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Denis Hartnett commented on the post, Coming To Terms With An Unconventional Narrator, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 1 month agoHello! I’ve been thinking about this and how I felt reading the trilogy. In the end I think it was closer to platonic but much deeper than that. In Essun Hoa found a kindred spirit, they understood each other. […]
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Corinne Scanlon wrote a new blog post Deconstructing my own Expectations in the group
American Studies: 1 month, 1 week agoI really struggled last semester—and am still struggling—with deconstructing my own expectations of myself. I cannot expect myself to be the same person I was a year ago, a month ago, or even a week ago. Whe […]
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Sydney Bosworth wrote a new blog post Spirituality, Transformation, and Destruction: Octavia Butler’s Human Contradiction in the group
American Studies: 1 month, 3 weeks agoSince moving from home, beginning college, and gaining independence, I have become an increasingly spiritual person. For me, this involved both extensive introspection and contemplation of ideas bigger than […]
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Sydney Bosworth wrote a new blog post Sydney Bosworth on the Interdependence of Change, Learning, and Violence in the group
American Studies: 2 months, 3 weeks agoWhen I first heard the phrase “Learn and Run!”, my immediate train of thought led me to images of guidance counselor posters featuring books and smiling children. In Octavia Butler’s Dawn, however, I was impac […]
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Amina Diakite wrote a new blog post Butler Based Q&A in the group
American Studies: 3 months, 3 weeks agoHow have you developed and deepened your habits of thinkING this semester? And how are you now moving on as an “independent life” free from the constraints of the Octavia Butler&Social Ties course?
At the […]
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Joshua Rogers edited the blog post Change and Challenge: 2020 as a Challenge to Change in the group
American Studies: 3 months, 3 weeks ago2020 has unquestionably been a year of immense change for both our nation and the world at large, so it is appropriate that this semester I discovered Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis trilogy, which features change a […]
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Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post The Omnipresence of Contradiction in the group
American Studies: 3 months, 3 weeks agoI’d say that the main way that my own thinkING habits have evolved over the course of this semester is to recognize how wildly different people’s interpretations of the same events and/or texts can be. One of my […]
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Artressia Chapman wrote a new blog post What brings everyone together? in the group
American Studies: 3 months, 3 weeks agoFrom the time that I spent in the discussions, I was getting help to develop and to deepen my way of thinking. I do and still, get a little bit twisted on the thinking part due to the reason that my analysis […]
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H. Schiller wrote a new blog post Higher Than Hierarchy in the group
American Studies: 3 months, 3 weeks agoBeing a person is confusing. Octavia Butler does not hide that within her Xenogenesis trilogy. Oankali society is in a perpetual state of “trade” (Womb 5.) Throughout the trilogy, Oankali-human society is dras […]
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Cameron Luquer wrote a new blog post Showing Proper Care Towards Black Americans Through Self Examination and Call for Reparations in the group
American Studies: 3 months, 3 weeks agoAs I move away from this course towards an “independent life,” I feel as though I have the tools to apply thinkING to various other aspects of my life, specifically in order to be a responsible citizen that eff […]
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Alyssa Harrington wrote a new blog post ENGL 431: Reflective Essay in the group
American Studies: 3 months, 3 weeks agoThroughout the entirety of this semester the one person who made me begin to think about a lot of situations differently was Octavia Butler. Butler continued to amaze me throughout the semester since she made me […]
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Yadelin Fernandez wrote a new blog post Bringing Us Together Through/In Texts in the group
American Studies: 3 months, 3 weeks agoWatching Parables In Iteration: A Closer Look At Octavia Butler, helps answer how I have developed and deepened my habits of thinkING this semester and move on as “independent life” free from the constraints of […]
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Christian Roth wrote a new blog post ENGL 431 Final Reflective Essay: Slowing Down, ThinkING for and About a Better World in the group
American Studies: 3 months, 3 weeks agoOne of the major course concepts that is new to me and I know many of my peers is the rebranding and new meaning of what we know as thinking. Thinking or the more appropriate way to write this word in this […]
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Walter Paskoff wrote a new blog post Self-Isolation and Self-Discovery:Giving the Similarities Between Care and Harm a Positive Spin. in the group
American Studies: 3 months, 3 weeks agoIf my goal is to inform you, I would be wasting all of our time telling you this semester has been different. Not different like the transition from freshman fall to freshman spring, when you gain the […]
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Katey Church commented on the post, The Intent of Care or Harm, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 3 months, 3 weeks agoHi Sophie! I have really enjoyed getting to know you through this virtual forum each week, both in the discussion posts and the Zooms.
I admire your brave questioning in this essay, and especially, how you […]
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Katey Church commented on the post, Adapting to the Unfamiliar, on the groupblog
(Im)Possibilities 3 months, 3 weeks agoHi Sophie!
I have loved reading each of your “moves” for this final essay, and it was just remarkable seeing it all come together. I loved how you wove so many Forums! discussions into this culminating final […]
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Katey Church wrote a new blog post Changing Myself Through Changing My View of Others: Running Towards Independent Life in the group
American Studies: 3 months, 3 weeks agoHow do you view others? Are you conscious of how you judge the actions of someone you don’t know, especially someone who looks different from you? I think we would all like to think we view everyone the same, th […]
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Julia Yakowyna wrote a new blog post Final Self-Reflective Essay in the group
American Studies: 3 months, 3 weeks ago“I chose a spot near the river. There I prepared the seed to go into the ground. I gave it a thick, nutritious coating, then brought it out of my body through my right sensory hand. I planted it deep in the r […]
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Olivia Brown wrote a new blog post Final Self-Reflective Essay in the group
American Studies: 3 months, 3 weeks agoThroughout this semester, I have had a lot of time to self-reflect. How do I focus on key course concepts and relate them to the real world? What brings and binds people together? How have I developed my habits […]
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