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Ryan Silverstein posted a new page, on the site ParaDigital 1 year, 9 months ago
My journey through college as both a Musical Theater and English major has forced me to learn all sorts of different skills to keep up with the rigorous pace set before me. And as I began brainstorming the form I […]
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Ryan Silverstein posted a new page, on the site ParaDigital 1 year, 9 months ago
Day 1
The unnamed protagonist hears the voice at the start of the day, and begins following it’s instructions. This first video establishes the format and patterns that the later video’s will follow, as well […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post Love, Hate, and Justice through the Earth in the group
American Studies: 2 years, 4 months agoThere have been few books in recent memory that have gotten me to think quite as much as N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy. A grand fantasy tale involving its own form of magic in various forms as well as f […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post Geology’s Influence on Powerlessness and Power in the group
American Studies: 2 years, 6 months agoThe name of the continent that the story of The Fifth Season takes place on is, as the author N. K. Jemisin admits at the beginning of the book, quite ironic. It is the title of a land that is constantly barraged […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post The Choice to Notice in the group
American Studies: 2 years, 8 months agoThe mindset I had when approaching this class this semester was that I had a solid understanding of how to connect texts. I had worked on essays in other classes where I had to draw connections between […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post Goal Setting Essay: The Awareness of Yourself and Others in the group
American Studies: 2 years, 11 months agoThe course epigraph, a quote by Dionne Brand, says “My job is to notice… and to notice that you can notice,”. The first thing that came to my mind after reading this quote a few times was a sense of aware […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post If I Am Not Myself Today, Then Who Am I? English 203 Final Reflective Essay in the group
Reader and Text: 4 years, 9 months agoI’ve had an interest in English for quite some time, and I credit that to my teachers in high school. I was constantly encouraged by them to write creatively and find my own writing style, and I was usually p […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post Symbiosis of Opinions and Claims in the group
Reader and Text: 4 years, 9 months agoDuring one of the sessions in English class where I worked on a blog post with a group, I was given a sheet to reflect on how well I felt I was doing, along with where my strengths and weaknesses in the writing […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post Hiding Pain With Comedy in the group
Reader and Text: 4 years, 9 months agoWhen I started reading Percival Everett’s I Am Not Sidney Poitier, the first thing I thought was that the book was funny. It had a certain charm to it that was way different from what I had expected that I w […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post Necessary Compromises in the group
Reader and Text: 4 years, 9 months agoFor one of the blog posts that we worked on in English class, I worked with a group in order to examine a movie, Lilies of the Field, and a story that borrows elements of its plot, I Am Not Sidney Poitier, and […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post Allusions Within New Critical Works in the group
Reader and Text: 4 years, 9 months agoIn one of the discussions we had in English class, the issue of the allusions came up. We had been talking about the idea of common knowledge, and how the definition of common knowledge is different for everyone, […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post The Immortality of Seven in the group
Reader and Text: 4 years, 9 months agoIn Percival Everett’s “re:f (gesture)”, there is a section of poems titled “Logic”, which contains a series of poems that are seemingly unrelated. However, one of the poems that caught the eye of my group was […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post The Importance of Erasing the Rift in the group
Reader and Text: 4 years, 10 months agoPercival Everett’s “Body” intervenes in the kind of disciplinary tension that Joe Moran outlines in “Science, Space and Nature.” More specifically, the poems may be understood as arguing that it is essential […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post The Randomness of Ted Turner in the group
Reader and Text: 4 years, 10 months agoOne of the books I read in English class was I Am Not Sidney Poiter, a book by Percival Everett about the strange life of a boy named Not Sydney Poiter. One of the most standout characters in the novel was a […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post The Power of Names in Establishing Character in the group
Reader and Text: 4 years, 10 months agoBy: Cole Barber, Hailey Schiller, Ryan Silverstein, Sarah Ramsaroop, and Ashley Kupiec
Lilies of the Field, a 1963 film starring Sidney Poitier, tells the story of Homer Smith and his interaction with a group […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post The Difference in Mediums in the group
Reader and Text: 4 years, 11 months agoRecently, in my English class, I read two different stories about the same subject matter, these stories being the play The Bacchae by Athenian philosopher Euripedes and and the book Frenzy by Percival Everett. […]
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Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post Embracing Absurdity in the group
Reader and Text: 5 years agoThe interesting thing about irony for me is that real irony is far more sincere than earnestness. To accept the absurdity of a situation is to accept the humanness of it. Utter sincerity suggests a kind of belief […]
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