CUNY Academic Commons | Silvana Ramos | Friends Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/silvanaramos/activity/friends/ Activity feed for Silvana Ramos's friends. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 99fef82cc9eceb927cdc48d41321a832 Leila Walker joined the group Critical AI Literacy Interest Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/1068947/ Mon, 05 May 2025 17:20:31 -0400 a28fd41be89cefb1a6fad91996bf9d13 Leila Walker joined the group OER COIL Starter Kit https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/998506/ Mon, 10 Jun 2024 21:46:21 -0400 0692b568440879b880649e69382a2e47 Leila Walker joined the group LACUNY Scholarly Communications Roundtable https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/943616/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 20:30:47 -0400 4cd1e2ecf5e4d11f98b96cca5ba8d11a Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Leila Walker's Teaching Portfolio https://leilawalkerportfolio.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=405 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 17:19:43 -0400 Syllabus

]]> c89596dd04c1a858456dd72e6ce15beb Leila Walker created the site Frankenstein at 200 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/825408/ Thu, 17 Feb 2022 17:05:24 -0500 fbae6b831b937e7b5d8d8ac1a8f8b46a Leila Walker and Kevin L. Ferguson are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/818996/ Fri, 04 Feb 2022 19:34:26 -0500 4e11d38436ce2264159fa55052b96842 Leila Walker created the site Frankenstein at 200 https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/817281/ Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:38:16 -0500 08c0951607a1d1c1952b5edcad2a0ef1 Leila Walker created the site CUNY Chapbook Festival https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/817201/ Tue, 01 Feb 2022 16:00:03 -0500 9e1e5b2980c2ae9bd01aa49aec5c2ec9 Leila Walker created the site Leila Walker's Teaching Portfolio https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/817180/ Tue, 01 Feb 2022 15:49:23 -0500 bed9c801f64940122d6644eb514b3c11 Leila Walker created the site FUTURISMO! https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/817152/ Tue, 01 Feb 2022 15:35:26 -0500 4818fad89c1ae2db12666c5ee0aab980 Leila Walker created the site OPEN AT QUEENS https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/817033/ Tue, 01 Feb 2022 14:52:13 -0500 ffc7fedcf341e214825695e20ba16d68 Joshua Belknap (He/him/his)'s profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/790912/ Mon, 04 Oct 2021 19:23:07 -0400 dff6830bdffc4d6dad903d9dc1a8924c Leila Walker's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/787518/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 15:56:48 -0400 942f093d0eb8825faff37f8fec0faee5 Leila Walker joined the group The Group for Group Admins https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/648533/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:32:06 -0500 6bf273a8222370680973be5abd2bda83 Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site FUTURISMO! https://futurismo.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=14 Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:38:18 -0400 Welcome to Qwriting.org. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

]]> 2d1769174432fd75e8cb04769672e906 Leila Walker and Paul L. Hebert (he/him/his) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/583049/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 13:41:28 -0400 26b823c5557f939071534f0815a0c282 Leila Walker and Rob Garfield are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/573277/ Fri, 19 Apr 2019 02:00:08 -0400 d0f14dca9edd23ac1a8ec27168b552f7 Leila Walker and Nancy Foasberg are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/573212/ Thu, 18 Apr 2019 18:12:35 -0400 19ac1c3b5b242499e89d91958c6f690e Leila Walker and Scott Voth (he/him) are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/573019/ Wed, 17 Apr 2019 21:21:54 -0400 4eca2758b6bbd93e731e1962f1363d0c Joshua Belknap (He/him/his) and Jessie Salfen are now friends https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/531083/ Wed, 24 Oct 2018 19:03:24 -0400 8d438d4ab0b62f18b6db046783252cd7 Leila Walker joined the group CUNY Edits https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/514522/ Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:10:01 -0400 44fdf2dd5e2fcd695662c442f132e3e7 Leila Walker joined the group Utopian and Speculative Fiction Studies https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/514521/ Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:09:57 -0400 1fbe2c2ebe6ed3b1a5146092f8956f98 Leila Walker joined the group Library / Blackboard Integration https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/514515/ Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:06:29 -0400 81b5b10676af23c0962ce4e10693d356 Leila Walker changed their profile picture https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/514509/ Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:05:32 -0400 93e176b984462e75c5d30757b5374882 Leila Walker's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/514507/ Wed, 29 Aug 2018 18:04:46 -0400 dcc2dfde8e071561df84471f31ea0ade Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Leila Walker's Teaching Portfolio https://leilawalkerportfolio.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=334 Thu, 31 May 2018 13:22:37 -0400 Nana Kodjo Acquah – Asare’s short graphic novel Milton (illustrated by Smite, lettered by Cleopatra) explores the themes of scientific overreach, self-serving ambition, and faceless corporate greed. The n […]

]]> 331a961aa31fd638c793eedb68400d3c Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Leila Walker's Teaching Portfolio https://leilawalkerportfolio.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=331 Thu, 31 May 2018 11:56:37 -0400 In My Monster Roommate, a script for a three-act episode of a new sitcom, Alexander Aminov reimagines Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in a modern setting. As he notes in his reflection, the plot of Shelley’s got […]

]]> 71d3708f42b39ffa86471128b22c5553 Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Leila Walker's Teaching Portfolio https://leilawalkerportfolio.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=330 Thu, 31 May 2018 11:47:04 -0400 In “An Alternate Timeline to Frankenstein,” Hiroyuki Uokawa imagines a version of Mary Shelley’s classic novel in which Victor Frankenstein does not abandon his creation, but instead teaches him and prote […]

]]> cb484e8766c84f0ab0795ebb3310a556 Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Leila Walker's Teaching Portfolio https://leilawalkerportfolio.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=293 Wed, 30 May 2018 20:24:45 -0400 In her sculpture ChickieNobs, Alfiya Valitova explores the role of disgust in shaping ethical responses to scientific innovation in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. The ChickieNobs of the novel are a p […]

]]> b97f09ebaa0536d538a9c7fac8ab2f15 Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Leila Walker's Teaching Portfolio https://leilawalkerportfolio.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=265 Wed, 30 May 2018 20:15:00 -0400 In this pamphlet, John Carty imagines promotional material for Paradice, the corporate lab run by Crake in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. As Carty notes in his reflection, Jimmy, the novel’s narrator, wor […]

]]> 5a8bbac55c16dc47eaf4d21296a22ebc Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Leila Walker's Teaching Portfolio https://leilawalkerportfolio.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=299 Wed, 30 May 2018 19:47:55 -0400 In this board game, designed by Vincent Patti, Erica Simon, and Christopher Soto, players engage with the major themes of Milton’s Paradise Lost in a loose Candy Land-like structure. Players need not have r […]

]]> a6b5cd542a066235a0a773ebe11509ed Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Leila Walker's Teaching Portfolio https://leilawalkerportfolio.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=306 Tue, 29 May 2018 21:43:01 -0400 Katrina Olynyk’s final project, “The Importance of the Left and Right Brain,” draws on the (now mostly debunked) theory of the double brain, long used in literary scholarship as a lens for analyzing Rober […]

]]> 06f1a9f50da2bcb0b785a1534ba62cb4 Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Leila Walker's Teaching Portfolio https://leilawalkerportfolio.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=305 Tue, 29 May 2018 21:37:03 -0400 In their “Reinterpretation of Frankenstein,” Sara Bashary and Julianne Fiorino imagine a narrative in which Victor Frankenstein, rather than abandoning his creation, nurtures him and teaches him to share in […]

]]> 2d460db425062f8fd2b12785ec9321e5 Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Leila Walker's Teaching Portfolio https://leilawalkerportfolio.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=307 Tue, 29 May 2018 20:50:04 -0400 In this morally sensitive project, WahYing Yuen responds to the injustices portrayed in Never Let Me Go and relates them to broader societal injustices. While the sketch might not immediately call Kazuo […]

]]> ac91cc0364a40620786b250922759154 Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Leila Walker's Teaching Portfolio https://leilawalkerportfolio.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=272 Mon, 28 May 2018 20:27:37 -0400 In this four-panel strip, Melissa Orsano transforms Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde into “Second and Worst Self,” a modern-day reinterpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella. In Orsano’s retelli […]

]]> b82fbf533db8fa937a37f00e1970d426 Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Leila Walker's Teaching Portfolio https://leilawalkerportfolio.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=262 Mon, 28 May 2018 20:00:20 -0400 In this terrifying PowerPoint presentation, Sophia Naeem examines the many ways that the world is heading toward an apocalyptic future like the one described in Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake. She provides s […]

]]> 474e006f31a7d5db49c4fa87ad85b6d5 Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Leila Walker's Teaching Portfolio https://leilawalkerportfolio.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=258 Mon, 28 May 2018 19:46:54 -0400 In this haunting sketch, Benjamin Musheyev imagines a modern-day Dr. Jekyll whose “Mr. Hyde” is summoned not by a personalized potion, but by cocaine. As Musheyev notes in his reflection, several details in […]

]]> 8a3d55bfb0d1c31fdb13439d19c9ee5c Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Frankenstein at 200 https://frankenstein200morning.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=403 Thu, 24 May 2018 02:12:22 -0400 Feminist literary criticism
    Feminist is a term that known as a person that supports feminine. Literary is the content of the writing. Criticism is also known as the judgement of someone’s thought. In add […]

]]> 755813d4c2937aca006900daf94e489e Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Frankenstein at 200 https://frankenstein200.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=330 Fri, 18 May 2018 01:08:35 -0400 Travel literature/writings is, “A genre of writing in which the author describes places they have visited and their experiences while travelling.” This type of writing is when someone explains their journey or tra […]

]]> 28f0a91670696a9906d1c13cfa063d5f Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Frankenstein at 200 https://frankenstein200.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=329 Mon, 14 May 2018 19:35:13 -0400  

The Uncanny

 

 

According to Merriam Webster, Uncanny is defined as “seeming to have a supernatural character or origin. Another definition is “being beyond what is normal or expected”. The word uncanny […]

]]> 1a76be4248f2ed4688f859fe61d6051a Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Frankenstein at 200 https://frankenstein200.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=328 Mon, 14 May 2018 18:19:39 -0400 Chapter 8 in Oryx and Crake goes back in to Jimmy’s memories. It starts out by Jimmy having a difficult time accepting the fact that his father is going to marry someone else. Jimmy sees that something he has to d […]

]]> 93266438a988cc952672487a96cd3b5e Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Frankenstein at 200 https://frankenstein200.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=327 Mon, 14 May 2018 13:27:57 -0400 Definition of doppelgÃnger

1 a : double 2a

said she had seen his doppelgÃnger

b : alter ego b
c : a person who has the same name as another

2 : a ghostly counterpart (see counterpart 3a) of a l […]

]]> 1181bea1cf8ad0430156013a77982e62 Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Frankenstein at 200 https://frankenstein200morning.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=402 Mon, 14 May 2018 00:38:42 -0400 Supernatural is that which exists (or is claimed to exist), yet cannot be explained by laws of nature. Examples often include characteristics of or relating to ghosts, angels, gods, souls and spirits, non-material […]

]]> 65f6f9770117b2b7ff8da1e76689a8df Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Frankenstein at 200 https://frankenstein200morning.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=401 Mon, 14 May 2018 00:29:04 -0400 Wenting Wang is my partner in English 151W class. After we had a little chat in class about her life story, I was astonished. She transferred from Queensborough Community College to Queens College this s […]

]]> c5fee6abfbd51a49185462b4013eae0f Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Frankenstein at 200 https://frankenstein200morning.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=400 Sun, 13 May 2018 22:37:23 -0400 The Uncanny: (strange or mysterious, especially in an unsettling way)

The uncanny is the psychological experience of something as strangely familiar, rather than simply mysterious. It may describe incidents where […]

]]> 57cc06e10ebce8c67fd5e52cc4cbde2b Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Frankenstein at 200 https://frankenstein200.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=324 Sun, 13 May 2018 04:12:23 -0400 The Cambridge Dictionary in his English version has two meanings for the word Victorian. The first one defines it as “belonging to, made in, or living in the time when Queen Victoria was Queen of Great Britain and […]

]]> 88b3fd7b6f3cc1930521a3652dc5b2e4 Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Frankenstein at 200 https://frankenstein200.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=323 Sat, 12 May 2018 18:10:12 -0400 According to The Oxford Dictionary, the word Romanticism has two meanings. The first definition says that it’s a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing […]

]]> 15bf1702b2f971ab06dfc9cdc7302983 Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Frankenstein at 200 https://frankenstein200.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=322 Sat, 12 May 2018 17:08:18 -0400 Deconstruction is the term when one does an analytical examination of something such as theory in order to reveal its inadequacy (1). Deconstruction often appears contradictory because contradiction is at the […]

]]> 0e65c49e55b7a0af9d65c1b875891f61 Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Frankenstein at 200 https://frankenstein200morning.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=399 Fri, 11 May 2018 23:29:15 -0400 Ambiguity refers to being doubtfully or uncertain of a meaning or intention. It can also mean something that can be interpreted in more than one possible way. Ambiguity can be seen in many different forms. It can […]

]]> 589a27495e8215addcf8a54b3d980996 Leila Walker wrote a new post on the site Frankenstein at 200 https://frankenstein200morning.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=398 Fri, 11 May 2018 23:10:34 -0400 Supernatural refers to the existence of something or an event that is beyond what is seen or observed. It is also described as something that doesn’t follow the laws of nature. When we think of supernatural we a […]

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