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Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post Final Self Reflective Essay: The Power of Noticing and Self Observation in the group
American Studies: 2 years, 9 months agoI came into this class with a pretty clear goal in mind; I wanted to become a better listener, and continue contributing to class conversations and growth while taking up less overall space in class […]
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Tommy Castronova edited the blog post “Mini” Collaboration 2: How reduction leads to internalization. in the group
American Studies: 2 years, 10 months agoBy Tommy Castronova, Jake Clark, Sammy Comstock, Nayy Diarra, Rebecca Perry, Dineen Vogler, and Quentin Wall.
William A. Darity Jr. and A. Kirsten Mullen’s From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black A […]
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Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Noticing your own flaws: Goal-Setting Essay in the group
American Studies: 3 years agoThe idea of noticing that runs through our course epigraph strikes me as particularly important not just in the literature we read for this course, but also in our growth as people. One goal that I came into this […]
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Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post The Omnipresence of Contradiction in the group
American Studies: 3 years, 9 months agoI’d say that the main way that my own thinkING habits have evolved over the course of this semester is to recognize how wildly different people’s interpretations of the same events and/or texts can be. One of my […]
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Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Goal Setting Essay: Setting the Right Habits, and Continued Learning in the group
American Studies: 3 years, 12 months ago“First forget inspiration. Habit is more dependable. Habit will sustain you whether you’re inspired or not….Habit is persistence in practice.”- Octavia Butler, “Furor Scribendi’. When I first read throug […]
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Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post Paradise and the Painful Practice of Growth. in the group
American Studies: 4 years, 4 months agoIn the interest of clarity, I think it worth starting this move, and by extension this essay, by confessing that after all the work we’ve done in class this semester, and all the discussions we’ve had abo […]
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Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post The Victorian Connection in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoIn thinking about this class as a whole, and what I would write for this blog post, I spent some time thinking about the name of the course, Victorian Connections, and what exactly that meant. I tried to think of […]
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Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Wilde and Tennyson on Sorrow in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 10 months agoOne connection I found particularly interesting this week is between Wilde’s thoughts on sorrow and Tennyson’s thoughts on grief. Wilde’s thoughts on sorrow as “one very long moment” in which “we can only record […]
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Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post The difference between Pip and Heathcliff in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 11 months agoI have seen many people comparing Heathcliff and Pip in their connection posts for this week, particularly their shared experience of pining over a woman who doesn’t love them back. I’d like to point out a few […]
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Tommy Castronova commented on the post, Chapter 44, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 11 months agoI find this Estella’s choice of words here quite fascinating, as she starts by asserting that her rejection of Pip is in her nature, but then begins to distance herself from this, stating that it’s in the nature […]
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Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Group 5 context: On Dickens in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 11 months agoMuch like Pip, Charles Dickens led a life that closely resembled the narrative of ‘rags to riches.’ However, unlike Pip, Dickens was raised by his two birth parents, and led a life of relative gentility. Thi […]
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Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Attitudes about women and class in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 11 months agoOne similarity I noticed when reading through Great Expectations is that the way Mrs Joe Christmas is described is very indicative of the overall attitude towards both women and the lower class in Victorian […]
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Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Connexions week of 10/7 in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 4 years, 12 months agoOne connection that stood out to me when reading this weekends assigned works was the familiar application of reason and scientific process to religion, seen earlier with Carlyle and again with Huxley. The […]
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Tommy Castronova commented on the post, Huxley, Agnosticism and Christianity, on the groupblog
Marginalia 4 years, 12 months agoOne thing I find fascinating here is how Huxley prefaces his definition and understanding of agnosticism. His statement of “speaking for myself, and without impugning on the rights of any other person to use t […]
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Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post Wuthering Heights’ equation of admiration and love in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years agoOne connection from the prior chapters of Wuthering heights we read preciously to the end of Wuthering Heights, which we read this week, is the consistent connection the women of the novel make between loving […]
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Tommy Castronova commented on the post, Chapter 9, on the groupblog
Marginalia 5 years agoCatherine declares that she loves Edgar, but given the reason she gives as to why she loves him being “he’s more myself than I am”, as well as what we know about her situation as a whole, do you think that she […]
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Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Connexions, week of 9/16 in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years agoOne character in “Wuthering Heights” I find particularly interesting is Mrs Heathcliff, the widow. Her introduction in chapter 2 makes her out to be particularly cold and rude. But what I find fascinating about […]
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Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Connections: Week of 9/9 in the group
Nineteenth-Century Studies: 5 years agoAs we discussed today in class, Martineau’s position on the “acquiescence” of women in Victorian society was that this acquiescence only observed because women of her time are essentially brainwashed into […]
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Tommy Castronova commented on the post, Democracy, on the groupblog
Marginalia 5 years, 1 month agoBased on the way Carlyle speak about the poor African mother and her child, what can we as a group extrapolate about Caryle’s feelings toward Africans and Colonization as a whole?
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