English @ SUNY Geneseo | Natasha Rodriguez | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/tashie223/activity/ Activity feed for Natasha Rodriguez. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 6e3faaa8775f13ccdeb9526d49da60f5 Natasha Rodriguez wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=564 Sun, 19 Apr 2015 23:36:46 -0500 At first when I was reading Dawn, I was appalled at how Butler made a lot of the characters who were Awakened by Lilith try to attack her and each other. Although it was conflict for the story, I would like to […]

]]> 4804e0b0a3ad23e0daac6ef1c51fa009 Natasha Rodriguez wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=452 Mon, 30 Mar 2015 23:12:00 -0500 Upon learning that Patternmaster is the first book that Octavia Butler wrote in the Patternist series, I immediately began to wonder what it would have been like if we had read the series in the order that Butler […]

]]> 59c6b9740c0e86d3ce0f477e565fad52 Natasha Rodriguez wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=404 Fri, 20 Mar 2015 21:22:48 -0500 In class when we were discussing why Professor McCoy should like Patternmaster and then why she should dislike Patternmaster, a student made a comment about how the character Teray was based on Octavia Butler’s […]

]]> 9d44da2d0a5caed705ce68c1322fe9da Natasha Rodriguez wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=359 Sat, 07 Mar 2015 04:37:21 -0500

In the Patternist series, growth is a major concept. Although we haven’t read Patternmaster yet, so far each book in the series has an aspect about growth. In Wild Seed, the character Doro creates communities […]

]]> d0df28a597c8d425589af4fdf2a9b216 Natasha Rodriguez wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=279 Mon, 23 Feb 2015 04:14:58 -0500 Doro is dead.

Doro is actually dead.

After four thousand years of living by taking others’ bodies and trying to build an empire, Doro finally met his match. He always thought that he would never die, that […]

]]> 4064662e37848bd3c349e5c142b8995e Natasha Rodriguez wrote a new post on the site Speculative Fiction http://speculative.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=111 Tue, 03 Feb 2015 23:08:59 -0500 In Fledging, I found the concept of “symbionts” a little strange. Although symbionts love their Ina, I find that love to be somewhat false. Clearly, the feelings that exist between the symbiont and the Ina would […]

]]> 5d353d09623b1abb2a0995dad073e432 Natasha Rodriguez joined the group Speculative Fiction https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/3932/ Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:33:22 -0500 0 1a71efa3027c14bea639fc7dbb2e3b70 Natasha Rodriguez started the topic The Great Gatsby in the forum Film Talk http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/the-great-gatsby/ Mon, 05 May 2014 00:26:25 -0500 The Great Gatsby (2013), directed by Baz Luhrmann, is a gorgeous modern adaptation of the American classic. In 2011, when I first heard about the makings of this movie, I was very excited and even more excited that Leonardo DiCaprio was going to play Jay Gatsby. When I finally watched this movie for the first time in 2013, I wanted to re-watch it…[Read more]

]]> 92fca9c0eab109e7bc936914c91c0474 Natasha Rodriguez replied to the topic Casablanca in the forum Film Talk http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/casablanca/#post-209 Mon, 10 Feb 2014 03:53:28 -0500 I agree with Michael. Rick did not only make his decision for Ilsa, but for Victor as well. Although in a film  the audience does not know what the characters are thinking, it is implied in the film that Rick was considering Victor’s important duties when making his decision.

Also, I don’t mean to sound cheesy or cliche, but love does tend to…[Read more]

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