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  1. Sep 2017
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    1. Having addressed an object intellectually, and experienced it actually or empathetically with our senses, one turns, generally not without a cer-tain pleasure and relief, to matters more subjective. How does the object make one feel?

      This reminds me of our class discussion about the "rhetorical triangle". The text seems to indicate that our though process and analysis should move from a "logos" point-of-view to a "pathos" one. This makes sense, since the student can use their more factual descriptions of an object as a starting point to analyze what they mean through emotion.

    1. Open the door, Hal. Rotate pod, please, Hal. Stop pod rotation, please, Hal. Rotate the pod, please, Hal. Rotate the pod, please, Hal.

      This movie took place in the future. However there are many parallels it has to present day. Hal, the artifical intellegence on the spaceship, reminds me of A.I personal assistance that we have today. For example, Amazon Echo, Google Home, and Siri. They all were created by humans, for the sole purpose of making life easier. These personal assistance devices can play music, turn off lights, and adjust the temperature in a house. Which is similar to Hal on a spaceship. With that it in mind it is terrifying to see how technology could turn against us and malfunction, like how the director portrayed Hal. Hal seemed perfect at first, but later on in the movie he began to malfunction. This portrays that humans can try to make technology perfect, but there is always human error which makes it vulnerable to malfunctions.

    1. similarities between the two

      It would be interesting to discuss these similarities. From my non-chemist brain, I see more pattern and regularity in the chemical than in the social. Reminds me of NDTyson quote that physics is easy and sociology is hard because of the nonlinearity of human behavior.

    1. ssential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity,

      After rereading this, it reminds me of the scene from Rousseau's confessions. This line mirrors his experience of developing adult emotions or as Wordsworth would say, "essential passions of the heart" through a quite simplistic event, reading romance novels with his father. Rousseau gained a great deal of maturity from this experience as he claims the emotions he was exposed to shaped him for the rest of his life. In this case, "a better soil" for Rousseau would be his mother's romance novels.

    1. herefore, the laboratory is not the placeto study degree of obedience or suggestibility, as afunction of a particular experimental condition, sincethe base line for these phenomena as found in the labo-ratory is probably much higher than in most othersettings

      This reminds me of Mook's argument against the criticisms of external validity. Milgram was testing whether obedience can happen, instead of will happen in the real world. Besides, the lab setting does not increase the subjects tendency to obey any more than in a military setting--one of the most hierarchical systems in the real world. Lab in fact simplifies the environment; if people will obey when their life and possessions are not threatened, it gives more validity to the fact that they will obey in a real life setting where disobedience often involves some kind of economic/social loss.

    1. the thoughts that recapitulated it, the obsessions that accom-panied it, the images, desires, modulations, and quality of the pleasure that animated it. For the first time no doubt, a society has taken upon itself to solicit and hear the imparting of individual pleasures.

      this reminds me of the general scene of the solitary reaper (will finish this in a minute)

    1. White slaveholders saw Nat’s talents as a way to strengthen the message of “Christian” submission by using a black messenger: hiring him out to preach at neighboring plantations.

      Reminds me of a passage from Sexton: whiteness can deputize the black man to seem like they are past a systemic problem when they aren't

    1. that the traveller knows not who may be concealed

      This reminds me of what we discussed in class as being a trope. We discussed the fact that certain events that put the character into unfamiliarity and ambiguity are ripe set ups for a horror story

    1. the testimony of the Scriptures not to render evil for evil

      This reminds me of Gandhi's "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" quote. In the bible, this idea of revenge and vengeance are always looked down upon, encouraging kindness and humility in response to "evil."

    1. Then he took me in his arms and called me a blessed little goose

      It is a consistent theme that the husband and doctor treat the narrator like a child. "blessed little goose" is a term that seems child-like. Even the Wallpaper's appearance reminds her of a nursery.

    2. If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do?

      Somehow this reminds me of Sylvia Plath . When I first read this in high school, we were learning about women in literature and how they combated the stigma that women couldn't be ill - women were just being dramatic and there were no real problems that they faced . No one believed their cries for help until it was too late .

    3. You see he does not believe I am sick! And what can one do? If a physician of high standing, and one’s own husband, assures friends and relatives that there is really nothing the matter with one but temporary nervous depression—a slight hysterical tendency—what is one to do? My brother is also a physician, and also of high standing, and he says the same thing.

      This reminds me of the stereotypical and outdated idea that women were too emotional and unfit for anything concerning logic.

    1. BBS turns an ordinary person anywhere in the world into a publisher, an eyewitness reporter, an advocate, an organizer, a student or teacher, and potential participant in a worldwide citizen-to-citizen conversation.

      The "eyewitness reporter" reminds me of being told now to take a video whenever someone is being interrogated by police or being arrested to ensure things don't get out of hand. From here, if there's something important to publish, it can be posted all over the Internet and shared around the world to promote our ideals of justice and ensure our system works to protect us, not harm us. This is a grassroots-type movement.

    1. Again, it wasn't the mainstream of the existing computer industry that created affordable personal computing, but teenagers in garages.

      Reminds me that communities cant exist under the motive of profit, like from corporations trying to expand personal computers, but can only exist from the motive/ideas of the people that are within the community.

    1. The names of whom I'll not leave out

      This reminds me of when people say 'gone, but not forgotten'. it has become part of our culture where we acknowledge the ones we have lost.

    2. Samuel Allen like a hero fout, And though he was so brave and bold, His face no more shalt we behold

      The author felt that although Samuel was a bold individual there was nothing he could do to save his life during the ambush. This reminds me of how many of the slaves were strong people but died at the hands of their masters.

    1. Mothers hardening like pounded stumps

      This line always reminds me of steel mills and the giant presses and they have in there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamping_press

      It brings up some questions too: Are people's dreams getting squashed by the difficulty of the labor or the death of manufacturing (which was happening in places like Detroit around the 70s)? Are people loosing their lives or limbs working in these dangerous factories? What toll does that have on the parents?

    1. Fadng west,

      This reminds me of writing tutorial book called "On Writing Well" where the author/teacher stressed the importance of being direct and not unnecessarily complicated in one's writing

    1. The history of the American Negro is the history of this strife,—this longing to attain self-conscious manhood, to merge his double self into a better and truer self. In this merging he wishes neither of the older selves to be lost. He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa. He would not bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism, for he knows that Negro blood has a message for the world. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American, without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.

      This section screams out the need for agency over how blackness is perceived. It's as though his blackness defines him, rather than him being able to define blackness. This reminds me of an excerpt of Frantz Fanon's "Black Skin, White Masks" which says " I am overdetermined from the outside" and later elaborates "I am a slave not to the ‘idea’ others have of me, but to my appearance” (Fanon 95).

    2. He would not Africanize America, for America has too much to teach the world and Africa.

      This reminds me of Phyllis Wheatley's poem "On Being Brought From Africa to America". She states that slavery is horrible thing and she wishes it never happened. But she could never wish that at the same time, because that would me she would never have been brought to America. Double edge sword.

    1. all his realm knew he had the power that day

      This line reminds me of this image because of how regarded the emperor is in this photo. It is obvious, in the photo, that the emperor is respected and so is his rule. However, in the poem the brother is seen as powerful because of his violent habits, and people-- like his parents are frightened of him.

    1. dure

      Part of the effect might be participants not realizing that they can opt out, which highlights the importance of telling participants they can opt out of the study at any time. This reminds me of recent research that "it takes time for people to realize it is possible for them to do bad things." (Phillips et al 2017) This study almost shows the opposite but it seems like a similar kind of thinking to me. Maybe it takes people time to realize they can violate norms/expectations.

    1. When interviewing him or her, do not ask how much funding they have; do not ask how much money they make off their game. Never ask how much they pay their employees.

      The don't ask, don't tell policy seems to be very prominent. Because it is all about the illusion of doing good work, when in reality the operation from afar is much better than up close and personal. It reminds me of a hot dog, everybody likes them, but no one wants to know how they are made.

    1. This statement reminds me of the election because a lot of people can relate to it, including me. It is hard to have a comeback without having time to look up reasons on the internet.

  3. Aug 2017
    1. he achieved a sort of Paradise of ignorance vastly consoling to his fatigued senses.

      Reminds me of the phrase "ignorance is bliss"; when we are so exhausted either mentally or emotionally, we tend to shut our brains down, resulting in a flood of relief that can very much feel like a "Paradise" in contrast.

    2. exercising vastly more attraction over the human mind than all the steam-engines and dynamos ever dreamed of; and yet this energy was unknown to the American mind.

      This reminds me of the rift between people who love movies like The Goonies and Hook and people who see the flaws in them. Usually the people who love those movies grew up with them, those were their Virgin and Venus, but people who didn't grow up with them (often people born at a different time) have seen the steam-engines and dynamos that are the CGI-driven children's movies of today.

    3. Neither of them felt goddesses as power–only as reflected emotion, human expression, beauty, purity, taste, scarcely even as sympathy. They felt a railway train as power, yet they, and all other artists, constantly complained that the power embodied in a railway train could never be embodied in art. All the steam in the world could not, like the Virgin, build Chartres.

      A bit of a renaissance-feminism feel. The comparison with power and females and trains reminds me of WWII when women were the ones building those "trains" (planes and ships) while the men were off at war. It was they who had the power then, so who's to say the goddesses didn't have the power long ago?

    4. the literary knowledge counted for nothing until some teacher should show how to apply it

      This reminds me of a quote by Aristotle that says, "The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching." It stands true of almost all literary knowledge we consider to be great and useful.

    1. They fed him crushed diamonds and fire. He gobbled the gifts.

      The mention of "crushed diamonds and fire" reminds me of the song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," which I believe was a reference to LSD. Although the substance of choice is not mentioned clearly, I think it is safe to conclude that the brother is addicted to some drug. The word "gobbled," in this context for me, tends to provoke a type of eagerness in a hunger, which confirms the brother's addiction.

    1. "Many parents as well as students recognize such qualities and guide their children to places whose implicit curriculum is compatible with their values" (p. 96). This quote reminds me of my own college search experience. When I toured prestigious colleges, I found myself turned away, precisely because there was something about their implicit curriculum in terms of their cultural milieu that made me unhappy and uncomfortable. I don't think I would have felt that my values aligned had I gone to one of those schools.

    1. Do you still agree with it? Should it be modified in light of something you discovered as you wrote the paper?

      This reminds me of the necessity of creating a new hypothesis in science, where if the data from experiments designed to prove a hypothesis, actually disproves the hypothesis. A thesis statement is similar to a hypothesis. When a scientist writes a paper proving a hypothesis, the hypothesis becomes a thesis statement.

    1.  And when you release them, do not send them away empty-handed. 14 Supply them liberally from your flock, your threshing floor and your winepress. Give to them as the Lord your God has blessed you.

      After reading this passage, the question I had was: what if for seven years there was terrible environmental conditions and you had been struggling even with having a servant? I know that may seem ridiculous, but kind of reminds me of our current tax system where lower and middle class Americans are required to pay their fair share, and some of the wealthiest Americans can afford to find ways around paying taxes while still remaining technically legal.

    1. I might say my sufferings were great: but when I compare my lot with that of most of my countrymen, I regard myself as a particular favourite of Heaven,

      This reminds me some what of 12 years a slave. He was a very talented black man who was striped his rights of freedom though he was not in the south. I heard that many people up north still recieved trerrible treatment though slavery did not exist. The way blacks were treated up north can be compared to the way people see morality. If I label something as bad and I get others to think that what I think is bad is indeed bad then I thus started a ripple effect. Just because they saw blacks in the south being mistreated, they wanted in on the action which created a break in between blacks and whites up north.

    2. People generally think those memoirs only worthy to be read or remembered which abound in great or striking events, those, in short, which in a high degree excite either admiration or pity: all others they consign to contempt and oblivion.

      This reminds me of a book that I read a few years ago called Special Topics in Calamity Physics by, Marisha Pessl. Within the first paragraph of the novel, the protagonist says something very similar to this:

      I had always said a person must have a magnificent reason for writing out his or her Life Story and expecting anyone to read it.

      "Unless your name is something along the lines of Mozart, Matisse, Churchill, Che Guevara or Bond—James Bond—you best spend your free time finger painting or playing shuffleboard, for no one, with the exception of your flabby-armed mother with stiff hair and a mashed-potato way of looking at you, will want to hear the particulars of your pitiable existence, which doubtlessly will end as it began—with a wheeze."

    1. Though there were many noxious animals there; yet so kind was our Almighty protector, that none of them were ever permitted to hurt or molest us.

      This line reminds me of the John Marrant reading when he talks about God protecting him and his family from the noxious animals.

    2. She took not the least sustenance along with her, to support either herself or children. I was able to Page 6 travel along by her side; the other two of her offspring she carried one on her back, and the other being a sucking child, in her arms. When we became hungry, my mother used to set us down on the ground, and gather some of the fruits which grew spontaneously in that climate. These served us for food on the way.

      This passage reminds me of a strong black woman. Our mothers go out their way to make a living for us. Knowing she did not have enough to provide for her kids she still left her husband without asking for anything.

    1. Within hours, people started doing things in half a dozen directions on their own initiative.

      This reminds me of GoFundMe, except it is more spectacular because of the bonds that had been formed and the desire to step up for someone many had not met face to face. It shows how strong the WELL community is..

    2. This reminds me of so many of my family and friends who say that friends online are not real friends. That I don't really "know" them. This line reminds me of the online friends I have turned to when I thought I couldn't talk to my own family. Many think that since it's online, you can't form lasting relationships or you won't be able to talk to people (as the author says) IRL. However, I think online friends make real life conversations easier. Plus, with an online community, there's the chance that the sense of community will be even stronger as someone is likely to always be awake, no matter if they are next door to you or halfway across the world.

    1. The Web We Need to Give Students

      The title itself is expressive towards the fact that the educational system has been trying to come up with many ways to help students manage their understanding of the web in general.

      some 170 bills proposed so far ...

      Its no surprise tha tthe schools can share data with companies and researchers for their own benefits. Some of these actions are violations of privacy laws.

      arguments that restrictions on data might hinder research or the development of learning analytics or data-driven educational software.

      Unbelievable! The fact that there is actually a problem with the fact that students or anyone wants their privacy, but abusing companies and businesses can't handle invading others privacies is shocking. It seems to be a threat to have some privacy.

      Is it crazy that this reminds me of how the government wants to control the human minds?

      All the proof is there with telephone records, where the NSA breaches computers and cellphones of the public in order to see who they communicate with.

      Countries like Ethiopia; the government controls what the people view on their TV screens. They have complete control of the internet and everything is vetted. Privacy laws has passed! Regardless, no one is safe. For example: Hackers have had access to celebrity iCloud accounts, and exposed everything.

      The Domain of One’s Own initiative

      Does it really protect our identities?

      Tumblr?

      Virginia Woolf in 1929 famously demanded in A Room of One’s Own — the necessity of a personal place to write.

      Great analogy! Comparing how sometimes people need to be in a room all on their own in order to clear their minds and focus on their thoughts on paper to also how they express themselves in the web is a good analogy.

      ... the Domains initiative provides students and faculty with their own Web domain.

      So, the schools are promising complete privacy?

      ...the domain and all its content are the student’s to take with them.

      Sounds good!

      Cyberinfrastructure

      To be able to be oneself is great. Most people feel as if their best selves are expressed online rather than real life face-to-face interactions.

      Tumblr is a great example. Each page is unique to ones own self. That is what Tumblr sells, your own domain.

      Digital Portfolio

      Everyone is different. Sounds exciting to see what my domain would look like.

      High school...

      Kids under 13 already have iPhones, iPads, tablets and laptops. They are very aware to the technology world at a very young age. This domain would most likely help them control what they showcase online, before they grow older. Leaving a trail of good data would benefit them in the future.

      Digital citizenship:

      It teaches students and instructors how to use technology the right way.

      What is appropriate, and what is not appropriate?

      Seldom incluse students' input...

      Students already developed rich social lives.

      Google doc= easy access to share ones work.

      Leaving data trails behind.

      Understanding options on changes made?

      Being educated on what your privacy options are on the internet is a good way of protecting your work.

      Student own their own domain- learning portfolio can travel with them.

      If the students started using this new domain earlier in their lives, there should be less problems in schools coming up with positive research when it comes to the growth of the students on their data usages.

      School district IT is not the right steward for student work: the student is.

      So to my understanding, if the student is in the school, one has to remember to move around the files saved in the domain. The school is not responsible for any data lost, because the student is responsible for all their work.

      Much better position to control their work...

      If all of this is true and valid, it should not be a big deal then for the student to post what ever they want on their domain. No matter how extreme, and excessive it seems, if that is how they view themselves, their domain would be as unique as their personalities.

    1. but shall leave that to the Reader as he goes along, and so I shall only relate Matters of Fact as they occur to my Mind--

      This line reminds me very much so of the writings of Solomon Northup in his novel 12 Years A Slave. The memoir-esque aspect of it is what I think drew my eye or rather, my ear, to it in the first place. It feels as though he's speaking directly to the reader.

    2. This lieutenant sounds like a man with a lot of courage, at this moment I realized his race was playing a part in this passage just a little bit. However, this reminds me of the many books I have read, "Incidents In The Life of A Slave Girl" where she hid in a boat and also in a small boarded room in the house. However, she had white men come along and have courage to allow her to remain a secret just like this gentleman.

    3. or the kind Providence of a good GOD for my Preservation

      This statement reminds me of something I read in middle school. It was called The Pilgrim's Progress written by John Bunyan. In the Bible, if I do recall, this statement was made several times by those seeking God's assistance in hopes that He would look favorably upon the individual.

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    1. Expressive language refers lo a child's production of language lo communicate. This develops orally first during social interactions and as a child's speech mechanisms mature allowing the child to gain control over producing specific speech sounds.

      This reminds me of what a philosopher named John Dewey preached. He believed that school was a social institution, which was vital to education because a child learns even more from social interaction. School is a community and we learn from each other. As for teachers, "The teacher is not in the school to impose certain ideas or to form certain habits in the child, but is there as a member of the community to select the influences which shall affect the child and to assist him in properly responding to these influences" (John Dewey).

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    1. His story reminds me so much of when God asked Abraham to leave his home and travel to the land that God said he would show him. This man felt the Lord tell him to walk and teach others and travel and spread the word. Which takes a lot of courage.

    1. The first page reminds me greatly of a statement made in Tyack's History of Public Schooling about the way in which standards are created, and the illusion of "failing". Standards are a self fulfilling prophecy when followed as hard and fast rules, where failure by the majority is seen as a problem of the students rather than the standards by which they are being measured. Do standards need to be adjusted to realistically meet student needs and abilities? What are our baseline definitions for success, achievement, and what students need to know?

    2. "The unique needs of particular individuals, constituencies, and circumstances are unnoticed" - reminds me of the differences between working in a school district where many students come to school hungry because their families struggle to feed them, students don't see themselves represented in curriculum etc. compared to a district where families have more money but perhaps there is, for instance, a cocaine epidemic. Each community's individual needs must be considered carefully.

    1. This nondualist tradition can be traced backthrough the work of theorists as diverse as Marx,Heidegger, Vygotsky, and Dewey, to the work ofHegel (1807/1967), who argued that ‘the individualself is in no sense an immediately given elementof consciousness (as Descartes claims of hiscognito)but a socially created concept ... we are whollysocial products and social participants’ (p. 514).The mind, the individual, and the world withwhich we interact are not natural entities but his-torical and cultural products determined by humanpractices; their meaning – what they ‘are’ – is con-stituted through human activity.

      This reminds me of the ongoing debate of nature vs. nurture. This theory is supporting the theory of nurture in that one's environment and experiences have a lasting influence on their mind. This makes me think about the importance of school experiences as children spend the majority of their days in school. As educators, we have a tremendous responsibility to use this time to nurture students into successful individuals and to find meaning in their learning and experiences.

    2. Thus, cognition is (inter)action in the social andmaterial world. According to Lave (1988), the basicorganizing structures of this world are the social,cultural, and professional groups, or the ‘commu-nities of practice’, in which people choose to par-ticipate

      This reminds me so much of Vygotsky, and sociocultural learning theory. Vygotsky even discusses the importance of culture in "Thinking and Speaking." However, I am so quick to apply sociocultural learning theory specifically to classroom environments, but it is really interesting to think about applying it to communities that adults participate in, and less formally structured environments than a classroom environment.

    1. The far-right has made significant gains in Germany, The Netherlands, Greece, Hungary, Sweden, Austria, Slovakia, and elsewhere in Europe 

      I appreciate that the author recognizes that there is global expansion of the far-right. While the United States is certainly in a troubling place, it is not isolated from a larger context. It reminds me of this article from The Atlantic https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/12/14/putin-trump-and-the-wests-new-ideological-alliance/?utm_term=.475a92737aa3

    1. we learn about inscribing oneself onto place through graĜti and about the ways in which products are inscribed onto places and subsešuently onto the mind by advertising

      This reminds me of the billboard example of media discussed in class, you are forced to interact with it because you can't turn your car around of a freeway.

    1. they’ll typically tell you a little bit about the story that’s about to come, enough to generate suspense about what they’re going to tell you after the commercial break, but without fully revealing it

      This aspect of TV news shows reminds me of true crime entertainment-- in both cases, they use feelings of suspense to "capture" the viewer.

    2. The treatment of news as entertainment, and bringing this horse race aspect in, can make people better informed.

      This reminds me of the most recent election we have had. It was a very entertaining election, but I don't feel that I learned more about the political process. All I learned about was why either candidate was unfit to be president, instead of what they were actually planing to do.

    1. As these digital tools find their way into medical rooms, and they become digitally ready, what happens to the digitally invisible? What does the medical experience look like for someone who doesn't have the $400 phone or watch tracking their every movement? Do they now become a burden on the medical system? Is their experience changed?

      This is such an important question. An extreme version of this reminds me of things I've read in dystopian science fiction stories. This could create an underclass.

    1. Not only did the design influence where a shopper’s eyes would go, it also influenced the steps that shopper would take through the store. “In a department store, there’s a tile path or flooring that you feel compelled to walk on, because you’re not going to cut through the carpeted area that has all of the fixtures to get from one place to another,” Wood says. “So you follow that path, which leads you where the store wants you to go. It leads you away from the exits and toward the interior. When you want to go up, the elevators are always hidden so that you’re more likely to take the escalator. Once you get to the next level, you have to walk all the way around the other side to keep going up, so you see everything showcased on that floor.”

      It reminds me of the navigation value.

    1. Whorf, we now know, made many mistakes. The most serious one was to assume that our mother tongue constrains our minds and prevents us from being able to think certain thoughts. The general structure of his arguments was to claim that if a language has no word for a certain concept, then its speakers would not be able to understand this concept. If a language has no future tense, for instance, its speakers would simply not be able to grasp our notion of future time. It seems barely comprehensible that this line of argument could ever have achieved such success, given that so much contrary evidence confronts you wherever you look. When you ask, in perfectly normal English, and in the present tense, “Are you coming tomorrow?” do you feel your grip on the notion of futurity slipping away? Do English speakers who have never heard the German word Schadenfreude find it difficult to understand the concept of relishing someone else’s misfortune? Or think about it this way: If the inventory of ready-made words in your language determined which concepts you were able to understand, how would you ever learn anything new?

      This reminds me of those silly lists of "emotions we don't have words for!" which then list non-English words followed by an English explanation of the sensation the non-English word(s) encompass...

    1. Had the story been told in simple chronological order, it would have been bland, perhaps even boring. What gave Harvey’s show power was his narrative technique.

      Such a clever approach especially for a radio show. It reminds me of the way TV shows cut to a commercial right at pivotal moments of suspense in the show. It hooks the viewers, just like how the key elements are held back until the very end of the radio program.

    1. wilderness

      wilderness, temple roof, high mountain ... alle guten Dinge sind drei ... is a frequently used saying, all good things are three (or come in threes). While being tempted is not a good thing, the outcome of resisting temptation is. More importantly this reminds me of other places with three connected narratives (the coins, etc.) It certainly creates a kind of crescendo here until Jesus says Away with you ...

    1. Distributors hate him! Learn these 10 weird tricks to self-releasing a film in the UK. Friday January 30th 2015

      This title reminds me of clickbait on a website. It reminds me of reading an article then having these ads pop up and try and grab your attention, when really it's garbage or a ploy to get your credit card information. I enjoy reading science articles so this isn't really my thing.

  6. Jul 2017
    1. dirty OCR illuminates the priorities, infrastructure, and economics of the academy in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

      This reminds me of the Coding History podcast from last week and Ian Milligan's remarks on Geocities. Today's google search result is tomorrow's history!

    1. As for yourselves, beware; for they will hand you over to councils; and you will be beaten in synagogues; and you will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them.

      This reminds me of Acts 20 -21 when, after Paul was discouraged to go to Jerusalem, he went anyway and the apostles allowed him to be apprehended by zealous Jews who sought to kill him had he not been rescued through Roman arrest. It makes me sad that the apostles would allow that to happen to Paul, but given their different theological positions along with the influence that Paul was starting to have with the people, it makes sense.

    1. The son I have engendered is waiting for me, and he will not exist if I do not go to him.

      this reminds me of the phrase "begotten not made" found in many Christian texts to show how unique Christ's birth is

      because the sorcerer is able to create things or dream them actually, he seems to be godlike

    1. It could also include complicated formatting and typographical information in a way that could be used to recreate the original presentation of the text but be easily disregarded when irrelevant

      This is fascinating! I love the idea of XML containing "layers" that can be added or removed as necessary, letting us manipulate data on-the-fly. It kind of reminds me of the iterative nature of github. Flexibility is a digital historian's best friend.

  7. doc-0c-38-docs.googleusercontent.com doc-0c-38-docs.googleusercontent.com
    1. If, for example, one can speak of a restricted depth of field as a J.irp.itation, doesn't this term itself depend on a particular conception of reality (or which such a limi-tation would not exist?

      This is an interesting take on the idea of "depth of filed". Proposing tom the ready that the region of focus is not a physical, tangible things, but rather a limitation that is self-imposed because of the way that it is constructed conceptually. This approach to the cinematic apparatus reminds me of Derrida's approach to Deconstructionism in which he urges one to consider that there is perhaps another side to the manner in which perceive ideologies - every notion has an alternate framework.

    1. The student records, memorizes, and repeats these phrases without perceiving what four times four really means, or realizing the true significance of "capital" in the affirmation "the capital of Para is Belem," that is, what Belem means for Pard and what Para means for Brazil.

      This reminds me of Shor's views, which argues that "Education is more than facts and skills." By pointing out the ways that knowledge is viewed as static, unchangeable "facts", and able to move from the "narrative subject" to "narrative patient", Friere problematizes the current education system just as Shor does.

    2. banking education to minimize or annul the students creative power and to stimulate their credulity serves the interests of the oppressors, who care neither to have the world re-vealed nor to see it transformed.

      This reminds me a lot of Shor's reading and how he points out how education is more focused on socialization rather then the content given for students to learn. The system is already set up to provide a set of information rather then interactive and critically learning, which suppresses the student form free-thinking.

    1. but to the underlying data, methods, and experimental results that drive research projects forward.

      This reminds me of math class, my teachers always said you could not get full points with just your results. You had to show, every step you took to get to your results.

    2. Unlike Open Notebook Scientists, our motive for providing our data will have less to do with a desire to make our experiments reproducible, and more to do with a belief that historical arguments are on a fundamental level irreproducible. Each one is the product of a particular person or group of people at a particular time and place

      This is so fascinating. It reminds me of Drucker's argument that all "data" are "capta." Every piece of knowledge has its context, and historians must be particularly aware of these contexts. By sharing notebooks, historians allow others to see how their view of the past developed. It opens the historian as well as his work up to scrutiny, but it also enriches the field generally. It seems like a worthy exercise in professional- and, for many, personal - vulnerability.

    1. Those of us whose work focuses on During’s “core humanities” are often understandably queasy about our fields’ development out of the projects of nationalism and cultural dominance,

      This reminds me of the discussions historians had about Harper's focus on Canada's military history being used to further a nationalistic agenda. The amount of money put in the remembrance of the war of 1812 and the renaming of the museum of civilization to the museum of history are two such examples.

    2. What kinds of public support for our institutions might we be able to generate if we were to argue that public projects that promote the love of reading (or the love of art, or the love of history) exist in consonance with the work that we do in the classroom, or in the writing we do for one another, and that we should therefore take participation in such projects seriously?

      This is an exciting idea. It also reminds me of the discussions of how women's labour has been systematically denied over the centuries, and only recently have scholars and activists made it clear that "women's work" has always been unpaid labour. It's interesting that women have also been coded as more emotional than men, therefore more loving, therefore more willing to do unpaid work. Emotion, it seems, is often used to justify unpaid labour.

    1. that while America is becoming increasingly secular

      This reminds me of how "Godless America" talks about how America is secular in the sense that it lets people of any religion serve in the public office.

    2. More than two centuries later, presidential candidates must publicly embrace a strong faith if they want to win.

      First hearing this, I don't think it will help support the article's theme. Also, it reminds me of the first stories that "Godless America" started out with made Christians sound kind of bad.

    1. Most journalists would agree that true impartiality is impossible. Even the most evenhanded reporter is subject to personal bias.

      This reminds me of when Glass stated his opinions during the podcast. (Could help me on Part 3 of this lesson.)

    1. But doing so runs into problems of selection and representativity. I’d be loath to say that any argument could be made from the satires that Isaac Cruikshank designed, but many differing and contradictory interpretations could be made depending on the hand curated corpus of prints that was chosen

      I'm not sure if this is relevant/comparable, but it kind of reminds me of an episode of Revisionist History I listened to a while back http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/10-the-satire-paradox. I remember Gladwell talking about how the Colbert Report was interpreted differently by Republicans and Democrats and both groups liked and thought the satire presented supported their political beliefs. I wonder if any studies of historical satire have come across similar ambiguities and how possible it is to interpret the author's intended meaning?

    2. As you will see, ‘visible’ is probably a better word for this as there is nothing ‘hard’ about the Digital History on offer: it doesn’t tell any truths, it doesn’t solve any problems, it doesn’t sit outside of interpretation. Rather – much like any abstraction from primary sources – it does work that I found useful.

      I like the phrase "abstraction from primary sources". It reminds me that we all use some form of processing on the data we capture from primary sources - for example, organizing names of battle sites into a list, or making a table of trade voyages. In this case, the abstraction is on a larger scale and produced with new methods, but it can still be used for the same purpose as traditional abstractions.

    1. illustration. There a large cluster of “parents and com-munity” members are pictured prominently on the sidelines, outside the turn-around schools circle with no path by which they can gain access to the turnaround schools. Though perhaps intended to look like a cheering crowd, instead, given the genuine lack of attention to parent involvement throughout the turnaround reports, the figures take on the appearance of demonstrators protesting for greater participation in the school improvement process

      this reminds me of the democratic process professor JVH discussed , but sad reality, parents aren't asked for feedback when turnaround plans are being designed. The only feedback that is recorded from parents is negative complaints and used as justification for the turnaround, rather than assess what the root cause of the complaint is and how to resolve the issue. Once a turnaround is in place, parents aren't invited into the decision making process, their voices are silenced as unimportant

    1. What struck me when I made the latter – which, I should add, was made before the former – was that I could not see any patterns because the stationers dominated the visual field

      This version of the map is way harder to interpret! Unnecessary data should be omitted to keep the reader's focus and allow them to interpret visuals easier. This reminds me of previous class work I have done with google maps. I did a project that involved plotting points and colour coordinating symbols and text over a map. When data points were too overwhelming it easily became hard to follow.

    1. Isaac KramnickAnd Congress said no. Congress said no. A staunch Baptist was the head of the committee that recommended to Congress that this would be an unconstitutional interference of Congr

      The idea of having post offices closed on Sundays reminds me of when my family found a bird stuck in a sticky fly trap but most of the vets were closed since it was Sunday. (We still found a wildlife rehab center, though) Also, my opinion about post offices being closed is that it seems okay since it's been in effect for, I think, a while now and I haven't heard a lot of issues about it from anyone.

    2. Ira GlassYou just put your hand over the phone, and you said, he wants to know, for the record, if I oppose the Christian church.

      What Paul Williams just did reminds me of something I would do if I were younger.

    1. The markup on tombstones is equally high. The red granite tombstones that sell for $500 to $1,000 in the United States

      This reminds me of the mark ups on alcohol. I've worked in a few bars and it is not uncommon for the mark up on liquor to be over 100%. It's like getting away with murder.

    1. This reminds me of our discussion of micro-histories in Historical Theory. We read "The Return of Martin Guerre," which I think is a particularly good example of how history can be viewed as narrative storytelling and that the author of the historical piece and their background can greatly influence history's presentation.

    1. Do you really think Apple doesn't know? In a company obsessed with the details-- with the aluminum being milled just so, with the glass being fitted perfectly into the case-- do you really think it's credible that they don't know?

      It's amazing that a company as highly developed as apple produces it's products in conditions like this. It reminds me of the false notion with the gravestones from the article yesterday. People like to think about the gravestones they receive for their lost loved ones being carefully carved and crafted by an old craftsman. They fail to realize the exploitations that occur to make these gravestones. Same with iPhones. These devices have amazing capabilities and are always being innovated. I think people may think that because they are so technically advanced, they are also careful constructed in pristine high tech conditions which is again false. But we don't know about it so we don't see a problem with continuing to be consumers to apples products.

    1. For whoever was called in the Lord as a slave is a freed person belonging to the Lord, just as whoever was free when called is a slave of Christ.

      This passage reminds me of Jesus' words: whoever is first shall be last and whoever is last shall be first. When we humble ourselves before the Lord and relinquish control, then we are free--- being a "slave of Christ" is a follower of Christ succumbing to His power and strength.

  8. Jun 2017
    1. If one has sufficient mental capacities

      This reminds me of a question that came up in the in-person discussion this week about special education and how it factors into democratic educational philosophies. How do we reconcile these ideas for individuals who, in our current society, need assistance with choice and autonomy?

    2. This is a fair question. It would be easy for me to assuage critics' fears by telling them not to worry, that my version of the good really is good, and not at all oppres-sive or exclusionary, if that is their worry.

      This reminds me of Gutmann and the week 1 connection with "common sense" practices, and the way in which our policies can become misguided in hindsight.

    1. This piece is notable for its very rapid scales, which would require a virtuosic performer and a nimble instruments.

      As I listen to Koromanti (Part 2), read the commentary about the rapid scale of the music, and view the images of the instruments that Sloane documented in use in Jamaica at that time, I am very inclined to think that Koromanti Part 2 may have been a song initially performed on a kora. Kora performance entails the use of both hands simultaneously plucking strings that are tuned to different pitches. The kora performer plays the rhythmic bass and melody sections simultaneously. I suspect that a rendition of Koromanti Part 2 played on a kora would have a more fluid sound than the version played on the banjo. The song reminds me of traditional kora music from the Senegambia region. What percentage of the Africans brought to Jamaica in the late 15th century, early 16th century were from this region?

      The illustration of the instrument labeled "3" (fidicula) is not dissimilar to a kora--if we imagine a gourd used for the body and two parallel sets of strings connected from from the base of the instrument to the top of the neck, it could very well be a version of a kora. From the illustration it is hard to ascertain whether the strings lay flat against the body of the instrument (similar to a banjo) or whether they extend outward from the body (like a kora).

      I would be interested in hearing a third rendition of this section of the song performed by a kora musician. Can this be included as you develop this site?

    1. These two communities have a long history of collaborating

      this is a high-level point, but this whole section reminds me of boundary objects, like birdwatching reports, and how they're used to communicate information between scientific and non-scientific communities (e.g. Star and Griesemer 1989)

    1. supernatural

      I remember learning about the Vietnam war in history class, i thought the exact same thing, the amount of North Vietnamese soldiers was a measly 461,000 whereas the Americans and their allies had over 1 million troops (over twice as much) however, the North Vietnamese won! And moreover, with much less casualties. This led me to believe they definitely had some supernatural abilities or they were just extraordinarily smart with using tactics such as guerrilla fighting etc.

      This also reminds me of the historic Khalsa battles such as the battle of Mukatsar in which Maharaj Sri Guru Gobind Singh Jee only had an army of around 40 (Chaalee Mukte along with the panj piaare and their two Sahibzaade - i think), thus roughly an army of 48. Yet, Wazir Khan had an army of well over 100,000 yet around It was said in the Zafarnama that each Sikh probably killed 100's yet 11 Sikhs, and Guru Gobind Singh jee Maharaj remained physically alive - thus, the Mughal forces were not successful in their aim

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    1. The common good of the New England Puritans of seventeenth-century Salem commanded them to hunt witches; the common good of the Moral Majority in the United States today commands them not to tolerate homosexuals.

      Reminds me of Kumishiro's comments about questioning the "common sense" systems that we put in place. How do define a unified vision in a society that is constantly working on, changing and developing its philosophies, morals, and systems of inequity?

    1. discipline, docility, and private ambition (G

      Reminds me of charter schools I've visited in Denver. Strict disciplinary practices across the whole school

    1. into is going to get better, not worse.

      This reminds me of issues today's world has. At the moment, I somewhat believe that things will get worse, instead.

    2. I found myself looking at some old family photos.

      This kind of reminds me of those interesting real-life situations I have and how I thought they would sound if I wrote about them.

    1. Morton means not only that irreversible global warming is under way, but also something more wide-reaching. “We Mesopotamians” – as he calls the past 400 or so generations of humans living in agricultural and industrial societies – thought that we were simply manipulating other entities (by farming and engineering, and so on) in a vacuum, as if we were lab technicians and they were in some kind of giant petri dish called “nature” or “the environment”. In the Anthropocene, Morton says, we must wake up to the fact that we never stood apart from or controlled the non-human things on the planet, but have always been thoroughly bound up with them.

      This idea that we're all Mesopotamians strangely reminds me of Phillip K Dick's idea that the empire never ended, but in this case the one from Iraq, not Rome.

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

      Here, we see that Caesar’s idea of a man is to be completely fearless no matter what he is confronted with. Through his belief, this would mean that he is not even afraid of death. Caesar states “cowards die many times before their deaths”, however the “valiant” ones only “taste of death” once. He also finds it “most strange that men” fear death since it is something that can’t be avoided and is “a necessary end” which “will come when it will come”. This is Caesar’s belief and showcases his bravery even though his actions may show signs of a carefree attitude.

      Succumbing to the supernatural bad omens and warnings would conflict with his own belief that he has a sense of invincibility, and therefore dismisses them. Disregarding the bad omens is his only option as yielding to them would mean that he has been frightened off which, in his words, would be considered to be a “death”.

      Also, later in this Act, Decius reminds Caesar that he would be seen as weak if he listened to the warnings of Calpurnia’s ominous dream. Caesar must maintain the impression of being fearless and completely disregards his wife’s interpretations. This is ironic as Caesar is killed in Act III and Calpurnia’s predictions about Caesar’s death was right. Evidently, we see Caesar’s display of bravery and fearlessness was to stick to his belief and must remain valiant even when faced with the possibility of death.

    1. “If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” — Freewill, Rush

      This kind of thinking reminds me of the logic of "Pascal's wager" or when we hear about "device-agnostic" tools.

  10. May 2017
    1. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History houses Martha, the last passenger pigeon and a some collections still have Great Auk specimens, a bird species that went extinct in 1844.[1]

      This reminds me of a book I read...

    1. they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one

      This reminds me of two specific verses: "Seek ye first the kingdom of God." and "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done."

    1. The exports helps you avoid conflicts with other packages by specifying which functions are available outside of your package (internal functions are available only within your package and can’t easily be used by another package). Generally, you want to export a minimal set of functions; the fewer you export, the smaller the chance of a conflict.

      This reminds me of private functions and members of classes in OOP. An export in the case of a function in a package is making it public in the OOP sense.

    1. making known the little-known history of those FAITHFUL WITNESSES of the Lord Jesus

      This reminds me of the Jehovah's Witnesses who claim to have an unbroken line through the ages of true followers of God, whose name in the Bible is often translated as Jehovah or Yahweh.

    1. Those questions immediately became a sound bite and a punchline for late night comedians, and for millions of Americans, they defined a man they knew little about.

      It reminds me of how people might stereotype of define someone they don't know. This is visible on both the small social level and on the large political level.

    1. The secular foundation of government is, in fact, eroded because of the Cold War. In the Cold War, America came to define itself as godly people, of course, fighting godless, atheistic Communism.

      This reminds me of the quote, "you are who you make yourself to be". I do not know who said it, but when Eisenhower started popularizing Christianity, I'm sure a lot of people followed his lead because that's usually what happens and America became a nation of believers.

    1. tempted by Satan; and he was with the wild beasts;

      This reminds me of Adam tempted by Satan in the Garden of Eden. Jesus faced Satan as the new Adam, he was at peace with the animals.

    2. with you I am well pleased.’*

      This phrase reminds me of the creation story when God saw that all He had made was good. It is interesting to think of God as one who admires and experiences pleasure from Their creations.

    1. Now, there are at least two ways in which sit-ins and civil disobedience and whatever -- least two major ways in which it can occur. One, when a law exists, is promulgated, which is totally unacceptable to people and they violate it again and again and again till it's rescinded, appealed. Alright, but there's another way. There's another way. Sometimes, the form of the law is such as to render impossible its effective violation -- as a method to have it repealed. Sometimes, the grievances of people are more -- extend more -- to more than just the law, extend to a whole mode of arbitrary power, a whole mode of arbitrary exercise of arbitrary power.

      This reminds me of civil rights rhetoric, and falls in line with that tradition of civil disobedience. In the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr advocated for the same nonviolent civil disobedience which inspired Freedom Summer and the Student Movement the following year. Like Thoreau in his prison cell, King famously wrote “A Letter from Birmingham Jail,” expressing his grievances with the government and our moral obligation to to break unjust laws, he wrote, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” Both Thoreau and King write about agency and the responsibility of individuals to resist the greater injustice. Thoreau uses the metaphor of “the machine” for government, and he mediates a solution of acting against a corrupt or immoral government in the Democratic system. He believed jail was the “true place for a just man” when the law was unjust or immoral. Thoreau not paying his taxes to the government symbolized a small cog in the machine, as he hoped to fundamentally change the operation “the machine” operated.

    1. (re)articulations

      Barad's use of parentheses reminds me of Gate's article on signifyin(g). While he used parentheses a lot at the end of the word "signifyin(g); he also used them throughout the article around the prefix "re-", denoting "again". I think Barad is suggesting that there are always new ways to articulate something, so it is not necessarily always "re-articulated," but rather is sometimes re-articulated and other times is said in a completely different manner.

    2. That is, it is through specific intra-actions that phenomenacome to matter—in both senses of the word.

      I could be way off base, but this sentence reminds me of the Romantic idea (held by William Godwin, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Mary Shelley, amongst others) that the betterment of the individual was achieved through interactions and forming relationships with others. An improved individual was equipped to understand the world and discover truth--which is I think what Barad is saying here about agential intra-actions and their production of phenomena, which results in both physical and cultural matter.

    1. "lifestyle businesses" whose model is predictable but will never bring the kind of high returns that only come with placing big, bold bets

      These are always cast as less exciting, boring in a sense. tom and jerry boring Reminds me of the Zapier article and the story of the mortgage shop.

    1. Who hadst deserved more than a prison.

      Caliban isn't seen as a man. Because of his different race native language, Miranda and Propero view him as an animal and that justifies their control over him as they lock him away in the cave because he doesn't even deserve a prison cell. It's really interesting how similar but different certain characters are veiwed as throughout Shakespeare's plays. For instance, Caliban reminds me of Othello not only because they're both colored and used for others' advantages, but because of how differentyl they're veiwed. Othello is seen as a noble man in a power position thst he has earned and is disliked by other characters becaue of that. While Caliban is viewed as an ungrateful orphaned slave who is essetially useless becaue of his back-talk to the people who "taught him eveyrthing." This doesn't necissarily mean the audience sees them as this but that's how they're supposed to be portrayed.

    1. If a person's needs are addressed at the stage they are at, then they can move to new levels of practice. When they are open and ready to learn, they will ask questions like those on the right side of the stages.

      This reminds me by the level of needs from the management triangle by Core Strengths

    1. A “Keep Calm And Carry On” variation

      It's upsetting that the meaning behind this shirt is so skewed these days...reminds me of the "straight out of hamptons" shirt we looked at in class

    2. Bregoli’s angry, indignant face is the background of the website, making all of the below images even more aggressive. Somehow, this helps to sell them.

      This reminds me almost of the "straight out of Hamptons" shirts we analyzed in class it sells the idea of street credibility.

    1. Tea tasting parties, like many other social events for foodies, have an internal language and dynamics of their own.

      This reminds me of how people are so fixed on cold brew coffee and other coffee production methods today. I know this is mentioned later on in the lecture notes, but I still thought I'd mention it. It also remind me of how some people are into craft beer and beer tasting. A lot of what makes a commodity popular is how the public views it and talks about it, and if it is trendy or not.

    1. For there to be any knowledge at all, there has to be ideology inthis sense; there has to be some preexisting agreement concerningwhat will countas knowledge, or what criteria will be used to judgenew or developing knowledges. In this second sense, ideology is adescriptive(rather than prescriptive) word, attempting to show theway things are, a whole way of life in a social group.

      This paragraph reminds me a lot on the concept of post truth. No one can form what they believe as true without there already being a pre-existing knowledge/truth before it. We then use that knowledge to develop what we believe to be true.

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    1. he relationships that the Lee family has with each other and with the other character

      This reminds me of the TV series Bates Motel. The beginning of EINTY reveals what happens through telling us that Lydia is dead. This is similar to the series because it is based on the life of the serial killer in the movie Psycho, though the TV series delves into the detail of his life growing up and why he became a killer. I feel like this is similar to EINTY because we know the outcome, and the rest of the book is just showing us the lead-up.

    1. I lift my hand in startled agony   And call upon his name, “Daddy daddy”— My father’s hand touches the injury   

      This reminds me of the legend of Christ's crucifiction, and his last words being "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do" Luke 23:34

      "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46)

    1. seeing the world in terms that the computer can understand. By far the most pervasive form of database is the relational, which has almost entirely replaced the older hierarchical, tree, and network models and continues to hold sway over the newer object oriented model

      This reminds me of when Boyle mentioned how we see a different view of the world through technology like drones and trains. Here, we see how we also change ways we organize our thoughts in order to correspond to technological capabilities.

    1. His Creed, the Sanctity of Evidence; his Task, the conservation of every scrap of Evidence attaching to the Documents committed to his charge; his Aim to provide, without prejudice or thought, for all who wish to know the Means of Knowledge.

      reminds me so much of Open Data mantras

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    1. Angular momcntum; symmctry;Strccessively self-generati ng cu rvesProjecting helixcs, the axis fixed;Then tilting on irs axis; rorsion-tilt;

      Reminds me of calculating rotational motion and the derivative of such in regards to a fixed body around a fixed axis. I wish I could speak more about this concept, but my class on this subject is what made me switch from an Applied Mathematics major to English lol.

      http://www.real-world-physics-problems.com/rotational-motion.html

    2. The ceiling of the sea is drawing strcamsi\rrrong thc lLrlliug engincs of the sea- Of shining answcrs through its question-sieves:Is matter thc enchanted lathe? Or mind?

      A crucial moment. We'll discuss it. An utterly enduring question, one that reminds me of the end of Yeats' "Among School Children."

    3. ne holy life, a spiral, hushed and pure

      I'm not a math major by any means, but I do remember that there is a mathematical concept linked to the spiral, called the "fibonacci sequence." This reference reminds me of Archimedes and his math allusions.

    4. it doesn't matter where

      reminds me of Archimedes lullaby -- the grains of sand being washed out to sea and no one knows where. this could be a reference to death -- no one knows where the dead really go. and i guess it doesn't matter where because we can't control it. but bringing back the idea of "beginning-end," the shell is washed out to sea (no one knows where) but it will always come back

    1. nstead, women helped put the low, vernacular languages in competition with the high language

      Two things: first, in other writings by Ong where he uses this situation, he cites the loss of Roman baby talk, a purely oral, mostly feminine form of the language that we have forever lost to history. Second, this also reminds me of Nina Baym's "Melodramas of Beset Manhood," and her assertion of the male "literature" and female "best seller" and how historically they've been opposed.

    1. They began a boycott -- teachers and laborers, clergy and domestics, through rain and cold and sweltering heat, day after day, week after week, month after month, walking miles if they had to, arranging carpools where they could, not thinking about the blisters on their feet, the weariness after a full day of work -- walking for respect, walking for freedom, driven by a solemn determination to affirm their God-given dignity

      This is how change starts, when we are united with others fighting for the same thing. This goes back to American values, which is independence.

      This section also reminds me of the text "Menexenus" by Plato, where it speaks on how women were not allowed to have rights or express themselves through art and other forms. We live in a world, where women can express their rights and where they can have a public voice. She stand for everyones individual rights as a human being by creating protests such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott. In this protest African Americans refused to ride buses in Montgomery, Alabama to protest for their rights. There were other women like Rosa Parks who fought for the same act such as Claudette Colvin. If it wasn't for women like Mrs. Parks and Ms. Colvin who provided a voice for all women, who knows how much longer it did take for the laws of segregation to end. In this article called "Montgomery Boycott," it states "Nine months before Rosa Parks' arrest for refusing to give up her bus seat, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin (1939-) was arrested in Montgomery for the same act. The city's black leaders prepared to to protest, until it was discovered Colvin was pregnant and deemed an inappropriate symbol for their cause." Claudette may have been too young, and made decisions like getting pregnant by a married man; however, she still managed to find her voice and fight for equality. This just shows that gender, age, and image can make a difference in who we chose as our leader. It didn't take just one voice like Rosa Parks to make a difference; it took many more. Now we have women leaders like Shirley Sherrod, and Oprah Winfrey, who all fought for the rights of Blacks, the same way Claudette and Rosa did in the 1900's. All it takes is one voice to persuade others to fight for the same thing.

  12. Apr 2017
    1. my dreams presented a thousand objects that scared me. Towards morning I was possessed by a kind of night-mare; I felt the fiend's grasp in my neck, and could not free myself from it

      His conscience still reminds him of his wrongs. The use of drug soothes it for a moment. When he says the fiends grasp his neck its the same way henry died with marks around his neck. Is he awaiting, afraid or totured that the monster to kill him?

    1. The spirit torments me; Oh! STEPHANO This is some monster of the isle with four legs, whohath got, as I take it, an ague. Where the devilshould he learn our language? I will give him somerelief, if it be but for that. if I can recover himand keep him tame and get to Naples with him, he's apresent for any emperor that ever trod on neat's leather. CALIBAN Do not torment me, prithee; I'll bring my wood home faster.

      This exchange reminds me of the new Logan**Italic Movie that just came out. I see the mutant Caliban as a man who is getting used and abused by men in power, blatantly against his will. Caliban's story origins start when Callisto finds him and 'takes him in' due to his tracking abilities to find other mutants (which could also parallel to European powers during colonial and imperialistic times; and how they would take native peoples that they counted as "others" and turned them against their own people either forcefully or for money and stature). Anyway, Callisto actually named Caliban after the Caliban in the *Tempest** due to his decrepit appearance. He is a definite outsider that is constantly wronged, but does his master's will typically out of fear. Speaking of masters, back to whether prospero is or isn't a "good" character: Logan personifies the righteous side, where he does care for his daughter (as Prospero cares for Miranda), and he has been wronged and is seeking to get his strength/power back. We see the story through his lense primarily, and are 100% routing for Logan (even though Logan kills and mutilates a significant amount of people). The other argument, that Prospero is a manipulative dick (yes he kinda is), is personified by Donald Pierce (the dude with the really cool Skywalker-style arm, or, Cyborg). He basically maniupulates the whole scene, especially Caliban. The web of character personifications can be complex and very much dynamic, and the different characters from Logan can be assigned a multitude of roles from the Tempest. http://marvel.com/universe/Caliban

    1. In mid adolescence, during the late middle school and early high school years, most rebellion is about creating needed differentiation to experiment with identity and needed opposition to gather power of self-determination.

      This reminds me of the play, Romeo and Juliet, because both characters are in mid adolescence, and rebel in order to be together. They are in search for power over their own lives. For example, Juliet rebels by not marrying Paris and pretending that she is dead.

    1. And that is why this statue belongs in this hall -- to remind us, no matter how humble or lofty our positions, just what it is that leadership requires; just what it is that citizenship requires.  Rosa Parks would have turned 100 years old this month. We do well by placing a statue of her here.  But we can do no greater honor to her memory than to carry forward the power of her principle and a courage born of conviction.

      He uses an effective strategy here by using a logical appeal. This section reminds me of an article I read when they revealed her statue. It is called, Rosa Parks statue unveiled. She was the first African-American woman to ever receive a statue in Washington DC. Ms. Goodin describes in detail the statue of Rosa Parks in her article. She states, “President Obama joined the congressional leadership in unveiling the statue, which features Parks sitting, clutching her purse, much as she did in the bus protest that made her famous.” This statue is a reminder of why we should stand for what we believe. We all have courage in us, and Rosa Parks is an example of it.

    1. “There were marches,” recalls Offred of the time of the overthrow of women. “But they were smaller than you might have thought.”

      This quote reminds me of the women march that took place not to long ago. I was thinking a few days ago about this book and the state of our country since Trump "won" the presidency. I thought to myself would we stand and fight or would be give in like "The Handmaids Tale"?

    1. Dcsccnding ridgc by ridgc

      reminds me of how the last thing she talked about in Sublimaze was how the colors were being reflected by the morning sun and her wedding ring

      this is different though because it has to do with lightning and the storm, the weather is no longer calm just like their relationship

    2. A shell appears_-F usi tur r i cula-And uses its inhcrited clairvoyanceTo plot a logarithmic spiral roundAn axis of rotation cvermoreAnd cvennorc-forcvermore ulrscen,ThroLrgh pre-existing numbcrs, one-tLUo-tl?ree

      this part of the poem reminds me of "Archimedes Lullaby" and the the themes of math present in nature, but specifically the golden spiral. It is interesting how Schackenberg describes this genus of sea snails' shell as having "inherited clairvoyance", which I think means the inherent sense of the shell reflecting this cosmic sense of universality with the golden spiral/ ratio, since such spirals are also found in galaxy formations, creating almost this sense of divinity for the shell.

    1. ‘The child who most generously forgave their parents’

      This reminds me of the idea of the participation award. Should we really idealize basic human victories? I think stardom should be reserved for the abnormal, and we take their stupidity with it.

    2. Human beings need role models.

      Reminds me of Hobbes' Leviathan. Why do we need someone to look up to? Someone to follow? Aren't we part of a society that appreciates originality (I am confident that is something Southern Europe and America have in common...)?

    1. The movement from an archive to a collection is characterised by achange in the unity and coherence which is derived from the collector who ‘‘constructs anarrative of luck which replaces the narrative of production’’ (Stewart1984, p. 165).

      It's interesting to see the archive put in conversation with collections like this. It reminds me of some discussions about web archives and whether they were in fact had more to do with collections than archives.

    2. urportedly format-neutral approach to archival research andpractices

      reminds me of ricky's position on needing to specialize in different formats -- the ideas need not necessarily translate across formats?

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    1. With tongues deep in their cheeks, archivists might try to assert that this represented a unique assemblage of information, but as an image constructed deliberately to lie, to misinform (“disinform,” perhaps), does it have value? The assumption that uniqueness is a positive quality in records—keep the information that is unique and disregard that which is not—is thus under serious attack.

      Reminds me of fake news.

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    1. Therefore, an implication of digitization of which archivists should become aware is the loss of physicality and the material information that supports archival value.

      This seems like an important but somewhat obvious observation. It kind of reminds me of Benjamin and the idea of aura.

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    1. avoid awkward discussions about their own youth, and they adhere to an unspoken understanding to discard recriminations from that period.

      Reminds me of how Putin rules over Russia

    2. Lower officials, anxious of being judged “rightist,” too quickly assured their bosses of successes in every field

      This reminds me of the Great Purge by Joseph Stalin where people would agree with him because they did not want to be killed.

    3. four-fifths of Chinese were peasants

      This reminds me of the Communist Manifesto because Marx said that the majority of the proletarian would rise and overthrow their leaders. However, he was wrong because he claimed it would start 100 years earlier in Britain.

    4. Lower officials, anxious of being judged “rightist,” too quickly assured their bosses of successes in every fiel

      In my organizational behavior business class, this reminds me of a poor business model where dishonesty occurs and a disconnect between levels of corporations.

    5. Like most revolutions, it overstayed its welcome.

      This reminds me of the Russian Revolution which was great at the beginning but after WWII the new government was not helping its people anymore.

    6. China’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

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    1. The practice originated in the great land reform campaigns that accompanied the revolution, when the Party needed to be sure who was a landlord and who was a landless peasant, so that it could confiscate resources from one group to bestow to the other

      This reminds me of a war I am reading about in a history class where peasants and landowners got into a war because the landowners had too much power, but there were too many peasants not to pay attention to them.

    2. Lin Biao had based his personal political power upon manipulating Mao’s image.

      This reminds me of how, in North Korea, Kim Jong-il basically did the same thing. He took his father's personality cult to new heights, and because of that, he was made the successor.

    3. big character poster,” i

      Mao wanted to show that he was alive young and one of the students. Reminds me of how FDR did fireside chats to show that he was still just a guy and keep the country informed.

    4. Mao Zedong wears the armband of the Red Guards to show his support for young rebels.

      The armband reminds me of the Nazi armband and its uses.

    5. A related campaign to “purify class ranks” between 1967 and 1969 killed even more, as political and family histories were scrutinized for political sins.

      "purify class ranks" reminds me of Hitler trying to "purify Germany" by getting rid of the Jews...also these dictators think/act like they are God..

    6. 24 C h a p t e r 2 “Politics in Command” “Politics in Command

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    1. When you grow up, you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That’s a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact. And that is: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again.

      This reminds me so much of this speech on the series finale of the show Black Sails.

      They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark... once someone has illuminated it.

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    1. changed into a spider

      This reminds me of Beauty and the Beast because he is getting changed into something. I wonder how long they got changed into a spider or if it was something that lasted the rest of their life. Because most people do not like spiders and therefore kill them.

    2. death

      This reminds me of my grandfather though he did not drink he did love to dance. He danced with me when I was a child and he danced with my grandmother.

    1. Art is the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

      This topic sentence is so intriguing and it reminds me why I love the arts so much.

    1. Behind him, on the shores of SicilY,His legendary works accumulate:Discarded toys, forgotten thought-machines,And wonder-works, dismantled on the san

      Reminds me of the Land of Misfit Toys

    2. ocean-engines

      This reminds me of the way things are described in words in Beowulf, such as gift-giver, dragon-slayer, etc. Ocean-engines feel like he's describing a boat in a different, old English way.

    1. situationis rhetorical only if something can be done, but apparently itis only rhetorical also if something should be done.

      "Should be done" in this context is relative to the individual who is engaging rhetoric in a certain situation. One person might believe something should be done, while another thinks that the status quo is sufficient. This reminds me a little of Hume's theory of taste, in which he argued that certain people had "better" or "superior" taste to others. In reality, taste is subjective and is in the eye of the beholder.

    2. the prospects of a Russian nuclear submarine baseoflE Cienfuegos was not a "crisis" because President Nixon chosenot to employ rhetoric to create one.^

      This, though, I think is pretty interesting. It reminds me of the issues with organizations like the Federal Reserve, who need to cloak everything in secrecy because speaking of the the thing changes the thing.

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    1. place should be characterized less in terms of this sense of community (discrete elements taken together), and more in the interactions between those elemen

      This reminds me of our discussion of "doctorness" residing in the "+"s. Now I can't remember what reading we were responding to, though.

    1. Demon or bird!

      Whitman's line here reminds me of the line "And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming," The raven ("The Raven") has eyes like a demon, according to Poe's narrator.

    1. New social movements are global; legitimacy is made through global recognition, whether through institutional recognition or globalized participation

      This reminds me of the role of social media in social movements. For me, Facebook is the outlet I see the desire of the globalization of new social movements become apparent. It's so easy to share articles and opinions on Facebook, so based on the number of friends that you have and where they're all from, you have a vast number of people that you can reach without much time or effort. Thus, it makes since that there has been a rise in new social movements in this time period because of this ease of influence.

    1. The challenge is reminiscent of the construction of the Hayden Planetarium around the 15.5-ton Willamette Meteorite in 1935, a feat repeated in 2000 when the $210 million Rose Center for Earth and Space was built around that same artifact.

      It reminds me that in the use of modern technology such a huge project are difficult to succeed, how is the pyramid built in the end?

    1. How inexplicable are these facts on the ordinary view of creation! Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone? As Owen has remarked, the benefit derived from the yielding of the separate pieces in the act of parturition of mammals, will by no means explain the same construction in the skulls of birds. Why should similar bones have been created in the formation of the wing and leg of a bat, used as they are for such totally different purposes? Why should one crustacean, which has an extremely complex mouth formed of many parts, consequently always have fewer legs; or conversely, those with many legs have simpler mouths? Why should the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils in any individual flower, though fitted for such widely different purposes, be all constructed on the same pattern ?

      Reminds me of Thoreau:

      We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mistakes. This was not the light in which I hoed them. The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment! Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology!—I know of no reading of another's experience so startling and informing as this would be. The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man—you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind—I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that. One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

    1. We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mistakes. This was not the light in which I hoed them. The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment! Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry, Mythology!—I know of no reading of another's experience so startling and informing as this would be. The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man—you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind—I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that. One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

      Reminds me of Darwin:

      How inexplicable are these facts on the ordinary view of creation! Why should the brain be enclosed in a box composed of such numerous and such extraordinarily shaped pieces of bone? As Owen has remarked, the benefit derived from the yielding of the separate pieces in the act of parturition of mammals, will by no means explain the same construction in the skulls of birds. Why should similar bones have been created in the formation of the wing and leg of a bat, used as they are for such totally different purposes? Why should one crustacean, which has an extremely complex mouth formed of many parts, consequently always have fewer legs; or conversely, those with many legs have simpler mouths? Why should the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils in any individual flower, though fitted for such widely different purposes, be all constructed on the same pattern ?

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    1. I live in a city where people will steal the hair off your head if you give them half a chance, but you leave your stuff lying in plain sight and expect it to be waiting for you when you come back

      reminds me of cultural differences; the woman in the stall could've grown up in a better environment and never thinks people will take advantage of her. this may say something not just about Sasha but about the environment that she grew up in

    1. In this sense it is easy to see that the English have no Constitution, because they have given up every thing; their legislative power being unlimited without either condition or controul, except in the single instance of trial by Juries. No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power

      This quote reminds me of Thomas Paine's attack of the Constitution of England. The readings in the past from the colonists have talked about the Constitution of England in a positive light and didn't seem to critique it, just Parliament itself. I think the founding fathers understood this fault in England's government and were very intentional with making the Constitution clearly limit the power of the legislature. It is interesting to see how the founding fathers took their complaints of Great Britain and clearly avoided making the same mistakes that they thought existed in Parliament and the crown.

    1. weaving images from her multiple selves and from many others into a kind of tapestry or patchwork quilt of language.

      I love the metaphor of language as a quilt. Quilts are unique, just as language is unique to each individual who engages it. It brings together different types of fabric that maybe don't seem like they would go together, but once assembled make a beautiful product.

      The image of layering multiple identities is intriguing to me, and reminds me of a class I took last semester called American Mosaic, which explored literature written by American immigrants or minorities from different backgrounds, which reflected the confusion individuals felt concerning their identities. Anzaldua, I anticipate, tries to layer these multiple facets of her identity together in her literary works, a feat with which many authors struggle.