“Sometimes God gits familiar wid us womenfolks too and talks His inside business. He told me how surprised He was ’bout y’all turning out so smart after Him makin’ yuh differ-ent; and how surprised y’all is goin’ tuh be if you ever find out you don’t know half as much ’bout us as you think
This speech emblematic of Janie finding her voice and using it.
Janie stood where he left her for unmeasured time and thought. She stood there until something fell off the shelf inside her. Then she went inside there to see what it was. It was her image of Jody tumbled down and shattered. But look-ing at it she saw that it never was the flesh and blood figure of her dreams. Just something she had grabbed up to drape her dreams over. In a way she turned her back upon the image where it lay and looked further. She had no more blossomy openings dusting pollen over her man, neither any glistening young fruit where the petals used to be. She found that she had a host of thoughts she had never expressed to him, and numerous emotions she had never let Jody know about. Things packed up and put away in parts of her heart where he could never find them. She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.
Wow! This is a fairly amazing bit of characterization info for Janie. It suggests that her first "marriage" had been one of convenience, a business transaction between her grandmother and Logan. Her second "marriage" to Joe--a man who stood in such contrast to Logan--was based on the romantic fantasies of a dreamy girl; she realizes here that she's unfulfilled INSIDE, which is what matters most to any human being.
Times and scenes like that put Janie to thinking about the inside state of her marriage.
From this paragraph until the end of the third one down (just prior to the paragraph that begins "Janie stood where he left her") is some intense rising action and the signal of a major turning point for Janie: all of her Pear Tree Dreams have been systematically wiped away.
Joe returned to the store full of pleasure and good humor but he didn’t want Janie to notice it because he saw that she was sullen and he resented that. She had no right to be, the way he thought things out. She wasn’t even appreciative of his efforts and she had plenty cause to be. Here he was just pouring honor all over her; building a high chair for her to sit in and overlook the world and she here pouting over it! Not that he wanted anybody else, but just too many women would be glad to be in her place.
Further characterization of Joe; namely, how little he understands Janie (and women, generally).
A little war of defense for helpless things was going on inside her. People ought to have some regard for helpless things. She wanted to fight about it.
Janie's power is increasing but is not full enough (nor has she yet been made to recognize it) to be wielded.
“They oughta be shamed uh theyselves! Teasin’ dat poor brute beast lak they is! Done been worked tuh death; done had his disposition ruint wid mistreatment, and now they got tuh finish devilin’ ’im tuh death. Wisht Ah had mah way wid ’em all.”
Foreshadows Janie's rebellion.
She had come to hate the inside of that store any-way. That Post Office too. P
Janie's discontent swells.
He gits on her ever now and then when she make little mistakes round de store.”
Here we get the indirect evidence of Janie's unhappiness at Jody's hands.
But any man who walks in the way of power and property is bound to meet hate.
NIce foreshadowing.
There was something about Joe Starks that cowed the town. It was not because of physical fear. He was no fist fighter. His bulk was not even imposing as men go. Neither was it because he was more literate than the rest. Something else made men give way before him. He had a bow-down command in his face, and every step he took made the thing more tangible.
This foreshadows (I think at this point) the climax of the novel: Janie will stand up to a power that no one else (read: men) will dare oppose.
A feeling of coldness and fear took hold of her. She felt far away from things and lonely.
Jody's remark that precedes this paragraph shows how regardless he is of Janie's needs, assuming as he does that all a woman wants is wealth and status.
It must have been the way Joe spoke out without giving her a chance to say any-thing one way or another that took the bloom off of things. But anyway, she went down the road behind him that night feeling cold.
Hurston seems intent on demonstrating how little the men in the narrative are prone to consider anyone's feelings but their own, which stands in stark contrast to what it is that Janie desperately needs.
She’s uh woman and her place is in de home.”
Any and all of the instances in which Janie is put down or neglected or objectified by Jody (or members of the Eatonville community), especially when her discomfort is revealed, is part of Rising Action. This passage also exemplifies the motif of Misogyny.
veridical
Theory of planned behaviour by Ajzen; veridical here means truthful. Three factors:
These will determine my intention to actually act my behaviour, and then intention precedes my actual conduct.
need for more rigorous participatory tools for delving into complex social issues
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What does it mean, I asked you, to witness mass extinction—the end of so much ‘worldly striving?’ What could, or should it mean to us, or motivate us to do?
This is my understanding of the author's central research question and that she is looking to illicit a 'call-to-action' of sorts.
Even after decades of affirmative action, black and Hispanic students are more underrepresented at the nation’s top colleges and universities than they were 35 years ago
I wish this article had also looked at how much a given underrepresented group's graduation rate has changed as well (for the same group of schools). Even if a group's enrollment in top colleges has gone down, the data could show that a given group's graduation rate from those same colleges has increased over the same time period. Info on changes in enrollment and graduation rate would be so much more informative than studying each statistic alone.
He reaches the island, finds a house, and then learns the man there hunts and kills humans for sport.
C’est la généalogie du manque qui ouvre l’aventure d’écriture. Chaque geste d’écriture, chaque acte artistique qui se saisit de la figure du Général Instin est une manière de donner forme à ce fantôme, de donner corps à ce manque.
Ce geste d'écriture relève de l'action dispositive (Merzeau)
`Umar himself, may Allah be pleased with him, used to whip his foot at night and say to himself: "Tell me, what have you done today?!"
How weak are we today? Where is our hisab? If any of the sahabah saw us Muslims today, they wouldn't think we are muslims at all by the way we spend our time.
symbolicaction
Makes me think of Dr. Rivers spiel about traffic lights. Green light obviously means go, but we always hesitate. Because some people think yellow means speed up. That was the gist of it right? @sophist_monster
The maintenance of self-esteem is a continuous task that taxes all of the individual’s power and inner resources. We have to prove our worth and justify our existence anew each day.
To be complemented by: Letters to a young artist by A.D. Smith
he defines rhetoric as the use of language to form atti-tudes and influence action.
One, it's interesting to see Burke come out so confidently with a definition of rhetoric.
Second, this is a really interesting definition. It places a huge emphasis on the manipulative power of rhetoric. Its emphasis on action is also unique; while some writers have made flimsy connections between action and rhetoric in the past, Burke's firm assertion of such a connection makes him stand out from the pack. This definition seems uniquely qualified to explain protest, for example; a rhetorical act that is very specifically geared at producing some tangible action or change.
he opposed the aesthetic view of literature as po-etic and contemplative, divorced from the world of action
This is almost reminiscent of J.L. Austin's "How to Do Things with Words" and his theory surrounding performative utterances v. constative utterances. Language as direct action, or "speech-acts" and not mere nonsense.
"effective literature could be noth-ing else but rhetoric."
Thereby implying that "ineffective literature" can be a thing and that the absence of rhetoric in literature can also be a thing. Which, idk, I'm not sure if I buy this. But I suppose that depends on my definition of rhetoric and also my definition of effective.
cribe and influence human motives
Language as action, not just description; rhetoric is not only reflective, but also integral to formation and motivation. Interesting to think about when considering Burke's historical context i.e. the early 20th century was marred by intensely violent acts such as wars, revolution, and genocide. Perhaps the physical omnipresence of violence contributed to a conceptualization of words as a kind of violence.
So now it’s time to act.
There you go: information is nothing without action!
Climate Action Plan
Here is the CAP as outlined by the Obama administration: https://www.c2es.org/docUploads/obama-cap.pdf
the dialecticity between patience and impatience.
A secondary source with more info on this.
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On Equity Issues in the Maker Movement, and Implications for Making and Learning
stock responses
Our "thoughts and prayers"...
and 35 (just above the Virginia Tech massacre, the worst mass shooting in American history).
And this all changes, now, with Orlando.
In a very real sense, my theory about bots as a form of civic engagement grew out of my own creative practice
Reminds me of my experience contributing to the Civic Media Project.
despite not saying anything legible, @ClearCongress has something to say
Might we be edging into Dylan territory here?
from the Huffington Post
This opens an interesting conversation about whose data and measures are more reliable. Given that we're in an election cycle, I've turned frequently to 538, how about others?
I am unfairly applying my own criteria to it, but only to illustrate what I mean by the terms topical, data-based, cumulative, oppositional, and uncanny.
I appreciate reading this and wonder how other criteria might change our understanding of protest. And a question for Mark: Why were these five criteria chosen, were any discarded, and have any been added since this was published?
where Chuck teaches
Chuck authors a wonderful blog.
the bot takes no stance
Yes, though isn't this stance reflective of the individuals who create the source material, in this case news headlines? I'm curious about the interplay between human processes (from editorial meetings, to the creation of that which is newsworthy) and the automated - and how, to borrow from Mark, this reflects conviction.
and the daily horrors that fail to make it into the news
While these may be "horrors" of another variety, I'm reminded of the recent effort by James Fallows at The Atlantic to chronicle "The Daily Trump: Filling a Time Capsule" so that readers might recall what remains so shocking about our daily political machinations.
ideas that when applied to K12 or higher ed appear to be little more than neo-liberal efforts to pare down labor costs and disempower faculty
Here's Jill Lepore's wonderful The Disruption Machine, my favorite critique of Christensen's schtick.
automatically
I'm curious why this automation matters, and how this relates to various human ambiguities - such as the nuance of meaning and interpretation - that invariably inform how we protest, why, for whom, and under what circumstances.
whose expressionistic lyrics by this time resembled Rimbaud more than Guthrie
identifying who or what body in the community has power to make the change;
THIS is something I could learn more about.
Todo mundo tem, mas ninguém sabe como se livrar rápido delas. Esta dica para eliminar verrugas funciona super bem.
In this post we hope to both expand their definition of what annotation can be and inspire them to experiment with new ways of doing it
purpose of article--a call to action.
The criminal investigation and today’s indictment of Mr. Swartz has been directed by the United States Attorney’s Office. It was the government’s decision whether to prosecute, not JSTOR’s. As noted previously, our interest was in securing the content. Once this was achieved, we had no interest in this becoming an ongoing legal matter.
How was this initiated?
So take action now. Give that person what I call a Power Thank You. This has three parts
I like articles and blog posts like this that have a call to action with a specific example of the action.
What then, 0 Quintilian? is he who knows what is honest and just, himself honest and just?
Knowledge verses action
let his manner of living be an eloquent sermon in itself
Can actions be considered a type of rhetoric?
be called an active or a practical art, for the one term is of the same signification as the other.
Others consist of action, the object of which lies in the act and is fulfilled in it, leaving nothing produced from it, a sort of art which is called πρακτική (praktikē), as dancing.
No product
seven causes of human action, viz. three involuntary, (1) chance, (2) nature, (3) compulsion; and four voluntary, viz. (4) habit, (5) reasoning, (6) anger, (7) appetite
7 causes for action