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Xavier Bodensieck edited the blog post Final Reflection Essay in the group American Studies: 5 years, 9 months ago

There is a call for change, if not revolution, that is more powerful and cacophonous than anything my generations has heard so far. Annihilation mounts in a slow violence against humans. The real issue though is […]
Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post The Stillness Free From Chaos in the group American Studies: 5 years, 10 months ago

While thinking about this final blog post I began to ask myself the progressive thinkING question of what does it matter that we’ve been doing this? There’s a right answer to that question, but what I found to be […]
Xavier Bodensieck edited the blog post Geologic Time Scales and Goosebumps in the group American Studies: 5 years, 10 months ago

One of the most impressive qualities that I read the Stillness’ humans to have was their consideration of time and legacy in their decision making. After all, the Sanzed Empire was only able to maintain its p […]
Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post What children learn from colonizing Mars is the same thing we learn from comm organization in the group American Studies: 5 years, 10 months ago

A year and a half ago I was a teacher-counselor for a summer camp that SUNY Geneseo hosts for Rochester City School District. That iteration of the camp was themed around Mars colonization and asked students to […]
Xavier Bodensieck edited the blog post Young orogenes as child soldiers in the group American Studies: 5 years, 10 months ago

N. K. Jemisin first introduced us to the horror of the node-maintainers’ existence in The Fifth Season with their presence serving as a representation of institutional oppression and a public dependency on that o […]
Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post ACEs in the Stillness in the group American Studies: 5 years, 10 months ago

The main intersection for our class is between English and the sciences as we take up the familiar cause of creating an integrative experience in education. Geology fits itself into Jemisin’ writing in many ways b […]
Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post Adjusting thoughts on Jemisin’s humans in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago

I had made a previous post about the alternate biology that Jemisin writes about. At that time I was still unaware of the existence of magic or magical essence as well as poorly stating that I was assuming that […]
Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post In Response to Civil & Uncivil Disobedience in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago

I write this in response to Michee Jacobs’ post about civil disobedience. I was initially drawn in by the mention of Henry David Thoreau and my own knowledge that his name is likely to follow any literary c […]
Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post Geology Fiction in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago

Astronomy, physics and biology dominate the genre of science fiction. N. K. Jemisin has now added geology to the list with the Fifth Season and the other books in the trilogy. In terms of media, science fiction […]
Xavier Bodensieck wrote a new blog post Jemisin and alternate biology in the group American Studies: 5 years, 11 months ago

In the world of the Fifth Season orogenes are about as close to wizards and witches as you can get. Popular culture might also liken them to the earth benders of the Avater: The Last Airbender television series. […]

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