Hello and welcome to Identity in European Literature.
This blog will be a central hub for our studies. I will be posting homework assignments, extra credit discussions, minutes listings, and other pertinent information on a weekly basis. Please utilize this resource; it will be difficult to succeed in my class without doing so.
For homework tonight, Tuesday, January 29th, 2013, I would like you to access and read the course syllabus. The syllabus can be accessed here, via dropbox. If you have any questions, please let me know in class on Wednesday. Additionally please create a name placard to help your fellow students (as well as me) learn your name as quickly as possible.
Finally, I'm going to ask you to post to this page. Please write your name (or any nickname you would like to be addressed as), which period class we have together, and what you're reading. Please note, I am not necessarily asking what book you are reading. Instead, I am asking what you read, be it manga, web comics, Reddit, or any other media.
I look forward to working with you this semester.
Matthew Binshtok (Matthew) Period 5 NYTimes
ReplyDeleteAbigail Edwards (Abby) Period 1 The Bible
ReplyDeleteAlexander Oltarsh (Alex) Period 5 Mostly Non-Fiction
ReplyDeleteMelissa Ye Period 9. Books by Ayn Rand
ReplyDeleteJoey Wong (Joey) Period 9 non-fiction
ReplyDeleteMarc Katz Period 5, Bird field guides and sci-fi/fantasy
ReplyDeleteRebecca Lee-McFadden
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I mostly read food blogs and memoirs.
Tiffany Li
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Almost all types of fiction
Hey! I'm loving the responses but I wish you'd all be a little more specific! Those of us posting after my comments, please try to be more specific about what you're reading. Believe it or not, I'm very interested in what you're reading.
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Manga and Technology news
Calvin Cheung
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Reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/
Daisy Zheng
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some manga, but generally any type on fiction
anything and everything except newspapers
Victor Wu
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Reading stories from wattpad.com.
Read the whole Harry Potter series recently.
Read the Hunger Game series recently.
Read The Mark of Athena recently.
Zafir Hasan
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National Geographic magazine
Updates on NBA basketball
The Odyssey (can't believe no one said this yet.)
Tina Ng (Tina)
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I read all kinds of manga, stories that people post on their blogs, romantic fiction and fantasy books, and on vacations, recipe books.
Sungwoo Park
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Popular Science
Noah Brook
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Giant Steps: The Autobiography of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Bowen Wang
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I read many things, almost anything that does NOT include food-related topics, detective mystery, boring poetry, and a few others im cannot think of off the top of my head
Christina Lai
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Manga (currently Kamisama hajimeshita) and books that have happy endings such as romance, fantasy, and spins of old stories. I also enjoy those random articles featured on yahoo.
Jason Lu
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I read fiction and occasionally newspapers. I feel that newspapers are very clumsy. I recently read a few books in the Pendragon series and some historical fiction about the roman empire.
Rachel Lam
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I enjoy all types of books. But mostly fantasy typed books.
Razwan Miah
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I read sportsblogs like ESPN. I also read newspapers like the New York Times. Also, sometimes I read random blogs I come across.
Daniel Zarotsky
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I cant read.
http://www.explosm.net/comics/3065/
^^^^Comics^^^^
Jacky Chen
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Sports articles and ESPN blogs
Michelle Baumval Pd 9
ReplyDeleteI'm currently not reading anything, but I usually prefer mystery novels, such as "And Then There Were None" and "The Westing Game."
Jefferey Yan
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Redditing all day
Timothy Li Pd 8
ReplyDeleteIm also currently not reading any books, but I am reading the syllabus right now. I also enjoy reading manga, such as Naruto and Rosario + Vampire. I've recently got introduced to a short novel called "Sword Art Online" which is also very interesting. Bookwise, I think fiction would attract my attention the best.
Sunnam Quispe
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I read mostly fiction novels, my favorite being the Harry Potter Series.
Imtiaz Uddin
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What am I reading? Not much at the moment, but I do read Scientific Non-Fiction and any fiction pertaining to Dystopian or Utopian societies. They are just so thrilling.
Edward Antonio (Eddie)
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I'm reading "The Savage Detectives" by Roberto Bolaño
Jeremy Atos
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I'm reading post-structuralist philosophy.
Brian Lee
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I am reading Life As We Knew It
Brandon Ngai
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Flowers for Algernon
I am also following Hamilton's Pharmacopeia, which covers Hamilton Morris's ventures to obscure locations around the globe to sample exotic psychedelic drugs, in order to uncover information about the human mind through alternative consciousnesses.
Anna Kheyfets
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I read a lot of different types of books, but currently Revenge by Yoko Ogawa
Junhao Dong (pronounced jun-ho)
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Not currently reading anything, but I do enjoy science-fiction.
Salman Hashim
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The Inferno by Dante
I also enjoy reading Norse mythology.
Jorge Reyes
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Aside from textbooks and other school books, the last two books I read were Rick Riordan's Mark of Athena and Bart Hopkin's Musical Instrument Design. However, my favorite genre is fiction (including sci-fi). I also really like Edgar Allan Poe's works.
Mark Dijkstra
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The majority of my reading consists of sport and science articles, occasionally I read short novels, but I don't have the patience to read long novels in my leisure time.
Dror Perk
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I read a lot of adventure/fantasy books/novels. Also, I read a bit of manga, comic strips, and random news stories that seem interesting.
I also read a lot of cookbooks
Wei Cheng Lin
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I like going through Reddit and reading what's there, and I also read the newspaper occasionally.
John Zhu
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I go on Reddit and end up at youtube, occasionally.
Caroline Bredthauer
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I read mostly novels (sci-fi, fantasy) and manga. I also read some fanfiction when I get the time. And textbooks, of course.
Mushfiq Hossain
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Most of the reading i partake in involves reading reddit posts, manga, newspapers and all different kinds of novels.
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During the school year, almost only the newspaper. During summer, various novels, and thepolitics of the Cold war, especially Deterrence theory.
Eric Kolbusz
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I'm really into murder mysteries (the good ones at least, such as Agatha Christie) and fantasies like the Lord of the Rings, which I am currently reading. I also read a lot of writing by my friends and myself- some are short fictitious stories, but most are just very long rants.
Sophie Gershon
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Currently, I'm reading Reached, which is the last book in the Matched trilogy, about a dystopian society. I also like to read the New York Times Magazine.
Jia Yu
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Mostly i read non-fiction or folk tales.
Patrick Lee
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I read the New York Times daily and the Time magazine every week. I also occasionally go on Reddit and read manga.
Danny Qiu
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I enjoy reading blogs and articles about technology, the most common ones being on torrentfreak, reddit, and wikipedia. Usually, links in the articles redirect me to other articles until I reach a topic totally different from that of the original.
Pierre Klein
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I vary with reading topics. I usually hop from the TIME magazine to the Economist and the Atlantic, and (on occasions) I read the NYtimes. I recently read the Alchemist (by Paulo Coelho) which is a really great book on philosophy and how to approach life.
There's this really great online comic writer named Matthew Inman who writes panels on his website http://theoatmeal.com.
Warren Zhang
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I like to read creative nonfiction and some fictional stories, currently reading Redwall in my spare time.
Brandon Lao (ignore name, used as alias)
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Mostly various news articles and discussions on Reddit, in addition to the fiction site scp-wiki.net and tvtropes.
Anish Malhotra
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I usually find myself browsing Reddit and occasionally the Metro news in the morning during my train ride to school.
Tali Herzfeld
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Fiction (currently the curious incident of the dog in the night-time), Reddit, occasionally fan-fiction
wow why is my name Tali muffin
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Hello, I am Jean Werner of 106-15 Queens Blvd. Apt. 1M Forest Hills, New York, New York, USA.
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ReplyDeleteI like reading Wikipedia articles of all topics. I also often browse different gardening forums. At the moment, I am beginning to read The Gun Seller, by Hugh Laurie.
Lianna Pang
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I read many fanfictions, which are stories written by fans (of anything!), and I occasionally read some manga. I love reading fantasy novels (as long as they're not cliche), and occasionally skim through New York Times articles on the website (mainly those that have something to do with animals because I'm an animal lover :D).
Mindy Qiu
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I love classics but at the moment my favorite book is The Fault in Our Stars, a fiction novel by John Green. The Harry Potter series is my all time favorite though!
Woo Kyung Lee
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I really enjoy reading mystery novels, especially ones by Agatha Christie, and fantasy novels, like the Harry Potter series. I read manga, usually when I can find the time to, and the NYtimes (daily).
Peter Yang
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I used to read a lot of fiction, but not as much now because I don't have as much time as I used to. I also used to dislike nonfiction but I'm more neutral about it now.
David Wong
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I personally prefer fantasy/fiction books but I have been recently reading a lot of manga of the shounen or sports genre. (stuff like Eyeshield 21 or Slam Dunk)
Zhongzheng(Jacky) Yuan
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Mostly non-fiction but recently reading Battle Royale
David Yao
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I usually just read cool fantasy books like The Lightning Thief and enjoy reading manga from time to time.
Labiba Chowdhury
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I read fiction and love the harry potter series.
Natalie Ruby
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I read fiction
Paul Dzhugostran
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I read newspapers and fiction novels.
Lise Ho
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I love reading realistic fiction books. One of my favorite books that I have read (somewhat) recently is Thirteen Reasons Why. I guiltily admit that I do read manga, but I also read the Economist along with some other random news outlets (whatever newspaper/site I find in my spare time).
Darien Cox
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I read science fiction/fantasy.
Tashfiq Haider
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I like reading fantasy adventures such as the Percy Jackson series, Inheritance cycle, and of course the Harry Potter series.
Nikkie Kim
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I mainly read fiction novels and am currently rereading The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks. I usually take time to read articles online that interest me as well.
Sara Chung (seonmin)
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I love reading fantasy or science fiction, but currently I'm rereading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
Lately, I've been reading more mysteries and sad realistic fictions.
Ethan Lochner
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I read fiction and fantasy adventures.
Mohammad Ullah
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I regularly read the manga Naruto and try to read all of Dan Brown's Robert Langdon books. I also love to read Sherlock Holmes stories. I've been head over heels for basketball (more specifically the New York Knicks) so I read any article I can about them.
Anjelika Lynne Amog (Anjelika)
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I tend to veer towards realistic fiction, but I do nitpick from other genres of fiction as well, be it fantasy (The Mark of Athena, for example), mystery (Agatha Christie!), sci-fi (Wrinkle in Time), and some historical fiction. If asked to name books I've read in these specific genres, I'd be able to name many more realistic fiction books.
I read plays as well. I started writing stage plays last year and I also act, so I try to read a wide variety of styles - Shakespeare to contemporary plays, and the librettos of Broadway musicals (Next to Normal).
When I can't read books, it's fanfiction I turn to. Mostly fluff, and if not fluff, angst.
The Bible.
I don't read periodicals so much, but I'm trying to read more reviews on stuff pertaining to the arts to help my writing for the Spec's A&E department.
Not a lot of non-fiction, but I try. Some poetry, but I can't think of favorite poets off the top of my head.
Julie Shon
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Hi, Mr. Ferencz. I read any material that appeals to me, and I can appreciate literature that both encourages thought and engages my interest. A few of my favorite books are "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn, "A Clockwork Orange" by Anthony Burgess and "Breakfast of Champions" by Kurt Vonnegut.
I occasionally enjoy flipping through The New Yorker and Fortune Magazine.
Johnson Liu
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I've been reading a book called Flatlanders, but I like reading any type of science fiction novel.
Antony Lui
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I do not read frequently, but when I do read manga from time to time. Examples include Fairy Tail, Bleach, etc
Andy Zou
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I don't read as much as I used to, but when I do I usually read fiction/fantasy books because it seems much more interesting to explore a place that is unrealistic and completely unknown to me. I also sometimes enjoy reading comic books since they have pictures that can draw you into the story more.
Jan Li (You can call me John if you prefer)
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I'm reading online encyclopedia articles primarily about chemistry, but I occasionally see articles on the Main Page that interest me, such as the one titled Dreadnought. I also read news articles from various websites, primarily relating to politics, society, and science.
Jean Werner (AKA Rafuzza, AKA DJ Rafuzza 2Chainz, AKA Shower).
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The /mu/ section of 4chan.
Hi, it appears that you're a fan of music. What songs are the best of their genres? I want to sample some new genres this week with my new Beats by Dre Studio, which deliver the music the way the author intended. Also, I need some loudspeakers so that I can hear audio that is undisrupted by the folds of my ear. I know for sure that I'm getting Bose (they're the best), but should I connect them directly to the computer or use an amp? In the event that I choose to get an amp and Lautsprecher, should I choose the Bose 901 or 301? I don't know which one to get; they're both good. I'm tired of my home theater having no bass at all with these KRK paperweights. Additionally, what file format should I use to store my music? I've heard about .psd, .wav, .flac, and .mpng. I don't want to be hearing audio that's been distorted by digital hackers, and they need to sound good on my new speakers. Thank you for your help.
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Alan Babushkin
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I read long novels most of the time and a lot. I also sometimes read online sources, newspapers, and some manga.
Douglas Chan
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I have explored a bit of everything whether it may be manga, classic novels, or online short stories.
Tanvir Nadim
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Right now I'm reading The Mark of Athena but I switch it with reading the New York times, particularly the tech section
Joey Wong (Joey) Period 8 Fantasy, historial novels
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I mostly read mysteries and books about conspiracies. I sometimes enjoy reading science fiction.
I like to read mystery/fantasy books, and occasionally the tear-jerking, sappy kind of novel when I'm in the mood. Articles on gaming and cool science and facts are also interesting to me.
ReplyDeleteOlesya Mykulnska Period 8
ReplyDeleteI enjoy reading articles on criminal-related news and human physiology.
John Cheung Period 8
ReplyDeleteI enjoy reading most types of fictional pieces as well as articles on topics that interest me, such as gaming and news articles.
Douglas Chee
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Haven't been reading much outside the internet - i really like movies so I'm into checking out movie reviews or behind the scenes articles.
Last book i did read however was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams. Sci-fi is always cool.
George Vorobyev
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Nowadays I mostly read Reddit and other assorted internets. In the past, I used to read more fiction and scifi. Some that stand out are the Foundation books, Ringworld, The Name of the Wind, and HPMOR.