The various fruits can be served side by side, they can be chopped up and served as a fruit salad, or they can be finely blended so that the distinctive flavor of each is no longer recognizable, yielding instead the delectable experience of the smoothie.
this reminds me a lot of IDS. we want to create a smoothie of disciplines that would work well together and to get us to our future career and not just take disciplines that wont work together and put them together
Thomas Jefferson fervently believed that a nation cannot be ignorant and free; I share this view as well as Jefferson’s optimism that societies become more democratic as citizens become more knowledgeable and cultured.
This reminds me of an article I read a while back about Finland and their education system. In the 60s they were suffering economically and said that in order to pull their country out of it was to use education.
the enacted laws against slave revolt are unanswerable testimony as to what these revolts meant all over America.
This clause in particular reminds me of the response of the United States to mass shootings. Even though there is a large campaign for gun control, it is failing. Will the failure of the government to respond to this define the future's view of us on this issues the way DuBois defines the pre-Civil War United States by its efforts to further control slaves?
It was here, however, that employers intervened; not because of any moral obliquity but because’ the Industrial Revolution, based upon the crops raised by slave labor in the Caribbean and in the southern United
Reminds me of MLK's 1966 statement about capitalism and racism being inseparable in the U.S.:
“You can’t talk about solving the economic problem of the Negro without talking about billions of dollars. You can’t talk about ending the slums without first saying profit must be taken out of slums. You’re really tampering and getting on dangerous ground because you are messing with folk then. You are messing with captains of industry. Now this means that we are treading in difficult water, because it really means that we are saying that something is wrong with capitalism.”
Challenging racism is so dangerous because the U.S. would not have been such an economic powerhouse without the exploitation of millions of African slaves. Thus, when one engages in a fight with racism, they are inevitably also fighting capitalism.
The doctrine of race inferiority was used to convince white labor that they had the right to be free and to vote, while the Negroes must be slaves or depress the wage of whites;
This reminds me of a short essay by George Lipsitz called 'The Possessive Investment in Whiteness.' It talks about the construct of whiteness and the process of becoming "white" for European immigrants. I would suggest everyone read it.
Picked his bones in whispers. As he rose and fell He passed the stages of his age and youth Entering the whirlpool.
"Picked his bones" reminds me of bones being plucked from ashes at the end of the cremation process. The mention of bones or skeletal images is a pattern in this poem
dry
There seems to be a pattern of the use of the word "dry" or "dried." It reminds me of the darkness of the title, because essentially, the dead are dry as well.
It represents the cool, calculating deliberation of intelligent people who openly avow that there is an “unwritten law” that justifies them in putting human beings to death without complaint under oath, without trial by jury, without opportunity to make defense, and without right of appeal. …
This statement almost makes me feel sick. Who could ever think they have the right to take another persons life without justice backing it? Reminds me of a dictatorship...
An epistemology is a worldview, ideology, or approach to truth and knowledge.
This reminds me of how stuff has came to be
Some disciplines use a mix of these methods.
reminds me of kinesiology class
Apart from social mediaaccounts through Twitter, YouTube, and the like, the podcast has never paid for anyadvertising or promotional campaigns. Indeed, marketers have turnedWNVinto acase study for ‘‘viral marketing’’ done right (Kelley, 2013; Kilinskis, n.d.). Its successhas been almost entirely driven by online fandom
This reminds me of the discussion we had in class in terms of advertising in which nowadays advertising is found implicitly within the distributed content that audiences participate in. I am wondering if WNV also has advertisement within their content and if they don't how do they make any money?
It is a free podcast, and to date episodeshave remained commercial-free; the creators support themselves and the productionthrough crowdfunding, merchandising, live performances,and select premium orbonus content, namely paid downloads of live show recordings (Greenfield, 2015).
This reminds me of zines and how some of them were simply given away and the creators sometimes rely/relied on crowdfunding in order to continue to create them. I feel like there are similarities between zines and podcasts and how they differ from the traditional/mainstream magazine and radio.
so a well-promoted new podcast can appear to be more popular thana podcast with a loyal and substantial audience
This reminds me of Instagram's relatively new algorithm...
I also wrote my name ‘Aisha’ in my native language Urdu because it reminds me of my very first experience with a ‘Wooden Kalam’ or a ‘reed pen’.
Excellent. Do you think that there is a connection between different writing/communication cultures based on the ways in which one learns how to write (and what technology they used)?
This infographic explains it all.
This reminds me of Fogel's words (https://questioncopyright.org/promise) about the Stationers and the Statue of Anne. Authors sign their rights back over to the publishers for distribution because they do not have the means to distribute their own work. Internet can end this paradox of monopoly.
"There is a fairly even split in the scientific community about whether 'tech addiction' is a real thing,"
reminds me of reading this article where south korea is dealing with internet addiction https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dp5k8z/inside-the-south-korean-rehab-clinic-that-treats-gaming-addicts-with-german-scifi-922
BeAnotherLab (look up other video examples)
I wonder what Sonya Rappaport would have done with VR if she lived to work with it. Reminds me of her work Digital Mudra. While it's not AR or VR, there is some overlap related to gesture and "trans-cultural meanings" http://www.sonyarapoport.org/portfolio/digital-mudra/
bathed in filth
It also reminds me of the phrase (i'm paraphrasing), a pig is still a pig no matter how you dress it up
the quarries themselves are illegal, paying no mining permits or taxes.
This topic reminds me of a huge issue that people choose to ignore: blood diamonds. The blood diamond industry exploits human beings and many diamonds manufactured throughout countries actually come from illicit activity and the horrible treatment of the miners involved. Many people choose to ignore this and keep supporting the diamond industry, instead of searching for rings with diamonds that don't come from the corrupt industries.
This network enabled young people to con-nect with one another out of earshot of adults and mutually to constitute themselves as agents—“oppositional selves,” in Chu’s words, people who create cultural objects and mes-sages rather than simply consume them
Despite what people generalize about youth being apathetic, this text reminds me that that isn't completely true. I think the past few generations have been incredibly active and political, it has just taken different forms.
Zines did not simply die in the early 1990s as their creators moved out of ad-olescence and young adulthood
Reminds me of Andrea said that she thought that Manifestos died but they did not! In fact people are still creating them.
I don't argue with the Thoreau objection. I embrace it. Years ago, I cut a door in my office wall; it's now three steps to my garden. The fact that I acknowledge my attraction to distraction doesn't mean that I have to suc-cumb to the urge to be constantly connected. I simply ask myself when I reach for my iPhone while waiting in line, Why not stay disconnected for a minute and see what happens? Or I deliberately leave my podcasts at home when I take the dogs out for a walk in the neighborhood. Throw some sand into the machinery that automatizes your attention.
I agree with Rheingold here. Rheingold acknowledges the benefits of disconnecting every once in a while and interacting with the outside world. While I admit, most times that I disconnect, it's because I have already exhausted all the social media I partake in. However, I think it's always good to let one's mind wander free every so often. This reminds me of the habit of reading shampoo bottles while in the bathroom, before cellphones. It was still absorbing information, but it was physical and of the outside world, so that counts, right?
While I was writing this book, my friend Duke University professor Cathy Davidson was also working on her own book about attention. 13 In her blog, Davidson recounts an incident that happened when she was tracking down footnote references requested by the editor. She was working at her desk, got up to put a teakettle on the stove, and went back to her writing. Hearing a garbage truck outside, she assumed it was the source of the burning rub-ber she was beginning to smell. When she started to see smoke, Davidson realized that the water had boiled out of the teakettle and the plastic handle had been melting. She had forgotten to pay attention to the stove while concentrating on her book.
This piece of anecdotal evidence that ends being up being relevant reminds me of the supplementary reading article, "Mystery of Russian Fake on Facebook Solved, by a Brazilian". Rheingold discusses reading a blog by his friend, professor Cathy Davidson. She details a day where several incidents happened in a short span of time. She consciously told herself to be more mindful, instead of letting her mind drift. A few minutes later, she narrowly avoided hitting two dogs that ran in front of her car. In regards to "Mystery of Russian Fake on Facebook Solved, by a Brazilian", there was a tweet that faced scrutiny, claiming that one of the Parkland shooting survivors was actually a trauma actor.
It seems that the person who tweeted this comment and image is in Moscow, Russia. Even then, who knows if this image was doctored or altered in any way?
While Rheingold intended to use Davidson's conscious mental notes as a narrative for this chapter of his book, it reminded me of all the media bias in politics. There has been political bias since the house party system first became commonplace, but technology has blurred the lines between fact and fiction and that has impacted how people analyze media. One should always make an effort to do their own research on topics that they consider important, rather than just take their Facebook feed at face-value.
also found that middle school students reported similar favorites: They re ported that independent reading time and teacher read-alouds made them want to read more
After recently visiting my own third grade teacher, she told me that she was being moved to sixth grade, but that she would not stop reading aloud to them, because she really values read alouds and sees the value in them. I think this article supports her attitudes, and also reminds me how sometimes teachers take adolescents so "seriously" but forget how useful the things we do in elementary school can be to students of all ages.
~ ~ ., ] .. ~ ~ -~ 1 2 1 What Are Multimodal Projects? !---------"------_______________ _.,_) ... Gestural Mode ·1 he gestural mode refers to the way movement, such as body lan-guage, can make meaning. When we interact with people in real life or watch them on-screen, we can tell a lot about how they arc feel-ing and what they arc trying to communicate. The gestural mode includes: • facial expressions • hand gestures • body language • interaction between people
This reminds me of images commonly found in articles in order to sway opinions. Using the example of the NBC article, it shows the women's protest in a very positive light and the creator of the pink pussy hat is smiling and looks very presentable in the picture used of her. Had they wanted to put blame on her, they could have used a more unflattering image. They could have also painted the women's march in a bad light had they used images where women appear aggressive and angry. For example:
This article shows Donald Trump looking angry which is most likely an attempt to paint him negatively.
In this article, Trump is seen with a thumbs up and a smile which sends an entirely different message for the tone of the piece. These affect the way people receive the story because of his facial expression and body language.
To produce a successful text, writers must be able to consciously use different modes both alone and in combination with each other to communicate their ideas to others.
This reminds me of the NBC article on the pussy hat when it later argues that some people believe these hats to purposefully exclude women of color and trans women. The interpretation is that the pink symbolizes skin color and that because it references female genitalia, it excludes people who are not CIS. The creator of this hat then goes to discuss that this was never her intention. That the pink does represent femininity in a stereotypical way but that it does not mean to include only CIS gender women. She does however note that the hat does make refer to female anatomy which was inspired by Donald Trump's "Grab them by the pussy" statement but could prove to be exclusive of the trans community. This was not her intention, but this is how it has been received by some. Similarly, we may not have control over the way our choices in imagery, in multi-modal communication, and text can be interpreted. Similarly, the AIDS quilt can be interpreted in numerous ways as I'm sure in class we will discover we have very different views and ideas about the quilt and our panels.
[(http://www.teenink.com/hot_topics/health/article/4948/Aids-Quilt/)
This essay is a brief example of the AIDS quilt from the point of view of a teenager.
(http://gator.uhd.edu/~robersone5/files/samples/ideological_analysis_of_aids_memorial_quilt.pdf)
This essay is 15 pages long, and from what I have skimmed, it is a very thorough analysis of the AIDS quilt from a more collegiate point of view. These writing styles and use, or lack of use, of imagery affect the voices and points of view of the text differently and express very different points of view.
“decolonisation” of the Oxford curriculum, the creation of a web-based catalogue of Oxford’s colonial-era sins, and the development of a smartphone app for an Oxford walking tour whose stops will include “a certain famous High Street statue” as well as “smaller less well-known objects and sites
nice that they decided to question their society
This reminds me of the reading we had to do for univ 299
us, the putative viewers, who of course read words rather than see images and so add a fifth layer of mediation.
reminds me of how we get information so compressed now (sparknotes)
liberating people's data.
this reminds me of "domains of one's own" efforts to liberate student data
The potential excites me and concerns me at the same time – that makes the web worth our ongoing stewardship.
im drawn to this notion of stewardship. it reminds me of digital citizenship, the notion of safe and responsible use of the internet, and also of an ability to be critical of the information we find on the web. like a garden, we need to tend to or care for (i.e. steward) the information that lives there. what might that stewardship look like in educational settings?
Let it never be forgotten, that no slaveholder or Page xii overseer can be convicted of any outrage perpetrated on the person of a slave, however diabolical it may be, on the testimony of colored witnesses, whether bond or free. By the slave code, they are adjudged to be as incompetent to testify against a white man, as though they were indeed a part of the brute creation. Hence, there is no legal protection in fact, whatever there may be in form, for the slave population; and any amount of cruelty may be inflicted on them with impunity. Is it possible for the human mind to conceive of a more horrible state of society?
this reminds me of the David Walker piece we read when he discusses the nature of laws set up to keep black people without legal recourse or representation even if they are free. It seems that pains were taken to remove any amount of legal oversight into to practice of slavery.
By constantly tormenting them with reminders of the lice in their children’s hair
Somehow it reminds me of this:
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fields of goldenrod
It reminds me of the opening line to this song
Unless it be that marriage perhaps with a dash of Indian blood will throw up a girl so desolate so hemmed round with disease or murder that she’ll be rescued by an agent— reared by the state and sent out at fifteen to work in some hard-pressed house in the suburbs—
This quote reminds me of Legends of the Fall w/ Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt married a native woman, and for that, faced a great number of challenges and harassment by law enforcement, as well as scorn by the general public. They also have two children.
Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
https://goo.gl/images/tt49mM Read this poem in in many different classes and the unbelievable “forgive me” always reminds me of mischievous pets eating their owners food, like Garfield and his lasagna, no matter how much they love you they just can’t help their gluttony.
The work Amazon employees have to do is robotic.
this reminds me of a critical paper I wrote on Amazon - discovering that working conditions for Amazon employees were horrendous reinforcing the idea of cyborgs and 'robotic/ mechanical functioning'
5,000 best-selling books most sought after by their customers
This reminds me of an article on Geist by Stephen Henighan in which he discusses the dictatorship of BookNet Canada in the publishing industry which is used by publishers to published either new authors only or authors who have written best-sellers. In this manifesto, Amazon seems to be dictating the book selling industry similar to BookNet Canada.
Mango
This reminds me of our class conversations about Amazon decreasing the prices of books!
learn one another's methods, assumptions, values, knowledge and points of view.
Reminds me of my online DOD classes where we would share what was happening in the country we were living in and what we learned from it.
transparency
I like this idea. Especially because it reminds me of grading. Usually grading seems very hidden and we don't know why we are getting what we are getting.
legible (read: interesting), so that students will not only read the whole thing, but they'll remember what it said
reminds me of the TOS as we want them to be easily readable
does it work?" The second is, in the broadest sense, moral: "\44ratkind of a guv inhabits this poem? \{4rat is his notion of the goodlife or the good place? His notion of the trvil One? \\4rat does heconceal from the reader? \,\hat does he conceal even from him-self?" [so-st].Like any poet, Auden knor,l's that the second question cannot be re-sponded to correctly until the first has been ansu'ered. It is the rvorkingsof the verbal construct that give evidence of the moral stance of the poet.Auden here separates the technical from the moral, and perhaps believesthat the answer about the "verbal contraption" must be distinct from theanswer about personaliq,, ethics, and u,hat u'e s'ould nou, call "uncon-scious" and "deconstructive" moments in the poem. I believe that thedeepest insights into the moral u'orld of the poem, and into its construc-tive and deconstructive energies, come preciselv from understanding it asa contraption made of "words," by which I mean not onlv the semanticunits we call "words" but all the langpage games in u'hich u'ords can par-ticipate. Because many essays on the sonnets attempt moral and ethicaldiscussion without any close understanding of holv the poems are put to-gether, I have emphasized in this Commentan, the total "contraption-ness" of any given sonnet as the first necessary level of understanding. Ihope that my comments on the famous "moral" sonnets (such as 66,94,116, 129) will not disappoint readers u.ho are looking for Shakespeare's"notion of the good life . . . the Evil One" and so on. As to u'hat Shake-speare may conceal from the reader, or even from himself, such a su-premely conscious u,riter conceals, it seems to tlle, very little.
I wrote my blogs from last week partially on this topic. The message conveyed in this paragraph is trying to pick apart the art, the "words" of a particular piece from the artist. This is why I think that a "Shakespearean sonnet", whether ajar or concise as it relates to the stereotypical "iambic pentameter structure" is still a Shakespearean Sonnet all the same.
"It is the workings of the verbal construct that give evidence of the moral stance of the poet." This line reminds me most of our readings of Sonnet 130 in class. In order to not only read that sonnet properly (voice, pitch, rhythm, feet) , but to properly understand the context of that sonnet, one has to understand how Shakespeare uses words. His use of iambic pentameter isn't to the effect of a feeling or a sound, but a direct meaning. The syllables stressed in his stanzas are used to indicate emphasis on certain words, such as "Her" or "lips" or "my mistress" in conjunction. The stressing of these words often come out of sync.
The effect given off when he manipulates the stress of these words can create a trochee or even a spondee at times, which would mean that the line isn't in iambic pentameter; yet, the poem itself is in iambic pentameter, because, indicated in the reading, the "total contraptionness... of any given sonnet [is] the first necessary level of understanding."
"how to make a pink or grey pinstripe satin fin" pg. 15
This reminds me of the current example of the pussy hats!
I just want to say that the title of this manifesto made me laugh really hard.
"We're over white femme..." pg. 5 This reminds me of SImone Murray's reading in which she discusses how the radical feminist presses were catered for white feminists and not women of colour. This manifesto seems to speak against those white feminist ideologies.
Nosocialorder,nomatterhowentrenchedandruthlesslyimposed,canresisttransformationwhennewwaysofproducingandshar-ingemerge.
This in a way reminds me of how everyone is always wanting the new thing and hoping it'll make their lives better.
"It was a strange coincidence," I said. "But it wasn't a coincidence at all."
This quote reminds me of that scene from The Incredibles where Dash's teacher is playing back a security tape that should have proved Dash guilty of pulling a prank on his teacher. The notorious line goes, "Coincidence? I think not!"
sitting up very straight on a straight chair in the tea-garden at the Plaza Hotel)
This reminds me of the terrace the Neal Caffrey conned his way into using while he was on probation. It was a beautiful rooftop garden in Manhattan. There was greenery all around, flowers all the time, and during the spring time, the wealthy homeowner held elegant parties that were networking dreams for businessmen. This is from the tv show, White Collar
I had on a new plaid skirt also that blew a little in the wind,
The mentioning of a plaid skirt reminds me of a the plaid skirt in Mean Girls. While Cady was talking to Regina, Regina complemented a random girl's skirt but directly after, she turned to Cady and said something like, "that's the ugliest skirt I have ever seen." and caused Cady to have a flashback to when Regina complemented a unique tribal bracelet Cady had from her time in Africa. She then knew her complement was fake. There are truths revealed when one changes sides.
Then it was all true. I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart.
This description reminds me of the cave in Aladdin when there are all these exotic treasures and sparkling jewels and historic artifacts all just laying in a cave waiting to be found. These items all have a gilded aspect as well. The tiger skins are just to show that someone has been able to achieve that very exclusive hunting expedition. It takes time, training, and money to actually have pelts. But as the broken heart is described, material things cannot provide happiness.
and a whole clan named Blackbuck, who always gathered in a corner and flipped up their noses like goats at whosoever came near.
The descriptions of all the different groups reminds me of the scene in Mean Girls where Janice and Damien are explaining all the different cliques to Cady when she is new to the school. All the groups are isolated and unique. They all do their own thing and there is little to no cross communication. They all bring something different to lunch or Gatsby's parties. It shows that while there are work, social, and economic divides, there are also familial divides.
The idea staggered me. I remembered, of course, that the World's Series had been fixed in 1919, but if I had thought of it at all I would have thought of it as a thing that merely HAPPENED, the end of some inevitable chain. It never occurred to me that one man could start to play with the faith of fifty million people--with the single-mindedness of a burglar blowing a safe.
Tis represents the power of those around Gatsby in addition to Gatsby himself, that one man could fix the whole World Series i unfathomable, similar to the feats of Gatsby himself. This reminds me of how Moses split the Red Sea simply because both feats are unfathomable and seem to be impossible, requiring great skill and knowhow.
Gatsby took an arm of each of us and moved forward into the restaurant, whereupon Mr. Wolfshiem swallowed a new sentence he was starting and lapsed into a somnambulatory abstraction.
Gatsby takes charge in every situation, his confidence and demeanor apparent in all his encounters. This shows that though Wolfshiem was going to speak, he knows that no one dare question Gatsby's motives. This reminds me of whenever my parents make me do something I know I don't want to do, but I do it anyway without question because I know they know what they're doing.
"I'm going to make a big request of you to-day," he said, pocketing his souvenirs with satisfaction, "so I thought you ought to know something about me. I didn't want you to think I was just some nobody. You see, I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad thing that happened to me." He hesitated. "You'll hear about it this afternoon."
Gatsby doesn't build strong relationships with people because he doesn't want to become connected to many of the people around him because of his excessive loss of loved ones in the past. This reminds me in the Lost Hero by Rick Riordan of the main character Leo Valdez who went from foster home to foster home, never staying too long because always wanted to keep moving further and further away from the pain he felt when he lost his mother in a garage fire.
At nine o'clock, one morning late in July, Gatsby's gorgeous car lurched up the rocky drive to my door and gave out a burst of melody from its three-noted horn. It was the first time he had called on me, though I had gone to two of his parties, mounted in his hydroplane, and, at his urgent invitation, made frequent use of his beach.
Because Gatsby often used others to convey his messages for him because of his chaotic lifestlye, his actual presence represents matters of great importance and that you hold a great deal of importance in his life. This reminds me of when Mrs. King came to my STUCO class one time in order to address our great job with Homecoming this year because it was so important that she took time out of her schedule to let us know personally.
"He's a bootlegger," said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers.
This shows that Gatsby can do whatever he wants because of his power and social status. Although making bootleg alcohol is illegal at the time, it doesn't affect Gatsby if he bootlegs because he's of such importance, no one can tell him otherwise. This reminds me of when certain people in power neglect to properly pay their taxes yet are granted pardon because of their wealth and status.
Finest specimens of human molars
I thought that that was extremely gross. Why would anyone have molars as cuff buttons? That's so sadistic, and probably contributes to my earlier question if he's shady or not. I was right. This reminds me of the sadistic dentist in Little Shop of Horrors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOtMizMQ6oM
"All right, old sport," called Gatsby. We slowed down. Taking a white card from his wallet, he waved it before the man's eyes. "Right you are," agreed the policeman, tipping his cap. "Know you next time, Mr. Gatsby. Excuse ME!"
The relations between the police and Gatsby reminds me of the exact same connection between Batman and Gordon in the Batman series. Knowing that Batman works as a vigilante for justice, his style of work, though sometimes considered illegal in normal circumstances, are often ignored due to his ranging influence as well as his acceptance within the civil society. Seeing how Gatsby has the same abilities causes me to wonder the limit of his capabilities within New York.
sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of the faded-gilt nineteen-hundreds.
Why would Gatsby and Nick be driving past this deserted area? This reminds me of the time I was in the musical "Little Shop of horrors" on skid row, how it looked devastating and no one wanted to be there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xPq6W1EoIc
it was put on the books as what Richard Fidler terms “preventa-tive, anticipatory legislation” (11).
This reminds me of this episode of the More Perfect podcast, which explains that anti-sodomy laws have remained on the books in the U.S. not so that people can actually be charged, but rather to create a sense of criminality around homosexuality that maintains social stigma.
Petals on a wet, black bough.
There is an understated beauty to this poem. In it’s short length it seems to capture a spontaneous moment of realization. It’s almost like an epiphany as he observes just how beautiful the faces are in contrast to the dark station. It reminds me of a haiku.
an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time
this reminds me of T. S Elliot's idea of the objective correlative
a lack of trust
this reminds me of a lot of discourse surrounding online activity in that it pulls on concerns regarding privacy and surveillance; it's interesting to see this conversation in the context of learning/education.
"Well, we're almost the last to-night," said one of the men sheepishly. "The orchestra left half an hour ago."
The use of the word "sheepishly" reminds me of my own sheep, Shaun. Although I understand that, to Fitzgerald, the word means timidly or without much confidence, but to me I recognize the difficulty in dealing with livestock and "timidness" has no place in the show ring. A lot of force and determination is required and sometimes, whether it be the showman or the animal, tantrums are thrown. It could be inferred that, in this case at least, the annoying and argumentative wives are the "sheepish" ones.
"Ladies and gentlemen," he cried. "At the request of Mr. Gatsby we are going to play for you Mr. Vladimir Tostoff's latest work, which attracted so much attention at Carnegie Hall last May. If you read the papers, you know there was a big sensation." He smiled with jovial condescension, and added: "Some sensation!" Whereupon everybody laughed. "The piece is known," he concluded lustily, "as Vladimir Tostoff's JAZZ HISTORY OF THE WORLD."
The "orchestra leader" has a charming personality that seems would encourage Gatsby to hire him for his parties. He intrigues guests that normally wouldn't be fond of by relating to the interest of the people. His flamboyance reminds me of the talk show host from The Hunger Games. They both represent an emotion or a sign of the times. Everything they do isn't about them, but they talk about it as though nothing could bring them greater joy.
and walked into a high Gothic library, panelled with carved English oak, and probably transported complete from some ruin overseas.
This fantastical and elaborate library that inspires owl-eyes reminds me of the wonderful library that the beast from the Diaey classic Beauty and the Beast, showed Belle when he was trying to impress her with his collection of rare books and artifacts. Just as they impacted Belle, the adventure and the romance and the stories the books tell inspire owl-eyes and make him believe there is more to life than just business ventures and Gatsby's parties. Books are the substance to life.
We talked for a moment about some wet, gray little villages in France. Evidently he lived in this vicinity, for he told me that he had just bought a hydroplane, and was going to try it out in the morning. "Want to go with me, old sport? Just near the shore along the Sound." "What time?" "Any time that suits you best."
This shows the carefree nature of Gatsby's lifestyle and how unaffected he is by change. He can do anything he wants, any time he wants, anywhere he wants, and he need not be worried about the consequences of his actions. This reminds me of a tornado, doing as it pleases, creating chaos and excitement for those around, leaving in its wake consequences that it must not deal with, but those affected by it must.
There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden; old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, fashionably, and keeping in the corners--and a great number of single girls dancing individualistically or relieving the orchestra for a moment of the burden of the banjo or the traps.
This simply embodies the grandeur of Gatsby's lifestyle and the parties he throws. All the dancing and laughter and happiness represents the constant elation and joy of Gatsby's life and those affected around him and how although real, it's portrayed as too good to be true. This reminds me of when I go to the orchestra and the musicians play many different pieces of classical music and it feels like I'm being transported to grand social scenes such as this in France or Italy at the time the pieces were composed.
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.
This shows the irony of the rigid structure of Gatsby's home and how he wants everything to be in place, yet his parties and social lifestyle are so unstructured and carefree, devoid of rules and regulation. This reminds me of New Girl and how Schmidt's OCD forces him to require perfection in their household and if everything is not in its place, he freaks out.
She couldn't find him from the top of the steps, and he wasn't on the veranda. On a chance we tried an important-looking door, and walked into a high Gothic library, panelled with carved English oak, and probably transported complete from some ruin overseas.
This shows Gatsby's expensive taste and idea about the extent of his wealth if he is able to ship an entire ancient library overseas for the purpose of his home. This reminds me of the video we watched with the Queen of Versailles where the wife created the home to look just look Versailles to not only impose her family's wealth on others but also give the idea of her as royalty.
Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply--I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.
This section shows that the narrator expects dishonesty from the women he interacts with, implying that he's either experienced it many times in the past or that this is the persona that society has created about women. This reminds me of how my mom says "tell me the truth and I promise I won't get mad", and even when she gets mad I am not surprised because I expected it in the first place.
"Gatsby. Somebody told me----" The two girls and Jordan leaned together confidentially.
Gatsby as an influential man who is known by all, but no one truly knows why or how he's risen to such status. Since everyone has heard different stories about him, no one knows what is true for sure and cannot risk speaking it as if it's a fact of the matter.This shows Gatsby's mysteriousness and untraceable persona. This reminds me of Jason Bourne because he is a very mysterious man whom no one can seem to catch in the movie and evades all means of identification, yet is known by all.
I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
This instance inconsequentially juxtaposes both the personality and the demeanor of the narrator with Gatsby, Gatsby as a dynamic, popular, powerful man with an abundance of companions, and the narrator as alone and devoid of company and seemingly devoid of purpose in this circumstance. This reminds me of the movie She's All That, where this student sho is very popular becomes very close with a girl with very little friends and social significance at all build a very close connection with one another.
ty feet from the door a dozen headlights illuminated a bizarre and tumultuous scene. In the ditch beside the road, right side up, but violently shorn of one wheel, rested a new coupe which had left Gatsby's drive not two minutes before. The sharp jut of a wall accounted for the detachment of the wheel, which was now getting considerable attention from half a dozen curious chauffeurs. However, as they had left their cars blocking the road, a harsh, discordant din from those in the rear had been audible for some time, and added to the already violent confusion of the scene.
This reminds me of the scene in Wolfe of wallstreet when Jordan tries to go home in a car while doing drugs. He gets home but his car is terribly dented and scratched. This is probably the result of drunk driving or night driving because the author describes it as kind of violently wrecked, no just a slight accident.
At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.
In the text when it says came down with several hundred. It reminds me of Fortnite in which you jump from a plane several hundred feet with multiple people making you excited about the ensuing bloodbath. Gatsby uses the size and coloration of the lights to giver the reader/ people a sense of awe.
roaring drunk
That quote reminds me of 13 Reasons Why when Clay was pressured to drink from the keg because he wanted to impress Hannah. Resulting in good fortunes for Clay but in the book Jordan probably saved Nick from a potential disaster. It is hit or miss when it comes to drinking.
People were not invited--they went there
This reminds me of the Mama Mia trailer when her grandmother who she clearly dislikes INVITES HERSELF to the party acting like a snobbish fool. People that go to parties unannounced like the swines in the book are just there to feel like they made it.
I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye. I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove. Sometimes, in my mind, I followed them to their apartments on the corners of hidden streets, and they turned and smiled back at me before they faded through a door into warm darkness.
Nick's description of his growing fondness reminds me of the song, "One Night" by Lil Yachty as both describe the events of a one night stand and its prevalent culture within the eastern United States and the roaring 20s--crucial to Great Gatsby's setting and atmosphere.
"I thought you might be here," she responded absently as I came up. "I remembered you lived next door to----" She held my hand impersonally, as a promise that she'd take care of me in a minute, and gave ear to two girls in twin yellow dresses, who stopped at the foot of the steps.
This reminds me of the movie "The First Time" where main character, Dave Hodgeman, falls spontaneously in love with a girl at a party who is currently in a relationship. She flirts back, leading him on, but does it absently, as she is focused on her boyfriend at the time. In the same way, Nick seems fully invested in Jordan while she addresses him plainly and "impersonally" as if preoccupied with something else.
I had been actually invited.
This quote reminds me of basically every teen movie, where the "loser" of the group finally gets a ticket to hang with the cool kids, specifically Mean Girls. In this movie, the main character, Katy, gets an opportunity to go to a crazy party where she meets the most popular mean girl posse at school. The once sweet, innocent Katy becomes converted and exposed to all sorts of issues regarding drugs, gossip, and scandal. In the same way, before Nick had ever even met Gatsby, he had led a normal life, all of that soon changed as he was introduced to the same things Katy was.
At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.
This quote reminds me of one of my favorite childhood movies/books, Ramona and Beezus, where Ramona becomes sick and her dad offers ways to make her feel better. Due to Ramona's interest in art, her dad rolls out an extra long sheet of paper for them to create a mural on. Just as Ramona's dad rolls out a long sheet of canvas to make Ramona feel better on a bad day, I think Gatsby uses caterers with their long canvases to make himself feel better with the use of his riches to throw these nonsensical, extravagant parties.
For a while I lost sight of Jordan Baker, and then in midsummer I found her again. At first I was flattered to go places with her, because she was a golf champion, and every one knew her name. Then it was something more. I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
This scene reminds me of signs of mild attraction based on either physical attraction or charisma--a case in a lot of different films and shows such as the James Bond movies. Furthermore, Nick's description regarding Jordan showcases his superficial attraction towards her without any real depth, only depicting her fame and looks as admirable and not her actual character.
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
This quote reminds me when I used to have moths inhabiting my house, chewing holes through all of my clothes. These moths would chew one hole in each clothing article, almost as if it were attracted to each one initially and then became tired of its taste soon after. In the same way, Gatsby's party guests come and go as they please, attracted only to the glamor of the parties, taking from his wealth in bits and pieces.
"Anyhow, he gives large parties," said Jordan, changing the subject with an urbane distaste for the concrete. "And I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy."
Jordan's description of Gatsby's parties reminds me of the lifestyle in the more populated Eastern United States. This is because I find it ironic when Jordan claims that large parties are more "intimate" due to the fact the most of the people you meet at parties of that size are quickly forgotten in the upcoming days, much like the metropolitan lifestyle.
"Now YOU'RE started on the subject," she answered with a wan smile. "Well, he told me once he was an Oxford man." A dim background started to take shape behind him, but at her next remark it faded away. "However, I don't believe it." "Why not?" "I don't know," she insisted, "I just don't think he went there."
Jordan remarking against Gatsby's claim of being an Oxford man reminds me of my own mother, as my mother always figures out my lies (regardless of how elaborate they are). Consequently, starting from this scene I start to view Jordan as a more wise and intelligent girl who doesn't fall for rumors quite as easily as most.
He smiled understandingly--much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just so far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey. Precisely at that point it vanished--and I was looking at an elegant young rough-neck, a year or two over thirty, whose elaborate formality of speech just missed being absurd. Some time before he introduced himself I'd got a strong impression that he was picking his words with care.
The description of Gatsby reminds me of Sean Williams, a character in the movie "Good Will Hunting" and portrayed by Robin Williams. In this movie, Sean is a psychiatrist who with an understanding and clear smile retains the role of being the only one to reassure Will's pursuit of happiness. This remarkable factor of being such a great person is equally evident in Gatsby, a man who forever decides to live a life of grandeur and success with wholehearted devotion.
It's a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me. This fella's a regular Belasco. It's a triumph. What thoroughness! What realism!
The owl-eyed man's love, enthusiasm, and innocence for the books is so adorable. Because he was expecting fake books similar to the gilded age how everything was gorgeous on the outside, but fake on the inside. His enthusiasm reminds me of Princess Ariel when she finds the fork and adds to her collection.Ariel sings about how she has all these material things, but she wants more like the experience of feet. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXKlJuO07eM
"What do you think?" he demanded impetuously. "About what?" He waved his hand toward the book-shelves. "About that. As a matter of fact you needn't bother to ascertain. I ascertained. They're real."
This scene reminds me of the movies, "Now You See Me," and "Now You See Me 2", both films involving magic and the the tricking of realistic perception. As described by the owl man, not everything is what it seems--a theme showcased within the novel.
too big in the bust and had to be altered. It was gas blue with lavender beads.
She reminds me of Cinderella's ugly step sisters because they flaunt what they have but can't pull it off like the oversize and expensive dress given by Gatsby.
You're a rotten driver
This reminds me of my friend Rohan Chimanji who drove with ice on his windshield. He could only see through a small spot in the top corner of the windshield. This dangerous driving makes him a rotten driver.
On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.
This reminds me of the Hogwarts dining hall and how it's always filled with so many different foods and never fails to satisfy anyone's hunger no matter what they're craving. https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/harrypotter/images/8/83/1995_Welcoming_feast_2.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140717165252
idler
reminds me of The Idler magazine in UK
Genetics research has at times generated heated ethical and political debates. For example, some authors have commented that studying the genetic components of traits will lead to a resurgence in the eugenics movement and, in particular, the misuse of heritability research on intelligence by some proponents of genetic engineering
This reminds me of study where a large adoption agency separated twins at birth and watched they grow throughout their lifetime which led to huge legal and moral issues
There was a cult of the “ shut-in ” among American Catholics in the middle years of the twentieth century, a fascination with “ cripples ” and a desire to be in some relation to them, which was thought to carry spiritual advantages. In the summer of 1939, Catholic Women ’ s World, one of the most modern and upbeat of the Catholic magazines, set up a pen-pal system so that readers going away on vacation could write to shut-ins about their trips.
This reminds me of the concept of tokenizing someone with a disability to make oneself seem caring and kind. Sometimes, people don't want to be friends with or volunteer to help people with disabilities out of genuine love or caring. Sometimes, they just do it because it makes them feel saintly.
Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;
This poem reminds me of Maslow's hierarchy of needs, a paper that essentially ranks human motivation in order of most importance for survival. Millay does not overly-romanticize love in this poem, she recognizes that there are things besides love that are important in life. We cannot survive on love alone. This poem seems to reject the romanticists by recognizing the value of the mundane necessities of life.
I might be driven to sell your love for peace, Or trade the memory of this night for food.
Circles back to the speaker's initial thought- that love is not all. It doesn't solve all of your problems, and sometimes it's not worth striving for or prioritizing. It reminds me of advice like "focus on yourself"
it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain
This reminds me of Maslow's hierarchy of needs in which philosophical needs and safety are meant to be fulfilled more than social belonging. However, with this poem, although love does not meet those specific needs, it doesn't mean that love isn't important and vital. Love is not all, but it is not nothing. People are affected by love and the lack of it.
Man, doughty Man, what power has brought you low
This reminds me of Frost's "Design". Both narrators question what force compelled a deadly scene to compose themselves in a particular way.
She sends a hint to the team at Suntower 1. By the morning they will have figured it out. She sips her tea, talks to the sleepy attendant.
I think it is funny how she recognized the issue very quickly and, rather than telling her team about it, she sends them a hint so they can figure it out themselves. It reminds me of instructors who ask you a question to help lead you to the right answer instead of answering your original question.
-the only way to do that was to study the world.
Her struggle with anxiety motivated her to study science. This is inspiring and reminds me of the other women we have read about who had to overcome challenges of their own to be involved in science.
Becoming sensitive to networks and relationships, she saw connections everywhere, even when they weren't actually present. This drove her crazy but she didn't want to take medicines to suppress her ability for pattern recognition.
This sort of reminds me of the movie Beautiful Mind. Someone who is very intelligent, yet they struggle to divide what is real and what is not.
Mrs. Wilson rejected the compliment by raising her eyebrow in disdain.
This reminds me of those friends who can't take a compliment yet still yearn for others' approval. They try so hard to be accepted by others because they can't accept themselves for who they truly are, but they don't want to admit it, similar to Mrs. Wilson, so they act as if the admiration is meaningless. This reminds me of numerous friends of mine who can't accept a compliment yet are always trying to receive them.
"I thought he knew something about breeding
This shows the importance of how one comports oneself because it reflects how they were raised and where they come from, especially in this book where social status and wealth are of utmost importance. This reminds me of 16th century France and how dominant the social hierarchy was in determining one's significance in relevance to others.
Several old copies of TOWN TATTLE. lay on the table together with a copy of SIMON CALLED PETER, and some of the small scandal magazines of Broadway.
This shows Mrs. Wilson's need to be informed at all times and more of a nosy aspect of her personality. The scandal magazines and the TOWN TATTLE show that she needs to know everyone's business all the time, maybe even unfulfilled with her own life so she must keep tabs on others. This reminds me of Aunt Petunia from Harry Potter, who also was extremely nosy and in everyone's business on Privet Drive.
His wife was shrill, languid, handsome, and horrible.
This series of opposing characteristics together to describe one person represents the conflicting personality of Mrs. McKee and explains her self-contradiction in many points in the book. This reminds me of the beginning of Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, where the author writes a series of polarizing descriptions for two different cities, complete opposites, yet still entirely connected.
"No, we just went to Monte Carlo and back. We went by way of Marseilles. We had over twelve hundred dollars when we started, but we got gypped out of it all in two days in the private rooms. We had an awful time getting back, I can tell you. God, how I hated that town!" The
This reminds me of when I travelled to Paris and Rome a couple years back ona family vacation and street vendors wouldn't stop trying to sell us unnecessary goods and swindle us out of our money. My mom's wallet even got stolen at one point on the trip, though we retrieved rather quickly. This shows that though Catherine may be wealthy, she is not skilled in good choices in spending money and saving money and is not able to distinguish good purchases from unwise purchases, showing her lack of experience with real people in the real world.
The bottle of whiskey--a second one--was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who "felt just as good on nothing at all."
This quote shows society's dependence on alcohol as a means of escape from the reality of their circumstances as well as a way to have more fun as a result of looser morals and less inhibitions. This quote reminds me of when sometimes at social gatherings, my parents' friends will be drinking wine around them but my parents don't drink alcohol and they all have the same amount of fun regardless of their state of inebriation.
"My dear," she cried, "I'm going to give you this dress as soon as I'm through with it. I've got to get another one to-morrow.
This again displays the abundance of wealth in the book and the lack of concern for money by those occupying West Egg. It also shows their lack of value wealth has in a specific way for them, meaning that they have so much wealth in the book that expensive taste is expected and they don't appreciate them as much. This reminds me of Suite Life of Zack and Cody and how London Tipton is so rich, that she only wears her dresses one time before throwing them away and throws away dirty money.
People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
This itself represents the constant ebb and flow of the city, the everchanging movements in the book and in real life concerning giant metropolitan areas and the rapid succession in which it all occurs. This reminds me of when in movies, in the prologue or epilogue of it, the producer often speeds up the movement of all the characters and focuses on a specific topic of significance at the beginning or end of the film to show the passing of time.
Then I was lying half asleep in the cold lower level of the Pennsylvania Station, staring at the morning TRIBUNE, and waiting for the four o'clock train.
This reminds me of when I'm in a big city and I'm taking the subway to travel certain places, and I see so many people with their morning coffee in hand either reading their paper or barely managing to stay awake, similar to many high school students I know as well. This conveys the fatigue of the narrator after the overwhelming turn of events he's witnessed concerning Daisy and the McKees and his inability to cope with it all.
screens their obscure operations from your sight. But above the gray land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg.
This moment is such a dramatic depiction of the Doctor J.T Eckleburg, and represent his mysterious nature and the sheer magnitude of his of his influence and his power. It also speaks to his secretivity and lack of clarity of who he is. This reminds me of one I'm driving through foggy weather and I can't see more than 100 feet in front of the car, and out of nowhere appear these huge buildings throughout the city, sudden and imposing, similar to the face of Eckleburg.
dozen very recent puppies of an indeterminate breed.
This reminds me of the time I went to go adopt my kitty, and there were swarms of puppies and kitties. In the rooms they were all swarmed around toys and I vividly remember picking out mine. The author does a good job using diction to strike up the image in my head.
drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon; so everything that happened has a dim, hazy cast over it
This reminds me of movies where the main character gets drunk and the camera shows his point of view. You can see the hazy overcast and the dizzy feeling you get. The author writes this whole portion confusingly and scattered to show how drunk he was.
little dog was sitting on the table looking with blind eyes through the smoke,
This reminds me of puss in boots, sitting there innocently. While the whole party was going on everything was happening around the dog and he is just sitting there understanding nothing.
The valley of ashes
The description of the area Tom and Nick have arrived to reminds me of a location called the Boreal Valley in the game Dark Souls 3. The setting: dark, gloomy, and filled with dust, similar to the atmosphere Fitzgerald has set for the first half of the second chapter as well as the idea behind Myrtle's origin.
It was nine o'clock--almost immediately afterward I looked at my watch and found it was ten.
This reminds me of the start of the movie The Hangover where all the men suddenly wake up after an allotted period of time without even realizing it due to large amounts of drinking. This further emphasizes the idea of Nick's carelessness in certain situations.
Mr. McKee was a pale, feminine man from the flat below. He had just shaved, for there was a white spot of lather on his cheekbone, and he was most respectful in his greeting to every one in the room.
This description of Mr. McKee reminds me of a character named Jhin in the game League of Legends. As a feminine male character who adheres to chivalry, Jhin's personality and play style really symbolizes my idealization of Mr. McKee. Consequently, this causes me to wonder on Fitzgerald's creation of characters as Mr. McKee definitely fits an older western personality.
"Mrs. Eberhardt. She goes around looking at people's feet in their own homes."
This reminds me of an experience I've had when I was younger of the time where one of my friends judged my economic status based on the clothes I wore. Just like how Tom judges Nick or how in this scenario the judgmental Mrs. Eberhardt, people often base other's situations under the ideas of their own biases--especially regarding materialistic things.
s a nephew or a cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm's.
The name Kaiser Wilhelm's reminds me of a boy in AMSTUD named William Kaiser. The book gives me a modern feeling so I can relate to it more.
I have been drunk just twice in my life, and the second time was that afternoon; so everything that happened has a dim, hazy cast over it, although until after eight o'clock the apartment was full of cheerful sun. Sitting on Tom's lap Mrs. Wilson called up several people on the telephone; then there were no cigarettes, and I went out to buy some at the drugstore on the corner. When I came back they had disappeared, so I sat down discreetly in the living-room and read a chapter of SIMON CALLED PETER.--either it was terrible stuff or the whiskey distorted things, because it didn't make any sense to me.
This excerpt shows how much of a hypocrite Nick is. He is hypocritical about himself. He says he doesn't drink, but he drinks frequently during this story. He says he isn't judgemental, but he always judges everybody. He reminds me of the warden from The Shawkshank Redemption. 
"Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive."
This is the classic mistake that many egotistical characters make over and over again: they always underestimate their opponents. This reminds me of the tortoise and the hare because the Tom(the hare) is openly mocking and underestimating Wilson(the tortoise) and in the end, Wilson shocks everyone with his capabilities. https://youtu.be/LthoQPO6YLE
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens
This reminds me of a scene from Gladiator where the main character (played by Russell Crowe) finds his family dead and his property burned down in his farm. This is connected to the Great Gatsby because Gatsby eventually dies and loses everything in his life, similar to the valley of ashes reminiscing on the past. 
"I want to get one of those dogs," she said earnestly. "I want to get one for the apartment. They're nice to have--a dog."
This reminds me of my friend that constantly likes to impulse buy many things. Whenever I go to the store with him, he always has to buy a pack of gum before he leaves. This is like Myrtle because she just sees some dogs and says she wants to buy one without really thinking.
It's just a crazy old thing," she said. "I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like.
This reminds me of my friends who can't accept compliments. It's a feeble attempt at being humble, but it is a much better option just to accept the compliment an move on.
His acquaintances resented the fact that he turned up in popular restaurants with her and, leaving her at a table, sauntered about, chatting with whomsoever he knew.
This reminds me of another part in this novel when Jordan was discussing the "secrets" surrounding Tom at the Buchanan residence and how they weren't really secrets because of how many people actually know about Tom Buchanan's mistress. Everyone seems to acknowledge that infidelity isn't necessarily a positive thing but they don't really do anything about either it is very matter of fact and they probably feel there is nothing they can do to change the way Tom behaves. Daisy knows which is one thing, but so does everyone else in the next town over.
resemblance to John D. Rockefeller.
The name John D. Rockefeller reminds me of the Rockefeller Oil Company whenever we saw the episode about Carnegie. This leads me to believe that this is in the same time period of Mr. Rockefeller which explains the importance of money. Thus giving an answer to why Daisy loves Tom more than Gatsby.
She turned to Mrs. McKee and the room rang full of her artificial laughter.
Reminds me of my step sisters laugh. It's so creepy that it sounds artificial. Almost close in comparison to like what fairy or nymph would sound like when they would laugh. https://youtu.be/DIEyixZu4S8
but he wasn't fit to lick my shoe.
This phrase reminds me of something that Blair Waldorf (from Gossip Girl) would say to Dan Humphrey because he lives on the lower East side and is the equivalent of Mr.Wilson. Blair, being an upper east side girl feels Dan is unfit to even talk to her because he's from the lower side.
Beauty and the Beast
This reminds me of my favorite Disney princess movie. This movie taught me that true love looks past just pure looks and falls in love with a soul and not a face. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRlzmyveDHE
Taking out my handkerchief I wiped from his cheek the remains of the spot of dried lather that had worried me all the afternoon.
This reminds me of the movie "Split" which is a story about a man with split personality disorder and one of his personalities is an OCD man who has the need to clean and keep everything clean.
"I married him because I thought he was a gentleman,"
This reminds me of Queen Elizabeth II from the TV show "The Crown" and how she thought that he had married a good man, which he was to and extent. But he also took part in scandalous parties which the husband of a Queen should not be attending and also had a brief affair. https://lovelace-media.imgix.net/uploads/1163/8c7ef630-81c7-0134-18ca-060e3e89e053.jpg
She told me with pride that her husband had photographed her a hundred and twenty-seven times since they had been married.
This reminds me of the relationship between Princess Margaret and her husband from the TV show "The Crown" and how their relationship started through photography, like this couple. Her husband was her photographer initially.
the restoration of the old alignment gave a blurred air to her face.
This reminds me of a black mirror episode called Archangel where there was a filter that could be put on the child to blur out anything that could be harmful or appropriate like the conversations Catherine was going to have.
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens
This phrase reminds me of the garden of Yon Rha in Avatar the Last Airbender. He murders Katara, a main character's mother, believing that she is the last of a race that his people are attempting to genocide. Years later the story introduces us to him as an old man living with a miserable marriage, and his garden is shown to be a bit of a failure just as the rest of his life is now. This coincides with the grotesque garden in the gloomy valley of ashes here. https://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11131/111314117/5885609-fire16-975.jpg
The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic--their irises are one yard high. They look out of no face, but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.
The eerie description of T.J. Eckleberg here hints at his omniscient capabilities, and this reminds me of the description of all the Big Brother propaganda in 1984. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Brother_(Nineteen_Eighty-Four) He has enormous eyes in some cases, and is also compared to God just as the Eckleburg billboard is.
when the drawbridge is up to let barges through, the passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene
This reminds me of the time I was in England, standing on a drawbridge, and I looked across the other side at the people's faces. I've never seen so many people look ticked off and impatient.
valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges
This part reminds me of the phoenix being reborn in Harry Potter. It maybe ugly, but in the end it's beautiful and turns out alright.
small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land
This part reminds me of the time I was in a play "The Wizard of Oz" and it was one of my least favorite shows be cause the yellow brick road was just a black dusty stage, and I felt like it was a wasteland like Nick describes the area.
Mr. McKee was a pale, feminine man
The description of a feminine man reminds me of the inhabitants of the Capitol in the Hunger Games. The people of the capitol and even men, wear feathers, glitter and sculpt their facial features to look more feminine, like the thinner eyebrows and use eyeliner to accentuate their eyes. https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a4/43/28/a44328801c1b1fbb186ef0fecd23196c.jpg
The valley of ashes
"The valley of ashes" reminds me of no man's land during World War One. This shows symbolizes the distance and growing gap which also decreasing the understanding between the two armies. This is also similar to the differences between the West Egg and East Egg and how there will always be a gap in between due to the growing social backgrounds. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/No-man%27s-land-flanders-field.jpg/660px-No-man%27s-land-flanders-field.jpg
I wouldn't have been surprised to see a great flock of white sheep turn the corner.
Reminds me of the sheep crowding the streets in the country side of Ireland. 
among the more ignorant slaves
interesting that FD makes a clear distinction between him and the "ignorant" slave like Sandy. In a narrative seeking to argue for the abolishment of slavery and the equality of races, he others another slave. Is this counter intuitive? It reminds me of respectability politics today.
You remember the old fable of “The Man and the Lion,” where the lion complained that he should not be so misrepresented “when the lions wrote history.”
Only one side is told when the winners are recounting what occurred. This reminds me of the way in which Europeans painted Africans as savages and claimed to be helping them by enslaving them. In reality, the Africans taught the Europeans how to do simple things like bathe and eat with utensils.
lamblike disposition gave way to one of tiger-like fierceness
Reminds me of Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience. Not sure if there's anything there to consider it a serious allusion.
1 was faced by my own small view of the world and my limited definition of language, literacy, and learning
This reminds me of the first module that literacy is not just one small thing, but has a very broad definition.
s. The students on the playground often wonder out loud when it will fall down since the building is in such poor re
This statement reminds me of how everyday I am learning in my practicum from the students in and out of my class that even the youngest of students pick up on so many things around them. Who would have even thought the students would even care about talking about such an old building!
lower-class nativism
This was perhaps because lower-class, native-born Americans had more to lose with the influx of immigrants. Because unskilled immigrants could work alongside them -- presumably taking their jobs -- and achieve their status without a great deal of time or effort, they may have feared for their own security. This reminds me of poor whites in the South during slavery and just after the emancipation of slaves. Because they lived as an (admittedly unequally) oppressed population in society, these people asserted their superiority over Southern blacks in the only way they could -- their race. Lower-classes asserted their superiority over immigrants in the only way they could -- their native status.
His characters, generally orphans, rose to prominence through hard work, intelligence, sobriety, and virtuous living
This reminds me of Gatsby, with his schedule that shows the ways in which he aims to better himself daily. Fitzgerald perhaps drew from Horatio Alger's material for inspiration for some of Gatsby's traits. These might include Gatsby's unadulterated belief that he can achieve what he wants to achieve and relive the past with Daisy.
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth
This imagery reminds me of someone holding a white flag to surrender. I wonder if that poem has anything to do with that, especially with the theme of death and darkness being prevalent throughout the stanzas.
Oh, just another kind of outdoor game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him.
This poem reminds me of all the unspoken social rules that we follow as human beings. It makes me think of how we're constantly walking by other human beings, many of whom intentionally do not make eye contact, although they too clearly recognize the human passing by them. Yet we continue with these unspoken social conventions, because going against them might make others uncomfortable. The notion of the natural borders that separate Frost from his neighbor serve to show how ridiculous and ambiguous our social "rules" are, although we still devoutly follow them.
To be healthy is the best thing for a mortal man, but second best is to have a beautiful form, and third is to be rich without deceit, and fourth is to be young among friends.
Reminds me of the party discussion in Xenophon. The common drinking topics!
Slaney’s own intuitive understanding of native Irish mentalities, inscribed in epic mode, is significantly further increased with knowledge gained through suffering, as is the very purpose of tragedy
reminds me of Julia Duffy in TRC, the old spinster living alone on her crumbling farm
Descriptive statistics, includingdemographic and educational variables
Their methodology reminds me of the importance of teaching numeracy as well as literacy. I don't think students get enough exposure to statistics and the tracking interpretations derived from those stats.
ys to promote
This conversation more broadly reminds me of a question I've been asking students for years (even before the disaster of current information dissemination): who is ultimately responsible for gauging the accuracy of the content of a text-- the writer, the publication, the reader?
That question was never easy to answer.
On 2014 Jan 04, Tom Kindlon commented:
(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.
On 2015 Jul 15, Holly Brothers commented:
This is really interesting - I'll be happy to get access to the article. It reminds me of the RadioLab episode highlighting Jasper Lawrence who used hookworms to battle his hyperimmune responses (allergies and asthma) http://www.radiolab.org/story/91691-sculptors-of-monumental-narrative/.
men will soon be dissatisfied with printed interviews more or less correctly reported
Reminds me of the issue with the news in America's past as well as present. Hard to distinguish fact from biased embellishment in today's news stories.
"Libraries will be transformed into phonographotecks, or rather, phonostereoteks; they will contain the works of human genius on properly labelled cylinders, methodically arranged in little cases, rows upon rows, on shelves.
Reminds me of the various media now available in the library, in addition to traditional books (DVDS, Microfilm, magazines, etc)
nourishing their minds while exercising their muscles for there will be pocket phono-operagraphs
This reminds me of how when I go to the gym I listen to a podcast on my phone
The Muslim reaction to the Danish cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad,
This reminds me of when South Park depicted the prophet Muhammad in their cartoon.
Although these are suggestions, theyrepresent how the girls were independently assessing the small next step intheir learning pathway and connecting that step with their personal interestsor goals. Even the girls who did not yet assign themselves an identity as acreator described their creative experiences:“I don’t create stuff. I just dowhat they tell me to do and create...I try to create it and then try my best”[20150516_LEinterview_Cedar_Siena]. There is a direct relationshipbetween youth’s identity as a creator and their appropriation of the learningprocess, as they make plans to learn more and seek out resources to do so(Barron et al.,2014)
I understand this sentiment. Participating in an activity but not claiming the identity that may come with it. Reminds me of the "I play games but am not a gamer mindset".
The modularcurriculum is clustered into three project families (e-fashion, e-paper, ande-dance) that interweave computational and digital literacies through the devel-opment of creative artifacts.
I am curious how they decided on these three projects. It sort of reminds me of the "Pink" game movement in Video games. Where games were tailored to being girl centric but lacked depth. Not saying that is what is happening here but am curious about the agency some of the students had here if these projects did not align with their interest.
As Tom was a-sleeping he had such a sight! That thousands of sweepers, Dick, Joe, Ned, & Jack, Were all of them locked up in coffins of black; And by came an Angel who had a bright key, And he opened the coffins & set them all free; Then down a green plain, leaping, laughing they run, And wash in a river and shine in the Sun.
In a sense, I feel like this reminds me of the book, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas By John Boyne. This is because the dream reminds me of the boy (Bruno) who was free, while the boy (Shmuel) who was imprisoned in the concentration camps represented reality. Shmuel yearned to live like Bruno and act like a kid. Instead Shmuel was treated as an adult with overbearing labor. Whenever Bruno visited Shmuel at the fence, it was like Shmuel was able to act like a kid and escape his horrid reality.
“They are both gone up to the church to pray. Because I was happy upon the heath, And smil’d among the winter’s snow, They clothed me in the clothes of death, And taught me to sing the notes of woe. And because I am happy and dance and sing, They think they have done me no injury, And are gone to praise God and his Priest and King, Who make up a heaven of our misery.”
This reminds me of the book of Job. Job is a righteous man, Satan goes to God and says "he, Job, would curse God if God stopped blessing him". Job was a wealthy man with plenty of cattle, land and a big family, but Satan tells God to take that all away and Job would curse God. and Blake is saying similar things when he says "they clothed me in clothes of death, and taught me to sing the notes of woe." Blake and Job both were put through tough trials, but yet knew there was a God that would see them through.
Women’s staying single for too long is seen as a kind of prolongation of adolescence and avoidance of the responsibilities of adulthood
this comes back to the use of the term "old maid"--also reminds me of that lecture on witchy adolescence
Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time,
In another class, I learned that clerks were basically human copy machines. They recreated documents, which seemed like a mentally exhausting and dull job. But they were fairly respectable. To call poets and kings "clerks of time" is interesting. It reminds me of being "products of their time." Like they did not truly create something truly original. They are also equated to a middle class job.
Life is too strong for you– It takes life to love Life.
Though the author is being dismissive of the younger generations, he is also making a point about how life shouldn't be taken for granted. However, the author suggests that the younger generations aren't hard workers. It sort of reminds me of how older generations view millennials.
According to LaVey, the scent of a menstruating woman, then, communicates her fertilit
This reminds me so much of certain animals that are trying to find the mate. Fertilization is something so important because in a sense it is a triumph of having an offspring. The scent will help them locate the perfect to conceive with.
thesource of the disorder, and then one is able to bring about order
The if then argument reminds me of if you give a mouse a cookie.
“UberFree” features tailor-made routes and thoughtfully targeted stops.
This reminds me of how websites use your search history to determine what ads you see.
and women of colour at managerial level across the entirepublishing industry.
This reminds me of our discussion just the other week around the hierarchy tree - how even though women begin to move up in the ladder, there is generally always still a male that sits just another step higher. Women may gain managerial status, however, there is almost always a male as General Manager, CEO .. etc
Far from independent, it is afully owned subsidiary of a corporate media group and has been sinceits inception.
This reminds me of the discussion we had about what an outside or marginalized publisher may need to survive and how often it seems that they work with somebody else's privilege to be heard (i.e. Maisie's "whiteness"). In this case, do you think the fact that this publisher was at the mercy of a man's financial contributions and partnership or is this irrelevant?
ecognising thatpublishing was inherently ideological, the women’s movement vowedto appropriate such practice for explicitly women-centred politicalends.
This is important to remember. The argument that feminist presses made was that ALL publishing is political, some of it is just pretending to be apolitical (with the apolitical usually signaling complicity with the status quo). This reminds me of media coverage of the Black Panther movie calling it a "political" superhero movie, as thought the mere presence of Black people in a movie is somehow more political than that of White people. Why are some people and some perspectives read as political while others are not?
bright as glory,
This line as well as when he says "dark as sin" reminds me of something Miss Watson probably rubbed off on him. This provides evidence contrary to his belief that he had rid himself entirely of his time with her and the widow.
There is one marked peculiarity about this paper, a thing nobody seems to notice but myself, and that is that it changes as the light changes.
This part reminds me of Nathaniel Hawthorne's "My Kinsman, Major Molineux". Perception of reality is questionable and is altered by variations in lighting/visibility. Perhaps it alludes to her mental state or something more like the contradiction of public vs. private life.
The faint figure behind seemed to shake the pattern, just as if she wanted to get out.
The fact that the woman sees a figure and has convinced herself of a whole scenario of escape and a sort of haunting reminds me of our other texts that also mention hauntings and ghosts.
I wonder if they all come out of that wall-paper as I did?
So this is clearly on odd statement. The wife did not come out of the wall-paper, at least not in the consensus version of “reality.” But at this point she starts viewing herself as a character, she sees herself as one of the crazy old women she has “seen” in the wallpaper. And even though Gilman is using the first person (‘I”) here, it still reminds me of the way Adams also wrote about himself as a character (in the third person “he”). In both cases, it opens up an unusual perspective around a given character.
Then he took me in his arms and called me a blessed little goose, and said he would go down to the cellar, if I wished, and have it whitewashed into the bargain.
Throughout this story, the husband and wife seem to be talking past each other. Rarely do they ever attempt a direct communication in which they actually say what they think, and never are those meager attempts successful. In the case of this annotated segment, I get the sense that the husband is actually quite annoyed with the wife and considers her to be somewhat lacking in discriminatory ability. But he refers to her as a little goose (instead of a dim-wit). This reminds me of Du Bois’ observation that no one ever really addressed to him the issue(s) that were actually on their minds. In both Du Bois and Gilman, dialog seems effective mainly in covering up what’s actually going on, rather than revealing it.
reduce the boiling to a simmer
This analogy reminds me a lot of the discourse in a couple of years ago around microaggressions.
This waste of double aims, this seeking to satisfy two unreconciled ideals, has wrought sad havoc with the courage and faith and deeds of ten thousand thousand people,—has sent them often wooing false gods and invoking false means of salvation, and at times has even seemed about to make them ashamed of themselves.
I don't know if this is religious, but it seems to me Du Bois is saying that the black artisan selling his soul (betraying the black aesthetic that is part of him but "America" hates) to worship false gods (praise mainstream culture) is only doing it for acceptance and is betraying his soul. Thus, reminds me of the term "cooning" or "putting on for massa" - praising the white standard of beauty because you are afraid the black standard will scare away the mainstream audience is betraying the race and your soul.
without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.
This reminds me of a common black household phrase: "You have to work twice as hard to be half as good." From childhood we are reminded that white mediocracy is often rewarded while black excellence can still be overlooked simply because of our complexion.
And your computer, which has worked flawlessly for the past five years, will explode in an apocalyptic series of error screens and electronic moans.
Which reminds me kids: backup everything, ever.
o this artist, nothing was impossibile, neither the whitening of the Ethiopian, nor the erection of a reassembled obelisk above "nothing" and water, nor the revivification of Pasquino, nor, as Bernini himself put it, the "bending" of marble like wax, or pasta.38 As an athlete of crises, he is able to perpetuate critical turning points in his works—the transformation of flesh, the reverberations of the embodied soul, the last breath of a dying body. Young Bernini carefully staged the crisis of physical pain by holding his arm to a flame, in order to study his expression in a mirror (while his skin first dried, then turned black, as it were) and imitate himself subsequently in the sculptural agony of his patron saint, Lawrence.39 The mature master triumphed on the stage of the permanent crisis that distinguishes the true artist. Or, in Bernini's own words, as recalled by an admiring Paul Fréart de Chantelou:
This was a really interesting passage in my opinion because I think it represents what Bernini was all about and how this project really did prove that he could do the impossible. It also reminds me slightly of Michelangelo studying cadavers and the commitment to accurately representing the human form/spirit (in Berninis case in a very Baroque way.) He put himself in an incredibly difficult situation by attempting to construct something that could support the obelisk and proved that he could be successful. He also took this project in good humor as he dealt with the Pope's demands and mood swings. His situation was also difficult because he dealt with the constant pressure of being compared to Borromini. It seems to me that Bernini tells more of a catholic story in his works than Borromini and ultimately that was the reason for him being commissioned more frequently.
They were used to Americans with identity problems. None openly expressed surprise or amazement that nearly two centuries after the abolition of -the Atlantic slave trade, I was still hoping to find a hint or sign of the captives. If they experienced a twinge of remorse, no one let on.
This really stands out to me, probably because it sounds a bit unsympathetic. Ghana was a large hub of slave trading in the centuries past, and Africans helped sell other Africans as slaves. Through that, the descendants of slaves in America don't know where they really belong, in the only country they know where they are still be discriminated against, or a country of people that look like them but with which they no longer share connections. It also reminds me of the movement a few decades ago that pushed African Americans to explore their roots.
Then the judgment is over, and we, the soldier and I, quickly bury him.”
What is all this for if tinkwill just bury him after? Again, it reminds me of Nat Turner - the punishment is just a way to violate the body and make an example. Or to deny the body humanity - like how Vikings were disrespected if the dead were decapitated.
we do not analyze objects; we analyze our descriptions of objects●writing constitutesanalysis: we do not really see with clarity what we have not said that we have seen
It's an interesting view that we can't necessarily analyze something we haven't "written." I think the author really means "think about deeply" when he says, "writing." Writing is kind of a deeper form of thought or speech because it takes more time and energy to form thoughts into words that make sense. It could have to do with how busy and abstract our minds are. It reminds me of how my last English teacher explained that witness accounts in court are many times blurred because our memory isn't as great as we think it is. If I am not thinking about something purposely, cautiously, or consciously, I probably haven't thought about it enough to be able to analyze it. Writing puts that all into perspective.
this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity
This reminds me of the way Adams watches others reactions by the way they see things i.e. his mentor looking at the cathedral. Looking at things through the eyes of others except that from DuBois’ experience it’s seeing the way people look at him, it’s personal. In this instance he’s the cathedral and the one watching others study him.
I remember well when the shadow swept across me.
Here we see that Du Bois personalizes the oppression he experiences by comparing it to his shadow- something that is not concrete, nor is it an indicator of his identity- but it still follows him around wherever he goes. This reminds me like the ghost we talked about in the Dynamo and the Virgin because the feeling of being there and lingering on is prominent.
She was in the middle thirties, and faintly stout, but she carried her surplus flesh sensuously as some women can.
The description of Mrs. Wilson when Nick first meets her reminds me a lot of the Witch of the Waste from Howl's Moving Castle. I think the similarities between the two might run deeper than just physical appearance, however. Both are secretive, deceptive, and have romantic issues; the Witch is obsessed with pursuing her previous lover while Mrs. Wilson has an ongoing affair with Tom Buchanan. I predict that her relationship with Tom Buchanan will be her undoing, just as the Witch was eventually defeated by her ex-lover.
the passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene for as long as half an hour.
This reminds me of going on US 75, especially during rush hour. Everything is full of cars and smoke and you have to slowly amble on sometimes a few feet every few minutes. It's a pain especially in the summer because it's hot and way too sunny. I can see the people in the book waiting for their train just like me waiting in my car for the car in front of me to keep on moving.
passengers on waiting trains can stare at the dismal scene for as long as half an hour.
www.dallasnews.com/news/transportation/2016/08/12/collin-county-growth-creating-traffic-time-bomb-officials-say-get-moving This reminds me of how I have to wait in SO MUCH traffic everyday going to and from school in heavy amounts of traffic. However I've never met anyone in horrible traffic by stepping out in the rather cold weather. This reminds me of La La Land too, like when Seb meets Mia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tjCOH0k75k
a significant body of literature has been committed to explaining the production of 3D models for archaeological purposes (Bentkowska-Kafel et al. 2012; Frischer et al. 2002; Barceló et al. 2000) but very little attention has been given to the way in which these models have been mediated or prepared for consumption. We have invested in the production of digital assets but have failed to consider the diverse settings within which they might be consumed.
This reminds me of an Article I read, where different people react unexpectedly to very scripted products such as the Assassin's Creed franchise. Leading people to experience it in a variety of ways depending on their background, which the producer might not always intend, but reflects the contributions of a diverse staff
The close cooperation of women and men in the hunt and the division of labor between them are reinforced in their hunting songs, which are always sung in round form, utilizing a technique that recreates the cooperative patterns required by the hunt. The other major types of song, the foraging song and the death song, also reinforce the appropriate patterns for the corresponding activity. Except for the lullaby, none of the songs can be produced by a single singer. The ritualistic character of the singing suggests that this art form is viewed as a necessary component of the hunt itself.
This reminds me of collaborative slave songs in the Confederate States. Of which gospel and then blues came to be. We still have threads of collective songs. Hymns.
a neat and clean story–ex-cept that it'snot true.
Reminds me a bit of the podcast because of how what we were taught isn't true. In the podcast, they discussed how the idea most people have about racism and slavery is wrong, just as our idea about the start of science fiction and the inclusion of POC is wrong. Connects a little to the overall class theme, how racism impacts life.
When they think something might be sensitive, they often switch to a different medium, turning to text messages or chat to communicate with smaller audiences directly.
This reminds me of how people will use Snapchat for conversations that they do not a record of.
For a symbol of power, St. Gaudens instinctively preferred the horse, as was plain in his horse and Victory of the Sherman monument. Doubtless Sherman also felt it so. The attitude was so American that, for at least forty years, Adams had never realized that any other could be in sound taste.
Choosing the horse a symbol of power and referring to this attitude as very “American” reminds me of American pride in the strength of industry. The horse is indeed a very appropriate symbol of power; even with the advent of steam-powered locomotion, horses still dominated modes of travel in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Paradise of ignorance
The use of the word paradise and its juxtaposition to religious comparisons reminds me of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Langley seems to guide Adams through the Exposition in a similar fashion to Virgil, but with faith in scientific forces over the divine. Perhaps Adam's search for scientific knowledge is meant to correlate with Dante's search for meaning? In addition, this phrase in itself is so fascinating, since we expect Adams to become more knowledgeable, rather than in a state of ignorant bliss.
It also challenges the assumption, perpetuated by disciplinary divisions and also philosophical trajectories, that the object and subject are separate, wherein the latter is assumed to be immaterial, and the former is assumed to be inert and passive.
This is evident in philosophy, as metaphysical doctrines after Aristotle leaned towards materialism. Material culture reminds me of teleology, Aristotle's' belief that every object in the universe has its own nature, place in the world, and purpose. Material Culture is similar to this in that it is concerned with how a specific object has influenced people in a certain cultural space and time.
I would get rid of grades.
reminds me of my favorite quote. :if you judge a fush by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its life forever thinking it is stupid"
Brett mentioning Alexa helping solve a murder reminds me of my own Google Home Mini and the conflicts of privacy that some other people that I knew had with it. There's always that sense of things listening in on things that you rather not hear, and I covered that a bit more extensively within my own blog post this week.
As with all creative arts, the most effective way to become a master is to imitate the mind-set of masters — not just intellectually but emotionally as well.
This reminds me of artificial intelligence. Humans will try to program the actions of a master of something such as chess into a computer. The is computer then learns everything the master is doing as well as coming up with communications further than the human mind could have therefore almost hacking the human brain.