epigraph 4 in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16263/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 19:48:18 -0500 Looking at the different course epigraphs Professor Mcoy has given us, I decided to choose the fourth epigraph. I chose this epigraph because I felt I related to it the most out of all the course epigraphs at […]

]]> 0 c7cc56c58bd0b84a493bb066fe9aa158 Jordan Wilson wrote a new blog post Interpretation in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16262/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 19:46:20 -0500 In English 203, I learned about interpretation. Coming from a previous STEM major, there were often many ways to find a solution, but it was important that all students arrive at the same conclusion. When I first […]

]]> 0 bf4d64f7b48b720a7b60568538b2d262 Brian Malgieri wrote a new blog post The Infinite Scalability of Seemingly Waisted Lines in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16261/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 17:43:15 -0500 Back in September, a lifetime away, our class was assigned an exercise where I chose to discuss the Suspicious Pants tweet.  My initial thoughts on the inclusion of personified pants as a course epigraph was […]

]]> 0 51794c0da7192f62b53e4cfb32ff12b2 Leah Harper wrote a new blog post A Journey to Intertextuality in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16260/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 17:38:00 -0500 Intertextuality: The condition of interconnectedness among texts, or the concept that any text is an amalgam of others, either because it exhibits signs of influence or because its language inevitably contains […]

]]> 0 e462aff2780b54bb837f34244517c16f Jordyn Stinar wrote a new blog post We Grow Together in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16259/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 17:13:10 -0500 Like most people I went into the semester with excitement, and with excitement there is always just a little bit of fear. The exciting thing is not knowing what is to come, which also happens to be the scary […]

]]> 0 c7af06929440f155fdb4a6ea5bcccb45 Myah Dombroski wrote a new blog post Myah Dombroski-ENGL 203: Final Self Reflective Essay in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16257/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 04:22:06 -0500 Throughout my previous education experiences, I’ve always felt a pressure to choose, not what opinion or idea I have, or write how I felt comfortable writing it, but what the teachers wanted to hear or expected […]

]]> 0 55a4858ddcf3062e424450dd8656d653 Amanda Hibbard wrote a new blog post Self Discovery Through English in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16256/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 03:58:10 -0500 Before starting this class, I was very nervous because I expected the course to be packed with reading books and writing papers about the books we read. I assumed that we would be writing papers due to the fact […]

]]> 0 89e57f472597eb42ea4f79912ec17c50 Alissa French wrote a new blog post The Journey Of Self Discovery in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16255/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 03:15:01 -0500 “Thank you,” I said. “I came back to this place to find something, to connect with something lost, to reunite, if not with my whole self, then with a piece of it. What I’ve discovered is that this thing i […]

]]> 0 9d53ad9573c7d26ed62f314a71665ffd Allison Tober wrote a new blog post It's Incredible That an English Course is Ever Understood in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16254/ Tue, 20 Dec 2022 03:03:35 -0500 This semester in Dr. McCoy’s English 203 course we discussed a variety of Percival Everett texts, including Frenzy, I am Not Sidney Poitier, and re:f (gesture). At the start of this semester, during the t […]

]]> 0 87f28781d0a5aefcf2fdfc4927f03d65 Brianna Donahue wrote a new blog post Reflecting on Changing Perspective in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16252/ Mon, 19 Dec 2022 19:31:16 -0500 At the beginning of the semester we were learning many new terms from The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms, one of them being the word epigraph. Within the text it defines the word epigraph […]

]]> 0 67f994bdfd78ae736dacfb85b95a754d Kevin Malone wrote a new blog post Final Self-Reflective Essay. Epigraphs and Learning in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16251/ Mon, 19 Dec 2022 02:43:04 -0500 “Thank you,” I said. “I came back to this place to find something, to connect with something lost, to reunite if not with my whole self, then with a piece of it. What I’ve discovered is that this thing is not her […]

]]> 0 d8e8b0f31496c3bf5c3c8e0c7484a513 Hannah Myers wrote a new blog post The Complexity of Understanding - Final Essay in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16238/ Thu, 15 Dec 2022 20:57:43 -0500 Perspective is constantly changing. When the semester first began I had written about Irony in my essay called Epigraph Essay. I believe that I had first interpreted the epigraph I had chosen as “Words are w […]

]]> 0 ab041451f6a58b090d043deee87a83ff Natalie Houston wrote a new blog post Final Essay- Natalie Houston in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16233/ Wed, 14 Dec 2022 22:30:14 -0500 Natalie Ann Houston

Professor McCoy

20 December 2022

ENG 203-03

“It’s incredible that a sentence is ever understood. Mere sounds strung together by some agent attempting to mean something, but the mea […]

]]> 0 13c46a43003d3144dd6807d9231e7f9a Maddie Bigelow wrote a new blog post Self Reflection Essay in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16218/ Wed, 14 Dec 2022 18:04:43 -0500 Throughout the course, I have found the epigraph that best aided me in the assignments throughout the coure was the suspicious pants. The feeling I had towards that task carried through most of the reading […]

]]> 0 e118b2000cd6bb68acb6a67c9b18ec34 Ryan Trebing joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16215/ Wed, 14 Dec 2022 02:53:23 -0500 0 31b6eecde851026ee4ac05a2b9df58bd Olivia Ells wrote a new blog post Reflecting on the Semester- Olivia Ells in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16203/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 21:40:13 -0500 “It’s incredible that a sentence is ever understood. Mere sounds strung together by some agent attempting to mean something, but the meaning need not and does not confine itself to that intention.”–Percival Eve […]

]]> 0 a62a468cace781422022665b498de198 Annie Urig joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16201/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 19:51:08 -0500 0 8e1fe928efce16fe5b229b81ab1e4346 Nicole Barnes wrote a new blog post A sentence is Never Truly Understood. -By Nicole Barnes in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16197/ Tue, 13 Dec 2022 01:14:59 -0500 English 203 has truly challenged me. Through mental blocks and failure as well as lightbulbs illuminating throughout my brain, this course has felt similar to Not Sidney’s life journey from I am Not Sidney P […]

]]> 0 ef9926a8fa6c8acafd971397fbf4d5e1 Heirut Miller wrote a new blog post Final Self-Reflective Essay in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16194/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 22:36:21 -0500 “It’s incredible that a sentence is ever understood. Mere sounds strung together by some agent attempting to mean something, but the meaning need not and does not confine itself to that intention.”– Percival Eve […]

]]> 0 df7fadbcdbfb253768225b07689841ce Cameron Kramer wrote a new blog post Cameron Kramer in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16193/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:58:25 -0500                                              “ A Change in ThinkING”

I started off the beginning of the semester writing about how this course related to the epigraph “the Suspicious Pants”. […]

]]> 0 c4f3943098589ddea8499d5b1656e9b1 Caitlin Crowe wrote a new blog post Did I Look More Closely Still? in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16192/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:54:07 -0500 For our first major assignment in this course, I wrote an essay titled “Looking More Closely Still”. In this essay, I focused on the Suspicious Pants tweet epigraph, which we examined in class during its fir […]

]]> 0 563e4d41339ca1d2392e83e057ac2a08 Mackenzie Gillen wrote a new blog post Final Self-Reflective Essay in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16191/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:15:28 -0500 Mackenzie Gillen

This semester was my very first college semester, and I did not know what to expect. When I first learned that this class was all about the 2008 housing crisis, I thought how could a whole […]

]]> 0 9b448f71da4461ce3995d5005efb3aaa Hannah Myers wrote a new blog post Nunsense in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16188/ Sun, 11 Dec 2022 01:31:11 -0500 Hannah Myers, Nicole Barnes, Jordan Wilson, Maddie Bigelow, Olive Niccoli, Myah Dombroski, Hanna Proaper

When trying to find meaning out of nonsense, it has become ironic that our group’s journey has looked […]

]]> 0 882599b01ca93cf630ba2b4a0e354b8f HANNAH PHILGENCE wrote a new blog post My Name and My Identity in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16129/ Tue, 22 Nov 2022 22:52:30 -0500 Leah Harper, Emma Griffin, Hannah Philgence, Emma Pozak, Amanda Hibbard 

I am Not Sidney Poitier, written by Percival Everett, is a novel that serves the purpose of putting a comedic twist on films starring […]

]]> 0 96b453746000325a34784c5d100038cb Olivia Ells wrote a new blog post Identity and Interpretation in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16127/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:40:47 -0500 Brianna Donahue, Olivia Ells, Natalie Houston, Alissa French, Jordyn Stinar, Cameron Kramer

In Lilies of the Field, The actor Sidney Poiter plays the character Homer Smith. Homer Smith was a very intense and […]

]]> 0 95b105f6555eef6c6ceb07d164e2c290 Heirut Miller wrote a new blog post Confidence With Identity: I Absolutely Am Not in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16126/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 20:26:42 -0500 Brian Malgieri, Allison Tober, Nina Avallone-Serra, Kevin Malone, Heirut Miller, Caitlin Crowe, Amber Ellis

Lilies of the Field is a 1963 film starring Sidney Poitier as Homer Smith, a down on his luck […]

]]> 0 74d9a7d5e8f84b33714d6d3bd7de87c6 Mairead Wilsch joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16103/ Mon, 14 Nov 2022 17:48:10 -0500 0 06607363fa011d9706524b66f46a6a00 Jordan Wilson wrote a new blog post Irony in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16042/ Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:17:32 -0500 According to Oxford reference, irony is defined as the “expression of one’s intended meaning through language which, when taken literally, appears on the surface to express the opposite”. Percival Everett wro […]

]]> 0 e1f22d40c7701ff54b4a0d666e0514a4 Nicholas Parks joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16037/ Sun, 25 Sep 2022 20:24:03 -0500 1 1e3b6877b96e73f1fa2df07291938d48 Hanna Proaper wrote a new blog post Essay 1 in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16024/ Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:18:13 -0500 Hanna Proaper 

For this essay, I’ve selected the epigraph “I am not Sidney Poitier” written by Percival Everett. This epigraph talks about returning to a place to try to find something to reconnect with, […]

]]> 0 7aa81aff54163e086b22e8ab3e4def7e Hanna Proaper joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16022/ Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:02:43 -0500 0 99e070827dad9b90aed6f704623f42c1 Maddie Bigelow wrote a new blog post Essay 1, Maddie Bigelow in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16020/ Mon, 19 Sep 2022 03:43:11 -0500 The tweet, “Suspicious Pants” can be perceived in many ways. For me, it didn’t get me thinking. When I was told to delve deeper into what the image was showing us all I saw was a pair of pants draped over the […]

]]> 0 e56c8af429b8d7be519dc15293fe25c2 Nina Avallone-Serra wrote a new blog post Dictionaries & Dionysus in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16016/ Sat, 17 Sep 2022 03:46:55 -0500 Nina Avallone-Serra

Within the first few lines of the Bacchae I was immediately brought back to my first reading of the syllabus. Specifically, Percival Everett’s short but sweet quote, “It’s incre […]

]]> 0 cdbfe25d12a403489ceb7ba89fe4e6ad Brian Malgieri edited the blog post Suspicious Pants and Greek Gods in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16015/ Sat, 17 Sep 2022 02:33:33 -0500 It’s hard to believe an expansion of one’s mind would come from a pair of pants. Maybe it’s altruistic revenge for an expanding waistline. When I first saw the Suspicious Pants tweet on Dr. McCoy’s syllabus, I […]

]]> 0 425a60d096c9b170e5a02d274fb4e298 Leah Harper wrote a new blog post Light the Fire in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16014/ Sat, 17 Sep 2022 02:20:06 -0500 There are a million parts of myself that I have had to leave behind, just like everyone else. Parts that I wish I was able to bring with me to hold dear, but although incredibly unfortunate, that’s not how the […]

]]> 0 a4c1141a1a1f181c3e1d32a29d30fed4 Alissa French edited the blog post An Exploration of the Insights of Interpersonality in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16013/ Sat, 17 Sep 2022 02:11:40 -0500 As a young child, there were many things I was unsure of, but one thing that I was certain of was who I was. It’s hard to believe that a seven year old would have a good sense of self, but compared to the other c […]

]]> 0 b1ddf7563223c2437a95dcf706c4f5b4 Hannah Myers wrote a new blog post Epigraph Essay in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16012/ Sat, 17 Sep 2022 00:43:33 -0500 An epigraph can have many definitions. The definition used in this writing is from The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms. “A passage printed on the title page or first page of a literary work or a […]

]]> 0 b355e08b17b33a9b169425a7fc4fb350 Amber Ellis edited the blog post Essay 1 in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16011/ Fri, 16 Sep 2022 23:47:06 -0500 “It’s incredible that a sentence is ever understood. Mere sounds strung together by some agent attempting to mean some thing, but the meaning need not and does not confine itself to that intention.” Per […]

]]> 0 271dff506f2af3f2b588070911c45e93 Kevin Malone wrote a new blog post Learning How to Think in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16010/ Fri, 16 Sep 2022 23:34:35 -0500 In our first few weeks of classes we’ve already learned a lot. We learned how to think and how to learn. This might sound like pretty basic stuff, but it’s actually critically important to not just this cou […]

]]> 0 f70c478a13acabfc1b87029eacc5900e Myah Dombroski wrote a new blog post Essay 1 in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16009/ Fri, 16 Sep 2022 22:23:10 -0500 When I walked into class on Wednesday (09/14/22),  I was so frustrated with myself that I could have cried. I was very confused, I had no idea what to write about and this normally doesn’t happen to me. Thoughts […]

]]> 0 0003093f8fc6797c8fa1e16c13505705 Cameron Kramer wrote a new blog post essay 1 in the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/16008/ Fri, 16 Sep 2022 22:21:34 -0500 Cameron Kramer 

English 203-03

Beth Mccoy

September 15,2022

       When looking at the epigraphs the suspicious pants really got me thinking about how people perceive things. The word perceiv […]

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