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  1. Oct 2018
    1. the unconquerable Will

      This reminds me of the poem Invictus.

      Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.

      I wonder if William Ernest Henley was inspired by Milton.

    1. As people go about their daily lives, theyhave to resist many desires and impulses and must control themselves in other ways, and soover the course of a typical day many people gradually become ego depleted. The result isthat they become increasingly likely to give in to impulses and desires that they would haveresisted successfully earlier in the day (Hofmann, Vohs, & Baumeister, 2012).

      This fact reminds me of my grandmother. When somebody presents their self in a "sloppy manner" she has the urge to say something about it or fix what is bothering her. I confronted her about her problem and she told me she was going to change, but she still right back doing what she has been doing.

      Mykel Wise

    2. They control their thinking,such as in trying to concentrate or to shutsome annoying earworm tune out of theirmind

      This reminds me of meditation and how the whole idea behind it is to quiet the mind. I think that why meditation is so hard for most of us because quieting the mind is difficult especially in this day of age where we are brains are constantly stimulated.(phones, TV, music, etc.)

    1. If they don’t like you, you can hit every rule right on target and it doesn’t matter

      This reminds me of why brand building, brand management and public relations are so important. If a business gets it right, they can just about sell anything eventually but if it's wrong, it can take ages to build back up.

    1. This passage on human movement (p 149) reminds me of the Raphael sketch of a cadaver hung by cords that is discussed in the Laurenza reading (p 17). We can see through both artists’ studies that they possessed a great deal of interest in the dynamics of the human body. In this passage, Leonardo takes a mathematical approach in discussing how a person shifts their weight from one leg to another when travelling up stairs. He describes in detail the physics of the different forces on a body in motion, as well as the anatomical features that cause or are caused by that motion. By contrast, Raphael studies the movement of the body through the lens of an artist. He studied corpses to see the dynamics of how the human body falls, or rests, and which parts of the body are strained or used in various states; he used these findings to inform his paintings of people. For example, Raphael’s sketches of a corpse suspended by cords was probably a study that was used to paint the crucifiction. In summary, I find it very interesting the way that two artists used very different means to achieve the same ends, in terms of studying corpses in order to better depict the human figure.

    1. “Instead of just writing a check to help her, we wanted to find a way to go deeper and give expertise from our team,” says Nathaniel Ru, the company’s chief brand officer. “We’ve been working kind of shoulder to shoulder with [Jackson] trying to make her vision come to life.”

      This solution is one of the best ways to move forward in achieving goals regarding food deserts reminds me of the quote: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. " . This is exactly what I see in Sweetgreen. Instead of "just writing a check", they are helping train them for a lifetime.

    1. As Herman and Sloop (1998, p. 2) say, theideology of authenticity provided the ground for a practice of judgment throughwhich musicians, fans, and critics could ‘‘distinguish between ‘authentic rock,’ whichwas transgressive and meaningful, and ‘inauthentic rock’ (or ‘pop’), which was co-opted and superficial.’’

      This reminds me of the common sang here in the West, "music nowadays just wasn't what it used to be". Perhaps a lot of the popular music today would be seen as "inauthentic"

    1. beating – beating

      Reminds me of a heart. I feel Dickinson is trying to convey how the longer you're alive, the more isolated and unloved you become and feel, kind of resulting in depression, which could make one feel like their mind is numb.

    1. Dear March - Come in -

      This piece reminds me of a dialogue between the narrator and March. Dickinson uses personification when referring to March. The tone of this piece is very different from many of the other pieces we have read by her. It is much more light-hearted and even humorous. Her use of language and imagery also caused me to envision this conversation happening in person.

    1. Except that the aggregate selfish behavior of millions of people tagging billions of photos means that the public tag pages make entertaining surfing for everyone.

      Reading this reminds me of some of Brad Enslen and Kicks Condor's conversations about discovery on the net.

      How can one leverage selfish behaviour to the benefit of all?

    1. So you've got prove everybody wrong versus do the best you can. And the women in the second group not only performed as well as the men, they actually outperformed the men. Whereas the women in the first group actually significantly underperformed. So we can create our own self-fulfilling prophecies. We can actually— by our own expectations, we can impact other people's behavior and see what we're expecting to see.

      This reminds me of the growth mindset, thinking you're able to do something and improve upon yourself makes the world of a difference!

    2. We can actually— by our own expectations, we can impact other people's behavior and see what we're expecting to see.

      Relationships, classrooms, career growth, all of this stems back to this. This reminds me of the concept of "good vibes" versus "bad vibes" - we create our own vibes! Expect positivity and you will portray positivity, the world is a subjective place and our own minds create our own spaces.

    3. They did not notice it was different.

      This reminds me of the video where people are playing basketball and a gorilla walks right through the center of the screen but no one notices. It's all about perspective and I think that if you're so focused on something else, you cannot see the other side of things.

    4. Names are actually an important part of our identities

      This resonates with me as I always think of an individual with a particular name and their qualities that remind me of them. For example, you would not name your kid the same name as the person you disliked in school as their name reminds you of them

    1. riests as medi- ators between men and gods were not required in this system, since in the new teaching each individual was responsible for his or her own salvation and the role of the deity could be absent.

      Reminds me of Protestantism vs. Catholicism

    1. Collaborative work by universities and communities

      This approach (while I am mindful of the critical points others have brought up about legitimacy, etc.) is an admirable attempt to create a more meaningful connection to community.

      It reminds me of community psychology, which is an attempt to create a more participatory and holistic way of dealing with social challenges that communities face.

      A short article about a project in Guatemala: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.552.5011&rep=rep1&type=pdf

    1. I also know that I cannot re-write them (that it is impossible today to write 'like that') and this knowledge, depressing enough, suffices to cut me off from the production of these works

      I am wondering about the relationship between text and e.g. a painting, a photograph etc. here—or could a painting also be a text in Barthes's understanding here? The thought came to my mind, because this description reminds me of the sadness I often experience when I encounter paintings in museums: I would argue that this form of art is very hard to grasp, very un-democratic, because I am stuck in the position of the "consumer". I cannot read a painting out loud, I cannot really copy it, I cannot paint on (annotate) it....

    1. Enkidu was grown wea k , for wisdom was in him, and the thoughts of a man were in his heart. So he returned and sat down at the woman's feet, and listened intently to what she said. ‘You are wise, Enkidu, and now you have become like a god. Why

      This reminds me of the wisdom obtained in the Garden of Eden

    1. Presence

      This kist focuses on yourself. It reminds me of the basic aspects of meditation. You are supposed to focus on your breath but at the same time you want to be aware of your surroundings.

    1. We must integrate these new knowledge cultures into our schools, not only through group work but also through long-distance collaborations across different learning communities. Students should discover what it is like to contribute their own expertise to a process that involves many intelligences, a process they encounter readily in their participation in fan discussion lists or blogging. Indeed, this disparate collaboration may be the most radical element of new literacies: they enable collaboration and knowledge-sharing with large-scale communities that may never personally interact. Schools are currently still training autonomous problem-solvers, whereas as students enter the workplace, they are increasingly being asked to work in teams, drawing on different sets of expertise, and collaborating to solve problems.

      Again, reminds me of Gee in "The Anti-Education Era"

    1. "radical hope,"

      I like this term and its lofty ideals. It reminds me though how difficult it is to know our role and impact on most of our students' lives even though we think about it often.

    1. Just as biological sex varies more widely than is commonly thought, so too does gender.Cisgender individuals’ gender identities correspond with their birth sexes, whereastransgender individuals’ gender identities do not correspond with their birth sexes. Becausegender is so deeply ingrained culturally, rates of transgender individuals vary widely aroundthe world (see Table 1).Although incidence rates of transgender individuals differ significantly between cultures,transgender females (TGFs)—whose birth sex was male—are by far the most frequent typeof transgender individuals in any culture. Of the 18 countries studied by Meier and Labuski(2013), 16 of them had higher rates of TGFs than transgender males (TGMs)—whose birth

      This kind of reminds me of home. In my hometown (Aiken, SC) there are at least two or three transgenders. One was a girl who switched to a boy and the other two were boys who ended up switching to a girl.

      Mykel Wise

  2. Sep 2018
    1. When students enter the university setting, they are responsible for requesting accommodations through the appropriate office.

      This reminds me of REACH at College of Charleston, students with Intellectual Disabilities are able to attend college.

    1. For example, Europeanand American cultures today associate pink with femininity and blue with masculinity

      Why do we have to associate color with a specific gender? My favorite color is blue, does that mean i am more masculine than the "average" female who likes the color pink? This reminds me of when i attend baby showers. If there is anything blue in the room everyone automatically thinks the baby is a boy or if the color is pink, the baby is a girl. I happen to know a male whose favorite color is purple, does that mean he is feminine?

    1. He has always had wealth; he was born into it and makes ample use of it.

      reminds me of politics today and how (often times) having familial political power and money can gain one a spot in power

    1. even to apps like Lulu that rate people.

      This reminds me so much of a Black Mirror episode I saw where the whole society rates people based on their experiences with them and this affects their credit score essentially. So for those people who are rude and not friendly, they receive low scores and aren't able to get a good job, buy a house, or buy a car. Essentially making them homeless and starving.

    1.      "Where's Dick?" to see what he would say.      "I don't know nor care," said he; and some one spoke to me, and I left him.

      I'm sensing some "Cain and Abel" tension going on. It reminds me of when Cain is asked where Abel is, he replies "I am not my brother's keeper" because he does not want to admit to murdering him.

    1. “growing pressures for audit and evaluation of public spending on higher education and research”

      reminds me of Goodhart's law: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." (thank you wiki)

    2. Faculty labor in the form of teaching, research,and service issupposed to serve the common good and address social problem

      Reminds me of our first PDC discussion on why do governments fund research/education

    1. Your BIS2A instructors have devised something that we call “The Design Challenge” to help us approach the topics we cover in the course from a problem solving and/or design perspective. This pedagogical tool is nothing more than

      Never heard of the design challenge, but it reminds me a lot of the process I got through when doing math problems, particularly word problems.

    1. wejudgetheextentoftheirmentaldevelop-mentonthebasis ofhowtheysolvethemandatwhatlevel of difficulty

      This reminds me of an IQ test which has been deemed an inaccurate way to measure adult intelligence. Why would a similar type of assessment be accurate for children?

    1. There was nothing they might not do within the range of their timid ambitions; they were women of fortune now and their own mistresses. They were beginning at last to live.

      This quote along with the one above it that I highlighted I believe really shows the dynamic between the sisters, while also allowing the reader to know how much pain and trouble they went through. For these two women to be older, with no prospects at marriage but now finally be able to be free, only makes their later loss that much worse. It reminds me of Kate Chopin's short story Story of an Hour where the main woman character finally feels like she has freedom, only to have it so cruelly ripped away so shortly after.

    1. This commentary described how a well‐intentioned educational innovation clashed with deeply entrenched institutional structures, norms, and beliefs, potentially hindering the effectiveness of the innovation itself.

      This kind of reminds me of politics where a bipartisan system has persisted for decades because there are two different but not incorrect ideologies. I wonder if education is subject to the same standstill.

    1. For surely to every good and peaceable man it must in nature needs be a hatefull thing to be the displeaser, and molester of thousands; much better would it like him doubtlesse to be the messenger of gladnes and contentment, which is his chief intended busines, to all mankind, but that they resist and oppose their own true happinesse.

      This reminds me of Jesus Christ.

    1. The upshot is that America’s — and Australia’s, and Europe’s — leading experts on China often remain silent as its regime becomes ever more repressive.

      The conflict between china and the rest of the word reminds me of how mc murphey is challenging the system. But his resistance to the rules of the ward are making the conflict worse and with no end in sight it can be compared to his struggle with the big nurse

    1. Too often, we focus on limit-ing youth from accessing inaccurate or problematic information.

      This stood out to me. It reminds me of the phrase, "You can only learn if you make mistakes." The youth population is not going to learn and become more digitally literate if they cannot pick out inaccuracy online.

    1. When one person seeks out another person with the intent to share positive news, it has beencalled capitalization (Gable et al., 2004). The best, supportive response to someone who sharesgood news has been termed active-constructive and is characterized by enthusiastic support.These active-constructive responses are positively associated with trust, satisfaction,commitment, and intimacy.

      This reminds me of my best friend and her relationship with her ex. She was always there for him and when it came down to good news she always supported him. She was always excited when she heard good news about him and she never stopped loving him.This caused their relationship to be continuous because even though they broke up they are still friends.

      Mykel Wise

    1. Encourage students to practice this strategy by pausing to ask as they read: What else do I know about this topic? What other knowledge do I possess that might apply?

      This reminds me of the annotations that we do here on hypothesis.

    1. Evolution has prepared us to care deeply about social acceptance and social status, for those unfortunate individuals who do not get along well in social groups or who fail to attain a requisite status among their peers have typically been severely compromised when it comes to survival and reproduction.

      This somewhat reminds me of the kids I teach english to from Fukushima. The parents are always saying how our support and fun gave them a sense of a well, good community. This is something they had lost after the radiation as it scared people away. I think it fits within this context because us humans tend to gravitate toward welcoming groups that accept you.

    2. “I” encounters “Me.”

      This is only the first sentence, but it's interesting how there is already a distinction being made between the two parts of the self. This reminds me of a poem I read in my AP Spanish Lit class by author/poet Jorge Borges (I believe).

    1. “Scientists planning the next phase of the human genome proj­ect are being forced to confront a treacherous issue: the genetic differences between human races,” he wrote in a July 20, 2001, article, For Genome Mappers, the Tricky Terrain of Race Requires Some Careful Navigating. The question was no longer whether or not racial differences exist at the molecu­lar level, but how to go about discovering them.

      This reminds me of an article I just read about how organizations like 23andMe are perpetuating racial divides and making racist science seem acceptable again (as well as ignore indigenous structures of indigeneity). I've tried a couple of times to attach the link, but it's not working! It's 'We've Been Here for 2,000 Years: White settlers, Native American DNA and the phenomenon of indigenization' by Darryl Leroux.

    1. Then she cut off the mermaid’s tongue, so that she became dumb, and would never again speak or sing

      One of the main symbolism I found in The Little Mermaid was the religious aspect of this. By wanting something beyond her realm and giving up everything beautiful to give in to evil reminds me of Even leaving the Garden of Eden.

    1. Iperceivedinthismomentthatwhenthewhitemanturnstyrantitishisownfreedomthathedestroys.Hebecomesasortofhollow,posingdummy,theconventionalizedfigureofasahib.Foritistheconditionofhisrulethatheshallspendhislifeintryingtoimpressthe"natives,"andsoineverycrisishehasgottodowhatthe"natives"expectofhim

      This reminds me of "The White Man's Burden" in how Orwell views his position of authority as a burden that he doesn't want to bear, but must. The idea that native people clearly look up to him as he has the superior technology and intelligence to solve problems that they cannot.

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    1. but that scientists will maintain an often-useful image of objectivity

      I actually dislike this notion... (1) it reminds me of scientism and (2) I believe that this reliance on images and preaching of objectivity leads to some of the problems around mistrust (climate deniers, anti-vaxxers, and other proactively counter-scientific movements).

      Instead of relying on the narrative of the research often it is demanded that the public blindly trusts scientists based on their 'objectivity'.

    1. strictly choreographed citizenconsultation

      This reminds me of something Trudeau's government has tried to do. They have put surveys online about how to regulate legalized cannabis (I took part in this one), and they claim that they surveyed Canadians about whether or not they prefer proportional representation in the election system (I don't remember seeing this survey). And governments are constantly "choreographing" consultations in forums for citizens, but in the end, I'm not sure if they actually take those citizens' views into account, or if they just go ahead and do what they wanted anyway. I don't have evidence either way.

    1. whereby we are skeptical of evidence that goes against what we want to believe despite the strength of the evidence

      reminds me of some people's denial of climate change & our environment worsening despite actual evidence

    2. Much of the research in social cognition has demonstrated that humans are adept at distilling large amounts of information into smaller, more usable chunks

      This reminds me of something that I recently learned in my AP Psychology class. It is a method to help memory called "chunking" where you take large pieces of information and separate them into smaller "chunks" to help remember.

    1. However, women who give birth by cesarean sectionwithout going through labor, or who opt not to breastfeed, are still able to form a strongemotional bond with their children. Furthermore, fathers, grandparents, and adoptive parentsalso form lifelong attachments to children.

      This reminds me of my brother and my mom's relationship. When my mother had my brother she didn't go through labor, she went through a cesarean section, and they have the best mother and son bond I ever seen. My brother is a momma's boy so whatever he complains about or cries for my mother comes to his rescue. He also has a good relationship with my father. They communicate with each other, mainly about football and how that'ts going to be his career, almost everyday.

      Mykel Wise

    2. However, recenthuman experiments have shown thatintranasal delivery of oxytocin canfacilitate social behaviors, including eyecontact and social cognition

      This reminds me of another study that used insulin that used an internasal delivery to help with the effects of Alzheimer's. It was found to help with memory recall as well as short term memory retention.

    3. Life on earth isfundamentally social: The ability to dynamically interact with other living organisms to supportmutual homeostasis, growth, and reproduction evolved very early.

      This reminds me of something I recently learned in my abnormal psychology class. A Chief Psychiatrist in Paris in 1793 named Philippe Pinel tried a new way of running asylums. Back in that time people with mental health issues were treated as dangerous people and they locked them up in dungeons by themselves. When Philippe came and took over he took on the approach that they should be around people and be able to interact because the solidity was only making the patients more crazy. In only a years time his approach was proven successful. The patients that had been in the asylum for decades, after being able to interact with other people and build relationships with therapist were doing much better and being released left and right back into society. Reference: Abnormal Psychology tenth edition by Ronald J. Comer, Jonathan S. Comer

    1. The slippery slope concept refers to situations where an act, decision, or allowance mightlead to unwanted consequences or events that cannot be controlled.

      This reminds me of Kant's "ideal kingdom" which I recommend looking into, it's kind of interesting.

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    1. Rama is worshipped as the ideal ruler and the restorer of dharma. Always popular in northern India, Rama, has latterly become the principal god of Hindu nationalism

      The Hindu gods acting as representatives of Nationalism or the women's rights movements vaguely reminds me of Catholic saints and how there are saints for nearly everything (ex: patron saint of orphans, patron saint of travelers, etc.). I know it is not the exact same thing but that is what it brought to mind.

    1. “We ask of you an impossible combination of traits: ironclad scruples and a willingness to violate them;

      Reminds me of doublethink from 1984. And not necessarily in a good way.

    1. responsibilities

      This is a good point. More often than not academia is isolated inside the univeristy environment and do not see themselves as part of a bigger picture or as influencers. I think it is an issue of mindset inside universities. It reminds me of an essay from Noam Chomsky on the "responsability of the Intellectuals": https://chomsky.info/19670223/

    1. not to what should be but to what is

      This reminds me of the writing of C.S. Lewis. Lewis stated that if you look at the world, two things are clear: that there is a certain way people ought to behave, and that people often don't behave that way. Sidney is making a similar observation, in that there is a way that people act throughout history, but it may not reflect how people ought to act. Historians pass no judgement, they merely report.

    1. So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very great.

      This reminds me of Gilgamesh, and some other classic stories where the main character takes time away to 'wander' 'think' and 'reflect'

    1. On page 122 the author states that there was the 'belief that the universe itself functioned according to a mathematically determinable harmony.' This reminds me of the Zodiac Man, and how different moon phases and zodiac sign related to different parts of the body. The author mentioned how this could determine how a patient was treated at the time, even though now we know that this held no scientific validity.

    1. Above all, we cannot play ducks and drakes with a native battery of idiomswhich prescribes egregious collocations of vocables

      Reminds me of what we discussed in class today. We learned that people use big words in order to sound smart and they forget the context behind the sentence.

    1. I told them the skin was off my back,

      This reminds me of our discussion in class about white womanhood. Could this be an example of Mary using her white womanhood to gain pity from her captors?

    2. she gave me a slap in the face,

      Reminds me of what you see in the movies when someone is getting out of hand, someone else slaps them in order for them to gain control of themselves again. Maybe this slap represents her mistress wanting her to realize her own strength

    1. the association Culture with High-brow culture , suggested through of the German Kultur in the beginning of the article reminds me of the term Classical , which comes from Latin classicus, the highest class of citizens'.

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    1. Now when the charioteer looks in the eye of love, his entire soul is suffused with a sense of warmth and starts to fill with tingles and the goading of desire. As for the horses, the one who is obedient to the charioteer is still controlled, then as always, by its sense 254 of shame, and so prevents itself from jumping on the boy. The other one, however, no longer responds to the whip or the goad of the charioteer; it leaps violently forward and does everything to aggravate its yokemate and its charioteer, trying to make them go up to the boy and suggest to him the pleasures of sex

      This description of three parts of a soul reminds me of the id, ego, & superego, which I'm sure isn't a coincidence.

    1. Why and by whose power were you sent?

      This reminds me of US border patrol and the questions you get asked when trying to get into the country. The ability to answer this very important question will make or mar your chances of getting past immigration.

    1. why proper selection of content to be included in course work is necessary.

      Reminds me of Josh Moon: "I will always try to tell you WHY we are doing what we are doing."

    1. One way to engage in a conversation like Chesmar does is to construct a dialogue between your sources like the dialogue on a Wikipedia article discussion page.

      The social aspect of Wikipedia reminds me of a Civilized Reddit

    2. If you quote or paraphrase a Wikipedia article as an authoritative source, then, you are potentially making a claim based on wrong information, and using incorrect information is not a good way to make a convincing argument. Of course, misinformation isn’t limited to Wikipedia.

      This statement & Wikipedia's reputation reminds me of todays political climate and "Fake News"

    1. Anxious-avoidant adults will appearnot to care much about their intimate relationships, and are uncomfortable being dependedon or depending on others themselves.

      Anxious-avoidant reminds me of one of my exes and how he was so against opening up and being vunerable. He always had a mask on so he could cover how much he really cared because he thought he would be seen as weak. I think he acted this way because growing up he did not have the best relationship with his mother. I think him trying to act like he didn’t care about anyone or anything really showed how much he was actually hurting and needed someone to care about him. This shows how love and support from a parent is so important and how it completely shapes who we are.

    1. Those who imagine that life in the past was simpler, slower and better are wrong. The experience of exhaustion, and anxieties about exhaustion epidemics in the wider population, are not bound to a particular time and place. On the contrary: exhaustion and its effects have preoccupied thinkers since classical antiquity.

      This statement is interesting in that it reminds me of what Baron argues in A Better Pencil when he says that everyone views the progression of technology as being the root of their problems. In the case of exhaustion, we all think that prior generations must have had it easier when really they were thinking the same thing about generations before them.

    1. The Iliad probably had been recited for years before it w as w ritten dow n

      The Iliad that is heard today is probably different from what was originally told. This reminds me of a game that my campers and I played called 'telephone' where you would whisper something into the persons ear next to you and then that person would pass it on to the person next to them and so on. When the message would get passed on to the last person it would usually be different from what the person that started the message said. Sometimes it would be completely different and sometimes it would be the same or similar.

    1. One suggestion is thatattractiveness is a by-product of a more general cognitive mechanism that leads us torecognize and prefer familiar stimuli.

      This makes me think of how some people are attracted to someone because that person reminds them of themselves. They have similar personalities traits and maybe similar facial features and that familiarity is attractive to them.

    2. More attractive people are more popular with their peers, and this isshown even in early childhood

      This reminds me of any cliche t.v show where the popular kid is always the smartest and the most attractive kid in school.

      Mykel WIse

    3. Although facial attractivenesshas received the most research attention(Eagly, Ashmore, Makhijani, & Longo, 1991),people higher in body or vocal attractivenessalso create more positive impressions(Riggio, Widaman, Tucker, & Salinas, 1991;Zuckerman & Driver, 1989). This advantageis termed the attractiveness halo effect, and it is widespread.

      This reminds me of the time I thought I found the one. I met this girl in my hometown, and she was very attractive and a lot of guys wanted her. I thought based on her looks that she was a good person and she was smart enough to not cheat on me, but turns out she did. She also didn't have no common sense.

      Mykel Wise

    4. but even attractive babies are viewedmore positively by their own parents, andstrangers consider them more healthy,affectionate, attached to mother, cheerful,responsive, likeable, and smart (Langlois et al.,2000).

      This reminds me of how when babies are born everyone tells them they are more cute and adorable even if the baby looks a little like an alien. So i do disagree with those comment that says strangers and parents are consider babies more affectionate if they are more attractive. I feel like parents are biased and blind by the love of their new born baby for the attractiveness of the baby to even play an effect in the situation.

    5. we prefer stimuli we have seen before over novel ones, a mere-exposureeffect, and we also prefer stimuli that are similar to those we have seen before, a generalizedmere-exposure effect.

      This reminds me of how when they say you will find attraction in someone that resembles your father/mother in look and personality. You were use to their stimuli because you see it all of the time so when looking for a significant other you will look for that stimuli in a person.

    1. While technology has the power to bridge the physical divide between children and loved ones in the ways described, technology should not be used to replace meaningful face-to-face interactions. Precautions should be taken to ensure that technology use does not impede the development of healthy, authentic interactions with adults and peers.

      Above was the picture of the mom in the airport and the family at home, this reminds me of my own family. Even though I am far from them and don't get that one on one interaction I am still able to see them because of technology. I am able to use it to my advantage so that I can stay in contact with them and be able to see my family grow as I am away from them at college, so the impact that comes from the video technology that I can get is very strong.

    1. To ensure that technology has a positive impact, adults who use technology with children should continually update their knowledge and equip themselves to make sophisticated decisions

      This reminds me of a similar situation from earlier this year. I would consider myself an avid consumer of content on Youtube and creators in general. When I heard a creator posted an inappropriate video I instantly become concerned that my young niece who also watches Youtube may watch it so I took steps to help prevent her from watching it.

    1. Haitian folklore tells of voodoo shamans, or bokors, who would use digitalis, derived from the foxglove plant, to induce somnambulant trances in individuals who would subsequently appear dead.

      This reminds me of the documentary we had to watch and how they talk about sometimes their lost loved ones won't really dead when they put them down to rest.

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    1. defi ning projects, noting keywords, assessing uses and limits—stay the same

      definitely reminds me of cline, and identifying who the author is, what type of text it is, and who the author is addressing

    1. North American middle-class family as if it were part of a different tribe or culture.

      This reminds me of the exercise of analyzing the "foreign culture" of the "Nacirema" to see how one's culture might appear to others objectively.

    2. Insider/outsider stance reminds me of Horace Miner's (author of "Nacirema") quote regarding one of the central tasks of the anthropologist: "to make the strange familiar and the familiar strange."

    3. When we visit another country, we need to learn new rules for intro-ductions and farewells in order to behave appropriately.

      This comment reminds me of the times in which I've felt culture shock, and makes me wonder if any of us will feel culture shock as we continue with our subculture studies.

    1. There is a growing mountain of research. But there is increased evidence that we are being bogged down today as specialization extends.

      This reminds me of how people say technology is making us more stupid, because it is becoming so advanced it does so much for us. It should stay simple and to the point.

    1. This means that when an employer hires a student fresh out of college and asks her to write a report for the CEO, he might expect that she knows what a report is in general, but he needs to remember that she’s never seen a report at this company

      This reminds me a lot about high school teachers and college professors. Most of my teachers had VERY different expectations when it came to writing. Molding yourself to fit those expectations can be very frustrating especially when the teachers don't explain what they want or mean.

    1. IthinkIshallnotbuygreedily,butgoroundandrounditaslongasIlive,andbeburiedinitfirst,thatitmaypleasemethemoreatlast

      I think this relates to the saying "the grass in always greener on the other side." Part of him not buying it right away because he will enjoy it more reminds me of situations where as soon as one gets something they desire, they enjoy it less.

    2. Stillwelivemeanly,likeants;thoughthefabletellsusthatwewerelongagochangedintomen;

      A reference to the Greek myth about the Myrmidons, an army of men made by Zeus out of a colony of ants. Also reminds me of a quote from one of my favorite books, We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson. I couldn't find the whole paragraph, but I found the end bit on Goodreads : "“Your entire self-worth is predicated upon the belief that you matter, that you matter to the universe. But you don't. Because we are the ants.” "

    3. Bothplaceandtimewerechanged,andIdweltnearertothosepartsoftheuniverseandtothoseerasinhis-torywhichhadmostattractedme.

      He is roughly saying that he feels at one with nature and his ancestors, though really his ancestors probably lived in England or something along the lines and were well off as they could be and it is very unlikely they lived in a shack in the woods. It is his idealized version of what he thought life in the olden days of pioneering was like, bar the fact that he isn't afraid of the wild animals as much or starvation and having no way to return to any sort of civilization because England is across and uncrossable sea. This part really does strike me as ridiculous and reminds me of a lot of hippies today talking about going back to the old ways and such where, in reality, there has never been old days like people imagine. Every year that goes by we are safer from diseases and the threats of the food chain, and even all the way back then he was better of than the true pioneers who literally would've killed to be in his situation. He has more tools and more means of survival than they ever did.

    1. Not only is the notion that OER-sustainability is the responsibility of the end-user pragmatically unnecessary, it also places barriers to adoption that will inhibit rather than encourage future use.

      This is certainly true. It reminds me of the early historical growth of the Catholic church. Paul of Tarses came in and relaxed the dietary restrictions and the need for circumcision which effectively lowered the barrier for entry into the church. One needn't be a Jew to be a follower of Jesus; this helped early growth tremendously.

    1. The senseless loss of life always trumps the efforts of the meaning makers.

      This reminds me of "Thoughts and prayers" when a tragedy happens people often recognize it but do nothing to prevent it in the future.

    2. I never knew despair could lie.

      Quote reminds me of a person who might think the world is out to get them when in reality, all the bad perceptions are made up in their head

    3. "I suppose that everything I see is false. I believe that none of what my deceitful memory represents ever existed"

      This quote reminds me of Allegory of the Cave and the disbelief that took over the first person to leave

    1. He created a dark world without sun, moon or stars. Owing to this creation he was named Viracocha Pachayachachi, which means "Creator of all things." And when he had created the world he formed a race of giants of disproportioned greatness painted and sculptured, to see whether it would be well to make real men of that size. He then created men in his likeness as they are now; and they lived in darkness.

      Reminds me very much of the story of God creating the world. Especially how he created them in his "likeness"

    1. My parents at his feet, wrecked honeysuckles, he lowered his sword-like mouth,   gorged on them, draining color until their eyebrows whitened.

      The parents seem to be dead, the draining color reminds me of a corpse

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    1. House Made of Dawn is thus firmly rooted in a generalized "Indian" context, but it translates and interprets that experience for a non-Native audience. Abel is not "every Indian"-or maybe even "anylndian."

      This reminds me of Sherman Alexie's The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Idian

    2. explorers' first reaction was one of irrational denial.

      This paints the Europeans as so high and mighty that they cannot even fathom the fact that there could be other different people on the planet. It reminds me of the argument that it is selfish and ignorant to believe that Earth contains the only life in the universe.

    1. Integrated Course Design

      This process reminds me of how to plan and write papers, starting with big ideas, to finding relationships among those, then arriving at a question based on those relationships

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  8. Aug 2018
    1. I had a fairly powerful hunch “That he might have me for his lunch.

      This reminds me of how when there are people with guns and both don't know if one will shoot or not so the other decides to pull the trigger in fear of him doing the same. Great example with curiosity and fear.

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    1. The reason no one’s reading War and Peace is, Shirky asserted, because it’s “too long, and not so interesting.” Instead of mourning the loss of the “cathedral” reading experience offered by a great 19th-century novel, we should be adapting to the “bazaar” culture of the internet.

      Literary novel as "cathedral" and Internet as "bazaar." Reminds me of a chapter from Literacy in American Lives (Brandt) called "THE SACRED AND THE PROFANE Reading versus Writing in Popular Memory."

    1. This means I will also expect you to meet with me for individual conferences.

      Reminds me of the way Hyman presented his 303 midterm. Does this usually take a long time?

    1. What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful—she will be better to eat than the old woman.

      This reminds me of into the woods with Johnny Deep as the wolf

    1. all behaviors can also be unlearned

      This reminds me of the saying “you can’t teach an old dog new tricks”, but it is clear we are ever growing and learning. There is no age to stop changing

    1. Teratology-the study ofmonsters-helps us understand who we are and how we defineourselves, by distancing ourselves from the pathologies we proiectonto difference. Monsters unsettle boundaries, reminding us thatthe distinctions we make between nature and culture, the humanand the nonhuman, or reason and instinct are both fragile andfraught

      this reminds me of the quote I have on my blog site. we need monsters and ghouls and scary made up creatures because it is innate human nature to wonder about the unknown...specifically the interest in the macabre. Monsters and stories of monsters are a form of escapism, and the context in which the monster was created speaks volumes of how the society was structured at the time, and offers a small glimpse into the darker side of a specific point in history.

    1. Traditional family hasbeen defined as two or more people whoare related by blood, marriage, and—occasionally—adoption (Murdock, 1949).Historically, the most standard version ofthe traditional family has been the two-parent family. Are there people in your lifeyou consider family who are not necessarilyrelated to you in the traditional sense?Harry Potter would undoubtedly call hisschoolmates Ron Weasley and HermioneGranger family, even though they do not fitthe traditional definition. Likewise, Harrymight consider Hedwig, his snowy owl, afamily member, and he would not be alonein doing so

      This part of the selection kind of reminds me of my friends here at Lander University. At first I thought they were pretty weird, but as time flies you learn that even the weird colleagues you call your friends can even be consider as family.

      • Mykel Wise
    1. students anything directly but, instead, should alwaysallow them to construct knowledge for themselves.

      This theory reminds me of the socratic method. This is where teachers try to teach through questions in order to further the student's own thinking, a teacher would never respond a direct answer when using this method.

    1. So farewel Hope, and with Hope farewel Fear, Farewel Remorse: all Good to me is lost; Evil be thou my Good; by thee at least [ 110 ] Divided Empire with Heav'ns King I hold By thee,

      This whole passage reminds me of soliloquies by characters in torment in Shakespeare (Hamlet, Othello etc.) MIlton was born during the last decade of Shakespeare's life and probably very familiar with Shakespeare's plays.

    1. The mind is its own place, and in it selfCan make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

      Reminds me of Buddhist thought: how the perceptions and views we have about experience can have a dramatic positive or negative effect on our happiness. It also makes me think the power S.T.Coleridge attributes to the imaginal faculty.

    2. This reminds me of the saying one person's terrorist is another's freedom fighter. Satan and his fallen angels can be perceived as insurgents against God's 'tyranny', putting a whole new spin on the battle between good and evil.

    1. We can’t race through a half-dozen novels. I’m forced to make difficult choices about what I include and what I leave out. Often one novel will provide the center, or core, and I’ll surround it with other texts, role-plays, videos, improvs, museum visits, speakers

      This reminds me of the shift that's occurred in our English curriculum. We've gone from having a novel or extended piece at the center and surrounding it with supporting texts to racing through as much as we can. That's what it seems like, at least.

    2. Over the years my curriculum has become a sancocho composed of key pieces: a question that provokes the examination of historical, literary, social “texts”; the study and involvement of students’ lives through poetry and narrative; an essay that allows students to create a passionate response to their learning; and a final project that opens the possibility for students to act on their knowledge—create historical fiction or write and teach lessons about the topic to others. It’s big and it’s

      This thinking reminds me of the Literary Design Collaborative thinking.

    1. annotate course blog

      a. Ask a question b. Provide a reaction (this reminds me of… I’m scared of this because… I’m most excited about this because…. I had to do this in another class and…) c. Provide a link to another source and explain its connection to the current text d. Provide context e. Propose a definition of “research” based on what the text says

    1. identity why do teens seem strange online?292privacy why do youth share so publicly?543addiction what makes teens obsessed with social media?774danger are sexual predators lurking everywhere?1005bullying is social media amplifying meanness and cruelty?1286inequality can social media resolve social divisions?1537literacy are today’s youth digital natives?1768searching for a public of their own199

      Just reading this table of contents reminds me that this "analysis of teens" seems a lot like the perennial contemplations of adults who think that the generations of teenagers coming behind them is different, weird, or even deviant.

      A typical case in point is that of the greatest generation looking at the long-haired 60's hippy teens who came after them. "Why do they like rock and roll? They do too many drugs. There's no hope for the future." "Damn kids. Get off of my lawn!"

      Is the way that current teens and millennials react to social just another incarnation of this general idea?

    1. I believe, and I try to emphasize to the students, that annotation is a deeply personal activity, my annotations may look different from yours because we think differently.

      We often think differently even on different readings. Sometimes upon re-reading pieces, I'll find and annotate completely different things than I would have on the first pass. Sometimes (often with more experience and new eyes) I'll even disagree with what I'd written on prior passes.

      This process reminds me a bit of the Barbell Method of Reading

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    1. The smile passed away from Gabriel’s face. A dull anger began to gather again at the back of his mind and the dull fires of his lust began to glow angrily in his veins

      There seems to be a lot of sharp turns in the mood of the main characters in the story; not long ago Gabriel had been "trembling with delight at her sudden kiss", I wonder if we could see such a pattern of highs followed by significant lows by doing a sentiment analysis on the stories in Dubliners. On the other hand, Gabriel strongly reminds me of Mr. Hammond in Mansfield's The Stranger, as his solicitude, anxiety regarding women, and overprotected-ness of his wife is emphasized several times throughout this story, and in the end a dead man also drives the wedge between the couple.

    2. “Well, we usually go to France or Belgium or perhaps Germany,” said Gabriel awkwardly.

      This sentence reminds me Eveline's boyfriend and Joyce himself. Eveline's boyfriend and Joyce, both of them don't like staying in Ireland and they travel to a lot of European countries. I think Joyce uses Gabriel to present his idea to the Irish people.

    3. It was always a great affair, the Misses Morkan’s annual dance.

      Skillful writers like using contrast in their stories. The title is "the Dead", however, the story begins at a dance party. It reminds me of the Garden Party which also uses the party to contrast with the death theme.

    4. She felt sure she would win.

      This reminds me of the usage of repetition in Dubliners we discussed in today's class.I think the original idea of this sentence is to show the confidence of Mrs. Mooney, but the repetition here weakens this confidence and shows a kind of uncertainty.

    5. “She’s a fine decent tart,” he said, with appreciation; “that’s what she is.”

      This is definitely a female objectification! Notice that, the word "tart" has double meanings. But both of the meanings relate to female objectification. I think the theme of this story is promiscuity, which reminds me there was a time period many European died from the sexual transmitted diseases.

  11. Jul 2018
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    1. NORTH RICHMOND STREET, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ School set the boys free.

      This sentence vividly describes a quiet and peaceful scene before the school, indicating that the next event is a thunder after the silence, very interesting. Reminds me of my childhood

    2. I had never spoken to her, except for a few casual words, and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

      It's the one-side hidden love with foolish ardor. It reminds me of a movie Malela and I think something bad might happen if there's no reaction to love of the boy.

    1. And now that little ancient fellow was climbing down endless flights that led to a glittering, gay dining-room. What legs he had! They were like a spider’s—thin, withered.

      Such a description of Mr.Neave's inner world is unique. It's like reality and imagination collapse into the same dimension. It reminds me of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka which also use the technique of alienation of men. I'd like to use stylometry to compare the two stories.

    2. And then Charlotte and the girls were always at him to make the whole thing over to Harold, to retire, and to spend his time enjoying himself. Enjoying himself! Old Mr. Neave stopped dead under a group of ancient cabbage palms outside the Government buildings! Enjoying himself! The wind of evening shook the dark leaves to a thin airy cackle. Sitting at home, twiddling his thumbs, conscious all the while that his life’s work was slipping away, dissolving, disappearing through Harold’s fine fingers, while Harold smiled...

      The last sentence of the paragraph suggests that these all the things above are not what Harold wants. He smiles to not to trouble others, he smiles to not to get himself in any trouble. This paragraph just reminds me of a man at loose ends, a man seemingly having anything but actually having nothing inside his inner being.

    3. No, it was too difficult. “I’ll—I’ll go with them, and write to William later. Some other time. Later. Not now. But I shall certainly write,” thought Isabel hurriedly.

      Interestingly, the story reminds me of a lot of other classic stories examining the theme of marriage, such as The Grasshopper by Chekhov, Madame Bovary by Flaubert, and Lady Chatterley's Lover by Lawrence. In these stories, the heroines have similar characteristics but quite different destinies. I'd like to use PCA to see to what extent these novels' styles are alike.

    4. your tie reminds me fearfully of the bow-tie that cats wear in pictures!

      "Bow" appears a lot of times in the story. I think it has two meanings: a) Mr. Dove bows to Mrs. Dove, which can be seen as the imbalanced position of the Anne and Reggie. b) Reggie wears his bow-tie to propose to Anne. But it reminds Anne of cats. So bow-tie may also refer to the unconfidence and weakness of Reggie.

    5. bread-and-butter

      The "bread-and-butter" reminds me of Hitchcocks' fetishes. What would the "bread-and-butter"mean? Are there any other fetishes in this short-story? Is there a way to figure it out using computational methods for distant reading?

    1. have the opportunity to kind of tinker 04:19 they get to think about something but 04:21 then also actually build it create it

      Reminds me of the video about productivity increasing when employees were given creative freedom.

    1. 03:29 Yahoo News, the biggest news site on the Internet, 03:32 is now personalized -- different people get different things.

      This makes it so much harder to get information about subjects you are not familiar with. The internet chooses what to show you based on your likes/dislikes. Reminds me of advertising rather than providing an objective search.

    1. a resilient system has to be designed in terms of what we don’t want to happen (a negative motivation but a strong one) and a direction of travel that minimises the risk of catastrophic failure,

      This reminds me of the Future Backwards facilitation process

    1. Scienti c work ows are used to describe series of structured activities and com-putations that arise in scienti c problem-solving, providing scientists from vir-tually any discipline with a means to specify and enact their experiments [3].From a computational perspective, such experiments (work ows) can be de nedas directed acyclic graphs where the nodes correspond to analysis operations,which can be supplied locally or by third party web services, and where theedges specify the ow of data between those operations.

      A definition of scientific workflow, and an operationalization from a computational perspective. It reminds me of work on orchestration graphs in CSCL. Wondering how much standardization there is and whether standardization of workflows is meaningful at all.

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    1. I dropped her hand, and rose, and took a turn in the room. Every question that I could put had been answered. Every detail that I could desire to know had been placed before me.

      We can know that Franklin wasn't sleepwalking at the time, but what was it that kept him in control and even made him know nothing about it when he woke up?This reminds me of those three indians who came to Lady Verinder’s house and used magical power to confuse a boy to tell them what they wanted. Would Franklin also be hexed by those three indians?

    1. Calls to work on behalf of the community or to the community’s values wind up not only, as I noted in my last post, ignoring community’s supplementary role with respect to capital but also essentializing a highly complex and intersectional set of social relations.

      This reminds me of some studies in psychology about why people vote and for whom they vote. It's not always who they would vote for individually, but who would a group of people like them vote? This makes the "community" portion far more complex than it would appear.

      I should track down the original references, but I think I remember reading about them via either George Lakoff or possibly Malcolm Gladwell.

    1. Can explain concepts, principles, and processes by putting it their own words, teaching it to others, justifying their answers, and showing their reasoning.• Can interpret by making sense of data, text, and experience through images, analogies, stories, and models.• Can apply by effectively using and adapting what they know in new and complex contexts.• Demonstrate perspective by seeing the big picture and recognizing differ-ent points of view.• Display empathy by perceiving sensitively and walking in someone else’s shoes.• Have self-knowledge by showing meta-cognitive awareness, using productive habits of mind, and reflect-ing on the meaning of the learning and experience.

      Awesome examples! kind of reminds me of Bloom's taxonomy concept

    2. Stage 1: Desired ResultsWhat long-term transfer goals are targeted?What meanings should students make in order to arrive at important understandings?What essential questions will students explore?What knowledge and skill will students acquire?What established goals/standards are targeted?

      This reminds me a lot of Dr. Lanahan's teachings about vertical alignment. You need to know your destination is Tennesse before you leave your driveway, and you need to map it out so you don't accidentally go to Florida.

    1. Understanding by Design (Backward Design)

      This model is most interesting to me because it requires more thinking and problem solving since you have your results in mind and are trying to design the process to get those results.

      It reminds me of an exercise I would often use with my pupils to help them develop critical thinking skills: solving a maze, but if it is too difficult (e.g. a circular maze), they should start at the END and work their way backwards to the beginning.

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    1. we _ask whaUs the character or group's place in the narrative (the global system) and how it differentiates itself from other. characters or groups (the elements of the system) who appear -concurrently. our model is. taken from the structural analysis of the narrative: the character-or the group16-is defined neither as an interior s bolo construct. nor as an exterior (real) construct; ut fu s a function in a system of func-tl.ons.1

      When taking a symbolic or decoding approach, Kuntzel is saying here that critics have to view narrative as a system of components and characters and groups as those components that construct a narrative. As a component, each character or group is a function within the overarching system of functions that is the narrative. I agree that this approach is overall useful in understanding filmic fact and in also understanding a character as an embedded component in a network of many characters and groups. This approach separates the noise generated by cinematic fact to focus solely on filmic fact. This approach also analyzes a character's role and function within the world the film creates. The world portrayed by the film is best understood when assessing the role that each character and group plays within the world, which constitutes the narrative. It reminds me of the film the Butterfly Effect, which demonstrates this concept. The film shows how the actions of one character or group can have a drastic effect on the lives of others, and the movie's characters and groups serve as a function within a system of functions that constructs the narrative of the film. Question to the class: What are your thoughts on this approach to analyzing the narrative?

    1. The open science and open data communities

      This reminds me of what some libraries are doing with their institutional repositories. They have become more than just repositories for final versions of local faculty and student work but also repositories for the research data associated with these works. The benefit of institutional repositories are that they are free to the researcher and student and the work or materials included can be indexed and more easily discoverable to local users via library discovery platforms and other researchers via Google Scholar.

    2. And some questions do have right answers

      This reminds me a lot of the work on inquiry as a framework. Students ask questions and that becomes the framework of the topic. There are also different levels of inquiry - structured, controlled, guided and free (swimming analogy). Different parts of a course for me at least have called for different types of inquiry. There's a book called Dive Into Inquiry by Trevor Mackenzie that's really good.

    1. Today, thousands of farm workers live under savage1 conditions—beneath trees and amid garbage and human excrement

      This reminds me of Hoovervilles during the Great Depression.

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    1. Then an attendant goes out of the dwelling with a cup and liquor, and sprinkles three times to the south, each time bending the knee, and that to do reverence to the fire; then to the east, and that to do reverence to the air; then to the west to do reverence to the water; to the north they sprinkle for the dead.

      This reminds me of American Indian traditions paying homage to the four directions and elements air, fire, water and to the dead, which usually represents the earth or ground element. William of Rubrick is a friar and seems to give a very detailed and a non-judgmental account of their lifestyle.

    1. our names do not appear

      This reminds me of water just because everything written in sand or paper in water disappears. Everything goes away so the names do not appear. I think thats powerful .

    1. Can I say, I love, especially, "I am not allowed to say"? Because it implies that Siri somehow knows the answer, but she's just not allowed to tell me, which is insane, because she's a machine. Especially because-- flip over the phone. Right here, on the back, it's printed-- "Assembled in China."

      This comment reminds me of how I've heard some people say how much they love that Apple is a product made in the United States, but in actuality it's not.

    1. Seeing them feel proud of themselves for having made something is really rewarding. Also it’s rewarding to see them produce something that allowed them to push themselves a little further.

      The notion of seeing someone "feel proud" reminds me of when we would use X-Ray Goggles to help kids remix the Google homepage at World Maker Faire and other Hive events (thinking of Summer Quest, Maker Party events, and other spaces where Hive members were programming for youth in public spaces - not necessarily for youth who were already signed up in their programs.

    1. This debt bondage is illegal, but illiterate workers don’t know this, and the bosses are keen to play on their sense of obligation, not alert them to the scam that’s sucking them under.

      This reminds me a lot about sharecropping and how in America post-Civil War and liberation many former slaves went back to make a living as sharecroppers however the owners of the land would "lend" them supplies but rack up their debt even more making them property again and it became a family and generational debt.

    2. “They know two Americans came on the helicopter, and Americans make a great target, worth lots of ransom

      This reminds me of a story my spanish teacher told me one time. Around the time I was in my third year of her class, two American vacationers were out on jetskis or a boat in the gulf and were kidnapped, on American water, by a Mexican criminal group and held captive for ransom. Makes you wonder what separates us from from other tourists, like Europeans who travel.

    1. keep education separate so we will never confuse what its purpose really is:  freedom

      nice, reminds me of education as liberatory (Freire, Giroux, McClaren, Leonardo, etc.)

    1. photographs

      this section reminds me of the uproar concerning the separated Honduran child on the TIME magazine cover (thinking about how some (white conservatives/supremacists) dismissed the visual once they found out the child was "not separated" whereas the sounds of separation (7 min audio recording of paralyzing screams and tears) have received such an incensed reaction. If seeing (trauma) isn't believing, what does sound do affectively?

    1. On 2014 Jan 04, Tom Kindlon commented:

      The dropping of actometers as an outcome measure and other points relating to the outcome measures being used

      (I'm posting this e-letter/comment from 2008 here for the same reason as the first e-letter below)

      In their reply to my comments, Peter White and colleagues say they are using [i]"several objective outcome measures"[/i] [1]. If they think these tests are useful as objective outcome measures, why is at least one of them not being used as a primary outcome measure rather than the current situation where there are only two subjective outcome measures being used.

      I have already made some points on the outcome measures but another one is that the bimodal Chalder Fatigue Scale hardly seems a very good outcome measure for a "CFS/ME" trial where there is likely going to be so many maximum or near maximum scoring initially[2]

      Also, there are so many (14) secondary outcome measures in this study, along with so many (18) predictor variables, that it seems unlikely all the different methods of looking at the secondary outcome measures can be explored in the final published paper, given authors are encouraged not to make papers too long (especially journals that have paper editions). The protocol itself is 20 pages long when all the different aspects of it are listed! At least some of the information will need to be re-iterated in the final paper.

      It is of course important to take the burden on participants into account when deciding what outcome measures to use. However I find the following point very strange: "Although we originally planned to use actigraphy as an outcome measure, as well as a baseline measure, we decided that a test that required participants to wear an actometer around their ankle for a week was too great a burden at the end of the trial." Firstly they clearly don't find it that great a burden that they drop it altogether as it is being used on patients before the start. If they feel it was that big of a burden, it should probably have been dropped altogether.

      Of course, other studies in the area have used measuring over a similar or longer period. For example, Bazelmans [3] used an actometer over 14 days, Black [4] used actigraphy over 14 days, Sisto[5] used actigraphy over 7 days, Vercoulen[6] used an actometer over 12 days and Van der Werf [7] used an actometer for 12 days.

      Also if one wants to reduce the burden on patients, why not take out one or both of the exercise tests instead. As the clinicians in the study would know, post-exertional symptoms are part of the condition.

      For example, Nijs[8] performed a gentle walking exercise on patients where they walked on average 558m(+/-340) (range: 120-1620) at a speed of 0.9m/s (+/-0.2) (range: 0.6-1.1). This resulted in a statistically significant (p<0.05) worsening of scores in the following areas when comparing pre-exercise, post-exercise and 24 hour post-exercise scores using ANOVA: VAS fatigue, VAS musculoskeletal pain, VAS sore throat, SF-36 bodily pain and SF-36 general health percention. 14 out of 24 subjects experienced a clinically meaningful change (worsening) in bodily pain (i.e. a minimum change of the SF-36 bodily pain subscale score of at least 10).

      Those results are similar to another study[9] which involved the acute effects of 10 discontinuous 3-minute exercise bouts on a treadmill in 10 CFS patients. In between exercise bouts, there was a 3-minute recovery period between exercise bouts. The participants walked at a comfortable walking pace self-selected by the subjects. On average, the subjects walked at a speed of 0.71+/-0.20 m/s. Some patients reported experiencing headaches, leg pain, fatigue or sore throats.

      In another study, Lapp [10] (not to be confused with Clapp[9]) reported on the effects of 31 patients to his practice who were asked to monitor their symptoms three weeks before to 12 days after a maximal exercise test. 74% of the patients experienced worsening fatigue and 26% stayed the same. None improved. The average relapse lasted 8.82 days although 22% were still in relapse when the study ended at 12 days. There were similar changes with exercise in lymph pain, depression, abdominal pain, sleep quality, joint and muscle pain and sore throat.

      These are just a small selection of the studies which show patients experience an exacerbation of their symptoms following exercise testing. So these are the sorts of symptoms the patients may expect following the exercise. This reminds me that there seems to be a lot of concentration on measuring fatigue in this study - there are many other symptoms that are part of "CFS/ME".If they had used actometers instead of, say, doing one of the exercise tests, the response to the exercise could have been followed to see how long and how severe an effect the exercise had on the patient. Or they could have dropped both the exercise tests altogether.

      As well as "subjective" findings following exercise testing, there have also been objective findings. Arnold et al[11] found excessive intracellular acidoss of skeletal muscles with exercise. Jammes[12] found an increase of damaging oxidative stress following exercise testing. So patients could not just endure temporary sysptom but possibly also longer-term harm from exercise testing. There are numerous other exercise abnormalities.As the clinicians involved in the study probably hear from patients, one of the frustrating things about ME or CFS is that people don't realise the payback that they can have from doing things. This would have been an opportunity to investigate this as part of the study. But now the effort patients will put in and the payback they will feel in some ways is being wasted as the effects won't be measured.

      Anyway, to repeat again, given the authors familiarity with the literature, I find it strange that they would decide using an actometer would be worse than putting patients through two exercise tests.

      I also find it surprising that in a study part-funded by the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) that the objective outcome measures (not involving questionnaires) are all once-off exercise tests. It has been established that patients need to be able to do things on several days during a week before they can be passed fit for work. I have mentioned using actometers following exercise tests after an exercise test above; of course, actometers wouldn't have to be used at that time but also during a "normal week".

      Proponents of pacing methods including APT would say that there is a "ceiling of activity" that patients can't go above without experiencing a worsening of symptoms. Black[13] has found evidence of this. Proponents of CBT or GET for "CFS/ME" would suggest that patients can gradually just increase how much activity they can do. Actometers would also have tested the hypothesis. As it stands, the study will not give us information on this as just because patients answer questionnaires saying they're improved (which could simply be because they think they're better) or improve their exercise results (which might simply be because they're willing to push themselves more) doesn't prove that they don't have an activity ceiling above which they experience disabling symptoms (esp. when, as in this study, there is no follow-up period following the exercise testing). This is the real "heart" of the issue but given the current design, the question won't be answered.


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    1. This will mean opening thought beyond its articulation in language towards “the movement of thought,” 4engaging it at the immanent limit where it is still fully in the act.

      Reminds me of recent work in biosemiotics.

  16. Jun 2018
    1. The crew commander, Sukjin Han, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Texas at Austin from South Korea, told me he signed off on most of the important decisions during the mission, but that he made sure to “hear the thoughts and opinions of all crew members beforehand and reflect them in the decisions.” In the tense moments after the accident, Han went with the majority.

      This reminds of the "Das Experiment" movie, where students get to play prison guards and inmates and things quickly escalate. Certainly the mission commander has no legal right in any sense of the word to withhold medical treatment from a participant. It is not "his decision." The situation may or may not have been different if this were a military operation, but certainly participating in a simulation does not raise your authority and decision-making rights to such a level. It is only the decision of the injured and if they were incapacitated, it is the obligation of everyone else to make the call.

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    1. I offer the term and stance of culturally sustaining pedagogy as an alter-native that, I believe, embodies some of the best research and prac-tice in the resource pedagogy tradition and as a term that supports the value of our multiethnic and multilingual present and futur

      The term culturally sustainable pedagogy speaks to me and reminds me of the language that is often used in grants to allocate funding. For every grant I have ever written, it has required a sustainability plan. After the money is gone, how are you going to continue the proposed work? How do you embed the work as common practice? Sustainability implies long term commitment

    1. Critical episode:“Iam a sleeping ca

      This reminds me of the pre and post test we used to give as part of the New Literacies Institute. Choose one picture that represents you before and one after,

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    1. understand how perceptions of ability and of resources for coping are enacted even in the ways that curriculum content and instruction are structured. Such orientations can help us move away from the tendency to “blame the victim” rather than to examine the ways that ecologies of learning can address the fundamen-tal human development needs that all youth face

      empathy, void of deficit thinking, reminds me of Gorski.

    1. n extension of educational opportunities, and a “responsibility to realise a cosmopolitan understanding of universal rights and acting on that understanding to effect a greater sense of community”

      This definition of knowledge-age skills reminds me of the articles previous call for social learning analytics to facilitate the expansion of the learner's network.

    1. Again, these experiences provided multiple opportunities for Black girls in the class to explore social issues across modalities and raise questions about audience, privilege, power, voice, and equity. The questions they raised in discussions and the work they produced drew on multiple literacies that were tied to their identities as Black girls.

      This work strikes me as important and reminds me that we can place black women writers and related equity issues at the center of our curriculum for all students. The stories and issues we deem worthy of study communicate their cultural importance.

    2. why computers work to present texts in the way that they do.

      Reminds me of the umbrella questions, the essential questions I asked of my students throughout the year as they created and presented text media:

      How do researchers investigate successfully? What strategies and processes do collaborators need for success? How do readers and writers determine and develop relevant, accurate, and complete topics? How do publishers design and organize content for their audience and purpose? Why and how do editors and speakers use and edit with the rules for standard English grammar and language ?

      By examining the media we see, we found ways to create our messages, and could develop and understand those questions as our own as authors and publishers.

  19. May 2018
    1. Reflection involves not simply a sequence of ideas, but a consequence—a consecutive ordering in such a way that[Pg 3] each determines the next as its proper outcome, while each in turn leans back on its predecessors.

      This reminds me of Gee's circuit of reflective thought. or Kaku's Human consciousnes:

      involves the ability to create a model of the world and then simulate the model of the world in order to obtain a goal. Maybe reflection is consciousness. Can one be conscious and not be in a reflective state. Is that the primitive brain?

      Or when we are far down on Maslow's scale. Then again a hungry or shlterless person would reflect on that a lot.

      Maybe its just when automatcity must take over either due to skill or situation.

    1. He identified Guitar as an example of how anger can twist love into forms that are hard to recognize. He explained, “This can happen to people in a way that gets them confused about what they’re doing and how they try to do it.”

      Their are several moments throughout this article such as this one where we see Abraham's ability to give profound insight. It reminds me of the article, "Children Writing Hard Times" by Elizabeth Dutro where the teachers ask the students to write about their understanding of hard times, and the they find that these students are not able to receive the academic recognition they deserve because the curriculum did not allow for all of the different interpretations of hard times that the children had. Abraham is another good example of a student who has knowledge and potential to be tapped into, but that through restricting compositional and writing outlines may struggle had he not had such an understanding and patient mentor or teacher as he did.

    1. because vocational awe refuses to acknowledge the library as a flawed institution, when people of color and other marginalized librarians speak out, their accounts are often discounted or erased

      This reminds me of an article I read recently about the erasure of people of color from (once-French-controlled) colonies in the Caribbean on an archival collections level due to the state not prioritizing records about them for preservation and documentation in addition to what happens when librarians of color speak out about professional things.

    1. Is the very computer upon which humanists rely so heavily still a tool, something akin to their medieval writing tablets? Or has it become an environment, its screen no longer a blank sheet on which to write but a window or portal into the entire digital realm

      I like that this is a question as well. "No longer a blank sheet on which to write but a window or portal into the entire digital realm" reminds me of just how "connected" people can be in society today. However, personally I find this to decrease real human connections as well as a door way for anyone to be absolutely anyone they claim to be.

    1. There might be a simple linear function that classifies the majority group correctly and there might be a (different) simple linear function that classifies the minority group correctly, but learning a (non-linear) combination of two linear classifiers is in general a computationally much harder problem.

      This quote reminds me of what Jon mentioned how there was a distinct difference in customers who were english speaking vs another language speaker. He really mentioned that they were very different and hard to compare. Linear regression might also be a factor that does not help to match up an overarching view compared with each majority vs minority.

    1. This moment reminds me of the movie, ‘Gangs of New York’ where the African Americans and Irish immigrants were treated horribly. And I feel that Toibin might have been trying to capture this in his novel. And since in Ireland it is not as diverse as America, it shows that racism is taught to us and is not an actual trait of a person. While Eilis’s staring at the customers can be deceived as racism, it is her actually just being unaware, since Ireland is mostly just white Irishmen.

    1. Joseph could never understand why I had done something so horrible to myself. I could not explain to him that it was like break­ing manacles, an act of freedom

      2) Sophie’s grandmother talks of strong black Natives that are lost, in search of an identify, a place to call home for many are lost carrying the world on their shoulders. They do not give up because they have God on their side to help them carry along the road not taken. This scene with Sophie and her grandmother reminds me of the caco women. Elders that lived through it all from the roots of poverty to still hoping and praying. History holds a great significance in “Breath, Eyes Memory”, allowing for memory to be pass down to newer generations.

    2. "Sophie’s grandmother talks of strong black Natives that are lost, in search of an identity, a place to call home for many are lost carrying the world on their shoulders. They do not give up because they have God on their side to help them carry along the road not taken. This scene with Sophie and her grandmother reminds me of the caco women. Elders that lived through it all from the roots of poverty to still hoping and praying. History holds a great significance in “Breath, Eyes Memory”, allowing for memory to be pass down to newer generations.

    1. Our review of the literature indicates that parental participation in schools is strongly shaped by perceptions of parents’ background and of the roles expected of them by school administrators and teachers and by the organizations (whether local or federal) that fund family literacy and parent involve-ment programs

      This reminds me of our work we did with unintentional bias in our social foundations course. We have so many biases that come through in our everyday practice as educators that may come through without our knowledge. In the case of family involvement in the school, I think as educators who understand and value the importance of family involvement, it is our job to encourage participation and help the family's come in, whether or not we have a bias as to if they can or want to come into the classroom.

    2. “Powerful parents demand something in return for their commitment to public education—for keeping their children in public schools, as opposed to fleeing to the private schools that many could afford” (p. 139). Affluent parents of successful students are less concerned that all children have access to a quality education and are more concerned that their own children have access to the best type of instruction, are tracked in Advanced Placement and Gifted and Talented Programs, and are recognized with strong letter grades and awards for their academic success (Kohn, 1998). This demand for differentiation (Wells & Oakes, 1996) or advocacy for tracking (McGrath & Kuriloff, 1999) is a type of parent involvement that can be detrimental to students and schools. As Casanova (1996) warns of “con-trolling parents,” they also deprofessionalize teachers and exacerbate the unequal treatment of all parents in schools further stratifying the involved and uninvolved parent along race and class lines.

      This section reminds me of some of the parents in my community. I've been teaching in different schools in the Stapleton neighborhood for about three years now. I've observed the behaviors presented in this text myself and have heard numerous observations from colleagues. This presents a really interesting situation for teachers. On one hand, you have parents who are very invested in their child's education. They are super supportive and love to be involved in the classroom and the school. It's great to have parents who are invested and enthusiastic about their child's schooling. But then, the power dynamics come into play like the behaviors Casanova describes. In these situations, teachers feel intimidated by these parents because of the power and influence they hold within the school and community. Parents want the best for their children, so how can we engage them in ways to ensure the best for all of the children in the school? Most of these parents have multiple ways in which they can support the school. I wonder if there's a way for the school to find a way to get them involved in a way that would end up benefiting all students.

    1. Curator Lee Glazer agrees that the Peacock Room is a completely immersive experience. "Even though it's a room, it's really a six-sided painting that you literally walk into," she says.

      The design of the peacock room reminds me of Disneyland. Your experience in the park is a cartoon character. Living in a fairy tale world, you can bring exaggerated headwear and unusual clothes. But once you finish your journey in paradise and return to reality, wearing the same outfit, you will feel that you are a different species.

    1. I chose to assess the sea-level trend from 1915-45

      This is a blatant case of cherry picking to confirm a Singer’s position while ignoring a significant all other instrumental sea level data that may contradict that position. This fallacy is a major problem in public debate. It reminds me of the Houston and Dean paper that was published by the Journal of Coastal Research which also cherry picked data to support their argument that there is no acceleration in sea level. The Houston and Dean paper caused many problems to the advancement of adaptation practices in the US to sea-level rise.

    1. Ain’t no hammah In dis lan’, Strikes lak mine, bebby, Strikes lak mine.

      This reminds me of the childhood folklore of John Henry. The idea that a black man with a hammer whom cannot be compared by anyone living. It was only industrialization that took him down.

    1. macroscope

      reminds me a little bit of okhams razor, "the more assumptions you have to make, the more unlikely an explanation is" or "the simple explanation is always the best". The more complex the explanation is the less clear it is.

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    1. He further describes how this openness of thought is antithetical to arrogance and elitism, “One of the necessary requirements for correct think-ing is a capacity for not being overly convinced of one’s own certitudes . . . correct thinking is in this sense irreconcilable with self-conceited arrogance”

      This point reminds me of the importance of recognizing parents as the experts of their own children and their own families and to enter into relationships in our work from an asset based lens, focusing on the capabilities and competencies of those around us rather than their struggles. If we enter into every situation presuming to have all of the answers - with "arrogance and elitism" - not only do we continue the cycle of oppression of others, but we fail to be open to learning ourselves.

    2. The excerpt took me quite some time to process and try to understand. As I read it and re-read it I struggled with the idea of a leadership conversation using "dialogue as a dialectic relationship between the oppressed and the oppressors." I understood it to mean that the leadership role is to become one with "the other" at some point in time, and that because one group's humanization is more complete, they are to lead the other to their level of humanization. If this meaning is even close to applicable then it also reminds me of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in so far as one group's humanization is needed for the other group to reach self actualization. The other part of this except that resonated with me was the notion that people in leadership roles assume the goal of empowering others. I never really thought about it this way and if I am trying to think in Freirean terms, embracing that leadership is a necessary power, but it also hinders or possibly negates the goal of shared dialogue and ultimately a shared fate. I also acknowledge that this understanding could be way off and am willing to unpack it with anyone who is willing to do so before Tuesday!.

    3. He writes, “The future is seen not as inexorable but as something that is con-structed by people engaged together in life, in history. It’s the knowledge that sees history as possibility and not as already determined”

      This quote reminds me of when Freire talks about "unfinishedness." When we recognize that our knowledge is only partial then we can learn to work together to make future possibilities come true. If we are closed minded then there is no room for growth and possibilities. If there is no learning then possibilities will be already determined and there will be no change.

    4. In essence, the correct posture of one who does not consider him- or herself to be the sole possessor of the truth or the passive

      This quote reminds me of the "white savior" complex and how damaging it is for all parties. When you approach a situation believing you have all the knowledge necessary and are there to "save" students, schools, communities, etc., you are further disenfranchising people and creating more problems.

    5. As these challenging conditions in the United States have continued (par-ticularly in our cities) over the past quarter of a century, educational leader-ship has repeatedly been cited as having profound implications for student and school outcomes (Leithwood & Jantzi, 1999). However, many educators and scholars have been reticent to embrace the perspective that school effec-tiveness is essentially tied to wider community health and fertility.

      This reminds me how how in Reggio, after the war, when the community wanted to rebuild they asked themselves, how to we want to educate our children first, what do we think is important to include in their education, which we all seemed to agree was inspiring. They included aspects that cared for the WHOLE child. the education was NOT situated only within the school's walls but there was such fluidity between the community and the students that the education was of the children and the community. They saw that welcoming children into and as an automatic member of the community was the way to foster a healthier, more cohesive, successful community as a whole. This seems to speak to that desire, and the fact that is not how the schools and the educational system is viewed here currently. But to take a look at the schools, it is impossible to not look at the community, even as Brofenbrenner's systems points out - the community has direct impact on the children and they on their community. They are wholes that are interlinked and inseparable.

    1. They all match people in order to explore certain "themes"; and these are dealt with in courses, seminars, and curricula in which presumed "common interests" are prepackaged. Such theme-matching is by definition teacher-centered: it requires an authoritarian presence to define for the participants the starting point for their discussion.

      This reminds me of the kind of matchmaking that happens in #ds106's assignment bank and the #clmooc make bank.

    1. Alas, the wretched children ! they are seeking       Death in life, as best to have !

      the children rather die then live life, they are looking forward to death then to enjoy their life as they can. seems like these children are suffering. Reminds me of the early 1800's were young children from ages 4 and 6 use to work long hours in factories and during that time, today we would confirmed this as child abuse.

    1. It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me,

      Victor reminds me of the story of Icarus. He seems to be reaching for things he mustn't know, and in the end- he will be burned and he will fall. He's flying way too close to the metaphorical sun here.

    1. Bells in the town alight with spring converse, with a concordance of new airs make clear the fresh and ancient sound they sing.

      In this statement the author talks about how importance of the bells are to these people who live in a town. A-swell the bells being a signal of the season changing. Because of the fresh and ancient sound they sing reminds me of a spring day with the wind blowing against a chime, soothing.