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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: 4 years, 8 months ago

I 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 […]
Tommy Castronova edited the blog post “Mini” Collaboration 2: How reduction leads to internalization. in the group American Studies: 4 years, 9 months ago

By 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 […]
Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Noticing your own flaws: Goal-Setting Essay in the group American Studies: 4 years, 11 months ago

The 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 […]
Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post The Omnipresence of Contradiction in the group American Studies: 5 years, 8 months ago

I’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 […]
Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Goal Setting Essay: Setting the Right Habits, and Continued Learning in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 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 […]
Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post Paradise and the Painful Practice of Growth. in the group American Studies: 6 years, 3 months ago

In 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 […]
Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post The Victorian Connection in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

In 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 […]
Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Wilde and Tennyson on Sorrow in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 9 months ago

One 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 […]
Tommy Castronova wrote a new blog post The difference between Pip and Heathcliff in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

I 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 […]
Tommy Castronova edited the blog post Group 5 context: On Dickens in the group Nineteenth-Century Studies: 6 years, 10 months ago

Much 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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