Butler and AIAfter reading Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis Trilogy, my opinions regarding AI have not changed drastically. The Oankali in Butler’s nov […]

Double TroubleIn Octavia Butler’s novel Dawn, we are given a lens into a future where humanity has been brought to the brink of extinction, only to b […]

AI Driven TechnologyIt’s funny, when I think of AI the first thing that comes to my mind is ChatGPT. For some they may see ChatGPT as a source of c […]

Core EssayYou never know what you are going to get with a Professor Beth McCoy English class. I walked into English 111 ready to read about an […]

Iterations Final Reflection EssayThe idea of seed shapes has become a critical part of thinkING in my journey through Professor Beth McCoy’s English 337: African A […]

Lithosphere EssayIn Geraldine Heng’s The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, she states, ‘race’ is one of the primary names we have—a name […]

Seed Shape EssayIn Ron Eglash’s 2007 TED talk, he defined a seed shape as the starting point of a fractal, and to create a seed shape, “you start wit […]

In English 203, I learned about interpretation. Coming from a previous STEM major, there were often many ways to find a solution, but it was important that all students arrive at the same conclusion. When I first […]

According to Oxford reference, irony is defined as the “expression of one’s intended meaning through language which, when taken literally, appears on the surface to express the opposite”. Percival Everett wro […]