English @ SUNY Geneseo | Tyler Waldriff | Activity https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/members/tylerwaldriff/activity/ Activity feed for Tyler Waldriff. Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:23:02 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 3c244c8e41e40e8e30a1e33f169e1219 Tyler Waldriff started the topic What is Lost on the Cahulawassee: Psychological Consequences in Deliverance in the forum Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/film-talk/forum/topic/what-is-lost-on-the-cahulawassee-psychological-consequences-in-deliverance/ Thu, 14 Mar 2019 18:26:35 -0500 Four friends take two canoes down one ferocious river in the remote Georgian wilderness. What could possibly go wrong? As it turns out, a lot. John Boorman’s Deliverance follows the harrowing journey of four “city slickers” weekend retreat down the Cahulawassee River. The men seek to escape the monotony of their regular lives to reclaim some aspec…[Read more]

]]> c5918d50af37ca571c3c69d1503f2380 Tyler Waldriff joined the group Film Talk https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/12106/ Mon, 28 Jan 2019 22:08:13 -0500 0 16c0d5c0fbdc469cb1b84a44c507e754 Tyler Waldriff wrote a new blog post Sandstone Trail Final Blog Post in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/9279/ Tue, 12 Dec 2017 00:37:20 -0500 At long last, my digital humanities project, “The Sandstone Trail,” is complete. With it, I had set out to create an archive of noteworthy buildings that utilized the famed Medina Sandstone in New York. I wan […]

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]]> 0 0cc1a5de88aa3df1489e831779aeee62 Tyler Waldriff wrote a new blog post Visualizing Emancipation in the group Digital Humanities https://sunygeneseoenglish.org/activity/p/8722/ Fri, 29 Sep 2017 16:11:56 -0500 “Visualizing Emancipation” provides a detailed map of all known locations in the U.S. where a slave was emancipated in the Civil War era. This project in particular has benefited greatly from being created dig […]

]]> 0 9e4479634cd943c4500e6b80593b9954 Tyler Waldriff replied to the topic Visions of Education in the forum Digital Humanities http://sunygeneseoenglish.org/groups/digital-humanities/forum/topic/visions-of-education/#post-1099 Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:45:42 -0500 The issue that stuck out most to me in Well’s World Brain was his critique on the subject matter that is taught to children in elementary school, under the section, “The Informative Content of Education.” Here, Wells states that the problem stems from elementary schools, which “does not properly inform,” due to the fact that it focuses on topics t…[Read more]

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  •  The biggest challenge faced by researchers at the time would not only be finding an easy way to access the copious amounts of data that existed (and also those that would be created in the future), but also finding a way to share that data. For as necessary as finding the information is, it doesn’t mean a whole lot if the researcher is unable…

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  • Prior to reading the chapter, I always saw my computer as a machine of many different parts that function as a base for other program to interact with, creating a near infinite number of way in which the base computer can be modified, to provide a vast amount of content to the user, whether it be for information or entertainment. I now see…

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  •  I find it fascinating that the genesis of the dictionary came about from one man’s selfless mission to help others “understand and use hard words,” and how far it has come since then. The fact that Cawdrey believed the time he lived in was an age of “information explosion,” and that his  word dictionary was a milestone of the era, really b…

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