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    Ryan Silverstein wrote a new blog post Love, Hate, and Justice through the Earth in the group Group logo of American StudiesAmerican Studies: 8 months, 2 weeks ago

    There 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 Group logo of American StudiesAmerican Studies: 11 months ago

    The 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 Group logo of American StudiesAmerican Studies: 1 year, 1 month ago

    The 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 Group logo of American StudiesAmerican Studies: 1 year, 3 months ago

    The 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 Group logo of Reader and TextReader and Text: 3 years, 1 month ago

    I’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 Group logo of Reader and TextReader and Text: 3 years, 1 month ago

    During 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 Group logo of Reader and TextReader and Text: 3 years, 1 month ago

    When 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 Group logo of Reader and TextReader and Text: 3 years, 1 month ago

    For 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 Group logo of Reader and TextReader and Text: 3 years, 2 months ago

    In 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 Group logo of Reader and TextReader and Text: 3 years, 2 months ago

    In 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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