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  1. Nov 2020
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    1. It was impossible

      This line stands out to me because it seems to imply that something held Eveline back, but that it was not necessarily her own will. It reminds me of the discussion we had about paralysis in these stories.

    1. 185 people across 16 countries were killed defending their land, forests and rivers against destructive industries in 2015 alone, many of them from indigenous communities.

      This reminds me of the term "sacrifice zones" that we've been reading about.

    1. "Nauru...was developed to disappear...controlled its fate as a disposable country." This quote reminds me of a movie where a couple had a second child in order to help their first child with her cancer battle by having the healthy child provide organs and such. The movie is not environment related but the concept is similar and compares when the text previously mentioned the plan for the country, which was "...mining phosphate until the island was an empty shell."

    1. The Congress should eliminate the immunity of non-Indians to the general application of law and law enforcement within Reservation Boundaries, without regard to land or property title. Title 18 of the U.S. Code should be amended to clarify and compel that all persons within the originally-established boundaries of an Indian Reservation are subject to the laws of the sovereign Indian Nation in the exercise of its autonomous governing authority. A system of concurrent jurisdiction should be minimum requirement in incorporated towns.

      This is one of the key points. This reminds me of the readings about jurisdiction two weeks ago anyhow it led to many Native Women being abused.

    1. some people do absorb knowledge from books. Indeed, those are the people who really do think about what they’re reading. The process is often invisible. These readers’ inner monologues have sounds like: “This idea reminds me of…,” “This point conflicts with…,” “I don’t really understand how…,” etc. If they take some notes, they’re not simply transcribing the author’s words: they’re summarizing, synthesizing, analyzing.

      Exactly. So the first job is to explain this on day one and show students how to do it.

    1. The confusion that ensued was due to the murky legal status that had been burdening tribes since the Marshall Trilogy. A mere decade after being catapulted into becoming U.S. citizens, these same Indians were now being challenged to conceive of something that had never existed before, namely a constitution-based tribal government.

      This must have been so confusing. It reminds me of how some states don't send out explanations for the measures and people on ballots when voting. I didn't know California was one of the few states who did this until recently. Talk about voter suppression.

    2. Nearly two centuries later, when the United States determined that it needed to build a dam in Seneca territory it did not wait for the Seneca to choose to sell— it forced them.

      This reminds me of the current issue with the keystone oil pipe going through native land.

    1. What I know for sure is that young people are affected by the social and political issues in their communities, locally and globally, and that they have opinions, questions, and concerns.

      Once again, this reminds me of Dutro's emphasis on the importance of a teacher having a critical understanding of how these issues affect the lives of our students in ways they may or may not affect our own. Young people are affected by these issues, and we need to create opportunities to be critical of these issues in literacy.

    2. was characterized by some of his teachers as a disengaged learner and a “struggling” writer, created and maintained three websites and blogs each day. From his bedroom to his neighborhood streets, he wrote and composed music lyrics, uploaded audio files, and directed music videos

      Wow this reminds me of one my students who has an IEP but raps outside of school. I wouldn't say he is disengaged but what are we doing as teachers to make them engaged in instruction.

      What is consider a disengaged learner.

    1. I increased my capacity to engage them.

      This is a really powerful sentence. There are so many ways we can increase our capacities to better engage students; if students are not engaged, then there is a high chance it is something the teacher needs to change or adjust. This reminds me of the Vulnerable Heart of Literacy and how Dutro asks educators to increase our capacity to be vulnerable and bare critical witness and testimony in the classroom in order to use student testimony as an entry point and tool for literacy. This is a way we can work on ourselves as educators.

    2. “sancocho of English and Spanish,” the poet Denice Frohman says,

      This poem reminds me of the book "The Pushout: The Civilization of Black Girls in School" where cultural differences add to ignorance. In the book, some girls were described as rude or loud, but they grew up learning from their parents to ask questions if they were confused and to stand up for themselves.

    3. when they saw how their lives and stories intersected with the struggles of other people, they became more adept at making connections across cultures, races, and time periods.

      One of the most profound aspects of literature is its ability to inspire empathy for others' experiences. Reminds me of Steven Pinker's assertion that the popularization of the novel led to a significant decrease in social acceptance of cruelty and violence because novels offer us the opportunity to empathize with others.

    4. Dirk and his classmates didn’t care just about themselves, their neighborhood, and their city, they cared about other people’s lives too.

      This reminds me of the "mirror-window" element that multicultural literature may bring into the classroom. Students are given the opportunity to see themselves represented in a text while learning about the lives of others. This would allow students to identify the intersections between their lives and stories to those of others, as this reading mentions.

    1. A country’s population and immigration patterns do influence the rate of environmental degradation, but they have much less impact than do consumption patterns of wealthier segments of the population and especially the production practices of industries.

      reminds me of the vegan debate; or of the carbon footprint idea

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    1. A second distinc-tion is the use of tentative generalization; results are sharedwithout the expectation that universality will hold

      This reminds me of Action-Research projects. The DBR project may only apply to oneself after completion.

    1. propagate interesting news articles to their peers.

      This reminds me of the article where it talked about how some people only get their information from other people.

    2. It may increase intolerance of dissentand foster more ideological segregation of political and so-cial issues

      This reminds me of the article we read about how it could be the reader that's bias.

    3. a number of studies have confirmed that leftand right leaning news media consistently refer to differ-ent think-tanks in their stories

      This reminds me of the articles we read when it said that the news was so divided that they were creating 2 different realities. (This can be used in my literature review)

    1. COVID-19 offers us a moment in time to pay attention to these inequities. Pockets of COVID-19 transmission in any community keep the risk of an enduring epidemic alive for every community.

      reminds me of the influeza and how it survived and dominated due to a steady human fuel at camps and war but here is due to poor communities in which we find people with an already poor health and a overpopulated community who does not have the resources and economic benefit to receive proper treatment.

    2. Disinvestment in these communities has created spaces and places where everyone’s life does not count equally, where it is allowable for some people to not have access to the resources to live healthy lives.

      reminds me of the article we read on gentrification and racial injustice on the benefit of science

    1. So, if people mistakenly take causal determinism tomean that everything that happens is inevitable no matter whatyou think or try to do, then they conclude that we have no free will

      reminds me of destiny that everyone is predestined in there lives.

    2. the thesisthat all events are part of a law-like chain of events such that earlierevents necessitate later events

      Reminds me of "whatever is meant to happen will happen"

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    1. Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in "changing the con-sciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them";1

      I love this quote and the rest of this paragraph. It reminds me of Price's point that the situation is responsible for students' barriers, not students' internal personalities or characters.

    2. The truth is, however, that the oppressed are not "marginals," are not people living "outside" society. They have always been "inside"—inside the structure which made them "beings for others." The solution is not to "integrate" them into the structure of oppres-sion, but to transform that structure so that they can become "beings for themselves."

      This reminds me of code-meshing and Young's celebration of it. The language of the oppressed is not "marginal" to society, it is always "inside" society and the point is to change society so that stigmatized language varieties can be become "languages for themselves" and not "languages for others." When something is for others, it has no strength or meaning or freedom to define itself, its own worth, value, meanings, uses, ideas. It is always for someone else, from someone else's point of view. Freire is saying that we need to stop thinking of the oppressed only through the lens of the oppressor.

    1. If you read material from the Family Research Council, it is clear that the group regards homosexuals as similar contaminants. A recent posting on its Web site about syphilis among gay men was headlined, ''Unclean.'

      The terms describe here are all used as degrading terms people use to classify a group that they hate. It sort of reminds me of the rhetoric that America has been listening to in the last four years. That in a way slowly was normalized.

    2. He reminds me of conservative friends who oppose almost every measure for homosexual equality yet genuinely delight in the company of their gay friends. It would be easier for me to think of them as haters, and on paper, perhaps, there is a good case that they are. But in real life, I know they are not. Some of them clearly harbor no real malice toward me or other homosexuals whatsoever.

      Once again, just because someone has gay friends or family, doesn't make them a fan of equality. Just like just because someone has black friends, it doesn't make them not racist.

    3. ''Hate arrived in the neighborhoods of Indiana University, in Bloomington, in the early-morning darkness.''

      This reminds me of a Ted Bundy new article that worded things similarly.

    1. She ended the essay with a critique of the white visitors who passed through the school, satisfied that they had done their part to educate those children of so-called “savage” warriors. 

      This reminds me of the images of children being put into cages along the Southern border of the United States during this current administration. Some people, not all, take satisfaction in the fact that children were taken away from their families and being treated like animals/criminals.

    1. The proper role of the entity is, in this density, to experience all things desired, to then analyze, understand, and accept these experiences, distilling from them the love/light within them. Nothing shall be overcome. That which is not needed falls away.

      Reminds me of what Richard Rohr says about experiencing sin. Openly experiencing it and realizing that it doesn't satisfy.

    1. hall with lust’s blood b

      Reminds me of the Leeroy Jenkin's meme. Othello is just rushing in and wanting to kill right away without thinking of the outcome.

    1. That is, most people judge that you can have free will and be responsible for your actions even if all of your decisions and actions are entirely caused by earlier events in accord with natural laws

      This reminds me of the movie Minority Report. All of the past events in the movie led to an event occurring in the future, and each individual had a choice to how they would act in the present. This represented our access to free will, and our ability to make choices to shape our future.

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    1. The Aborigines, who occupied the country, with their king Latinus at their head, came hastily together from the city and the country districts to repel the inroads of the strangers by force of arms.

      This seriously reminds me of colonization. I guess it makes sense that there were people around before that were considered the "original settlements/ indigenous" and then there were "foreigners" that came and invaded. Therefore, I guess both of them partook in creating a settlement, and thats why the origins of cities may have two foundation stories.

    1. A standard example of a non-personalized nudge involves retirement planning. An employer could (i) leave it to employees to set-up their 401K plans and decide how much to save or (ii) set up the plans by default so that a predetermined amount is saved automatically and allow employees to make adjustments. Saving by default is an architected choice that relies on two facts: first, people often fail to set up a retirement plan, which is a social problem, and second, people tend to stick with default rules. Thus, by choosing option (ii), the choice architect nudges people to start with the better position for them and society.

      The non-personalized nudge

      An employer can choose to let their employee set up their own pensions plan or set them up with a default plan and allow them to change. The second scenario is an "architected choice" that relies on two phenomena:

      1. The fact people often fail to set up a retirement plan
      2. The tendency of people to stick with default rules

      The default plan is a non-personalized nudge which (supposedly) benefits the people as well as society.

      This reminds me of Michael Malice's idea of "the people that need leaders are not able to pick good ones".

    2. For both the tailor-customer and doctor-patient examples, personal data is an input used to improve an output (dress, suit, medical treatment) such that the improvement directly serves the interests of the person whose information is being used.

      This reminds me of "Products are functions" where your personal data is a variable than enters into the function to determine the output.

    1. THE BISHOP (going slowly to the mirror. He stands in front ofit): Now answer, mirror, answer me. Do I come here to discover evil and innocence? (To Irma, very gently) Leave the room! I want to be by myself.

      In this moment where the Bishop looks in the mirror for the first time, he is in this state of undress, part the "role" of a Bishop, and part the "role" of his true sinful self. In saying to Irma that he wants to be by himself, he is meaning with the physical reflection of himself. He also directly asks the mirror question, but is quite literally asking this reflected version of himself. He is essentially having this identity crises of who he is and how the world sees him. When he says, "And in your gilt-edged glass, what was I? Never - I affirm it before God Who sees me - I never desired the episcopal throne," this conversation between him and his reflection reminds me of a post-death judgement of God. Moreover, that his reflection is a bit of a omnipotent version of himself who knows all of his desires and intentions, even those not truly known to himself. In this moment in the brothel, staring at his reflection, he is laid bare (both inside and out).

    1. AN UNWELCOME VISITOR IN CRUCES—THE CHOLERA—SUCCESS OF THE YELLOW DOCTRESS—FEARFUL SCENE AT THE MULE-OWNER’S—THE BURYING PARTIES—THE CHOLERA ATTACKS ME.

      Kind of reminds me of epigraphs in Middlemarch

    1. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicityIn least speak most, to my capacity.

      This line stood out to me because Theseus addresses something that most characters in tragedies are oblivious to: people don't always say what they are trying to express or how they feel. This reminds me of Lear's apology or lack thereof, similarly to the greeting that Theseus received, Lear never explicitly apologizes to Cordelia, but reading between the lines, Cordelia can understand his intentions. Lear fails to do this in the earlier scene of the play when each daughter confesses how much they care about their father. Cordelia cannot put into words her love for her father, but Lear fails to recognize this underlying meaning in her statement toward him.

    1. Studieshave shown that many students can do mathematics (i.e., they can apply formulasto get numerical answers) but may not understand the concepts behind the proce-dures they learn to apply.

      Reminds me of the chinese room problem.

    2. This results of research portray a complex developmental landscape, with muchintertwining, which contrasts sharply with approaches to development that tend toisolate and highlight only individual developmental changes.

      This reminds me of a discussion in another class about complex dynamic systems.

    1. And because they were all laughing it seemed to Leila that they were all lovely

      It's quite interesting how Mansfield subtly shows her heroin character's innocence through this kind of scene—mostly oblivious to what is going on in a grander context. On the same note, it seems that it's Mansfield's way of foreshadowing a kind of distress of what is to come in the later texts, which also reminds me of The Garden Party.

    1. political candidates

      This reminds me of a time in high school when my history teacher showed us a political ad campaign against a candidate and if you slow it down, the way the words come up on the screen it says, "rats" so that you associate that candidate as a rat.

    1. The “Cherokee codes” were designed as the fi rst strike in an ethnic- cleansing campaign

      reminds me of the Black Codes African Americans had to endure

    1. When a piece of fabric is cut on the bias and sewn from the bias it has a tendency to create interesting drapes and to enhance the style of a garment. It is just so with human biases. Within an incarnated human’s life there will be a continuing and continuous experience of seeing things from a particular bias or slant, and then being able to choose to rethink and re-vision and see things from the opposite bias.

      This reminds me of the Train up a child verse. That part that says, "in the way he should go" is the Hebrew concept of taste or bent or what this model is calling BIAS. Which sounds even more solid, "Train up a child according to his/her bias and when they are old they won't depart from it." (Proverbs 22:6)

    1. I am surrounded by mountains of ice, which admit of no escape and threaten every moment to crush my vessel. The brave fellows whom I have persuaded to be my companions look towards me for aid; but I have none to bestow. There is something terribly appalling in our situation, yet my courage and hopes do not desert me. We may survive; and if we do not, I will repeat the lessons of my Seneca, and die with a good heart. Yet what, Margaret, will be the state of your mind? You will not hear of my destruction, and you will anxiously await my return. Years will pass, and you will have visitings of despair, and yet be tortured by hope. Oh! my beloved sister, the sickening failings of your heart-felt expectations are, in prospect, more terrible to me than my own death. But you have a husband, and lovely children; you may be happy: Heaven bless you, and make you so! My unfortunate guest regards me with the tenderest compassion. He endeavours to fill me with hope; and talks as if life were a possession which he valued. He reminds me how often the same accidents have happened to other navigators, who have attempted this sea, and, in spite of myself, he fills me with cheerful auguries. Even the sailors feel the power of his eloquence: when he speaks, they no longer despair; he rouses their energies, and, while they hear his voice, they believe these vast mountains of ice are mole-hills, which will vanish before the resolutions of man. These feelings are transitory; each day's expectation delayed fills them with fear, and I almost dread a mutiny caused by this despair.

      Frankenstein sympathizing with Walton is similar to Frankenstein's professor egging him on with his pursuit for knowledge, there seems to be another parallel.

  3. Oct 2020
    1. Du Bois also underscored that to be part of a problem people is to be viewed as part of an undifferentiated blob, a monolithic block. Problem people become indistinguishable and interchangeable, which means that only one ofthem has to be asked to find out what all the rest of them think.

      This reminds me of Donald Trump asking black reporter April Ryan to set up a meeting for him with black lawmakers. As if all Blacks know one another.

    1. To whom you are but as a form in waxBy him imprinted and within his powerTo leave the figure or disfigure it.Demetrius is a worthy gentleman.

      This "form in wax" idea reminds me of John Locke theory about people being born a blank slate. While Locke was after both Shakespeare and midsummer's time, I think the concept is similarly implied in this sentence. The quote before stating "your father should be as a god" gives this man vs. woman power binary, putting men at a significantly higher, even godly level. In context of the story, it seems Theseus is implying that Hermia's father made her who she is, and that he can also "leave the figure or disfigure it," giving power to Egeus, even when Hermia is no longer a child. I think these words in the moment are very misogynistic, but contrast well with her later character development, emphasizing how strongly independent she is, overcoming her wax fate.

    2. A lovely boy, stolen from an Indian king;She never had so sweet a changeling;And jealous Oberon would have the child

      This just gives me a weird feeling. Reminds me of like super religious people adopting children from other countries just to fulfill their white savior complex.

    3. nd interchanged love-tokens with my child:Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung,With feigning voice verses of feigning love,And stolen the impression of her fantasyWith bracelets of thy hair, rings, gawds, conceits,

      I feel like these are al very common tropes on how to win over a woman. Further I think it's interesting how the father disapproves of these methods. I also feel like this description is very fantastical and whimiscal. And also it kinda reminds me of romeo and juliet

    1. when they do not pay careful attention to their ownand others’ racialized and cultural systems of coming to know, know-ing, and experiencing the world.

      Reminds me of Haraway's writings about embodied and situated knowledge.

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    1. Students who are disproportionately targeted with assignment to special education, harsh applications of dis-cipline policy, unengaging pedagogy, and the sorts of “school reform” initiatives that redistribute access up the privilege continuum don’t need consensus. They need justice.

      This reminds me of the Abolitionist video, where they discuss that the structure of schools must be taken down and reformed. My group came up with an analogy on the topic which I think speaks volumes, as one of us said that when you pick a weed, you can't just grab it from the top. Nothing will change, it will just grow larger over time, but one must pick a weed from the roots, because from there, the weed will disappear, and that makes room for something else to grow in its place.

    1. From the era of American slavery and through more modern times, black people have been degraded, experimented on, and exploited by white Americans to achieve societal goals

      This reminds me of J. Marion Sims. He performed gynecology practices on his slaves and other's slaves without anesthesia and people defend him because he was a man of his time and slaves were lucky to get any healthcare.

    1. Thus, for Freire literacy was not a means to prepare students for the world of subordinated labor or ‘careers’, but a preparation for a self-managed life. And self-management could only occur when people have fulfilled three goals of education: self-reflection, that is, realizing the famous poetic phrase, ‘know thyself’, which is an understanding of the world in which they live, in its economic, political and, equally important, its psychological dimensions. Specifically ‘critical’ pedagogy helps the learner become aware of the forces that have hitherto ruled their lives and especially shaped their consciousness. The third goal is to help set the conditions for producing a new life, a new set of arrangements where power has been, at least in tendency, transferred to those who literally make the social world by transforming nature and themselves. (

      This understanding reminds me a lot of Gholdy Muhammed's methodologies in the "Abolitionist Pedagogies" video. She outlined 4 learning goals in the video, and in her book "Cultivating Genius", that are reminiscent of these ones.

    1. Together, this emerging body of research suggests that exposure to EDCs could have consequences not only for our own health and for that of our children, but also for the health of generations to come.

      To me, this is the scariest part of this whole thing. We always seem to try to fix/manage things after they have already happened and very rarely do this preventatively. Like to me it is obvious that chemicals are going to be bad for organisms...probably because I have been taught that my entire life. But how did it take this long to figure out we shouldn't be just throwing chemicals in places?

      My mom always says "Ask for permission not forgiveness"...and this reminds me of that

      How are we going to manage these issues if they are passed down to future generations? That makes it way more complicated...

    1. A decline in salmon runs due to pollution, sportfishing, and massive fisheries led state authorities to enact conservation measures, restricting fishing in certain areas or during certain times of year.

      It reminds me of the buffalo decline over the 19th century. They were almost hunted to extinction as colonials shot them from trains for sport.

    2. Stremlau writes about how elderly women were extremely important to Cherokee families, but often treated as marginal by commissioners

      Many Natives treated women as equals. This reminds me of one of the previous readings in which it talked about how some women were not hesitant to voice their opinions when it came to the decision of giving up their lands.

    1. Except once in a while Bobby said how much he'd loved Nancy, and how he could never care about another girl.

      This sentence reminds me of the "what-ifs" mentioned by Professor Gardner in lecture. Even though Bobby is saying that he will never love another girl again, he and Nancy had serious barriers to their relationship that Herb, Nancy, and almost all of Holcomb recognized. It's interesting to wonder if they would've overcome the societal challenge of religion if the murders never happened. Capote is almost leading us straight to that with this sentence. Additionally, I think it's worthwhile to note that Bobby and Nancy didn't have to break this expectation because they never got the opportunity. On a societal level, everything in terms of this issue of religion remained in place and unquestioned. While the Clutter family is gone and Holcomb is forever changed, it is also characteristically unaltered in this respect.

    1. for all student participants. This eliminated any financial barriers for any student to participate in the program.

      I love this!! Reminds me of my former job working with students at Upward Bound MSU. Our program targeted future first generation college students and those who qualified for free/reduced lunch. They were able to have many wonderful opportunities (field trips across campus and across the United States) for free the program. It was awesome.

    1. here was alcohol involved so we don’t really know what he meant to do,

      The "there was alcohol involved" argument reminds me of a Supreme Court Senate confirmation hearing from 2018. Sarah Deer makes a great point that that argument is ridiculous and should never be allowed in the first place.

    1. That has been the perennial state and condition of not simply black people in America, but all self-conscious human beings who are sensitive to the forms of evil around them. We can be prisoners of hope even as we call optimism into question.

      This is really powerful to me. I often feel myself clinging to hope while having a negative outlook on the things happening in the world around me. This puts into words some of the mixed feelings I have experienced when hoping for a better world. It reminds me of the saying: "hope for the best, expect for the worst."

    1. They turn the writer back into his writing and lead him to reflect on his choices and aims

      This reminds me of a comment made in the previous piece we read, about the rules of writing. The most effective writers regularly took opportunities to test their writing by getting reactions from readers and then improving their writing incrementally. I think this ties into this piece as well; the point of peer reviewing is not to "grade like the teacher," but to provide an honest reaction to the piece you're reading, engage with it, and provide commentary that helps the writer grow.

    2. Even when you're tough and demanding you can still be supportive.

      This statement really reminds me of parenting. Parents have to push their kids in order to get them to do better. But, this can't be done if they are always getting praised. If you just got praised your whole life, you would never be prepared for the real world.

    1. Our use of the term “interest,” then, is not meant to signal an individual or innate quality; we see interests as cultivated through social and cultural relationships and located within what we call an “affinity network” of commonly felt identity, practice, and purpose. We draw from Jim Gee's (2005Gee, J. P. (2005). Semiotic social spaces and affinity spaces: From the age of mythology to today's schools. In D. Barton & K. Tusting (Eds.), Beyond communities of practice: Language, power and social context (pp. 214–232). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U. Press. [Crossref], [Google Scholar]) term “affinity spaces,” which he uses to describe online places where people interact around a common passion and/or set of commitments, but broaden our focus to civic and political action and wider networks

      Here's the recurring use of "affinity groups," but thinking about it not as an individual quality reminds me of another article that we read in INTE 2500 that no matter what we think, it belongs, in theory, to at least one affinity group

    1.    I see that the most interesting idea in this chapter is the part that relates to “language and thought.” As Culler says that there is a theory that says “language expresses the existing ideas by providing methods for this.” So language and thought interact in many significant ways, thought comes first, while language is an expression of what we think. Also each specific language has its own influence on the thought and action of its speakers. Likewise, according to Culler, Expressing ideas that we think are easy and natural in our language may require a great effort from us to express them in another language. This brings us to an important point, anyone who has learned more than one language is struck by the many ways in which languages differ from one to another. I think that this part reminds me of myself when I started learning languages other than Arabic. Sometimes it was very difficult for me to express what I was thinking in English, I felt like my thoughts were frozen, and other times I couldn’t express them at all. Therefore, Culler mentions that literary works often try to reconfigure ideas in order to be able to express things that we did not expect to think of before. The relationship between language and thinking is often a strong one, but literature generates other ideas so we can see a different reality.

      Very insightful

    1. Papillon: It's a great nuisance that Mr. Boeuf can't come. But that's no reason for you to go to pieces. Mrs. Boeuf: [with difficulty] It's not...it's...well I was chased here all the way from the house by a rhinoceros...<

      The first rhino occurrence of Act 2 follows Botard's mind-bending and condescending denial of their existence. The first person to encounter the rhino is Mrs. Boeuf, who was chased from her home to the office off-stage. Though she is evidently frazzled by the experience, she comes into work first explaining her husband's sick leave rather than opening with the information most people would, which is of course the rhino she barely escaped from and is currently outside the office endangering everyone. If Mrs. Boeuf's response wasn't absurd enough, Berenger's first question is about the number of horns. Botard still doubts the rhinos' existence. At this point, the audience still may doubt their existence too since all they have as evidence are inauthentic seeming reactions and off-stage noises that corresponded with Jean's breaks in character, and though Botard's logic is ridiculous, it is enough for the audience to hold out on wholly believing. However, after Botard expresses his doubt, a sound is heard and the staircase seems to collapse, then "an anguished trumpeting" is heard from below. Daisy exclaims "My God!" and Mrs. Boeuf "Oh! Ah!," a throw back to the previous act. In classic Berenger fashion, he remains relatively calm and makes Mrs. Boeuf a drink and tells her to keep calm. Botard continues to brush off the sounds as an illusion until finally, he looks and sees it for himself. Between the multiple accounts of its existence, the sounds of it and its destruction, and the conversion of the skeptic into a believer, the audience is more inclined to believe that the rhinos are in fact real, in spite of the puzzling reactions both before and after this point. Additionally, the directionality of the sound (ex. the sound of the staircase collapsing on stage left where the staircase is visually, or the sound of the rhino bellowing from below) may help immerse the audience further. If, according to Camus, a man can only define another being practically by "the sum of their consequences" or by "outlining their universe," the audience perceives the existence of the rhinos similarly. By denying the audience visual confirmation and only providing sounds and the consequences of the Rhinos actions, Ionesco prevents the audience from developing a false sense of knowing the rhinos that goes beyond the outline of their universe. Thus, I do believe this feeling is an absurd one. Additionally, the townspeople's conversations contribute more to this absurd feeling. Most notably, I think of Botard's attempts to use logic and reasoning to deny the existence of the rhino only to sound highly irrational, contradictory, and condescending and Berenger's continued questioning of the race and number of horns of the rhinos. This reminds me of when Camus wrote "what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in human heart." Both Botard and Berenger's attempted use of thought and logic about the rhinos brings them farther away from any sense of clarity or course of action. E

    2. [The noise becomes very loud] Jean: [to BERENGER, almost shouting to make himself heard above the noise which he has not become conscious of]<

      The offstage sound of the rhinoceros is clear as day to the audience, but everyone in the town square remains oblivious, even when the noise increases. This becomes even more ridiculous when Jean begins to raise his voice over a sound he apparently is still not "conscious" of. In mid-sentence, Jean stops shouting and finally notices the sound, asking "What's going on?" and then again, but in different words, "Whatever is it?" The waitress repeats his last question. Berenger remains indifferent. Then Jean exclaims "Oh, a rhinoceros!" The phrase is rapidly repeated by the waitress, grocer, and grocer's wife. Variations of Jean's phrases as well as "Ahs" and "Ohs" are scattered throughout the next page of dialogue as the townspeople converse. The repetition and similarity in their language is slightly off-putting and their delayed response seems to imply a fear of thinking individually and a need to react as a collective (also, it reminds me a bit of when a teacher asks a question to a class that most people know the answer to, but there's a long pause before anyone responds because everyone doubts themself and requires the validation of others). Overall, there seems to be a general distrust towards one's own mind.

    1. treaties as being supreme over state law

      Wow! This reminds me a lot of court cases in which court cases overrule years' worth of limitation on certain peoples.

    1. tested

      always reminds me of the 'tester' character in Job and how God allows and even sometimes endorses the testing. For what purpose and to what end?

    1. We recognize that all the languages that are already co-existent in the mind and in the activity of the child have the power to be generative of other languages, other actions and other potentials that are in turn generative.

      This reminds me of "there is no teaching without learning." The generative nature of the languages seems very related to this.

    2. who said that it was necessary to become familiar first by using directly what you know and what you have learned in order to acquire further learning and knowledge.

      This reminds me of what free play can do for children, especially if teachers wait to step in and allow children time and space to explore

    3. Children involved in their learning experiences showing their competencies in different expressive languages

      This reminds me a little bit of Howard Garner and his Different Multiple Intelligences. How each child learns differently. Expression is so important for children. They need these opportunities.

    1. “practical advantages” of ignoring the written law.

      This reminds me of the Andrew Jackson quote where he conveyed that Marshall's decisions did not matter because he could not enforce them. It seems like there are often laws in place that are just ignored for the sake of the state or settlers.

    2. The Creek Nation has joined Mr. McGirt as amicus curiae. Not because the Tribe is interested in shielding Mr. McGirt from responsibility for his crimes. Instead, the Creek Nation participates because Mr. McGirt’s personal interests wind up implicating the Tribe’s. No one disputes that Mr. McGirt’s crimes were committed on lands described as the Creek Reservation in an 1866 treaty and federal statute. But, in seeking to defend the state-court judgment below, Oklahoma has put aside whatever procedural defenses it might have and asked us to confirm that the land once given to the Creeks is no longer a reservation today. At another level, then, Mr. McGirt’s case winds up as a contest between State and Tribe.

      I find it interesting that McGirt was kind of used by the Creek Nation as a sort of vehicle for them to argue. The article is saying while it's not about arguing whether or not he is guilty, but who has the means to actually punish him, and what's happening is who has the authority, the State or Tribe. This reminds me of the Supreme Court Case Brown v Board, where both cases have the potential to be landmark essentially.

    1. From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance. New situations requiring closer contact with the rabbit had been gradually introduced and the degree to which these situations were avoided, tolerated, or welcomed, at each experimental session, gave the measure of improvement. Analysis of the notes on Peter's reactions indicated the following progressive steps in his degrees of toleration:

      This reminds me of systematic desensitization, wherein, an individual is presented with and exposed to different levels of anxiety-/fear-eliciting stimuli, all while being taught relaxation techniques. The procedures and steps taken to get Peter to accept the rabbit is through gradual exposure. This definitely contributed to the literature of clinical psychology in the treatment of phobias.

    2. Barbara was brought to the crib and the white rat introduced as before. She exhibited no fear but picked the rat up in her hand. Peter sat quietly watching Barbara and the rat.

      This reminds me of Albert Bandura's Social Learning Theory, he is watching another person interact with the object that terrifies him, and yet the other person does not seem to share the same fear response as him. He watched Barbara pick up the rat, which conveys the message that others don't fear it, and it does not seem to do any harm. Although the observation of this, I do not believe, would be enough to provide change in his conditioned response, as it had most likely been with him for a while. One thing I am wondering based on this certain situation is if he felt less afraid due to the distance between him and the rat or because another person is holding the rat, which in turn might provide a sense of security that the threat has been detained.

    3. The next two decided rises at (d) and (e) occurred on the day when a student assistant, Dr. S., was present. Peter was very fond of Dr. S. whom he insisted was his "papa." Although Dr. S. did not directly influence Peter by any overt suggestions, it may be that having him there contributed to Peter's general feeling of well being and thus indirectly affected his reactions.

      I wonder why Peter was very fond of Dr. S? What did Dr. S do in order for Peter to be very fond of him, did he resemble his father? The suggestion that Dr. S's presence in the room alone contributed to Peter's well-being reminds me of Applied Behavior Analysis. ABA operates off the principles of operant conditioning which is usually taught along with classical conditioning in today's intro to psychology courses. Anyways, when ABA is used to help children who have autism in learning adaptive behavior, a good relationship between the provider and the child must be established before direct intervention can take place. The child and the provider gain their relationship through unstructured and eventually structured play. The child then associates the provider with good things and in turn allows for easier reception of a given intervention. If Dr. S did something similar with Peter, then it provides some early evidence of reinforcement pairing (i.e., when the provider themselves have become a reinforcing factor for the child).

    1. Specifically, they believe that it provides scientific evidence for the existence of God

      This reminds me of the Science versus God argument that has been going on for decades

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    1. physiology, heredity and environment

      This reminds me of in Psychology we talk about the nature vs nurture debate. I think that genetics does play a big part in shaping us, but having the right environment plays a part as well.

    2. usually by replacing a damaged com-ponent, either in hardware or software.

      I think that Dawkin's comparison of criminals to broken machines is not a good analogy. It reminds me of the genetic engineering thought probe which talks about using technology to alter genetic makeup.(196 Doing Philosophy) I think that the machine analogy fits well with causal determinisim which states that every event is the consequence of past event plus laws of nature, However modern science does not support this view.

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    1. This is important because interpretation is subjective. We have to be aware of such subjectivity. Is the interpretation mine or that of the group I am observing?

      Reminds me of so-called 'strong objectivity,' amplifying researcher bias since anyway it's irremovable.

    1. 1) children’s hypotheses on the idea of a guide“Last year, we talked a lot about the city and cities. We also drew them and built them. This year, we would like to make a ‘guide’ of the city of Reggio. Do you know what a guide is? Have you ever seen them?”2) children’s hypotheses on the visitor’s possiblemotivation for coming to Reggio“Many people come to visit Reggio, our city. In your opinion, why do they choose to come to Reggio?”3) children’s views and suggestions about inhabiting the city“Where would you start? What would you say to introduce our city to all those people who come and who have never been here before?”“What kind of things can be done in Reggio that, in your opinion, could be interesting for these people?”“What kind of suggestions would you give them in terms of things to see, to do and why?”

      This whole section reminds me of a project students did at our school (12 year olds). The questions were so focused and produced a specific type of product. The questions in this article could have blown the project wide open and engaged the students so much more authentically. This shows how the principles of Reggio Emilia can certainly be applied working with older students as well. The open questions invite the students to engage fully.

    2. We did not ask questions onlyto discover what the children know and don’t know.Weasked open questions in order to create a groupcontext in which we could share our opinions and ourpoints of view, a context in which we could constructnew knowledge

      This reminds me of the importance of a question posed to the children. One, it must be broad and open-ended in nature. Second, I must consider the purpose of the question being asked.

    1. Do I have any personal biases that may affect my consideration of this information?

      all these questions reminds me of the TED talks and advice from others when considering an option or decision.

    1. He suggested that teachers teach a large number of words before reading a book to students, by merely giving short definitions, such as synonyms, and then pointing out the words and their meaning while reading the book to students.

      i can see this working out pretty well. this reminds me of an english teacher who did this and every time we were assigned to read a book and encountered unknown words i knew what the meaning was before hands.

    1. A few years later, however, Kenneth Clarkreported having learned from his young associates that “Negroyouth in Harlem did not have the opportunity to learn how tomanage even a small business or store since, unlike other lower-middle-class groups in the city, their parents did not own stores.”

      It's interesting to think of other lower/middle class groups that provide entre to businesses and apprenticeships. It also reminds me of the current practice of privileged youth accessing internships/opportunities through family connections creating a pathway to professional careers and higher earning.

    1. when you got hurt or got beat up or something, and you started crying, nobody comforted you. You just sat in the corner and cried and cried till you got tired of cry-ing then you got up and carried on with life.”36 Nick Sibbeston, who was placed in the Fort Providence school in the Northwest Territories at the age of five, recalled it as a place where children hid their emotions. “In residential school you quickly learn that you should not cry. If you cry you’re teased, you’re shamed out, you’re even punished.”3

      So much about residential schools reminds me of what happened and is continuing to happen in North Korea . Both peoples are stripped of their identities, separated from family, deprived of individual identities, vilified in public, pitted against one another. It's disgusting to see how one group of people will demoralize, dehumanize and disenfranchise another group.

    1. . If you are a non-Native, or an Indian hailing from elsewhere, you fall under the jurisdiction of the state of Minnesota, in keeping with Public Law 280

      This reminds me of how federal jurisdiction overrules tribal ordinances.

    1. transport the school,

      This reminds me of the work I am doing now. We are using a public park as our classroom and have had many community members stop and ask us about it or express their gratitude for us being in the community.

    2. The pleasure of learning of knowing and understanding is one of the most important and basic feelings that each child expects to receive from the experience he or she is living through:

      This reminds me of a quote from Richard Feynman who while not connected to Reggio inspires my thinking.

      The prize is in the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it [my work]--those are the real things, the honors are unreal to me. Richard Feynman

    3. He needed to make a statement to the citizens of Reggio Emilia about the importance of preschools, and offer proof of his beliefs.

      To offer proof of his beliefs, make an impact and inspire transformation did not happen overnight. It took generations and a lifetime to drive change. This reminds me to be patient in my practice and in my advocacy.

    1. ‘Father Zeus, does it not stir your indignation to see all this violence?

      Ares??? Condemning violence??? I thought I'd never see it. Seriously though, this seems contradictory since everything we've seen from Ares so far has been very 'bloodthirsty'. I guess he only likes violence when it is thrust upon others/mortals, and not when it's upon himself. Seems ironic though, since he's the god of war. It reminds me of how kings in the past would fight alongside their armies in battle. Ares seems like the king who would choose to opt out.

    1. just hadn’t figured it out yet,

      That's totally fine, and this also reminds me of the visualization article we read this week. Perhaps in the process of creating different types of visual displays, you will gradually build up a clearer image of what you want to investigate.

    1. how my Airtable could work as a visualization of my work

      This reminds me of the visualization article we've just read, that it's useful to discover the value of visualization itself as a research process. In this case, Airtable might be the one that you want to engage with. My question here is how do you think that the visual functions of Airtable are sufficient enough to represent your argument?

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    1. how my Airtable could work as a visualization of my work

      This reminds me of the visualization article we've just read, that it's useful to discover the value of visualization itself as a research process. In this case, Airtable might be the one that you want to engage with. My question here is how do you think that the visual functions of Airtable are sufficient enough to represent your argument?

    1. I doubt this will end up being “the useful network,” but it seemed like the most useful simple network to start with because it still gave a sense of who is “citing” who/what.

      This reminds me of the Sandcastles paper, just because the visualization is not useful to a broad audience doesn't mean its not worth making and breaking.

    1. I was so fondly shielded that I never dreamed I was a piece of merchandise, trusted to them for safe keeping, and liable to be demanded of them at any moment.

      Reminds me of the movie Room. Still sad to read.

    1. The atelier had to be a place for researchingmotivations andtheories of children from scribbles on up, a place for exploringvariations in tools, techniques, and materials with which to work.

      This description reminds me of a laboratory - a place for research, discoveries, and plenty of materials.

    1. The :emple_ reflects the ideals and way oflife of those who built it and for whom it was mtended to operate as a link between the world of man and that of the g~ds.

      This reminds me of Vitruvius' description of Greek Temples. In Book 3, he goes into detail on the way in which ancient temples should be designed, specifying that their composition must be based on symmetry and proportion similar to how the human body is composed. This idea that temples are created to form a link between our world and that of the gods is clearly present in Hinduism as well. Immediately upon starting this reading, I wonder what other similarities and differences exist in the design and concept of Hindu Temples and that of other cultures, specifically the ancient Greeks and Romans.

    1. we wouldn't be able to function without rules

      I strongly agree with this statement, without rules to guide us then it can often be easy to get lost in the endless possibilities that come with absolute freedom. In some ways it reminds me of the statement "ignorance is bliss". If all we know are the rules and we have the notion that we must follow them, it can be much easier to achieve a goal than when given free reigns over our choices.

    2. always make three or more points in an essay

      The three point rule also reminds me of elementary school when they first teach you how to write essays. They tell you the structure of your essay should follow something like: Intro, Thesis, First, Second, Third, In conclusion. Up till 9th grade I was stuck in the idea that an essay would only flow if I had 3 points supporting my thesis and each with 2 explanation sentences. However, my literature teacher showed us that this method of 1 2 3 does not make the essay flow, but instead cuts it up into different pieces.

    3. It is a kind of cognitive habit that can limit perception, not a course of action with multiple paths that directs and se- quences response possibilities.

      This reminds me of a concept I learned in psychology called "deindividualization." It is the loss of self-awareness in groups. I found myself doing this a lot in my previous English classes. There would be times when I chose to use others' ideas than my own in writing because I was insecure about my own. On top of that, my previous English classes valued composition over creativity, so it didn't exactly feel refraining; it was rather more for convenience. And because always approached writing like this, the transition to creativity can get rather difficult sometimes.

    4. much of the literature on set has shown its rigidifying, dysfunctional effects.12

      This reminds me of a term I learned in psychology called "Interference". There is "Proactive interference" where you can not learn something new because you learned something before that, that subsequently INTERFERES with learning. Like Ruth that used previous rules from past english classes that made her less fluid and rigid in her current writing situation, which caused a block.

    1. “Because every time I see her I want to tell her I’m sorry your mother is alive, because it reminds me that mine is dead

      This justify my previous statement, building off of the envy I was discussing, Claire was feel a bit jealous towards her friends and she know knows how to express it.

    2. “Because every time I see her I want to tell her I’m sorry your mother is alive, because it reminds me that mine is dead.

      We see Claire truly express her feelings about Angela to Aaron. She has a form of envy and jealousy for Angela's mother's being alive.

    3. “Because every time I see her I want to tell her I’m sorry your mother is alive, because it reminds me that mine is dead.”Aaron winces. He takes a nervous sip from his red cup before looking at her again.“That’s fucked up, Claire. My mom misses you too. You’re messed up right now, I get that, but at some point you’re going to have to stop making it worse.”“I’m not making it worse. I’m looking for my shoes.”

      Although her mother died claire needs to learn to let go of the past and move on because the more she grieves is the more she hurts herself

    4. Because every time I see her I want to tell her I’m sorry your mother is alive, because it reminds me that mine is dead.”Aaron winces. He takes a nervous sip from his red cup before looking at her again.“That’s fucked up, Claire. My mom misses you too. You’re messed up right now, I get that, but at some point you’re going to have to stop making it worse.”

      These details make me question if Claire is so jealous of Angela and Aarons mom surviving that she has grown a disdain towards black people. Could this be why she sees no wrong in her actions?

    1. It is important to recognize that access to the opportunities afforded by proficiency in the dominant academic and social ways with oral and written language and other cultural practices were goals of deficit and difference approaches too, t

      I am reading a book and (in someways) it has some ties to baseball, and in the book the narrator makes the argument that baseball is a different form of war that does not facilitate killing, but it still holds within it the aggression, patriotism, and competition of war. This part that I highlighted here reminds me of just that, as it speaks in ways that "rhymes" ('history doesn't repeat itself, it speaks in rhymes' - Mark Twain) with the baseball metaphor, but in the way that society functions. In saying that, there is patriotism in acadademics, social ways with oral and written language and cultural practices which (like social reproduction) eliminate the competition.

    1. but it still took days or weeks for the actual bushels of grains to travel there so buyers and sellers started completing their transactions over the telegraph because it was faster

      I think this is extremely interesting. The telegraph at this time was being used for buyers to essentially preorder grain, to ensure they maintained the current price it was. This almost reminds me of a combination of modern actions of buying stock and online shopping. As stock fluctuates in price constantly the price of grain back then seemed to as well, therefore by placing a transaction over the telegraph these buys claimed their price and items. Similar to online shopping in how the buyers are purchasing an item not yet in their sites but only exists in theory. By fronting the money or the intention of payment they are reserving the right to the item before it is in their possession.

    1. Those two items considered, it is critical that common outdoor spaces in supportive housing are designed to be open enough to have accidental eyessupervising play and also closed off enough to ensure safety from harmful outdoor elements

      This reminds me of a tv show that I was watching a few days ago where researchers mixed the elderly people from a retirement home with a kindergarten class and the elderly took care of the kids while kids brought back joy into their lives. Overall the elder participants’ health improved drastically and they made great friends with the children. A similar approach maybe helpful here?

    1. More important, society must spend money and time reducing the root causes of violence. I

      it reminds me of the notion of restorative justice vs. punitive justice

    1. Ther nas but hevynesse and muche sorwe. Page  87      1079 For prively he wedded hire on the morwe,      1080 And al day after hidde hym as an owle,      1081 So wo was hym, his wyf looked so foule.      1082 Greet was the wo the knyght hadde in his thoght,      1083 Whan he was with his wyf abedde ybroght;      1084 He walweth and he turneth to and fro.      1085 His olde wyf lay smylynge everemo,      1086 And seyde, o deere housbonde, benedicitee!      1087 Fareth every knyght thys with his wyf as ye?      1088 Is this the lawe of kyng arthures hous?      1089 Is every knyght of his so dangerous?      1090 I am youre owene love and eek youre wyf;      1091 I am she which that saved hath youre lyf,      1092 And, certes, yet ne dide I yow nevere unright;      1093 Why fare ye thus with me this firste nyght?      1094 Ye faren lyk a man had lost his wit.      1095 What is my gilt? for goddes love, tel me it,      1096 And it shal been amende, if I may.      1097 Amended? quod this knyght, allas! nay, nay!      1098 It wol nat been amended nevere mo.      1099 Thou art so loothly, and so oold also,      1100 And therto comen of so lough a kynde,      1101 That litel wonder is thogh I walwe and wynde.      1102 So wolde God myn herte wolde breste!      1103 Is this, quod she, the cause of youre unreste?      1104 Ye, certeinly, quod he, no wonder is.      1105 Now, sire, quod she, I koude amende al this,      1106 If that me liste, er it were dayes thre,      1107 So wel ye myghte bere yow unto me.      1108 But, for ye speken of swich gentillesse      1109 As is descended out of old richesse,      1110 That therfore sholden ye be gentil men,      1111 Swich arrogance is nat worth an hen.      1112 Looke who that is moost vertuous alway,      1113 Pryvee and apert, and moost entendeth ay      1114 To do the gentil dedes that he kan;      1115 Taak hym for the grettest gentil man.      1116 Crist wole we clayme of hym oure gentillesse,      1117 Nat of oure eldres for hire old richesse.      1118 For thogh they yeve us al hir heritage,      1119 For which we clayme to been of heigh parage,      1120 Yet may they nat biquethe, for no thyng,      1121 To noon of us hir vertuous lyvyng,      1122 That made hem gentil men ycalled be,      1123 And bad us folwen hem in swich degree.      1124 Wel kan the wise poete of florence,      1125 That highte dant, speken in this sentence.      1126 Lo, in swich maner rym is dantes tale:      1127 -- Ful selde up riseth by his brances smale      1128 Prowesse of man, for god, of his goodnesse,      1129 Wole that of hym we clayme oure gentillesse; --      1130 For of oure eldres may we no thyng clayme      1131 But temporel thyng, that man may hurte and mayme.      1132 Eek every wight woot this as wel as I,      1133 If gentillesse were planted natureelly      1134 Unto a certeyn lynage doun the lyne,      1135 Pryvee and apert, thanne wolde they nevere fyne      1136 To doon of gentillesse the faire office;      1137 They myghte do no vileynye or vice.      1138 Taak fyr, and ber it in the derkeste hous      1139 Bitwix this and the mount of kaukasous,      1140 And lat men shette the dores and go thenne;      1141 Yet wole the fyr as faire lye and brenne      1142 As twenty thousand men myghte it biholde;      1143 His office natureel ay wol it holde,      1144

      1079-1144: Basically, the knight marries the hag and then goes into hiding because he's ashamed about how ugly his wife is. He's not happy when he gets into bed with her and he tosses and turns all night. She just lies there, smiling, and asks him if all husbands treat their wives this way. She reminds him she saved his life and has never wronged him. Why won’t he treat her right on the night of their wedding? The knight tells her that it’s because she’s ugly and old. The hag says she can fix that in three days if he treats her better. She then gives him a really long lecture about thinking that rich people are better than poor people. She calls him arrogant, saying that real men are the ones who do the right thing even when nobody is watching. Gentility comes from God, not money.

      Notes: The hag spends so long telling off her husband for being a horrible gentleman that it’s a wonder she even wanted to marry him in the first place. If she knew he would treat her like this, why bother? Did she want his wealth or something?

      There are connections between the tale's prologue and the tale itself. The tale illustrates how "necessary" it is for women to rule over their husbands. The Wyf of Bath herself has had five, so she’d know, right? She basically said in the prologue that she speaks from experience, so can we infer that one of her husbands said things like this to her and she fixed it by lecturing him?

    1. vague

      The word 'vague' seems to repeat quite a lot in descriptions of Constantia's gestures and behaviors. She reminds me of Laura from the Garden Party, having her own inner world nobody knows of. But she's more reserved and reticent, which might stem from her insecurity and dependence on her older sister's views.

    2. What did it mean? What was it she was always wanting? What did it all lead to? Now? Now?

      This moment reminds me of the end of The Garden Party where Laura tries to explain that she has just confronted mortality and can't find any words. Similarly to Laura, I think that Constantia witnessing death in this way is causing her to recognize her own mortality, but rather than be awestruck by it, it's sending her into an existential crisis.

    1. THE MOST UNIVERSAL DEFINITION of the slave is a stranger. Torn from kin and community, exiled from one's country, dishonored and vio-lated, the slave defines the position of the outsider.

      Reminds me of all of the readings I have had to do regarding the treatment of slaves in my US and Latin American classes. Very heavy stuff

    1. If then any one transgresses the prohibition against you, transgress you likewise against him.

      This reminds me of a prayer we did when I was a child (as my family was Christian) - "Forgive us our transgressions, as we forgive those who transgress against us." Is this the opposite?

    1. In about 1956, there was a case of an Indian shot in the Platte Valley of Nebraska; only when courageous citizens in the valley persisted for months in the face of entrenched authorities did justice finally prevail.

      It reminds me a lot of today where public pushing and protests are advocating for justice to crimes, rather than the government actively doing something about it.

    2. the transport agents failed to supply enough food

      Wonder why this transport of supplies failed. Reminds me of when supplies "failed" to reach Natives in earlier events when, in reality, the supplies were sold.

    3. After most of the Choctaws who had attended this conference with Eaton had left, Eaton told the remaining members of the council that if they did not agree to remove, the president would declare war on them and send in the army. They agreed to sell their land, signing the first removal treaty of the Five Nations in the Southeast.

      ugh that's so gross of the united states to go at great lengths to use violence and send the army against the Choctaws if they didn't remove. Reminds me a bit of the situation at Standing Rock not too long ago, though the US army wasn't sent in (ofc different nuances).

    1. which means guarding and protecting the environment in order to respect the ancestors and secure the future.

      It reminds me of the quote "we don't inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children"

    1. Wikipedia invites readers to peer behind the curtain and, if interested, take a place at the controls

      Reminds me of the notion of "hidden transcripts." I wonder if the digital age/digital history offers more hidden transcripts to become public or if it just creates more silences through click-bait and categories such as "most relevant" or "top-rated."

    1. Some sort of organic brain defense has become derigueur in any sort of capital defense

      This reminds me of "affluenza". where a child was acquitted for a drunk driving murder because his family was wealthy, and that because they were so wealthy he didn't know right from wrong.

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    1. Take us generally as a people, we are neither lazy nor idle; and considering how little we have to excite or stimulate us,

      This reminds me of things I've read in other papers and journals for this class where the white people talked about their slaves and said that they don't have any good talents, even thought they wouldn't have time to cultivate many talents outside of their work. Or they chastised them for enjoying simple things when they weren't working. I remember one text, it might have been from Jefferson, where he said that the slaves dident need much sleep because they stayed up late after work to do something fun. It is a dammed if they do and dammed if they don't type of thing with anything they would do.

    1. delay that structure up until the student reaches animpasse—a form of failure—and is subsequently unable to generate an adequateway forward

      This reminds me of just in time teaching slightly...just more rapid and structured.

    1. This reminds me of the equisite poems we did in class bc youre able to use two poems and cobine the words from one poem with another and change meaning

    1. Alternatively, environmentally driven epigenetic variation can also result from non‐random epigenetic modifications at specific genes to modify the phenotype according to the prevailing environment, hence corresponding to adaptive phenotypic plasticity (Duncan, Gluckman, & Dearden, 2014).

      This reminds me of what I am doing for my research proposal. The epigenetic variation isn't random because it happens in direct correlation to the fitness of the mother. If the mother has GDM or diabetes then the child is more at risk for developing insulin resistance due to DNA methylation.

    1. She organized an annual fundraising gala in East Glacier Park, using the funding to start a recycling program and other projects. She initiated the first tribal land trust program, the Blackfeet Land Trust, to protect 1,200 acres of crucial grizzly bear habitat. One reporter called her a “dream source,” the person to talk to about any new initiative. And in the middle of it all, in 2005, Cobelldonated a kidney to her husband

      I am currently reading a book called "Out of Mao's Shadow" and it is about the struggle for political change in China. The unkept promises made by the U.S. to the Blackfeet remind me of the promises the Chinese Communist Party made to protect the human rights of its people during the Great Leap Forward, a period in which millions of Chinese citizens starved. Cobell reminds me very much of a Chinese dissident named Lin Zhao who never gave up her principles and risked everything in order to boldly call out the party for its wrongs. I am glad that despite having to singlehandedly face off with behemoth, unfair institutions with the U.S. Government who sought to silence her at every turn, Cobell was not detained from following her conscience to the same extent as Zhao, who was forced to become a martyr at a young age.

    2. After 1820, rather than distribute payment to the tribes directly, the U.S. held the money for the tribes. If a tribe won a money award for illegal taking of their property, the United States held that money as well. The U.S. made the decisions about investing the money, and if a tribe wanted to use it themselves, it had to get federal permission first.

      This reminds me of a sort of classic childhood joke where your parents would hold onto money you got from a relative and you never got it back. Except this was on a much, much grander scale and the severity was much greater in magnitude.

    3. Because few Indians—many of whom could not speak English, much less write—had written wills, this usually meant that property descended to the heirs determined by state intestacy laws.

      Reminds me of the literacy tests African Americans had to take in order to vote.

    1. The legalized form of white racial supremacy that Georgia sought to impose upon the Cherokee Nation and its reservation was ultimately designed to force the tribe to accept removal to an Indian Territory beyond the Mississippi River.

      I have learned of the Trail of Tears and other such Indian Removal in high school, however I have never learned of it to this extent. I think it horrible that such history has failed to be taught in schools. Furthermore, it reminds me of 1930's Germany, and the forced removal of certain ethnic groups. Yet it is not taught in the same way, when in fact they are extremely similar occurrences, and both are driven by such overt racism and cruelty.

    2. To leave them in possession of their country, was to leave the country a wilderness; to govern them as a distinct people, was impossible, because they were as brave and as high spirited as they were fi erce, and were ready to repel by arms every attempt on their independence.21At another point in his opinion, Marshall again uses this language of Indian savagery and implacability to assert that the “character and hab-its of the people whose rights have been wrested from them” provided “some excuse, if not justifi cation,”

      It was definitely an excuse, but racial justification was necessary to expand and assert the new nations order. It kinda reminds me though way after, the logic and rhetoric of Nixon's war on crime reasoning in the Black community, of course both contexts have their nuances.

    3. Amazingly, unlike with the decisions in Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson, the justices of the Supreme Court continue to cite this trio of archaic, racist judicial precedents from the early nineteenth century in their present- day opinions on vitally important questions of Indian rights to property, self government, and cultural surviva

      Which reminds me of the previous class that I took with Prof. Klann on what citizenship is/who it is granted to/how it is constructed is a theme that is involved here in this passage. Just as the US denied citizenship to Dred Scott, they did so with Native Americans by creating or using vague language to uphold racial exclusion.

    1. I believe it is strongly supported by thought experiments describ-ing the gradual replacement of neurons by silicon chips. The remarkable implication is that consciousness might someday be achieved in machines

      This reminds me of the Eva situation. She most certainly had a brain and mind, but did that make her conscious? Her brain/mind was not human like, but rather man made. I feel as if it failed to create true thoughts and emotions, but rather made her replicate what a conscious human would do. She would never experience it however. This makes me think that replacing neurons with silicon chips would also fail to carry over true consciousness.

    2. the subjective, inner life of the mind

      This reminds me of how we had to defend against if Ava was able to have the subjective experience of emotions. Did she have a "inner life of the mind"?

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    1. If a solid lighter than a given fluid be forced into lhat fluid the solid will be driven upwards again by a force which is equal to the difference between the weight of the fluid and the weight of the amount of fluid displaced.

      This reminds me of forcing things underwater just to see them shoot back up out of it with my friends when I was younger. It was funny till you're the one that got hit by it.

    1. using Angry Birds as an intro to Physics.

      Reminds me of how I made ice cream in 3rd grade to try to facilitate some interest in some kind of science

    1. he capacity for listening and reciprocal expectation is an important quality,

      This reminds me to give children the time to do this. I thing we often skip this as adults because we are expected to be efficient and productive. All to often that is pushed on to children as well.

    2. task of those who ducate is not only to allow the differen es to be expressed, but to make it possible for them to be negotiated and nurtured through exchanging and comparing ideas.

      This reminds me of an ongoing exchange between two 4yos in my context- we are exploring leaves and one boy recently expressed "The leaves are like the tree's mouth.", to which another replied "No! The roots are the tree's mouth!" This debate is ongoing and recently evolved into the latter child stating "The roots and the leaves are the tree's mouths...and they eat their own mouth!"I am thrilled to be part of this exploration and grateful for having these listening principles to guide my participation.

    1. “Namasté (the God in me sees and honors the God in you).”When I had the privilege of teaching a gr

      This reminds me of Danny Silks, "Culture of Honor: Sustaining a Supernatural Environment." It is the Christian call to return that culture back to one of honor. Namaste, which recognizes the elephant in the room, the spiritual component and influence of something outside self that shines and lights and inspires, surely will not require agreement on religion but it certainly does call forth the principle of honor which should be present in all religions. Surely we can meet there and learners, who have observed or participated in the slicing, dishonor of social media will welcome learning a more honorable way. I agree with Koch, surely, it's time. We just practiced the mutual blessing of namaste in our online writing circle and I believe it did charge our time as we moved through the PQS protocol.

    1. who had three daughters of surpassing beauty.

      The family having three daughters with the youngest having some outstanding characteristic reminds me of a children's book I read in elementary school. If only I could remember the name of it! This seems to be trope in lots of stories though, take Cinderella for example.

    2. Though the elder two were extremely pleasing, still it was thought they were only worthy of mortal praise; but the youngest girl’s looks were so delightful, so dazzling, no human speech in its poverty could celebrate them, or even rise to adequate description.

      This reminds me of Cinderella, with the 2 jealous step-sisters.

    1. with singers in the middle and then people would whirl faster and faster and finally some of them would collapse into trances of their own and when they awoke they would tell of the things that they

      This reminds me of Whirling Dervishes. Dancing and dancing to come fully into the present moment/mysticism/connection with God.

    1. my infinite brain

      Oothoon's recognitiont that her own brain is infinite is very powerful at a time when women wer told the opposite. Blake gives glimpses of how through the powerful nature of Oothoon and her self determination/ fierce desire to control her own experience. This reminds me of the courage and dtermination of Prince, who must have brought hope to many other women in her position, as she was determined to demonstrate the rights she should have against a society oppressing her.

    1. all while working to preserve our planet.

      in the PBS article they spoke how early enslaved people's farms were organic and they compost, this reminds me of that mentality.

    1. "It had never been a thought that I had been raped. I was more freaked out that I didn't enjoy it. Nate was p***ed.

      This reminds me of what we just talked about in class about how men don't realize they have been raped because of this wrongful notion that men are supposed to enjoy sex all the time no matter what, that they want sex all time, and that it was cool that he didn't even have to try. The way that people approach this made it so the person in this story said he felt weak for not enjoying it and didn't even consider it to be rape until someone told him it actually was.

    1. We're off to never-never land

      There is a lot of repetition throughout this piece, and it also seems like this entire piece is composed of smaller old familiar pieces (prayer, hush little baby, etc). A lot of the phrases are all ones I've heard before, but each in their own previous story. Combining older phrases together gives them new meaning and I like that. I highlighted "We're off to never-never land" because it reminds me of Peter Pan, and I think that flying away to Neverland is the best way to describe what it's like to have a dream. Something comes in the night and takes you away from reality, to a place where anything can happen, good or bad. You fly away in the night to a new world and you can leave the old world behind. That is exactly what a dream is like in my opinion. Peter Pan definitely makes a perfect Sandman. I really do appreciate the symbolism throughout this piece.

    1. Insulin affects the glucose, or blood sugar, level of some diabetics according to the function G(x)=−0.2x2+450,G(x)=−0.2x2+450,

      After reading this section, it really stuck with me. My grandmother had diabetes and had to take insulin. In my previous job as a firefighter, there were many times when I got called to a medical emergency and had to help the patient administer insulin. This example not only reminds me of insulin but all medicines that doctors, nurses, medical personnel give there patients and need to know how the patient is taking to it.

    1. The nation’s debt hit the $1 billion markin 1863 and the $1 trillion mark in 1981

      1861 was the start of the Civil War. The civil war could be classified as a race war. Also an economic war. All Wars are Banker's wars. This reminds me of the first funding of Head Start. Head Start only received a small amount of federal budget funds in the 1960s and 1970s , while the Vietnam War budget received trillions.

    1. It included three philosophers, among them Carneades.

      Possibly due to my Christian background, this reminds me of King Herod sending the three wise men

    1. If we have to learn this from video games, and not from afield with as boring a name as cognitive science, then so be it.

      Reminds me of how kids don't tend to think their creative work counts if it's done in the classroom

    1. Make no noise, make no noise; draw the curtains:so, so, so. We'll go to supper i' he morning. So, so, so. Fool And I'll go to bed at noon.

      Here is a bit of comedy. This reads to me as the old timey looking at the camera and telling a joke. The Fool is poking fun at how Lear is losing some of his marbles, specifically his mixing up that supper is eaten in the morning. It serves as a funny joke, but also the systems in place. It reminds us that Lear is older and not at the mental capacity he once was. I am sure that some people have said that he suffers from some mental illness. That thought stays in my mind through the play: Lear does not seem to be fully there mentally, so is he at complete fault for his actions?

    1. I like this, mostly because it allows me to write small components without creating another separate sub-component for holding the value simple computation. I get annoyed every time I need to create a component just to hold a variable, or even move the computation away from the relevant location. It reminds me of the days where variables in C had to be declared at the top of the function.
    1. He argues that making digital games accessible to a wider audiencebenefits everyone by providing opportunities for play across communities.

      Reminds me of games that have custom controls, allowing all kinds of people (like people who play one handed due to a disability) being able to join the fun as well

    1. articulate

      When looking up the definition of articulate, it says "having or showing the ability to speak fluently or coherently". When hearing this in the context of how it was used though it reminds me the saying "you sound/talk white".

    1. they did not have title to their land—that belonged to the US, but they did have the rights of use and occupancy

      What's the point of this?If those on the land are occupying, maintaining the land that is rightfully theirs, why can't it be in their name? This makes no sense to me and reminds me of the current Armenia-Azerbaijian conflict happening. Armenians have occupied the land for decades and have been in that region for thousands of years, with several cultural and religious sites on Nagorno-Karabakh land, but the land is still not internationally recognized as Armenia's by the bureaucracy.

    2. The Court ruled that the state of Georgia did not have criminal jurisdiction to prosecute a state offense that occurred in Cherokee country. 

      This reminds me of when the United States has convicts flee to Mexico but cannot do anything because the lack jurisdiction unless given permission. One country, to another.

    1. A chef came to talk to me, I finished my bowl, and halfway through the conversation, he stopped talking and he started frowning into my bowl.

      This narrative reminds me of another factor in the global food waste issue -- portion sizes. It seems that research proves the connection between portion sizes and obesity; however, there might be a connection between oversized portions and food waste.

      I remember being a young child sitting at the kitchen table and hearing a lecture from my parents if I did not eat everything on my plate (and, yes, this lecture always contained a reminder that there were other children in the world who may not have had the luxury of a dinner that day). But as an adult, I consider the many times I take too much food and then leave it to be discarded in the trash. If I make it a habit to take smaller portions -- or even use smaller plates! -- I can contribute to solving this issue.

    1. There is an important lesson here. In the form in which it first appeared, the earth's life system had an inherently fatal fault: the energy it required was derived from the consumption of a nonrenewabl,e resource,

      Reminds me of our reliance on nonrenewable resources to this day.

    1. During the past four years the discussion around the causes of our polluted information ecosystem has focused almost entirely on actions taken (or not taken) by the technology companies.

      I agree with this statement so much because this reminds me of the things FACEBOOK is doing to stop having all this misinformation floating around in people's timelines and it is hard for these companies ,but FACEBOOK has taken the lead in trying to reduce the amount of misinformation on it's sites.

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    1. inequality not only exists, but is deeply structured into society in ways that secure its reproduction.

      Kind of reminds me of affirmative action. For example, I know inequality doesn't exist, so affirmative action is placed in order to help level the field

    1. According to Horton, the central ideas of a myth are regarded as sacred. There is anxiety about threats to them

      This reminds me of a myth about a young women who was chased up a cliff by Indians in my hometown that had to commit suicide

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    1. In South Asia, where the history of scientific forestry has perhaps been most fully documented, the forest department quickly became a reviled arm of the colonial state. When a comprehensive Indian Forest Act was enacted in 1878-to supersede a preliminary Act of 1865-the government was warned, by a dissenting official that the new legislation would leave ‘a deep feeling of injustice and resentment amongst our agricultural communities;’ indeed, the act might ‘place in antagonism to Government every class whose support is desired and essential to the object in view [i.e. forest conservation], from the Zamindar [landlord] to the Hill Toda [tribal]. These words were far-sighted, for once the act was in place, peasant and tribal groupings resisted the operations of the Forest Department in all kinds of ways: through arson, breaches of the forest law, attacks on officials and on government property, and quite often, through co-ordinated and collective social movements aimed at restoring local control over forests.

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      When I read, “In South Asia, where the history of scientific forestry has perhaps been most fully documented, the forest department quickly became a reviled arm of the colonial state”. It reminds me that “Ecological Imperialism” from previous reading. The majority of those Asian countries that colonized by Europeans are following their way of environmentalism. However, is this the right way to apply one method to all the occupied lands? In “Ecological Imperialism,” Crosby states that “The human invaders and their descendants have consulted their egos, rather than ecologists, for explanations of their triumphs. But the human victims, the aborigines of the Lands of the Demographic Takeover, knew better, knew they were only one of many species being displaced and replaced; knew they were victims of something more irresistible and awesome than the spread of capitalism or Christianity”. Human has always been arrogant concerning nature. Humans did not realize the importance of nature for a long time and how we cannot live without nature. We must have enough knowledge of the landscape we are about to take action before doing our work. The experience we have can limit the negative impacts that we may do on the environment surrounding.

      Crosby, A. W. (1988). Ecological Imperialism: The Overseas Migration of Western Europeans as a Biological Phenomenon. In The ends of the earth: Perspectives on modern environmental history (pp. 103-117). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

      Relate

      There are many examples of humans taking advantage of nature in the colonized period and modern times due to the anthropocentric. That results in most of the natural ecosystem was damages during those human actions. For example, the Longleaf Pine ecosystem was once widely covered the southeastern region in the United States. Due to the fire burning and the timber industry's needs, the whole Longleaf Pine ecosystem was sharp decreasing in very short. Therefore, one of the most covered ecosystems became the most endangered ecosystem in the United States.

      Ecology imperialism is apropos to describe the relation human and nature has, even though today many people have cared about nature's sustainability. However, humans have not found the right balance between us and nature, and it is imperative to figure that out. We are not the only living species existing on the earth. We are sharing it with thousands of other species. It is also essential to think the future generations, think it sustainably, what are we giving them if we take actions into nature with no control.

    1. Most people seem to follow one of two strategies - and these strategies come under the umbrella of tree-traversal algorithms in computer science.

      Deciding whether you want to go deep into one topic, or explore more topics, can be seen as a choice between two types of tree-traversal algorithms: depth-first and breadth-first.

      This also reminds me of the Explore-Exploit problem in machine learning, which I believe is related to the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem.

    1. Therefore let everyone that is out of Christ, now awake and fly from the wrath to come. The wrath of almighty God is now undoubtedly hanging over great part of this congregation: let everyone fly out of Sodom. Haste and escape for your lives, look not behind you, escape to the mountain, lest you be consumed

      This reminds me of the book of Micah 6:8 ,He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good ;and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God.

    2. O sinner! Consider the fearful danger you are in

      This quote reminds me of the story of Jeremiah when he preaches God's words to the people to not move to Egypt so they will not go back to the wrong doings of idolizing and worshiping others. "consider the fearful danger you are in" are words Jeremiah would have said.

    1. I am she: I am he whose drowned face sleeps with open eyes whose breasts still bear the stress

      This reminds me of the personification many explorers attribute to the Titanic; it emphasizes the tragedy of such an event. By being giving human characteristics ("whose drowned face sleeps with open eyes") the reader is allowed and encouraged to imagine someone brought down, trapped beneath the waves, helpless and silenced. In that context, I feel the author is using that as a metaphor for a person's story going untold, or silenced altogether.

    1. That very fact made photography irresistible to black writers as a mode of both counter-protest and introspection

      I wonder if Ellison, as photographer, viewed this role as bridging the gap between visibility and invisibility. It reminds me of Susan Sontag’s description of a photograph from one of her essays in On Photography : both a “pseudo-presence and a token of absence.” IM, through his “act of sabotage” of stealing power from Monopolated, is exerting both his presence and his absence (light as vessel for photography, light as illumination)—“Nothing, storm or flood, must get in the way of our need for light and ever more and brighter light. The truth is the light and light is the truth.”

    1. As we have seen through these peyote myths, ritual roles, art, song, and prayers, the female archetypal themes of community, nurturing, and creativity, are ever present.

      Reminds me of the Amazon myth.

    1. There are in all nearly 100 scholars ; they are improving fast, many of them can read and write and are fast learning to talk the language of the white people

      The Native Americans knew that they need to assimilate to white culture in order to be more accepted. This reminds me of our society today, because of social classes, who deem certain qualities as "better" than others.

    1. teachers hid their Facebook accounts for fear of being fired.

      The sound of this to me know reminds me of the type of suppression of thought that might have occurred in the middle ages.

      Of course open thought and discussion is important for teachers the same way it is for every other person. However there are a few potential counterexamples where open discussion of truly abhorrent ideas can run afoul of community mores.

      Case in point:


      [also on boffosocko.com]

    1. In short to add wiki-style functionality to my blog, the only functionality that is really needed is that 1) I myself have a edit button on static items, 2) the ability to categorise and tag those items, and 3) keep those items outside of the blog posting stream on the front page, and outside of the RSS feed. WordPress pages fit that description, when I’m logged in, and after adding a plugin to allow categories and tags on pages. So a page based section it is, or rather, will be over time.

      I like the idea of this and the overall structure. It reminds me a bit of Wikity which may provide this functionality plus a bit more. I really need to spin up a version and play around with it to see if it will give me what I'm looking for in terms of a blog linked with wiki-like functionality.

    1. mmentary. It also includes many annotated newspaper and magazine articles.An articMaha Bali2 weeks agowould be nice to include a screenshot. Also, I feel like I need to read up on Cambodian history to understand the significance of this particular royal - you don’t explicitly talk about how he is using power here. Was he trying to influence public opinion, was he just annotating for his own knowledge and learning, what kind of power is at play here?(I also wonder if the whole leaders having “right to express freely their view” does not work to anyone’s favor in the case of Donald Trump, so I would contest this strongly. That freedom of expression for political leaders maybe should be weighted differently than for the general population, no? As it has broader consequences for the entire country or even the world…

      I nearly added it above in the opening, but Maha’s comment reminds me of it again. In a countercultural way, a web developer created a browser plugin that will re-format all of Donald Trump’s tweets to appear as if they were written in crayon by an eight year old: http://maketrumptweetseightagain.com/

      While not technically annotation in a “traditional” form discussed in the text so far—though close from the perspective of the redaction technique mentioned above—, by reformatting the font of Trumps tweets, it completely changes their context, meaning, and political weight.

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    1. The other reason I am writing it, however, is that I know that many of my fellow exvies have, like me, struggled for years to make an open break with their families because of the pressure to conform that comes from inherently abusive fundamentalist socialization.

      Some of this reminds me of the insularity and abusive practices of the Hasidim in the recent documentary One of Us. I think there are more pockets of people living like this than most people admit or we as a society should allow.

      I also think there's a link to Fukuyama's growth of politics here which is highlighted by Jonah Goldberg's Suicide of the West.

    1. In ed tech, schools are the customers, but students are the users.

      This also reminds me of the market disconnect between students and their textbooks. Professors are the ones targeted for the "sale" or adoption when the actual purchasers are the students. This causes all kinds of problems in the way the textbook market works and tends to drive prices up--compared to a market in which the student directly chooses their textbook. (And the set up is not too dissimilar to how the healthcare industry works in which the patient (customer) is making a purchase of health care coverage and not actually the health care itself.

    1. They also found themselves unable to sustain and organize in the long term in a manner proportional to the energy they had been able to attract initially and the legitimacy they enjoyed in their demands.

      This reminds me of an excellent example I heard recently on Scene on Radio's Men series which tells the story of a rape which occurred several years prior to the bus boycott that helped to rally the community and make the bus boycott far more successful than it would have been without the prior incident and local reportage.

      The relevant audio begins (with some background) at approximately 22:40 into the episode.

    1. Mutual aid societies were built on the razed foundations of the old  guilds, and cooperatives and mass political parties then drew on the  experience of the mutual aid societies."

      This reminds me of the beginning of the Civil Rights movement that grew out of the civic glue that arose out of prior work relating to rape cases several years prior.

      I recall Zeynep Tufekci writing a bit about some of these tangential ideas in some of her social network writing. (Where's the link to that?)

    1. I gleaned everything I could from vital records, city directories, and village maps, then pieced together context from town records, newspaper reports, and regi-mental histories.

      This type of work is fascinating to me, reminds me of being a detective but thankfully without the stakes of a crime having been committed.

    1. But grading for learning is, to paraphrase a 1960’s-era slogan, rather like bombing for peace.

      Reminds me of some quotes from George Orwell's 1984

      "War is peace" "Freedom is slavery" "Ignorance is strength"

    1. What bothers me are the maudlin videos produced out of someone’s intense, private moment that are then taken out of context and broadcast around the world. What bothers me is how the viewer never learns how the individual came to the decision about their implant, which factors they took into account, whether their medical insurance covered it. Sometimes we don’t even learn their names.

      This reminds me of a topic that we learned about in my LGBTQ identities class a couple semesters ago. The topic was the Medical Gaze and how the individual's identity was sort of stripped away from them, while people only focused on "what was wrong" or something that was "abnormal". Similar to what the writer stated, these photos and videos are often broadcasted to the world without the name of the patient/individual being named.

    1. the improbable few. The ‘critical yeast’ — these small, unlikely, combinations of persistent people and partnerships committed to a new quality of relationship — dwell before and behind every instance of social change

      Reminds me of that Margaret Mead quote: Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

    2. WHAT WE PRACTICE, WE BECOME.

      Reminds me of that quote from Evan Almighty where God says: 'If people pray for patience, does God gives them patience, or opportunities to be patient?' Why can't gain virtues just through asking or via theoretical knowledge alone, it's in the doing of them that we get better at them.

    1. Neolin visited the Master of Life and had taken his message back to the Delawares

      Neolin reminds me Wovoka, a spiritual leader who brought the message of the Ghost Dance to many Indians looking for hope against their diminishing population caused by the Europeans