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  1. Jan 2018
    1. this reminds me of a joke I heard once. The joke is that if the resurrection of Jesus was in modern times then Christians would be wearing electric chairs around their necks instead of a cross. Not the best joke but the imagery is there. The connection in my head is that Christians view the cross as a reminder of the guilt that follows us for nailing Jesus to the cross. The dynamo parallels this because it is not a pretty invention. It was very powerful at the time but it is force that we must deal with and Adams must feel some guilt or obligation to the dynamo.

    2. She was goddess because of her force; she was the animated dynamo; she was reproduction–the greatest and most mysterious of all energies; all she needed was to be fecund.

      It is unfortunate that the "force" of a woman in this context is directly correlated to her fertility. Following the religious theme, it reminds me of 1 Timothy 2:15 But women will be saved through childbearing--if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety. a verse in the Bible that is as equally problematic as this line.

    1. But a true professional does not merely practice: he or she performs with a sense of personal and social responsibility. In the work of a professional, the performances of practice must not only be skilled and theoretically grounded; they must be characterized by integrity, by a commitment to responsible, ethical service.

      This reminds me the ancient greek conception of philosophy. How it was not just a field of practice but a way of living.

    1. Yet the range of the outlook needs to be enlarged. What the best and wisest parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all of its children.

      I think there is alot to unpack with this quote... A lot of what Dewey was discussing was the transition in the industrial revolution with students from home learning to external community based learning. The reminds of me the mirra quote-describing the fact that teachers are "conditioned to avoid messiness..." For me, I do not think it is that the teacher is conditioned to avoid messiness, I think rather society (community) is conditioning educational processes so it can better determined what did it wants for all of its children. (Outcomes such as graduation rates or test scores...) I think if we really want to implement connected learning to individualistic outcomes-we need to be prepared to implement it across the board...

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      Reminds me of our conversation last week in class, about how it is sometimes better for movements to have a singular, unified voice that is delivering the message, as it can provide coherence and validity to the message. But, this could also have the danger of stifling particular voices and needs in the community. So which do you think is the more ideal system to carry a movement forward?

    1. elect a woman president and 50 women senators

      Not sure I agree with this... that is one step but is that the "best hope" ?? reminds me of Du Bois' idea of the Talented Tenth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Talented_Tenth

      Why do we need to rely on a few "top women" to change the system for the rest? Political, legal and judicial changes are one key aspect but who is to say that just because someone is a woman that they will have feminist issues at heart? Grass-roots changes (and negotiations in the household about responsibilities at home), changes in how communities and local institutions (childcare, etc.) are structured will make a BIG difference too!

    1. Using Strategy, we start to choose our battles and sort out the most effective action: when to work with other Targets, when to make demands of social institutions, when to confront individual Agents, when not to act.

      This reminds me a lot of what Dr. Joy DeGruy was explaining during the video.

    1. was to see these students as “disadvantaged” instead of seeing their brilliance

      This reminds me of Standardize Testing. Why must the test tell how smart the child is? It doesn't define the child and it should not define their intelligence off of a couple of questions.

    1. Learning to effectively manage one or more digital identities.

      Reading this reminds me of the all email messages I get from students in which the sender is labeled as "School" or "SNC email" which throws me off when I search for their archived emails.

    1. and if he have not enough, you may borrow some to make up a sufficient Quantity

      This whole section reminds me of the gothic recipe from Walker's Hibernian Magazine for January 1798 ("take an old castle, half of it ruinous")

    1. Joseph Mountain, A NEGRO, Who was executed at New-Haven on the 20th Day of October, 1790, For a Rape, Committed on the 26th Day of May last.[The writer of this history has directed that the money arising from the sales thereof, after deducting the expence of printing, &c. be given to the unhappy girl, whose life is rendered wretched by the crime of the malefactor.]

      The title reminds me of the plot of To Kill a Mockingbird. It makes me wonder if what is being written about Joseph Mountain is a accurate representation of his life and this alleged crime.

      I also find it interesting that they felt the need to add the details of the profit made from the book to the title page

    1. They Lion, from my children inherit, From the oak turned to a wall, they Lion,

      The repetition of "They Lion" reminds me of hymns and prayers that are used in the Catholic church. I was raised catholic and the prayers often have their own rhythm that can be heard when repeated by a community of churchgoers. These prayers are often meant to be reminders of our original sins or of our dedication to God and They Lion feels like it has a similar effect in this beginning and ending repetition.

    2. From “Bow Down” come “Rise Up,”

      This line specifically jumps out to me because this poems seems to reach out and describe a sort of growing rebellion. People who begin rebellions or are a part of a movement are people who have been hurt and people who have seen hurt and abuse of power. "Bow Down" reminds me of a sort of command and "Rise up" shows me that those who were commanded to bow down, decide to rise up and rebel.

    1. CRTs are no longer manufactured. But they continue to shape the world, even after they are discarded. They multiply as they are repaired and reused, as their parts are harvested for different devices, as their materials are stripped out and placed back into production chains, as their chemical constituents move out of landfills and open flames into bodies and environments.

      This notion of the CRT continuing to live on even after they are discarded reminds me of the Buddhist belief of reincarnation. Reincarnation is the belief that after death the soul will be brought back to earth in a new body/form. In this case we would use soul loosely to refer to the materials/ parts of these machines. The fact that materials from those machines are still in use today is pretty ironic considering new generations don't even know what they are, but still 'use' them. But as the quote goes "There is nothing new under the sun."

    1. But this act of purchase is only the prelude to possession.

      This quote reminds me of several different aspects of life. Material things have taken over most humans and it's become a fight over who has the most money, whose car is more expensive, whose house is bigger, and so on. Possessions are worthless if they aren't being used for their proper intentions. In this case, books are meant to appear as if the pages have been abused, but by love for the true beauty and adventure it possess within.

    1. Perpetrators of crimes whose misdoings were linked to their fondness for penny dreadfuls were often referred to in the newspapers as “victims” of the books.

      This reminds me of the attacks on the games Doom and Quake after the Columbine shooting in 1999. Those games were immediately disparaged for their violent nature and credited with influencing Klebold and Harris' violent tendencies.

    1. Educators often perceive the family who comes to meetings and responds with active and enthusiastic in- volvement and participation (helps with learning or disci- pline issues, provides materials for a special project, serves as a volunteer) as more caring and as a "good family." The

      This reminds me of an instance where only two families showed up to our open house. It was extremely discouraging.

    1. served as a royal stamp of approval for the quality of the book

      This reminds me of Oprah's book club decals, or "Heather's Pick" (Indigo's CEO) decals - while the decal itself doesn't directly communicate an "ideological correctness," it does however, serve as a stamp of approval (that comes from a credible source). Presently, books that are presented with such a decal are more likely to be successful, as they are marketed more effectively.

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    1. On the one hand, I cannot manipulate. On the other hand, I cannot leave students by themselves. The opposite of these two possibilities is being radically democratic. That means accepting the directive nature of education. There is a directiveness to education which never allows it to be neutral

      I love how this quote, and it feels like this section beautifully describes the responsibilities of an educator, or at least in contrast to the responsibilities reflected in a banking model. It reminds me of an obligation I have to be self-actualizing for the sake of my students, to be self-aware, reflective, and considerate of how I am framing everything, understanding the power of education as an institution. I can't manipulate, but I also can't leave kids without support. That does mean radical democracy, radical in the sense that even in roles where power dynamics have been historically so rigid, and even with children, and especially with the oppressed, we must find ways to break hegemony and share the role of generating knowledge in a radically democratic way.

    1. Any attack against lesbians and gays is a Black issue, because thousands of lesbians and gay men are Black.  

      Reminds me of the Martin Luther King Jr quote, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere". Just because you are not that certain identity being directly impacted does not mean you wont be impacted in the future.

    1. Drawings

      The stylistic way in which the images are drawn seem almost unsettling. It reminds me a bit of the original drawings from Alice in Wonderland - exaggerated features, grimaces, etc. I think it adds to the dark humor of the comics.

    2. turns

      Oldbuck has been living quite a life. His "love" or infatuation for his ladylove have made him crazy. This reminds me of a modern day superhero movie in the ways that everything is so far fetched and completely unrealistic.

    3. For eight-and-forty hours he believes himself dead.

      This reminds me of the moments in older animation such as Looney Tunes where the character dramatically states, "Goodbye cruel world!" or something similar. Shows that that type of exaggerated humor has been around for a while.

    1. So I unto my selfe alone will sing, The woods shall to me answer and my Eccho ring.

      This reminds me of Shakespeare, which is probably the most comfortable I am with early modernism. But there is always the, "Going to the woods" or "Go to nature" for the answer theme. It to me seems like another major link between the macro/micro-chasm. In this case he may be alone but crying out to the woods that are going to echo his message, essentially they will communicate his message to the gods/universe. Nature is beautiful and ethereal, so what better way to send a message than to have the woods echo it?

    1. Like Mather and Sewall, Fox was clearly sympathetic to theprospect of Afro-Christianity;

      Stemming from Hannah's comment above, this particular section reminds me of the film 'The Blind Side'.. a nuclear white Christian family with a white pickett fence that adopts and sympathizes with an abandoned black boy... placing upon him their morals, and religion. Essentially 'providing religious instruction' as noted above.

    1. People do, in-deed, add the word 'maker' or 'poet' to the name of the metre, and speak ofelegiac poets, or epic (that is, hexameter) poets, as ififwere not the imitation that makes the poet, btit the verse that entitles them all in-discriminately to the naine .

      This reminds me of a debate we got into in our Design II class last semester, where we were debating over how we define an "artist". Like how do you measure the point where you're no longer scribbling words or lines on a page, but creating a work of art? I wish I had had this to bring up at the time. If the intention is to imitate life, then it is art, and you are an artist.

    2. Recognition, then, being be-tween persons, it may happen that one person only is recognised by the other-when the latter is already known -or it may be necessary that the.recognition should be on both sides.

      This chapter reminds me a lot of the impact of dramatic & situational irony in theatre. Both definitions seem to be present throughout part 11.

    1. In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check.

      The notion that King came to the capital to cash a check reminds me of Coates' call for reparations: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/ Reparations are not just important for black people in America, but for all Americans to atone for the original sins of this country which is still in search of ways to achieve the greatness its founders envisioned.

    1. self-driving news

      The talk of automation and technology that eliminates the role of the human being reminds me of a 1992 article by Steven Katz called "The Ethics of Expediency." Katz argues that the ideology that convinced the Germans during the Holocaust that killing people was okay was an entire rewrite of the cultural definition of the goodness -- that goodness began to be defined by expediency, efficiency, and obedience rather than by respect of human life. Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple now have the authority and sway to subconsciously rewrite the way that people view the market -- to convince consumers that something is good simply because it is faster and newer and not because it has a positive effect on the economy or on the lives of the people effected by it.

    1. We scrutinized single words. When Antigone, in Sophocles’s play from fifth-century Athens, decides to stand up to King Creon and bury her brother, the chorus describes her as making laws for herself. She is autonomous, they say, which is simply Greek for “making your own laws.”

      This definition of autonomy is an important one for education leaders to think about for so many reasons. It reminds me of last month's reading authored by Linda Christensen, where we read about how teachers actually have more space than we occupy. Some teachers see autonomy where others feel confined.

    1. Politically, the Inca Empire was a mixture of absolute monarchy, theocratic power, and agrarian collectivism, organized around a centralized bureaucratic state at the service of the ruling class. The Inca king (the Sapa Inca or “Unique Inca”) was treated as a divine being whose authority was above any law. The Incas themselves called their empire Tahuantinsuyu or “The four parts together.” Each part of the Tahuantinsuyu was governed by an apo, a close relative of the Sapa Inca, who served as a viceroy, while also being a member of the council of state and an advisor on imperial affairs. The organization of the Inca Empire rested on certain key elements: a theocratic concept of power; the organization of tribute from subject peoples, taken in labor services; and the tripartite division of land into the lands of the Sapa Inca, the lands of the Sun (the priests’ lands), and the lands of subject peoples collectively called the ayllu.

      The paragraph that I highlighted explains how the Incan Empire operated. It reminds me of a mixture between the U.S. and England's government where there is a president-like figure at the top, but also his family are the ones who rule over almost like the royal family. The Incan's had a very organized society due to its structure and trust in each other and those are two top reasons why the empire was so successful.

    1. ffects

      This passage reminds me of the concept of cultural capital, which I think is important to remember as teachers. Although we must me mindful of the previous experiences of students and utilize them to help students succeed, we must remember that we cannot appropriate these experiences.

    1. Chapter 2 The DerivativeBusiness Calculus96The Profit (P)for q items is TR(q) –TC(q), the difference between total revenue and total costsThe average profit for q items is P/q. The marginal profit at q items is P(q + 1) –P(q), or ()qP′Graphical Interpretations of the Basic Business Math TermsIllustration/Example:Here are the graphs of TR and TC for producing and selling a certain item. The horizontalaxis is the number of items, in thousands. The vertical axis is the number of dollars, also in thousands. First, notice how to find the fixed cost and variable cost from the graph here. FC is the y-intercept of the TC graph. (FC = TC(0).) The graph of TVC would have the same shape as the graph of TC, shifted down. (TVC = TC –FC.) We already know that we can find average rates of change by finding slopes of secant lines. AC, AR, MC, and MR are all rates of change, and we can find them with slopes, too.AC(q) is the slope of a diagonal line, from (0, 0) to (q, TC(q)).AR(q) is the slope of the line from (0, 0) to (q, TR(q)).The Marginal Revenue (MR)at q items is the cost of producing the nextitem, MR(q) = TR(q + 1) –TR(q). Just as with marginal cost, we will use both this definition and the derivative definition MR(q) = TR’(q).Your pro

      This type of math sort of reminds me of statistics but in a easier less complex way

    1. There’s really no mystery about Trump. He’s exactly what he seems to be. The only reason we keep regurgitating stories like this one is because we can’t collectively believe it.

      All of the coverage and commentary since the excerpts from Wolff's book came out yesterday reminds me of disaster porn.

    1. The show’s creators aimed to skewer and rebut the attitudes of its central character, the bigot Archie Bunker. But when scientists surveyed high school students in a Midwest town, they found that the most prejudiced teenagers in the group were the ones most likely to be watching Archie every week. “The program is more likely reinforcing prejudice and racism than combating it,” the researchers concluded.

      Reminds me of all the people who watch Fight Club and think Tyler Durden is the hero.

  4. Dec 2017
    1. It can be a dangerous slope for donors having the power to decide how their efforts can unfold, power has the potential to breed greed

      A good point. This reminds me of conflicts in our own government as well, when political candidates are funded by the super-wealthy who then leverage power when it comes time for votes on legislation...

    1. The blank, yellow light reminds of the sun’s light, displaying a silhouette of my body on the floor while wiping down the table three customers just finished up at, a chore that I never really enjoyed while working at Continental, a local restaurant, last summer. It reminds me to open my window and put my shades up, that I shouldn’t be crammed up in my room all day like the items stacked up in the corner.

      I think this is an important transition in my essay, because it begins to move from the subject of my paragraph to why it is actually important. I added in the part about the restaurant I worked at last summer, Continental, because I think it's another great example of a specific detail that is unique to me. Additionally, I wanted to include more than just the objects that sit on my desk, so I decided to add this paragraph on the light in my room.

    1. 2013, Verlyn Klinkenborg, author and lecturer in Yale’s English Department, wrote an editorial for The New York Times.

      Right from the start we see an example of an ecology a reader could/should(?) recognize in order to better understand context (and potential bias). The spirit of this piece reminds me of Birkenstein and Graff's THEY SAY, I SAY--Webber is entering a conversation that Klinkenborg previously entered, but had started before.

    1. purposeful dialogue focused on the exploration of complex ideas extends student thinking. Deep thinking creates the conditions for retaining and then mobilising important knowledge. Through informed debate, argument, and persuasion, students are cognitively stretched.

      Oracy is a new term. This is a helpful definition. It reminds me of Kelly Gallagher's purposes for writing.

    1. I barely had the experience of observing the edge of the sea in detail, and I never discovered a secret pool hidden within a cave before. We often think that empathy and sympathy resonate with readers. For instance, if I know and care about the topic that Carson intends to introduce, or even share her feelings in some ways, then I am supposed to be more engaged in the reading process. Carson, however, depicts something completely unfamiliar to me and successfully leads me into her personal place, which coincidentally responds to Dorothy Allison’s request: “Can you take me somewhere no one else has?”

      Unlike the original short essay, I try to examine the words "empathy" and "sympathy" in a deeper level. I search for the definitions of these two words and find that they are to some extent related to suffering or sorrow, but they can be comprehended in a broad way. It reminds me of those articles that are closely related to my own life and experiences. I tried to recall my feelings and reactions that I had when I was reading those articles. Then I thought about Carson's article again and explained why I nearly had no empathy or sympathy for her subject of writing. In this way, I was able to bring up the confusing point and smoothly introduce the final question, which may hopefully provoke audiences into thinking seriously about the question.

    1. This can be both good and bad.  For example, a resident may eat lunch but once lunch is all cleaned up and everything is out of view they question when lunch will be served.  As a staff member tries to redirect them and alert them they have already eaten some of the residents take it as an insult to their memory and become agitated. 

      Wow-- such a delicate dance you must be doing all the time. Reminds me of this beautiful podcast: http://www.radiolab.org/story/121385-bus-nowhere/. Seriously, LISTEN TO THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY!!!

    1. Ma Rainey

      Hughes might see this poem as more of a celebration of black culture and an acceptance of that culture and what it means to be part of it. This reminds me of what he said about the young poet and how he saw that man as rejecting this same culture instead of doing what Sterling Brown does here and embracing it.

    1. out authenticity of di

      I love this point. I was reading Christopher Emdin's book for white folks who teach in the hood and this reminds me of his book. He describes that all children come from different backgrounds and different ethnicity's that may be different from what you imagine your class to be. teachers have to be able to accept children background within their class.

    1. that education like private & individual concerns, should be left to private & individual effort; not reflecting that an establishment,

      In this part of the Rockfish Gap Report, the writer is showing that the individual and the school are separate. This reminds me of how the University will say that certain clubs or groups are not affiliated with the University and do not reflect the institution's views. It's interesting that the basis for this was rooted so long ago.

    2. It may well be questioned whether fear, after a certain age, is the motive to which we should have ordinary recourse. The human character is susceptible of other incitements to correct conduct, more worthy of employ, and of better effect.

      This aspect of the document reminds me of UVA's policy with regard to Honor Code violations. Rather than a catch-all expulsion or other disciplinary policy, the University makes allowances for students to turn themselves in with lesser consequences and be counseled and tried by their peers through the Honor Committee. Although this wasn't established until later in the University's timeline, it's intriguing to me that this idea of understanding, rather than punishment, as a means for discipline is so deeply rooted in the culture of the University.

      Annie Parnell

    3. to appoint & remove professors, two thirds of the whole number of visitors voting for the removal

      In the current UVA policy directory, reasons for termination of a professor include a variety of reasons, one of which I was particularly interested: "unacceptable performance after due notice". This statement in the Rockfish Gap Report reminds me of course evaluations that we have been filling out at the end of the semester. I wonder if these are weighed to see if two-thirds of students disprove of a particular professor. If they do not perform their duties properly, why should they continue to teach? UVA has always wanted the best for their students. http://uvapolicy.virginia.edu/policy/prov-014

      -Lauren H

    1. tho rather, as the proofs of the being of a god, the creator, preserver, & supreme ruler of the universe, the author of all the relations of morality, & of the laws & obligations these infer, will be within the province of the professor of ethics; to which adding the developements of these moral obligations

      Maggie Lavoie

      Here, Thomas Jefferson seems to separate morals and religion, in the sense that teaching morals does not require teaching religion. This dissociation reminds me of a discussion about morals and religious beliefs that I had in my Engagement. In my debating Islams Class, we compared and contrasted how three different Presidents (Clinton, Bush, and Obama) approached and addressed the religion of Islam during their Presidencies. Our in-class discussion led us to talking about how during Presidential campaigns, candidates will often state their religious affiliation despite our country’s basis of a separation of church and state. Why, we asked, would candidates do this? We came to the conclusion that there is an inherent implication of morals in holding religious beliefs that is obviously appealing for a candidate to portray about him/herself. So, in the context of ethics at the University, is it possible to completely separate the moral nature of religion from religion itself or, deep down, are they inherently linked?

    2. To understand his duties to his neighbours

      This part of the Rockfish Gap Report seems a little vague. What are the duties to my peers? Who defines what these duties are? This reminds me of a discussion had in my engagement about the ideologies of Gandhi. Gandhi would argue that students at the university must sacrifice their individuality to have this shared community that Jefferson envisions. This is their duty. However, how much are students willing to sacrifice? Ultimately, few are willing to make the sacrifice as they are afraid others will not do the same.

    3. The objects of this primary education determine its character & limits. These objects would be, To give to every citizen the information he needs for the transaction of his own business. To enable him to calculate for himself, and to express & preserve his ideas, his contracts & accounts in writing. To improve by reading, his morals and faculties. To understand his duties to his neighbours, & country, and to discharge with competence the functions confided to him by either. To know his rights; to exercise with order & justice those he retains; to choose with discretion the fiduciaries of those he delegates; and to notice their conduct with diligence with candor & judgment. And, in general, to observe with intelligence & faithfulness all the social relations under which he shall be placed.

      This reminds me of the mission statement in businesses and organizations. It’s clearly laying out the objectives of what they want students to learn through this university education. While secondary education prepares you for college, college itself is much more long term and supposed to help prepare you for a job and for life. Furthermore, the sentence structure has a patriotic undertone with the emphasis on rights (constitution). The line ‘to observe with intelligence & faithfulness all the social relations under which he shall be placed’ is interesting because it is easy to see their concern a student’s social standing. This depicts their want for students to do well and have a good position in society in a way that will better reflect the University. We see this even now, when UVA advertises its alumni being in high standing positions around the world. ‘To enable him to calculate for himself, and to express & preserve his ideas, his contracts & accounts in writing’ shows UVA’s dedication to preserving ideas in history by wanting to keep everything in writing. In another section of this document, they were looking down on indigenous populations for being backwards thinkers, but they are willing to preserve their own history and culture.

    4. Sales of two Glebes

      A Glebe was a parcel of land granted to a church, revenues from farming which were used to support the priest and church. If this means that the founders of the University partially funded it by selling church properties, this is fascinating; it reminds me of many statements made by Jefferson and the other founders criticizing religion and Christianity in particular. The fact that the board or town saw fit to sell these lands shows that they believed that education is more valuable than religion, and this would have been a relatively new belief in the western world.

    1. I believe him when he says help gon' come.

      Indicates a high sense of trust in the her son. Reminds me of a Faulkner story from the Sound of Fury collection.

    1. in black

      One of the elements of Southern Gothic stories is the decaying landscape and atmosphere. The female protagonist is in black, a symbol of decay and death. It also reminds me of the three old women in "Jordan's end", who are also dressed in black.

    2. And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery among the ranked and anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers who fell at the battle of Jefferson.

      The anonymous graves of Union and Confederate soldiers: this reminds me of Ode to the Confederate dead, but this statement also looks as those who shed blood for the Union as nameless peoples. This suggests that the battle for the Southern tradition, slavery had passed and this was no longer the concern of those living in the town.

    1. We should be far too from the discouraging persuasion, that man is fixed, by the law of his nature, at a given point: that his improvement is a chimæra, and the hope delusive of rendering ourselves wiser, happier or better than our forefathers were.

      This quote reminds me of the important Jeffersonian ideal of "lifelong learning," something that is so integral to the University that it is taught to prospective students on tour at UVA. Everyone can learn, no matter how young or old. This is why UVA students are called first years, second years etc. because it implies you are only in your "nth" year of learning, and that there is no cap to these levels of learning.

    1. wheeled mirrors under every vehicle lest one of their fellow-countrymen was clinging there.

      This passage reminds me of an episode of Rick Steve's Europe I saw recently where he went to the Berlin Wall Museum. There was an interesting exhibit that displayed all of the ways people tried to get across the wall. People tried to strap themselves under cars or hide in luggage. There was a truck on display that had a fake side gas tank where someone could stowaway.<br> There was even a giant slingshot for someone to leap over the wall. It gives us an insight into how badly people wanted to leave.

    1. Success is counted sweetest By those who ne'er succeed. To comprehend a nectar Requires sorest need.

      This reminds me of the quote: "To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail."

    1. And now—unwittingly, you've made me dreamOf violets, and my soul's forgotten gleam.

      She seems to love violets and all the things it reminds her of. Saying how god created a beautiful flower.

    1. To those people who believe that there are such creatures in the supernatural, bloodsucking predators who stalk mankind in the night, just hearing this word aloud in a crowded room instantly draws their attention to the speaker. All eyes turn to face him as their bodies tense up, becoming like a herd of deer in the communal process of deciding whether or not to bolt.

      Reminds me when i was younger and was afraid of monsters.

    1. To enlighten them with mathematical and physical sciences which advance the arts

      It is interesting how separate attention was given to the arts and STEM courses/programs, yet how they recognized the importance of both, and their interconnectivity. This reminds me of our different course requirements and how there are several courses that fit into multiple categories. Since we are require to take mathematic and artistic courses it is easier for us to relate different courses to others we take because of the differing yet sometimes convergent ideas shared in each course.

    1. The STEAM labs, STEAM coordinators and technology education teachers are part of a district-wide embrace of “computational thinking.”

      This statement reminds me of ECE 543 Emergent Literacy Course instructor that often states, teachers can no longer remain isolated with their classroom doors shut. Teachers must work with co-workers and other stakeholders to maximize learning experiences for students and others that have stake in the classroom.

    1. If you want to make the translated text accessible, try doing it for the person whowrote it.

      Reminds me of Schleiermacher and his 'bring the reader to the author' statement.

    1. “I can't, I won't let her go! she's a dear good girl!” replied Mrs. Franks. “Thechildren are attached to her, and so am I; let Minny or any other of them go—but do not, for Heaven's sake, tear Maggie from me!”

      This particular paragraph reminds me of the movie the help when Minny goes and works at the young white ladies house and she grows to love her and doesn't want to let her go its like they become "friends" yet Minny is still the help but the young white lady doesn't see her as the help. It's like they use the slaves/ help for their own inner issues or their emotional satisfaction, which is pathetic.

  5. Nov 2017
    1. standardized

      This standardization of human encounter really creates an issue of authenticity. This sentence reminds me of Chic-fil-a's required "my pleasure" every time someone says thank you. Because a vast majority of people know that it is required of employees, and it is often said without sincerity, the standardization decreases the meaning of the interaction.

    1. they supposed that the governing considerations should be the healthiness of the site, the fertility of the neighbouring country, and it’s centrality to the white population of the whole state:

      The way that Jefferson writes about the importance of the "centrality to the white population" as well as other clearly racist or unjust situations comparing white and black men reminds me of my engagement class, Doing Fieldwork. In this class, I am working on a project that analyzes the language of UVa's Title IX and sexual assault policies and how the University communicates these things to first year students. The language of a text is so important when it comes to communicating with an audience. Jefferson was clearly writing this document with the intention that it would only be read by (educated) white males. It is also interesting to see the almost euphemistic language that is used when talking about how the University will be for white men and white men only. With this language, it almost makes this document and Jefferson's demographic ideals seem normal.

    2. Spanish is highly interesting to us, as the language spoken by so great a portion of the inhabitants of our Continents, with whom we shall possibly have great intercourse ere long; and is that also in which is written the greater part of the early history of America.

      It is evident that the utility of academic topics was greatly taken into consideration during the formulation of this document. While French was mentioned to be a very important language during the time, the projected importance of the Spanish language strikes me as being more compelling. While not immediately important, the Spanish language was projected to be significant, and this inspired the founders to at least mention it in this document as a potential critical aspect of a UVa student's education. This reminds me of the New College Curriculum in certain ways because the developers of the curriculum had to decide which aspects of a liberal arts education need to be altered to fit a contemporary and even future society/workforce. In order to make this change, the developers of New College would have had to adopt a similar line of thinking as used by the founders when considering which languages were most important at the time and which languages would be more important as time progressed.

    1. These institutions, intermediate between the primary schools and university, might then be the passage of entrance for Youths into the University, where their classical learning might be critically compleated, by a study of the authors of highest degree.

      This quote reminds me of how in high school, students spend a good majority of their time questioning what the point of school as a whole is-- why do we take a variety of classes, rather focusing solely on the ones that pertain to what we (think) we want to for the rest of our lives? How can we get the best grades while putting in the least amount of effort? Why do our tests focus so heavily on analysis of our concepts instead of testing facts? In the face of these questions, students then tend to simply get through high school by memorizing their information and then forgetting it after tests, neglecting classes they find “arbitrary,” and simply trying to get through high school rather than enjoying it. The interesting truth of it all, however, is that the entire point of high school is to learn how to learn. High school is an environment for exploration on a smaller scale-- students have a plethora of classes so that they do not go into any college major completely blind to what the topics entail, and they analyze in order to prepare slowly for the “messiness” that is real world applications of concepts. Most importantly, students are being given so much information on such a variety of topics, and they are supposed to digest the information, rather than memorizing and then simply forgetting it all. When you learn how to learn, you go into your life more intrigued by your surroundings and more motivated to work towards an actual career or other goal. Thomas Jefferson believed that learning happens everywhere and anywhere, and this in combination with my aforementioned thoughts prompts me to think-- how can we restructure public high schools in a way that actually fosters a sense of learning rather than showing students simply how to “survive” and “memorize?”

    2. effected the great blessings of moderating his own, of accomplishing what was beyond his feeble force, & of extending the comforts of life to a much enlarg[ed] circle, to those who had before known it’s necessaries only. That these are not the vain dreams of sanguine hope, we have before our eyes real & living examples.

      This segment hints nicely towards the idea that education serves as a beacon of hope for those individuals who are less fortunate in their daily lives, who live in uncomfortable, nonoptimal living conditions, or who simply dream of creating better, happier lives for themselves in their futures. America is founded on three predominant ideals-- change, the individual’s ability to take matters into their own hands, and the overall individual growth that stems from change. Americans do not have to live their same types of lives forever, nor do they have to be the same type of person they have always been. Because of this mentality, many individuals are able to mentally cope with their negative living conditions by using their education, and the type of life they wish to establish as a result of it, as their motivating factor. They can hence further push themselves to work as hard as possible in their schooling and to become as intellectual as they can, just so that they can experience a sense of contentedness with their lives. Finding inspiration in other individuals or peers who have become successful as a result of education serves as another motivating factor, since humans like to have concrete evidence of the fact that their efforts are actually being accounted for something positive. Taking this a step further, this reminds me of the overall beauty of education-- that it is never too late to become educated, nor is there such thing as too much education. Throughout normal life, there are single mothers who set out to get a better education in order to provide better lives for their families, immigrants who want to establish themselves and find success in America, young adults who want to grow up and live out their lifelong dreams, middle-aged adults who want to try out new careers or lifestyles-- the types of these individuals are endless. Education ultimately ends up becoming a key element in both attempting to find optimal life satisfaction and figuring out one’s life purpose.

    3. To enable him to calculate for himself,

      I find myself agreeing with this concept, and actually encouraging it. It reminds me of that phrase "Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime." This idea of "enabl[ing]" one to "calculate for himself" and to "preserve" and progress the information given to them, is important for a sustained education. Similar to the quote with the fish, the university aims it's education to give and keep giving for a life time. If they equip their students correctly, this will enable them to this with the right resources. (The repeated use of "him" is a bit off putting, but surely we have progressed since then with our inclusion of more communities).

    1. in short, to be developed by time, as those who come after us shall find expedient. They will be more advanced than we are, in science and in useful arts, and will know best what will suit the circumstances of their day.

      This is interesting because these lines make the establishment of the university flexible and up for interpretation, much like the later written Constitution. This shows Jefferson understood the need to make clear that things can change. This also reminds me of the discussion we had in our engagement discussion about how you cannot tell for sure if you are advancing in art or science. I do appreciate Jefferson's optimism regarding the future of society.

    2. nothing, more than education, adorning the prosperity, the power and the happiness of a nation.

      This quote seems to be extremely Jeffersonian with its emphasis on education and reminds me of one of the goals of UVA which is to develop citizens of our nation. Furthermore, the fact that education has the most vital role in creating happiness in our nation connects to my engagement class, Poverty Counts. Education plays a key role in poverty because people often times do receive enough education in order to get higher paying jobs. As a result, they either work trivial, low-paying jobs or do not work at all. Truly, education plays an important part in the happiness and well-being of an American citizen.

    3. nothing, more than education, adorning the prosperity, the power and the happiness of a nation.

      This reminds me of what education reformer Horace Mann said in 1848: “Education, then, beyond all other divides of human origin, is a great equalizer of conditions of men—the balance wheel of the social machinery.” Like Horace Mann said, education can empower people—despite social, ethnic, or gender differences—to ameliorate societal conditions. Although this time period was characterized by racism and sexism, the mentality demonstrated in these lines in the Rockfish Gap Report is a progressive one. In this line, it does not say "white men are the key to the power and happiness of a nation." "Nothing, more than education" it asserts, is key to a nation's prosperity and posterity as well. Jefferson wholeheartedly believed that the values we hold dear, such as democracy and liberty, depend on providing people with a quality education for years to come. In this paragraph of the Rockfish Gap Report, he makes his views on the importance of education abundantly clear to emphasize the necessity of establishing a college that will serve for years to provide high-quality, comprehensive educations that will enable people to partake in bettering society. This article has a little tidbit about Thomas Jefferson's view on education

    1. to prescribe & control the duties & proceedings of all officers, servants & others with respect to the buildings, lands, appurtenances & other property & interests of the university

      The language here is interesting as it avoids using the word "slave". It instead describes the people who would work on the university as "officers, servants, and others". In other words, it tiptoes around the word in order to avoid the harsh reality of the situation. In fact, in this entire document, the word "slave" is only used once. And even here it is describing the property of someone else, rather than the university. I think that even though it was generally accepted at the time that slaves would be building this university, these writers still had to be careful with their language in order to get their proposal approved.

      https://www.whitehousehistory.org/questions/did-slaves-build-the-white-house

      This reminds me of the rhetoric used when building the White House. It was originally planned that Europeans would come to the U.S to build the White House, however this plan and talk quickly changed, and slaves were forced construct this landmark.

    1. "I can't stay behind, my Lord," was struck up, and sung by the entire multitude with a zest and spirit, a swaying of the bodies and nodding of the heads and lighting of the countenances and rhythmical movement of the hands, which I think no one present will ever forget.

      This particular sentence reminds me of how it is at church when a powerful and meaningful song is sung.

    1. Every department has the programs, faculty, staff, and organization it needs to advance learning within its given field, but sometimes the structures across departments do not align with one another, making interdisciplinarity collaboration a challenge.

      i think that this should be a goal for all colleges/universities. i think that more majors should be able to connect with one another. this reminds me of the cluster project that is going on at PSU. i think that the more we work to be interdisciplinary, the gap between the two will be smaller

    2. 10,000 hours

      this reminds me of how much goes into an education because it is so much more than just classes, it is volunteering, working jobs, homework, and extra curricular. so much more goes into an education then just classes its more of the experiences where you learn things

    3. 10,000 hours.

      Sounds about right to me, reminds me of the saying it takes 2000 hours to get good at something. Keep in mind being a master does not mean you have nothing else to learn

    1. in black,

      The female protagonist is in black, a symbol of decay and death. It also reminds me of the three old women in "Jordan's end", who are also dressed in black.

    1. who ate fire in paint hotels or drank turpentine in Paradise Alley, death, or purgatoried their torsos night after night

      The repetition reminds me of Quicksand. He's displaying such a destructive and lethal habit/lifestyle and these individuals that he is describing are continuing to dwell in these self-destructive habits while disregarding their own well-being because it makes them happy ("Paradise Alley"). Helga goes through a similar self-destructive cycle.

    1. To improve by reading, his morals and faculties.

      It's interesting that throughout this document there is so much emphasis on the "morals" of the students. There seems to be a consensus that morals can be strengthened through education. However, this seems contradictory, since at this time slavery was being practiced, and this document speak of African Americans and Native Americans in a very derogatory manner. How can people have "strong morals" when horrific discrimination and slavery was occurring? This specific quote reminds me of the engagement classes titled "Does reading literature make us more ethical? Really?" as well as "Mortality and Morality." Obviously, there is still an emphasis on developing and strengthening morals in our present University.

    2. this provision being deemed advantageous to morals, to order, & to uninterrupted study

      Not so subtly, this statement refers to the purpose behind the physical structures at UVA. This reminds me of my Engagement calls "Making the Invisible Visible" in which we went on a tour of the University. We learned that many of the spaces at UVA were "white spaces" and these spaces were tailored specifically to not only keep out people of color, but also to have them entirely out of sight. When I walk around UVA, I often think about how beautiful our campus is, but also about why I think it is beautiful. How were my ideals of beauty constructed? How were the ideals of beauty in the architecture at UVA constructed, and how is the University as a physical site enforcing a system? This sentence, well the paragraph really...makes me question UVA as a place and institution.

    1. NGOs frequently create showcase projects with questionable sustainability and perfunctory linkages to local health services."

      This reminds me of the chapter we read in Shady Practices about NGOs and their need to bring back "success stories" to publicly promote donation and public support. This also then shows a systemic side to the NGOs in terms of how they present themselves.

    1. "I fell over something. I picked it up and it was a leg.

      This imagine is jarring obviously, but it also speaks to a kind of banality of war once someone becomes used to it. Throughout this particular passage, Smith emphasizes his normalcy and ordinariness. There was a everyday kind of stoicism that become normal for Londoners at the time. People just had to get on with their lives because there was nothing else to do. In some ways this recounting of the bombing reminds me of a primary text from a few weeks ago where a former child factory worker casually recounts the cruelty he faced as part of his employment.

    2. It has thrown a vivid light upon our preparations for defence, on their strength and on their weakness.

      While Chamberlain proclaimed and justified appeasement as the solution to Germany's lust to expand her territory, based on this statement, I think he, or perhaps some of his advisors had doubts as to how well appeasement would work. If appeasement policies, would have stopped Germany, then why would the state of Britain's military matter? (in the context of an imminent war, although it is wise for nations to have strong militaries) Perhaps Chamberlain knew, but in the desire to prevent another war, he tried to deny the truth about Germany's aggression. In some ways his passionate justification reminds me of the Fifth Harry Potter book, where the ministry of magic spends nearly the entire book denying Voldemort's return, because they feared a renewal of aggression and violence.

    1. used fame to recruit signatories and then used that same fame to call for a skewed version of justice

      This reminds me of the Jihan Gomeshi situation with the C.B.C. Whereby people were caught up in the public persona of the accused, rather than the behaviour of the individual. I think it's challenging for people to separate the two. The fame and accomplishments of the accused should not enter into the equation at all. It's just another example of the abuse of power that can happen when institutions are invested in the public persona of the accused individual, to the point that they will overlook abusive behaviour.

    1. institutional demands for enterprise services such as e-mail, student information systems, and the branded website become mission-critical

      In context, these other dimensions of “online presence” in Higher Education take a special meaning. Reminds me of WPcampus. One might have thought that it was about using WordPress to enhance learning. While there are some presentations on leveraging WP as a kind of “Learning Management System”, much of it is about Higher Education as a sector for webwork (-development, -design, etc.).

    1. In order to break apart and reorganize a system, a preliminary system must already exist. In the case of education, the modern disciplines—science, art, social science, humanities, and applied science—are considered the prologue to interdisciplinarity.

      this reminds me of the classes that were mandatory for us to take in middle school/high school. it seems like maybe middle school and high school had more of an interdisciplinary approach and college is used to provide information for a narrower interest that is based off of the courses from middle school/high school

    1. Nice font choice.

      • Your alignment still needs some work. It's not centered on my screen.
      • Your images need to have a width:100%; and their div containers overflow-x:hidden; This will fix the issue with the horizontal scroll on smaller screens.
      • I would change the blue colour with something darker, as it reminds me of the police instead of a luxury hotel.
      • The logo on the bottom of the page is massive. Try to make that smaller and align it in the center. This can be done by just adding text-align:center on it's div container, and a value for max-width to the logo (i.e. max-width:200px).
    1. On this model, students are responsible for their own education, often forming communities or societies to collaborate. Professors typically worked one-on-one with students, but from time to time would be enlisted to offer a series - or 'course' - of lectures on a given topic. The lectures could be (and often were) public, and were frequently attended by other professors in the same field.

      Reminds me of @KevinCarey1 describe the original university of Bologna, in his End of College. Don’t have the quote handy (one of many cases where #OpenAccess would allow for more thoughtful discussion), but the gist of that paragraph sounds similar to what @Downes is describing here

    1. unfortunately, a Mrs. Finch had come to the meeting uninvited, and she squeaked out, ‘We don’t build nests to hold water, but to hold eggs,’ and then the thrushes stopped cheering, and Solomon was so perplexed that he took several sips of water. ‘Consider,’ he said at last, ‘how warm the mud makes the nest.’

      This entire scene (continuing into the next page) reminds me of the group conversation scene in Alice where all the animals have finished escaping from the flood and are arguing about how to get dry. The humor uses similar techniques and they both involve a sardonic way of looking at the ridiculous parts of ordinary life.

    2. ‘Poor little half-and-half!’ said Solomon,

      Peter Pan is caught halfway between worlds. He could be said to be stuck within the portal rather than on one side or another. This reminds me of the white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland and other guide figures in portal fiction, but I can't think of other examples where the guide figure is also (more or less) the main character.

    3. But, like all the most wonderful things that happen in the Gardens, it is done, we concluded, at night after the gates are closed.

      Reminds me of the Labyrinth, where the maze kept changing.

    4. From the Hump we can see the gate that is called after Miss Mabel Grey, the Fig I promised to tell you about.

      Reminds me of Wizard of Oz, in the sense that there are different locations with different types of characters and/or different fantastical elements. Like how there is Munchkinland and Haunted Forest in Wizard of Oz, here there is the Figs and the Hump.

    5. Her eyes glistened with admiration when he told her of his adventures, especially of how he went to and fro between the island and the Gardens in the Thrush’s Nest:

      This reminds me of the end of Alice in Wonderland when Alice is telling her sister and her dreams/adventures in wonderland

    6. Immediately the last clang had died away Maimie distinctly heard a voice say, ‘So that’s all right.’ It had a wooden sound and seemed to come from above, and she looked up in time to see an elm-tree stretching out its arms and yawning.

      This part with the trees reminds me of the Wizard of Oz

    7. ‘The window I flew out at will be open,’ Peter said confidently. ‘Mother always keeps it open in the hope that I may fly back.’

      This quote reminds me of the quote on p 26: "...for to have faith is to have wings."

    1. Secondly, being able to think abstractly, is very significant to me. It is so important to have different ideas that may even seem impossible.

      This reminds me of outside of the box thinking and creative problem solving that is inherent with IDS

    2. Declaring this major feels like me declaring, “I will not settle for less! I will make the most of my opportunities!” And that feels really good because unlike many other majors where it is easy to feel trapped or to feel stuck in this routine that everyone who has graduated with your degree has gone through- the same process; this study has me standing alone and in this case, that isn’t a bad thing.

      This reminds me that I am not using the cookie cutter major. I'm developing something unique to me, it's not an already existing mold, it's my mold, and YES, I agree, it does feel really good.

    1. There was something in his appearance remarkably beautiful and engaging. His black hair, fine as floss silk, hung in glossy curls about his round, dimpled face, while a pair of large dark eyes, full of fire and softness, looked out from beneath the rich, long lashes, as he peered curiously into the apartment. A gay robe of scarlet and yellow plaid, carefully made and neatly fitted, set off to advantage the dark and rich style of his beauty; and a certain comic air of assurance, blended with bashfulness, showed that he had been not unused to being petted and noticed by his master.

      This reminds me of how in all of the other narratives about Madison Washington was described as very attractive and handsome for a black person.

    2. Yes, I consider religion a valeyable thing in a nigger, when it’s the genuine article, and no mistake

      Why is religion such a hot commodity here? Do they believe the religious morals make the slaves more like them? There's something about this that reminds me of people dressing up their pets. They're trying to make their pets look like them, yet this very thing sets the pets further apart from humans. They become dolls. Is that what the slaves were being reduced to?

    1. There are problems within individual disciplines; divisions between childhood education, legal and social service providers and social science and humanities researchers; as well as divisions within the medical sciences, social sciences and the humanities in their examination of medical ethics for childhood.”

      This reminds me of the saying "it takes a village to raise a child"; it takes multiple disciplines to solve a problem.

    2. Reminds me of a analogy of stove pipes. Instead of having multiple stove pipes or disciplines, we become integrated, and allow information to flow more easily.

    1. Katandabaliko

      This one the most seems like a pokemon to me. Pokemon names usually are portmateau, and this ogre's name has "katana" in it. These descriptions are written just like pokedex entries too. It talks about their powers, where they live, and how they feed.

      This one specifically reminds me of the pokemon Froslass. "When it finds humans or Pokémon it likes, it freezes them and takes them to its chilly den, where they become decorations."

    1. a genuine, popular, and sustainable alternative to capitalist digital media

      Your argument reminds me that nonprofit/open resources have such a uphill battle in ways that are analogous to or really isomorphic with co-ops more broadly in late capitalism: for every Park Slope Food Co-op that thrives next door to Whole Foods/Amazon (for now, at least!), there are innumerable scrappy, idealistic small-scale outfits that lose: it's hard to convince folks to pay the tax, so to speak, of $$ and convenience to work within the nonprofit structure's limitations.

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    1. oth professionals, such as the band Girl Talk

      This reminds me of something that was touched on in last week's playlist. Artists almost have to proactively LOOK for music that sounds like what they have just written so they can avoid an accidental copyright suit.

    1. the exaggerated reverence for the text,

      . . . reminds me of the "broken" textures you often find in proletarian/working-class writing, where we can see the shattered/distorted mirror-image of canonical authority . . . or, as Stephen Dedalus opines of his/Joyce's Calibanesque/colonial status: "It is the symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant." . . an inspiration perhaps for Naipaul's later "mimic men"?

    1. ‘Den I went an’ stood upon some high ol’ lonesome hill, An’ looked down on the place where I used to live.’

      Reminds me of the end of Zora Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God"

    2. They gave you the jobs that they were too good for,

      This reminds me of the infamous "They're taking out jobs" excuse when in reality those who use this phrase do Not want said jobs that are being "taken."

    3. She sang

      This reminds me of the Hughes' comment on how it's usually the black artists who are the ones able to retain some of their black identity when progressing in the world. She seems to be a cultrally important icon to african americans everywhere, as it's not just New Orleans that's affected by her songs, but it's also all sorts of places.

    1. It would surely count toward completion of Module 19, which emphasized empathy for the dispossessed.

      It seems like this new government controls emotions, understanding of social experiences, intelligence, etc. This reminds me of Spiderhead and how their little jail system was able to control people and make them all the same; similar to that of robots.

    1. To the poor, the hungry and the homeless, we are help and hope. To the refugee, we are safety and the promise of a brighter tomorrow. To the immigrant, we are a path to acceptance and participation. To the person immobilized by addictions, we are a road to recovery.

      Though brief, this part of the program overview does a good job of stating the goal or aim of CCS with each type of client. It also works effectively on an emotional level.

      The inspiring and optimistic style that these are written in reminds me of the beatitudes in the bible. 'Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted.' They begin with a type of person (the meek, pure in heart, etc.l) and then are followed up with a brief outcome (they shall inherit the earth, see God, etc.). In this text the poor will find help and hope, the refugee will be safe, the immigrant accepted, etc.

      By using this writing style the writer takes the readers thoughts away from the large and messy issues surrounding each of these topics and makes them think and feel of the person, the "one", as Christ did. Being tied to a church I can see why they took this approach.

      Recent immigration news.

      Recent refugee news.

      https://operationriogrande.utah.gov

    1. breaking it up into smaller and smaller unconnected fragments of academic specialization, even as the world looks to colleges for help in integrating and synthesizing the exponential increases in information brought about by technological advances

      This reminds me of the clusters at Plymouth state and how we're moving towards more integrated majors

    1. Friends, ye are there! Woe me,—yet I am not He whom ye seek? Ye stare and stop—better your wrath could speak! I am not I? Hand, gait, face, changed? And what I am, to you my friends, now am I not?

      It reminds you that he wrote this at the end of his life when he was alone and sick. You can feel his sorrow and loneliness as he is rejected from the people he cares about. He welcomes them with open arms and love however, because he is no longer the same as he was before he is turned away in a time when he needs them the most. The desperation is very clear throughout the poem.

    1. “She ain’t come back.”

      The girl's grammar isn't the greatest with everything she says, reminds me of the way the narrator talks in "The Semplica Girl Diaries". Maybe she doesn't have any education?

    1. we can’t really stop the national news from making us freaked out about remote things that have no impact on our daily life.

      Reminds me a tad of the thesis in The Information Diet: A Case for Conscious Comsumption by Clay A. Johnson

    1. On Sept. 15, nine days before the elections in Germany, the Green party complained to Facebook about a popular series of attack ads deriding its stances on gender-neutral bathrooms, electric cars and other topics. The party accused the advertiser, Greenwatch, of providing false contact information on its Facebook page and blog, which would violate a German Media Authority regulation requiring accurate contact information.

      This reminds me of Russian intervention in the 2016 presidential elections

    1. Triple-Entry Vocabulary Journal strategy

      This is such a great vocabulary tool. It reminds me of a Frayer Model, but there are several differences to note. I love the definition in the student's words- the Frayer has an exact definition but I think this type is more beneficial. The Frayer also includes synonyms and antonyms which could aid in student understanding in this Triple-Entry science journal.

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    1. I submitted before your needs, and I knew thenthatI must survive for something morethan survival's sake.I must survive for you.

      This reminds me of a study that was done, I can't remember the name of it. They took women (ex gang members) and put them in treatment, most went back to the gangs and all the rest who didn't ended up pregnant. Having a child gave them a sense of belonging, a reason to survive despite condition.

    1. who was born to be happy and has lived miserably

      Reminds me of how the defalcation of independence has changed from "Life, Liberty, and Property " and now the "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" and is such an innocent and pure statement that we all should seek happiness and no one should be left out.

    1. She doesn’t care for the Winold Reiss’ portraits of Negroes because they are “too Negro.” She does not want a true picture of herself from anybody. She wants the artist to flatter her, to make the white world believe that all negroes are as smug and as near white in soul as she wants to be

      This reminds me of something that was brought up in my ENG460 class yesterday, which was the comparison of John White's watercolors of the Algonquian to the engravings of Theodor De Bry. The engravings of De Bry took inspiration from White's watercolors, but he did take some liberties to tweak his engravings in a way that would fit the white idealization more. De Bry's engraving gives off a Renaissance like feel, while White's watercolor is probably closer to what the people depicted in the pieces looked like. I attached the images down below. Top: John White Bottom: Theodor De Bry

    2. “I want to be a poet–not a Negro poet,”

      This reminds me of the Johnson's novel "The Autobiography of An Ex-Colored Man". The main character is a colored man whose skin is light enough to 'pass' for white. He tends to got back an forth when it suits him, eventually living out the rest of his life as a white man. Through the novel he realizes that he too the easy way out. That it would have been much braver to live has a colored man. The novel also speaks to the 'artist' in him as he is a musician and he deals with being the best "Negro" musician vs. the best musician.

    1. because the Old Negro had long become more of a myth than a man

      Ugh, listening to this sounds like what white school teachers in the 1800s would be telling there children about Black people. It reminds me of the scene in Django Unchained where DiCaprio's Calvin Candy justified slavery through the debunked science of phrenology.

    1. Start on the first red bead. This is the first day of your period. Red beads indicate the days you are menstruating. Red symbolizes the blood. Most women bleed for 3-7 days

      My first reaction was to be a little bit annoyed with the very short choppy sentences here. But, as I remembered the audience that this is intended for, I felt grateful for the consideration. Being that they use this document to teach young girls/women in schools in Swaziland, South Africa, where contraception is very difficult to come by.

      In fact when thought of in this way, maybe some of the word use could have been even more simple. Especially as we read on in the hand out, the document does seem to be slightly heavy on the use of large words. With words like, "neutrality," "symbolize," and "probability," it seems like the document could have been made more accessible if more simple words were used. It reminds me of the rhetoric youtube video we watched in class about Trump's answer to one question. I believe he uses a 4th grade reading level of language on average. While most of us may quickly jump to the conclusion of that being ridiculous. It was actually a tactic that could have gained him some political points among the general public, because there was a huge group of people that could now fully understand him, he could not previously connect to politicians.

      This is where audience becomes very important. Here are some photos of the intended audience for this document...

    1. This is a challenge because these elements are found almost everywhere on ships -- even on new plastic surfaces,

      This reminds me of my conversation with Todd Taylor, the ocean engineering teacher, about invasive species and hoe easily ships transfer them

    1. Behold a child.

      The beginning reminds me of a description of baby Jesus. Considering the role that the Catholic Church plays throughout the story and the victimization of the "home babies", this creates a strong sense of irony throughout the piece.

  8. Oct 2017
    1. Without going outside his race, and even among the better classes with their “white” culture and conscious American manners, but still Negro enough to be different, there is sufficient matter to furnish a black artist with a lifetime of creative work. And when he chooses to touch on the relations between Negroes and whites in this country, with their innumerable overtones and undertones surely, and especially for literature and the drama, there is an inexhaustible supply of themes at hand.

      This reminds me of entertainer Issa Rae who's show I watch really explores such an in depth and variety of situations of race and society.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxUngY1sIhY

    2. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

      This line reminds me of one of the final lines of The Waste Land when Eliot writes, "These fragments I have shored against my ruins". Both artists share a desire to create something with the strength to save them from their current conditions.

    1. The chefs-d'œuvre of the sculptress need the polish of the master chisel; and the female pencil has never yet limned the immortal forms of beauty. The mind of woman is, perhaps, incapable of the originality and strength requisite for the sublime.

      This passage really bothers me. It makes no allowance for the limited access women had to artistic training. It is not a lack of talent but a lack of opportunity that produced fewer female geniuses. This reminds me of Jane Eyre's line about sisters needing as much exercise of their faculties as their brothers. While Sanford acknowledges that women can influence the world by influencing their husbands, this remark about the inherent lack of female talent and intellect is deeply troubling. Perhaps though she is following her own advice of maintaining humility.

    1. As the knowledge constructed is anindication of how the world might be, a variety of theoretical possibilities areacceptable

      While I generally agree with this, I would add that some frameworks can be simply wrong. It reminds me of what a friend of mine in grad school said in response to a student who claimed that there is no right or wrong answer when interpreting literary texts. He replied that there may not be a right interpretation, but there are definitely wrong ones.

    2. ehaviourist principlesconsider the learner to be atabula rasa, filled with transmission-based teaching thatimproves stimulus–response connections, thereby communicating and instilling a set ofpredetermined and agreed facts (Reeves, 1992).

      Reminds me of Paulo Freire...

    1. Mr. Earnshaw told me to wash it, and give it clean things, and let it sleep with the children.

      Here, we see Heathcliff referred to as "it" 3 times in one sentence. As soon as Heathcliff enters the house as a small child, it is clear that the Earnshaws do not recognize his humanity. Their discussion of him as an "it" reminds me of the objectification that Fanny faced when she went to live with the Bertram's in Mansfield Park. Like Fanny, Heathcliff is thought of as an object not a person. This is even more obvious when he is later described as a "stupid little thing." In addition to being called "it," Mr. Earnshaw's instructions for the boy make it seem as though he is an animal: "was it, and give it clean things, and let it sleep with the children." It sounds as if they are discussing a stray puppy, not a young child. It is interesting that Nelly is instructed to "let" Heathcliff sleep with the other children. Sleep is a biological need and a right that everyone should have, but Heathcliff needs to be allowed to sleep.

    1. psychologists used their knowl- edge of evaluation and testing to help assess the skills of trainees and select the individuals who were most likely to benefit from particular train- ing programs. For example, at one point in the war, the failure rate in a particular flight training program was unacceptably high. In order to overcome this problem, psychologists examined the general intellectual, psychomotor and per- ceptual skills of individuals who were able to successfully perform the skills taught in the pro- gram, and then developed tests that measured those traits. These tests were used to screen can- didates for the program, with those individuals who scored poorly being directed into other pro- grams. As a result of using this examination of entry skills as a screening device, the military was able to significantly increase the percentage of personnel who successfully completed the progra

      For some reason, this reminds me of a kind of precursor to adaptive learning / mastery pathways. I know it is a screening mechanism, but I coudl see how it could be the start of the individualized learning.

    1. the experience of read-alouds enabled chil dren to express themselves as individuals, connect with others, and make sense of the world

      This reminds me of the last module we did. Where students can relate to books through the real world.

    1. symptoms, which in turn may have contributed tostrained relationships. For example, one PND mothersaid:I do most of my work with water. I get a cold becauseI wash clothes.

      This line reminds me of the many superstions my parents had when I was growing up, ways that I would potentially become sick. One that is germane to the question is the idea of me getting sick because I'm in the rain without an umbrella. The woman rationalizes her distress by computing the cause as contact with water. She fails to address the authentic biomedical model related systems of her sickness. This may stem from her isolated, unfulfilling relationships that are linked to her stress and subsequent depression.

    1. You may prolong this branching out process for a while, until a reasonably coherent picture emerges.

      Brainstorming, breaking it down, drilling down, etc. I see how it definitely applies to multi fascited and complex subject matter. It reminds me of the onion, multiple layers form an onion, but one onion is usually good for a dish when cooking a meal. It's but an ingredient to the entree.

    2. All too often, experts forget that “problems of society do not come in discipline-shaped blocks

      This reminds me of the example we discussed in class last week. Obesity is not a simple problem; it is a multi-faceted health crisis with components ranging from diet to genetics to socioeconomics to physical inactivity. It cannot be solved by simply stating that "obese people need to get more exercise." All of the components need to be addressed.

    3.   To look beyond . . . is to be overwhelmed by the ocean’s magnitude: better to remain ignorant of all but our own tiny province. . . .  

      This statement reminds me of being in school and being so overwhelmed with everything going on around me and in school

    1. Being literate today does not necessarily ensure that one will be fully literate tomorrow since new technologies will always appear, regularly requiring additional new literacies.

      I agree! Technology is becoming more advanced as time progresses. This reminds me of the evolution of Apple and Microsoft. Both are providing new technologies every year! and new learning techniques are evolving along with that.

    1. Wheel

      Repetition. I feel the concept of an ever turning wheel relates to the unreal, undying city which persists in its attempt at progress but never really goes anywhere. Reminds me of Sisyphus. Perhaps this poem has the bones of existentialism.

    1. The man who stole me as soon as I was born, recorded the births of all the infants which he claimed to be born his property, in a book which he kept for that purpose.

      This reminds me of how Douglass talked about salve owners not allowing the slaves to know their ages because they were trying to not allow them to have that knowledge to use for rebellion

    2. The handle was about three feet long, with the butt-end filled with lead, and the lash, six or seven feet in length, made of cow-hide, with platted wire Page 15on the end of it.

      The whip used to beat the slaves reminds me of the whip they used for the crucifixion of christ, especially with the platted wire on the end. Maybe this is another biblical reference slaves owners used as a scare tactic for the slaves?

    1. Maggie had long been the favorite maidservant of her mistress, havingattained the position through merit. She was also nurse and foster mother tothe two last children of Mrs. Franks, and loved them, to all appearance, as herown. The children reciprocated this affection, calling her “Mammy.”

      This reminds me of the movie "The Help" where the maidservant were the ones taking care of the children and practically raising them. I wonder if this is another depiction of southern women.

    1. For hark ! I will tell you low . . . Iow . . . I am black, you see,– And the babe who lay on my bosom so, Was far too white . . . too white for me; As white as the ladies who scorned to pray Beside me at church but yesterday; Though my tears had washed a place for my knee.

      The speaker reveals that she carries a child with her on this journey, and the her child was a result of rape by her master. She describes the disconnect she feels when she looks at her child, as his face reminds her of the trauma of slavery and rape that was brought on by her master, and thus she cannot feel the maternal connection. Her trauma during her enslavement is emphasized here as the white people she was surrounded by treated her as sub-human, and the child's proximity to whiteness retraumatizes her all over again. The infanticide described in the next few lines is born out of this gruesome experience with whiteness, and her killing the child is a way of reclaiming agency and control of her own life as whiteness has stripped her of everything during her enslavement.

    1. The president did not answer questions from reporters about whether he rejected the support of white nationalists or whether he believed the car crash was an example of domestic terrorism

      Trump proceeds to dismiss acts of hatred in America because he is one of the main sources or hate this country has ever seen. He reminds me of Hitler. He uses language to destroy others in a subtle manner. As the president he is obligated to keep us informed.

    1. “Nothing is pain free,” he said, “but it’s a relatively easy fix so far.”

      This reminds me of a songs called Scars To Your Beautiful, by Alessia Cara. It says over and over how nothing good comes free, how we have to go through pain to get what we want. I feel as if this is quite applicable here.

    1. "No, she won't!" Thus, talk ing back to the story and addressing characters directly begins to blur the distinction between the story world and the children's world

      This reminds me of the story don't let the pigeon drive the bus. The readers are being spoken to in the book and they have to talk back to the pigeon and the bus driver.

    1. Terribly. I find it hard...hard to sleep at night. I have trouble concentrating.It pulled me off my normal life-routine. Especially since I see the scenes...which reminds me again what happened. I prefer to forget it, not to rememberit any more.

      This sentence of Yosef describing life after the accident he witnessed is a good indicator that he has embodied the experience and truly let it impact his life. He imagines the accident when he walks around his house, he has trouble sleeping, it seems like it has become a daily part of his life. Based off of what he describes it seems like he can vividly relive the moment and this is negatively impacting his mental health. What sticks out most to me as an embodied term is when Yosef says he would prefer to forget it yet it stops him from doing such basic, necessary things as sleeping and concentrating. These basic parts of life are so important and yet this experience has changed them completely.

    2. Why did I suddenly arrive at the clinic? [YEHUDA: Yes.] Because of theaccident I saw.YEHUDA: And what happened there?YOSEF: A woman fell on the ground and had a lot of blood. Afterwards, I saw thatthey covered her and took her away, and I understood that she died. Thisinfluenced me terribly.YEHUDA: In what way did it influence you?YOSEF: Terribly. I find it hard...hard to sleep at night. I have trouble concentrating.It pulled me off my normal life-routine. Especially since I see the scenes...which reminds me again what happened. I prefer to forget it, not to rememberit any more.

      The patient clearly states that the accident he saw affected his day-to-day life. However, interesting is that he showed up at the medical clinic, after he was seeking help with his rabbi. The world 'suddenly' exposes that this decision was somewhat reluctant. As a religious man, he was supposed to be satisfied with his rabbi advice. We know that his wife influenced that decision and that reveals him not being comfortable with secular treatment of his mental condition. This shows his personality being torn between his religious and traditional ways of living and secular/western civilization impacting his community and culture. Being nervous about his visit at the clinic, show that this appointment also adds to his already existing anxiety about how hi will be perceived by the Haredi community and the rabbi. Therefore he is embodying his religion, his traditions, his upbringing with the word ‘suddenly’, as this appointment is as unexpected and unanticipated as the accident he just witnessed

    1. no person hath a right to this that hath not a permanent fixed interest [i.e. landed property]

      It's jarring to us nowadays that landholders would be considered the only people in England to have a real interest in the government of the country. This is an argument that continued in one form or another for centuries. It wasn't just in England. I think part of Ireton's argument is that landholders are better informed than other members of the British public. It reminds me of the debate over iq tests and voting rights in America-- as though individuals had to prove that they were citizens worthy of making decisions.

    1. Learn to lurrrrrvveee yerrrrr currrrrvveees,” adding, “I actually used to hate them.”

      This quote here reminds me a lot of all the "big" teenage girls on instagram that now start posting their bodies on instagram saying they are not insecure about their body like before, and remind her followers that they should always embrace their curves, when before they would always complain about it. I have seen this a lot with many girls from my school, so in my opinion these girls get these ideas from celebs like Lovato.

    1. When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent, and angry puffs; but, when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and emit it in light and placid clouds, and sometimes, taking the pipe from his mouth, and letting the fragrant vapor curl about his nose, would nod his head in approbation.

      this reminds me of the devil wears prada when Miranda has certain facial expressions that represent her opinions without speaking ahaha

    1. A firm terrible a firm terrible hindering, a firm hindering have a ray

      This is also very confusing, but again, the repetition is interesting. It kind of reminds me of computer glitching out or a robot malfunctioning. This line says, "A firm" three times for no obvious reason.

    1. alert the public about epidemic outbreaks

      This reminds me of readings a few weeks back where we learned how social networks are used in giving warnings about public epidemic outbreaks. For example, bird flu. In fact, the SNA is also used for need of a disaster response via social media.

    1. To develope the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds cultivate their morals, & instil into them the precepts of virtue & order.

      I feel like the goal of many ideas (religious, political, historical) is to make sure the youth are involved in some way shape or form. I guess it is because of the cliche that the "youth are our future." Here, it is made sure that the minds of the youth are enlarged along with their morals. This reminds me of my Debating Islams engagement where we have discussed the 3 main radical ideologies, all in which push the participation of the youth and the passing of ideas to the youth.

      This also brings to mind the idea to "cultivate their morals." It kind bewilders me that their definition of morals made it okay to enslave a whole population of people because they felt they were inferior to them due to pigmentation of skin, or more of their lack of. You would think to have "morality" is to have compassion, to have some sense of "hmmm maybe this isn't right", "hmmm maybe they are human beings that do deserve rights."

    2. each of these was unexceptionable as to healthiness & fertility.

      The focus on healthiness and fertility reminds me sickeningly of the treatment of slaves and of women throughout history, as land, a place for a school to be built, was regarded in the same way that human beings were -- property; only worthy of life if they met specific criteria. A slave was only useful if it was healthy enough to perform the work necessary of its existence (as the slave owners thought). If a slave could not work in a field or in the home, they were a useless slave and often times killed for their inability to perform. The fertility of a slave and it's ability to reproduce was profitable as slave owners were able to buy a slave (if they raped their females) or two (male and female), and have their slave continue to produce more slaves and therefore more bodies able to do the slaveowner's biding. Such is similar to the view of women, as health and fertility were the most important aspects of a woman to society, besides obedience. Women's fertility could be manipulated and used for gain of both men and society. In some instances, women were only considered worthy of life if they produced male offspring. Such is seen in royalty, as King Henry vehemently believed that Catherine "was condemned by God not to have a boy and that Anne would provide him with one". This belief that the only worth of a woman is their ability to produce male heirs was carried into society for a long time after the Tudor times. And although the thoughts towards women are not as strict in modern society, the stigma towards women unable to have children or who do not want children has continued into modern society.

      source link : http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/tudor-england/henry-and-divorce/

    3. Education generates habits of application, order and the love of virtue; and controuls, by the force of habit, any innate obliquities in our moral organization. We should be far too from the discouraging persuasion, that man is fixed, by the law of his nature, at a given point: that his improvement is a chimæra, and the hope delusive of rendering ourselves wiser, happier or better than our forefathers were.

      These sentences really reminds me of the beginning of the book II of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, where Aristotle states that moral virtues are acquired by repetition of the coresponding acts. And the second sentence, I believe, is used to combat the belief that a man is fixed, that a good deed is done because there is a good man, and that there is just man first and then just deeds second. It is through the formation of habits, the habits that brings good and utils to people, that people start to do good deeds and just deeds. And through doing good deeds and just deeds, people become good and just, but not the other way round. So in a sort-of Aristotle way, UVA is devoted to the development of moral virtues and finally human happiness that originates from moral virtues.

    4. leave us free to do whatever does not violate the equal rights of another.

      This passage seems rather ironic, and it reminds me of the Declaration of Independence. The document states "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." For much of American history, "all men" simply referred to white men. Thus, this statement in the rockfish gap report refers only to white men as well. Black men and women were excluded from the university and employed as slaves. White women were barred entry from the university too. Although Jefferson advertises the term "equal rights", his university champions racial and gender inequality.

    5. Thos. Wilson Phil. Slaughter Wm. H. Cabell

      These are really familiar last names, and I would assume that Wilson Hall, Slaughter Center, and Old/New Cabell Hall are named after these people who founded the university. I really wouldn't have known this information without reading this report to the end. I believe our University should really provide us with more information of the history of UVa: no matter how positive or negative the history is, we current students need to know. This really reminds me of a reseach I did before one of my Engagment classes. The advocacy of Eugenics was a big part of our University's history and Pinn Hall, a building in the medical school, was previously named after Harvey Jordan, a Eugenics researcher and former Dean of the Department of Medicine. However, the university decided to rename the Hall into Pinn Hall recently. Indeed the new name enbodies the spirit of the school better than the old one, but the Student needs to know about the unknown part of the history behind the change of the name. Just simply changing the name of a hall cannot and should not erase the fact that the university has once supported a pseudoscience, and we need to face, and at lease try to preserve our history. http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2017/02/uva-school-of-medicine-looking-ahead-from-eugenics-roots http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/eugenics/2-origins/

    6. We should be far too from the discouraging persuasion, that man is fixed, by the law of his nature, at a given point: that his improvement is a chimæra, and the hope delusive of rendering ourselves wiser, happier or better than our forefathers were. As well might it be urged that the wild & uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour & bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better: yet we know that the grafting art implants a new tree on the savage stock, producing what is most estimable both in kind & degree. Education, in like manner engrafts a new man on the native stock, & improves what in his nature was vicious & perverse, into qualities of virtue and social worth

      Hearing Jefferson discuss the potential to create a “new man…into qualities of virtue and social worth,” despite whatever “wild & uncultivated tree” he might originally appear to be, reminds me of his contrasting words from Notes on the State of Virginia (1785). In the context of contrasting the natural state of white men and black, he states, “…the difference is fixed in nature…and this difference is of no importance? Is it not the foundation of a greater or less share of beauty in the two races?” and then later, “It is not their condition, then, but nature, which has produced the distinction” (Query 14). Though Jefferson claims to firmly believe that no man is fixed in his state of being, it cannot be overlooked that Jefferson’s belief was qualified by his own words. Though he is remembered as a believer in the potential “social worth” of each individual, he always fell short in grasping this idea completely; he never reached beyond the thinking that this was not the case for “those of colour.”

    7. It was the degree of centrality to the white population of the state which alone then constituted the important point of comparison between these places:

      This sentence highlights the pertinent racism within the group of Commissioners. During this time all of the wealthy, important, educated people who did things like build Universities were in fact white men. Although this is generally common knowledge, this sentence draws attention to just how common and accepted this societal racism was. They noted that "centrality to the white population" was indeed the most important factor in choosing location. What is so unfortunate is that this practice isn't completely gone today. It reminds me much of the practice of gerrymandering and redlining that still often occurs in our political system today. Then the intentions were to make services available to white people by location and excluded interest of other ethnicities, and now it is used to benefit political groups (dominated by white men) or to exclude certain ethnic groups.

    8. Education, in like manner engrafts a new man on the native stock, & improves what in his nature was vicious & perverse, into qualities of virtue and social worth; and it cannot be but that each generation succeeding to the knowledge acquired by all those who preceded it, adding to it their own acquisitions & discoveries, and handing the mass down for successive & constant accumulation, must advance the knowledge & well-being of mankind:

      I found this quote interesting because it refers only to white men and how they can attain virtue and social worth from education but people of other races and backgrounds cannot. This reminds me of an article that I read in my engagement class about affirmative action because the minorities were pushing for equal treatment and the opportunity to learn and receive the benefits that education would give them. The author of the article, Richard Rodriguez, was not underprivileged as a kid because he could afford education, so he did not identify with the rest of the minorities because he claimed that have the opportunity to receive an education automatically makes you not a minority. His claim relates to this quote because he sees education as a privilege that brings you up in the world because it gives you virtue and many benefits. In the modern society, people of all races and backgrounds can reap the benefits of education and knowledge, not just white men, and they are able to pass on their knowledge to future generations. It is interesting to see how far society has come in who can receive education and what education can do for everyone in the world.

    9. beginnings, in short, to be developed by time, as those who come after us shall find expedient. They will be more advanced than we are, in science and in useful arts, and will know best what will suit the circumstances of their day.

      I really liked this point because it reminds me of the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause. They recognized that relevant and important arts and sciences are going to change over time, and they are entrusting this to "those who come after" them. I like that they are looking into the future of the University and want the University to stay current and mold and grow with the times.

    1. embedded

      I like this word. Why? Because it reminds me of 'embodied'. Writing is complex, networked, social, and apt. Although something that is appropriate might be variable. YMMV.

    1. verted  this  railway  construction  into  an  instrument  for  oppressing  a  thousand  millionpeople

      It reminds me of the construction of the Congo-Ocean Railway (from Brazaville to the sea) which was constructed at the beginning of the 1920s, using forced labour (and thus opressing African people)

    1. Over slick highways                             constructed over old trails

      Reminds me of how the lower end of manhattan around wall st. And how the roads were paved over Native American trails.

    2. They eat everything

      reminds me of the ted talk which mentions the word Wašíču- lakota word for european people, also means the man who takes the best meat for himself.

    3. There’s a rat scrambling

      the mention of a rat gives me a sense of mess and destruction. also reminds me of the ted talk when the speaker mentioned the poverty many native american indians live in.

    1. Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold

      The language of this poem reminds me of a sticky-note that would be left on a fridge door by one sibling to another. It has an attitude of sarcasm, feigning sincerity, which also makes the poem quite humorous.

    2. patches of standing water the scattering of tall trees

      This fraise reminds me of the seemingly randomness of some of the paintings from the Armory Show. Particularly the words, "patches" and "scattering" shows the randomness of nature.

    1. In the Caption box, type Click image to learn more.

      Using captions reminds me of the GEOG 258 class I took where we used many of the similar concepts here in our projects, such as attribute data.