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  1. Feb 2021
    1. Earth wouldnot befit for our survival if it were not for plantsthat have created and maintained a suitable at-mosphere

      This reminds me so much of a time during Botany with Dr. Jolles when she said something along the lines of, "plants dont need us, we need them. they would do much better without our help". I think that goes to say something about humans in general that we try to hard to put our touch on things and make them "better", when realistically, they thrive much better without our "Help"

    1. This reminds me WAYYYY too much of the separate but equal thing that we learned about with the train cars before which made segregation legal in some states. That was obviously found unconstitutional at some point after that so how is this okay.

    1. It is the existence of the child, and their knowledge of its existence, that makes possible the nobility of their architecture, the poignancy of their music, the profundity of their science. It is because of the child that they are so gentle with children. They know that if the wretched one were not there sniveling in the dark, the other one, the flute-player, could make no joyful music as the young riders line up in their beauty for the race in the sunlight of the first morning of summer.

      This reminds me of people gaining fortunes from the suffering of others.

    1. Peter

      Even though the mother of the protagonist is a protector of traditions and goes against his English education, she has also given her other son Peter an English name. I believe deep down as a mother she might understand the advantages which may come with that name (Peter will be perceived better when applying with his documents because of the already ingrained belief that white is better and more sophisticated than black therefore there will be a natural and subconscious preference to a white name). She may have also named him like that just because many colonists have white-washed the names of the Rhodesian people in a way to take away their identity. This very much reminds me of mass name changing and 1989 ethnic cleansing of ethic Turks and Roma people from Bulgaria during the communist regime. The Islamic faith as well as names typical to the ethnicity were forcibly changed to Bulgarian to ensure the thorough mixing of all people in one - after all the leading ideal was that everyone should be the same.

    2. one side of which was always expressed in English and the other side always in Shana

      (53) One of the main internal conflicts the narrator is dealing with is between his identity as a Zimbabwean and his kinship with the English language. Marechera himself stated that he associates his native language, Shona, with the misery of the ghettos, while the English language provided him with a gateway to another world. The main character is divided between the two cultures, and this conflict may be a reason for confusion and indecision. This dualistic way of thinking reminds me of Asterios Polyp, who always views the world in terms of two opposing ideas, such as logic and creativity.

    1. A

      Jansen (2005) wrote about the importance of role modeling, which reminds me of the individual choice book I am reading. Fitzpatrick (2019), author of Generous Thinking, wrote about the university's role in leading and modeling for the rest of society. It is our responsibility to demonstrate love and kindness to all individuals through celebrating diversity of all kinds (race, religion, gender, customs, etc.) if we want the rest of society to follow suit.

    1. Of course, many Americans failed to understand the intricate relationship between Native Americans and their land partly because “the dream of an unworked natural landscape is very much the fantasy of people who have never themselves had to work the land to make a living”
      1. This passage reminds me of Norgaard's article on how native people use fire to enhance and manage the land. The author discusses the idea of how wilderness seems like a good idea to those who are not part of the wilderness and have "never...worked the land to make a living." The relation I see most is the misunderstanding between how these indigenous people are responsible for the nourishment of the land through practices not understood through a western eye.
    1.  The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story. 

      Exactly what I was thinking. She said my thoughts perfectly. I love the way she tells the audience about a single story, and how it makes humans see certain groups a specific way. It reminds me of the stereotype that Asians are good at math. It becomes the first thing people think of when they think of Asians. It is very narrow-minded of us.

    1. One copper-plate Mrs Veneering, two copper-plate Mr Veneerings, and a connubial copper-plate Mr and Mrs Veneering, requesting the honour of Mr and Mrs Boffin’s company at dinner with the utmost Analytical solemnities.

      I was curious and googled the word "veneering," and it means to "cover (something) with a decorative layer of fine wood" or to "cover or disguise (someone or something's true nature) with an attractive appearance." This second definition perfectly describes the Veneerings in the book - newly rich people seeking to flaunt their wealth and wanting to fit into high society even though it wouldn't traditionally be seen as their social class since theirs is not an old and generationally wealthy family. I've read Dickens books before and I've seen him do this sort of thing in his other novels too - naming characters in such a way as to reveal their characters. It reminds me of allegories, where characters can be named "Happy" or "Beauty", etc. and that's literally what the character is.

    1. plant responses to gravity and temperature.

      I learned about this my freshman year at a different college. It is terrifying to me how "smart" plants are....how do they react to things without thinking? and this advanced?

      Also, this reminds me of how vines grow and literally climb things, without eyes or brains. Honestly a horror movie.

    1. {"@type":"NewsArticle","@context":"http://schema.org","url":"https://kotaku.com/destiny-2s-season-of-the-chosen-is-good-so-far-1846234532","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ethan Gach"}],"headline":"Destiny 2's Season Of The Chosen Is Good So Far","description":"Season of the Chosen went live in Destiny 2 today, and with it a whole new set of things to grind for. So far, these things—new armor, guns, and exotic gear—seem pretty cool, with interesting new perks to make them worth chasing. 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So far, these things—new armor, guns, and exotic gear—seem pretty cool, with interesting new perks to make them worth chasing. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t already feeling daunted by yet another set of artifacts, upgrade nodes, and season pass rewards to rank up.\n\nThe villains du jour this time around are remnants of the Red Legion, a faction that now controls the Cabal and is loosely inspired by the Roman Empire. Empress Caiatl, daughter of year one raid boss Callus, wants you and the Vanguard to pledge allegiance to her, but of course Zavala, Osiris and co. aren’t having it. And so the two sides are at war (again), providing a new reason to shoot legions of lumbering space Goombas in search of new rewards and lore dumps.\n\nI’ve played around with the new content for about three hours now. So far most of my impressions are pretty positive, though I’m less hopeful about the larger existential questions swirling around Destiny 2 as it passes the halfway point of its fourth year. Here’s a quick rundown:\n\nThe launching area for Season of the Chosen is called the H.E.L.M., which is an acronym for Destiny gibberish that exited one ear shortly after entering the other. It’s a big space full of hallways and closed doors that seem likely to open up later in the season or sometime further down the road. In the meantime it’s kind of empty and lonely, though I do love the Star Trek: The Next Generation-style polished wood surrounding the war table.\n\nThe war table is where you grab seasonal bounties, upgrade seasonal nodes, and cash in seasonal currency for new seasonal engrams. It seems modeled after Variks’ upgrade nodes from Europa, which were nice and streamlined compared to seasons past.\n\nThe H.E.L.M. is also where the Prismatic Recaster, brought back from Season 11, is now located. Here you can refocus Umbral Engrams, which have also returned, transforming them into Season of the Chosen weapons and armor or into random gear from the rest of the game’s current loot pool. It appears to be currency-based, rather than upgrade-driven like the original version, which is a relief, since grinding that thing the first time around was painful enough.\n\nThe highlight of Season of the Chosen is the new Battlegrounds activity. It can be accessed from the surface on Nessus and Europa, or from the Strike Playlist after completing some initial story quests. You fight waves of enemies in a patrol area, then head deeper into one of the nearby underground caverns, fight more waves of enemies, and eventually end up at a Cabal boss in a small arena filled with still more waves of enemies. It’s short, varied, and a breezy way to burn through bounties—everything you’d want from a seasonal activity you might be running dozens of times a week.\n\nAt the end of a run you get your normal Strike Playlist rewards chest, followed by a second Battlegrounds chest you can smash open if you’ve charged up your Cabal hammer artifact. This Hammer is like Season of Opulence’s Chalice. You insert gold coins you earn throughout other activities in order to unlock the extra chest, and the way you upgrade the hammer will affect what rewards are inside. Opening treasure chests is fun. Smashing them is even more fun. Again, nothing new here, but this loot loop feels better optimized than many of Destiny 2’s past ones.\n\nThe Crow has finally left the Tangled Shore and is ready to hang. He’s even got a Phantom of the Opera mask Osiris makes him wear so that no one else in the Last City recognizes him and goes “Oh shit, you killed Cayde-6, aka Nathan Fillion.” It’s a nice touch. Hopefully he becomes more involved as the season progresses.\n\nThere’s a new exotic bow called Ticuu’s Divination that reminds me of Gears of War’s Torque Bow. Fire it from the hip and three homing shots will whip around corners to hone in on a target. Hold down and fire a precision shot at that target and it will explode with a detonation that is both satisfying and perfect for ripping through Cabal mobs. I don’t normally like bows, but I like this one. The rest of the new exotic gear looks similarly powerful, which is good for providing new loot to chase but also makes the older stuff I already have feel boring by comparison.\n\nThe new patch is live, and seasonal challenges have replaced weekly bounties. As someone who almost never finished weekly bounties, I’m looking forward to this change. In a game that feels increasingly transient, having season long challenges is both easier to keep track of and feels more substantial. Swords have been nerfed too, but I (and everyone else I see) are still using them just fine in Battlegrounds. Meanwhile, rocket launchers were buffed, but I’m still not sold on them. Bungie also boosted recoil for PC players ahead of the cross-play update planned in the near future. I imagine this will suck for PC players, but I don’t play on PC so I can’t say at the moment.\n\nSunsetting is more of a bummer than ever. As some of my favorite weapons get closer to their power cap (I’ll never let you go, Gnawing Hunger), Bungie’s current approach to loot sustainability and sandbox balancing feels more misguided than ever. Philosophical disagreements aside, it is still completely bonkers to me that players have to grind for new versions of re-issued weapons rather than being able to infuse up the older but otherwise identical versions. Also I got another Long Shadow sniper rifle in one of my first few Legendary drops this season, and it’s still at an older cap than the current season’s. Why is this loot game wasting my time with arbitrary expiration dates?\n\nThe Devil’s Lair and Fallen SABER strikes from Destiny 1 are back and I missed them. The more time marches on, the more I long for the comparatively simple and straightforward pleasures of the first game.\n\nThere’s a lot planned for Season of the Chosen according to its content roadmap, including new versions of Battlegrounds and a new strike based in the Last City called Proving Grounds. Based on my first few hours with what’s already live, Season 13 seems like it will have as many good reasons for Destiny players to keep playing Destiny as any previous season. But so far it hasn’t shown any signs of doing anything bold to change up the game’s underlying formula or how players interact with it. At times that’s enough for me, but increasingly I find myself hoping for something more, and disappointed when it never quite materializes. \n\n\n","articleSection":"Impressions","keywords":["destiny","windows games","multiplayer video games","cabal","heroes of the storm","grinding","video gaming","games","video games","first person shooters","role playing video games","playerunknowns battlegrounds"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","@context":"http://schema.org","name":"Kotaku","url":"https://kotaku.com","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://x.kinja-static.com/assets/images/logos/amp/logo-kotaku-amp.png"},"sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/kotaku","https://www.youtube.com/user/KotakuNYC","https://twitter.com/kotaku","https://instagram.com/kotakudotcom"]},"video":[]}Ethan GachTuesday 7:00PM411

      5: This is my cited example for my fifth annotation. This is an active article, it is a measurement for audience engagement and success is shown in this bar. As I write this it has 41 comments, one can argue that the more shares, bookmarks, and comments on this article, the more it is pushed to the front page of Kotaku. This is active success, versus my articles passive success. My article merely participates in the visual rhetoric of Kotaku, but still labels it as part of the community.

    1. There had been, also, a ritual salute, which the official of the lottery had had to use in addressing each person who came up to draw from the box, but this also had changed with time, until now it was felt necessary only for the official to speak to each person

      This part of the story reminds me of "The Hunger Games" a lot. I bet that they created that movie based off of this story. It's interesting how two stories can be so similar and so opposite at the same time.

    1. I never thought I would have HIV. I had a belief that only “certain people” got AIDS

      This reminds me of the discussions we have had in class about the lack information about AIDS/HIV we had been exposed to. It's sad to see how many lives are impacted by HIV simply because people are afraid or disagree.

    2. The works share a tremendous amount having to do with withdrawal, retreat, and disappearance—what I call the logic of the lure

      This piece of art reminds me of a Transmissions' video I watched as hw. The one where the men are telling stories from female narratives. I think women diagnosed with HIV/AIDs may understand the art. Their disappearance, completely unacknowledged.

    1. Can you undo if you make a mistake?

      This reminds me of the time when I would answer questions on Moodle instead of copying the questions and answering it on a Google Doc. In which, Moodle would time out and my answers would disappear. I learn my lesson and would always use Google docs because it automatically saves my answer. So when you are doing an assignment or playing around with software make sure you get familiar with what tools works the best for you.

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    1. Remembering a Grandparent after Suicide

      +1 to Liz! Deeply personal and professionally executed...

      It reminds me of a project from my undergrad (anthropology of folklore?) when we were to capture a story from a relative. At the time digital recordings were not so available, so I have the words but the audio is so much more powerful.

      I was listening intently to your husbands experience, as I have a friend who's partner committed suicide about 7 years ago. It deeply impacted their life, and they are still searching and trying to understand. I have listened and talked with them many times, and it's difficult.

      You lead the conversation well, and captured some genuine emotion this day - recounting this traumatic experience - and closed the podcast wonderfully.

    1. self-sufficiently.

      This concept of "self-sufficiency" in painting reminds me of Greenberg's philosophy on "purity" and making a painting "independent." While self-sufficiency in this case describes the individual parts of the painting rather than the whole painting itself, I think it still reflects how unique, abstract, and original Modernist paintings are.

    1. over all the earth318 ferocious deeds prevail,—all men conspire319 in evil. Let them therefore feel the weight320 of dreadful penalties so justly earned,321 for such hath my unchanging will ordained.”

      Reminds me of Genesis-how god created a flood to start over and punish/get rid of the majority of humans besides Noah and his family.

    2. Avengers were not seen, for laws unframed123 were all unknown and needless. Punishment124 and fear of penalties existed not.125 No harsh decrees were fixed on brazen plates.126 No suppliant multitude the countenance127 of Justice feared, averting, for they dwelt128 without a judge in peace.

      This reminds me of when Adam and Eve were in Eden before they ate from the tree of knowledge, and everything was peaceful for them.

    1. he appearance of new necessities out­modes previous "inspired" works. They become obstacles, dangerous habits. The point is not whether we like them or not. We have to go beyond them.

      This whole process reminds me of Mao's cultural revolution and the constant push to define a thesis, antithesis and synthesis. Wrt the redevelopment in the Powderhorn neighborhood which is best of the three, thesis (monument), antithesis (antimonument), or synthesis (something else)

    1. themselves

      "We don't want to teach children something that they can learn by themselves". This reminds me of a saying I heard (I don't remember the exact quote) that when you teach a child something that they could've done on their own, you also take away the child's joy in discovering what they know or are capable of.

    2. your relationship

      this reminds me of what we have learned about letting the child guide the learning and curriculum. In order to allow this to happen, you must have a relationship with the child that allows this flow of ideas and interests to be passed from the child to the teacher and to the environment

    1. On this extremely hot summer day, the ear-splitting siren screaming through New York’s streets is coming from the ambulance I’m in—on a gurney on my way to the ER. That only makes the siren, loud as it is, all the more alarming.

      this reminds me of the memoir draft we did. They are recalling the events that happened

    1. we’re just adding data and notreorganizing anything

      This reminds me so much of conceptual change processes, where one may have simple accretion, without changing underlying presuppositions and specific theories, vs more difficult theory revision to accommodate otherwise conflicting data.

    1. interrogate their assumptions about gender and cu

      This reminds me of our first reading in this class, discussing the role historians play. It is a good reminder going forward with reading this article.

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    1. If you were to discover that your Rolex is an inexpensive duplicate, you would experience the same effect.
      This reminds me of a conversation I overheard in high school where a few boys in my class were gossiping about one of their friends who had impressed everyone with his $700 rare Nike sneakers but was now ridiculed because someone found out they were actually $100 replicas.
       While I agree that without the story and emotion behind a luxury item, a dupe might be less enticing on a personal level I also think that owning a dupe is a social risk that would prevent someone from rewearing the hypothetical Rolex dupe. There is a risk in owning a knock-off luxury item in that if peers discover that the item is not genuine, it communicates that the owner is trying to pretend that they have enough wealth to purchase the item even though they only have enough for the cheaper knock-off.
        Going back to the sneaker example, the boy would have been more respected had he just worn a pair of genuine $100 Nike Air Force 1's because he would be emulating wealth he did have rather than wealth he didn't have. Instead his knock-offs marked him as a "poser."  
      
    2. Rather, we respond to what we believe are objects’ deeper properties, including their histories.

      I agree, it reminds me of a research assignment I did for my GESM on whether a person would spend a large amount of money (i.e hundred thousand dollars) to retrieve a lost watch they treasured which belonged to their grandfather, or to keep that large amount of money for themselves. Most of the people chose to spend it on retrieving the lost watch. History has value.

    1. As if to destroy the last vestige Of my memory and influence

      Reminds me of the adage one only really dies when their name is spoken for the last time. Creation and art certainly inspire a sense of immortality, and it is a tragedy to rob an artist of that sense.

    2. “What is the use of knowing the evil in the world?”

      This passage reminds me of the Henry Adams piece where he contemplates the usefulness of knowledge. Does increased knowledge lead to increased understanding? Or is it the opposite? The idea of knowing creates a confusion.

    1. on’t nobody want to die, ever.”

      This reminds me of a training I attended about suicide ideation. The facilitators said something to the effect of, "Most people who die by suicide don't actually want to die, they just want the suffering to end."

      That statement resonates for me here.

    1. Anyone seeking to understand thehistory and growth of conservation biology thusfaces inherent challenges. Thefield has formedtoo recently to be viewed with historical detach-ment, and the trends shaping it are still toofluidto be easily traced.

      This reminds me of Dr. V and her views on entering any ESP related field. We have the ability to implement change and positivity to our natural world, but we also see A LOT of negativity that could turn one away from wanting to help.

    2. “All nature,”he wrote,“is linkedtogether by invisible bonds, and every organiccreature, however low, however feeble, howeverdependent, is necessary to the well-being of someother among the myriad forms of life with whichthe Creator has peopled the earth.

      Marsh's thinking is one that reminds me of early Native American cultures. Such cultures preached about the connectiveness between man and the natural world. What was taken from the earth was used in full and often returned. The linkage between nature and man has been slowly lost over time. Our disconnect from such areas has made humans think that all is for our advantage. It is astounding to think that once we were at the bottom of the pyramid and now are so high above it. Losing the connection with the natural world around us has created such divide.

    3. Its detractors regardedit as too theoretical, amorphous, and eclectic; toopromiscuously interdisciplinary; too enamored ofmodels; and too technique-deficient and data-poorto have any practical application (Gibbons 1992)

      This reminds me of critics of the term "sustainability" now. Many argue the concept is too abstract, theoretical, and interdisciplinary to actually amount to specific objectives. However, it seems like "sustainability" is now emerging as a new concept the same way "conservation biology" was. Now, "sustainability" is considered an important part of a business model, and it is a major or minor at many colleges.

    1. are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent,

      Poets and kings reminds me of Plato's thought that only when philosophers become kings will there be true peace. Poets become the beacons of understanding society and the past, left with the burden of deciding what is worth in their lives to write about. They become our markers of time, conveying the zeitgeist of each era.

    1. This required creating buttons that I programmed to allow readers to branch off from their present reading style.      

      I hadn't thought of or really ever learned about this concept or non linear texts but I definitely want to look further into it and see things presented in a different way than I'd ever put them. Whenever I see things in a different light, my mind is blown because it reminds me the way I'm used isn't the only way, which I can sometimes get caught up in, and it is so refreshing to see other ways of doing things or learn that other people do them so differently from me.

    1. Puerto Rico forces players to investigate a constantly shiftinggame environment, use an inquiry-like process of considering options, and evaluate both theirgame play and the play of others.

      This reminds me of Catan or Risk, those games definitely have niche players that enjoy to be challenged rather than those kids that state they "don't like to think" when playing games.

    1. The published map contains only the new names of Cambridge public spaces, along with the reasons why people renamed particular places

      I like this concept--giving the current citizens of a place the power to rename these public spaces gives them a certain power--because names have power. I think this speaks to appropriate representation of the community because only these people know the lived experience of their own spaces.

      This reminds me of some other changes--not necessarily name changes--that are finally happening today, for example when we see the overdue removal of Confederate statues, renaming places named after Confederate figures, and the redesign of the $20 bill to feature Harriet Tubman instead of Jackson. I think these changes, though they don't actually change the overall spaces or worth of these object/places, have significant impact on the associated meanings and values. These examples, like the name changes discussed in this article, represent a wave of changing culture that more accurately represents a changing demographic of citizens.

    1. Unwanted and unprotected, Russian Jews saw little hope for improve-ments in their native land. Indeed, the czarist government pointed to emi-gration as a solution open to Jews.

      This reminds me of how during slavery in the United States, the Pan African movement was happening and Lincoln encouraged the idea of all African Americans being freed and sent to Africa

    1. Transclusion would make this whole scenario quite different. Let's imagine this again...

      Many in the IndieWeb have already prototyped this using some open web standards. It's embodied in the idea of media fragments and fragmentions, a portmanteau of the words fragment and Webmention.

      A great example can be found at https://www.kartikprabhu.com/articles/marginalia

      This reminds me that I need to kick my own server to fix the functionality on my main site and potentially add it to a few others.

    1. the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.

      Reminds me of Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed

    1. To be sure, memory defined history, ethics and art well before the late nineteenth century.

      This reminds me of the idea of history being "written by the victors." That is, in order to maintain one's memory and use it in a meaningful manner, one must be:

      • Alive.
      • Physically able to communicate.
      • Socially able to communicate meaningfully (I.E., in power, possessing the privilege needed to communicate meaningfully)

      To avoid repeating past mistakes, one must look back at one's memory, or, baring that, history. History is crafted from the recorded memories of those who lived it.

    1. am absolutely forbidden to “work”

      Having the word “work” in quotes makes it seem like her husband and/or brother directly demanded she doesn’t get a job, which is a total restraint on her economic freedom. This concept of limiting someone’s economic freedom based on race or gender reminds me of context discussed in DuBois’ piece from our last Thursday reading.

    2. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern. I don’t like it a bit. I wonder—I begin to think—I wish John would take me away from here!

      John is always dismissing anything the narrator says as he's a man of facts and science which reminds me of Adam's realization that those of science and facts can be so narrow-minded. So it is interesting to see that the narrator wishes for John when she find herself imagining a women behind the wallpaper.

    3. It is always the same shape, only very numerous.

      The sight of this shape, that the speaker later calls a woman creeping, reminds me of the ghosts or spectres Du Bois and Adams have talked about. Unlike Du Bois, this spectre is a bit more tangible in a sense that the protagonist sees, or at least believes to see, it.

    4. but one expects that in marriage

      The tone of the text begins with the idea that marriage is a lopsided power dynamic. Men know better and women are seen as ignorant. This reminds me of Mary Astell's A Serious Proposal to the Ladies and Adams' point that education and ignorance grow alongside each other . Astell argues that men inhibit women from learning which forces women to rely on men while still asking the question 'why are women not smart?' This act of contradiction is seen in this story with John forcing the protagonist to stay in a room, which is liken to a prison, and the husband is surprised by the end of the story that his wife has gone insane.

    5. he hates to have me write a word.

      The narrator is not allowed to express herself freely. She cannot be her true self. This reminds me of Du Bois' 'Of Our Spiritual Strivings' in which he talks of double consciousness-- two identities. He also describes an invisible "veil" that separates races which could be applied here too. The narrator is trapped behind a veil, separated from the rest of society; women separated from men and considered lesser than.

    1. Tush, tush,

      I have never heard such an expression before, and after looking it up and finding out it mean disapproval it reminds me of the saying pish posh which would mean some one is speaking nonsense.

    1. It is that for an audience that runs well into the millions every week, it is blurring the line between justice and social bullying.

      This reminds me of the article we read in our textbook. The Buzzfeed article about online bullying and outing people.

    1. Perfectionism won’t let me pick a background color for weeks, envy will distract me with foolhardy attempts at others’ success, simple laziness will keep me in bed watching episodes of “Chopped” 15 times.

      I like how she gives the adjectives personalities, reminds me of madman, architect, and judge

    1. Start by considering the following questions: How do the people in my PLN add to my professional growth? How often do I engage with them? What perspectives do they offer me? My PLN? Am I missing any perspectives that might help my professional growth? In what ways do I interact with the people in my network? (e.g., am I just following others and reading social media posts or am I engaging in thoughtful conversations with my PLN?)

      When it comes to who we want in our PLN, I think we take it lightly when new information comes across. These following questions are great guidelines of questioning if what we are putting out there (in the social world) enough to be reliable and effective? This just reminds me of having my old HS teachers on FB who would comment on each others post. Comments about of how great one is by taking different approaches to the curriculum. I think there should be more than just praising and actually considering taking in different approaches/perspectives seriously. A penny for your thoughts...

    2. you can use an Internet search engine, such as Google, Yahoo!, Bing, or DuckDuckGo, to see if you can find a tool or app to meet your teaching needs.

      This sentence reminds me that nowadays, when we look for apps or tools, we will download them directly from the app store or listen to the introduction of colleagues or friends. We have neglected the function that search engines can bring.

    1. Indeed, most studies of design practice suggest the opposite-that designers must adapt to the particularities of a given project, and that models and theories may faciliate this undertaking in some ways, but have limited applicability and underspecify what is needed to produce fin­ished design document or learning environment (Wislon, 2013; Yanchar, South, Williams, Allen, & Wilson , 2010). As some outside of e field of instructional design have argued, designing is unpredictable, designer flexibility and adaptation are crucial, and creative problem solving is required

      This point reminds me of the ideas presented in the Most Likely to Succeed video - mostly that, the job market is evolving and developing rapidly, and unless a creative human being is required to get something done, that job may be obsolete soon. It is encouraging to read here that ID is one of those fields that cannot be automatized, but rather, one that requires the innovative thinking only a human can bring to the table.

    2. lived and embodied rather than codified in a manual or textbook

      This reminds me of one teacher in the video that stated we have this idea of what the learning should look like, but that is not their idea. We have to allow students creativity.

    3. exploring ways of engaging learners, presenting subject matter

      Considering the audience and how all learners learn differently is key. This reminds me of in the video when the learner was bored in a typical classroom setting.

    4. becoming familiar with unfamiliar situations

      This reminds me of when my school's technologist brings new ideas for teachers to try with our students. She presents the new app or technology to be used and gives us time to explore in on our own and ask questions, then we take it and try it with our students in the same manner.

    5. Organizational support could also come in the form of work time allocated to some of the learning exercises I have previously mentioned, such as self-study and access to resources that enable designers to expand their horizons, including scholarly and practitioner-based design literature, professional dialogue (conferences, Webinars, etc.), and co-worker discussion time built into the work schedule.

      This reminds me of how our team designates specific time for professional development. In the Learning Design and Technology department, we have dedicated groups that are centered around our continued learning. These groups are called Growth Partners. Each week, small groups explore new ID topics that interest them individually and collectively, they discuss and provide feedback on each others projects and we research solutions to departmental and organization issues from a training and development standpoint.

    1. Theyneed to explore the various social and culturalgroups to which they belong, including thoseidentified with race, ethnicity, social class, lan-guage,andgender.Theyalsoneedtoinspectthenature and extent of their attachments to thosegroups and how membership in them hasshaped their personal and family histories.

      This section reminds me of a lesson I learned in a teaching class in college. We examined our own identities through mapping and how they affect and interact with our other identities. Through this lesson, we were able to visualize how our personal beliefs and perceptions of the world were influenced by our backgrounds. I believe this could be a valuable lesson in my classroom, as an objective approach to self-reflection.

      -Whitney Cwieka

    1. “He doesn’t speak French at all – he just learned the words,” his close friend Liz Fagerlund told the New Zealand Herald. “He won’t know what they mean, wouldn’t be able to carry out a conversation in French, I wouldn’t think.”

      This quote reminds me of the potential harm in forcing kids to learn correct spelling and grammar, over focusing on understanding and context builders. Someone may have perfect form or skill, but that doesn't mean they are actually literate.

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    1. However, if we want to take video games seriously as a family of semioticdomains in which one can learn to be literate, we face an immediate problem.Many people who don’t play video games, especially older people, are sure tosay that playing video games is “a waste of time.”

      The waste of time arguement reminds me a lot of people who used to say graphic novels are a waste of time or not real reading. I think this mindset negates the many benefits of different types of media, just because they don't fit perfectly into traditional views.

    2. It might seen odd to call basketball a semiotic domain.However, in basketball, particular words, actions, objects, and images take ondistinctive meanings. In basketball, “dribble” does not mean drool; a pick

      This kind of reminds me of slang. Two different people might use the same word but have a different meaning for the same word.

    3. It can mean yet other things inother situations, and sometimes we have to come up with novel meanings forthe word; for example in a sentence like “Her coffee skin glistened in thebright sunshine,”“coffee” names a skin color.

      This reminds me of people referencing the word tea, not as a drink, but as an expression used to talk about drama. I hear people say "let me give you the tea" when they are about to talk about something interesting that happened.

    4. Because if youknow the design grammar—that is, the underlying principles and patternsthat determine what counts and what doesn’t count as a piece of modernistarchitecture—you can make judgments about buildings you have never seenbefore or even ones never actually built, but only modeled in cardboard. If allyou have is a list, you can’t make any judgments about anything that isn’t onyour list

      This is probably silly, but this reminds me how I feel when trying to do simple math in my head. When I was going through grade school and learning multiplication tables, we were basically taught to memorize the table, so I am really good at multiplication within the realm of that table, but when you start asking me what 13x14 is I have to pause and really think about it. This reminds me a lot of how I feel in that situation.

    1. If everyday design were ruled by aesthetics, Iife might be more pleasing to the eye but less comfortable; if ruled by useability, it might be more comfortable but uglier. If cost or ease of manufacture dominated, products might not be attractive, functional, or durable’. Clearly, each consideration has its place. Trouble occurs when one dominates all the others. (Norman, 1988, p.151)

      This reminds me of our module 1 discussion regarding the definition of a 21st century learner.

    2. For designers who work in organizations with a quality orientation, there is a keen awareness of the need to satisfy their clients in terms of producing products that meet and even exceed their expectations

      This reminds me of the Chick fil a vs. McDonald's debate. You will be fed at both, but where are your expectations met vs exceeded? The experience adds to the quantity.

    1. they’re still surviving and still thriving. 

      This reminds me of when I see videos, on TikTok for example, I saw a native group eating whale and people not apart of that culture were being defensive of the animal yet they know nothing about that culture. These groups survive and have survived for centuries using the same techniques yet individuals choose to be ignorant first rather than learn.

    1. We in this class acknowledge that we have failed to live compassionately to some degree.

      This section up to this point, and this sentence in particular, reminds me of something written by CS Lewis where he discussed the concept of moral law. I believe this was in his book "Mere Christianity." While I was unable to find the exact passage to share here, what he talked about (in general terms) was how interesting it that we universally hold moral ideals within us as something to strive for and simultaneously fail to meet them.

    2. It is also necessary in both public and private life to refrain consistently and empathically from inflicting pain

      I'm probably over-thinking this, as this article is overall sharing the importance of keeping compassion in mind as we move forward in this class and through reading this text together, but the language of this article is interesting, and strong. When it states that we should "refrain empathically from inflicting pain", I really considered that, because it brings up that how our words affect others, in ways we don't always consider. I hadn't thought how that could be relevant when communicating in a class, necessarily, because the main content discussed should be related to the class's subject, and not really anything else. But it reminds me that harm can be done with our words and statements, both intentional and thoughtless, and I need to consider this each time I post.

    3. We in this class acknowledge that we have failed to live compassionately to some degree.

      As previously aforementioned, the goal of compassion is to alleviate and avoid the infliction of pain upon others. As stated in the bible, he who has not sinned shall cast the first stone. Thus the pledge we are being asked to take reminds me that no one is without fault, but that we should go forward in life and in this class with an open minded attitude towards self improvement. It also makes me think of todays current social state, of the duality between political correctness and what is felt to be an oversensitivity in younger generations.

    4. Take responsibility for the effects of your words

      This reminds me of something my mother taught me when I was younger, "words have power". Sometimes you say something and your message doesn't reach the other person and other times the person misunderstands what you have said. When this happens it is important that you take responsibility and repair the damage you have caused and clear up any misunderstandings. If you don’t you might lose a friend or someone else that is important to you. If all goes well there will be no animosity, you will be able to learn about each other, and both of you will be able to properly speak with each other with less misunderstandings in the future.

    5. The principle of compassion lies at the heart of all religious, ethical, and spiritual traditions, calling us always to treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves.

      We are often surrounded by an environment where compassion is taught. When we show our kindness we are often helping many people who rely on the support they get from others to have a happy life. Showing compassion can be as simple as having a comforting attitude when talking to a peer. People have different comfort zones as well, so when we show our compassion we also have to learn to adapt. Not everyone is the same when it comes to responding to an act of kindness. The "...treat all others as we wish to be treated ourselves..." reminds me of the Golden Rule which was taught all throughout elementary school. Through that rule we build our relationships with peers and had positive attitudes.

    1. You want to make a good first impression on your friends and family, instructors, and employer.

      This reminds me of how it was when you were in grade school and even high school and you would make sure to plan ahead as to what you were going to wear on the first day of school. The goal was often to make a good impression on your peers and teachers. The same principles can be applied to when you are older and entering into a more professional first day/first meeting as well!

    1. Your job is proximity; if you are near your Designated Mate, recording his private speech, you are succeeding.

      Every part of this so far seems very formulaic. There are "rules" so to speak on how to do everything, what to avoid, what to do, etc. It reminds me of a spy trying to infiltrate somewhere.

    1. I'm ambivalent about the term queer. I think it's useful in certain ways-it has the cringe factor. it's confrontational. And there is some-thing about the experience ofbeing an outsider that's embedded in the word. When you throw it back in people's faces, it can produce a cer-tain sense of empowerment. It also has limitations. In some ways, it reminds me of the word gay. I worked really hard to get lesbian into usage, and so did a lot of people who came before me. Lumping us together [with gay men] erases the differences, the inequalities be-tween US.1

      disproval of lumping of using umbrella terms for lesbian, such as gay or queer.

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    1. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half truths, prejudices, and propaganda.

      Synthesis: Reminds me of history classes. Lots of half truths, shows America being a great country that's not perfect. But there's a lot more skeletons in the closet, so to speak.

    1. memorial spaces conceived to challenge the very premise of the monument’ (Y

      this kind of reminds me of the John F. Kennedy Art Center in DC, which is intended to be a lively, constantly changing and growing cultural and artistic mecca rather than a static monument

    2. a statue re-mains a piece of art until it is embedded into the social practices of society

      Reminds me of what Michael Asher did with the George Washington statue, but in reverse

    1. no space without time

      this is a bit tangential but this reminds me of Proust quote where he talks about memories being outside of time and so I believe that space can exist without time in our own reconstructions of memory

    2. these are people "in the form of the city,"

      This reminds me of the Michael Asher art piece where his invitation for people to just go see the George Washington piece in the mayor's office reminded the public that in fact, they can stroll in to the mayor's office because it is a public building. TLDR: often the public forgets the public space is public when there's a disconnect when we start to associate such spaces with power

    3. public art can present itself as the voice of marginal cultures,

      this is a really great point, and reminds me of a lot of the community art I see around various Minneapolis/St. Paul neighborhoods, particularly around Lake Street. There's an urgency to present marginalized voices, to make them visible - it seems that this for me is more of a function of public art than to de-design.

    4. New York doesn't belong to us, and neither does Paris, and neither does Des Moines.

      It is interesting to consider that what is often public is not necessarily owned by the public itself. While people may be able to access a certain space, they do not have a fundamental right to it. What then are the conditions of ownership if a group can convene there but do not have the inherent right to be there? This reminds me of the Occupy Wall Street protests and the tension between a space that is technically public but is not owned by the public itself.

    1. The double-aimed struggle of the black artisan—on the one hand to escape white contempt for a nation of mere hewers of wood and drawers of water, and on the other hand to plough and nail and dig for a poverty-stricken horde

      Throughout the piece DuBois continuously uses these binaries to convey the struggles that black people face. This 'double-consciousness' means there is never any security either socially or mentally. It reminds me of the dichotomy between the Dynamo and Virgin, the direct contrast between science and the arts

    2. It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.

      It's like Du Bois is speaking of his own life in the third-person perspective to illuminate what being oppressed feels like to someone who hasn't had to suffer through it. Racist stereotypes are ingrained in everyone's subconscious from a young age, which reminds me of the comparison Adams makes between technology and faith where one is physically there and the other is composed of an embedded knowledge.

    3. I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep through; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows

      This reminds me of the opening sentence in "The Dynamo and the Virgin," where Adams begins with"UNTIL the Great Exposition of 1900 closed its doors in November, Adams haunted it, aching to absorb knowledge, and helpless to find it," because Du Bois uses this ghostly language to describe feeling isolated from his peers throughout his childhood and how that's impacted his growth.

    4. the contradictory advice of friends and foes

      Given what I think this sentence is listing off, I wonder if the contradictory nature of this advice is coming from friends and conflicting with those of foes, or if the advice of both parties are equally as contradictory and unhelpful. If it's the latter, it would be yet another example of that sort of "half-hesitant sort of way" that even the most innocuous of non-black people of Du Bois' time would approach the topic of race to him and others ("they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town," which reminds me of that line, "By the way, I would have voted for Obama a third time if I could," from Get Out).

    5. this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others

      A strong observation of experienced racial oppression (where it is so ingrained in your everyday life that it is inseparable from your own consciousness) that, in comparing it to the text by Adams, reminds me of that author's comparison of faith with technology as it becomes his "present"—granted, of course, Du Bois's philosophy addresses a more immediate and devastating effect on the people involved

    1. Connolly (1983) has argued, conceptions of democracy and citizenship have been and will likely always be debated – no single formulation will triumph.

      This passage reminds me of the bipartisanship currently taking place in the US. I am interested to see how this article will describe the disagreements that also occur in education. -Alejandro Zamorano

    1. white Americans evoked the imag- ined "new negro crime" of raping white women in order to legitimize violence upon African American bod- ies6; white lynch mobs called forth an image of the black male rapist in order to justify the torture and mutilation of black men.

      We see this so much nowadays when innocent black men are killed and they decide to put images of them with their mug shots or write headlines that dehumanize them to try and justify why they were killed. This reminds me of a quote by Seyhan that said "Despite footage of a white police officer singling out and physically abusing black teenagers at a pool party in Texas, claims in defence of the police -such as that the teenagers had smoked weed and acted like hooligans and the local residents were in fear – surfaced on social media." it's like no matter what is done to black people, they will find a way to justify the obvious racist behavior towards them and will always paint them as dangerous and bad people.

    2. a constant conscious reworking of the terms under which we unconsciously look at the objects that people our visual landscape

      This reminds me of what was talked about in lecture about being aware that our experiences shape how we are going to consume media. What makes me curious is how to ensure that the creator is able to get their point across without it being diffused by others perceptions?

    3. The pho- tographs begin to disrupt the authority of white observers by collapsing the distance between viewers and objects under view that is held traditionally to empower observers

      This reminds me of Seyhan's text where it is mentioned that the photos are taking place in city streets not far from the ordinary life of the public

    4. "The camera was the cen- tral instrument by which blacks could disprove representations of us created by white folks

      Quote: This reminds me of Toni Morrison's idea of centrality. The centrality of the camera gives us the autonomy the documentation of a presence, identity in time.

    1. I vowed never to talk with him about vaccines again.Then came 2020. Fear of the vaccine may be the greatest barrier to stopping Covid-19.

      Reminds me of a classmate I knew who thought (and still thinks) the virus is a hoax to take away other's rights. Others including myself tried to convince him otherwise, but he still believes this.

    1. It respectfully resists the notion that scholarship speaks outside of time, space, and the physicality of the human body.  It is actively engaged in  the task of creating an audience-–even a mass audience--for humanistic learning.

      This reminds me of the messiness of public/digital history taking place on social media. Earlier commentators on this thread were speaking about the possibility of a third wave of digital history, or if the stated goals of this second wave have been achieved -- I think in some ways we can see this hoped for expansiveness in the current way people use history online.

    1. brotherhood.

      This reminds me of the type of language used within Blue Lives Matter and militaristic alt-Right groups to describe their camaraderie. It serves to strengthen bonds and link them to that of a familial tie. This allows for the excusing of violence in the name of self-defense while also weakening their ties to being forces of terror.

    2. Mexicanappearance"asameasureforidentifyingunauthorizedbordercrossers.

      Phenotypically-driven violence has existed for ages and has proved time and time again that it is a violent attack on someone's right to exist in the body they were born in. This reminds me of this article published in the Public i from 2011, in which the “Secure Communities” program resulted in a mass of wrongful detentions of Latinx residents of Urbana-Champaign. A woman named Maria was wrongfully held in jail long after the 48-hour period in which ICE was supposed to pick her up. Both the sherriff and leuitenant (spelling?) in charge were extremely dismissive to her rights, aiming to keep the single mother jailed indefinitely if it weren't for the help of the local community. Disgusting.

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    1. All   everything   home

      The idea "all everything home" reminds me of the idea of energy transfer following death. The idea is that the body contains our soul essence, when we leave this body we return to a collective consciousness it is described as feeling "like home". This would make sense as the author refers to the singularity which seems distant from human worldly suffering and closer to what we think of as "home".

    2. Can molecules recall it?

      This question/idea is really cool to think about. The idea of memory or data held or stored inside of a on living object. It reminds me of a video I watched on youtube that was talking about how scientist were able to encode 3d printing g-code into an objects chemical makeup. So they are able to take a sample of that object and analyze it to acquire the same g-code that was used to print that very object to print another replica. It's like have the instructions to make something embedded into its dna/chemical makeup. Cool stuff.

    1. I so describe your dressing room The very Irish shall not come.” She answered short, “I’m glad you'll write. You'll furnish paper when I shite.”

      Strephon's character reminds me on an incel, he is the type of man who wants a partner. But thinks of himself so highly and mighty that he is unable to even please a woman due to his own narcissism.

    1. notion of reflexivity in research, a process of critical self­awareness, reflexivity and openness to challenge.

      again, reminds me of the ethnographers, who understand themselves as part of the research

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    1. We need to praise their effort and ability. If you come from a community where you have never received messages like that from faculty members and educators, it’s important at some point to be able to hear, you know what? You have the ability to do this. I believe in your ability to do this.”

      This reminds me of when I was in high school and teachers would encourage me. It definitely does have a powerful affect on people. It’s encouraging and empowering. I feel if professors ,teachers even bosses told their students or employees something encouraging , something to make them want to keep going and do better , there would definitely be more successful people around.

    1. beautiful adaptations

      These two words just called out because it truly is amazing at the grandeur of forms that life has taken, reminds me of the Bryson reading on how everything that makes us up doesn't really care or even know that we exist but still works towards it

    1. It states, in part, that an avaricious individual, or just a naive and easily deceived one, is fair game for those who are sharper, quicker witted, or more worldly.

      This statement reminds me of the saying, 'I don't need to run fast, I just need to run faster than you.' You outsmart the naive to get what you want. Success in America is only fit for the sharp, quick witted, and more worldly people that will do what it takes to get ahead in life.

    1. he constantly repeated that the new forces were anarchical, and especially that he was not responsible for the new rays

      Langley seems unable to help Adams understand the dynamo because he doesn't know much about it either. HE didn't make them, so how can he know about it? It almost reminds me of a child who asks his parents a question, only to be disillusioned upon discovering they don't know how to answer their question either. It makes figuring out the answer that much harder.

    2. the Virgin had acted as the greatest force the Western world ever felt,

      This paragraph about the power of the virgin reminds me a bit of Zen Buddhism or non duality. That mere existence is more powerful than the mechanics below it. The present is more powerful than the progress of the future. Pure being is unmatched by discovery.

    3. the dynamo itself was but an ingenious channel for conveying somewhere the heat latent in a few tons of poor coal hidden in a dirty engine-house carefully kept out of sight; but to Adams the dynamo became a symbol of infinity. As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos

      Although the imagery of the Dynamos is ambiguous in many ways, i feel the description Adams is using for a force of power within the Dynamos can be related to a train. When he speaks of the coal, dirty engine, and forty foot dynamos it reminds me of the power a coal powered train can attain. I feel the Dynamos almost encompasses the power and imagery of the male’s presence.

    1. This idea of contrary consultant - playing the fool archetype - is helpful because it reminds me that… there is no choice. Indie consultants are often not just outsiders but perpetual outsiders. There’s a value in being contrary - but there’s no way out for perpetual outsiders. We’re often weirdos and oddballs who can’t help but question and poke the status quo… So creating a sense of purpose, identity and acting that “resolves” this tension is deeply important.

      You say there is no choice to be a Jester, but I would ask if there’s other successful role responses to the information that we’re perpetual outsiders? What do you think those might be?

    1. Luis, a skinny dark-haired 13-year-old boy, sits at a computer station in the back corner of the room with a set of plastic action fi gures from the X-men comic series, a basket of play dough, and an Intel Digital Blue stop-animation camera. He is producing his latest movie.

      It's interesting reading abot this clubhouse, thinking about all the potential kids have! It reminds me of a video about a kids inveniting a diy at home air conditioner using a bucket of water and a fan.

    1. He collects their scattered parts in order to construct apatchwork body, unaware that the prostitutes’memories and identitieslive on in their remains. Although the new Elizabeth feels‘so strange’atthere being‘so many different women inside’her, she does not expresshorror or reject them.

      This reminds me of the science fiction novel series, Unwind. In the books, a procedure called "unwinding" is a way for a person to essentially have all of their body parts be able to be used as donor parts. (Literally everything.) The thing that is creepy though, is a part of that person's memories lives on in whatever is donated.

    1. It is about relating the past to the present.

      This is what changed my mind about history. When I was being taught history in grade school I couldn't understand why it was an important subject. To me it seemed like a class where they just wanted us to be able to recite important people, dates, and events, thats how our tests were structured, so I never got anything more out of history besides that. As the world got more crazy and it began to feel like we were living through history and I started to take college history classes I got a new understanding and appreciation for history. History is the lense in which we contextualize the world we live in now. It reminds us that no major event that we see in the news today is born out of nothing, we can look back at our past and see the steps that were taken to create the climate that we live in.

    1. “It was the father who pushed the son out of the way.”

      With each new person the story goes through the more it is changed. Kind of reminds me of a game of telephone where the details are slightly changed with each new retelling until the point where it is completely different than the original.

    2. There are happy sighs of relief. As the howling grows louder, the people around the child also come to life: it is as if they have been liberated. They rush to join the crowd by the body.

      Reminds me of when a child is born and people are relieved to hear crying.

    1. ou come to understand how your positionality exists in relation to others; y

      I think this is a good quote, this reminds me of a textbook I am reading for an English course, Writing in Transfer. The book discusses how we can all read something yet we can all view it in different ways. Depending on our pasts, we can all view our lives differently.

    1. When you said poor did you mean prison?

      This line caught my attention. As my understanding, living in poverty can feel like being in prison because you will be restricted to do a lot of things. In todays world, everything we do, we do it so that we can live wealthier and better. Every poor individual wants to escape poverty and rise to the top. This line also reminds me of an article "The rich get richer and poor get prison" by Jeffrey Reiman where he portrays the unfairness of being poor. For example, Homeless and poor people are mostly the one who commits crime and steal to feed themselves which leads them to jail.

    1. Accordingly, I challenge the view that Latin@s, like previous generations of immigrants before them (Italians, Polish, etc.), will assimilate, for it does not concur with a nuanced consideration of the lived experiences of migrants who are, to cite Fanon, “overdetermined from without.”®

      I'm curious to see what is argued in the view that Latin@s will eventually assimilate with the Europaean majority that was once segmented into multiple othered groups. I agree with Hernandéz's use of Fanon's quote, as it exemplifies that one's Black/brownness are inescapable to the opressor. No matter how "white" one presents themselves, the oppressor will see past that because one's phenotypical features serve as a marker of illegitimacy to their capabilities of success. Europaean groups that were once minorities were able to surpass that due to thier whiteness, whereas groups with more "ethnic" features cannot escape their classification of other.

      This reminds me of the countless times I've been micro(and macro)aggressed. When I was 14, I went to a garage sale in the suburb of Niles, IL. I elected to play the alto sax in my beginning band class, and just so happened to find a cute saxophone pin at the sale. While making small talk with the older white woman running the sale, she said "Oh! That's so unique of you to play saxophone, you don't see that from Mexican girls". My expression as well as the silence to follow caused her to fumble in a poor explanation for her comment, which felt lowkey empowering. Despite that, it served as one of many moments that proved to me that opressors see my successes as prefixed by my ethnic identity, not prefixed by my own abilities.

    1. great the noise of the multitude, many a meadhall full of festivity, until Fate the mighty changed that. Far and wide the slain perished, days of pestilence came, death took all the brave men away;

      This reminds me of the current situation that we are in right now , you could see people all around the world laughing and having a great time and now due to the corona virus it has a changed and many people die daily.

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    1. countries achieved not independence but “colonial independences,” as the same colonial patterns of power (structured along class, race, gendered, and sexual lines) remained largely in place in newly created nation-states.”

      I think this statement is so powerful. It reminds me of comments like: "colonization happened years ago, get over it" Obviously, it happened years ago, but it doesn't mean that the aftermath wasn't brutal and tainting. Cultures were wiped and new ones forced. Fast forward to now, forms of modern coloniality include physical borders, which add to the narrative that one country, one economic level, deserves more at the other country's (and their people) expense. So thinking about the quote some more, yes, colonizers leave, but this identity of loss stays, and neighboring countries continue to take advantage of that.

    1. don’t use harsh words

      This reminds me of that story of a boy who was really angry with his father and said some pretty awful things. Later, after they had calmed down, the father took his son outside and gave him a piece of wood, a hammer, and a nail for every hurtful word his son had said. He instructed his son to hammer every nail into the piece of wood and, when he was finished, to take them back out again. When he was done, the son asked why his father made him do that. The father replied, "Every hurtful word you say is like a nail hammered in wood. They hurt and, even if you try to take them back, they leave marks that can never truly be fixed." It's important that we remember that when we're angry.

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    1. On one hand, producers are deeply enough embedded in their socialpractices that they can understand the texts associated with those practicesquite well. On the other hand, producers are often so deeply embedded intheir social practices that they take the meanings and values of the texts asso-ciated with those practices for granted in an unquestioning way.

      This is a really good point. This reminds me of conversations that I have with my PhD MicroBiologist sister, who doesn't always do a great job in speaking in laymen terms when it comes to scientific concepts, as she is involved in a world where everyone around her knows what is going on.

    1. When you said love did you mean loss?

      This line caught my attention on a personal level because living through these major world changes, has taught me a great deal about loving and loosing. This line also reminds me of a quote by Alfred Tennyson and he says " Its better to have loved and loss than to have never loved at all" and I couldn't agree more.

    1. If left on their own, students can experience a relative silence on their challenges and their PIF, and this silence is felt by

      This "silence" reminds me of a story I heard on NPR this morning that discussed this issue with first responders and how the pandemic is leaving them more isolated and less able to debrief on their difficult experiences with colleagues. I would imagine that similar challenges are being recognized in educators?

    1. The groups with racial diversity significantly outperformed the groups with no racial diversity.

      This reminds me of when i was put into a focus group to share my experiences living and growing up around a very diverse population then moving to a place with a lot of white people. It had the same outcome as far as benefit. I changed a lot of the white people's perspectives while also learning more about how they grew up.

    1. Scarce in a yeare their naturall forme obey: Pleasure or businesse, so, our Soules admit For their first mover, and are whirld by it.

      In these lines, the speaker claims man is still sinful and persuaded by pleasure and business. Man has to deal with external temptations that through them off course and people are easily influenced to give in to it. The spheres or in this cases men's souls should be fixated towards God and spiritual devotion, yet their spheres "are subject to forraigne motions". It reminds me of the alignment of planets, which are all perfectly set in motion with each other. Just as the planets have solid courses, man has to orbit around God; if anything were to disrupt the planet's courses, then there would be disarray. Men need to circle God and be good in order to have a solid course/foundation.

    2. I AM a little world made cunningly Of Elements, and an Angelike spright, But black sinne

      The speaker has good qualities or "elements and an Angelike spright", but he also harbors bad sin. Although he has good in him, the speaker must have both parts of him die. This reminds me of the story off Noah and the Arc. God had to flood the earth, washing out everything bad and possibly even some good.

    1. Every iteration of the boy-meets-bot love story is also a horror story. The protagonist, who is usually sexually frustrated and a grunt worker in his own right, goes through agonies trying to work out whether his sili-cone sweetheart is truly sentient. If she is, is it right for him to sleep with her? If she isn’t, can he can truly fall in love with her? Does it matter? And – most terrifying of all – when she works out her own position, will she rebel and how can she be stoppe

      TW// pedophilia, CP

      This reminds me of an article I read some time ago about rehabilitation for sex offenders, particularly pedophiles. One debate posed by the article was the question of animated child porn which someone touched on earlier today in class. If these men can express their desires through animated child porn that does not exploit children it could potentially help them from abusing real children. Is this even ethical? I personally have a gut reaction that says no. Theres also not enough research that says whether porn can be helpful in rehabilitating various sexual deviances etc, or if it actually causes addiction and makes this worse. This seems to connect specifically to the question of whether or not it is okay to fall in love with something that is not sentient, and does it even matter? These drawings are not sentient, so does it matter ethically if one exploits them?

    1. Keep a large diagram or page of notes handy that explains the big picture of what you’re learning and add to it each major concept you learn along the way.

      This reminds me of what we do in class with KWL graphic organizers.

    1. My own utter ignorance I confess without a pang. To know that you are ignorant is a valuable form of knowledge, and I am gradually accumulating a vast store of it.

      A classy way of admitting defeat. It reminds me of a certain paradox that says the least intelligent people think they know everything while the truly intelligent know their knowledge is inevitably limited. It's good to keep yourself in check (whether criticism forces you to or not) when you forget that you're only human. That's a hard lesson that all artists must learn at some point.

    1. By inviting their questions, we unleash the power of intrinsic motivation because all of us tend to develop more enthusiasm for, and ultimately become more skillful at, pursuing questions about which we’re genuinely curious than those handed to us by someone else.

      This reminds me of parents who always answer the "why" given to them by their children. They can say anything and their child would ask why and they'd always give them an answer. It shows that they're not only patient, but also willing to give answers.

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    1. Only the mountain has lived long enough to listen objectively to the howl of a wolf.

      In this statement it seems like Leopold is considering the mountain to be a physical being. Its like he us saying the mountains have ears and eyes. Reminds me of the saying many older people will say " If these walls could talk."

  7. www.englishtextualconcepts.nsw.edu.au www.englishtextualconcepts.nsw.edu.au
    1. at the end of which out come identical shoes or cups or pencils or whatever else is being manufactured.

      This so reminds me of the Alan Watt video! This is a sad but too often true representation of what our educational system has become. I am hopeful though that change is coming!!

    2. Feelings of belonging and feeling welcomed■ Feelings of being taken seriously and respected■ Feeling what it is like to understand some thingsbetter (or more deeply)■ Experience of applying their developing skills inpurposeful and meaningful ways■ Being intellectually engaged and challenged■ Experience of overcoming setbacks and obstacles■ Experience of offering suggestions to peers andhelping them understand something better■ Experience of taking initiative, appropriate respon-sibilities, making some choices, and so forth.

      This reminds me of the Boulder Journey School Charter of Rights, I wonder what our standards and curriculum would look like if our children were the master creators?

    3. manufactured

      Reminds me of a meme quote i saw the other day that was something like...I would have more faith in standardized education if i knew any standard children.

    4. even very young children can benefit from deep-ening their understanding of matters -

      This reminds me that the depth of encounters to explore their theories/questions has a deeper impact that surface level explanation. Deep encounters build true knowledge- the knowledge that we can revisit in our memory and draw on that for their future learning. Depth is infinitely more valuable than breadth.

    5. delivery' of the curriculum

      This reminds me of what Alison Maher said about the difference between covering the curriculum and uncovering the curriculum.

    6. on most days, a young child should feel welcomed

      This reminds me of Lisa Murphy's introduction to her work. Our job needs to encapsulate helping children fall in love with school before it gets too serious.

    7. Occa-sional experiences of that kind are likely to support the development of the disposition to seek in-depth understanding throu

      This reminds me of the goal of many ECE centers to develop life long learners, such a wonderful goal!

    8. It seems to me that using terms like outcomes and performance standards is based on an industrial or manufacturing analogy.

      Absolutely! Reminds me of so many other similar situations, like the prison-industrial complex. Education should not follow the same philosophical underpinnings as the manufacturing industry.

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    1. In their world, there is a size zero, and it's a status symbol

      This reminds me of stores like Brandy Melville. Their clothes are the trendiest for teenage girls, but they only come in one size, and it basically is designed to fit size 0s or 2s. Even just a size 4 is stretching it. Their jeans come in multiple sizes but are freakishly small. In high school, I tried on their jeans and while I was usually a size small or extra small in pants, I couldn't breathe in their mediums. Being able to fit into their clothes is like a status symbol because only the skinniest girls can wear the most stylish clothing.

    1. Technical communication is the delivery of technical information to readers (or listeners or viewers) in a manner that is adapted to their needs, level of understanding, and background.

      This sections reminds me of the importance of audience when planning a speech. The audience element being a focus in this curse as well as "translating" allows us to explore and develop new techniques.

    1. Researchers have not reliably established the prevalence of pornography use among youth under 18.

      This doesn't surprise me, but it reminds me that we actually have a need for more information regarding this age group and this content.

    1. Coping, workarounds, and solutions

      This just reminds me of how when corona first hit and all classes transferred online one of my professors was going to let us watch some movies, bring a clown in for 1 of the days in the class so much more, but all of those ideas got scrapped.

    1. n a context in which race usually refers to people of color, this article aims to provoke the field of English education to think of white people as having a race. Further, this piece is written in agreement with Richard Wright. Race is a white problem

      This reminds me of the premise of White Fragility. The author says that part of the problem is that white people are not used to thinking of themselves in racial terms--because they've never had to.

    1. Design mediates so much of our realities and has tremendous impact on our lives, yet very few of us participate in design processes. In particular, the people who are most adversely affected by design decisions—about visual culture, new technologies, the planning of our communities, or the structure of our political and economic systems—tend to have the least influence on those decisions and how they are made.

      I think this is incredibly important to note. It reminds me of a conversation about Betsey Devos as secretary of education in an education class I took. How can we have someone make decisions about the education system when they have not experienced what it is like to be a teacher? How can one make decisions about design justice if they have not experienced the injustice themselves?

    1. So you either give up or let someone holier than thou tell you "what it really says.

      Reminds me of our discussion about having a tough mind. People will often listen to others opinions and accept them without a second thought. It is important to question what a person thinks.

    1. The Ra groups states that karma can only be assuaged by incarnated beings in space/time who willingly seek to redress the imbalance through the “process of acceptance, forgiveness, and, if possible, restitution. The restitution not being available in time/space, there are many among your peoples now attempting restitution while in the physical” (26.30). Ra continues, “These [people who restitute] attempt feelings of love towards the planetary sphere, and comfort and healing of the scars, and the imbalances of these actions” (26.31).

      Reminds me of the importance of having a "reckoning" before having a "reconciliation".

    1. The internet was built by the U.S. military at the height of the Cold War and privatized into corporate America at the peak of anglophone neoliberal hegemony. Both of those things matter.

      This reminds me of Wendy Hui Kyong Chun‘s work

    1. What language do we use to describe the person or persons who drive the contemplative initiative in our community? Leader? Facilitator? Contemplative wisdom carrier? Other? What impact does that language have on the whole group? How might people feel included or excluded based on this language?

      Reminds me of NCS again as the title of the role changes from year to year it used to be 'team leader' but when i last ran a programme it was 'mentor' - which was a bit nicer as we had senior mentors and mentors.

    1. Children's relationships and interactions within a system.

      This reminds me of Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model, which can be applied to child development. The model represents his theory that growth is a product of the interaction between the individual and their environment.

    1. We must realize that their view of the world, manifested variously in their action, reflects their situation in the world.

      I’m not completely sure if I’m analyzing this quote right, but I chose it because it reminds me of how oftentimes people end up in prison not because they are inherently bad people, but rather because of their situation in society. This quote is saying that we need to understand that the actions of oppressed people reflect how they are treated by society. This quote ties in both to the documentary It’s Criminal and to what Angela Davis explains in Are Prisons Obsolete?. In Its Criminal Malika talks about how when she gets out of prison she will most likely need to sell drugs again in order to make a living. Because she was incarcerated she is very unlikely to find a job that will hire her and she won't be able receive government assistance. She is stuck in a cycle of crime because it is the only way she can survive in society. In Are Prisons Obsolete, Angela Davis says “Mass imprisonment generates profits as it devours social wealth, and thus it tends to reproduce the very conditions that lead people to prison” (Davis, 17). The criminal justice system actively keeps people oppressed and creates a generational cycle of imprisonment. This comes back to the quote in the beginning, incarcerated people’s actions are not completely determined by their character but rather their situation in society and the active oppression they are subjected to.

    1. That chunk, however, contained a statement that changed my reading life forever

      This opening paragraph reminds me of something Will Schwalbe wrote in the Introduction to Books for Living : "You can learn something from the very worst books – even if it is just how crass and base, or boring and petty, or cruel and intolerant the human race can be. Or even if its just one gleaming insight in a muddy river of words."

      The power of annotation is the one gleaming insight Anderson gleaned from the book.

      An excerpt of the Intro can be read as a short essay in the Guardian: The things we can really learn from books

    1. Let’s make a movie called Dinosaurs in the Hood.Jurassic Park meets Friday meets The Pursuit of Happyness.

      Smith decides to call the movie "Dinosaurs in the Hood" which reminds me of the movie, Boyz n the Hood. Later in the poem, Smith states that he wants Dinosaurs in the Hood to be the opposite of Boyz n the Hood.

    1. Although Clando has been called Teno's first fiction film, the writer/director refuses the label. "All of my films are documentaries," he says, since for him cinema always addresses contemporary concerns. H

      I find this statement ridiculous and pompous. It reminds me of Kahn's sense of objectivity or incorruptibility. He may not have meant it literally, but a documentary is a specific branch of narrative media. More artists than not address or deal with contemporary concerns in their work. That's not even what a documentary is; it isn't a film that deals with contemporary concerns.

      It reads like he believes he is so objective in his search to render the Truth as he sees it that all his films should be considered documentaries. No, they shouldn't, because they're not. Talented as he is, he is one of thousands of artists aiming to render their perception of Truth.

    1. huginn: great example of a user-friendly tool

      User-friendly in the sense it gives you a UI, but lots of clicks and UI to get something done.

      Also more of a "do random things not worth programming" tool, and less of a "run all of my scripts and processes" tool.

      Doesn't seem to fit well with the rest of the page.

      Reminds me of programming in Tasker on Android. My non-programmer friend automates (almost) everything in his life with it, but I try to use it and it frustrates the hell out of me and I just want a scripting language.

    1. Reviewer #2:

      This manuscript by Diamanti et al. describes their study on how visual neurons responded to identical visual stimuli at two different locations along a virtual linear track. Extending their previous result that spatial location modulates the neuronal activities in the primary visual cortex (V1), they now demonstrate that similar spatial modulation also occurred in the higher visual areas (HVAs), but not so much in a lower visual area, the lateral geniculate nucleus (LGN). In addition, they show that the modulation, measured by a spatial modulation index (SMI), was stronger when animals had more experience in the track and when the animals were actively performing a task rather than passively viewing the same virtual track. The authors have been responsive to comments by previous reviewers at a different journal. Data are appropriately analyzed and clearly presented.

      Since the finding that visual neurons are spatially modulated similarly as hippocampal place cells in spatial navigation tasks (Ji and Wilson, 2007; Haggerty and Ji, 2015; Fiser at al, 2016; Saleem at al, 2018), there has been increasing interest in identifying the source(s) of this modulation. This study adds new evidence to this puzzle, suggesting that it is more likely either generated within the visual cortex or top-down propagated from higher brain areas, rather than bottom-up propagated from the thalamus. This is an important contribution. However, there are concerns, mainly on the data interpretation and the clarification of the main conclusion, as elaborated below.

      1) Because experience and task engagement enhanced spatial modulation, the authors concluded in the abstract that "Active navigation in a familiar environment, therefore, determines spatial modulation...". This conclusion is too strong and not well-supported by the data. First, spatial modulation on Day 1, when the task was novel, was lower than on later days, but it was already much higher than 0 (Fig. 1h). Also the individual neuron data (Fig. 1e) display clear spatial modulation on Day 1. Therefore, "familiar environment" is not a requirement. Second, spatial modulation during passive viewing was much higher than 0 and was correlated with that during active navigation, as shown in Fig. 4e - Fig. 4l. Therefore, "active navigation" is not a requirement either. It is true that both active navigation and familiar environment enhanced spatial modulation. They did not "determine" spatial modulation.

      2) Related to the point above, the presence of spatial modulation in passive viewing reminds us that these cells in the visual system were still mainly driven by visual stimuli. The data in Fig. 4e,f are especially telling: the modulation in V1 was similar and highly correlated between active navigation and running replay. In addition, it is clear from all the raw traces in Fig. 1 and Fig. 2 that these cells did respond to the two segments with identical stimuli reliably with two peaks. The spatial modulation was just a change in one of the peaks. So the nature of the modulation is a "rate remapping" of the expected, classical visual responses. I believe, in order to maintain the big picture of what drives the activities of these neurons, it is beneficial to clarify that the "spatial modulation" is a modulation on top of the expected visual responses. This message is not explicitly conveyed in the current manuscript.

      3) The authors stated that spatial modulation is "largely absent in the main thalamic pathway into V1". This was based on the significantly weaker SMIs in LGN than those in V1 and HVAs. However, it is unclear whether the SMIs in LGN were still significant. The SMI values for both LGN buttons (Line #100) and LGN units (Line# 130) might be statistically significant from zero. The statistical comparison p-values should be given in both cases. Second, Figure 3 - figure supplement 1 b,f show that the SMI values in LGN could be predicted by spatial modulation, but not by visual stimuli alone or behavioral variations, just like those in V1 and HVAs. This seems to me good evidence for the presence of spatial modulation in LGN. Therefore, it is my opinion that the data do not support the complete lack of spatial modulation in LGN, but do clearly demonstrate weaker spatial modulation in LGN than in V1 and HVAs.

    1. FOUND AMONG THE PAPERS

      Point of view/Structure: Reminds me of Anne Bradstreet. Something that is supposed to be a forgotten but perhaps honest/unadulterated account of events.

    1. Education is your greatest weapon

      This reminds me of how my parents always told my sisters and me that the best inheritance they could leave us was our education since we are not a family with great economic resources.

    1. His misery leaped The seas, was told and sung in allMen's ears: how Grendel's hatred began

      Reminds me of the creature how, at first he was depressed due to way its treated then gets hatred as a result after it.

    1. The “clinical phenomenologist” of the year 2050 might look into your brain harmonics, and try to find the shortest paths to nearby state-spaces with less chronic dissonance, fishing for high-consonance attractors with large basins to shoot for. The qualia expert would go on to provide you various options that may improve all sorts of metrics, including valence, the most important of them all. If you ask, your phenomenologist can give you trials for fully reversible treatments. You sample them in your own time, of course, and test them for a day or two before deciding whether to use these moods for longer.

      reminds me of [[do androids dream of electric sheep]] [[empathy box]]

  9. Dec 2020
    1. While industry will continue to drive many developments, academia will also continue to play an essential role, not only in providing some of the most innovative technical ideas, but also in bringing researchers from the computational and statistical disciplines together with researchers from other disciplines whose contributions and perspectives are sorely needed — notably the social sciences, the cognitive sciences and the humanities.

      Michael Jordan says that academia may serve to help bring together researchers from fields that are needed to solve these challenges, such as social sciences, cognitive sciences and the humanities.

      Reminds me of that book on social sciences.

    1. Muñoz held out instead “the idea of hope” as “both a critical affect and a methodology.

      Right this reminds me of the contemporary scholarship on new materialism and. the nihilism throughout the scholarship on the Anthropocene.

    2. Such incommensurable asymmetries were, moreover, “most graspable to us as a sense rather than a politic.”

      This reminds me of Tuck and Yang's concept of incommensurability

    1. examines the history of children’s audiobooks and considers its previous formats to determine what the future of children’s audiobooks

      Reminds me of Rubery's backward-looking, forward-looking approach.

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    1. At every glance, the table reminds me of weekend nights playing Spoons.

      In the initial draft I did not list the name of the game, and I instead just described the game. This created so much confusion since they were basically reading about why spoons are meaningful and that they were used for some different reasons other than food. So this time I added the name of the game, Spoons. By not saying that we were playing the game it made this whole seen not the clear and confusing to the reader. By clarifying that this was a game we regularly played it helped bring this scene together since they understand now that the utensils are a piece to the game. It also highlighted how COVID has affected the freshman experience since not to many freshman would regularly say that spoons are a meaningful part of their college experience. So by just saying spoons are meaningful, not the game, could be a weird thing to read.

    1. this anecdote is one of the reasons that I've strongly resisted adding macros to D

      This seems to be a recurring theme in Walter's comments. See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25411476.

      I've said in the past that many programming language macros that end up getting checked in to source control should have been written and executed as a text editor macro instead.

      It reminds me of Kartik's take on "inappropriate compression".

    1. Smoke from a tear-gas canister haddriven thousands of hockey fans into the streets, sparking afour-hour rampage that yielded the requisite fires, shatteredwindows, looted stores, overturned cars and 137 arrests.

      It reminds me of the riots that have been happening as of late, its so scary that this was over a hockey game.

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    1. It reminds me of home. I look up at the sky hidden behind the tall trees, and it reminds me of where I was last year, in the Amazon of Bolivia. Although the trees and animals and plants and sounds and weather are completely different, I feel the same kind of special connection to my surroundings.

      Before my revisions, I did not touch on other personal experiences in my life which have impacted why I am so drawn to these woods. I love nature, and the outdoors have always been a huge part of my life. More specifically, last year I spent 4 months living in the Amazon. This was a super special and impactful experience of my life, and I wanted to share how this personal experienced has continued to impact my perspectives now. Because of my experience in the Amazon, I take note of the Webster Woods with a keen eye to the noises, the insects, the types of trees, the birds, and the uniquely changing environment. I felt like by sharing a special experience in my life, and it's comparison to the Webster Woods, I emphasized the multifaceted meaning this place represents.

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    1. This gentle and soft voice that I can just barely make out from the opposite side of the room reminds me of my older sister Megan, who like Grace, has to spend every moment humming

      This sentence, along with a sentence shortly below it about my mom's "Sunday Family Cleaning Days" are both additions where I was able to include a personal analysis. Originally, I only had stimuli and a partial response. I first talked about how I always hear Grace's humming, and that it reminds me of my sister Megan. I added a response and explanation about how grace's humming is comforting to me, because it reminds me of my older sister. In this new sentence, I added an analysis which shows why the humming has meaning, and I made it personal by connecting it back to a member of my family. In the next example, I began by just talking about Anna's cleaning routine. In my second draft, I included that my mom was excited that Anna has a cleaning routine, just like my mom. I was able to show that Anna's cleaning is important to me because it reminds me of my mom, and it is more than just something that I notice every week. By connecting these both back to a member of my family, I was able to show why my stimuli made my place meaningful, rather than just listing several senses that I notice in my room.

    1. All the animal sounds create a natural orchestra that reminds me of my first time waking up early to learn to drive a sub-compact tractor. Before riding the horses we would get up early and tend to the farm. The crisp air would wash over me and leave me feeling clear-headed and rejuvenated.

      This was another section where I needed to explain why my observations were important to me. When I remembered the time I spent upstate one of the things that stood out was learning to drive. As I remembered certain details they aligned with what I had already described previously so I added this memory here.

    2. The earthy smell of the forest reminds me of summers spent upstate New York horseback riding. I remember how the wind stung my face as the horse’s hoofs collided with the wet soil and I am at peace. The perfumes, trash, cleaning supplies, and assortment of food smells remind me of the different smells of the city when I squeeze into crowded New York trains trying to get anywhere on time. I think back to the countless times I had detention because I was late for school and I can’t help but smile because I’ve grown so much. Instead of rushing to sophomore English in high school, I’m rushing to a first-year writing seminar in college.

      Similar to the paragraph above, originally this paragraph lacked anything personal and was instead me just describing what I smelt but not explaining why those smells were significant. When I was rewriting I decided that this would be a good place to explain why I had wanted to live in the country/the memories that I had of being in the country. Since I contrasted the campus with the forest I had to also include a memory of the city and the crowded train one was the first thing that came to mind when I thought about how the different smells crowded my nose.

    1. the education community's current efforts will require equally robust initiatives in the industry to organize and signal their talent needs in an open-standard form

      Reminds me of the Arapahoe Community College and Skillful work that is finding that job descriptions are inadvertently gatekeeping by stating demands that aren't real or necessary.

    1. Another important property of language missing in graphical interfaces is the ability to encapsulate complex groups of objects or actions and refer to them with a single name

      It reminds me like programming people often don't bother themselves with adding collection behaviour to their objects, i.e., Book -> Books, User -> Users

      But the worst is: hiding it by implementation vomit like Repository pattern or a static functions.

    1. with 51.6 per-cent voting for option A and 48.40 percent voting for option B. It was clear from these results that the Osage were not united around a bicam-eral system of governance.

      reminds me of the elections this year and how we dont realize how split the country has become

    1. By 1975, leaders of 26 nations had formed the Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT), modeled after OPEC, to help them hire expert advisors, train their own managers, and renegotiate flawed leases. To the members of CERT, the American economy’s demand for energy imbued tribal resources with great value.

      This reminds me of Elouise Cobell, the wily, tedious, endless bureaucratic labor that goes into getting the kind of justice that seems so basic and self-evident. Sometimes you have to beat unscrupulous schemers at their own game.

    1. a technology solution to a problem that doesn’t need any technology, just a little bit of common sense.

      Since this is a screed partially against web apps, and JS-the-language gets a lot of hate by the people who like essays like this one because of problems the see that are the doing of the cults in modern web development, I find this nugget of truth highly apropos as a retort to many people who'd endorse this essay for the wrong reasons.

      Reminds me also of some recent remarks by Bob Nystrom in "Crafting Crafting Interpreters":

      I don’t love Java [...] I found you can tame a lot of its infamous verbosity by simply not programming in 1990s enterprise Java style.

    1. From 1947 to 2000, the Indian Student Placement Program (ISPP) placed an estimated 30,000 to 50,000 Navajos (and some other Native children) with LDS families for at least nine months of each year while the children attended local schools in Mormon communities. The program fulfilled both Mormon goals and (imperfectly filled) the needs of some Navajo families who lacked adequate educational opportunities in their own communities. (More on the Navajo perspective below.)

      this just doesnt seem right. it reminds me of what Australians did to young aboriginal children and taking them away from their families and putting them in white settings for forced assimilation

    1. Karensaid “the Indian kids” shared whatever money any received, whether thirtydollars from Karen’s brother Benjamin after he got paid for a roofing job, orten dollars from her grandmother.

      this reminds me of the community style living Natives cherished before they were forced to settle into individually owned land