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Jenna Murray wrote a new blog post Academic Partnership: A Balance between Risk and Reward. in the group
Critical Writers: 4 weeks agoOctavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” was the center of our course, INTD-105, which focused on the risks and rewards of an academic partnership. While the novel may not have an obvious, direct link to the risks and rew […]
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Julianna Klimow edited the blog post The Four Essential Building Blocks of Partnership in the group
Critical Writers: 1 month agoThe major theme of this course was based on risks and rewards, and a quote from one of the readings that really represents what this course is all about. “”If we’re not your animals, if these are adult things, a […]
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Wendy Atkin-MApes wrote a new blog post Final Essay in the group
Critical Writers: 1 month agoThroughout life we all have to weigh the risks and rewards of our choices and actions. It can be difficult to make these choices, but as we go through life, we learn the correct tools to help us make the best […]
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Amina Diakite wrote a new blog post Butler Based Q&A in the group
American Studies: 1 month 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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Gianna Algeri wrote a new blog post The risks and rewards in INTD105 in the group
Critical Writers: 1 month agoThroughout this semester, in the class The Risks and Rewards of Academic Partnerships we returned to the main themes of our course epigraph. This epigraph is from the short story “Bloodchild”, written by Oct […]
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Emily Loughlin wrote a new blog post The Risks and Rewards on a College Campus in the group
Critical Writers: 1 month agoThe short story Bloodchild, by Octavia Butler has been a text we return to throughout this semester in the course INTD 105 . In Bloodchild,Octavia Butler wrote, “If we’re not your animals, if these are adult thin […]
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Joshua Rogers edited the blog post Change and Challenge: 2020 as a Challenge to Change in the group
American Studies: 1 month 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: 1 month 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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Mandy Xiang wrote a new blog post The Reward of Risk in the group
Critical Writers: 1 month agoIn the recent class discussions focusing on good faith, bad faith, harm and repair, the short story “Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler reminds readers to connect it all back to the throughline of the INTD 105-04 cou […]
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Megan Greene wrote a new blog post Growth in INTD 105 through risks and rewards in the group
Critical Writers: 1 month agoRisks and rewards are two important elements that play a key part in anyone’s form of life. In the short story “Bloodchild” written by Octavia Butler, she uses the quote “If we’re not your animals, if these are a […]
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Artressia Chapman wrote a new blog post What brings everyone together? in the group
American Studies: 1 month 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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Samantha Kerrigan wrote a new blog post Achieving Success Through Collaborative Risks in the group
Critical Writers: 1 month agoIn Octavia Butler’s story “Bloodchild”, there is a recurring theme of partnership, along with the risks that go along with it. A line that really conveyed this idea was “If we’re not your animals, if these are […]
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Jess Aughenbaugh wrote a new blog post thinkING on Risks and Rewards in the group
Critical Writers: 1 month agoIn Dr. McCoy’s class, we broke down risk and reward in literature as it applies to our own lives. Throughout the semester, I found it difficult to see the big picture, focusing in on small details of each […]
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H. Schiller wrote a new blog post Higher Than Hierarchy in the group
American Studies: 1 month 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: 1 month 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: 1 month 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: 1 month 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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Chester Pergan wrote a new blog post INTD FINAL Essay in the group
Critical Writers: 1 month agoIn the course INTD 105, we learn about the risk and rewards of academic partnership. Within the course we read “Bloodchild” by Octavia E. Butler, which contains an epigraph that provides a throughline for the […]
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Bradley Hall wrote a new blog post Efficient and Expandable Connections Created with the Central Idea of “Risks and Rewards”. in the group
Critical Writers: 1 month agoRisks and rewards. A simple, yet powerful polar phrase in the sense that the two factors given are completely opposite of one another. Author Octavia Butler acknowledges and brings to life these terms that can be […]
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