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  1. Nov 2018
    1. "Whites left the neighborhood as a result of blacks arriving," Shertzer says, "not for other reasons."

      So... racism? Is that what they are considering a "casual" reason for leaving?

    2. As blacks arrived in northern neighborhoods, more whites left.

      I can understand why White people were able to move from neighborhoods. However, how were cities legally able to keep African Americans from moving in to certain neighborhoods?

    3. relevant to American cities that are still racially divided today

      Which cities? I think the cities that are racially divided today would be similar to the ones that were segregated in the past (Chicago, New York, Detroit).

    4. "White flight" is usually described as a post-World War II phenomenon

      I wonder why "White flight" is typically associated with this time period? I think I remember learning about a GI Bill that encouraged this once the soldiers returned home from war.

  2. Oct 2018
    1. Notes

      The original, plundered by Napoleon in 1797 so it is no surprise the reproduction is seen as better than the original which is in the Louvre. When the reproduction was hung in its original setting — Palladio’s Refectory on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore — on 11 September 2007, the critic Dario Gamboni wrote: ‘It seems that many are still wedded to a fixed idea of originality… I would like you to consider that originality is rooted in the trajectory or career of the object — it is not a fixed state of being but a process which changes and deepens with time.’ For Gamboni, the reproduction in the Refectory was a more complete and authentic experience than the painting hanging in the Louvre. Taken from https://www.christies.com/features/Master-of-reproduction-Adam-Lowe-and-Factum-Arte-6776-1.aspx

    2. Veronese’s Nozze di Cana,

      The Marriage Feast at Cana can be dated to 1562–3 from surviving documents.

    1. impairment of left hemisphere functions may enhance the propensity for violent behavior in a subgroup of offenders

      but why? is there a specific reason?

    2. focal abnormalities, however, especially of the left hemisphere, were related to a significantly higher number of violent offenses

      was there a reason why abnormalities in the left hemisphere in specific affected their violent tendencies?

    1. Indeed, the sampledrecruits were selected under a new police recruitment program that requiresthat all recruits to enroll in and complete a university diploma.
    2. Indeed, the profiler training program of the FBI iden-tifies seniority and accomplishment in policing as essential prerequisites forits training program

      discussion-related

    3. the police were no more accurate than anyone else in their depiction oftheoffender
    4. several skillsthat they regard as necessary for effective profiling, among them being anunderstanding of the criminal mind, investigative experience, an ability tothink logically and objectively, and intuition.
  3. Feb 2018
    1. Singers

      The recordings in the archive are drawn from the TG4 programmes ‘Abair Amhrán’, ‘Amhrán is Ansa Liom’, and ‘Sean-Nós’, as well as their broadcasting of the singing competitions of the annual An tOireachtas festival. Virtually all singers of unaccompanied song in Irish, practicing at any point over the past 110 years, are included in the archive’s recordings. Representation of different regions of origin, age groups, and themes of song is highly diverse.

    1. play with

      I tried to get close to the orange leaf barely hanging on to the branch, dangling in the twigs and sky. https://flic.kr/p/FWy3gb

  4. Jan 2018
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  7. Sep 2017
    1. This is hardly less arbitrarily unjust or patriarchal than the actualsystem of patrilineal inheritance consolidated in the eighteenth century, formingthe backbone of the British economy and its law, and providing the historicalbackground to Jane Austen’s novels

      The connection between the unfair genealogical model of literary and artistic inheritance and patrilineal inheritance laws is interesting here, as several of Jane Austen's novels, especially Sense and Sensibility, are shaped by the deleterious effects of this system upon their characters.

  8. Apr 2017
    1. evaluation/assessment should be integrated into the activity/service itself

      since this often fails to happen, what are the barriers?

  9. Feb 2017
    1. If a branch reaches the very top line where you can see a10, f10, and m10, then that species avoided extinction.

      This is due to natural selection.

  10. Jan 2017
    1. From the ferocity of pig driven to holiness, From the furred ear and the full jowl come The repose of the hung belly, from the purpose

      Levine was raised in a Jewish household, and his father died when he was only 5. The metaphor of the pig can play as an ode to his Jewish upbringing, as the animal's meat is not considered kosher and is abstained from. Furthermore, perhaps Levine is illustrating his father's early death, suggesting it a result of working conditions dangerous yet reserved to Detroit's working class. Are workers only but a means to an end? And under whose control are these workers only but pawns and swine?

    2. Out of creosote, gasoline, drive shafts, wooden dollies

      Consider here, Philip Levine's background). The writer grew up in Detroit, Michigan to a father who owned an auto parts business and a bookseller-mother. Detroit's most recognized moniker is likely that of the Motor City as most of the local economy revolved around the automotive industry in the city's heyday. Levine himself worked at Chevrolet and Cadillac, starting as early as 14. Needless to say, he did not find these jobs the least bit fulfilling.

      As the industry moved towards consolidating business and employing advancing technologies, many of Detroit's people were left in a state of poverty as the city, too, suffered damages as a result of the Riots of 1967.

  11. Nov 2016
    1. the material and the formal

      Artistic practice here looks like something that differentiates itself from a "given" cognitive state of affairs. I'm curious about the importance of such framework...

      So, apparently 'form' needs 'background.' But, can we have a 'figure-figure' relationship?

  12. Mar 2016
    1. The concept of presearch is an important one for this chapter; Ed-ward’s reliance on Wikipedia and Susan’s reliance on Google are not research crutches, but useful presearch tools

      They should serve as background. Not the actual arguments and support. They have potential to be useful. Don't think of these websites as useless, rather as a way to help start up your brain (get your thoughts rolling)

    2. Wikipedia brings ideas together on a single page as well as provides an accompanying narrative or summary that writers are often looking for during their research, particularly in the early stages of it.

      Can be used as a background source

  13. Jan 2014
    1. The consensus so far has been that Swartz did something wrong by accessing and releasing millions of academic papers from the JSTOR archive.

      Background on the Aaron Swartz act of civil disobedience:

      http://about.jstor.org/news/jstor-statement-misuse-incident-and-criminal-case

  14. Sep 2013
    1. It is useful, in framing laws, not only to study the past history of one's own country, in order to understand which constitution is desirable for it now, but also to have a knowledge of the constitutions of other nations, and so to learn for what kinds of nation the various kinds of constitution are suited.

      "Know [your] song well before [you] start singing" Regarding the breadth and depth of background knowledge needed, generalizing, for each subject.