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Sarah Bracy commented on the post, Chapter 40, on the groupblog Marginalia 4 years, 5 months ago
Pip’s lack of insight as to why Abel carries around the Testament makes me wonder about the deeper-rooted reasons Abel may have been carrying around this little black book for so long. While we know fairly little […]
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Sarah Bracy edited the blog post Abel Magwitch: Infidel to Agnostic in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 5 months ago
Abel Magwitch is likely not the first person, real or fictional, who would come to mind when contemplating religion; however, while Abel had a difficult childhood, he still strives to follow some type of moral […]
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Sarah Bracy commented on the post, Darwin, On the Origin of Species, on the groupblog Marginalia 4 years, 6 months ago
Darwin’s talk of progenitors prompted me to think about some of the most recent lectures in my heredity class this semester on progenitor cells, stem cells, and stem cell research. Darwin’s definition of […]
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Sarah Bracy wrote a new blog post Children Robbed of Childhood in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 6 months ago
Upon finishing Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, I thought of the poem “The Cry of the Children”, by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Browning’s poem focuses on child labor, and the children she writes of are robbed […]
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Sarah Bracy wrote a new blog post “Infanticism and Sadism in ‘Wuthering Heights'” in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 6 months ago
The article “Infanticide and Sadism in ‘Wuthering Heights'”, by Wade Thompson, claims that the love that Catherine feels for Heathcliff is not the normal storybook romance. She loved him as a child, but it does […]
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Sarah Bracy edited the blog post Gender’s Double Standard Throughout “Wuthering Heights” in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 6 months ago
A recurring theme in Wuthering Heights is the way in which the speaker frames differences in gender, as well as the standard for each gender that characters are expected to meet. Catherine is looked kindly upon […]
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Sarah Bracy wrote a new blog post What I Hope to Learn About Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 7 months ago
When I originally added this course, it was in a bit of a panic because I was enrolled in another course that fit poorly into my schedule. Towards the end of add/drop week, upon noticing there was only one spot […]
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Sarah Bracy replied to the topic Favorite work of Victorian literature in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies 4 years, 7 months ago
I mean, I like Alice in Wonderland, but I don’t know if I necessarily have a favorite piece of Victorian literature. I also don’t quite know what exactly classifies as Victorian literature.
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Sarah Bracy joined the group Marginalia 4 years, 7 months ago
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Sarah Bracy joined the group Nineteenth-Century Studies 4 years, 7 months ago
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Sarah Bracy wrote a new blog post Finding My Way Through My Through Line in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
I wish I could say that when I posted all of my blog posts in one day this semester (including a few several days past the deadline), it was the first time. I wish I could say with confidence that I know I will […]
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Sarah Bracy edited the blog post Overcoming Symbolism in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
During Dr. Kim Vaz-Deville’s lecture last month, and during the breakfast myself and my colleagues shared with her the morning after her talk, we spoke a lot about the Baby Dolls, including their origins, and […]
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Sarah Bracy edited the blog post Show, Don’t Tell in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
Towards the beginning of the semester, Dr. Joe Cope began our class period by passing out small pieces of fairly thick paper, and told us we should use them to create art cards. More formally known as artist […]
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Sarah Bracy edited the blog post Combining Communities in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
During one class this semester, we were given directions to ask each other about a term or a concept on which we would like some clarification. Within my small group, I asked about the term “both/and” since I feel […]
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Sarah Bracy wrote a new blog post The Permanent Collection in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
A few months ago, our class had the pleasure of visiting Dr. Cynthia Hawkins-Owen in the Bertha V.B. Lederer Gallery where she was able to give us a more comprehensive description and deeper understanding of […]
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Sarah Bracy edited the blog post The Significance of Language in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
In early April, Dr. Catherine Adams led our class discussion with a dialogue grounded in the current local news at the time, most notably the blackface incident, the many ensuing letters published by the Lamron, […]
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Sarah Bracy wrote a new blog post Living in Precarity in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
One of the courses I am taking this semester is entitled Precarity: The Deplorable and Invisible, taught by Dr. Elaine Cleeton and Dr. Michael Restivo (in Dr. Cleeton’s absence). A main focus of the course is how […]
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Sarah Bracy edited the blog post Perspective and Light Rays in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
Weeks ago, during a fit of furious note taking, I quickly jotted down the phrases “sun trail” and “light rays” in the margin of my physics notebook, accompanied by a terrible sketch of a moon (I don’t know why it […]
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Sarah Bracy edited the blog post The Both/And of Expression Through Face and Body Language in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago
During one of our class periods back in March (I know, it’s a throwback) led by Teaching Assistants Sabrina, Anderson, and Katie, my peers and I participated in the Sculptor/Clay exercise. As Katie led our […]
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Sarah Bracy edited the blog post ThinkING Aloud in the group American Studies: 5 years, 2 months ago
Last week, Dr. Beth McCoy asked our class to share our first impressions of the course in small groups. I said that initially, I was just astounded that Steve Prince was coming to Geneseo at all, because I didn’t […]
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