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Zach DeGraff wrote a new blog post Pyrite in the group American Studies: 4 years, 3 months ago
According
to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, to “notice” means to become aware of
something; to “learn” means to “gain knowledge or understandi […] -
Zach DeGraff edited the blog post The Bodies Exhibitions in the group American Studies: 4 years, 3 months ago
Within much of the literature we’ve read has been emphasis
or at least mention of people’s bodies being on display. We find it in Zulus with Alice Acitophel, Fortune’s
Bones, Medical Apartheid, and Zone One. […] -
Zach DeGraff wrote a new blog post External Things Defining the Internal (Part 1 of 12 ¾) in the group American Studies: 4 years, 4 months ago
“Zulus”, “Clays Ark”, “Zone One,” and “Medical Apartheid”
all share a similar theme of the conflict that comes with being externally
rather than internally defined. That is, being told what you are rather than […] -
Zach DeGraff wrote a new blog post Introductions in the group American Studies: 4 years, 4 months ago
The introductions of literary works typically serve to
convey a theme or themes and general sense of tone that will be seen throughout
the work. Perhaps most bluntly, we are told immediately by Homer what the […] -
Zach DeGraff wrote a new blog post The Use of Names in Zulus in the group American Studies: 4 years, 5 months ago
“Race is a structural relationship for the articulation and
management of human differences, rather than a substantive content.”So it is with a name. Names carry with them enormous power
though, like rac […] -
Zach DeGraff wrote a new blog post Cruelty & Beauty Together in the group American Studies: 4 years, 6 months ago
“Their raised hooves crashing and striking, their
manes tossing back from wild white eyes. They bit each other like dogs but when
they stood, reared up on their hind legs, their forelegs around the withers o […] -
Zach DeGraff wrote a new blog post Repetition in Fortune’s Bones in the group American Studies: 4 years, 6 months ago
Early on in the course I noticed that Doctor McCoy
emphasized something key to pay attention to while reading the course material.
That key thing is the reviving of once-dead things, or the refusal to let
already […] -
Zach DeGraff joined the group American Studies 4 years, 7 months ago
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Zach DeGraff became a registered member 4 years, 7 months ago