English @ SUNY Geneseo | Taylor Knowles | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/tsknowles/activity/ Activity feed for Taylor Knowles. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 b9b0461256661e541c0ea76784240547 Taylor Knowles wrote a new blog post War and Paradise in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7689/ Thu, 08 Dec 2016 05:54:31 -0500 As I was astounded by how little work has been done regarding Morrison’s Paradise, I looked up my thesis regarding the women’s scenes in “Save-Marie”, and eventually landed on an article discussing some quotes […]

]]> 0 018b6bba26e13cfa0058b9598114cc70 Taylor Knowles edited the blog post Scapegoats in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7628/ Sat, 26 Nov 2016 01:08:12 -0500 scapegoat

/ˈskeɪpˌɡəʊt/

noun

1.
a person made to bear the blame for others

2.
(Old Testament) a goat used in the ritual of Yom Kippur (Leviticus16); it was symbolically laden with the sins of the Israelites and sentinto the wilderness to be destroyed

verb

3.
(transitive) to make a scapegoat of…[Read more]

]]> 0 db2369ec02948891e432eafcb41b410d Taylor Knowles edited the blog post The Danteum in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7596/ Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:08:22 -0500 As I’ve been sick at home with Bronchitis, I decided to do some research into other forms of adaptations of Dante and his Divine Comedy, and came across the Danteum. As you’ll see in the many links I’ll have pasted below, the Danteum was Giuseppe Terragni’s proposal to Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime, to build a monument in honor of the Poet in…[Read more]

]]> 0 2bf2c989b7537cbf36f56cbd0c1ac904 Taylor Knowles wrote a new blog post Slavery and the Prison System in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7470/ Tue, 25 Oct 2016 22:04:36 -0500 Ever since we read the article in class, and made the connections between the prison system and slavery, I’ve been interested in reading further into this. And so in the process of researching, I found this […]

]]> 0 5af76fc0ea00b268945949ed9d6ee7ff Taylor Knowles wrote a new blog post Women and Mental Illness in the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/7438/ Mon, 17 Oct 2016 23:47:07 -0500 In class today, I brought up the dichotomy of two forms of protection utilized by the women in Morrison’s works- those with mental walls, and those wielding physical weapons. It seems to be the case that the […]

]]> 0 1d720cade40e7ba618dea207ff6c4bf3 Taylor Knowles joined the group American Studies https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/6908/ Wed, 31 Aug 2016 15:05:52 -0500 0 09ccd24b913d5fa4b56e675326a964cb Taylor Knowles wrote a new post on the site Medieval Studies http://medieval.sunygeneseoenglish.org/?p=206 Mon, 04 May 2015 17:29:39 -0500 In February 2015, the New York Times released a post titled “Rats may be Exonerated in European Plague, Say Scientists with a Gerbil Theory.” In the short post, they detailed the possibility that the origins of […]

]]> 2a451d10626fd73397bd7fe41f07264a Taylor Knowles started the topic Gerbils, The Bubonic Plague, and Medieval Illness in the forum Medieval Studies http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/medieval-studies/forum/topic/gerbils-the-bubonic-plague-and-medieval-illness/ Fri, 13 Mar 2015 03:57:12 -0500 In February 2015, the New York Times released a post titled “Rats may be Exonerated in European Plague, Say Scientists with a Gerbil Theory.” In the short post, they detailed the possibility that the origins of the Black or Bubonic Plague that ravaged Europe periodically in the 1300’s up to the 1800’s when it disappeared had its origins in Asia, r…[Read more]

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