For outside you have to creep on the ground, and everything is green instead of yellow.
This line intrigues me because it reminds the saying "the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence." Could author Charlotte Perkins Gilman hinting at the narrator realizing how clearly he can see things outside? Being inside that room with the wallpaper, it is almost if he is envious towards the people outside.
There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will
This line reminds me of our last reading by Du Bois, most specifically on the topic of the "veil" and its meaning. In this writing piece, I compare the yellow wallpaper to being the narrator's form of a "veil" and the more time she spends locked in that room with the paper, the more she realizes the oppressive state she is in with her husband, or metaphorically, the more she begins to see through the "veil." I feel as though her ripping through the wallpaper is her metaphorical way of freeing herself from the societal constraints, and her husbands, by gaining some independence in doing something on her own volition.
a site of constant motion, toand from the city, of youthful hope and, all too often, of shattered, and attimes, demented dreams
The way Cairo Station is depicted with this "constant motion" and the way that depiction interplays with ideas of "shattered" or "demented dreams" reminds me of the presently popular Hollywood movie "La La Land." In several interviews, the cinematographer of "La La Land," Linus Sandgren, has talked about his use of long takes and wide camera shots. Sandgren has commented that long takes and wide shots were used to make the camera "dance," evoking again this sense of constant movement. For "La La Land," the idea behind creating this movement was to make the story simultaneously (though somewhat paradoxically) more magical and more realistic. "Cairo Station" seems to use this constant motion for the similar purpose of making the story more realistic and chaotic. It is interesting to see how a presently popular and acclaimed Hollywood movie (albeit a nostalgic one) shares this concept of motion with Cairo Station.
Later on in this article it reads: "Chahine shot the entire film on location utilizing a hand-held camera to lend a“wobbly” effect and, for the first time, spurning fade-outs (Chahine 2006).The crowd scenes and the many shots of trains moving through the yards,whether framed from above or at ground level, look very different from thestylized urban landscapes reproduced on Giza’s (then) 30-year-old studio lots" (page 6). This too suggests the connection between showing motion in film and evoking a perhaps clearer sense of reality.
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This reminds me of Wittgenstein (and Rorty's) position concerning internal states and word meaning. Instead of understanding the meaning of words to reflect internal states, the meaning can be found in how the words are used in a particular context, or language game.
t may be that buildings important to your study are gone demolished or fallen down— so that the standing record is incomplete. In such cases you may need to reconstruct the missing pieces from whatever information is available
This reminds me of my Great Grandparents old home (which just so happen to be next to their not so new home). Anyways, back before I was thought of my great grandparents home caught on fire and burnt most of everything. To this day I can peak into the home and see old picture and a huge hole in the floor. I can use context clues to know what room was where. It's really interesting actually.
And depending too on how you feel about such things, the house may seem an attractive or an unattractive creation, a pleasant or a distasteful place in which to live.
While I haven't heard to much about the new development from my peers perspectives. I feel as if someone, if they haven't already, will critique the new development simply based off of their preferences. This in-fact reminds me that just like most things in life the value and appreciation of architecture is also objective and based off of personal preferences.
“that segment of [the human] physical environment which is purposely shaped . . . according to culturally dictated plans.”
This specific sentence reminds me of an article I read that talked about to Dekalb sewer problems. Dekalb county is a county in downtown Atlanta, GA. The article basically speaks about how since that area is growing rapidly and new projects are coming up. Unfortunately, the aging sewer system isn't enough to handle the huge projects they have coming. They have projects ranging from residential and commercial buildings to restaurants. They currently have 5 locations that are lacking sewer capacity. Dekalb is a dense county already and they are just gonna get big and bigger with the influx of people moving to Georgia both on business and households. Unfortunately for many of these places they have to hold on development. Even with the federal judge getting involved it does not speed up the process. Currently, development is being held up in these 5 classes throughout the county. Not only will this halt on development hurt the construction companies but also the economic growth and job creations in the area. Every developer says that the lines should have been updated a long time ago but unfortunately they have not. Some developers have also decided that they might just install septic tanks to get their project back on track. If this plan is approved then it would help the developer and the county sewer system as well with not overcrowding. This sentence reminds me of this article because you have to dictate your environment for future plans. This was something that the people of DeKalb county should have done. Better safe than sorry.
"Sewer Problems Threaten DeKalb's Growth." From the Atlanta Journal Constitution, 2016-08-26. N.p., n.d. Web. 03 Feb. 2017.
Fieldnotes should be written as soon as possible after leaving the fieldsite
I definitely understand why it is so important to take fieldnotes quickly after being at the fieldsite. This reminds me of how writing papers and doing homework for my math classes is always much easier and takes far less time when I do it quickly after class when the material is still fresh. It is very easy to forget little details in a short amount of time, so it makes sense that anthropologists try to record information quickly.
Prior to the various emancipation actions, beginning in Massachusetts in 1783 and continuing into the nineteenth century, blacks - 187 - were chattels, property to be disposed of in any way their owners saw fit.
This quote reminds me of the irony with "Black Lives Matter" In the article it tells of how the black lives matter movement started after George Zimmerman was acquitted of his murder of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin. It is interesting to see how our lives are valued more in these times compared to pre-emancipation times. It is interesting to see a change in a opinion in only a century. I feel like there is only one race and that is the human race. We just have different concentrations of melanin. It is pretty unfair to judge someone off their skin color alone. That irritates me a whole lot. I never asked to be this way, I was just reincarnated into the person I am now. Another thing I was told in class was that your environment affects your phenotype. If I was in the arctic area, my skin would probably be a few shades lighter so it is not really my fault that I am black. It is genetics and my environment around me.
Nothing is known of Cato Howe's early life, before his military service.
This quote actually reminds me of my literature class from my senior year of high school. We talked about how in some cases many colored people's early lives were not recorded and that makes it a lot harder to track family history for many people. It is even more troubling to try to connecting their family lineage but they are stuck. For a project, I had to create a huge family tree and I can remember it being very aggravating asking my family members who were my family members pass my great-grandparents. It was so stressful and it took up a huge amount of time. I actually went the whole length of the project because it just took so long to find what I was looking for. I did not even get my 100%, I got a 96%. The treatment of African Americans as nothing but property it utterly disgusting and sad.
While the state saw to it that these people were free, it did little or nothing to provide for their new needs, and subsistence, employment, and housing were difficult to come by.
This quotes reminds me little of the action of states' rights. The states often find loop holes so they do not have to do something all the way. An example would be during the time that colored people were allowed to vote they decided to make them take literacy tests in order to stop them from voting. Also I learned in the article "States’ Rights & The Civil War" one of the causes of the Civil War was states' right clashing with the political power of the federal government. It is really interesting to see how this is similar to states rights as not giving these people their needs even though they are seen as free. It is sort of like an early echo of the civil rights era. States' Rights & The Civil War. (n.d.). Retrieved February 02, 2017
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of their desires are changed; what they were fond of before is become indifferent; they were free while under the restraint of laws, but they would fain now be free to act against law; and, as each citizen is like a slave who has run away from his master, what was a maxim of equity, he calls rigour; what was a rule of action, he stiles constraint; and to precaution he gives the name of fear.
I am intrigued by the way Montesquieu thinks that virtue is a vital part of a Democracy. This reminds me of Plato's Republic and the necessity of virtue in the Philosopher Kings. The way that Montesquieu also discusses different forms of government also reminded me of the Republic. Yet, beyond its similarities to a book written about 2000 years ago, this quote also made me think about America today. The current political apathy that is present all over the country could be the cause of, as Montesquieu said, a lack of virtue. Some of the other signs of a lack of virtue that Montesquieu gives are pretty similar to America today. It seems to me that Montesquieu is a timeless writer because one can find connections to the past and present with his writings.
strong, precise verb
This reminds me of our poetry module. I have learned how powerful consolidating all your meaning into fewer words by choosing the perfect verb is.
Craigslist (really), I noticed, in the help wanted ads, in the midst of the usual office-drone fare, a little ad for an assistant editor at a small environmental news site called Grist.
This reminds me of the chapter explaining the expansion job opportunities through the web
I was competing against people five years younger for jobs I didn’t want. I had no plan and no clue, I was drawing unemployment checks, and oh, my first son had just been born. Like I said: adrift.
This reminds me a lot of Nandini Balial. Similar to Roberts, Balial had a job she knew she wanted, yet was still competing for jobs that she did not want in a ever competitive job market. Therefore, both turned to a labor market and found ways to pay the bills from working online.
getting cut off
My sister would get cut off from Pinterest because Pinterest's algorithm thought she was spamming people. I didn't think this happened on Twitter.
His posting habits of 30+ tweets every day seems excessive and reminds me that we often feel a need to post online.
more than 36,000 Twitter followers
This reminds me of the app/extension that deleted numbers from Facebook. Instead of seeing "36,000 followers," he would have seen "followers." I know you don't follow people on Facebook, but this is what I thought of.
vigilant2
The numbering convention is similar to footnotes, and reminds me of commentary about similarities among annotation, hyperlinks, and footnotes.
"Jove of literary fame
reminds me of a Franzen essay
But all deter-minations of the understanding are not right
Reminds me of the Stoics, such as Epictetus, who said that humans more often than not make false judgments in a certain situation based on their "sentiments," (he didn't use this word but I think it works) which then causes individuals to experience a "passion," such as grief, anxiety, despair, or anger. Stoics argued that people should indeed attempt to judge a situation correctly in order to avoid being overcome by passions and instead find true happiness (which for them was probably more equivalent to our American culture's version of "okay-ness").
one had to address all the faculties.
Reminds me of the view of rhetoric as a tool that the weak defense holds
memory, imagination, and reason.
Trichotomy, this reminds me of the divisions that Pierce makes between various signs and signifiers in his letters
goodkind;thebadkind
This reminds me of how the phrase "duckspeaking" is described in 1984. "depending on who is speaking, and whether what they are saying is in following with the ideals of Big Brother."
Theanswerusuallyreturnedwhenconsideringthemovementfrombooktoscreenhasbeenthefirst
This actually reminds me of a think piece about sound in which the conclusion was that older audio technology "sounded" better due to the artifacts created by the outdated recording technology. Perhaps then, the "downsides" of older technologies create an underlying rhetoric while the user engages with the medium.
The "faults" of books are that they take up physical space, and are subject to damage. Likewise, they affect the senses more so than an e-book, beyond what is conveyed in their text. In that case, people used to using books would suddenly lose an entire rhetoric specifically related to the physical aspects of books. This would most certainly be jarring.
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To jump on Kevin's earlier "Peirce bandwagon" (also learned from Juliana Chow) the search for mutual connection and understanding reminds me of this concept that Peirce calls the "commens" or the "commind." Essentially, there are three parts necessary for "signifying" something. You need an object, a sign, and an interpretant for both. Now, if the interpretant wishes to share the meaning of the sign and object with another interpretant, they must reach a level of shared context/culture/consciousness that Peirce calls the "commens." Basically it seems like Locke would agree with the theoretical model that Peirce laid out.
For since sounds are voluntary and indifferent signs of any ideas, a man may use what words he pleases to signify his own ideas to himself: and there will be no im-perfection in them,
An interesting concept that emphasizes the total subjectivity of language; a word's meaning is rooted in a common agreement reached in society. This is not a revolutionary idea now, but still a simple fact that I believe is often forgot.
This reminds me of the discussion of colors in The Odyssey in Rickert's piece from last week. Blue is only blue because society has agreed on what blue is and how it is represented. As Homer's jarring use of colors demonstrates, the meaning of words such as "blue" are totally subjective.
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Austin's direction of the body in such a mechanical manner actually reminds me of the modern playwright Samuel Beckett. Both Austin and Beckett are rigorously visual and controlling of their physical environment. I'm especially thinking of Beckett's "Imagination Dead Imagine" in the spatial and temporal way that it directs the reader (if reading the original prose) or the viewer (it was later adapted into play): "No way in, go in, measure. Diameter three feet, three feet from ground to summit of the vault. Two diameters at right angles AB CD divide the white ground into two semicircles ACB BDA. Lying on the ground two white bodies, each in its semicircle..."
Sometimes Mammy may have been a trusted confi dante of the White mistress.
Reminds me of Sarah and Hagar in the Bible. Sarah chose Hagar to bore Abraham a son by her own will
These powers of body and mind have in the past been strangely wasted, dispersed, or forgotten
This line reminds me Henry Adam's "The Dynamo the virgin" when Du Bois mentions the source found in the brain is just tarnished and abused. Adams, on the other hand, makes reference to writers like Bret Harte and Walt Whitman objectifying sex in their work. Henry Adams takes issue with the fact those writers do not intend on using sex the right way. Both Adams and Du Bois take note of these forces of nature as being thrown to the side as if they were yesterday's garbage.
there is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folklore are Indian and African;
This reminds me of what we talked about in class relating to "The Dynamo and the Virgin" with the concept of creating a scene that is a perception of reality. When "the wild but sweet melodies" and "fairy tales and folklore" are mentioned, it comes back to that idea of perception of reality. The melodies were created as a form of expression of what the slaves were feeling. The fairy tales and folklore are another form of expression as well.
but shut out from their world by a vast veil
The veil that Du Bois speaks about reminds me of the force from Adams' piece. Both the veil and the force are things we cannot see but still exist in our everyday lives. They hold this power over us and compel us to live a certain way.
Through history, the powers of single black men flash here and there like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness. Here in America, in the few days since Emancipation, the black man’s turning hither and thither in hesitant and doubtful striving has often made his very strength to lose effectiveness, to seem like absence of power, like weakness.
This section reminds me of Adams lamenting the fact that he had looked at all the art pieces and absorbed all the knowledge he could about Karl Marx and historical doctrines, yet he could not find a way to use and apply this knowledge. Similar to Adams' inapplicable knowledge, Du Bois is speaking on the stripping of power of the African American man. They have the abilities, the intelligence, the brightness, but repressive America "has often made his very strength to lose effectiveness." Both Adams and Du Bois speak of abilities they are unable to apply and use.
there is no true American music but the wild sweet melodies of the Negro slave; the American fairy tales and folklore are Indian and African; and, all in all, we black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness. Will America be poorer if she replace her brutal dyspeptic blundering with light-hearted but determined Negro humility? or her coarse and cruel wit with loving jovial good-humor? or her vulgar music with the soul of the Sorrow Songs?
This reminds me of the juxtapositions we spoke about in "The Dynamo and the Virgin." Adams compared power vs beauty, letter vs art, facts vs feeling. Here DuBois is juxtaposing two forces in America: One is the mainstream white America that is "dusty desert of dollars and smartness" while Black America is "jovial," "soulful" and so on. Here one can say that DuBois is showing the two sides of America, one being all about capitalism and achievement, while Black America is about soul and feeling.
Then it dawned upon me with a certain suddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, in heart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vast veil
This reminds me of the Adams piece in that there is a sort of revelation. In Adams' case, he sees the world shift from one based on the arts to one that is technology based. For W.E.B. DuBois, it is a sudden realization that he is black, and therefore he is not the same as the others. In addition, this sort of calls to mind the theme of alienation as seen in Adams' piece.
That sky was bluest when I could beat my mates at examination-time, or beat them at a foot-race, or even beat their stringy heads. Alas, with the years all this fine contempt began to fade; for the words I longed for, and all their dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine. But they should not keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them. Just how I would do it I could never decide: by reading law, by healing the sick, by telling the wonderful tales that swam in my head,—some way
From this excerpt, I am reminded of Henry Adams' piece because in a sense, this is Du Bois' "force" that he holds highly such as Adams had a "force," and his, too, was advancement. Du Bois' force is education because it is what will push him forward in his society if he advances in it such as the white Americans, while Adams' force was advancement in technology and how it changed him. This also reminds me of Douglass' narrative because he, too, like Du Bois, decided that education was an escape and small form of freedom from being oppressed by their society.
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 idea of double consciousness immediately reminds me of the beginning of The Dynamo and the Virgin when we are introduced to the duality between religion and technology. However, while religion is shown as being threatened by the rise of technology, Du Bois doesn't wish for either halves of his identity to be ignored, merely exist as one.
amplified marginalia
Reminds me of Vannevar Bush's notation of amplification in the memex.
Men prefer an island
This reminds me of the stereo type about men becuase generally they prefer to be alone, oppose to women who look for relationships and also cling to the idea of marriage.
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So for lack of a better phrase- Byron was "pimped out", in a sense. His persona was a money making machine.
It reminds me of the modern rockstar, Mathew Healy, from the 1975. He is aware that his bad-boy, chain-smoking, english bred image sells records and makes money. He has openly said that the character he is when on stage, in his music videos, photoshoots, etc- is not him. But people still buy the records and and want to believe in their image.
So I was late, and the way to leave was via the ferry across Lake Constance, ‘cause that’s near where the school was
The story following this reminds me of my ancestors leaving Israel. My great grandfather (who I mentioned in a Macbeth response, way back, about how he died, and I regret the way I found out), my grandmother (who is still with us, but blind), and their immediate family left the middle east on a boat to France. However, they wanted to go to the U.S., so they switched ferries in the middle of the night, as they passed each other. If they hadn't, it turns out that they would've been caught in a war area, whether they went to France or stayed in the east. So that's why I'm alive today.
governess
Reminds me of Doctor Who. Won't say more.
My father once in our Berlin house, met a girl on the stairs and said, “What are you doing here?” She said, “I am the kitchen maid.” Of course, he didn’t know who these people were.
Reminds me of that time I went off on too many tangents.
And he was offered nobility, which was very rare for a Jew. But he refused it. Like my other grandfather refused it too. These people were good liberals, the aristocracy was not -- was not something they desired.
This reminds me of a philosophical problem my father shared with me. A man is put in prison for a crime he didn't commit, and he always protested his innocence. Years later, the case is reopened, and they discover the truth. He is offered a pardon, but he refuses it. According to him, accepting that pardon acknowledges that they had the right to put him in there at all. Substitute the prison system for the system of aristocracy, and it's the exact same problem.
I thought that was more comprehensible
Reminds me of a doctor who story I read. Without the main plot of aliens, a boy and his family emigrated from Germany, and although his father had planned and rehearsed a long speech about how he was from a long line of so-and-so's, which would translate to Smith, he forgot every bit of the speech when he went up to the immigration desk from being seasick, and so said the first thing he saw, which was "Heftmaschine," or stapler. That definitely doesn't translate to English, so his whole family is made fun of for their undeniably German name. After the whole plot is resolved, the Doctor says "Well, Mr. Heftmaschine - amazing name, by the way. Never change it. It's time we were off." It is this small line that provides final resolution for the story (there was a motif of "the truth is relative, and rarely true enough for some"), because now the boy can see everything in a better light.
Thirdly, the game of chess was invented to indulge a desire for novelty
this reminds me of when we talked about leisure time in class. A desire for novelty/ a desire to pass the time away/ free time etc.
nductive modeling strategies
This is a really great SNA term/phrase. Generating big ideas from small observations is a nice description of SNA. It reminds me of the grounded theory approach in qualitative research.
economics
This reminds me a course" the introduction of sociology", in that course, the instructor talked much about social relations embedding economy. He used Facebook (maturing cybernetworks) as an example to illustrate how Facebook uses social network to make money, it employs user data especially the friend relations to advertise and sell products to certain users. And a lot of vivid examples related to economic activities were presenting, such as how Chinese people or Jewish people use culture networks to conduct transactions abroad.
Relational realism, as described by Tilly, also rejects the quest for governing laws to explain large social processes ranging from war, revolution, urbanization, and class formation to the formation of nation-states. Instead, Tilly advocated a careful analysis of social relations, empirical examination of the chains of connections linking persons through time and space in larger compounds of relations. Consider, then, how this approach would view a process such as “school reform.”
I hadn't really thought of SNA in these terms, though it does make sense. This reminds me of our current political situation. I wonder what work SNA has done to analyze this. I'm sure I could find some things, but if anyone's run across something they'd like to share, I know I'd be interested.
they can only choose whether or not to watch
people often don't comprehend what they're actually consuming, which reminds me of the new Uber fiasco, where Trump-haters are shunning the app and its CEO for being tied to Trump
For a symbol of power, St. Gaudens instinctively preferred the horse, as was plain in his horse and Victory of the Sherman monument
This line reminds me of the Paleolithic cave arts from prehistoric times. Based on mythology, whenever a human would create a cave painting of a wild horse, the humans would assume they have gained power over the creature and trap the horse so they can kill it. Could St. Gaudens be making a subtle reference of the myth about the horse?
Langley could not help him. Indeed, Langley seemed to be worried by the same trouble, for he constantly repeated that the new forces were anarchical, and especially that he was not responsible for the new rays, that were little short of parricidal in their wicked spirit towards science.
This reminds me of the two types of thinkers, especially when it comes to religion. You have the people who believe the religion for everything that it is and then you have the ones who can believe in it but still tend to question the meanings behind it all.
The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but any one brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.
This is another reoccurring idea throughout history. More specifically, it reminds me of today. Not because there is a strong pull to one side, but that it is evenly divided. Some people view sex as sin and some people view sex as power. This is a current issue that we are dealing with in the US with the topic of abortion and birth control.
Conformable hereunto we find the people of America, who (living out of the reach of the conquering swords, and spreading domination of the two great empires of Peru and Mexico) enjoyed their own natural freedom, though, caeteris paribus, they commonly prefer the heir of their deceased king; yet if they find him any way weak, or uncapable, they pass him by, and set up the stoutest and bravest man for their ruler.
This section right here is notable because which people Locke is pointing to to prove his point about governments and who forms those governments: the native peoples of the Americas. It's fascinating that Locke thought the Native Americans important enough to use as an example in this political treatise. It reminds me of the Iroquois Confederacy and how the early US government structure was based upon the structure of the Confederacy.
With the growth of the child’s mind in power and knowledge it ceases to be a pleasant occupation merely, and becomes more and more a medium, an instrument, an organ—and is thereby transformed.
His cotton example reminds me so much of project based learning. There's so many connections between the major disciplines in school. Why do we have students move from subject to subject every hour? It would be much more meaningful to have the disciplines integrated
a real motive behind and a real outcome ahead.
This reminds me of project based learning in general and specifically with David Wiley's notion of "disposable assignments."
Page 1 "The Panathenaia has been called the "most political" of Athens' festivals and has been treated as distinctly democratic or populist. 2 This modern assessment echoes that of the Athenians themselves, who saw the Panathenaia as the event that occasioned the defeat of the tyrants and the birth of democracy." This festival reminds me of an extended version of the 4th of July. United States freeing itself from British rule is like the Athenians freeing themselves from a dictatorship.
not one of its leading minds
Implying that Mr. Plymdale isn't very smart. This description also reminds me of the first sentence of the book when the readers are introduced to Dorothea. She is also called "clever", but as having "less common sense [than] her sister Celia had more common-sense" (3). I would be interested to go through the book and specifically look for how many other times the narrator gives the characters backhanded complements.
In other words, “open” is being used here not to indicate the resource itself, but rather to indicate the nature of the tools used to build the resource, or by which resources are provided.
This use of open reminds me of the theme of "observable work," "working out loud," and "thinking out loud" that Jon Udell and others have spoken about. These are practices that perhaps, at least at first, benefit the original workers and thinkers, in that they open themselves to constructive feedback and thus improvement. Then, however, others benefit from access and use of both the product and the process that has been created and refined.
Jenkins, et al. (2009) argue that much of what we consider received culture is the product of appropriation and remixing, from the Iliad to Lewis Carroll
I love these historical examples of "remixing." Reminds me of older forms of scholarship which promoted commentary and exegesis before the production of "original" work.
He doesn’t know what time is,
This reminds me of how children don't really have a sense of time.
I’m older now, and now, and now.
This reminds me of a child's constant desire to grow up quickly. With every second he is aware of his aging. He sees this as a exciting thing as he yearns to be older as every child or adolescent does.
This style of reading will change what we’re constructing here, so let’s see where it goes.
And the style reflects place, which reminds me a Rickert's comments about the rhetorical efficacy of the caves themselves.
participant-observation fieldwork means being firmly grounded in a particular society – not just observing, but actively becoming a member of the community
I'm a psychology major at Davidson and the fieldwork of anthropology reminds me a lot of a data collection technique used by psychologists called a case study. In a case study, a psychologist will extensively observe a particular person or group of people/organization. Psychologists also use similar data collection techniques such as interviews, questionnaires and inventories. I feel that the main difference between a case study and fieldwork is that psychologists rarely become an active member oft he community. Instead they tend to observe from a distance either making themselves known or not.
feelings of alienation and helplessness
Although I have never been involved in any anthropological fieldwork, this statement reminds me of the way most people (myself included) feel when adjusting to Davidson during the beginning of freshman year. Davidson certainly has its own unique culture, so it is definitely very overwhelming to be thrown into it. As the YouTube video on the "Davidson Dictionary" demonstrates, you almost have to learn a new language when coming to Davidson. As someone who went to the same school from kindergarten through senior year of high school, adjusting to a new culture definitely caused me to feel a little helpless. Thinking back to this and the thoughts going through my head when adjusting to a culture that in the grand scheme of things was not too different from my own culture, it is difficult to imagine how alienated and helpless I would feel when having to rapidly immerse myself in an entirely new and different culture.
Still, they were markers for something, and they were chosen deliberately—shades of redwere particularly favored. The pigments may have had numerous usages, from the func-tional to the performative. In short, we see baseline semiotic evidence of some rhetoricityextending far back into the evolution ofHomo sapiens.
Reminds me of Foundations of Rhetoric: Why are you choosing blue instead of red? What feelings do you want the color to evoke in your audience? Interesting to be able to draw a parallel to what I did in a university class to the thought process that Homo sapiens used to paint caves.
There’s no one path torhetoric or other cultural formation. If we wonder at rhetoric’s closeness to magic, religion,healing, epiphany, and the poetic in Greek rhetorical theory, here we might start seeingwhy in a different way: it is because rhetoricity enlists from resources common to all ofthese as they winnow out into their modern forms
The diversity of Rhetoric reminds me of a point in Michael Gagarin's "Did The Sophists Aim to Persuade?" which looks at these elements, but also sophism as performative. He points to Gorgias' defense of Helen being a bit of a "with one hand tied behind my back" boast, taking on handicaps to show off his language skills. From my perspective, the Encomium on Helen makes a lot more sense that way, and I'm interested in how a spiritual aim alters other texts.
e. and, of course, obviously, the performative has a connection with Orpheus and music.
They Lion grow
Within the repetition of "They lion grow" I get a sense of empowerment. It reminds me of the lower-class going through many obstacles and through them, they achieve a greater sense of purpose.
We made him president of our branch of the British Medical Association, but he resigned after the first meeting. "The young men are too much for me," he said. "I don't understand what they are talking about." Yet his patients do very well. He has the healing touch--that magnetic thing which defies explanation or analysis, but which is a very evident fact none the less.
I find very intriguing that as a brilliant as he was that he refused to get with the time. He did not feel comfortable being around younger people for that he reminds me of the Britishmen and scientists who back in the day were scared and doubtful to changes in medicine because they were afraid of the unknown.
intended beneficiary
This reminds me of types of stakeholders in educational program evaluations. Could be a useful reference here. Mertens and Wilson (2012) mention the following 5:
Within ID, who's making the decisions and implementing strategies? Who are the intended and unintended beneficiaries? Most importantly, who's disadvantaged?
That is my home of love: if I have rang'd,Like him that travels, I return again;Just to the time, not with the time exchang'd,
This section reminds me of a religious concept that no matter how far one may stray from god's path one would be welcome back with love and grace.This could also relate to how many people continue to love their spouse abundantly even though they may abuse or cheat on them.
erpetua followed behind, glorious of presence, as a true spouse of Christ and darling of God
This reminds me of a god or goddess in Greek or Roman mythology. The ways she is described as having a glorious presence, true spouse of her god and a darling to her god..she was representing something meaningful.
Be not afraid; I am here with you and labour together with you. And he went away.
This reminds me of the "footprints in the sand poem" that some people may know. In that poem, a person dreamed they walked with the Lord on the beach and he saw two sets of footprints. During the dark times of his life in his dream, he saw only one set of footprints and he felt troubled by this. But the Lord told him that during those troubling times, the Lord carried him and will never leave him. This part is very similar since He told Perpetua to not be afraid and that he was always with her even when she couldn't see him.
All this shows that madness is one of heaven's bless-ings, and may sometimes be a great deal better than sense. There is also a fourth kind of madness--that of love--which cannot be explained without enquiring into the nature of the soul
i like how Socrates explains this passage. It reminds me of the saying "There is no great genius without a touch of madness", which i find to be true.
Introduction5vading the Cratylus and Io, he connects with madness by an etymological explanation (mantike, manike--compare oion-oistike, oionistike, ''tis all one reckoning, save the phrase is a little variations'); secondly, there is the art of purification by mysteries; thirdly, poetry or the inspiration of the Muses (compare Ion), without which no man can enter their tem-ple. All this shows that madness is one of heaven's bless-ings, and may sometimes be a great deal better than sense. There is also a fourth kind of madness--that of love--which cannot be explained without enquiring into the nature of the soul. All soul is immortal, for she is the source of all motion both in herself and in others. Her form may be described in a figure as a composite nature made up of a charioteer and a pair of winged steeds. The steeds of the gods are immor-tal, but ours are one mortal and the other immortal. The immortal soul soars upwards into the heavens, but the mortal drops her plumes and settles upon the earth. Now the use of the wing is to rise and carry the downward element into the upper world
This reminds me of the bad apple discussion. This quote is basically talking about spreading negativity
The speech consists of a foolish paradox which is to the effect that the non-lover ought to be accepted rather than the lover--because he is more rational, more agreeable, more enduring, less suspicious, less hurtful, less boastful, less engrossing, and because there are more of them, and for a great many other reasons which are equally unmean-ing. Phaedrus is captivated with the beauty of the periods, and wants to make Socrates say that nothing was or ever could be written better.
When it says that, "the non-lover ought to be accepted rather than the lover because he is more rational, more agreeable"etc.. reminds me of the bad apple discussion in class about how people who actually have these traits aren't usually accepted by other people because they're hard to work with and don't seem to care about people around them.
But if the soul has followed in the train of her god and once beheld truth she is preserved from harm, and is carried round in the next revolution of the spheres; and if always following, and always seeing the truth, is then for ever unharmed
I find this sentence interesting because in the way I perceive it I relate it to the notion of being pure and faithful. It reminds me of the belief that good things happen to good people, and that in this case, if a persons soul stays truthful, the soul will always be protected and looked out for.
Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better? Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them?
This mindset reminds me of playing sports. You have to practice to get better, and when you aren't good at a certain thing, you keep training until you are where you want to be. It is encouraging to me that life is the same. If you keep working towards something you can eventually get there.
this advice actually reflects what modern psychology knows about how belief systems about our own abilities and potential fuel our behavior and predict our success.
This reminds me of the idea of self-fulfilling prophecy which we talked about in my psychology class. Positive and negative thoughts aren't just thoughts, they can influence how we actually "perform" and react in certain situations.
Finally, also consider that the chance of any given teacher enforcing the policy increases with the number of others who enforce it. Under what conditions will [Page 15]enforcement of the policy spread to a nontrivial portion of the network? What percentage of teachers will ultimately enforce this policy? How does this depend on the network's structure and the individual's position in that structure as well as one's own individual attributes?
Diffusion--as I understand it--is tracking how a particular phenomenon moves through a social network. This reminds me of a TEDTalk on how to start a movement: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXMnDG3QzxE
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The example of door design reminds me a frustrated experience at Duderstadt Center. There are 2 doors with different designs. The design of horizontal pole was confused. I did not know it was deigned for pushing or pulling. Another disadvantage of the design is it is difficult to figure out which side is farer from axial. If we choose the wrong side, it is almost impossible to open the door. There are no clear instructions or good designs on its affordance, so we usually can see someone tries several times to open the door.
Cambridge. Trinity College
It is still there today! Stephen Hawking holds the office that Newton did and teaches there now. To me, it always reminds me of Hogwarts.
Even their dining hall looks like the one at Hogwarts:
And, students have to wear robes to classes. So, I guess if you don't end up getting your letter from Hogwarts, you can always go here for college or grad school as a consolation. (This is from Oxford-- another Hogwarts alternative that also requires academic/wizard robes.)
There exists lots of software nowadays that maintain this contradictory specifica-tion, but older hands like me have benefited enormously from the tedious rewriting of data onto cards.
I'm interested in the Benefits of Tedium Latour alludes to here. He comes back to his tech choice at the end, defending the legitimacy of his, I guess, "science aesthetics," but this is about how the inherent inconvenience of the medium is valuable. It reminds me of a friend who was recently lecturing me about how automated workout logging apps aren't worthwhile because it's the process of logging that's more important than the data.
For Latour, who's all about the process and the "show your work," changes that make our lives easier never just make our lives easier. For Quintillian's detailed outline of the education of the rhetor, the long impact of these changes can have a major role in how you create a "vir bonus."
unlesse they be approved by both Houses of Parliament
I found it intriguing that Parliament included a proposition that they needed to consent to those who become major officers and counselors; this proposition decreases the power of the King. This reminds me of how the Senate is needed to confirm nominations to the Cabinet and Supreme Court, decreasing the power of the President.
Humanities discourse has rarely needed to aspire to the same standards for making all its data explicit, shareable, and open to critical examination
A discussion with a theology friend who works on early Biblical exegesis reminds me that Liu is forgetting a long-standing genre of humanist academic work, the commentary. Rachel would know better than I do how important the commentary as a genre was for the medievals, but also well before them for the early Church -- the text or data was there in its entirety "explicit, shareable, and open to critical examination" while the gloss lined the boundaries of the page. I'm curious if digital tools like Hypothesis, for instance, might allow us to come back to commentary as a legitimate form of academic work in the humanities.
The rhetorical figures, like the topics of invention, can be seen as parallel to human thought processes.
This reminds me, as it rightfully should, of Lakoff and Johnson's Metaphors We Live By. But they take it beyond the figurative-speech-as-heuristic by stating that metaphors are the fundamental structures through which we conceptualize the world. So, in a metaphor like "Time is money," the word "is" serves as a placeholder (I think they use the term "shorthand") for a full range of experiences.
This is probably more important later on, though...
page 5 Crowning the Lares of the Crossroads with spring and summer flowers reminds me of how many people place flowers on the tombstone of departed loved ones on Memorial Day.
At the Lupercalia he forbade beardless youths to joinin the running, and at the Secular Games he would not allow young people of either sexto attend any entertainment by night except in company with some adult relative
I think it is interesting that he wouldn't let the "beardless youths" join in the games and he would not let the younger people attend night entertainment without an adult relative...this reminds me when now you have to be accompanied by an adult when you're a certain age to go into places. I wonder why he did this..maybe it was just for their protection.
it’s also important that our best content appears in those search results. The things we want people to find when they look us up.
It reminds me of the #6 Self-Branded Self. It is more about quality rather than quantity.
poverty supports the concern that marital dissolution creates problems beyond the psychological impact on family members.
This reminds me of Maslow's Hierarchy.... You have to have basic needs met before one can concern themselves with things like fulfillment and marital satisfaction.
This article reminds me of one conversation with my friend. She told me that everyday she woke up, she wanted to turn on the light without walking off her bed, but the position of the switch was too far from her bed. Most people at this situation would start to think about how to extend the switch and make it close to the bed. Perhaps an extended cable controlling the switch would be good enough to solve this problem. However, I kept asking her, “why do you want to turn on the light without leaving your bed?” She said because it would be easier for her to wake up if the light was turned on. Then I asked her again why she wants to wake up and finally I got her need: she wanted to get out of bed in the morning. Thus her problem changed from the far way switch to how to get up early. This whole process was me trying to find her really need. After reading this article, I keep remind myself that the users might not discover what they really need unless you keep ask them questions.
This neo-Jenkinsonianism echoes as well in reactions I receive from someparticipants in appraisal workshops that, with the costs of digital storage shrinking,and the capacity of digital storage expanding exponentially, maybe now we can keepit all, and allow various combinations of software search engines, metadatadirectories, and archival description to separate the 1 or 2 per cent of digital wheatfrom the 98 or 99 per cent of cyber-chaff.
Reminds me of Vint Cerf's idea of the accidental archive, and how a total archive on the Internet is within grasp.
The idea of translating ideas and values into a real product is always so inspiring. It is also the core idea of design and any kind of arts. I really like one of paragraphs in this article, the writer said, “Designer using existing codes and conventions to make new products more familiar often unconsciously reproduce aspects of the ideology encoded in their borrowed motifs.” He also mentioned that “The user experience sometime familiar rather than new, so they are conditioned to accept things as they are.” It reminds me one of the commercial from SoftBank in Japan (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY12m7tjghI&feature=youtu.be). The designers used some familiar technologies for elders and embed new technologies on it. For example, the old phone can be combined with television and become video call. VHS can be combined with QR code and load the latest on-line videos. The designs help elders who are not familiar with new technology can enjoy new techs by their familiar ways. It also brings the core value of linking families together to the design.
The first Sound-On-Site show organized by booking agency Twenty Alpha and record label Re-Records at A.C.O. (Art & Culture Outreach)—performed at the end of January 2015 and aptly titled “From Below”—poignantly exemplifies the lack of performance spaces for the local underground and experimental music scenes in Hong Kong. Rather than playing in the small bookstore located on the 14th floor of the Foo Tak Building, the three performing musicians decided to set up their equipment on different landings of the stairwell: laptops on small stools, with amplifiers turned on their side to fit the constraining spaces, cables dangling between floors, and performance areas marked off by improvised signage. Puzzled audiences moved up and down the stairwell, trying to figure out how to reach the floor from which the sounds were coming, or sat on the concrete steps listening to droning frequencies reverberating through the building, which itself became an essential architectural component of musicking. “This reminds me of Beijing,” commented a friend visiting Hong Kong from Mainland China, “but where in Beijing musicians are taking back hutong alleyways and old housing, here it’s all about industrial infrastructure.”
Musicians will make music wherever they want or are able to. This relates Rice's Ethnomusicology in regards to music and culture because of the challenges we face as human beings to create sound as a way of expression. Music makers can use non utilitarian spaces to make sound art in. As humans we identify with sound as a tool to relate to expression. Everyone feels music differently and that is why we are drawn to it.
It recognizes that playful or ludic activities are not merely a matter of entertainment, or a waste of time, but can be a ‘mechanism for developing new values and goals, for learning new things and for achieving new understandings’
Yes Ludic design reminds me of gamification and I wondered what is the difference between this two concepts.
mechanism for developing new values and goals, for learning new things and for achieving new understandings’
This reminds me quite a lot of gamification. For example, the design of buy-ten-get-one-free punch cards from coffee places and ice cream shops reframe customer goals based on how they're designed.
Starbucks uses gold stars, sending their users push notifications through a mobile application to complete the streak. Biggby Coffee, on the other hand, uses a Biggby Card that's swiped at checkout. The Biggby Card provides no way of knowing how close you are to a free drink.
Because Starbucks tracks user progress, and users tend to be more goal-oriented, Starbucks' strategy would be more lucrative.
now that he was the popular leader, three years after the expulsion of the tyrants, in the archonship of Isagoras, his first step was to distribute the whole population into ten tribes in place of the existing four, with the object of intermixing the members of the different tribes, and so securing that more persons might have a share in the franchise.
Cleisthenes was trying to combine different tribes together and merging the whole population into more tribes than just the existing four. It reminds me a lot of the "salad bowl" migration.
The idea is to carefully examine the things you read, looking at the writerly techniques in the text in order to decide if you might want to adopt similar (or the same) techniques in your writing.
this reminds me of "How to Read Literature like a Professor"
The day that dad came home we had been forewarned about dad’s injuries. But standing there on the tarmac, when he came down the a…came down the steps, I remember just holding his featherweight frame in my arms. We were just sort of stumbling over our love for one another.
What powerful imagery. "Holding his featherweight frame in my arms." Wow. It reminds me of the pictures my mom showed me of the prisoners in Auschwitz, how you could see their bones. How there was nothing to them anymore. They were just skeletons. It must of been a very emotional moment when he saw his father again.
a related drought has devastated East Africa and the Horn of Africa and is expected to continue this year. The U.N. World Food Program has urgently appealed for assistance, but only half the money needed has been donated.
Translation: It's not going away and Americans are selfish, will you be like the rest of them and let these kids die on your watch?
Reminds me of the "Arms of the Angel" dog commercials. I can't watch them without crying
Despite analyzing the same data, the researchers got a variety of results. Twenty teams concluded that soccer referees gave more red cards to dark-skinned players, and nine teams found no significant relationship between skin color and red cards.
Reminds me of the models built from multiple polls elsewhere on fivethirtyeight.com. In the aggregate of all the ways the data was sliced, there's a general consensus around the idea that refs are between 1 and 2 times more likely to give red cards to dark-skinned players.
Decolonizing I kinda love and hate this term. I love it because it recognizes that some issues are remnants of colonization. That’s different from coloniality, which is more like things that are still happening now, outside the political land-stealing that was colonial history. In any case, decolonizing is cool, except when I really think about it really hard and I realize what Homi Bhabha reminds us of: the current individual in Egypt or India isn’t someone who has a “pure” self to go back to that’s different from their “colonized” self.
"...decolonizing is cool, except when I really think about it really hard..."
I love how the informality of this prose, this blog, belies the powerful press on a learning community's thinking.
This confounded Socrates, they say; this villainous misleader of youth!
lol thsi reminds me of the thom yorke is BAD FOR CHRISTIANS or whatever meme.. socrates was the corrupting rockstar of his day
Andsoinmycountryyou'reseeingahorrorshow.You'reseeingaretrenchmentintermsoffamilyincome,you'reseeingtheabandonmentofbasicservices,suchaspubliceducation,functionalpubliceducation.You'reseeingtheunderclasshuntedthroughanallegedwarondangerousdrugsthatisinfactmerelyawaronthepoorandhasturnedusintothemostincarcerativestateinthehistoryofmankind,intermsofthesheernumbersofpeoplewe'veputinAmericanprisonsandthepercentageofAmericansweputintoprisons.NoothercountryonthefaceoftheEarthjailspeopleatthenumberandratethatweare.
This is reminds me of the factors that we discussed that forced many people to get on the crooked ladder. Lack of education, racism or nativism, and either being in jail or having those close to you in jail are all factors.
4WiththisfortuneRemusbuiltahugemansionandfilleditwithlavishfurnishingsthatincludedexpensivepaintings,asolidgoldpiano,anarboretumofexoticplants,andamarbleindoorpoolcostingover$125,000/Amongthetwohundredguestsinattendanceatoneofhisnumerousparties,hedistributed$25,000worthofjewelrytothemenandthenpresentedeachwomanwithanewautomobile.
The author is making a comparison between Remus and Gatsby, comparing the "lavish furnishings" and "numerous parties" both men had in common. This reminds me of another writer's description of Gatsby as a gangster: Ruth's inventory of goods, sartorial excess, and refined consumption. Remus flaunted his wealth with his huge mansion and in numerous lavish objects with which he filled his home, while Gatsby does the same thing to outwardly display his wealth and success to both Daisy and the rest of the world. Their sartorial excess is characterized by the immense amount of expensive goods both men possess in order to justify and showcase their wealth. Additionally, these goods could be considered refine consumption because each man wanted the best in their homes: expensive paintings, solid gold piano, exotic plants, marble pool, imported shirts... These all have a refined characteristic in order to display each man's successes.
"You'reworththewholedamnbunchputtogether,"
This reminds me of when Tom Buchanon says that Gatsby is a nobody. It is interesting to consider how a person's worth in this novel seem to come from how they compare to others.
presents data collected from research that used participatory design methods to discuss and address workplace safety and risk discourse in a way that Latino construction workers could more fully understand.
This article description reminds me of the New London Group article that made a focus on trying to education a generation of people with wide range of ethnic backgrounds.
We have each chosen specific keyword
This reminds me of Paul Allison's LRNG playlist in which youth have to choose keywords associated with their own inquiry questions.
Montfort’s point is historical, but screen essentialism also obscures the diversity of contemporary interfaces used by people with disabilities and, increasingly, by all people.
This idea reminds me of the "internet of things" which is basically that every item in a house will one day be able to connect to the internet.
We classify some software and hardware tools as “assistive technology”—sometimes the term “adaptive technology” is used instead—because they have been designed specifically to assist those people with “special needs.”
This reminds me of the idea of being "colorblind" to race brought up in the Williams race article. Maybe not acknowledge disability does more harm than good.
It is imperative that digital humanities work take into account the important insights of disability studies in the humanities, an interdisciplinary field that considers disability “not so much a property of bodies as a product of cultural rules about what bodies should be or do,” in the words of Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, a prominent figure in the field (6).
This reminds me of the idea in rhetoric that we make up how the world is. I do not remember who said this but it is an interesting quote: "the world can always be recreated linguistically"
“Truthfulness requires that although we condense technical data, we should not misrepresent them to our audience
This is a good point to make. This reminds me of how there are a lot of writers, photojournalist, and videograhpers that have the ability to edit and view their content before the general public can see it. Being the public, we view what these people put out and take it at face value. While for all we know the writers, photojournalists and videographers can edit these pieces of work taking away its truthfulness. There was a report of this doing during the afghan war with a photojournalist who edited a photo for TIME Magazine. The journalist said that the photo didn't convey the right message about the war. He edited the photo so much from the original that it conveyed a different message.
Interesting when the author points out how blue is good for contrasts because of how our eyes work. It reminds me of the design lore article trying to find out if there is a basis for "good"design principles in science. Also, it makes me wonder if that is why Facebook makes use of so much blue.
"This kinda reminds me of my dad and my sister, he always teases her and likes to [play] these weird teasing games too, like this Daddy."
This is a really good connection that this student made. It's especially important that this student is making connections when reading because it means that they are fully understanding the context and what's going on throughout the story.
He doesn’t really say why.
Zane, this is wonderfully rich. It reminds me of the scene near the end of The Two Towers, where Theoden declares that they will indeed open the doors and join the Battle of Helm's Deep, despite knowing that they are going to their certain deaths. I cried the first time I saw it. Of course I had read it before, but something about seeing it dramatized brought it home to me. Why will people accept these challenges? Why will they fight for a losing cause? It inspired me more deeply than I can say. I appreciated a similar sentiment toward the end of Dr Strange, during the conversation with Dormmamu. D says "You can't win," and Dr Strange replies, "No. But I can lose. Again. And again. And again. Forever."
We must cultivate our gardens.
Icons, simply because they are pictorial, are neither necessarily easy to interpret nor interpreted uniformly. Consequently, consider the following strategies w'hen using icons.
This excerpt reminds me of emoticons and emojis. On different monitors the emoticons and emojis literally convey different expressions to the viewers and readers. On Apple products the emoticon that is expressing what can be conveyed as happiness on android and other brands of products that same emoticon is expressed as what would be sought out as an angry expression. This is important to remember when considering using emoticons and other icons because their intentional use may be misconstrued conveying a very different message.
October 2011 a one-year-old girl sweeps her fingers across an iPad's touchscreen, shuffling groups of icons. In the following scenes she appears to pinch, swipe and prod the pages of paper magazines as though they too were screen
This vignette reminds me of Liz's conversation with a kindergartener using an ipad to learn how to write-- he had learned that he could swipe fast and get to the game. The "oooh shiny" effect with ed technology is especially dangerous as it can give the illusion of learning
Consuming and propagating my culture and history as if it were an internet meme might seem revolutionary on the surface; but, in reality, it’s just another form of capitalist consumption and isn’t revolutionary, at all.
Reminds me I really mean to read "The Rebel Sell".
He touched the node on his finger to the node at his temple, raising the volume.
Whatever he is using is allowing him to control it via his brain. Reminds me of the past two texts we read by Saunders because of their futuristic and sci-fi feel.
follow-up qualitative interviews
This reminds me of http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/10/30/499200614/how-one-university-used-big-data-to-boost-graduation-rates and how the interviews paired with big data helped to improve graduation rates.
fruitbearing and poison-bearing
In a way, this kind of reminds me of the tale of Adam and Eve, and the tree of Knowledge. It bore fruit - literally; fruit of knowledge. But this fruit proved, in a sense, poisonous to humankind, when Eve was sure it would only allow her and Adam to become gods themselves.
3) Script: Scripts are what we might think of as cursive- or handwriting-style fonts. They generally have connecting letters. You’ll find that script fonts come in many different styles, from elegant, to fun and casual, to hand-drawn.
Script font reminds me of Pinterest worthy thank you notes or cute headers for personal blogs or online boutiques. I wouldn't use this font specifically on GCCA's website because it doesn't set the right tone for the type of information we are dealing with. GCCA has very important state juridical matter and also legal terms, business information, etc that are all serious. Like we talked about during our presentation in class, although they deal with children, it's still a very serious organization and everything must have a professional look and feel to it and script doesn't do it here.
You wouldn’t wear a bathing suit to a job interview; then again, you wouldn’t want to wear a suit and tie during your vacation on the beach either. There’s an element of appropriateness to consider.
I believe this is very important to consider when thinking about how we wish to display our content. In this passage Klienman discusses how our fonts and typefaces are similar to the clothes we wish to wear and I believe that this is true.
This reminds me of something I've learned/overheard many times from my wife: don't use Comic Sans. Anytime someone uses Comic Sans, the author will lose credibility. Unless writing an actual comic book, the font is useless. In my humble opinion.
I believe that when working in the professional world, especially when that work uses design in anyway, the technical writer needs to understand how the content they are creating looks. If that content looks unprofessional, that content will lose credibility. So by having a firm grasp on fonts and typefaces we are working towards implementing better design, more effective content and a brighter future.
1) Serif: Serif fonts have little “feet” or lines attached the ends of their letters. They’re generally thought to look more serious or traditional.2) Sans-Serif: “Sans-serif” literally means “without serif” — these fonts don’t have the extra lines on the ends of letters. For that reason, they’re generally thought to look more modern and streamlined.Though this point is often debated, it’s commonly said that serifs make long passages (in print) easier to navigate visually, helping move your eyes along the lines of text. However, because serifs are usually small and thin, they often don’t display as well on pixel-based screens (looking distorted and “noisy” rather than clear and crisp), so many designers favor sans-serif fonts for web use, especially at small sizes.3) Script: Scripts are what we might think of as cursive- or handwriting-style fonts. They generally have connecting letters. You’ll find that script fonts come in many different styles, from elegant, to fun and casual, to hand-drawn.4) Decorative / Display: When you hear a font categorized as decorative, display, or novelty, it all means the same thing — that font is meant to get your attention. They’re often more unusual than practical and should only be used in small doses and for a specific effect or purpose.
All these different specific types of fonts can be dictated to help intrigue the reader of a webpage. As a technical writer you have the ability to manipulate different fonts helping the reader engage in multiple ways. This is reminds me of the last article I read on universal design. When it comes to fonts there is a specific most used font that being serif, which can can considerably be font's universal design.
. And it would be very hard to prove the magnitude of the benefit accruing to the corporation which gave up one night of a variety or quiz show in order that the network might marshal its skills to do a thorough-going job on the present status of NATO, or plans for controlling nuclear tests.
This reminds me so much of the Hunger games in the idea that people watching this real life dangerous life ending event could influence lives in such a great way for no other reason than there amusement. A distopian procedure that year by year our society gets dangerously close to.
I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.
This reminds me of the AlterNet reading that we did a few weeks ago. Both of the writers are trying to make people a bit more aware of the effect of media on our society, culture, and heritage. Media has grown leaps and bounds for the past so many decades and is so common nowadays that it's had a profound effect on all of us.
Seated in her armchair she spoke, while they in their armchairs heard her, fairly well, and saw her, fairly well.
This imagery reminds me of Wall-E.
Words have a dialectical relationship with nearby images. Words comment onimages; images help illustrate or explain verbal content. The viewer's eye tends tobe drawn to the visual, but words also shape the reader's perception.
This reminds me of the Kuleshov effect in film making wherein two unrelated images are edited together in order to create a single idea. the placements of information and other media in a single space creates a similar effect. The audience unconsciously associates two pieces of information when they are delivered in tandem. While this is a great way to organize information within a single piece of content like an infographic it can also be used disingenuously to associate two pieces of information in a way that favors a bias,
major client of your company has issued a request for proposals. The maximum length is 25 pages. You have written your proposal and it is 21 pages. You worry that you may be at a disadvantage if your proposal seems short. In order to make your proposal appear longer, you slightly increase the type size and the leading (i.e., the horizontal space between lines). Is this ethical?
This reminds me of the article we read for our last annotations that discussed how the concrete definitions and parameters within the Academic world differ from the business world. The expectations change, which means there are new ethical conundrums to address.
So at best, design principles are a kind of lore. Lore is a kind of contingentknowledge based in practice, and as North has argued for composition studies, ithas a value that is often overlooked. However, lore being what it is—anecdotal,implicit, and often idiosyncratic—I think there is good justification to bringresearch to bear on it. Accordingly, in this article I apply empirical techniques tounderstand the lore of design principles more fully
Kimball says that design principles are "lore"which sounds like he means it is made up and loose rather than absolute. In this work he tries to apply scientific reasoning for design principles, which reminds me of the Enlightenment era propensity to use science to explain what may not fall under its domain.
One of the most effective ways to provide a sense of balance is to choose a single focal point for your layout. A good example of this in practice is the use of a large image as the biggest single element on a page.
This somewhat reminds me of the Dragga article about ethics because by choosing one image or point to be the most important or take up more space than it somewhat deemphasizes everything else. In most cases that is okay like in headings but if like in the article said if you are working with a warranty and making the details of it harder to read then that is not ethical.
the early part of American history
This reminds me, what's your timeframe here? That should be clear from the very beginning of the paper.
Mixed income housing has the potential to overcome some of the barriers that are exacerbatedby segregation, but it will take more than just physical integration. ‘Right to the city’ providesa foundation for social integration that goes beyond a superficial level of social interaction.Through encouraging diversity, a respect for different cultures can be fostered.
This reminds me of Sara Schindler's article about discrimination and segregation through the physical design of the built environment. In contrast to what Schindler address in her article, middle income housing seeks to eliminate segregation by physically integrating communities through middle income housing. As the article says, however, this is easier said than done. In order to enfranchise (if you will), members of the community must feel that they have a right to where they live and connect to their community.
When POSA is “over” no one reallywants to leave.
This reminds me of a program here in New Haven. The children are more willing to learn from these programs as opposed to learning at school. They want to be at these programs to better themselves.
The discussion over which teacher utilized technology better is interesting but also reminds me the ways in which schools tend to evaluate teachers' use of technology in the classroom. All too often, teachers who are being evaluated will incorporate technology into a lesson simply because they know their principal will be able to check off that box. After reading this, I am reminded that in order for technology to actually be beneficial in the classroom, it needs to be used with purpose and direction.
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The mind drawing within in couple with the phantasmic state Dante the pilgrim is in reminds me of Aldous Huxley's "The Doors of Perception" in which he talks extensively about "the mind at large" in which the use of psychedelic drugs allow for us to actualize the perception of everything happening in the universe and recall anything that has ever happened to us. Because of the nature of Dante's epic and all of its imagined aspects from the very design of the after-life to instances when he draws within; I must ask myself, "Was Dante using psychedelic drugs?"
“What’s happened to me,”
This is a quiet, timid, very Gregor-y way to illustrate the horrific incident of waking up as a "monstrous bug." This uncharacteristic reaction almost reminds me of disassociation, a symptom of mental illness where the afflicted person feels "out-of-touch" of reality, either being desensitized to outer stimuli or feeling as if their watching their life in third person (like a movie). Their movements grow mechanical; some might find themselves in areas that they do not even have recollection of going there. Disassociated people also react slowly, or don't react at all, because they cannot register that there is a reaction in the first place.
This poem is like good gossip, full of delicious visual details. It has a tongue-in-cheek quality that reminds me of Dorothy Parker, the funny lady who once told someone: “Don’t look at me in that tone of voice.”
Lots of satire evident, wonderful use of descriptive adjectives.
The strength of intellectual property rights must vary inversely with the cost of copying. With high copying costs, one needs weak intellectual property rights if any at all.
Reminds me of when the Bible was translated and made available to the general public instead of just church leaders
it may lose some color.
Reminds me of The Red Death. All of the rooms where described as vibrant, lively colors, except for the red room which was dark and lacked as much color as the others. Color=Life and happiness
You couldn’t charge people to use Python, for example, any more than you could charge someone to speak English.
This reminds me of Elionnor Ostrom and Antonio Lafuente examples of language as a common.
Do we have a sustainability model for the commons?
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This reminds me of the original Adam and Eve story, where their arrogance led them to go against God's wishes and ate the devil's fruit. Dante warns the figures to not let their hearts waver from what is right and just, unless they want to be see their "evil path" just like what Eve had done by doing the wrong thing.
This part of the article reminds me of an article by James Paul Gee called "Good Video Games and Good Learning." Gee says that learning should be more like video games: more fun, more engaging and more stimulating. In relation to technology, learning can be even taken further to be in/through games not just like games. I played an old game called Oregon Trail in my Eng Ed Seminar class, and I had fun, and surprisingly was reminded a lot of what I learned in high school history class. Such usage of technology/game can be stimulating and intriguing.
the custom-tailored humanoid robot designed specifically for YOUR UNIQUE NEEDS, FOR YOU AND YOU ALONE
ominous -- this would be equivalent of replicants? This almost reminds me more of i,robot
this process of humanization extended to the students in my online courses
I've heard similar sentiments expressed regularly by online educators, despite the cognitive dissonance this might create when we first think about the idea of online interactions being humanizing.
Reminds me of an article I read in the Chronicle recently
We invite any interested researcher to join us (send us your models or volunteer to assay the candidates we identify through this effort against any of the flaviviruses),
Collaboration. Reminds me of
What if everyone in the world were in your lab – a ‘hive mind’ of sorts, but composed of countless creative intellects rather than mindless worker ants, and one in which resources, reagents and effort could be shared, along with ideas, in a manner not dictated by institutional and geographical constraints?
Reality-based art hijacks its material and doesn't apologize.
This reminds me of a fairly new (published 2009) piece entitled Aurora Awakes by John Mackey. In it, Mackey unapologetically uses the guitar riff from U2's "Where the Streets Have No Name" as a marimba ostinato (where a musical phrase is continuously repeated). The driving feel with a lighter tambre (instrument sound and color) helps push the theme (daylight arising from a cold and dark night) forward.
Furthermore, Mackey also takes Holst's final chord from the Chaconne of his First Suite in Eb and (after adding crotales, which had only been around for about 30 years at the time that First Suite was released and they weren't all too popular as a result) uses that as his final chord for Aurora Awakes.
Sunil Singh asks us to stop promoting mathematics based on its current applications in business and science. Math is an art that should be enjoyed for its own sake.
This reminded me of A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart. This is a 25-page essay which was later worked into a 140-page book. (And Sunil Singh has read at least one of them. He credits Lockhart in one of the replies.)
It also reminds me of this article on the history of Gaussian elimination and the birth of matrix algebra. Newton's algebra text included instructions for solving systems of equations -- but it didn't have much practical use until later. (Silly word problems are as old as mathematics.)
Byzantine churches in particular were constructed at a time of architectural change, with their domes and arches built to be these immersive experiences.
This is a great way to talk about experience. I feel like so much of the worship is connected to experience, so it makes sense for artists and architects to focus on creating this "immersive experience". This also reminds me a lot of the fairly secularized and more modern art of creating installation art pieces that usually aim to engage multiple senses to create an immersive experience.
memorizing a favorite poem
This reminds me of memorizing my favorite poems from a kid's movie when I was younger.
He advocatedrelentlessly for a more holistic understanding of social life, one that is always attentive to the manyaspects of human experience (Lefebvre, 1991/1974).
This reminds me of a saying that my band instructor would use: "Humans are a product of their environment." I understand that Lefebvre realizes that humans experience different things in life but I have a hard time believing that if I come from a poor environment that I will not be a productive citizen.
A spatial dimension of social justice
I think this subtitle is very interesting. It makes me think of how in both English and Perspectives we discussed how the built environment establishes gender in ways that are not necessarily blatant. The fact that the writer refers to the "spatial dimension" as a place that needs social justice reminds me of sexism in the built environment. Humans inherently are discriminatory, at least they have been in history. The fact that we have built buildings and environments that are also discriminatory should not be surprising, yet it kind of is. How could the construction of four walls and a door lack in providing social justice? Well it does, without proper awareness of the builder.
To extend the metaphor to teaching: Like yoga practitioners, teachers who are committed to professional growth also take up stances (or poses) toward their practice, and reflect on areas in which they wobble with the intent of attaining flow—those provisional moments that mark progress in their teaching. In the sections that follow, we unpack the meaning of each of these terms one at a time, show how they work together by drawing on classroom examples, and then make suggestions for steps you can take to enact P/W/F cycles in your own teaching. Before we do that, though, we want to point out three essential features of the model.
This reminds me of the analogies Dr Yemi Stembridge makes about teaching and yoga. I think there is also something to say about how veteran yogis might make flow look easy and that newcomers need to know the habits of mind and practice in order to develop.
Is the goal to celebrate youth savvy or to destroy their practices? Do people intend to recognize native knowledge as valuable or as something that should be restricted and controlled?
This reminds me of my talk I had in World Religions class. Religions around the world obviously have to adapt to current generation advancements and ideas or it wouldn't be able to continue. Relating this to the text, I think there is no need to destroy youth savvy practices. We need to adapt to our current generations and future generations and not stop them.
looking at the data it actually seems that while fewer story collections sell, the ones that do can sell almost as well as novels
The idea of short story collections definitely reminds me of comic books. Every comic issue is a short story that connects to the next in line of that series depending on whether a villain is defeated or not. I can see why short story collections can maintain popularity in this way.
I also found the Kindle Unlimited interface to be the clunkiest of the three. It’s not easy to find the Kindle Unlimited home page, and you often end up browsing a list of Kindle books, looking for choices that are free.
This reminds me of one article saying, "publishing industry hasn't exactly made accessing books on screen easy."
We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old dependency of day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored, free, Of that wide water, inescapable.
This kind of reminds me of the idea of Gaia, the watery first state/mother of Earth.
n of the dead
reminds me of like a skeleton army. like a dead person parade.
Years later, the lottery winners were interviewed again, this time the results were quite surprising. As it turns out, their happiness level had dropped significantly to levels so low that most of the winners where more unhappy now than before winning the lottery. In contrast, the happiness of the group of paraplegics was very high, equal to or higher than before the accident.
This reminds me of Matthew 19:30, and of the New Testament in general, with cripples ending up in a better position (which is sometimes seen allegorically).
As a printed page is flipped, all components — book, head, and eyes — are adjusted to accommodate the flow. Meanwhile, the brain hides what is usually an abrupt break in a line, a thought, a sentence, a paragraph, a gap that’s unnatural, in the same way the gap between letters is unnatural
Our brains are so cool in this way! Reminds me also of how our brains block out our noses:
"The main reason is stereo parallax. Each eye sees the nose in a different position because it is so close. You can notice this if you look down at your nose and alternate closing the right or left eye. The visual region that is blocked by the nose with one eye is "seen" by the other eye. During the first stage of visual processing, the brain forms a unified image from both eyes and takes the region from the eye that is not blocked by the nose. You can also notice this effect if you put a hand in front of one eye close to your face. You can still your hand but it looks semi-transparent."
That friend had a friend and that friend had a friend, and now when you go to dinner at Kathy and David’s house on Thursday night there might be 15 to 20 teenagers crammed around the table, and later there will be groups of them crashing in the basement or in the few small bedrooms upstairs.
Reminds me of Beatrice de Regnier's May I Bring a Friend
and many of her friends, simply refused to discuss the matter or to correspond with her any more
This isolation kind of reminds me of the Grace Galloway had when she was losing her home and going through crisis. It says a lot about the exiled and how long sympathy lasts in an environment that is completely based on who is loyal and who is not. Again, I believe that family is destroyed through the war but it also messed up friendships because people were either too afraid or they were not really able to do much about the situation.
so white that we can see the blue veins running through his skin like rivers. When the Indian woman steps out of her dress, the white man gasps at the endless beauty of her brown skin. She should be compared to nature: brown hills, mountains, fertile valleys, dewy grass, wind, and clear water.
This reminds me of Pocahontas in a way. She was a Native American who saved a white Englishman, John Smith, who was being held captive. Later in life she was held captive, converted to Christianity, took the name "Rebecca" and married a white man. Even her story has been romanticized, which is what Alexie is showing here. Even from the Disney movie, we know that Pocahontas was "one with nature" and was beautiful.
He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying
This line really strikes me because, all his books are about death and it seems that no matter if you are living or dead, your always dead or surrounded by death either yourself or the people around you. It also reminds me of the walking dead, they are surrounded by the dead and are dying one by one. 
who was once handsome and tall as you
Obviously on some level a warning about our helplessness in the face of death, but also reminds me of Marie talking about her childhood feeling free in the mountains. She was "free" and Phlebas was "handsome and tall," but the trajectory seems to point down for everyone in more ways than physical as they approach death (whether by old age or not).
deep sea swell
This is an interesting juxtaposition to me. Water swells at the surface, not in the deep..To have a swell without a surface reference point is essentially impossible. It even reminds me of, "If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, did it even make a sound?"
mixing
the word mixing reminds me of the previous class session we had when we were talking about mixing the pure with the "tainted"/unaccepted
Entering the whirlpool
reminds me of graveyard poets in England, reflecting the idea that in the end, everyone dies just the same. He can be anyone and this is a realization often reached when close to death
He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying
The circle of life, revolves around death and life but also the in-between and what we don't know about the after life is a big mystery, which takes us back to the unseen, the living dead, or just the dead. It reminds me of the lilacs that bloom from dead land, which could possibly signify that even though we lose people, we also gain new life.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a Cinemagraph worth? A novel.
I think cinemagraphs are really cool because they're a lot more authentic-looking than gifs - often there's no obvious looping and the image feels very real. It reminds me of the moving images in newspapers and such in Harry Potter - the cinemagraph most accurately represents what those would look like.
Between 1998 and 2002, Rhizome commissioned artists to produce splash pages for its website. It’s hard to imagine landing pages like this functioning on today’s frantically paced web, but in a time of modems and slow-loading websites, these splash screens were a fast way to introduce viewers to the kind of content one might expect on the site.
This reminds me of the way websites used to be designed - very tacky with a bunch of GIFs and stamps everywhere and overall horrible design.
Besides, hyperglycemia may also induce oxidative stress by generating free radicals, advanced glycation end
Like so. This reminds me of another article.
In countering you bring a different set of interests to bear upon a subject, look to notice what others have not.
This is my quote from the texts. It relates to my writing in the course in that I discuss a dystopia that addresses societal issues such as abortion, gender inequality, and euthanasia. These are broad and complex topics. While one person's opinion or ideas alone on one of these topics is limited to "x" amound of knowledge, multiple people's views on the subject would give a greater scope of the issue. Therefore, in my essays I have included Lois Lowry's (author of The Giver) opinions, the author of a secondary source's opinion, and this quote reminds me to also add my own opinion or views. This will result in the reader having more viewpoints on the subject.
the aim of academic writing should not be simply to prove how smart you are but to add to what can be said about a subject
This reminds me of our discussion on forwarding in that we are not creating a new idea altogether, but rather adding on to a previous idea with some of our ideas or views attached. This will in hope bring another side to the subject and allow people to grasp a larger understanding of how the topic effects different people.
This reminds me of that "Who's on first" Abbot and Costello sketch
Pretty harsh rhetoric that reminds me of something a 15 year old would say to win an argument. This is pathos I believe.
You would be cruel indeed if, thinking what 40 my heart foresaw, you don't already grieve; and if you don't weep now, when would you weep?
This quote reminds me of how Dante, the poet and author, must feel talking about and writing about Dante, the character... After all he knows the fate that will become of the written Dante, since the author already lived it!
There’s a stake in your fat black heart And the villagers never liked you. They are dancing and stamping on you.
This almost reminds me of Frankenstein, the villagers burning the monster, etc.
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This kind reminds me of more modern day "treaties" that never turn out to work the way it was expected. When America left Iraq we left the country falling apart.
Such an approach also goes beyond advertising the aesthetic value of the campus open spaces for student recruitment purposes to recognizing the entire campus landscape as a learning space and advertising its educational value – that is emphasizes something deeper than what meets the eye
This reminds me of the Schindler reading. To everyone else a simple object has only one meaning but Schindler exposes the hidden meaning behind everyday objects. In this case, the landscape and open spaces on college campuses are looked upon as something that is just pleasing to the eye but in this reading we discover that their is a deeper meaning for why the landscape and open spaces on college campuses really do exist
They can be used in a classroom setting in order for students to demonstrate their learning
this reminds me of the online platform called Portfolium that SDSU students can use to showcase their work. I wonder how many students actually use it and whether employers actually use it as a tool when making hiring decisions.
herd the various knob-turnings/tweakings in a chosen direction.
reminds me of the cliche "herding cats"
he FHA had adopted a system of maps that rated neighborhoods according to their perceived stability. On the maps, green areas, rated “A,” indicated “in demand” neighborhoods that, as one appraiser put it, lacked “a single foreigner or Negro.” These neighborhoods were considered excellent prospects for insurance. Neighborhoods where black people lived were rated “D” and were usually considered ineligible for FHA backing.
This reminds me of a book I read in 8th grade named Freakanomics, it was the first time I read about these injustices. I am curious to see the redlining here in this state and in California. Two states so ethnically diverse and "progressive" there is still very much segregated neighborhoods.
Traditional Slovenian food changed the food culture of Pueblo because the Slavic immigrants created food that fed a hungry working class creatively and efficiently which then evolved to passionate and artisanal cuisine
I like the theme of evolution from practicality to something more. It reminds me of the cultural artifacts described in Three Squares.
Education is, first and foremost, an enterprise of sharing. In fact, sharing is the sole means by which education is effected. If an instructor is not sharing what he or she knows with students, there is no education happening.
I love this statement, I completely 100% agree that education is all about sharing. It reminds me about how important the internet and technology is in our day and age, and connecting through that really does help nowadays.
People literate in braille often prefer to read by that method rather than by listening to texts. Reading content through braille provides a deeper understanding of that content for many, yet producing well-formatted braille files is accomplished through one of two expensive methods
This reminds me that our library at GSU has braille paper available for print. I have seen it behind the desk. Though, I do not know if we have blind technology. I am sure we must have some, but it would be interesting to find out if we did.
And the growth of touch screens, primarily but not exclusively available on mobile devices, bring the possibility of a mouse-less future ever closer
There are so many different technologies these days that are beneficial to society that people do not know about. Even the talk-to-text feature is something just now becoming popular, but it has been out for a long time. You can easily speak your message and your phone, tablet, or computer will type it out for you. It seems people are just now getting used to it to where it is becoming a social norm. This reminds me of when I was about 13 years old when wi-fi wasn't popular in homes (well maybe not for my age group) and my peers wouldn't understand the concept of wireless internet. When I would ask about wi-fi they wouldn't know what I was talking about and weren't open to the change. I've had many experiences like that because I am fairly up to date with technology.
Instead, technical communication “represents a shaping forcein the unfolding story” (p. 11). And it is this shaping potential that may be most im-portant, post–Eldred v. Ashcroft.
I like how this is phrased, it reminds me of Wickman's "Wicked Problems in Technical Communication." The technical communication profession is a necessary one. Technical communicators are versed in rhetoric, and finely tuned rhetorical techniques are essential to make social and political changes. As technical communicators, we deliver important information to our users in the most accessible way. Even though it may not be our intended goal, we can create changes through our work.
Wickman, C. (2014). Wicked Problems in Technical Communication. Journal Of Technical Writing & Communication, 44(1), 23-42.
identification with whiteness was associated with what the historian George Lipsitz (1998) termed a “possessive investment in whiteness”—manifested, in this case, by opposition to policies that diminish White privilege.
Said in other terms, increased pride in whiteness equates to increased opposition to legislation that could negatively impact white privilege. This reminds me of the fact that most violent or murderous incidents in the news lately have been committed by white men who have considerable white pride and act out against people or groups threatening their privilege.
I so many flocks of naked souls all ttping m1 erably, and it seemed' the · were ruled by different decrees.
This passage reminds me of the analogies made in the earlier cantos, how each level of hell had souls that were tormented based on what their sin was. "Ruled" reminds me of canto 5, where the lustful were constantly buffeted by wind as an analogy to their lack of self-control and impaired self-judgement. They are ruled by their desire, therefore ruled by their punishment, and of "different decrees", because of the variety of sins they have committed which also goes the same for any other sin in any other level of Hell.
I so many flocks of naked souls all ttping m1 erably, and it seemed' the · were ruled by different decrees.
This passage reminds me of the analogies made in the earlier cantos, how each level of hell had souls that were tormented based on what their sin was. "Ruled" reminds me of canto 5, where the lustful were constantly buffeted by wind as an analogy to their lack of self-control and impaired self-judgement. They are ruled by their desire, therefore ruled by their punishment, and of "different decrees", because of the variety of sins they have committed which also goes the same for any other sin in any other level of Hell.
As Robert McRuer notes, disability does not designate a subset of humanity but a spectral prospect that haunts everyone: “If we live long enough, disability is the one identity that we all inhabit”
To me this is one of the more interesting and saddening quotes of the article. Robert McRuer notes that as we age all of us will eventually succumb to one disability or another. This reminds me of the saying, "...we start dieing the day we're born". That hits home for me as well since I've seen my own vision degrade over the years. When I do not have my glasses on, I rely on familiar shapes and my memory of what certain words look like since I can't make out each individual letter.
When we as technical writers are creating content whether for the web or any kind of print media, we need to be conscious of potential disabilities. When we write for the web, some of that content may always be on the web. People will age with the content. What could have been clear and effective writing in the present, could be confusing or even wordy in the future. There may be no solution to making sure our content is just as effective now as it will be 50 years from now. By planning for as many disabilities and trying to reach as many audiences by using every mode possible, we as writers could get close this Utopian ideal. As I learned from a Lynda.com tutorial, good writing is already SEO optimized. I believe that applies to all writing. Good writing is good writing. Shakespeare lives on because his content was good enough to outlive changes in language. By accounting for disabilities we too can improve the chances of our writing outlasting ourselves.
Alcibiades shouting in the courtyard,
This reminds me of a jealous significant other who wasn't invited to a party but decided to go cause problems.
At some point, methods can become so complex that the only results that you can believe are those that match you expectations. At that point, the research has lost something very important: research should be able to change your mind.
This is a very powerful message, one that I hadn't heard before. It immediately reminds me of Richard Feynman’s “Cargo Cult Science“ piece where he talks about physicists’ shameful behavior after Millikan’s oil drop experiment:
When they got a number that was too high above Millikan's, they thought something must be wrong—and they would look for and find a reason why something might be wrong. When they got a number close to Millikan's value they didn't look so hard. … this long history of learning how not to fool ourselves—of having utter scientific integrity—is, I'm sorry to say, something that we haven't specifically included in any particular course that I know of. We just hope you've caught on by osmosis.
And now you, Dr Salganik, tell us that this is absolutely imperative!
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plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people
This reminds me of something pirates would do, not a king.
Less good perhaps, every site would, in principle, be monitorable from every other and would be so monitored by institutions with the appropriate infrastructure.
reminds me of big brother
It feels like it is way too much fun to “count” as a science and technology capstone project.
This is all at once fascinating, sad, and familiar--that students expect learning and assessment to be boring. This reminds me of Csikszentmihalyi and the concept of flow--maybe they got there, and that is a worthwhile goal.
That's none of YOUR business, Two!' said Seven.
This conversation between these characters reminds me of the little conversations/arguments between two bickering toddlers who are usually fighting over a silly little object. The author portrayed these characters as if they were only small and immature children who were bickering over a something useless.
`YOU'D better not talk!'
This is a funny conversation between gardeners. I think Carrol effectively used capitalizations of certain words to illustae the nonsense of the gardener, making the story even funnier. This part of the story reminds me of the cartoons I used to watch as a child.
The table was a large one, but the three were all crowded together at one corner of it: `No room! No room!' they cried out when they saw Alice coming. `There's PLENTY of room!
This quotation reminds me of the characteristics of small children who refuse to share any of their belongings with anyone else. The three who were crowded around one end of the table refused to give up more of their space to a stranger, which also made them seem very selfish; having a grudging nature of not wanting to make one feel welcome in their territory.