English @ SUNY Geneseo | Sarah Bracy | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/sjb22/activity/ Activity feed for Sarah Bracy. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 b897646f808b54fe6c06bb2f816bd31e Sarah Bracy commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14006/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 09:05:08 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 a7e6bc1ead11046a839fc242adf9fc64 Sarah Bracy edited the blog post Abel Magwitch: Infidel to Agnostic in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/14007/ Tue, 05 Nov 2019 04:37:54 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 a7d15533f2acb0b3f8d5bb47c3451015 Sarah Bracy commented on the page, on the site Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13686/ Tue, 08 Oct 2019 08:27:17 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 d7308f062d030981a7965b64dbed3a18 Sarah Bracy wrote a new blog post Children Robbed of Childhood in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13631/ Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:57:29 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 012003ce2286177d7df55c23b7dd65ed Sarah Bracy wrote a new blog post "Infanticism and Sadism in 'Wuthering Heights'" in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13572/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 15:37:36 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 fa0ddd1e062900229d50612c4ed0577c Sarah Bracy edited the blog post Gender's Double Standard Throughout "Wuthering Heights" in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13571/ Tue, 24 Sep 2019 01:10:23 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 51b0998ae094b56adc8cabf1a9d6a4a6 Sarah Bracy wrote a new blog post What I Hope to Learn About Victorian Literature in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13632/ Mon, 02 Sep 2019 23:48:20 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 9b07a57021d08a4035912e85422cb499 Sarah Bracy replied to the topic Favorite work of Victorian literature in the forum Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/nineteenth-century-studies/forum/topic/favorite-work-of-victorian-literature/page/2/#post-1438 Thu, 29 Aug 2019 19:11:20 -0500 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.

]]> 1c1ccecb6cd63096b8a49a70587a3c6e Sarah Bracy joined the group Marginalia https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13067/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 18:43:24 -0500 0 34756ad69afdcb0d58d86fe04b98f649 Sarah Bracy joined the group Nineteenth-Century Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/13066/ Thu, 29 Aug 2019 18:43:20 -0500 0 535cf418c4cc427439fbd81c03eae65c Sarah Bracy wrote a new blog post Finding My Way Through My Through Line in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12881/ Thu, 16 May 2019 19:27:44 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 3c58b668c1466f46aa8df43de2b8576f Sarah Bracy edited the blog post Overcoming Symbolism in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12821/ Tue, 07 May 2019 03:55:33 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 3d3be24ed21cfe78857b1478262b64bc Sarah Bracy edited the blog post Show, Don't Tell in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12820/ Tue, 07 May 2019 00:00:49 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 7ef8884c3c1426aa14a1b1915f097536 Sarah Bracy edited the blog post Combining Communities in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12793/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:55:39 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 90e5a4141327fb3b12f012a8b649c3c2 Sarah Bracy wrote a new blog post The Permanent Collection in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12785/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 03:42:26 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 053cd364d3684e80fa10a2bdd20361d1 Sarah Bracy edited the blog post The Significance of Language in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12789/ Sun, 28 Apr 2019 00:27:45 -0500 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, […]

]]> 0 a60dff2bd3f35811998589e5a08ce2b2 Sarah Bracy wrote a new blog post Living in Precarity in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12798/ Sat, 27 Apr 2019 14:23:06 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 bbe28522d5d8a7c1d496bbde1a844d74 Sarah Bracy edited the blog post Perspective and Light Rays in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12791/ Sat, 27 Apr 2019 13:34:00 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 888256cd0cc2ff2808d67bff68b5c6be Sarah Bracy edited the blog post The Both/And of Expression Through Face and Body Language in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12787/ Sat, 27 Apr 2019 07:25:33 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 80ffcb4ec5ba2cd7549603c17886ca21 Sarah Bracy edited the blog post ThinkING Aloud in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12239/ Sun, 10 Feb 2019 03:56:02 -0500 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 […]

]]> 0 dcbe5abcf951d28a86c6685e8368659d Sarah Bracy edited the blog post The Worth of an English Major in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11589/ Wed, 12 Dec 2018 17:28:47 -0500 It is a few months ago, and I am at a frat party watching a rather riveting game of beer pong (just kidding – they’re all the same), when I am pulled into a conversation with a friend of a friend. He int […]

]]> 0 b9ce2551c57fae2e197f6b2b28b226bf Sarah Bracy edited the blog post Don't Judge A Person By Their Name in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11444/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 03:57:21 -0500 In The Stone Sky, the people of Syl Anagist who created the stone eaters, or tuners, at the time, gave each stone eater a name ending in the suffix -wha. Once I noticed this, it got me thinking— what rusting rea […]

]]> 0 87c4c964c3bd49c4df7a85645c3f9502 Sarah Bracy edited the blog post The Planet is Fine in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11443/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 03:53:58 -0500 “When we say ‘the world has ended,’ it’s usually a lie, because the planet is just fine.” -The Fifth Season, N.K. Jemisin
A specialist in tectonics, structural geology, and field mapping, and currently serving a […]

]]> 0 b836044091d54bd574747816ee539b48 Sarah Bracy edited the blog post The Psychological Need to Call Someone "Mom" in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11442/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 03:45:16 -0500 I would like to explore Nassun’s relationship with her three most notable parental figures, first providing my own analysis of why Nassun is not able to stop calling her mother “Mama”, even though she had previ […]

]]> 0 0560d8172c621ea5ff79b88185af13c0 Sarah Bracy edited the blog post Beauty is Pain in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11401/ Sun, 02 Dec 2018 03:43:33 -0500 By Sarah Bracy, Lauren Ngo, & Jose Romero
The first line of our blog post, “Starting Over After the End of the World” reads, “With pain there is beauty…” and now that we have finished reading The Stone Sky and h […]

]]> 0 442d34f127c79a55da7ab9fd86576cfc Sarah Bracy edited the blog post The Art of Believably Smiling in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11423/ Sat, 01 Dec 2018 20:08:09 -0500 I would like to start out with a nod to a post by Sabrina Bramwell entitled “Say Cheese!” There is indeed something quite eerie about the way the Guardians smile all the time and the connotations that acco […]

]]> 0 baba8fc115e52efd8ef149c911c2b8b1 Sarah Bracy edited the blog post Our Fabrication of Hate in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11422/ Sat, 01 Dec 2018 19:45:20 -0500 One of the more plainly metaphorical aspects to Jemisin’s The Stone Sky revealed to us how Sylanagistines created stone eaters and orogenes because they could find no logical reason to hate and discriminate ag […]

]]> 0 e5f2732185dad262503ecdf5cd566dc1 Sarah Bracy edited the blog post You Are Your Own Person in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/11387/ Sat, 01 Dec 2018 02:34:17 -0500 I believe that one of the most unfair parts of life, considering both reality and the world that resides in N.K. Jemisin’s The Broken Earth trilogy, is generalization and the misleading, overarching idea that one […]

]]> 0 473b2d7875c1314b9c459d4230ab996a Sarah Bracy edited the blog post The Connection Between Rocks and Social Justice in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10929/ Mon, 22 Oct 2018 12:00:59 -0500 In an attempt to begin to answer the ominous question, “Why should people who care about rocks care about social justice?” and vice versa, “Why should people who care about social justice care about rocks […]

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