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  1. May 2018
    1. Hi this reply is for Sam F I can’t get out of this section from my phone sorry if it confuses anyone. Perhaps that is why Bronfenbrenner defines human development in such a specific way, a scientific way so as to encompass the vastness of possible influences that affect ones life. It is interesting to note that his first definition suggests that a child’s growth is affected by their relationships in a given setting. We have been offered a variety of readings and engaged in formal and informal learning experiences from the various courses and on our trip to Reggio on the concept of relationships and their importance in the educative practice. I appreciate you noting that children are “social being[s] in all the richness and variety of its forms.” I also agree that we are all connected in our humanness, in our innate sense of ethical endeavors, in our connection to the environments we create in the classroom and ones that are are created within our communities. When we help guide and scaffold experiences within our schools, with our families and with the world beyond those walls, we are not only preparing children for a future of service but are showing them that they are already part of the greater good. If we honor their contributions, thoughts and actions as young citizens as meaningful now, they will perhaps carry with them a greater understanding and respect for the many systems of which they are an important part.

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      samforeman has replied to your annotation on “Bronfenbrenner_1977_Toward an Experimental Ecology of Human Development.pdf”:

      On 07 May at 00:51 Stephslo17 commented:

      Bronfenbrenner was influenced by theorists like Leontiev, who favored the idea of trying to understand ways children can learn, transform and develop - broadening their potential for higher learning. By using Leontiev's idea as a springboard which suggests that children are capable of becoming more complex as their base of knowledge expands one can perhaps better understand why. Bronfenbrenner further suggested that the biological, psychological and environmental factors affect how the child can become not only "what he not yet is" but what he already is in conjunction with what he can become. It reminds me of Freire's notion unfinishedness. We are programmed to be learners and continually become what we not yet are. On 07 May at 23:29 samforeman replied:

      This reminds me of a quote I found a little while ago. "that realise a person’s actual life in the objective world by which he is surrounded, his social being in all the richness and variety of its forms" (Leont’ev 1977). I feel that there is so much "space" that relate to a childs devlopment that are not engaged with. This concept makes me feel more imporant in life because wheather we believe it or not everything is connected to one another and those conenctions make us who we are. View the thread and respond.

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    2. mely, en-vironmental^ structures, and the processes takingplace within and between them, musT be viewed asinterdependent and must be analyzed in systemsterms. The specification of these interdependen-cies constitutes a major task of the proposed ap-proach.

      This reminds me of some of the readings that we did last semester in our Social Foundations and Cultural Diversity course. What it makes me think about are the various screens through which we process information from the world around us; thus, impacting our interactions and experiences with others and our surroundings. Is there a way, that the ecosystems of Brofenbrenner are similar and serve as interconnected screens, and that they are interconnected on levels that impact our thoughts and interactions with others at the various systems? Do these systems create our biases, and by becoming aware of these systems and their impact on us can we alleviate ourselves from the implicit biases we are born into the world with.

    3. ving to discover not 'how thechild came to be what he is, but how he can be-'-come what he not yet is.

      Bronfenbrenner was influenced by theorists like Leontiev, who favored the idea of trying to understand ways children can learn, transform and develop - broadening their potential for higher learning.<br> By using Leontiev's idea as a springboard which suggests that children are capable of becoming more complex as their base of knowledge expands one can perhaps better understand why. Bronfenbrenner further suggested that the biological, psychological and environmental factors affect how the child can become not only "what he not yet is" but what he already is in conjunction with what he can become. It reminds me of Freire's notion unfinishedness. We are programmed to be learners and continually become what we not yet are.

    4. A microsystem is the complex of relations be-[ tween the developing person and environment in anI immediate setting containing that person (e.g.,home, school, workplace, etc.). A>.S£liing is de-i fined as a place with particular physical featuresf in which the participants engage in particular ac-tivities in particular roles (e.g., daughter, parent,teacher, employee, etc.) for particular periods oftime. The factors of place, time, physical fea-tures, activity, participant, and role constitute theelements of a setting

      This reminds me of the Maria Lugones article, Playfulness, "World" - Travelling, and Loving Perception, about the ability of people to "shift" to other worlds. She noted that, "world" - travellers have the distinct experience of being different in different worlds" (p. 9) I don't know anything (yet) about Brofenbrenner and his theory, but I wonder if he ever considered how race impacts roles and behavior in different microsystems?

    5. It is from this perspective that the primary pur-pose of the ecological experiment becomes not hy-pothesis. testing but discovery—the identificationof those systems properties and processes that af-fect, and are affected by, the behavior and de-velopment of the human being. M

      This concept of experiments being about discovery reminds me a lot of our work both in ADAC and social foundations that reminded me of the importance of entering a situation with the mindset of curiosity rather than assumptions or expectations. Here, I am reminded that we also must be curious rather than presumptive about the contexts of our students in the systems they exist in outside of school.

    6. Again, the fact that research results obtained inthe laboratory differ from those observed in thehome cannot be interpreted as evidence for thesuperiority of one setting over the other, exceptin relation to a specific research question. At

      This reminds me of behavior that we see at school that parents are not seeing at home. As educators, we may reach out to families for support on addressing an issue, but the parents may not be seeing any of this same behavior at home. Bronfenbrenner does a great job at explaining that every situation one is in, will bring about different results purely based on the environment. In this case, educators may want to shift our own research questions to highlight the differences in environment, and how those are causing a child to act differently in different settings.

    7. ecological research the in-vestigator seeks to "control in" as many theoreti-cally relevant ecological contrasts as possible

      This idea of "controlling in" reminds me of the work we did in our ADAC planning, in relation to involving families and the community. The process of making lists of all the possibilities for connection supports this ecological theory of children developing within broader contexts of the classroom.

    8. eciprocal processes and second-order andhigher order effects are the rule, for a develop-mental change in the state and status of onemember of the system invariably alters the rela-tions between the others. Si

      This idea of reciprocal processes reminds me of a metaphor of the mountain stream frequently used in dynamic systems theory to view human development. This metaphor is meant to counter the human as computer processing model. Esther Thelen writes:<br> "This is an apt comparison to keep in mind, because a stream is moving all the time in continuous flow and continuous change. Development is continuous—whatever has happened in the past influences what happens in the future. But the stream also has patterns. We can see whirlpools, eddies, and waterfalls, places where the water is moving rapidly and places where it is still. Like the stream, development also has recognizable patterns: milestones and plateaus and ages and stages at which behavior is quite predictable. In the mountain stream, there are no programs or instructions constructing those patterns. There is just water and the streambed under it. The patterns arise from the water and natural parts of the stream and the environment, such as the streambed, the rocks, the flow of the water, the current temperature and wind. The patterns reflect not just the immediate conditions of the stream, however; they also reflect the history of the whole system, including the snowfall on the mountain last winter, the conditions on the mountain last summer, and indeed the entire geological history of the region, which determined the incline of the stream and its path through the mountain. In addition, the stream also carves the rocks and the soil and creates its own environment, which then constrains and directs the water." Bronfenbrenner's work seems to address what is a huge hole in cognitive science which is that we are much more than just a brain in a body, we are also our past experiences and also embedded in systems that have a input in our development.

    9. Leontiev's statement is of course reminiscent ofDearborn's injunction ("If you want to understandsomething, try to change it."), but it goes muchfurther; indeed, in Leontiev's view, it is revolu-tionary in its implications. Soviet psychologistsoften speak of what they call the "transformingexperiment." By this term they mean an experi-ment that radically restructures the environment,producing a new configuration that activates pre-viously unrealized behavioral potentials of the sub-ject.

      This idea of the transforming experiment very much reminds me of the work we do with provocations from the Reggio tradition. We as teacher-researchers, in our desire to better understand our learners, attempt to alter or provoke aspects of the learning environment. The idea of co-construction is important here as the authors of this article stated earlier not only does the environment influence the person, but the person influences the environment. Does anyone else see the resemblance?

    1. Leaders in the United States say it is no small task to sustain enthusiasm and plot strategy in the face of policy defeats on a range of issues.

      When reading this quote, it reminds me of a particular idea that turns some of my colleagues away from Women Studies classes/pursuits. This idea that women are faced with mass amounts of defeat in regard to political policy. I think it's both ironic and interesting to read the leaders in the United States have shed light on this as they potentially have the power to influence change for the Me Too campaign and women in this country.

  2. peytoncaldwell.weebly.com peytoncaldwell.weebly.com
    1. Maintains values over ​self-promotion or profit.

      Peyton, again excellent example. This also reminds me of a situation I faced in practice. I think you handled it really well! Approved.

    1. We grew apart as friends on several levels. At the core we were simply becoming who we are/were.”

      This reminds me of DuBois's double consciousness; their personalities used to be aligned, but gaining new friendships and fame unleashed a new side to Basquiat's personality, one that does not fit in with his friend's personality.

    2. leaving home at 17 and passing away just a decade later.

      Basquiat's short career reminds me of the roaring 20s; they were a period of prosperity and rapid growth in many areas, but they didn't last and crashed at the end of the decade.

    3. entirely new style of graffiti

      This kind of reminds me of Ginsberg and his piece “Howl.” It was very much ahead of the time and new which made it controversial. It became very popular, and has a very large influence on poetry and writing today, like Basquiat’s lasting influence on art today.

    1. Political engagement takes many forms. Although often even less recognized as political, many teens have used the tools of internet culture to express themselves politically

      Reminds me about the political activism taking place on Tumblr currently

  3. Apr 2018
    1. The atmosphere in Gernika before the war was tense for a long time. Franco introduced tough repression of both ideology and culture. There were new regulations and codes of conduct; people were reported to the authorities and searches were carried out on a daily basis, and nothing escaped scrupulous examination by the Civil Guard. The people of Gernika were forced to confront fear, distrust and mutual suspicion. Nobody gave them back the happy, open town they had once known.

      Of course, a museum emphasizing how tragic the bombing of Guernica was would make it clear that the aftermath of the bombing forever altered how the town operated. Analyzing the quote specifically, Franco instituted a real authoritarian state over the entire town, turning the townspeople against one another. It reminds me very much so of how the Nazis treated the German citizenry through using the Gestapo to instill fear and distrust. Studying how the Gestapo turned German people against one another, Franco and his regime did very much so the same thing. Paraphrasing from the website, people basically had no rights, their rights as citizens were routinely violated by the regime, which is something that the website emphasizes repeatedly.

    1. [6] I think they've redesigned the Web site three or four times since they made the decision to treat the primary Web site as a marketing site. You think that they could have spent some of that time and effort on figuring out what to do with all the materials and users that they tossed off the primary Web site (other than saying "It belongs behind a password wall on GrinCo", which they promised us wouldn't be all that they would do).

      Reminds me of xkcd cartoon #773

    1. ncriticalliteracy,anapproachthatpromotesdeepercomprehension,readersmovebeyondpassivelyacceptingthetext’smessagetoquestion,examine,ordisputethepowerrelationsthatexistbetweenreadersandauthors.Thesereadersponderwhattheauthorwantsthemtobelieve,takeaction,andpromotefairnessbetweenpeople.Criticalliteracyfocusesontheproblemanditscomplexity.Itaddressesissuesofpowerandpromotesreflection,action,andtransformation(Freire,1970).

      This reminds me of the more simplified bloom's taxonomy lesson that our group presented earlier this year. Here is a link to that again. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Blooms-Taxonomy-Questions-Activities-Robot-Detective-Judge-and-Inventor-1617034

    1. an OLPC effort was rolled out with little support for teacher training, and few resources for upkeep, and equipment quickly faded into a state of disrepair.

      Reminds me of stories from Fullan about the failure of administrators to either fully fund or think through the roll out of a large shift in teaching and learning

    1. Careful observers may foretell the hour (By sure prognostics) when to dread a shower:

      This reminds me of a saying I was told when I was little. "Red skies at night, a sailor's delight. Red skies in morning, sailors head warning."

    1. My mother is serious. She looks into my eyes demanding my attention. "One cup rice, two cup water, put all in rice cooker, press button." She turns toward the simple, white machine.

      I can feel the seriousness behind their mothers eyes. Reminds me of my mom whenever she needs something done, there is always that look they give you when they mean business.

    2. This kind of reminds me of my grandmother who still believes of gender roles how women are suppose to do in house chores while men work outside

    1. a successful school system schools parents and pupils to the supreme value of a larger school system,

      Reminds me of how much money colleges spend telling how important a college education is.

    1. nce of civic engagement through digital platforms, citing digital citizenshi

      Reminds me of the fake nes discussion and civic online reasoning as a new learning outcome (Stanford)

    1. This cultural divide, in Snow’s view, entailed serious consequences for our creative, intellectual, and everyday life.

      This cultural divide reminds me of the cultural divide we have in today's politics. There are many consequences as a result of this division.

    1. Due to the fact that not many were literate, lessons were passed on verbally.

      This reminds me of the game telephone. There must have been a lot of false information going around. Not intentionally but I cant believe that all information was passed on exactly the same as it was told the first time by Plato himself.

    1. Discussing the importance of being specific when typing questions into a search engine reminds me of http://www.bristol.ac.uk/library/support/findinginfo/search-engines/ which goes into detail about how to make the best out of a search engine. https://video.search.yahoo.com/video/play;_ylt=AwrC5pk5VtZaEHoABTg0nIlQ;_ylu=X3oDMTByZWc0dGJtBHNlYwNzcgRzbGsDdmlkBHZ0aWQDBGdwb3MDMQ--?p=how+to+use+a+search+engine+effectively&vid=9bf0d5d37d4dc51cd871e871b3a39b28&turl=https%3A%2F%2Ftse4.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOVP.61buA0jkcYnUo5UPzPB40wEsDS%26pid%3D15.1%26h%3D210%26w%3D300%26c%3D7%26rs%3D1&rurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DL6mvnMW_nnY&tit=How+to+use+the+Google+Search+Engine+more+Effectively.&c=0&h=210&w=300&l=434&sigr=11bdiha8i&sigt=11lisflue&sigi=12r61em25&age=1260459057&fr2=p%3As%2Cv%3Av&fr=yhs-arh-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=arh&type=zxy_5e685049fc1e67cf88&tt=b

      This YouTube video also, specifically using Google search, gives similar tips to this article on how to search effectively and get the answers you're looking for.

    2. The idea that there are people who regard search-engines as authoritative is one that I really haven't considered. Being that we are a very internet-based society, most students do all of their research online. This guide gives some pros to using online sources for research but warns not to use only online sources as well as offering the pros to using more traditional sources such as libraries to conduct research. This reminds me of the times in class we've discussed using librarians and library databases in order to get sources.

    3. When Rheingold talks about the design of a website being a clue to the legitimacy of a source, it reminds me of a lesson I had in a computer class called "Presentation Etiquette." In this lesson we discussed the importance of keeping presentations and websites organized and easy to read. I've always found this to be helpful in determining whether a website is written by a company, a professional writer, or a novice. It also helps tell if the source is for entertainment or for education.

    1. To know they dreamed and are dead; 

      I think the poet is trying to be peaceful about the death that is happening, because this line reminds me of talking about someone "being in a better place" or "they won't suffer anymore", which is very sad to say but it's looking on the bright side of death, if possible, to ease the mind.

    1. Here is my longer set of reflections about this work. This is a new version of the pdf. I do not know how to change the PDF and load a new version.

      What did I learn from engaging this work?

      This work has made me read, think, reflect, and reengage again and again with who I am, what I think, why I think that way, ……. Helps me re-examine my interactions, expressions, and perspectives in life.

      For me, this has been a journey of love, tears, smile, love, and deeper reflections as a person and an educator, but more importantly as a human that I hope to be…

      There are many angles, perspectives, and cultural and human issues beautifully entangled in this work. Almost every verse, ever set of words are connected and make you think.

      What do we think? Why do we think and act the way we do? Perhaps it is time to review how and why we think the way we do.

      There are also multiple angles for me, as a student and faculty who grew up in a multicultural, multiethnic, and Multilanguage society with a dominance of one language and the first part of my life. I saw this, lived it, but did I ever really see, and in what ways? Did I cause the pains and in what ways?

      Each of us, are made of and makers of connected stories. We are connected to our backgrounds, our families, friends, schoolings, experiences, and economical and cultural heritages. There is so much potential for better connections, better empathy, love, acceptance, and learning from each other….but are the social/economical/educational assumptions, and cultural biases stopping us to be stronger connected members of the human race? The answer is always yes…but we do not want it to be.

      This work shows me that even when I wanted to be kind and loving to people from different ethnical and economical backgrounds when I was growing up, and even now a an educator, my words could not mean the same from their perspectives.

      This work, that comes from the pure thoughts and soul of a colleague, engineer, educator, and thinker helps me reflect again and again that we need to keep on keeping on to connect better to the only race that we know, the human race, and advance our cultural growth, for better connection and better cultural evolution….We need to have better united front of thinkers and since the fights remains and struggles remain mostly focused on social justice and other battels that the "civilized world" needs to truly engage in.

      This work reminds me of the following. (the word "play" is strange here, I think I mean doing what comes natural to the moment and jus getting involved and experience it…

      “Man is only completely human when he plays” according to Jacques Rancière, examining and interpreting a sentence from the philosopher Freiderick von Shiller. The meaning of such a proclamation: that there is a specific sensory experience – the aesthetic – that holds the promise of both a new world of Art and a new life for individuals and the community. Aesthetics is politics. http://classes.dma.ucla.edu/Winter14/252B/content/readings/ranciere.jacques.aesthetics.as.politics.pdf

      I think being a poem, this work truly creates a new and touching impact. A new spark to care and act upon. It is us who need to get inspiration from the sparks and make the fire to make the world a better place.

      What questions am I left with?

      This is a hard question. I am left with my own questions, who am I and How do I deal with the issues of inclusivity….how can I learn more, act better, and connect more understandingly to all people whom I am blesses to know, interact, and learn from. How many of these opportunities would I not admire and weaken with my words, body language,……

      What would I like to know more about?

      Truly after reading this work…I want to know more about…..

      1. I would like to know more of the authors’ story to learn from.
      2. How can we ask better questions when we see new people?
      3. How should we react better to not good questions to provide a better approach for those who care and ask the hurting questions….
      4. What should I read, watch, and listen to have a deeper understanding of these important concerns

      Finally, I try to better understand microaggression….but I truly love to know everyone's story and am willing to not only listen but also celebrate their stories….I see my students, new people in my life who make me want to know them, and for many of them my questions is….Wow, I love knowing you and having you in my class/friendship……tell me your story…share with me what you like me to know and I will love it and celebrate it with you… some of my friends tell me that this is microaggression….But my intention is to embrace them not to exclude them and question them…

      However, with all good intentions, words can hurt, and our friends and associates can interoperate them differently from the intention…

      But our responsibility is to keep on keeping on, try and keep trying to make things better, …

    1. through poetry, it was always safe to communicate.

      I agree that through poetry, one can communicate their feeling and what they want to express figuratively. Through the use of figurative language in poetry, the reader is open to susception, because we aren't certain what the authors intent is.

      This reminds me of our lesson about certain vs chaos.

    1. .

      This reminds me of how people say when we appreciate wilderness, let's start with the wilderness in our backyard instead of associating conservaiton and being into the wild means these big great places and activities that are associated with the maintsteam idea of how this should be done

    1. Though he probably based it on notes dictated by Windrip—himself no fool in the matter of fictional imagination—Sarason had certainly done the actual writing of Windrip's lone book, the Bible of his followers, part biography, part economic program, and part plain exhibitionistic boasting, called Zero Hour—Over the Top.

      Sarason is "the guy behind the guy" here, the brains in a symbiotic relationship. Reminds me of the Harding Gang, where the front man was manipulated by his backers. The religious aspect indicates a cult of personality, and the description makes it sound like a clone of My Struggle.

    1. There are various aspects of the debate on human enhancements that frustrate the possibility of reaching consensus on their value

      In the quote the author is talking how we value things a lot and sometimes we value things to the point where we do not care about our health. For example, a lot of people value money as it is more important for their health. Many people stress and do not care for their heath. This reminds me of some college student how they value their GPA instead of their health. I think in college it is important to stay healthy so you could focus more on your studying. For Many college students, their professor says study hard. The professor does not mean to study hard to the point where you feel health is unnecessary.

  4. moodle.davidson.edu moodle.davidson.edu
    1. To hold a belief with a false consciousness is to hold it whilebeing ignorant of, or self-deceived about

      Reminds me of the definition or similar circumstance of "bad faith" presented by Birt

    1. An’ some folks sits dere waitin’ wid deir aches an’ miseries, Till Ma comes out before dem, a-smilin’ gold-toofed smiles

      This reminds me of Hughes because his poems similarly address fear, and no matter the success of blacks, their is always something that is going to get in the way of getting what is truly deserved.

    2. An’ Slim Say, “Peter, I really cain’t tell, The place was Dixie That I took for hell.” Then Peter say, “you must Be crazy, I vow, Where’n hell dja think Hell was, Anyhow?

      This sort of irony reminds me of an M. Night Shamalan plot twist. The point of the story is powerful though: the south is a living hell for black folks.

    3. The strong men . . . coming on The strong men gittin’ stronger. Strong men. . . . Stronger. . . .

      This part reminds me of "They Feed They Lion" because it talks about an eminent presence. Here, Brown is implying that black folks are going to continue to grow and populate the country, and that they cannot be contained by racism and segregation.

    4. Dey stumble in de hall, jes a-laughin’ an’ a-cacklin’, Cheerin’ lak roarin’ water, lak wind in river swamps.

      I thought of Langston Hughes, "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." Powerful currents/rivers are akin to a strong spirit. It is a sign of life and connection to the Earth. The river itself reminds me of veins, carrying blood to organs the same way civilizations set up near rivers for agricultural purposes. It gathers people, gives life, and is a sign of wealth (wealth of land, food, unity, resources)

    5. They heard the laugh and wondered; Uncomfortable; Unadmitting a deeper terror. . . . The strong men keep a-comin’ on Gittin’ stronger. . . .

      White American society benefits from the labor and exploitation of people of color, but in their fault of dehumanizing them they didn't consider the humanity and strength that cannot be fully diminished. The ellipses signifies that the strength of the marginalized people and communities will continue growing. There is a sense of anticipation. This idea sort of reminds me of "They Feed They Lion" by Phillip Levine.

    1. noticed an image of the Leutze painting in a dramatic gilded frame dominated by a 12-foot-wide American-eagle crest at the top.

      Eagle reminds me of America, it is the core symbol for America.

    1. This means that instead of using coping mechanisms, various “a-critical techniques” (42) that students develop during their schooling, students are taught to address puzzling elements and confront that what they do not know

      This reminds me what what Jerome McGann says about "quantum poetics" in his book, Radiant Textuality. Basically, that there are an almost infinite number of ways of proceeding through a text, and digital tools help to bring out and reveal the multiple pathways.

    1. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.

      This reminds me of some of the past readings that have been presented to us. A lot of them deal with social classes and how certain people are superior to others (Rich people, white people, and men over women). The way that drinks are portrayed here shows that servants aren't supposed to drink . the same thing as the people who they are serving for, because they are not seen as equal. This is similar to how people of color and women are shown in society as not having the same advantages as whites or men.

    1. But please remember: we are not the experts; we are the adventurers. We’re learning every day, and we’re failing too. We’d love to share some of our story, but you’ve got to clear your own path. And for cat’s sake, please be kind to yourself throughout your journey. Ask for help when you need it. And hike up your knickers – you’re in for a wild one

      I love her writing style, it reminds me more of a manifesto. I recognize that it is a blog, it's just so refreshing compared to the literary journals I'm used to reading.

      Also, by stating "we are not the experts" it presents this level of transparency, which is aids refuting any possible criticism.

    1. Keep It Simple Starting (KISS)

      I really like the idea of starting out simple with a few new tools since I have been feeling a little overwhelmed this semester. It reminds me that I don't have to be an expert at this right away, and really it isn't possible.

    1. storyboard

      The term is slightly confusing - this reminds me of storyboards in paper prototypes, and that one was more like a comic strip with a user case. Does this storyboard have something to do with that one?

    1. What happens to a dream deferred?

      This reminds me of the quote "justice too long delayed is justice denied". Dr. King used that quote in his Letter From Birmingham Jail. I'm sure it existed prior to that letter, but it is a sentence that attaches itself to the minds of the oppressed.

    2. He did a lazy sway . . . He did a lazy sway . . . To the tune o’ those Weary Blues.

      The jazz/blues imagery reminds me of Blue Dementia, and a lot of other odes to music from black poets during the "new negro movement".

    1. Since 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist Party fled to Taiwan with imperial treasures in tow as the Communist Party took over Mainland China, cultural stewardship has been a first-order concern for the Taiwanese government.

      This reminds me of Old Summer Palace. Our country has many treasures drained in other countries because of the war.

    1. “Here they are everywhere.” And they are: American flags and the signs in English that he cannot understand.It’s a gorgeous sunny day, and Osbek’s clearly enjoying the trip. A small plane flies overhead. “That plane reminds me of the Coast Guard,” he says, with a big yawn. “That’s how they caught us the first time. They spotted us from a plane like that.”

      The island has struck terror into these Cuban athletes. They are worried they will have to go back.

    1. sophisticated video game aimed to make calculus class a little less daunting.

      That's a huge endeavor, however it reminds me of the teachers I work with using Angry Birds Space to teach Physics.

  5. Mar 2018
    1.   Get all the materials and print it yo’ damn self

      This reminds me of the reading we did on self-publishing and the discussions we had in class. Interesting to see Gap Riot endorsing self publishing!

    1. We believe that artists and writers have a communal responsibility to respond creatively to the world

      Correlating artists with writers reminds me of this article that I read which discusses how writers are the loneliest artists compared to the rest.

    1. For all three of these teachers, autobiographical memories of experi- ences with literature informed their ideas about their imagined roles and methods of teaching. L

      After reading this, I have reflected on my own experiences with literature. Thinking of certain books reminds me of happy memories and feel very nostalgic. I have always pictured them in my future classroom because of what I associate with them. However, I will be carefully and more closely look at whether or not they belong in my classroom.

    1. Adding words can return more precise answers, yet that means restricting the scope of the results. Frequently, at the beginning of a series of searches, you want to start more broadly. "Choose keywords that you think will appear on the page you seek, put yourself in the mind-set of the

      The idea of choosing specific and key words to advance a search reminds me of metadata we learned this semester. To advance search a material, it is best to start out broad and then to narrow down the search.

    1. “No,” said Lizzie, “No, no, no; Their offers should not charm us, Their evil gifts would harm us.”

      Lizzie is trying to avoid herself and Laura from eating the fruit. She knows the fruit would not do them no good but harm them because the fruit is evil. This stanza reminds me of Adam and Eve when Adam and God warn Even not to eat the beautiful evil Apple.

    1. The whisper of “I want to be white” runs silently through their minds.

      This poem -- specifically this line -- reminds me of the writings of Toni Morrison. Much of what Morrison writes is about the black experience in white america. Here, it is clear that the pressures to be "american" are one in the same with whiteness.

    2. “I want to be a poet–not a Negro poet,” meaning, I believe, “I want to write like a white poet”; meaning subconsciously, “I would like to be a white poet”; meaning behind that, “I would like to be white.”

      This reminds me of a quote from Toni Morrison: "The question of what constitutes the art of a black writer, for whom that modifier is more search than fact, has some urgency. In other words, other than melanin and subject matter, what, in fact, may make me a black writer?" Both ponder the relationship race, art, and identity.

    1. These results provide apprecia-ble evidence in support of Hypothesis 1a: contact with the criminal justice system is associated with higher odds of not obtaining medical care when individuals thought they needed it.

      This reminds me of intervening variables. What if contact with the criminal justice system can be associated with lower income, which might explain why someone would not obtain medical care?

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    1. YetPilate's wife finds her present moral strength through her original defeat,for had she been successful in preventing the Crucifixion she would haveblocked humanity's redemption.

      This reminds me of the verse Ecclesiastes 3:1-15, which states how God sets the time for everything that happens in the world. I assume Pilate's wife would also relate to that sentiment because she didn't block humanity's redemption.

    1. welcome this spring! this burning first of May

      This reminds me of the Waste Land because of spring being described as "the burning first" similar to April being the cruelest month.

    2. Comrade Lenin of Russia, High in a marble tomb, Move over, Comrade Lenin, And give me room.

      Almost every other stanza in this poem is composed of this one, and it reminds me a responsorial psalm at a Catholic mass. It's like how a follower of Christ would call back to God making some sort of request for assistance. I'm not sure how this relates to the modernist poetry we've read but I thought it was interesting enough to point out.

    3. am Chico, the Negro Cutting cane in the sun. I lived for you, Comrade Lenin. Now my work is done.

      This reminds me of not only the numerous voices in T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland", but also the order in Stein's "Sacred Emily" with the repetition of certain lines, as well as the voices speaking to each other before the verse moves on to someone else. Each voice represents a significant role in the poem and passes their verse off to the next one.

    4. The million men and a million boys, come out of hell and crawling back

      This reminds me of "The Wasteland" when it comes to the idea of the zombie, living between life and death. Gregory is speaking of the horrors of World War I and the PTSD that the soldiers ("million men and a million boys") whom suffered from the experience of war. "Come out of hell and crawling back" is straight out of a George Romero movie, and the conditions in the trenches and DMZ were its own wasteland. I find it interesting that Jack Dempsey is being used as the the representation of these returning soldiers especially since Dempsey did not partake in WWI and got a lot of criticism for it.

    1. The only discipline that remained constant throughout the centuries was “Humanities”, which was composed of philosophy, classical and modern languages, history, art history, and religious studies.

      his reminds me of Interdisciplinary because we are combining different majors into one and naming it something like this

    1. In actuality many White Americans are ignorant to the own hidden racist agendas due to their lack of knowledge towards other races cultural and ethical ideas,

      Reminds me of people being way to "un-racist", where they try to be as non-racist as possible but end up grouping people together and treating them differently, which in of itself is racist. Some politicians are so scared of the label of racist that they go overboard and start treating groups of people differently.

    1. . No amount of scientific study will find in it anything like a purpose. But from another perspective this misses the point. After all, no scientific study will find in a 1000 yen note what makes it money. Not everything is a physical or chemical property of matter. Perhaps technologies, like bank notes, have a special way of containing value in themselves as social entities.

      This reminds me of technologies as stories from earlier in the class. A sword is just a sword but Excalibur is more because of the mythology incorporated into it. I like thinking of technology this way, and the distinction hadn't occurred to me before this course.

    1. face anxiety at the prospect of backlash

      This reminds me of the conversation we had about the "triggered generation" and how people are hyperactive in reacting. Is this type of reaction a bad thing? I would argue otherwise, in fact I think it's important for authors to be responsible for what they writing about and who they are writing for. Anxiety for backlash could be a good catalyst for cultural appropriateness

    2. sense of social conscience, not to mention a strong market incentive, is elevating stories that richly reflect the variety of human experience.

      Again, the market is a primary driving force behind content production. This reminds me of the popularity of the Ms. Marvel comic.

    1. Unger believes that unconscious bias and structural racism aren’t the biggest problems his students face; he feels CUNY’s graduates are at a disadvantage in an industry in which class can be a factor in hiring decisions.

      Really interesting point - unfortunately, this reminds me of a conversation I had with my cousin a few years back. She is a CEO and founder of an online company in the UK. Upon asking her questions regarding the hiring of her staff, she blatantly told me that before she interviews anyone she will disregard their resume and look at their photo because "she can tell a lot by their image". This example, sadly, is point and case of this entire passage.

    1. “Let me die a thousand deaths, rather than stain thy conscience.

      this reminds me of a quote from the story of Julius Caesar

      “Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.” ― William Shakespeare

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    1. Fundamentally, how, where and when something is made available for purchase infl uences who will purchase it

      This reminds me of how I became interested with comics in the first place... it was a happenstance of stumbling across a small comic book store on Granville. I entered the store, and there was something just so cool about it - even the smell. From this perspective, having comics in stores vs. online allows potential customers a greater likelihood to stumble across something they would be receptive to.

    1. These same adjectives and verbal markers are not typically coupled with White people who engage in riots following sporting events and festivities.8

      Reminds me of the president's now-infamous comment blaming both sides for Charlottesville... perfectly infuriating example of this double standard in action.

    1. Those crafts required some persons to be free from the constant tilling of the land and led to the growth of towns in which guilds of free craftsmen could work their arts and in which trade could flourish.

      Reminds me of slavery in America. The South lagged behind trying to hold on to slavery, an inhumane, outdated, and inefficient mode of economic and societal growth.

    2. Technology, once born, outgrows its social cradle and shatters the relations of production that called it forth.

      Reminds me of the results of new technology and methods; it's initially praised until it begins killing entire industries.

    1. Throughthistransaction,onereUgiousgroupaffirmedtheidentityofanother.AgroupofChristianshadgivenaJewishcongregationabuilding,land,andmoneytomaintaintheproperty

      This reminds me of the reading we did for wednesday where the paster opened his doors to a different religion to help them out. This is also refreshing to see that it is not something that had only happened once and I am seeing it more and more around my home town with different religions being under one roof taking care of the same building

    1. rgues that this suffering love itself becomes a part of the soul ’ s identifi cation with Christ.

      This reminds me of some of last uint, where it is "ok" to suffer because Christ did too so we must also suffer as well

    1. A people starved and stabbed in th’ untilled field; An army, whom liberticide and prey Makes as a two-edged sword to all who wield;

      Liberticide, According to Oxford English Dictionary this means "Destruction or removal of liberty. In this sentence it seems like there is a group of people who are on a field looking for food because they are starving. These people have no freedom I guess because they are also getting brutally beaten and stabbed by others who have power and conroll over them. This reminds me of slavery.

    1. Then they lament and cry and say that these same women have bewitched their children and that the lads be spell bound and cannot leave them and are never at ease save when they are with them. But, whatever they may say, it is no witchcraft, but it is for the sake of the love, the care, the intimacies, joys and pleasures that these women show unto them in all things and, on my soul, there is none other enchantment. For whoever giveth all its pleasure to a bear, a Wolf, or a lion, that same bear, wolf, or lion will follow after him, and so the other beasts might say, could they but speak, that those thus tamed must be bewitched. And, on my soul, I trow that there is none other witchcraft than well doing, and no man can be better bewitched than by giving him what pleaseth him.

      Reminds me of Capellanus's "The Art of Courtly Love"

    1. many webcomics include themes and deal with issues that mainstream comics do not. Many of them are written by people with offbeat interests for people with similar interests.

      This reminds me of the conversation we had in class - what makes a publication important? Is it that many people view it? Or is it more the concept that it is published in general?

    2. The web allows webcomic creators to write comics with content which is outside of the acceptable bounds for typical mass-released comics.

      This reminds me of our conversation around podcasting and Chris Anderson's theory of the Digital Long Tail. The Long Tail being the proliferation of niche content that has arisen with the the internet. The Long Tail provides creators and consumers more choice and Anderson sees this as a new marketable space outside of corporatized content.

    1. The information wasn't sent to the Miami office, and the FBI did not investigate

      This reminds me of when I went to Florida when I was in 8th grade and we saw my grandma and grandpa. We were there for a wedding.

    1. Suppose that you wished to understand the Soviet-American Cold War. Suppose further that you were interested in fathoming this entire conflict, not merely one or another of its aspects. A few years and a few bookshelves later, you might realize that most experts have failed to arrive at a self-contained portrait because they examined this subject from a single disciplinary perspective. An integrated approach, you might conclude, holds a greater promise of bringing you closer to a firm grasp of this complex subject than any important but one-sided study.

      Reminds me of film makers like documentary films. They get multiple perspective of the subject and leave you, the viewers to decide for yourself what the conclusion is. but they never seem to wrap the film up themselves with all those perspectives in mind. I would say that documentary can be very interdisciplinary.

    1. “And of this place,” thought she, “I might have been mistress! With these rooms I might now have been familiarly acquainted! Instead of viewing them as a stranger, I might have rejoiced in them as my own, and welcomed to them as visitors my uncle and aunt. But no”

      This reminds me of when Mr. Collins was showing Lizzy around their home and it seemed like he was trying to show her all that she could have had. However in that instance she did not care at all but now that she sees Pemberley she really does think about what she could have had if she agreed to marry Darcy.

    1. At the violet hour, when the eyes and back

      The violet hour reminds me of the sunset when the sky turns purple, which signals to me a transition from the day into the night. This is parallel with the seasons and zombie theme, as the violet hour is a moment in time where it feels as though it is not quite day, but not quite evening. Starting this stanza with this romanticized image of transition sets the tone for the rest of the piece.

    2. I was neither Living nor dead

      Reminds me off Revelations 3:16, "So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth."

    3. “You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; “They called me the hyacinth girl.” —Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence.

      This line reminds me of the lines after the first German phrase in the first stanza. In both sections, the speaker (perhaps the same speaker. Both are women) reminisces about times past.

    4. 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

    5. 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.

    1. ap

      Refers to America as "she" rather than "it." Interesting, kind of reminds me of "motherland," which evokes a sense of nostalgia...longing for what America could accomplish but because of the limitations "she" faces (i.e. corrupt democracy/capitalism, racism, discrimination) she can never "attain her ideal," but perhaps slowly progress towards it

    2. appeal to the United Nat ions and ask that organization in the proper way to take cognizance of a situation which deprives this group of their rights as men and citizens, and by so doing makes the functioning of the United Nations more difficult, if not in many cases impossible.

      This reminds me of what we talked about earlier in the semester--even though human rights are supposed to be universal, someone's, or a group of people's ability to receive those rights depends on the government of their nation. How does someone go about reporting and getting justice for human rights violations when their nation is the one violating them? How does a group of people receive the justice and recognition they deserve because they are human (and therefore have human rights) when some domestic issues of violence are often not seen as important in the world of international human rights? How can a country effectively and honestly protect international human rights as part of the UN when they are violating human rights within their own state?

    3. 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?

    4. 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.

    5. 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.

    1. 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

    1. 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.

    1. 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...

    1. 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?

    2. 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.

    1. 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...

    1. 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)?

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    1. 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.

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    1. 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.

    2. 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.

    1. 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?

    2. 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.

    1. 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. ~ ~ ., ] .. ~ ~ -~ 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:

      http://www.register-herald.com/region/the-latest-trump-says-we-ve-proved-i-m-a/article_ccf08e7b-ca14-5d9a-990d-39f1bc47f2cc.html

      This article shows Donald Trump looking angry which is most likely an attempt to paint him negatively.

      http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-thanks-fox-for-broadcasting-timeline-of-obama-failures-against-russia/article/2649491

      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.

    2. 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.

    1. “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

    1. 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)

    1. 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?

    1. 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.

    1. 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—

      https://static.rogerebert.com/uploads/movie/movie_poster/legends-of-the-fall-1995/large_uh0sJcx3SLtclJSuKAXl6Tt6AV0.jpg

      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.

    2. 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.

    1. 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'

    2. 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.

    1. 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.

    1. 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.

    2. 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

    1. 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."

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    1. 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.

    1. 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.

    1. 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

    2. 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.

    3. 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.

    4. 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.

    5. 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.

    6. 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.

    7. "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.

    8. 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.

    9. "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.

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    1. 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.

    1. 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.

    1. 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.

    1. "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.

    2. "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.

      Image result for the hunger games tucci

    3. 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.

      Image result for beauty and the beast library

    4. 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.

    5. 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.

    6. 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.

    7. 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.

    8. 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.

    9. "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.

    10. 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.

    11. 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.

    12. 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.

    13. 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.

    14. 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.

    1. 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

    1. 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.

    1. 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.

    2. 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"

    3. 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.

    4. 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.

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    1. 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.

    2. -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.

    3. 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.

    1. 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.

    2. "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.

    3. 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.

    4. 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.

    5. "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.

    6. 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.

    7. "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.

    8. 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.

    9. 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.

    10. 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.

    11. 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.

    12. 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.