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Tayler Thompson edited the blog post Final Reflection in the group American Studies: 7 years, 3 months ago

“Word-work is sublime, she thinks, because it is generative; it makes meaning that secures our difference, our human difference–the way in which we are like not other life. We die. That may be the meaning of l […]
Tayler Thompson wrote a new blog post Generational Differences in Technology in the group Digital Humanities: 7 years, 4 months ago

A topic we have often discussed in class is generational differences in opinion on technology. One thing that often comes to mind when I think about this topic is how technology creates distractions for students […]
Tayler Thompson wrote a new blog post Meaning & Measure in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.– Toni Morrison, 1993 Nobel Lecture

Looking at this epigraph from Toni Morrison reminded me of the end of The […]
Tayler Thompson wrote a new blog post Institutions in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

While looking through my classmates’ blog posts, one that really stood out to me was Maria Papas’s blog post “How Do Institutions Fail You?”. I liked her post because in class, a topic of discussion I found very […]
Tayler Thompson edited the blog post Inspirations in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

Writing my blog post about the connection between Vachel Lindsay’s poem The Congo: A Study of the Negro Race and Victor LaValle’s The Big Machine led me to think about the other inspirations behind the novel. […]
Tayler Thompson edited the blog post Angels from the Congo in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

Throughout reading Victor LaValle’s The Big Machine, I had questions regarding the Devils of the Marsh, Solomon Clay, and how everything in the story tied together. Working in groups after finishing the book t […]
Tayler Thompson edited the blog post On Being Subjects in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

When we discussed Suzan-Lori Parks’s Imperceptible Mutabilities in class the other day, Professor McCoy told us how in the performance of the play, actors stare and single out audience members, making them […]
Tayler Thompson wrote a new blog post Growing in Confidence and Knowledge With Computers in the group Digital Humanities: 7 years, 4 months ago

Since the first day of this class, I have constantly been learning new things and expanding my knowledge of computers. One of the things that has been most interesting to me has been learning how to use coding and […]
Tayler Thompson edited the blog post A close RE-reading of “You and I Are Disappearing –Bjorn Hakannson” in the group American Studies: 7 years, 4 months ago

After writing my previous blog post, “A Close Read of “You and I Are Disappearing””( https://morrison.sunygeneseoenglish.org/2019/03/24/a-close-reading-of-you-and-i-are-disappearing/ ), it was brought to my […]
Tayler Thompson wrote a new blog post A Close Reading of “You and I Are Disappearing” in the group American Studies: 7 years, 5 months ago

My favorite poem from Charles Henry Rowell’s Angles of Ascent was Bjorn Hakannson’s “You and I Are Disappearing.” What initially drew me to this poem was the repeated imagery of “burning” and how it is used in […]

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