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  1. Sep 2020
    1. we need to be comfortablewith the restless nature of life

      Yes! And how very difficult this can be. This reminds me of the Rinaldi chapter when she spoke of being "open to crisis."

    2. Of course, many things that happen in school can beseen ahead and planned beforehand. But manythings that happen cannot be known ahead of time.Something will start to grow inside the child andsuddenly what is happening in the school will movein that direction. Sometimes what happens startsinside the adults. School can never be alwayspredictable. We need to be open to what takes placeand able to change our plans and go with whatmight grow at that very moment both inside thechild and inside ourselves.

      I love this so much as it reminds me that we are all real and that education can be a more natural part of life. We strive to be respectful listeners of children's voices, but this reminds me that we need to listen to our own inner voices to, to take care of ourselves, as our connectedness and intuition will be able to guide us and, possibly, make us feel comfortable with flexibility and the unknown.

    1. Comparisons up and down this vast ladder have been a popular scientific pastime, but all we have learned from them is how to measure other species by our standards. Keeping Aristotle’s scale intact, with humans on top, has been the unfailing goal.

      Something that I find really interesting and funny about how we classify ourselves in the Scala Naturae is that it reminds me of how we are taught to see ourselves in my religion. I am a Jain, and in Jainism, humans are seen as superior and beings that have superior cognitive and emotional abilities than animals, plants, and microorganisms. Now, even though some of this may be true as humans and sunflowers do not have the same cognitive ability, I find it fascinating that even in religion we draw this distinction between humans and animals are coherently different.

    1. Beacon Hill: I enjoyed reading about Beacon Hill because it reminds us of the importance of community spaces as central for change. Community is so integral because there is power in numbers. At Beacon Hill, black and white people collaborated and joined forces to bring about change. Reading about Beacon Hill reminded me that we all can contribute to the cause of building a better world.

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    1. f combining freedom and cont

      if people have some sort of freedom, they will follow the rules more than if it is just full control. this reminds me of a kid who has very strict parents - they will tend to sneak out of the house more than the kid whose parents allow them to go out.

    1. At this point, you need only to point to a tickling spot, not even touching it, and hewill throw another fit of laughter.

      Reminds me of Jaak Panksepp's study on rats' ultrasonic laughter.

    1. Enthusiasm and belief in the Gloucester sea serpent continued, with repeated sightings throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (the last documented sighting was in 1962). While the identity of the creature has never been established, several candidates have been proposed, including a row of leaping porpoises, giant eels, sea snakes, whales, seals, and, of course, our good friend the oarfish. The spontaneously-created scientific name Scoliophis atlanticus is now considered a synonym of the basking shark, revealing yet another likely identity for the monster. No evidence confirming the existence of a new-to-science species off the coast of Massachusetts has been found.

      This paragraph caught my attention because even though there is no proof or evidence of a sea monster ever existing and there are many different animals that could fit the description of the animal they claim they saw, many people are still avid believers in this mysterious "sea monster", and people still claim they saw it just 60 years ago. This reminds me of the people today that are firm believers in other things that we have no proof of existing, like mermaids, aliens, sasquatches, etc.

    1. Most moral relativists say that moral right and wrong are to be relativized to a community’s “moral code.”

      reminds me of how in Mcbayer's article he talks about how facts and opinions can be subjective from person to person - one's own moral code can be formed from their own opinions/beliefs, such as eating meat. Certain societies/religions belive it is morally wrong, but can it be factually wrong?

    1. “Then the earth, teeming with grain and vegetables of various kinds, which she pours forth in lavish abundance- does she appear to give birth to this produce for the sake of the wild beasts or for the sake of men? What shall I say of the vines and olives, whose bounteous and delightful fruits do not concern the lower animals at all? In fact the beasts of the field are entirely ignorant of the arts of sowing and cultivating, and of reaping and gathering the fruits of the earth in due season and storing them in garners; all these products are both enjoyed and tended by men.” (p. 275)

      CONTEXTUALIZE:

      In Reinventing Eden, it is also addressed that narratives are ideals that only address or include bits or biases. Religion and ethic give permission to address and exist with nature in different degrees of severity. (p. 36) Cicero writes in this second passage selected that the "lower animals" have no desire or concern for the harvested and cultivated. Perhaps it is the time at which he writes compared to my modern day perspective, but it seems as though this statement is avoidance of addressing the landscape these lower animals live and will continuing living on devoid of the natural resources humanity has depleted it of in production of the vines and the olives that are spoken of. Of course, just because the crop itself may be of no interest to animals, the land that the crop is being produced on is transformed and therefore affects the natural world in its entirety. It is the moral, the ethic, and the story we tell ourselves that permits us to act. It is as though we believe we are doing the right thing- which is evident especially current day.

      Merchant, Carolyn. Reinventing Eden: The Fate of Nature in Western Culture. London: Psychology Press, 2004.

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      Lucretius’ On the Nature of Things (De Rerum Natura) (ca. 99-55 BCE)

      As for planting and grafting, the original pattern for these operations was provided by creative nature herself, since fallen berries and acorns in due time produced swarms of seedlings beneath the trees; and this gave people the idea of entrusting slips to branches and of planting young saplings in the earth all over the countryside. Then they kept on experimenting with new methods of cultivating the little plot of land they loved, and saw wild fruits improve in the ground in response to their kindly care and coaxing. And day by day they forced the forests to retreat farther and farther up the mountains and surrender the parts below to cultivation, so that on hills and plains they might have meadows, ponds, streams, crops, and exuberant vines, and so that the distinctive gray-green zone of olives might run between, spreading over down and dale and plain. They created landscapes such as we see today—landscapes rich in delightful variety, attractively dotted with sweet fruit trees and enclosed with luxuriant plantations.

      In mimicking the landscape we are able to produce and even regenerate with the hopes that our efforts can reinvent our idea of an original Eden. Lucretius' prose reminds me so much of the intimacy that is written in Carolyn Merchant's Reinventing Eden between woman and the earth, i.e. Eve and her curiosity in the serpent and in the ways and wonders of the earth. Cicero's description of agriculture seems respectful and observant of the earth in agricultural practice but never addresses the human tendency to cross the line between need and desire for more. Lucretius does, however address, human expansion for agricultural practice later in the prose which is ultimately paralleled to the fall of the Roman Empire- the overuse and the over-extraction of what Cicero is calling earth's "overabundance" in this passage.

      Lucretius Carus, Titus, J. S. Watson, and John Mason Good. 1901. Lucretius on the nature of things. London: G. Bell.

      These readings also remind me of my favorite book called Ishmael. Ishmael, a philosophical novel, by Daniel Quinn, was written in 1992 addressing the unspoken cultural/spiritual/ethical biases driving modern day progress, industrialization, and expansion. Quinn's book addresses the Green Belt Revolution so it is really fascinating to see how deeply rooted this battle between the ethical choice of humanity and earth is within our ancestry, or planet, and humankind in total- not just within the Western world.

    1. Kitzmann ultimately found that the students she worked with were "less disruptive, changed their attitudes, and had a stronger drive to succeed in school" after exposure to the Two-by Ten strategy. In addition, the class as a whole was "running more smoothly."

      This reminds me that the student's who use their behavior as a way to gain attention can feel at ease and begin to use words instead of actions to get the attention they need and are seeking from the adults the surround them. The Two- by -Ten strategy allows the child to access teacher attention without using behavior that is inappropriate in order to receive that need.

    1. Kraken gif created by Richard Naples [Smithsonian Libraries], based on a drawing by Denys Montfort in Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des mollusques: animaux sans vertèbres et a sang blanc, v.2, 1801. (Smithsonian Biodiversity Heritage Library)

      This image reminds me of the recent incantations and interpretations of the legendary Kraken sea monster tale. A couple of examples of representation of the Kraken in popular culture are the Pirates of the Caribbean series version, which greatly displays the change and detail applied to the image of the Kraken in comparison to old drawings, and the video game Sea of Thieves. Denys Montfort's drawing of the Kraken is basically a huge squid with large empty eyes. The detail in the Pirates of the Caribbean is well innovated and built upon a common stereotype that the Kraken was more colossal and more mysterious in showing its full form. This change shows that representation in popular culture will undergo many versions over time.

    1. Don’t pack up your things as the class is ending.

      A lot of these things, especially this one reminds me of "college culture". It's so unintentional and happens naturally, you wouldn't even think it's wrong.

    1. The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd. If the leaders of the mob are so minded, coal-oil is poured over the body and the victim is then roasted to death.

      The brutality and inhumanity demonstrated by the white slave owners reflects how little they thought of black people. The unwarranted cruelty becomes somewhat of a spectacle to the crowd. This act reminds me of the tarring and feathering of tax collectors during the American Revolution, but in this case, the black people are completely innocent and undeserving of such crimes committed against them. There is absolutely no reason for such hate to be fostered and no reason for this level of hate and atrocity to exist.

    1. The initial contact with family of an Infant report reminds me of the "Initial Parent Teacher conferences we the teachers have to complete with the first 3 days of a new child in our classrooms. This form has questions that help us understand the child better. While doing these report at work you get to know more about what goes on at home and is a time for the parents to lay their questions and concerns.

    1. They can plan what each is to do or refrain from doing

      This sort of reminds me of Durkheim's views on morality, and to a degree Silver's. Parties come together with inherent values which provide the basis of laws as guardrails. It's curious to see this work out in contract law, though.

    1. Whole-brain deathi.e., the loss of function of the entire brain:

      This section reminds me of one of the tensions found in my philosophical health check.

      "Statements 22 and 15: What is the seat of the self? ...You agreed that: Severe brain-damage can rob a person of all consciousness and selfhood. And also that: On bodily death, a person continues to exist in a non-physical form"

      It can be connected to the first section as well when the author is taking about the possibility of the soul surviving after death.

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    1. Even if he follows the straight and narrow, he’s more likely to have police interactions than are his white peers — much like Tim Scott, James Blake, and every black male friend with whom I’ve discussed this issue. That’s going to be true no matter what Congress and state legislatures do in the coming months and years.

      Sadly true. People say all you have to do is follow orders and comply and they won't hurt you but that is proven to not be true. Reminds me of the social worker and a disabled kid, who tried to protect him because the other couldn't understand what was going on. Even with his hands up and to the sky he was considered a threat.

    1. In short, like wilderness generally, glaciers came tosymbolize those wild places saved from the nefarious consequences of theindustrialized, overconsuming modern world.

      This also reminds me of an article I had to read for my Intro to Environmental Analysis class. The article was titled 1491, and it was about how Western views of North and South America as places of "pristine wilderness" have tainted conservation and environmentalist views. The article states that it is very likely that the indigenous people in both North and South America altered the landscape to fit their agricultural needs. This quote that I have highlighted in Carey's article reminds me of that "pristine wilderness" myth.

    2. By rendering glaciers and glaciated areas as the domain of Westerners, theendangered glacier narrative simultaneously ignores local residents and thediversity of their glacier views.

      This reminds me of an article I read for Intro to Environmental Analysis class. The article was about decolonizing field ecology. Both articles discuss how Western scientists tend to disregard the local people when conducting their research. As a result, scientists tend to speak for the local people without consulting them, which demeans the indigenous people.

    1. An idea is nothing more nor less than a new combination of old elements

      This reminds me of the book Steal Like an Artist, which preaches that at this point nothing is original and all art is made from stealing bits and pieces of inspiration from different things that the artist has seen.

    2. two self-consistent but habitually incompatible frames of references.

      This reminds me of the Montaigne quote where he talks about how we see ourselves in different ways.

    1. Teachers need to learn to see the children

      This reminds me of the article from our observation class that discussed observing the actual lives of children rather than imposing our adult interpretations of them.

    1. embrace the democratic ideals of a common good. We are the most likely to support programs like universal health care and a higher minimum wage, and to oppose programs that harm the most vulnerable.

      This reminds me of the ideals of the BLM movement. Some said the looting in the BLM movement is a protest against the capitalists who take all the money.

    1. It uses the affordances of your phone or tablet to do what literature is always trying to do: give you new things to think about, to expand the world behind your eyes

      This reminds me so much of David Foster Wallace's use of subtext and physical things you can include in a written text to be inventive and keep the reader from reading left to right, top to bottom.

    1. “He was drunk, he didn’t know what he was doing” with “She was drunk, what did she think would happen?” Rape prevention cam-paigns have long told women not to get drunk, or warned them to watch drinks being made (thus guaranteeing they have not been spiked). Yet the equivalent campaigns telling men not to spike drinks and not to have sex with

      This reminds me of what I said earlier. Girls are always told not to get raped, but men are never told not to rape.

    1. the sheer power of voice, which could not be restricted

      A very interesting perspective... though POC aren't granted many freedoms, everybody, theoretically, has the freedom of speech by nature. This reminds me of slave songs, blues, and other ways that POC have defied these types of boundaries over time.

    1. .

      I find this paragraph strong. It is like he is saying, that one of the greatest sins of all is assuming one would be going to Heaven. He reminds the people to wake up and be humble because they are at the hands of the grace of God. This reminds me of going to church the the priest trying to instill fear in the parishioners through their sermon. Although both the priest at my church and this gentleman try to instill fear, I find Jonathan Edwards more intriguing.

    2. This paragraph reminds me of John 3:16 for God so love the world that He gave His only Son to take away our sin. Although the preacher casts the Vengeful God to cast fear to the listeners, God in the bible has forgiven us for all our sins. Even when we are in our wicked ways, He has forgiven us, and thats how much He loves us.

    1. Quetzalcoatl's Northern Origin

      Reading about the different gods and their purposes reminds me of Greek and Roman mythology, where there is a specific god for everything imaginable.

    1. The chaos manager is concerned with the credibility of the organization and ensures that positional authority is aligned with personal authority.  That the people in leadership are the ones people want to follow.  While the Marine Corps has a clear position hierarchy, they have a deep understanding of this idea.  Official authority is a function of rank and position and is bestowed by organization and by law. Personal authority is a function of personal influence and derives from factors such as experience, reputation, skill, character, and personal example. It is bestowed by the other members of the organization.…Official authority provides the power to act but is rarely enough; most effective commanders also possess a high degree of personal authority

      The Marine Corps draws a distinction between positional authority and personal authority.

      Reminds me of lateral leadership.

    2. “Working backwards”  from customer needs can be contrasted with a “skills-forward” approach where existing skills and competencies are used to drive business opportunities. The skills-forward approach says, “We are really good at X. What else can we do with X?” That’s a useful and rewarding business approach. However, if used exclusively, the company employing it will never be driven to develop fresh skills.

      This reminds me of the Product Management interview task of coming up with a new product. You can start with a SWOT analysis, but then you'd be missing out on thinking from the customer's point of view.

      Bezos calls the former the skills-forward approach, and the latter the working backwards approach.

    3. However, I quickly realized the problem.  Kotter’s approach puts the senior executive at the center of the story and the leader’s task is to force a change on a resistant organization.  To him, the business leader “defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles” Chaos theory, in contrast, removes the senior executive from the center of the story and puts the system at the center.  That is exciting for people who enjoy thinking about complex systems, but isn’t likely to be profitable to a consulting firm which sells projects to senior executives.

      Looking at a organization through a chaos lens would be more accurate and fruitful, but because it removes the CEO from the center (and replaces it with the system), it's not something a management consultancy would pitch (as they pitch to CEOs).

      This reminds me of pharmaceutical companies not having an incentive to research a drug they cannot patent and thus cannot make a profit on.

    1. Currently, she said, the nation has a patchwork of disclosure laws in different states that often don’t take into account future flood risks. FEMA’s flood maps are often outdated and incomplete, she said, and many states don’t require property owners to disclose the flood history information to prospective buyers. “This is not a consumer-friendly world we are talking about,” she said. The real estate industry, for example, hasn’t always welcomed increased flood disclosures, due to concerns that they could slow sales or cut property prices.

      This reminds me of the discussion from class about the law in North Carolina preventing the government from using updated climate models/maps. Increasing disclosure and making sure that scientific information is properly presented /accounted for is critical to planning for the future in a proper manner.

    1. For example, all languages have principles for constructing sentences that ask questions needing a yes or no answer, e.g. Can you hear me?, questions inviting some other kind of answer, e.g. What did you see?, sentences that express commands, e.g. Eat your potatoes!, and sentences that make assertions, e.g. Whales eat plankton.

      Really reminds me of how we speak. Some people uses polite phrases which I call them. For example, "May you pass me the spoon" vs "Give me the spoon". Sometimes our upbringings impacts us to how we speak.

    1. I sometimes fancy that in my condition if I had less opposition and more society and stimulus—but John says the very worst thing I can do is to think about my condition, and I confess it always makes me feel bad.

      This kind of reminds me of hysteria? Female hysteria was something that was often used to diagnose women. Any emotional outburst was seen as a symptom, so if a woman was worried or emotional about anything, it was just another medical condition symptom to ignore, rather than something to actually take seriously.

    2. If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?

      This kind of reminds me of hysteria? Female hysteria was something that was often used to diagnose women. Any emotional outburst was seen as a symptom, so if a woman was worried or emotional about anything, it was just another medical condition symptom to ignore, rather than something to actually take seriously.

    1. As Damon’s feelings forElena grow, eventually becoming a mutual romantic relationship, Damon’s moral charac-ter shifts from antagonist to anti-hero to hero.

      Although I have only seen a couple seasons of The Vampire Diaries, the way that Elena makes Damon a better person throughout the series reminds me of the character Nathan Scott from One Tree Hill changes throughout the show. For example, he was this popular kid who had it all but then met a girl who was not popular and by being with her made became a better person.

    1. Since ourinstitutions respond slowly, inefficiently, and reluctantly, welearn not to complain, not to pursue our grievances or claim ourrights.

      This reminds of me of low political efficacy.

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    1. You needn't be afraid of them Wh . . en you see them, JUSt remember that you, too, like all other human bemgs, were once a monster in one of your previous lives Neither hate them nor do battle with them, just continu~ on your way. There is only one thing you must remember: when you are in the city where the Fire Bird lives, you must not drink a single drop of water:'

      Has anyone ever seen Guillermo del Toro's "Pan's Labyrinth"? This section reminds me of a specific scene where the fawn instructs Ofelia to journey into a "monster's" lair and he tells her she cannot touch the banquet that lies before her. Not to mention, she creates her own door to the lair using a piece of chalk (creating her own crossing). The importance of journeying to a new land but maintaining a non-presence evokes the same imagery as not drinking any water where the Fire-bird lives.

    1. and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors.

      This reminds me of a point made in the lecture on how woman often used manipulation to control men. I don't necessarily think Abigail Adams needs to do that with him, but this line did read a tad bit like that. Urging him to not be like his ancestors, who we all know they messed up pretty bad.

    1. However, this procedure wouldresult in the death of the fetus.

      This decision is based on the mother's choice. This also reminds me of a detrimental childbirth, when sometimes the father has to make a choice on whether to save the child or the mother in birth that could kill one or the other. How is someone supposed to make that decision?

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    1. Informal collaborative relationships develop as learners share knowledge and codevelop interests.

      Reminds me of the topic on cliques we discussed

    1. He baptized them when they were born and staged elaborate funerals when they died.

      Interesting. I am in an anthropology class right now and we recently discussed the personification of animals in myths and religions. This reminds me of that a bit, I love the respect that Lewis has for his animals though. He believes they're worthy of his religion, I think that's quite interesting and reflective of his morality.

    1. For young people without access to digital media at home, after-school programs can be an important place for experimentation and play, provid-ing technical and social resources and a time and space for messing around with technology that they do not have at home.

      This reminds me of the other reading we did for INTE 2500, the one with the Computer Clubhouse. That was really a safe haven for kids and teens to mess around with technology, to understand how to use it in ways that develop you as a person and skills to use the tools that can help you grow

    2. As we describe in this book’s introduction, contemporary teens generally see their peers at school as their primary reference point for socializing and identity construction. At the same time, they remain largely dependent on adults for providing space and new media and they possess limited opportunities to socialize with peers and romantic partners without the supervision of adults.

      This sort of reminds me of the concept of "cliques." You have a "small group of people with shared interests," which is the official definition, but you also have the idea that it helps construct your identity. For instance, I was involved in theatre in high school, and so were a lot of my friends (many of whom I still keep in contact with), so that socialization sort of helped to identify me as a "theatre kid"

    1. Unverifiable

      This is an important term that reminds me of the way that so many high-level and important members of the United States (and other as well) government go totally unidentified. Many members of the CIA hide that they are so, and there are billionaires who essentially are always off the grid because they are so wealthy and able to be above the law. We never truly can know when they are watching--the government, or the companies ran by the billionaires.

    1. The next consideration is how this love comes to be wrought. Adam in his first estate was a perfect model of mankind in all their generations, and in him this love was perfected in regard of the habit.

      Self sustained increase sounds good in comparison to the Spanish plantation approach of claiming a section of land and its inhabitants. It is almost creepy in a way that it seems a little fascist that would breed a group of people out of existence. Too I can see why the puritans were all about this approach especially since they clearly had something against the native peoples claiming them to be savages, and the bible has a popular scripture on the topic of having lots of children. May your quiver always be full the saying goes. I dislike this approach too for the reason it reminds me of germs. The people came to the land and immediately started breeding taking up land rapidly multiplying. I just couldn't imagine just walking into someones house and growing a family of my own in their until the one in residence had left.

    1. gardens, then, in statues, pictures, and architecture, and then, in the mirrored views of life which a descriptive writer can call up before the mind's eye.

      This quote reminds me of the fact that we all see life differently by whatever we see with our own eyes, through the objects, materials, the surroundings and how they are viewed as. The things that we see mirror back to us as if it reflect back to us before our mind can form an understanding of it. That is what it is beautiful about, especially, when it comes to these crafts of such fairy tales that takes us to somewhere that is beyond words that cannot even describe.

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    1. assèd

      This word reminds me of when we talked about rhythm and rhyme in poems. This acute on the letter "e"makes us pronounce the word so it flows with the rest of the poem.

  2. Aug 2020
    1. we know the patterns so well that we frequently complete them in our minds, before the storytelling is complete.  We fill in the blanks.  

      This reminds me of the reminder in cognitive coaching to STOP guessing and filling in people's blanks if you want to be a better active listener. it's one of the hardest things to do I think! ANNNND please don't think I'm a lunatic, but it also for some reason reminds me of the hilarious scene in Men in Black where Will Smith explains why he shoots the little girl avatar in the training session lol

    1. but I'm in love.'

      this poem reminds me of this thing i saw about how people have been leaving traces of themselves for all of time. i.e. cave art, hand prints, writing in concrete, leaving your name on a wall, grafiti, art, literature, graves.

    1. Life has to be somewhat agitated and upset, a bitrestless, somewhat unknown

      Reminds me of another reading we did that discussed being in crisis and how quick we are to resist this, but ultimately this is where growth happens.

    1. It begins by having students use their own words, pictures, or dia-grams to describe mathematical situations to organize their own knowledgeand work and to explain their strategies. In later units, students graduallybegin to use symbols to describe situations, organize their mathematicalwork, or express their strategies.

      This reminds me of the math game that Dr. Lira introduced us to in learning sciences. Dragonbox Algebra. Remind me to show it during class.

    1. But could not make themfit

      This line makes me think of Dickinson trying to show how the speaker of this poem is desperately attempting to put their brain back together. It also reminds me of a puzzle. Like the speaker of the poem is putting together a poem and the pieces just don't fit. She doesn't say "puzzle" but I think that is a great metaphor for the brain. It also symbolizes how legitimately difficult it would be to put a brain back together.

    1. When a writer decides or intuits that a particular genre is called for by the situation, he or she takes up the genre and uses it to frame a written response to the situation.

      This reminds me of what I'm learning in sociology - we all put on a "performance" based on our audience and what is deemed appropriate by predetermined rules (how we act with our teacher vs. how we act with friends differs because of the positions they hold in society).

    2. direct sphere do—like the coders who design, and redesign, the social media platforms you use and participate in, and whose design decisions affect how you participate.

      reminds me of ecology

    3. repeated instances of action and are reinforced by institutional power structures.

      This reminds me of the need to have a signature in your email, or it will be looked at as unprofessional.

    1. This market function ofstarsis only one aspect or their economic importance. They are also a property on the strengthor whose name money can he raised for a film: they are an asset to the person (the star him/herself), studioand agent who controls them; they are a major part or the costof a film. Above all, they are part of the labour that producesfilm as a commodity that can he sold for profit in the marketplace.

      This quote is really sad to me, but is unfortunately incredibly true. I feel as though as the years have gone on, this has gotten worse and worse. Agents and big companies signing these stars completely control and over work these people to the point of exhaustion. This reminds me of the theory about popular artists having no control over their own life down to them being able to drive a car. This specifically happened with Brittney Spears and it is a really upsetting story and if you do not know about it I definitely recommend researching more into it.

    2. Star images have histories, and histories that outlive the star's own lifetime.

      I follow the music career of Gabbie Hanna and listen to the podcast she produces, since she has gotten into music she has changed her hair retty recently. it wasn't until she mentioned it on her podcast that she changes her hair for the EP or album that is coming out, for her first EP she was blonde, the following EP she had pink hair, the last one she had green hair and now with this new album she has basically white hair. A lot of people associate her work with the color hair she has and I think that is kinda interesting. It also reminds me of the episode of Hannah Montana where she meets Iris who changes her look often and already knows what her "Next next" look will be.

    1. the more dissatisfied he became with his condition and the deeper he yearned for freedom

      This reminds me of a young adult wanting to move out of his/her parents house who is currently house hunting (Yes, this is personal)

    1. Cheetos and Yoo-hoos

      All jokes aside this was my favorite snack as a kid. This reminds me of my environment growing up and how I didn't know things were hard for my family until I got older. I know what its like to get by even though as a child my mother never let me see the struggle. That gave me the skills I needed to make it through anything.

    1. Does economic liberalization lead to political democracy?

      Reminds me of one of Milton Friedman's quotes in which he says that "History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom"

    1. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, for example, the computer scientist Adam Chlipala has designed theorem-proving tools that generate cryptographic algorithms — traditionally written by humans — to safeguard internet transactions.

      Gosh, somebody reminds me of my past research 5 years ago.

    1. Not only does every language have syntax, but similar syntactic principles are found over and over again in languages

      This reminds me of how some English phrases are reversed in Spanish. For example, the phrase "Next summer" in Spanish is "El verano que viene" meaning "The summer that is coming".

    1. Brennan calls people who don’t bother to learn about politics hobbits, and he thinks it for the best if they stay home on Election Day.

      This reminds me of a statement made above which stated "American voters have remained ignorant despite decades of rising education levels." I believe that everybody has the choice to be ignorant or not and unfortunately now in society a lot of people lack open-mindedness and motivation to learn and further educate themselves. Most people are living in a state of content and if we did what Brennan said and let the "hobbits" stay home on election day, we enable a ignorant society instead of encourage education for not only self betterment but to also make a positive contribution to society.

    2. This talk of political authority reminds me of an idea in philosophy. The term 'philovictor' is used to describe someone who argues only to be right, not to learn. Those with political authority tend to do this...its as if too much power gets into the head and makes us lose sight of what is right and wrong. Being in charge should not make anyone exempt from learning and being reasonable.

    3. élites who feared the ignorance of poor immigrants tried to restrict ballots.

      The elitist and racist suppression of votes has long been a part of US history. Now that more and more marginalized POC are getting educated, no longer is education enough to suppress votes but physical access to voting centers is now too. Reminds me of a certain postmaster I know..

    1. ial justice is especially important in our community, wh

      This article reminds me a lot already of a textbook I read called Black Ants and Buddhists. The textbook gave many examples on how touchy/un-talked about subjects we brought to light in the classroom positively.

    1. Borrowing from the rhetorical modes, specifically description, Earlereconceived the standard description paper into a mechanism orproduct description

      reminds me of Darwin's utilization of Art/Science to relay information.

    1. student learning and understanding. When teachers are designing lessons, units, or courses, they often focus on the activities and instruction rather than the outputs of the instruction. Therefore, it can be stated that teachers often focus more on teaching rather than learning.

      This reminds me of the 1st year teacher handbook I am reading in my internship sced 499 class. It said in order to have a successful classroom we must have the classroom be student-based and not teacher-based. Therefore, we must track the students' progress, create goal-oriented lessons, and show them the purpose behind the lessons. -AS

    1. People in positions of power did illegal things they did not even attempt to cover up and were unapologetic when caught.

      This reminds me of the Jeffrey Epstein scandal as I just watched the docuseries about it on netflix. Politicians, celebrities, and literally anyone who has an aura of power have a history of getting away with very serious crimes.

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    1. Di d Jesusreallywa lk on the water or on ly appearto becausehewas wal kingon rocksbelowthe surfac

      This question reminds me of the video we watched of the magician walking on clear plexiglass under the surface of the water to make it appear that he was walking on top of the water.

    2. us. Ex -posing FatherColli ns’s ‘exorcisms’as fakesis the finestpieceof sleuthingI havehad the privilegeof seei ng inal mosttwentyyearsin this j

      The illegitimacy of the "exorcisms" reminds me of the different Church- related scandals that have occurred during my life and others I have heard about. It is very disbelieving that the institution that teaches others how to follow God and become the best followers that you can be indeed commits its own sins as well.

    3. it. He will not likeit one damnbit. But wh at couldI do? It’s the

      I have always been a firm believer that the importance of telling the truth no matter what the consequences may be is astronomical. This line reminds me of the ninth of the Ten Commandments of the Bible, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor". Mike Flanagan is following the Commandment by telling the truth of the matter rather than lying to Monsignor Pagello.

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    1. The meaning and reasoning behind the Avebury Henge is still a mystery that has many people searching for answers. Many skepticize as to what purpose the henge served. Was it created for theatre for rites and ceremonies? Or was the building of it more sinister as for pagan and devil worship?

      Could it be that the civilization behind this construction in Avebury was building a clearing away from the forests as to keep the demons of the forests away while also trying to appease them with offerings? Avebury is a landscape that provokes thought and asks many questions.

      The idea behind Avebury's construction reminds me of the movie "The Ritual".

      English Heritage, "History of Avebury Henge and Stone Circles." August 28,2020.

      https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/avebury/history/

    1. Research on interdisciplinary medical research2 has spawned a vibrant science of team science

      It reminds me of a Podcast that we listened to in the Cognitive Psychology class, in which behavioral scientists give practical tips on how to effectively reduce the times we touch our faces during the pandemic. It's amazing to see how that behavioral/psychology perspective complements to medical policy making and communications

    2. A first step in establishing a shared interdisciplinary language is to understand how different disciplines develop their own dialects

      This first step reminds me of first started to another new language. It is always better if you can understand the origins and meanings behind the vocabularies or sentences which help efficient learning and collaboration.

    1. “Design thinking taps into capacities we all have but that are overlooked by more conventional problem-solving practices. It is not only human-centered; it is deeply human in and of itself. Design thinking relies on our ability to be intuitive, to recognize patterns, to construct ideas that have emotional meaning as well as functionality, to express ourselves in media other than words or symbols. Nobody wants to run a business based on feeling, intuition, and inspiration, but an overreliance on the rational and the analytical can be just as dangerous. The integrated approach at the core of the design process suggests a ‘third way.’ “ – Tim Brown, Change by Design, Introduction

      The core Idea is to find balance between Analytical and Emotional . Reminds me of the essential balance between Abstract and Specific in Design and Software Architecture

    2. These patterns of thinking are often referred to as schemas, which are organized sets of information and relationships between things, actions and thoughts that are stimulated and initiated in the human mind when we encounter some environmental stimuli.

      Thinking Schemas, this is interesting. Reminds me of The modes of thinking mentioned in the "Learning how to learn" course on Coursera by Barbara Oakley

      Diffuse thinking and Focused thinking

      Investigate more patterns of thinking (schemas) to solve different categories of problems

    1. Raven Tales are the traditional human and animal creation stories of the indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

      This particular sentence reminds me of fables. At the end of all fables the story being told, teaches the readers a lesson. For example the Tortoise and the Hare, the fox and the grapes or the lion and the mouse.

    1. First of all, true Christians are of one body in Christ, 1 Cor. 12.12: Ye are the body of Christ and members of their part. All the parts of this body being thus united are made so contiguous in a special relation as they must needs partake of each other’s strength and infirmity; joy and sorrow, wale and woe. 1 Cor. 12. 27: If one member suffers, all suffer with it, if one be in honor, all rejoice with it. Secondly, the ligaments of this body which knit together are love. Thirdly, nobody can be perfect which wants its proper ligament.

      Here he is referring to the colony as the body of Christ, they are all one being living unified in one community. Not only was this a metaphor but this specific passage really stood out to me because of the way it is compared with the colonies strength and infirmity.

      There is this huge idea that they are all one body. No man is higher than another, if your brother suffers you are suffering as well. Which is such an interesting thing to think about when you compare it to the way we live in our society now. Pretty much everyone is out for themselves these days, heck I mean even my ex boyfriend had the mentality that you don't talk to your neighbors. You don't ask them for a cup of sugar or even acknowledge them, that is how antisocial and closed off a lot of our community is. Thirty years ago neighbors were close knit communities and if we go even further back to Puritan times, they solely relied on each other to further growth.

      The Puritan idea sort of reminds me a bit of communism, just in the way that no one makes more than someone else and they are very self-sustaining.

    1. people are “actors.”

      Reminds me of the social standards we were taught when we were young: manners, right from wrong, and more. We had to "act" a certain way

    2. The stories speak of heroic individual protagonists—the chosen people—whose manifest destiny is to make a positive difference in a dangerous world, even when the world does not wish to be redeemed.

      This reminds me of the idea of the "American Dream". This unrealistic expectation that anyone can be who they want and live happily ever after such as in The Great Gatsby.

    3. And some lies have enough truth

      This reminds me of the book The Things They Carried by O'Brien. This book is a fictional war story but held truth in the emotions of the narratives.

    4. happened the way she thought they did

      This reminds me of the saying, there are always three sides to every story, his side, her side, and the truth. One's perspective may be different from someone else's.

    5. different narratives for different realms of her life—career, romance, family, faith.

      This reminds me of when I was younger. I used to separate different things in my life and didn't want them to cross paths. For example, church, school, family, friends, all had to be separate. When I got older is when I realized, they all intersect.

    6. “It’s sort of like people put out a new version of themselves and lived their way into it,” Adler says.

      This reminds me of the law of attraction: if you think positively it will bring positive experiences and if you think negatively it will bring negative experiences.

    7. Americans have sought to author their lives as redemptive tales of atonement, emancipation, recovery, self-fulfillment, and upward social mobility,

      reminds me of the growth mindset

    8. people may repress traumatic events in a way that, while not ideal, is still “healthy enough

      reminds me of a psychological concept (freud i believe) in which our brains filter out traumatic or upsetting memories and shut them out as much as possible

    1. Thou art the grave where buried love doth live,Hung with the trophies of my lovers gone,Who all their parts of me to thee did give,That due of many now is thine alone:     Their images I lov'd, I view in thee,     And thou--all they--hast all the all of me.

      this person that he is in love with reminds him of all the other people that he has loved

    1. What we do as adults is the result of what happened to us as children. C

      Reminds me of Freudian psychology Where oral fixation is caused by unmet oral needs in early childhood

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    1. The power of science for good and for evil has troubled other minds than ours.

      This reminds me of Robert Oppenheimer's (The Father of the Atomic bomb) dilemma in the Manhattan Project because he knew that his work was doing good for his country, but it would wreak havoc to so many others.

    1. All the disagreement over immigration policy I have been hearing about in the news lately reminds me that while I believe in the rule of law, I feel profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of keeping people out who are desperate to come in. Is illegal immigration actually wrong? Is it unethical to cross a border without permission? I don’t have a clear vision yet of what the right border policy would be, and I admit that completely open borders would put our security at risk. But surely there are ways to regulate the border without criminalizing people who are driven by need and good intentions. If I were raising children in an impoverished third-world community plagued by violence, and if I had a chance to get my family to the U.S., I would take it. I would try to cross a border illegally so my children would get enough to eat and would have a more stable childhood and a chance at a better education and a better career. What parent would sit on their hands and tell themself, “I want to give my child a better life, but oh well. If I don’t have the papers, I guess it would be wrong”? If most of us, under desperate circumstances, would cross the border without permission and feel no moral qualms about doing so, then we must recognize this crossing as an ethical, reasonable act. If it is ethical and reasonable, then how can either a wall or a detention center be on the side of justice? We must find a policy that treats migrants as we would want to be treated--with empathy, respect, and offers of help.

      I mean but the fact we all feel this when when economics are set aside and we cause most of the issues happening in neighboring countries and we still don't have a better program then caging family units seperatly and caging them and individuals for long periods of time in un healthy environments is sad

    1. EZRA POUND (1885-1972)In a Stationofthe Metro

      The title of this poem gives a different feeling than the poem itself. The urban and industrial idea of a station is replaced by a tree, water, flowers. It is hard to know if the equation of wet petals is the mood of the environment or something more literal like faces. But the idea of wet petals reminds me of something gentle or fragile pressed down by the weight of water, against a dark branch of presumably a tree. Does he find the people in front of him oppressed or unhappy, are they being rained on or stuck on the wrong tree? Their faces are faint, ghostly, numerous, for whom he may have empathy.

    2. Petals

      Pound connects the industrial and natural world by drawing a comparison between the faces of train riders to a dying/decomposing plant’s petals. I think that this comparison is meant to bring awareness to the dreariness of city life, in which people are constantly running from place-to-place in search of something. No one ever goes into a train station to relax and hangout, but rather to leave their current location in hopes of reaching another place. The ghastly tone of the poem reminds me of the nickname of cities as a “rat race,” full of people desperately searching for happiness in industrialized places wherein natural joy is hard to come by. In comparing the lost souls in the train station to wet, decomposing petals Pound is explaining that the patrons he sees around him are not full of life and energy despite being in a bustling environment.

    1. The books I read sometimes are the same as to what is going on around me" (implying that assigned books are not connecte

      This reminds of the time when "Diary of a wimpy kid" was big back in elementary school. I remember almost every guy in my class had read it. Including myself.

    2. Moreover, I did not see any connections be- tween my life and the lives of the characters in those novels and plays.

      this reminds me of our discussion of young adult literature being unrealistic. the characters can be hard to relate to which causes readers to disengage.

    1. How about ideas of what counts as sex, who should be having sex,

      This reminds me of a law and order svu episode. A teenage girl with down syndrome was found to be pregnant with the baby of an autistic boy that she loved. The basic question of the episode is whether or not she had the mental capability to know what was going on, and whether or not she would be able to care for the child. I think it's important to talk about/acknowledge the fact that people with disabilities have sex, as it's something often forgotten when talking about consent

    1. Crucially, Apple’s use of copyright locks gives it the power to make editorial decisions about which apps you may and may not install on your own device. Apple has used this power to reject dictionaries for containing obscene words; to limit political speech, especially from apps that make sensitive political commentary such as an app that notifies you every time a U.S. drone kills someone somewhere in the world; and to object to a game that commented on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

      If your phone can limit what words you know and use, what news you have access to etc. based on corporate policy, do you really have freedom of speech? This reminds me of the time I read that TinyLetter was censoring writers who mentioned 'bitcoin' and sent out letters with a banned words list.

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    1. for example, the night sky begins to take shape through the careful choices of First Man and First Woman, but this process is disrupted by the wily Coyote, who snaps a blanket that randomly scatters stars across the sky.

      This section, like mentioned earlier above, gave me a familiar sense of a story I've heard before. As a Christian, the indigenous story of the careful choices of the First Man and First Woman reminded me of the first man and woman in the Genesis of Judeo-Christian origin's Adam and Eve. The trickster Coyote reminded me of the serpent in the garden. And the consequence of the Wily Coyote changing the way of their blanket reminds me of how the serpent changed the way of humanity by tricking Adam and Eve. However the contexts are varied and different, I still saw a connection, which is how all people have an idea of how the origin of life as we know it began.

    1. once an industry is monopolized, everyone qualified to understand and regulate it probably came from one of the dominant companies.

      This reminds me a bit of what happened with chemists pre-industrial revolutions when they all started coming from the upper classes and promoted corporations and toxins on the people because it was profitable to them. Closed loop profit systems at the expense of the many.

    1. we are often pressed to clarify our ideas to other people in the workplace, in our personal lives, and in our social and civic relationships.

      reminds me of Becks article how sharing life stories builds relationships

    1. There’s an essay by Sherman Alexie called “Why the Best Kids Books Are Written in Blood” that reminded me of how a story can save us. There’s an essay by James Baldwin that reminds me, over and over again, of how writing is a part of the healing process. There’s an essay by Lindy West called “Hello, I am Fat” that made me feel less alone

      Essays much like other forms of media can be enjoyed just the same or save someone as this refers to, it moght be a matter of finding what you like.

    1. here are a number of factors that potentially affect test administra-tion

      reminds me of Arthur Winfre'ds tlak about tests moving to mobile. I wonder how this can be regulated in these cases where tests were taken at home.

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    1. Animal nervous systems are the product of hundreds of millions of years of evolution, and are extremely useful for helping animals survive and flourish in a complex and constantly changing environment

      This reminds me of the intertwining of biology and natural selection with philosophical ideas and beliefs. The changing of our behaviors and habits form deeper due to our decisions and normative questions as discussed later on in this section. It just makes me think how differently biology would be perceived if we learned this side of the story in addition to the science!

    1. Whichever angle you take, be sure to leave the strong impression that without your intervention and your important book, Africa is doomed.

      They reminds me of the white savor concept. This is probably what sticks with me the most when I see white people uploading photos and videos on Instagram of Africa. I wonder if 'fully' white people realize what they're doing or are just ignorant to the concept?

    1. Profitless usurer, why dost thou use8So great a sum of sums yet canst not live

      This reminds me of the Prodigal Son parable from the Bible. (The Prodigal Son takes his share of his inheritance and squanders it all.)

    1. industry,

      When I think of "industry" I think of mass production of some sort. This reminds me of "Life is Not A Journey". Allan Watts explains how public schools just push children through the machine we call "education" just so they can start contributing to the society. It is really sad that we treat children as young as preschool to only think about what they should be doing or learning. Whereas education should be about what they CAN do and their experience of the journey.

    2. placed on an assembly line

      This reminds me of the video we watched about life not being a journey. The artist drew a picture of bright colorful children going into a factory labeled "school" where they came out the other end in black and white coloring with a diploma in their hands.

    1. And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence     Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.

      In this line Shakespeare uses the term "Time's scythe", and to me there are a couple interesting things about this. Firstly, a scythe is a tool often connotated with the Grimm Reaper, who is usually referenced when people die; so Shakespeare is referncing to the experience of death. Secondly, he capitalized "Time" making time personified, so to him death is a character. I wonder if he personified Time to make him seem more of a villain, a person who reminds one of mortality.

    1. The new integrationof developmental biology with evolutionary biology is al-lowing us to understand how changes in gene expressionduring development can alter the formation of body plans.

      This is a real area of interest for me. Ever since I was younger I have always been curious about how gene expression impacts the individual. This reminds me of epigenetics which was one of my favorite subjects in BioSci. It is the study of gene expression, and how a gene being active or inactive affects an individual without changing their genotype.

    1. At this stage the labourers still form an incoherent mass scattered over the whole country, and broken up by their mutual competition.

      Reminds me of the walstreet protests which were mostly peaceful sit ins.

    1. This is 1986

      This sentence is repeated several times throughout the text. This reminds readers of the time period and associates this issue with the year and shows the significance of these occurrences, given the timeframe.

    1. non-visible

      This reminds me of the concept of "nationality" by Benedict Arnold and how a nation is an ideological belief. When a group of people associate, they create the idea of a nation. A border can be man-made too, a concept, not an actual divide.

    1. They

      The rest of this paragraph reminds me of farm life. It feels very organic and in sync with natural cycles. All pieces playing a part and feeding into each other and creating something new.

    1. For example, a citizen might make global warming a personal,lifestyle issue by choosing to buy a Prius.

      This is very interesting and reminds me of individuals choosing to go vegan. Despite it only being one person out of billions, their chose is believed in their mind to affect the world as a whole. While this may be true, it takes a village to raise a child.

    1. particularly for students with a history of exposure to trauma

      This reminds me of an article I read from a while back about how students from very rural areas can have a particularly difficult time transitioning to college. Rural New England also has high rates of poverty, so I think some of our students are geographically disadvantaged (and even traumatized) in multiple ways. I know we lose a lot of these students in their first semester/year based on my experience, although I don't have the data. These students need to be seen, and not by A.I. success coach bots.

    2. l flexibility

      This part about consistency and flexibility reminds me of some of the slipper camp trainings that focused on modular training and hyflex pedagogies. On the one hand, we should offer consistency and predictability, but be flexible to learning opportunites as they emerge. This balance is challenging for me.

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    1. The controversysurrounding the VBNC concept involves whether bacterialcells can be resuscitated out of the dormant state and can startdividing in the external environment, which in the case of hu-man enteric bacteria may constitute a public health concern

      Reminds me of endospore formation. wonder if this evolved in gram neg similarly to endospore formation

    1. Panero highlights a 2013 study that found reading passages of highbrow “literary” fiction — as opposed to non-fiction or popular fiction — led to improvements on tests that measured readers’ theory of mind.

      Reminds me of the Mozart theory, where people who were exposed to some of Mozart's work before taking tests showed significant improvement.

    1. like Joe did when he helped me manage H1N1 and prevent an Ebola outbreak from reaching our shores.

      As the pandemic shut down America in March, President Trump tried to cast the Obama administration's handling of such outbreaks as failures. Ultimately, The Fix's JM Rieger reminds us, the Ebola outbreak resulted in 11 cases and two deaths in the U.S. Trump has since dropped this line.

    1. We should begin our efforts toward building community by designing for the students who need that community most,

      This reminds me of architectural/design social justice that believes we should act and design everything thinking that no one is able bodied.

    1. literallygroupsofparentsbuiltthemwiththeirownhandsattheendofWorldWarII

      This reminds me of the stories from "Walk Out Walk On" and how the community came together to build something beautiful which results in greater shared ownership and devotion to the project.

    1. They have hidden his name and changed his portrait found in the Books of their prophets – peace be with them. I shall demonstrate this, disclose its secret, and withdraw the veil from it, in order that the reader may see it clearly and increase his conviction and his joy in the religion of Islam.

      This reminds me of one of the biggest argument which have been made by the Muslims that Bible has been changed. according to many Islamic scholars in the original texts of Bible there is a clear coming of Muhammad mentioned but later it changed.

    1. . ] guess there's no point in making new friends at this place

      Revealing: This reminds me of my younger brother, and how he doesn't act on something if he doesn't see an inherent value in doing so. I guess the narrator didn't see value in trying to make friends at a school they are about to leave.

    1. During a consulting project it’s natural for me to misbehave in all sorts of ingenious ways relative to the status quo - to craft alternatives to the existing structures. Normal business operations are designed to suppress spontaneity but I seek to develop it.

      I love this. It reminds me of my friend who describes his work as an 'anti-facilitator'—where he views his job to incite more chaos than go with the flow. It's like Brian Eno's 'Oblique Strategy' cards for consulting ;)

    1. "O my children! my poor children! Listen to the words of wisdom, Listen to the words of warning, From the lips of the Great Spirit, From the Master of Life, who made you!

      When I read this passage it reminds me of the modern day bible and how God sent down Jesus in the Bible and he warned his people to listen to God and that he is trying to help them. This links the religious aspect of this passage and let's modern day people like me relate to it.

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    1. Forexample, trophy hunting might reduce or eliminate alleles for largehorn size, but gene flow from areas with no hunting might quicklyrestore alleles associated with large horn size (12).

      This reminds me of the rescue effect in metapopulation dynamics. However, instead of organisms within populations being rescued, genes are being returned from the population to prevent the loss of that genotype from a population.

    1. The most quoted and probably most fundamental essay by Peter Haff about the technosphere. The argumentation is clearly opposed to an argumentation that sees technology as something controllable by humans. It's about the whole world, or sphere of artifacts, and people, in so far as they are part of that sphere. In essence, Haff argues by starting from the different layers of a system (stratum 1, 2, and 3). From a certain layer (stratum 2) the components of the lower layer (stratum 1) are inaccessible and the components of the higher layer (stratum 3) are not to be influenced. Only components on the same layer can be influenced. - The sphere belongs to the prerequisites of its parts: Without biosphere no organisms, without semi-sphere no signs, without technosphere no techniques (Haff does not speak of semi-sphere here, but see Towards a semiotics of the technosphere). The technosphere depends on energy and is threatened by entropy. It needs to recycle the waste it produces in order to maintain its functions.

      After the first reading, much of this argument reminds me of conservative authors like Arnold Gehlen, Martin Heidegger (Gestell), and perhaps Ernst Jünger (who, as far as I know, has a similar understanding of the relationship of the worker to technology). I suspect that an actor-network theoretical argument would criticize the concept of closed spheres—although these spheres are not super-systems.


      Der am meisten zitierte und wohl grundlegende Aufsatz von Peter Haff über die Technosphäre. Die Argumentation ist klar einer Argumentation entgegengesetzt, die Technik als etwas von Menschen Kontrollierbares ansieht. Es geht um die gesamte Welt oder Sphäre der Artefakte und die Menschen, insofern sie Teil dieser Sphäre sind. Im Kern argumentiert Haff, indem er von den verschiedenen Schichten eines Systems ausgeht (Stratum 1, 2 und 3). Von einer bestimmten Schicht aus (Stratum 2) sind die Komponenten der niedrigeren Schicht (Stratum 1) unzugänglich und die Komponenten der höheren Schicht (Stratum 3) nicht zu beeinflussen. Zu beeinflussen sind nur Komponenten auf derselben Ebene. - Die Sphäre gehört zu den Voraussetzungen ihrer Teile: Ohne Biosphäre keine Organismen, ohne Semiosphäre keine Zeichen, ohne Technosphäre keine Techniken (wobei Haff hier nicht von Semiosphäre spricht, siehe aber Towards a semiotics of the technosphere). Die Technosphäre ist auf Energie angewiesen und wird von Entropie bedroht. Sie muss den waste den sie erzeugt, selbst recyceln, um ihre Funktionen weiter aufrechterhalten zu können.

      Nach der ersten Lektüre erinnert mich vieles in dieser Argumentation an konservative Autoren wie Arnold Gehlen, Martin Heidegger (Gestell) und vielleicht auch Ernst Jünger (der, so weit ich weiss, das Verhältnis des Arbeiters zur Technik ähnlich verstanden hat). Ich vermute, dass eine Actor-Network-theoretische Argumentation das Konzept der geschlossenen Sphären kritisieren würde—wobei diese Sphären aber keine Über-Systeme sind.

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    1. reveal useful information about literary trends.

      This line reminds me of the BCG reading where they talk about how an integrated approach to metadata can allow businesses to understand trends to their data such as the lineage of the data.

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    1. When we were making the last arrangements on the eve we were all vaguely excited. We shook hands, laughing, and Mahony said:

      This reminds me of the feeling of going on a field trip in elementary school: making plans to sit with friends on the school bus and making sure everything goes perfectly.

    2. The space of sky above us was the colour of ever-changing violet and towards it the lamps of the street lifted their feeble lanterns.

      This type of colorful sentences, albeit in a different mood and purpose, reminds me of "It may have been these constant showers of snuff which gave his ancient priestly garments their green faded look for the red handkerchief, blackened, as it always was, with the snuff-stains of a week, with which he tried to brush away the fallen grains, was quite inefficacious." The sentence structure is rather complex but the structure itself serves as an instrument for heightened imagery.

    3. “If I go,” I said, “I will bring you something.”

      This reminds me of the start of a quest or journey to bring back treasure for his love.

    4. passive, like a helpless animal

      Reminds me of the paralysis from the "The Sisters," although in my mind, Eveline's affliction isn't really the inability to act so much as it is the hyperactivity of her thought. She spends so much time waffling between chasing the future with Frank and luxuriating in a more content past with her mother and brother that when the time for action comes, she's frozen on the spot with all the possibilities. Actually reminds me a bit of Jug and Con from "Daughters of the Late Colonel," now that I think about it.

    5. “Come down, dear. Mr. Doran wants to speak to you.” Then she remembered what she had been waiting for.

      This reminds me of the ends to several of the works by Mansfield, where a sentence or scene were stopped by the conclusion of the story, left incomplete as to give the reader the opportunity to interpret as they see fit.

    1. At the more consequential end of the spectrum, we rely on social proof to inform moral choices- whether to assist an inebriated football enthusiast who falls on the sidewalk or step forward as a whistleblower.

      This reminds me of the case in New York where a woman was being stabbed and about 40 people heard her cries for help but no one did anything about it. Social proof caused moral and emotional calcification (Apathy).

      It was the murder of Kitty Genovese. Here's a link: Murder of Kitty Genovese

    1. Nonrestrictive clauses, which are not essential to the meaning of the sentence, begin with which and are set off with commas.

      This reminds me the first time knowing the difference between that and which. Using which if you want to add some insignificant information. Using that if the additional information is important to a word.

    1. I don’t ever want to deny the oppression and policing of that period. Yet the privileging of desire, of behavior, reminds me of the freedom I felt from that past lover’s response.

      To me, this passage deeply analyzes the events that were described before. The author's consistent narrative style allows room for the emphasis of this stance in which telling someone who to be is wrong, but validating someone can be life changing. The author makes it clear that this distinction is of much value as it is important enough to be mentioned twice.

    1. The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the more our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work.

      Reminds me of Whiteheads' quote:

      "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."

  9. Jul 2020
    1. Enjoying himself!

      This reminds me of one of the earlier stories, where the narrator stated that Stanley was determined to make everything into a job. A common theme in most of these stories is how one must connect their working life with their home life. In a way, I feel like the moral of most of the stories is to enjoy life as we have it, and to live in the moment, so I wonder how this story will tie back into it.

    2. tired you’re looking

      Reminds me of my parents friends who refuses to retire even with a degenerative disease because he still wants to write another paper. Definitely, working for the love of what he does.

    3. beautiful flying wheel.

      Reminds me of the zoetrope, which was a sort of proto-animation device invented and popularized in the 19th century.

      Helps me understand one of the recurring motifs in this short story of the ball as distortion -- the whirling of dancing, the dazzling lights, the disconcerting lurch between wishing desperately to be back home or jubilant that you are exactly where you are. I get Leila's back and forth.

    4. my children

      Interesting that Isabel refers to her guests as "my children". Reminds me of the previous annotation I made that compared Isabel to Titania, "Queen of the Fairies". That relationship seems more parasitic than mutual, at least in the eyes of William.

    5. “How heavenly; how simply heavenly!”

      This reminds me of what this text would look like with a POS tag on it. There are so many adjectives that reapeat themselves. This one is funny becuase it is a repition of words to describe something else.

    6. melon William had a horrible vision of one of Isabel’s young poets lapping up a slice, for some reason, behind the nursery door.

      I looked up the symbolism for a melon, and one of them says that melons are a symbol of family unity. William buys this melon as an offering to his family and his children, but Isabel's friends steal and destroy this melon and their family unity.

      Isabel's poet friend also reminds me of a small rodent or animal that will scurry and steal food and hide in a corner and devour the food.

    7. “that they should like the right things from the very beginning. It saves so much time later on.

      This reminds me of parenting books that teach you how to take care of your kid. Providing the "right" toys from a young age is good a good thing, but being so stressed about finding the perfect toy so that their children do not become "hooligans" is not a good thing either.

    8. without asking his permission. What would father say when he found out? For he was bound to find out sooner or later

      This sounds like a strict parent. This reminds me of children that do something secretly and are afraid to get yelled at by their parents.

    9. What did garden-parties and baskets and lace frocks matter to him?

      It's interesting to see Laura come to the realization that these lavish garden parties and materialistic things really don't matter at the end of the day. He lived a simple lifestyle and now has escaped to a blissful rest. It reminds me of the quote from Harry Potter: "Don't pity the dead. Pity the living."

    1. what do I care, in or out of Parliament, whether you are a Dustman or a Duke

      This reminds me of Betteredge saying "I'm the last person to judge someone if they have a darker skin color" in one of the earlier chapters, because this is said but then some of his opinions on people don't really align with it (ie. being suspicious of the three Indian men and calling them heathens).

    2. He has only one business now, sir,” she said; “and that’s roses.

      Reminds me of when Hercule Poirot retired from detective work to grow marrows, before he was pulled back into it by the murder of Roger Ackroyd :)

    3. connexion

      This reminds me how language has changed not only over time but depending on location. This could be be something to take note of for the final project.

    4. . Let me only say, that I tried to close my eyes before it happened, and that I was just one moment too late.

      I find these bits a real comedy - she tries not to look, but she does, she tries not to hear, but she does. It reminds me of Christians who claim not to gossip, but will tell you something like this so you can 'pray for the situation!'

    1. “I don’t want to hold hands with him,”June Star said. “He reminds me of a pig.”

      This girl is comedy. Yet, it is realistic because children don't really have a filter and will say whatever is on their mind.

    1. here is my staff, if you will

      He seems eager to lend his staff to others, and when we take into consideration the snake-like attributes it reminds me of the Devil dealing out sins and attempting to temp people.

    1. he symbols and associated hand motions reinforce each skill for all learners, especially those who like to make visual and kinesthetic connections.

      I really like the use of hand signals. It reminds me of whole brain teaching and will be helpful for maintaining student engagement.

    1. Permit me, with the greatest deference and respect, to lay at your feet the following genuine Narrative; the chief design of which is to excite in your august assemblies a sense of compassion for the miseries which the Slave-Trade has entailed on my unfortunate countrymen.

      How this starts reminds me of the reading named Oroonoko which was written by Aphra Behn. They both are talking to the reader in the beginning of the reading. They both also mention how the topics that they are going to talk about is going to make people uncomfortable.

    1. It is easy to be impatient with learners who have not yet instilled successful learning habits, such as listening attentively, creating outlines before writing, or periodically summarizing material that is read, and jump to the conclusion that they are not trying hard to learn. But these habits of learning take effort initially and only gain momentum over time. Once acquired, they can become second nature to the learner, freeing up attentional resources for other, more cognitively demanding aspects of a task.

      This is key for thinking about coaching learning. It reminds me of Dan and Chip Heath's "The Curse of Knowledge" where it is all too easy for a teacher to forget what it feels like not to know something. (From Made to Stick)

    2. More recent work has explored how ideas of what is desirable to learn may vary across cultures. For example, a study that compared parental expectations in the United States and Vanuatu suggested that whereas U.S. parents tend to consider deviation from a model as showing creativity, parents in Vanuatu tend to equate precise imitation with intelligence (Clegg et al., 2017).

      This is fascinating and hugely important. It reminds me of a related book called Clash! : 8 Cultural Conflicts That Make Us Who We Are.

    3. Experts differ from novices in more than just their general abilities (i.e., memory or intelligence) and the use of general strategies. Experts have acquired extensive knowledge that affects what they notice and how they organize, represent, and interpret information in their environments, which in turn affects their abilities to remember, reason, and solve problems.

      This reminds me of Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow. Both argue that experts gain a meta-cognition that goes deeper than the intellect--because of their years of experience, expertise becomes like intuition that doesn't have to be consciously processed to make judgements.

    1. 6.

      This reminds me of the recent example of the CEO of Proctorio (a remote test proctoring software) who posted a student's chat log with Proctorio customer service to a Reddit thread -- the CEO had to later apologize -- more info in this Guardian article

    1. Students collaboratively (with the instructor) identify an area of interest and co-construct a driving question to guide inquiry. Students engage in online collaborative inquiry as they search and sift through online texts using digital tools to address their focus of inquiry. Students critically evaluate online information by considering the credibility (truthfulness) and validity (usefulness) of the information obtained. Students synthesize what they have learned during their online inquiry by actively curating and synthesizing information across multiple, multimodal sources. Student engage in online content construction by synthesizing what they have learned and selecting the best digital text or tool before sharing this answer.

      This reminds me of Hyperdocs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18kCpbY5BriJyzzSDH1U2sGIpdwGBSfeBpUCatrq4EbI/edit

      https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oCi_v8wtt_5MHBoWz6ejGZKRpc9kUE69q5ju-XPANek/edit

    1. Proficiency in these continuously new, online literacies will define our students’ success in both school and life.

      This reminds me of the video from Module 2 stating how we have to instill a mindset of change and growth into students. Just like they will change their work in order to make it the best it can be, so too can our technologies and digital media change

    1. I was myself an eye-witness to a great part of what you will find here set down; and what I could not be witness of, I received from the mouth of the chief actor in this history, the hero himself, who gave us the whole transactions of his youth: and though I shall omit, for brevity’s sake, a thousand little accidents of his life, which, however pleasant to us, where history was scarce and adventures very rare, yet might prove tedious and heavy to my reader, in a world where he finds diversions for every minute, new and strange. But we who were perfectly charmed with the character of this great man were curious to gather every circumstance of his life.

      The beginning of this reminds me about a book called Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. The book is about different perspectives from people during the Slave Trade. It includes slaves, chiefs of towns in Africa, and people who bought slaves. The book mostly focuses on one family through generations. The book started in Africa and through generations it ended in Alabama.

    2. first cut off his members, and threw them into the fire; after that, with an ill-favored knife, they cut off his ears and his nose and burned them; he still smoked on, as if nothing had touched him; then they hacked off one of his arms, and still he bore up, and held his pipe; but at the cutting off the other arm, his head sunk, and his pipe dropped, and he gave up the ghost,

      This graphic description reminds me of another story about a slave in Tarantino's Django: Unchained. Jamie Foxx's character, Django, almost meets a similar fate. They state in the movie that cutting off his member would lead to bleeding out and death in less than ten minutes. Only the most disrespectful torture was used for these enslaved men, makes you wonder where this sick hatred could come from. The blood loss from losing his arm must've been the final blow. Gruesome how fast this torture must have went. Unbelievable.

    3. Then for little paraketoes, great parrots, mackaws, and a thousand other birds and beasts of wonderful and surprising forms, shapes, and colors. For skins of prodigious snakes, of which there are some threescore yards in length; as is the skin of one that may be seen at his Majesty’s Antiquary’s; where are also some rare flies, of amazing forms and colors, presented to ’em by myself; some as big as my fist, some less; and all of various excellencies, such as art cannot imitate. Then we trade for feathers, which they order into all shapes, make themselves little short habits of ’em and glorious wreaths for their heads, necks, arms, and legs, whose tinctures are unconceivable.

      This reminds me of the colorful little markets where people would sell exotic animals and crafts and where crime was rampant. The artistry and culture of merchants was quite shady at most but was utilized as one of the greatest communication and bartering systems of its time. Often times merchants knew more about society than most as they travel and network with each other and with other civilians.

    1. Every dialect is a way of thinking

      Once again, it reminds me of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis in that a dialect is probably a unit of language that is built up from a particular way of thinking (that is most likely culturally influenced). I think this is a very powerful statement.

    1. as soon as they enter’d the City, both Males and Females, young and old, flockt together to see this Lady, holding up their Paws in admiration;

      This is also what happens when you start up a new Animal Crossing game. In a way. Maybe I like this because it reminds me of Animal Crossing... a very messed up and dark Animal Crossing that involves kidnapping...

    1. STEREOGUM: When you’re programming drums for a rap record, do you approach it differently than if you’re working on a Tame Impala record? Does it just differ from song to song? What’s the determining factor on how you approach it? PARKER: At the end of the day, it’s the same. It’s this dance between making a rhythm — it’s hard to explain. It’s about making the choice of where to put a beat. It’s just choosing where to put beats and where not to put them. Not like a beat like a rhythm, but like where to hit and where not to hit. Which at the end of the day is the same whether you’re playing drums or programming them. That’s the difference it comes down to. The Tame Impala stuff I’m playing the drums, and with hip-hop I’m programming them. Which is different in how you go about it, but mentally it’s exactly the same. Choosing what rhythms to play. For me it’s everything in a song. It’s everything. I spend by far the most amount of time on drums and rhythms of my songs than any other part.

      This reminds me of something Chilly Gonzales said in an interview with Red Bull Music Academy:

      My friend Mocky always talks about drumming. He says, “Drumming is easy. It’s actually quite simple. You just have to know what to hit and how hard.” In a way that means that with one single note, or a single chord, you can really give off a lot of attitude. [plays piano] Same chord. Those are two very different emotions. What you put into it, I’m pretty sure if you do it right, the audience will know what that is. Even if they can’t put the name on it, they know that one was like gangsta and the other one was kind of like sad sad.

    1. "If eternal return is the heaviest of burdens, then our lives can stand out against it in all their splendid lightness. But is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?"

      This sentence reminds me of that in the movie, and only Tereza seems to think that love is heavy in the film. Tomas, Sabina, the professor, and the engineer...they can separate sex and love. I know that I cannot judge whether these two attitudes towards love are wrong or correct. However, I think it is unfair to Tereza in the movie, which makes Tereza looks like a weird person. I first think this a portrayal technique that shows how precious Tereza's love is. The director maybe wants to explain heavy is precious. In the end, Tomas and Tereza died in heavy love. Thomas chose to accept the "heavy" in life for Teresa, thus accepting fate's arrangement and letting them drift away until death.

    1. Now the online hunt to reveal extremists has raised concerns about unintended consequences, or even collateral damage. A few individuals have been misidentified in recent weeks, including a professor from Arkansas who was wrongly accused of participating in the neo-Nazi march.

      This in particular reminds me of the Boston Bombing, and how reddit users took it among themselves to find out who did it and instead doxxed the wrong person, who eventually ended up killing himself I believe since the false accusation. Everyone think in these scenarios they're doing it for the cause, and that they're in the right, until someone uninvolved gets accused and ruins their lives. I do think it's tricky though because I do think for like, the people going to Nazi rallies and promoting hateful and toxic content need to recognize there are probably consequences for creating hostility, but where is that line drawn?

    1. he problem, of course, was that she was telling a story about two people who had no idea they’d been cast as leads in a riveting story for thousands of strangers.

      This kind of reminds me about the movie Jim Carey did called "The Truman Show" and it's disturbing to know that it's still happening, years later, as if we didn't learn anything from it

    1. And now ordinary people are, too; social movements have helped spread these demands to a public mobilized by the pandemic and the protests.

      This reminds me of the French Revolution. There was significant repression of the lower classes to cause dissent, but it was not until the middle class became motivated that change came about.

    1. Effective curriculum is planned backward from long-term, desired results through a three-stage design process (Desired Results, Evidence, and Learning Plan). This process helps avoid the common problems of treating the textbook as the curriculum rather than a resource, and activity-oriented teaching in which no clear priorities and purposes are apparent.

      This reminds me of Steven Covey's 7 Habits. One of the habits is to begin with the end in mind.

    1. While I do not disagree with the premises proffered here in the broad context what I found interesting is that the TED Talk was a critique of being formulaic, not an issued approval. Basic human capacities for information gathering and then processing from the phenomenological sense could be narrated descriptively to be very similar or dissimilar. In the hands of a skilled narrative creator the affective aspect allows the medium including text rhythm, data inclusion or exclusion, and performance skills to all massage through the medium of delivery. I am borrowing from McLuhan but what is important here is to understand the cognitive process not as one to be manipulated through narrative archetype but its commonality to our humanity. Aristotle in the Politic describes human kinds nature as being innately political, community oriented. Hannah Arendt discusses quite heavily the transient nature of truths from the vantage point of the body politic. Bakhtin discusses the concept of the novelist, epic poetic creator, or story teller reflecting the many voices swirling around them as they start to create. What is important for me is that these are common items that transcend technologies for dissemination. Are we more concerned with the latest items and tying into our past or understanding that it is the interplay between formula and fresh creativity that propels human kind into broader awareness of themselves. First American Nations have vastly different narrative pacing and thematic materials from their Afro-Eurasian counterparts. The narrative of Sky Woman might be the same or it can be viewed as dissimilar. From my vantage point this all depends as to who the analyst might be and what time period they live in. Are we not reflections of the time we walk under the sky.

      As a post script to the longer part above, Vonnegut reminds one that creative output is a dance between formulaic and new pathways for expression. Regardless as to Vonnegut's propensity for tongue-in-check absurdity, his satirical approach issues a challenge to being overly formulaic.