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An American Studies is a weblog authored by two teachers from New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois: Spiro Bolos (Social Studies) and John S. O'Connor (English).

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Ross W

The Meaning Behind the Words - In the opening lines of his State of the Union address a few days ago when talking about his accomplishments, Barrack Obama says, "For the first time in tw...
17 hours ago
Emily R

Its all about AP - As course selection for next year begins, students are in a frenzy to figure out how many AP classes they can possibly fit into their schedule. Especially ...
20 hours ago
Jasmine T

Exponential Growth - An average woman and a model entwined, displaying the gaps between models and average women.The word "growth" is made of two parts, "grow" and "th". The w...
1 day ago
Elise H

Paterno's Legacy in a New Light - Earlier this semester, I blogged about perhaps one of the biggest scandals in college sports history concerning Penn State Assistant Football Coach Jerry S...
2 days ago
Claire R

How To: Avoid Brainwashing - This silkscreen, a piece by Jay Ryan, comments on American Studies in regards to the disconnection between the citizens of our nation and the is...
1 week ago
Becky H

Meta Post - Blogs have always been fascinating to me, and there have been times where I have wanted to start one, but I never had anything to write about. Although we...
1 week ago
Griffin O

Meta-Blog Post - After rereading some of my older blogs, the change in my writing is quite apparent. One of the things that bothers me though, is that in one of my first bl...
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Layne E

Meta-Post 2012 - It has always been a weird feeling for me to look back at any work I've done, school-related or not. I always cringe at previously written papers or old G...
1 week ago
Peter G

The Evolution of Music - Being a musician who plays jazz, a genre of music that is notably unpopular, particularly among the younger generations, I often consider the types of thin...
1 week ago
Alexi S

A Sort Of Meta-Post - I've been putting off writing my meta-post for awhile simply because writing about my own writing didn't seem very appealing to me. As students at Ne...
1 week ago
David R

Meta-Post - Looking back over my blog posts, I noticed that as the year progressed, I did a better job incorporating outside sources to show more empathy for the reade...
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Matt R

Meta Post - At first thought, I did not think that my blog posts had much progression over the course of our first semester. At second thought, however, I did see a b...
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Tim P

Meta Blog Post - While looking back at my posts, I can very easily now separate my blogs into two categories, those which were making an offensive argument, and those that...
1 week ago
Chrisanthy S

META POST!! - Reading my blog as a whole, from a critical standpoint, I have begun to notice many things that I have not noticed before. Certain aspects my blog posts h...
1 week ago
Marshall C

The Megapost: Not Just Your Average Meta-post - *DISCLAIMER*: Okay, I may have exaggerated a bit there with the title. I do actually plan on delivering a wholly average meta-post, a blog post in which I ...
1 week ago
Sheridan O

The Meta-Post - Blogging was something I definitely never thought I would have been able to do. Ever. Ever. In fact, the entire prospect of blogging killed me and terri...
1 week ago
David K

The Meta Post: Reflections - Looking back at the blog posts I've done this semester, nothing jumps out more than my obvious fascination with politics and significant events going on in...
1 week ago
Mary Beth G

Meta-Blog - My blog is, for starters, highly influenced by my day to day life. Sometimes my posts come from things we talk about at school such as the topic of my seco...
1 week ago
Anna K

The Meta Post: A Summary of My Growth in the Blogging Experience - Ourassignment: write one blog post a week during the semester. It seems like afairly simple task to accomplish. Yet the amount of thought that...
1 week ago
Donna C

The Post of Meta Reflection - After I started to read the entries I have created the past semester for a reflective blog post, I got very excited. I had forgot about all the topics I ha...
1 week ago
Kathleen F

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Aidan L

Getting to Ground Level - Ideas have never been a problem for me. What I struggle as a writer with is not the initial brainstorming period but rather the hard work of taking tha...
1 week ago
Ozakh A

What it all Comes Down to: The Meta-Post - Well, it's the end of the semester, and that means a little self-reflection is in order. From 'To Standardize or not to Standardize?' all the way to 'A Dis...
1 week ago
Jordan B

MEGA META-POST! - First off, in the spirit of reflection...a little* *Mulan: Now that we've looked deep into our own reflections, time to reflect on my blog. I star...
1 week ago
Maggie N

Meta Post - When Mr. Bolos and Mr. O'Connor first told us we had to write a blog every week, I wasn't that excited to be honest. I like writing, but I was struggling t...
2 weeks ago
Joe F

The Meta Post - The semester is over, and it's time to get meta. I've reviewed and reflected on my posts over the past semester, and written about some patterns and...
2 weeks ago
Betsy P

A Progression in Words: The Meta-Post - One Semester. Weekly blogging. 19 posts. Week to week, the *voice*of my blog has evolved from being created solely through the context of ourclassroom, un...
2 weeks ago
Jason L

My Meta-Post - *After a thorough examination of my first semester blog posts, I noticed a trend; I blog mostly about social and political topics. Especially within the ...
2 weeks ago
Hayley B

Meta-Blog Post - This week, instead of our regular blog post we have been asked to do a sort of "meta-blog post" reviewing our blogging over the last semester. Looking for ...
2 weeks ago
Naomi C

Meta Blog Post: Blogging About Blogging - As I look from my older blog posts to my newer ones, I definitely notice the themes of hard work and opportunity. I would probably categorize my posts into...
2 weeks ago
Dan P

Blogging - Blogs are, as Dictionary.com says, "a Web site containing the writer's or group of writers' own experiences, observations, opinions, etc., and often having...
2 weeks ago
Natalie S

The Looking Glass: A Reflection Post - When looking back at my many blogs I've written since the beginning of the school year I noticed many reoccurring themes. For the first half of the year I ...
2 weeks ago
Allison M

The Meta Post - I’ll be honest. In the beginning, bloggingscared me. It intimidated me. I wondered who would really care what I thoughtabout random aspects of the world t...
2 weeks ago
Casey B

Meta-Blog Post - Looking back at the year I've had in blogging clearly shows my improvement. The way I used to go about blogging was to sit down and force myself to blog. T...
2 weeks ago
Bridget M

Blogging about blogging. META POST! - I find it hard to analyze my own writing because I always focus on all the little things I could improve upon, rather than what my piece is lacking as whol...
2 weeks ago
Doug S

Meta-Blog Post - When I was first introduced to the idea of blogging back in September I was a little skeptical towards the benefits of writing posts. After reading thro...
2 weeks ago
Jon S

MEGA Meta Post - As we become prey to the stress that finals bring, it is important part of studying to analyze the changes that we have gone through during the past semest...
2 weeks ago
Leah R

The Meta-Post - I remember being really proud of my first post. It was about September Eleventh, and I had taken quite some time to construct it. It was first b...
2 weeks ago
Katie C

A Reflection: The Meta Post - On this finally snowy day in Winnetka, I am writing a meta-post: a reflection on my one semester blogging experience. When Mr. Bolos and Mr. O'Connor first...
2 weeks ago
Paddy D

The Meta-Post: A Self-Analysis - As I look back through my blogs over the past semester, I cannot help but recognize quite a few patterns and also bring back quite a few memories. I find i...
2 weeks ago
Nate G

Meta Post - Looking back at my blog posts from the beginning of September, I have noticed lots of similarities but also lots of improvements. I have written almost a...
2 weeks ago
Sarah N

Meta-Post - Looking back and reading my past blogs was an entertaining experience. I definitely noticed both changes and common threads in the topics of my posts. Ther...
2 weeks ago
Abby R

MY META BLOG - After rereading all my blog posts, I am embarrassed by six of them! At least the posts I'm embarrassed about are towards the beginning of the year. While r...
3 weeks ago
Daniel B

Strange fruit - In my American Studies class, we read *The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave*, which is an exposé on slavery in America. The f...
3 weeks ago
Graham K

- *Modern Day Families In America* In the Oral History Assignment we had to interview a person and look for some kind of connectedness in to something in the...
3 months ago
Chelsea B

Justice Has Not Yet Been Served - When I saw Mr.O'Connor's post on our class website, I was excited. The death penalty is something I have spent a lot of time researching, and I have come t...
3 months ago
Meg G

- A week ago today, many of us were remembering the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Many people attended or watched on television services that were held in the ...
4 months ago

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