English @ SUNY Geneseo | Sami Stern | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/sjs24/activity/ Activity feed for Sami Stern. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 a30f08715ff5fcad53cd953d629834e7 Sami Stern edited the blog post Stigmergencies, a second responder in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9347/ Fri, 19 Jan 2018 12:39:11 -0500 A few weeks back Brendan made a post called Stigmergencies whether stigmergy can really help us build a better system. He was responding the work of Heather Marsh who argues for a movement away from representative democracy and towards collaboration. Like Marsh, I believe that we have a system in desperate need of change. Like Brendon, I’m not s…[Read more]

]]> 0 da60414f2090719616cd5f3601126a6e Sami Stern edited the blog post It's OK to be a Snob About Reading in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9339/ Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:44:56 -0500 A couple weeks ago Cassie wrote an interesting blog post about the importance of the visual. In addition to raising some very valid points, she credited a point that I had made in our small group discussion. I felt that it was important to provide some context and credit to the original research.

Maybe it’s my constant need for validation or m…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff5a2b6de808ad457cbb68636e5d2364 Sami Stern edited the blog post You Judged that Book by its Cover, Didn't You? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9340/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 16:58:31 -0500 Earlier this semester our professor, Dr. McCoy, showed us the original cover of Dawn. I remember being confused for a moment. Where was Lilith? Well, it turns out she was right there, where you would expect her to be. She just didn’t look like you would expect her to look. She was white.

I’ve thought back to this cover a lot over the sem…[Read more]

]]> 0 2b3910f4754831fd9fd5997df9ad0602 Sami Stern wrote a new blog post Cancerous Silver Linings in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9338/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 03:34:40 -0500 Cancer is, quite possibly, one of greatest tragedies of the human condition. There aren’t words to describe the horror of watching a loved one waste away as the malignant cells multiply—so I won’t try. Peopl […]

]]> 0 e166cb3f6afb38e0c7c0f39d6e439134 Sami Stern wrote a new blog post The Importance of Intent in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9337/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 02:13:12 -0500 While working on our final class project A Brief Guide to the Many Traps of Octavia Butler’s Fiction, we talked about the traps of consent in Butler’s work. As stated in the final project, one trap that Butler set […]

]]> 0 90f3fefa42e685e576fada8466e65c22 Sami Stern joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9336/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 02:10:54 -0500 0 21836f5f634cd5578005c53b1f1cdf00 Sami Stern started the topic Is Mr. Keating the Devil or Angel on their shoulder? in the forum Film Talk http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/is-mr-keating-the-devil-or-angel-on-their-shoulder/ Thu, 13 Apr 2017 22:44:40 -0500 Before this week I had seen The Dead Poets Society (1989) in no less (and possibly more) than four times. Through out middle and high school it was a faculty favorite for those days my teachers threw their hands up and said “I think I’ll show a film”. It had always been a favorite of mine. Because who doesn’t love a good story encouraging us to s…[Read more]

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