English @ SUNY Geneseo | Toby Youngman | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/toby14/activity/ Activity feed for Toby Youngman. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 65c8f7a75e1cca3a23dcfc6173cdaf05 Toby Youngman edited the blog post The Measure of Our Lives in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12855/ Tue, 14 May 2019 14:09:21 -0500 In my first blog post, I wrote about an epigraph from Toni Morrison that says, “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.” Morrison’s quote has been on my […]

]]> 0 41d0788757f6f8a4d821f2d6b01a4ffc Toby Youngman edited the blog post Fractals in Motion in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12690/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 23:32:54 -0500 In an older post of mine entitled “Everything Comes from the Fractal” I discussed the role of the fractal within African culture as well as the way, it applies to the controlling ideas and subjects featured in the […]

]]> 0 c24a3f1918b9180d9b11707ea7c5c156 Toby Youngman edited the blog post Part of the Story in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12643/ Wed, 24 Apr 2019 14:31:42 -0500 As we have discussed in class, Toni Morrison’s Jazz ends with a line that reads, “Look where your hands are. Now.” By ending her book in such a way, Morrison is acknowledging the reader, letting them know the un […]

]]> 0 f682fed8ff9145e2f19ec936886fa924 Toby Youngman edited the blog post Everything Comes from the Fractal in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12586/ Thu, 18 Apr 2019 19:09:51 -0500 Everything comes from the fractal. It’s a notion that didn’t come to me until recently, but after the heating plant visit, the group blog posts and several individual posts I have reached the conclusion that Afr […]

]]> 0 42dadc3cd0377f61be0a24d5cdfbb61d Toby Youngman edited the blog post Brockway the Artist in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12519/ Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:11:57 -0500 In my last blog post, I briefly touched on Glenn Ligon’s idea of “Send me something from where you are, but don’t come here.” In this statement, Ligon is describing the process of cultural appropriation and the […]

]]> 0 a35198aab4c4a439c6a0cb19b3dd3f02 Toby Youngman wrote a new blog post “European Folktale Variant” and Cultural Ownership in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12478/ Thu, 04 Apr 2019 02:10:15 -0500 A few days ago, I was flipping through the anthology of poems we received after visiting the heating plant. As I did so, I was drawn to the poem entitled, “European Folktale Variant” by Toni Cade Bambara. This pie […]

]]> 0 17804abffb966554330f13f2c0de78ec Toby Youngman edited the blog post Big Machine, H.P. Lovecraft, and the Unknown in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12425/ Mon, 18 Mar 2019 19:13:13 -0500 As I was re-reading sections of Big Machine by Victor LaValle, I couldn’t help but notice a reference to another work of literature. The character Lake has a name taken directly from “At the Mountains of Mad […]

]]> 0 62900bf267e297e21a74c9426cd4ba96 Toby Youngman edited the blog post What Makes a Creature? in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12357/ Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:40:58 -0500 I would like to start this post by asking a question:

“What makes a creature?”

The word “creature” was thrown around a lot during in last week’s discussion of “Bloodchild” by Octavia Butler, parti […]

]]> 0 3f4b49da99c3171b272b7ce01d69809c Toby Youngman edited the blog post Greta Van Fleet, The Blues, and Cycles of Repetition in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12329/ Sat, 23 Feb 2019 18:54:33 -0500 Greta Van fleet is a Michigan-based rock band, that has gained considerable traction within recent years. While the band has received praise from critics and fans alike, they have also received a great deal of […]

]]> 0 caed0bbafb5adec49478724f8c275aa0 Toby Youngman edited the blog post The Things We Leave Behind in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12198/ Sat, 09 Feb 2019 03:44:11 -0500 With the first two weeks coming to an end, I wanted to discuss one of the epigraphs that really stood out to me. Said epigraph is from a 1993 Nobel Lecture from Toni Morrison in which she said, “We die. That may b […]

]]> 0 462d94e37953e59d9b9cf60742af89e0 Toby Youngman joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12137/ Fri, 01 Feb 2019 14:56:11 -0500 0 5d4862ae1e13732cd7d6d4699a2faa8d Toby Youngman joined the group Reader and Text https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10715/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 02:44:06 -0500 0 c94b03c6f0274edd854c786daed3e526 Toby Youngman's profile was updated https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10714/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 02:43:19 -0500 0 af610e301312d3836c6083758da36879 Toby Youngman became a registered member https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/10712/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 02:42:45 -0500 0