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  1. Nov 2015
    1. Approaching Manhattan up by the long-stretching island, Under Niagara, the cataract falling like a veil over my countenance,

      reminds me of that American folktale that we all learned in school: This Land is Your Land

    1. Nelson observes that science fiction, regardless of what department the class is in, fosters among students a compelling kind of intellectual re-mixing—what she calls for her own work “South Central LA meets genetics”—that empowers them to connect their studies in in English, sociology, engineering, law, and elsewhere with activism.

      This idea of remixing, and noting where the past surges back into the present reminds me a bit of Judith Butler's work, which describes the non-linearity of history.

    1. I also now value the new relationship that I make here at Boston College more than before this experience because I learned my lesson that I should not wait with being grateful for the people I have in my life.

      I really love your essay!!!!! It reminds me my experience and your essay almost makes me crying!!! But giving one advice, I think you can elaborate more on your conclusion. Probably as Brian said in the class, you can relate this essay with your mother's saying of writing everything on the paper. I really like the essay and I think a deeper conclusion will make the essay excellent!

    1. Making the transition from a three-dimensional to a Fourth-dimensional frame of reference, and appearing to coexist in both dimensions at the same time with full communication in both dimensions, makes demands that require a fine attunement to Fourth-dimensional space. Those words are absurd, but you understand what I mean. Let us maintain good perspective right from the start. You will need a stability that can withstand the misperceptions of those looking with three-dimensional sight only. Seeing Fourth-dimensionally, you will handle the demands with ease. But, if you prematurely expose your new position you will unnecessarily jeopardize yourself. Until you know how to do it as Conscious Being, you will be wise to keep your mouth shut. This is why I am here. Your path does not need to be rough, and I know it is your desire for it to be smooth.

      This reminds me of watering the germinating seed, nurture it.

    1. As Conscious Being, you are going to move around in an environment of ideas, of activities, of functions that are totally mental, and you will learn to do this while apparently living three-dimensionally, as a “material being.“

      This reminds me of being in the world (of 3d) yet not of the world..

    1. Instead, the Puppet Masters scatter ambiguous information across a variety of online and offline locationsacross many months.

      Haha. This reminds me how some managers use ticketing systems!

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    1. Surviving as an Author in the Realm of the Creative Commons

      I like your opening, beginning with the case of the Harvard professor draws your reader in. Your introduction does a great job of setting up the circumstances of Creative Commons so that the paper is accessible to any reader. I like that your writing style is a mix of academic and blog-like.

      I have heard a lot of buzz about Welcome to Night Vale recently, but I had no idea the extent to which this story has reached (tours, etc.). I think the power of the audience is key to the success here. The serial nature of the podcast and the audience it has developed is a great case study for what is possible in the industry. The potential for others to duplicate the Night Vale model is really promising, especially for indie authors. Did you know that a Night Vale book was recently published by HarperCollins as one of their biggest books of the season?

      The Natural Math software example is really interesting. This 'pay what you want' model reminds me of honour code fruit stands in rural areas, where people leave the money the retailer suggests. I like that you bring up that profitability is not always necessary with online publishing. Sometimes, software is developed with the purpose of improving what's available, without any expectation of profit. This is usually to the benefit of public knowledge or general open access. It reminds me of the app Duolingo, a language-learning software that teaches by having users translate the internet. The app and service is free, but the benefit is that the internet is translated, for free, by users.

      You used two really great examples here, and I feel like you could have lengthened your essay by expanding on both of these. You could have shown other ways the same models are used for other products or services, to compare and contrast how the same models are molded to different circumstances. I would have liked to see how the Night Vale model has played out in other situations to see how other audiences react to this model.

      In your conclusion, you touch briefly on the effect on readers/users, but I think you could have dedicated a whole paragraph to this. The ability for fans to remix content and have the peace of mind that they won't run into legal issues is something that has dramatically changed fan interaction online, and I'm guessing you could have found some great examples from Night Vale of fans remixing content that would have added to your argument.

      I really liked your writing style, you express your ideas clearly and in a way that makes it easy for me to keep reading. Writing without distracting your reader is a skill, so great job!

    1. Leave the “split experience” of Reality/unreality alone, as illustrated in the tares and the wheat parable.3 Let them appear to exist side by side. Let them appear to cause different consciousnesses. As long as there are two, you are not caught—deluded—into the three-dimensional-only frame of reference. This dual experience of consciousness is an affirmation or proof of your having crossed the change line. You are not in three-dimensional territory, although you can still see it and feel it. Take my word for it. Now, turn your back on the old territory and begin to look into the depths of your Being as Fourth-dimensional Man. As I said, once you cross the change line, clarification spontaneously begins to occur, and occur more rapidly. This is inevitable.

      This reminds me where Raj has shared words to the effect that it is all happening at once.

      Raj shares that be able to be aware of 3d and 4d at once means that Paul is not caught in 3d..

      The 'change line'..... is this the 'shift' that Wayne Dyer speaks of ?

    1. Do not indulge in the mistaken belief that it is going to be anything less than hard work, Paul. Accept that right now! Do not look at this “stage” of your growth as being peaches and cream. Do not indulge in self-pity or indignation at it not being easier since you “know the Truth” and are “having these conversations with me.“ Realize right now that indignation and self-pity are ego, ego, ego right down the line. You’ve got to not give a damn about whether it’s easy, hard, pleasant, unpleasant, quick or slow. These are all three-dimensional, “ego-bound” concepts. Even if they seem to parade as your feelings or thinking, do not “connect” up with them. I reiterate, Paul: Plan on it being hard work! Fight the fight! Follow through to the end wherein “ego’s” claims become the nonsense that they are, just as when HAL began reciting nursery rhymes and singing children’s songs. Do not misunderstand. I am not saying there is a real fight. I’m not saying there is a real antagonist. I am saying that if you don’t behave as though there were one—if you don’t tend to follow through “come hell or high water”—then you will be lazy and slipshod in your approach. One way or another, ego will insinuate itself into and as your self-awareness, because it is a habit through long years of apparent Self-ignorance.

      Raj seems to be really nailing it here..... he shares that remembering our real Identity isn't easy, it is hard work and he encourages Paul to really keep going no matter what.....

      Raj reminds Paul that to let go of concepts such as easy or hard though, to let go of the feelings associated with them, this is all 3d ego...

    1. With hypertext we focus, both as writers and as readers, on structure as much as on prose,

      spatial and structural references reminds me the idea of jumping from 2D to 3D

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    1. This young gentlemanwas of an excellent —indeed of an illustrious family, but, by a variety ofuntoward events, had been reduced to such poverty that the energy of hischaracter succumbed beneath it, and he ceased to bestir himself in the world, orto care for the retrieval of his fortunes.

      reminds me of the question about moving to bade neighborhoods. reverse gentrified

    1. There were many individuals of dashing appearance, whom I easily understood as belongingto the race of swell pick-pockets with which all great cities are infested.

      Reminds me of the Confidence Man, but also the Young Man's Guide----Both the Confidence Man and this excerpt describe how the men of "dashing appearance" are crafty and know what to do to steal from you. ----Both the Young Man's Guide and this excerpt discuss the dangers of the city and how one cannot trust everyone.

    2. For some months I had been ill in health, but was nowconvalescent, and, with returning strength, found myself in one of those happy moods which are soprecisely the converse of ennui—moods of the keenest appetency, when the film from the mentalvision departs

      Reminds me of Alcott's warnings of catching disease's from, the masses

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    1. . In our experience, drawing on one’s home language or hybrid language practices as legitimate tools for reading and writing within a summer academic outreach program, or citing one’s personal experience as a form of evidence within an argumen-tative essay (Espinoza, 2009; Gutiérrez, 2008; Vossoughi, 2011a, b), entails the development of trust, the emergence of new intellectual tensions and possibilities, and the potential for deepening one’s sense of cultural and educational dignity

      This reminds me of Ball & Heath dance piece where students devised a new report script of a school report. They use a hybrid language (American standard and AAV) and everyday experiences (shootings) to construct their identity.

    2. A multi-sited sensibility can help widen and deepen our analysis by work-ing to bring students’ histories of participation and experiences with various educational ecologies into the interpretive frame.

      This reminds me of Becker's paper on the problems with school and how students are removed from curriculum & classroom planning. However, Becker didn't address students' 'histories of participation' as a lens for best practice learning ecologies.

    3. Rather, we are attuned to the social and political forces that cre-ate boundaries and borders with real, material consequences for young people, and seek to study how these boundaries are experienced as well as reproduced, ruptured, reimagined, and reshaped.

      This reminds me of field trips to "downtown," a downtown that was sterilized and produced. How the space was created sets boundaries for particular participants. Downtown becomes reshaped as a gentrified neighborhood, losing the characteristics that made it uniquely downtown.

    4. Of particular significance to our work, multi-sited ethnography under-stands itself as an ethnography of movement, borderlands, hybridity, and change: “the habit or impulse of multi-sited research is to see subjects as differently constituted, as not products of essential units of difference only, but to see them in development—displaced, recombined, hybrid in the once popular idiom, alternatively imagined” (Marcus, 2009, p. 184).

      This idea reminds me of Azevedo's lines of practice. Subjects come to a hobby with varying degrees interest and motivations. It feels like the authors want us to consider what students come to learning with, what interests, motivations, backgrounds that inform and enhance their learning.

    1. our view, her emphasison control meant that she sought out the learning resource that allowed her the greatestcontrol over the learning experience. In this case, the learning resource was her brother

      This straight up, 100% reminds me of lpp and the concept of apprenticeship. Rachel is becoming a part of a community, but using the expertise of her brother to also become an expert in the game. I wonder if she began being exposed to the video game by just observing her brother?

    2. Unlike in the prior two vignettes, it is difficult to say here who is the more“expert” player. On the whole, we interpret the learning described here as a collaborativeprocess between two players of relatively equal status

      Here we can see that roles shift depending on the situation. The sharing of the controllers shows that they see each other as equals, but also that each has strengths which they can share with the other. This again reminds me intent participation, where there are "fluid negotiations of responsibilities" (185)

    1. Forinstance, in the Solstice Safari, a group of players work together to collect data aboutthe sunrise and sunset at different locations around the world. This encourages col-laboration and social interactions among Whyvillians and teaches them about theEarth’s position in relation to the Sun, notions of time (days, years) and seasons,temperature, and geography (latitude and longitude).

      This is interesting. Reminds me of intent participation. The Whyvillians need to voluntarily sign up to work with basically strangers. Connecting it back with the earlier point about race, makes me wonder how Whyvillians determine if they want to sign up with a particular collaboration.

    2. ideo games—andby extension virtual worlds—offer freedom of movement that many children in theWestern hemisphere no longer have. Due to safety concerns, roaming the streets oftheir real-life neighborhoods is often no longer a welcome outlet. For that reason,researchers like Boyd (2006) have called places such as Whyville digital publicsbecause they provide a ‘‘youth space, a place to gather and see and be seen bypeers.’’

      This reminds me of Nespor's work on Field Trips. It seems that this argument is in alignment with Nespor's discussion of mediated experiences and spaces.

    1. Breunig, C., Koski, C., & Mortensen, P. B. (2009). Stability and punctuations in public spending: A comparative study of budget functions. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 20:703-722.

      This article published in the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory by Breunig, Koski, and Morentsen presents a longitudinal study of stability and punctuations of public spending in the United States and Denmark. Breunig et al apply Baumgarnter and Jones’ disproportionate information processing model as a theoretical basis for this research. (The disproportionate information processing model was presented in 2005 by Baumgartner and Jones as a more general model of their punctuated equilibrium model/theory). In addition to the two countries being compared in this quantitative study, the spending patterns across different subcategories of public budgets in the areas of health, education, transportation, military, etc. are analyzed (Brenig et al, 2009). Their findings align with what Baumgartner and Jones predicted would occur universally with spending punctuations; “political decision makers either ignore or overact to information signals from their surroundings. This results in a distinct pattern of both stability and punctuated change in policy outputs often measured in terms of public spending indices” (Brenig et al, 2009, p. 704). A pattern of kurtosis was reflected across multiple subcategories of public budgets in both countries. Kurtosis is represented in a diagram as long periods of flat, incremental change with sharp punctuations that spike rapidly and then quickly return to equilibrium (Brenig et al, 2009).

      The usefulness of this study in looking at the situation in Detroit, Michigan and its fiscal crisis is that it helps explain the unprecedented fiscal punctuation that occurred in 2013. Because the policy makers did not make the small, incremental changes to respond to the changing demographics and economic environment that affected the city’s budget subcategories, the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history occurred. Who knows if the crisis could have been averted? However, punctuated equilibrium theory does help us understand why. The data presented in this article by Breunig et al (2009) reminds me of a pressure cooker; if the incremental changes do not occur- to let off steam, then there will be an explosion. This article also made me realize that a good way to study public policy is through budgetary punctuations; these punctuations are either the result of an overreaction or poor planning on the part of policy makers.

    1. The Parisian police, so much extolled for acumen, are cunning, but no more.

      Not thinking very highly of the police... definitely reminds me of Sherlock Holmes

    1. must resolve as I his discordance with his own reality.

      Really reminds me of the Butler, when she wrote about "who is I?" "I" is something that is discovered and then developed through experience in the world. Especially the world of words.

    1. encouraged to act more aggressively in searching for suspicious people, drugs and other contraband

      why would they encourage someone to be more aggressive like, and this is not something that you have to do because the way people just might be turn out wrong.This statement reminds me of back when i lived in camp Police or someone who have authorities they can do whatever they want, and they can accuse people for the things that they didn't do, and punished them. After we flee from that country and we moved to this country and we think that police officer would be really nicer because they are more educated...Guess they way we think of them is wrong.

    1. he gave her one female attendant, and supplied her with what money she wanted

      For some reason, this reminds me of Beauty & The Beast. She is a prisoner to this man, even though he gives her everything she wishes while in the house.

    1. The liberation of an individual, as he grows up, from the authority of his parents is one of the most necessary though one of the most painful results brought about by the course of his development

      this reminds me of the saying "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree"

    1. You see, Paul, the flaw in the Power of Positive Thinking lies in the fact that it assumes that, if one does not engage in positive thinking, the Universe will not unfold Itself in a positive manner. So, this theory and practice creates a fundamental distrust of the Universe Itself, of Being Itself. This, of course, puts one at odds with his Self, with his Being, since any distrust in the basic Nature of the Universe is a basic distrust in one’s own Nature and Being. This is basically why you are having trouble letting go and simply being. The world literally is not going on “out there” at all, but within You, as your Being. More correctly, your Being is unfolding Itself and is seen and experienced by Itself (your Self) as conscious experience. As I have said before, the difficulty you are having is because you flip-flop back and forth, in and out.

      So it seems it is rather arrogant to think that it takes my positive thoughts for the Universe to unfold as it should..... it reminds me of 'it is all unfolding, happening anyway, it is a choice as which dimension I tune into..... And this then leads to distrusting the Universe, of Being..

    1. Reminds me of social work's Systems Theory, which analyzes the various components of an individual's life and how they work together in a system in order to maintain homeostasis. Similarly, systems of infrastructure must work together for society to operate effectively.

    1. In effect, this ts a crrcular arena, a theater in the round, and that is how it is used, with com-plete confusion as to who are spectators and who ar~ the show.

      It is interesting how everyone in a park is on display for everyone else. This reminds me of De Certeu's Concept of Readers and Writers. The center of an Intricate park allows for many different stories to be told in different instances, just as people are writers when walking the street.

    2. Unpopular parks are troubling not only because of the waste and missed opportunities they imply, but also because of their frequent negative effects. They have the same problems as streets without eyes, and their dangers spill over into the areas surround-·ng so that streets along such parks become known as danger 1 Ia~es too and are avoided.

      This reminds me of the question of whether or not streets should be designed for socialization or for buildings considering that socialization can be harmful.

    1. Meanwhile, most of the student body was seated in the stands. They were decked out in the school colors, many even having painted their faces in support.

      This reminds me of my high school, when an event was going on the kids were more interested in themselves and friends rather than what was going on. When the Homecoming Court was presented at my high school we really only cared about who the queen was not about the fun facts that were said about them.

    2. Social media may seem like a peculiar place for teens to congregate, but for many teens, hanging out on Facebook or Twitter is their only opportunity to gather en masse with friends, acquaintances, classmates, and other teens. More often than not, their passion for social media stems from their desire to socialize.

      This reminds me of high school on twitter. I would definitely say many of us were addicted to refreshing our feed so we always knew what each other were up to or thinking. It was a cross between a personal journal and information of what my classmates were doing. Multiple times I made plans to hang out with friends through social media.

  4. Oct 2015
    1. And yet ferries merely fore-ground individual ways of life; they do not determine them

      This reminds me of environmental determinism and possibilism. Ferries allow for a certain pace or pattern in life, but do not dictate the manner in which individuals fall into those patterns.

    1. Sort of reminds me of how the republicans and democrats can never agree and it only complicates decision making more. Just like the federalists and Anti Federalists.

    1. guard them against a low estimation of self.

      Reminds me of a quote from Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi:

      "I realized then, setting higher and higher jumps for them in the way she talked to them, in what she expected of them. She did it all the time believing they would scale the rod. And they did."

    2. how mortifying should this be all, if, upon a more extensive knowledge you should be discovered to possess no one mental charm, to be fit only at best, to be hung up as a pleasing picture among the paintings of some spacious hall.

      To go through life without accomplishing anything but being beautiful. Reminds me of T.S. Eliot's Hollow Men, "This is the way the world ends: Not with a bang but a whimper."

    3. Neither should those to whom nature had been parsimonious,

      Is this a way to say people who aren't beautiful? On a quick side note, the poetry of her language is extremely impressive. I find her repeated use of the word "nature" to be interesting. I'm not quite yet sure what I find interesting about it except that it reminds me of essentialism.

    1. He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience

      The theme of "zombie" or "walking dead" comes out throughout the poem. From the body being hidden in snow during the winter and spring showing where it is hidden, to death by water, this idea of the living dead comes up throughout the poem. The passage states that the those who have lived are now dead (obviously). But those who are currently living are in a way dead, or well on their way to dying. This can be seen sort of as the human curse: from the moment we are born we are already on our way to dying. With a little patience, with a little dash between birth and death is life (life - death), and we are venturing into death. The human curse

      Speaking of venturing into death (literally on a boat), is in the Greek epic The Odyssey, especially Book 11 where Odysseus travels to The Underworld as part of his 10 years journey. So literally, travels to hell and back; he is walking among the dead, and the dead are walking among his living presence. For instance, Odysseus finds his dead mother, and is in shock since the last time he saw his mother she was still alive. Further into the Underworld, a line of the dead starts to form to try to talk to Odysseus, since of course hell doesn't get many living visitors, especially when they plan on leaving to return back home to their wife (who in the meantime is being hoarded by suitors). Odysseus also meets his old friends he fought besides in the Trojan war: Achilleus, Patroklos, Antilochos, and Telamonian Aias. The dead are talking to him throughout his entire stay in the Underworld. There is also a huge hint that Odysseus will die a watery death, which again eludes back to death by water in 'The Wasteland'. Odysseus is told to pray to the ocean god Poseidon for a peaceful seaborne death at an old age. So here we are again, with the knowledge that we will all indeed die one day. The day will come when we are of old age and all our patience of going through life is soon to come to an end. As sad as that is. The Underworld

      Relating back to 'The Wasteland', the idea of zombie is woven throughout. For instance,around line 70, there is a character that talks about a corpse that was planted in a garden. If it has begun to sprout or bloom. Even the dog is trying to dig up the dead. So as mentioned before, snow is what covers this body of the dead, hiding the past away hoping that it will not disturb you again. But it does later in the spring, in April, where the snow has dried up and the body has begun to "push daisies" as they say. So even in death, a new life emerges and is shown out in the garden. Gardens represent life, and blooming, and opening of flowers of life. So when it comes to it, the body, the zombie, will come to life in a different form. What I found peculiar throughout the poem were the titles: 'The Burial of the Dead', 'A Game of Chess', 'The Fire Sermon'. I shall explain what some mean to me:

      'The Burial of the Dead' is interesting since it is the first title after "The Wasteland", which indicates that there are bodies needing to be buried in this wasteland. Bodies waste away, and they stink leaving a bad odor behind, which can be bad for the living's health, and that is why we bury them. Also, it is traditional to bury bodies.

      'A Game of Chess' reminds me of a game with Death. Or rather, a game that is between Life and Death. They make moves on the board, slowly taking away each other's players, and this can by symbolic of taking away years of our lives. Life can hold out as long as it can, but in the end, it is Death that takes Life's king.

      'The Fire Sermon' could be seen as the burning of bodies. As in the book Beowulf, the king Beowulf is burned on a boat with his treasures. So when a body is burned, so are the treasures that a person holds and they are kept with them forever. So any secrets and philosophies that a person holds is with them forever when they die, and no one will ever know. Also, zombies are burned after being killed through the pain, just in case, so they're burned to ashes and for sure cannot come back alive.

    2. Dry bones can harm no one.

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      In the Bible, there is a passage in the book of Ezekiel titled "The Valley of Dry Bones." It isn’t too often that you see “dry bones” in literature, and it was interesting that it was a biblical reference. Taking into consideration that the Bible discusses a lot about death and life, there was a lot of examples to go off of. For example, when creation was formed in the book of Genesis, God saw darkness and called forth called light. Or after Jesus was crucified, he resurrected from death to life. Or in the letters or books written by Paul, he constantly discussed death to flesh and life in the spirit. And even right in the midst of the passage in Ezekiel 17, God tells Ezekiel to prophesy the dry bones to life. The Bible appears to allude these paradoxes. And it just so happens that Langston Hughes touches on the motif of zombies that discuss mindless creatures don’t have any control of what they’re doing because they’re dead, but alive. The reference of the dry bones similarly refers to the zombies that Hughes alludes to. If you were to imagine the image of a dry bone, the bone would look dry, flaky, or discolored because there is no flesh to keep it from being dry. These dry bones don’t serve their purpose, they failed the body they were bones for and ended up getting put to waste – and this ironically alludes to the title, “The Waste Land.”

      The mindlessness of zombies is a fair reminder of Henry Adams and the Dynamo. The Dynamo was explained as this machine, an advanced form of technology in its time. It runs on a mysterious energy on its own, like a zombie. The dynamo ultimately reminded me of a robot that is controlled, as though its master or creator was in control of its mind. The same goes for zombies, though they do not have a master. Zombies, on the other hand, will kill, destroy, and put people into fear because zombies have no idea what they’re doing. They kill, destroy, and make people scared of them without consciously doing so.

      And the lack of consciousness reminds me of Du Bois and his idea of double-consciousness. Although zombies don’t have to worry about being marginalized for their race, zombies are the opposite of double consciousness. Rather than being conscious, out of their mindless actions, they aren’t conscious of the potential harm that they cause. All in all, the dry bones or zombies aren’t a threat to anyone. They may have no idea what they’re doing, their purpose may be defeated, and they may be dead, but they’re basically no harm.

    1. tourist performances as behaviors that,in coordination with a variety of semiotic resources, fundamentally shape a sense of place andidentity for tourists

      again I'm prompted to raise the question about tourism and authenticity even though this isn't the question we're supposed to be pondering...reminds me of Nespor's piece

    2. These poses medi-ate the intertwined processes of social interaction on the intermental plane and psychologicalprocesses on the intramental plane (Vygotsky,1978; Wertsch,1985,1998). I argue that theseprocesses may be understood as central to meaning making

      The first claim is certainly not very controversial -- the idea that the poses, gestures, and physicality of visitors shapes the "social" component of meaning making. I think what is far more interesting is the assertion that it affects the "psychological processes on the intramental plane" -- that is, these poses affect how we construct meaning individually.

      Reminds me of when Jasmine spoke to one of my classes last semester, and there was some discussion about teaching kids math when they are sitting still in a classroom. I could be remembering this wrong, but she made the point that no matter what, your body was always doing something, even if that something was sitting. She emphasized that we couldn't simply discount what the body of a learner was doing. Seems that Steier is making that precise point.

    3. Another group discussed whether a depicted figure was runningor jumping by performing these actions themselves. Yet another member of a group posed withartwork by observing the gaze of the figures in a painting, and moving his own body to where hebelieved the artist must have been standing

      This reminds me of when I did my observation at the Whitney and the one observed was bobbing back and forth to one of the art forms that was a short film. Maybe this helped him (the person I observed) become completely engulfed in the art.

    1. They made your women breeders, They swelled your numbers with bastards. . . . They taught you the religion they disgraced.

      This reminds me of W.E.B Dubois and his mentioning of women slaves being taken advantaged of in "On the Souls of Black Folk." There is also his idea of white blood tainting black blood by creating these bastards of slavery.

    2. “Git on back to de yearth, Cause I got de fear, You’se a leetle too dumb, Fo’ to stay up here. . .”

      Although this poem is about the struggle in the south, it reminds me of the ongoing problem between native Hawaiians and every other culture that has forced their way into the island cluster. Hawaii as it stands today is overrun by Pacific Islanders and white people, while native Hawaiians are systematically being driven from their homes due to rapidly rising housing costs, commercialized big box stores and culture, and rampant tourism culture.

      All the sights are the same, just in a different location. Just like Slim, hell is Hawaii as a part of the United States for native Hawaiians. Their culture commercialized, their values subjugated. But, just as tourists and outsides view it, Native Hawaiians are supposed to look at Hawaii like the paradise it's been manufactured to be.

      Hi'ilawe Lyrics and translation

    3. An’ he says—“Dis makes Me think of home— Vicksburg, Little Rock, Jackson, Waco and Rome.”

      Slim Greer can be considered naive when he notices that hell reminds him of home, but cannot comprehend that his home on earth is hell. Vicksburg, Little Rock, Jackson, Waco and Rome are locations where racial tensions, riots, and/or lynchings have occurred.

    4. One thing they cannot prohibit — The strong men . . . coming on The strong men gittin’ stronger. Strong men. . . . Stronger. . . .

      This reminds me of Langston Hughes' "I, Too, Sing America". In Hughes' poem, the speaker is continuously oppressed, but has faith that he is an American and that we will prevail when he finally sits at the table. The speaker in Brown's poem points out that Black people are continuously oppressed throughout history from slavery to Jim Crow, but they will get stronger and stronger and move forward as generations pass.

    5. Sicked on by white devils In overhalls.

      This whole poem reminds me of the character Troy Maxson from "Fences". he has a brother who thinks he can open the gates to heaven like, or with or something, st. peter, and there's a part where he says he met the devil and he was wearing a white hood (paraphrasing). even though Fences was set in the 50s, African Americans were still facing a lot of the same obstacles as they were when this poem was written.

    6. They broke you in like oxen,

      this human objectification and comparison of humans to animals reminds me of the mindset of the slaveholder. "keep the body strong, but break down the mind"

    7. Git on back to de yearth, Cause I got de fear, You’se a leetle too dumb, Fo’ to stay up here. . .”

      This reminds me of Hughes' statement that he wants to eat the same table as the whites. I believe Brown is making a statement that until racial equality is achieved and everyone eats at the same table, heaven isn't happening anytime soon.

    1. Be that as it may, you are right now in the process of crossing over the line between the third dimension and the Fourth Dimension. You are not totally at ease and familiar with the Fourth Dimension. Until you are, you will be quite consciously aware of existing in two dimensions simultaneously, side by side. Out of habit, you will be inclined to look at things from a three-dimensional standpoint, because it is comfortable and familiar. But, more and more, you will begin to experience the three-dimensional frame of reference from a Fourth-dimensional standpoint—from the standpoint of Conscious Being.

      This reminds me of the importance of practice.

    1. I am attracted by “Grille”; I am aware that I am particularly drawn by the “e” on “Grille”

      this reminds me of several different words such as gray being spelt grey or even adding a u in the word color.

    1. Expressive Processing

      I love this term as it reminds me of the first time I heard computer code described as "elegant." The aesthetics of the code itself and the aesthetics of the method of processing, "underneath" or "behind" the aesthetics of the surface are like a work of art behind the work of art.

    1. As the students move, so too does the classroom’sarchitecture, minutely. With each nudge of a chair or curve-huggingtransit around a desk, the room’s furniture seemsless a place to do mathematics and more an impediment to it(Figure6.3).

      As the students move they edit the space to accomodate the activity. This reminds me of Ma & Hunter, setting and activity interacting with each other and new learning emerges.

    1. These observations highlight the importance of defining the structures and properties of the various species involved in Aβ aggregation. Indeed, it is only through this level of molecular detail that we will be able to interfere with Aβ aggregation in a rational manner.

      This reminds me of how physicists study crystal structure/structure formation under many conditions. It's a good strategy neuroscientists [really, biomedical researchers] should think as well with respect to in-vitro experimentation = "what happens to this protein when....and how does it relate to the projected in-vivo model, and perhaps is that model flawed?"

    1. I bathe in the Euphrates when dawns were young

      The Euphrates river was mentioned in Genesis as one of the rivers of Paradise. Rivers are usually associated to life and the span of life. People usually allude to the river's currents and waves as trials of life. In reference to the title, negros have endured hardship due to the discrimination of their race. This poem reminds me Du Bois, "Of Our Spiritual Strivings." Both poems resonate the same marginalization and same oppression for negros. Rivers as also used to represent mourning like how people cry rivers of tears when they mourn. I look to negros mourning the loss of their humanity because of the oppression they've endured for being dehumanized merely by being black.

    1. The gender disparity Butcher sees in her physics classes are both intimidating and distracting, she said. “When I was a freshman, I would find myself counting in lecture to see how many people looked like me. There would usually be around four or five other women.”

      Reminds me of my TJ friend. In her CS club, she is the only girl stuck with 50 guys (the field of CS does not see enough female participation as that of men). In the upper level math classes, she says that the guy/girl ratio noticeably diminishes.

    1. Downtowns,museumsandhistoricalsites,thus,becameculturemallswherepurchasescouldhavelesstodowiththeimportanceattachedtotheitemsacquiredthanwiththepublicmeaningofbuyingasaperformanceofone’srighttobeinsuchspaces

      This reminds me of some analysis of picture-taking at the Whitney Museum one of you (Felipe?) did.

    1. allow her fancy for Wickham to make her appear unpleasant in the eyes of a man ten times his consequence. Elizabeth made no answer, and took her place in the set, amazed at the dignity to which she was arrived in being allowed to stand opposite to Mr. Darcy, and reading in her neighbours' looks, their equal amazement in beholding it. They stood for some time without speaking a word

      This reminds me of "Beauty and the Beast" even though I don't remember watching the movie.

    2. Then taking the disengaged arm of Mr. Darcy, she left Elizabeth to walk by herself. The path just admitted three. Mr. Darcy felt their rudeness, and immediately said: "This walk is not wide enough for our party. We had better go into the avenue."

      This picture reminds me of a drama. Connecting to a drama, it seems obvious that Lizzie and Darcy are going to fall in love.

    1. Beyond that, it is an illusion to think of any work as complete in itself, an isolated unity

      This sentence and the paragraph that follows (couldn't highlight) are definitely very applicable to our discussions. It suggests that intercourse with texts or films is not necessarily a bad thing and that unoriginality, in that sense, isn't the end of the world. The comparison to linguistics is beautiful and a helpful aid in understanding this part of the theory. This reminds me of the text we read on intertexuality and the way texts are often inherited and how, sometimes, even the meanings are changed. Still, this is not a bad thing - it simply lengthens the reach of the hypotext.

    2. Underlying the anti-Platonic argument, however, there is often a hostility towards any kind of e~lanation which involves a degree of distancing from the 'J.iyed experience' of watching the film Itself. Yet clearly any kind of serious critical work -I would say scientific, though I know this drives some people into transports of rage-must invoh·e a distance, a gap between the film and th.e criticism, the text and the meta-tex

      This reminds me of the fidelity article. In this case, however, instead of learning to distance oneself from the novel in order to properly critique a film, one must learn to distance themselves from the "lived experience" in order to give a valid and proper critique.

    3. Directors who built their ~eputa~ons in Europe were dismissed after they crossed the Atlantic, reduced to anonymity. Amencan H1tcbcock ·was contrasted unfavourably with English Hitchcock, American Renoir wi!}l French Renoir, American Fritz Lang with German Fritz Lang.

      It's very interesting to me that incredibly similar directors could make films that are incredibly alike and in the same genre but then go on to be perceived completely differently depending on what country or part of the world they go to. It reminds me almost of the Television show The Office. There was an English version and an American version. Even though the premise and setting were nearly identical, each version was designed to appeal to the people of their respective countries and, for example, I prefer the American version but I'm assuming if I was English I would prefer the English version in favor of the American one.

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    1. residential buildings do indeed provide lodgings; today's houses may even be well planned, easy to keep, attractively cheap, open to air, light, and sun, but-do the houses in themselves hold any guarantee that dwelling occurs in them?

      this distinction reminds me of the space and place distinction, dwelling being place and the buildings being space

    1. My argument is that rhetorical theory has a role to play in the worlds of both “hack” and “yack” (to use a set of terms popular in digital humanities circles) because it can be productively applied beyond the space of probability and into the space of possibility.

      This argument reminds me of the early sophists, like Protagoras, who understood--and perhaps exploited--the "weaker argument" in order to make a the "stronger" one. Here, the activity of exploiting a glitch serves as an activity of potential--the potential to transform bits of "weak" code into sites of invention and genesis.

    1. An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he must choose.

      This iline reminds me of Frosts' poem 'The Road not Taken', as it demonstrates the tension between freedom of choice and following the path that is already set out for you, because of social/economic/culture etc. In this case because of race. Does it matter if an artist chooses to not be a Negro poet? No matter a poet's choice, it will always reflect living as a Negro poet?

    2. America–this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization

      this seems to continue to be an issue in the sense that people who are of color and also artist always get put into their representative boxes i.e. black male artist, chicana poet etc. it also reminds me of the 80s art movement for example Keith Harring and Jean Michel Basquiat, both very important and progressive artist but where most people (general population not artist folk) know Harring the same can't be said for Basquiat.

    3. The Negro artist works against an undertow of sharp criticism

      this reminds me of when Kanye interrupted Taylor Swift at the VMAs a million years ago. people still hate him for this even though they don't really stop to think why he did it. although his delivery might have been obnoxious, he actually had a good message which is that white entertainers are constantly awarded over black entertainers for mediocre work, even when black entertainers have created something better

    4. I want to be a poet, not a Negro poet

      this reminds me of something Kevin Hart said about his movies- he said something along the lines of he didn't want his movies (that star mostly black characters/ actors) to be defined as "black movies", but rather movies that anyone can enjoy, because most movies star mostly or all white casts and aren't defined as "white movies" that can only be enjoyed by white people. It's interesting to me that Hart's statement has been received more positively than Hughes received this poet's statement

    5. And perhaps these common people will give to the world its truly great Negro artist, the one who is not afraid to be himself. Whereas the better-class Negro would tell the artist what to do, the people at least let him alone when he does appear. And they are not ashamed of him–if they know he exists at all. And they accept what beauty is their own without question.

      Reminds me of the cultural disconnect between the narrator and his brother, Sonny, in Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues." The narrator's idea of a jazz artist is Louis Armstrong. Sonny, his younger brother, scoffs at this, and exclaims, "Bird! Charlie Parker!"

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

      This reminds me of the unasked question in DuBois. What the young poet means is not what he literally says. The literal and the true, hidden meaning are different. He really wants to say: "I would like to be white". Just as the people in DuBois don't want to ask how he feels about certain events but: "How does it feel to be a problem?".

    1. Well the definition of e-lit is quite determined in this sentence. - However in order to get used to this saavy app (hypothesis platform) I'm going to descrive with my own words what I got from this definition-

      Apparently e-lit has to do with the literary aspects and connections made between several interactions of liteature and technology (for what I get, standard books may also apply here) where sometimes it may ne regaldless of human intervention.

      Also, I think this has to do with the "computing" devices, within mechanisms and systems that may be also the way we as humans construct reallity and other things though language and literature. This reminds me of some Foucault's theory about how a single word may be considered as a discoursive device in a complex mechanism interacting with several systems in a society o so...

      What's really interesting is that the human intervention may not be required after all to consider the creation and acknowledgment of a literary work.

    2. The confrontation with technology at the level of creation is what distinguishes electronic literature from, for example, e-books, digitized versions of print works, and other products of print authors “going digital.”

      This reminds me a little bit of Richard Lanham's The Economics of Attention, especially his conversation about looking at versus looking through. If confrontation with technology is part of e-lit, then it's self-conscious and reflective of its medium and also, at least in some cases makes readers look at it rather than through it. (And the medium/how e-lit is presented is part of the message it conveys.) (According to Lanham we typically look through text/aren't aware of the medium.)

    3. emails, SMS messages, or blogs

      Sounds like the concept of episotolary novels adapted to our times. SMSs, IMs and emails have been included in books before.

      Also, this reminds me of the book, Twitterature written (Composed?) by 2 UChicago students. This basically retold well-known texts in the form of tweets. It was a hoot! I found that the retellng was more funny when I had read the text in question in its traditional form.

      But of course, I read Twitterature as a printed book.

    4. Hypertext fiction and poetry, on and off the Web Kinetic poetry presented in Flash and using other platforms Computer art installations which ask viewers to read them or otherwise have literary aspects Conversational characters, also known as chatterbots Interactive fiction Novels that take the form of emails, SMS messages, or blogs Poems and stories that are generated by computers, either interactively or based on parameters given at the beginning Collaborative writing projects that allow readers to contribute to the text of a work Literary performances online that develop new ways of writing

      I find this list a bit vague... It felt like a "to-do" list so vague that it reminds me more of "analog-lit" really... "Interactive fiction"? Can't a paper book be interactive...?

    1. Your future connection with Britain, whom you can neither love nor honor will be forced and unnatural, and being formed only on the plan of present convenience, will in a little time fall into a relapse more wretched than the first.

      I like this description it reminds me of a tumultuous relationship

    1. Freedman also points out how Siddhartha described Hesse's interior dialectic: "All of the contrasting poles of his life were sharply etched: the restless departures and the search for stillness at home; the diversity of experience and the harmony of a unifying spirit; the security of religious dogma and the anxiety of freedom."[8]

      This reminds me of a quote, which I can't currently attribute, that basically says you can have everything in life, but not everything at once. Somewhat obvious, but I think if a person isn't mindful of this idea and is afraid to get out of his comfortable zone, or is held to a set of rigid beliefs, a diverse range of experiences are highly unlikely.

    1. This reminds me of memes, tweets, and other things that become globally recognized because of how controversial they are. People feed on the news their friends post which keeps tweets and memes alive.

    2. A spreadable model emphasizes the activity of consumers — or what Grant McCracken calls “multipliers” — in shaping the circulation of media content, often expanding potential meanings and opening up brands to unanticipated new markets. Rather than emphasizing the direct replication of “memes,” a spreadable model assumes that the repurposing and transformation of media content adds value, allowing media content to be localized to diverse contexts of use.

      This blurb reminds me of how popular pictures can circulate on twitter. One picture can be interpreted differently on different twitter accounts with different views. For example, the @CommonWhiteGirl twitter account can tweet the same picture as the @MensHumor twitter account, but will have a different caption because they are trying the cater a different audience.

    1. And finding the source becomes more and more important -- finding the good source -- and Twitter is where most journalists now go. It's like the de facto real-time newswire, if you know how to use it, because there is so much on Twitter.

      Twitter's verified news accounts automatically pop up on my feed and are where I get most of my credible news. I honestly hate watching the news on tv (probably because it reminds me of old people). Through twitter, I can always keep up with the world events and happenings without torturing myself to watch channel 6 news. I can get the same amount of information in quarter of the time.

    1. The current change, in one sentence, is this: most of the barriers to group action have collapsed, and without those barriers, we are free to explore new ways of gathering together and getting things done.

      This sentence reminds me of the element of group projects in school. Before, when I was younger and had to do group papers and presentations in my early high school years (before Google docs was introduced and became popular), putting all of the group's work in one place was always a huge task. Either one person had to set up the document/powerpoint and everyone had to email their work to that one person so it could be copy and pasted into one spot, or a flash drive had to circulate within the group so that everyone could put their work on it. Now, with Google docs, collaboration is easier now more than ever. Everyone can work on the same thing at the same time, and Google Docs always automatically saves work.

    1. Remember blogs? Who here still keeps a blog regularly? I had a blog, but now I post updates on Facebook. A lot of people here at Black Hat host their own email servers, but almost everyone else I know uses gmail. We like the spam filtering and the malware detection. When I had an iPhone, I didn’t jailbreak it. I trusted the security of the vetted apps in the Apple store. When I download apps, I click yes on the permissions. I love it when my phone knows I’m at the store and reminds me to buy milk.

      By the internet becoming centralized, easier to use, and catering mostly only to our preferred interests, we as users are put into a comfort zone. We don't usually seek coming out of that comfort zone either; and that in turn blinds us from what is happening in communities other than ours.

    2. Statistically: At Google, women make up 30 percent of the company’s overall workforce, but hold only 17 percent of the company’s tech jobs. At Facebook, 15 percent of tech roles are staffed by women. At Twitter, 10 percent.

      This reminds me of back then when women were not allowed to work or they were frowned upon if they had a job. I do believe that women can do just as much as men, but this statistic is mind blowing. I would think women would hold a higher percentage!

    3. •Internet technology design increasingly facilitates rather than defeats censorship and control.

      This reminds me of when I was in elementary and high school certain websites would be blocked. However, this is on a much larger scale. There are increasing security measures now being taken on the internet to censor what we see and read about online. Many websites will try to protect users by asking them for their age or prompting them to create an account. But in the future will we have to worry about what's being censored and hidden from us?

    1. Looking through this lens, it’s not just about the learning experience the leader creates for the learner, it’s about the learning that takes place because the learner is actively participating in the experience

      This also reminds me of Ma & Hunter's paper on skate parks, how learner and teachers emerge from the setting and activity.

    1. When I told him about my NSA excursion, he sighed and shook his head. Surveillance, he said, was pointless, a total waste. The powers that be should instead invite people to confess their secrets willingly. He envisioned vast centers equipped with mics and headphones where people could speak in detail and at length about their experiences, thoughts, and feelings, delivering in the form of monologues what the eavesdroppers could gather only piecemeal.

      Reminds me about THX 1138.

    1. The first person to be born is Tate Marah

      I dig your emphasis on birth here. This Tate Marah is simply not the same as the old Tate Marah; the entanglements are different. This reminds me a lot of the birth in Saga as well. Understanding birth as the beginning of being a person - you're not really born until you're entangled. To be reborn could be understood as to be re-entangled, to engage in new entanglements. This is definitely occurring here.

    1. brown fog

      this image reminds me of the smog that covers some big cities. Emissions pollute the air and accumulate in a cloud of brown fog above the roofs of the city. The Unreal city is causing pollution and destroying nature.

    1. that it made the soul like a field or garden of God, with all manner of pleasant flowers; all pleasant, delightful, and undisturbed: enjoying a sweet calm.

      Reminds me of the garden of Eden

    1. We propose that the learning conversation in the mu-seum, precisely because it is rare and thus fairly memorable, may become a particularly powerful example on which further learning can be built.

      reminds me of what we consider immersive experiences -- because they're rare and intensive they are more impactful, learning is increased.

    1. And when civic engagement was not enough, when government failed, when private banks could no longer hold the line, Chicago turned to an old tool in the American repertoire—racial violence. “The pattern of terrorism is easily discernible,” concluded a Chicago civic group in the 1940s. “It is at the seams of the black ghetto in all directions.” On July 1 and 2 of 1946, a mob of thousands assembled in Chicago’s Park Manor neighborhood, hoping to eject a black doctor who’d recently moved in. The mob pelted the house with rocks and set the garage on fire. The doctor moved away

      This reminds me of a scene from the movie Remember the Titans when someone threw a brick through Coach Boone's window as an act of racial violence. After looking through an interview with the real coach, I found that this event did actually occur but instead of a brick thrown through the window of his home it was a toilet.

    1. Breaks in the people’s observational routines may also have followed froma number of observation-related occurrences. A common interruption regardedan unusually good sighting of any given

      Reminds me of Nasir and the importance placed on relational resources. These relationships with others at the star parties helps to strengthen the sense of belonging. There is continued learning as they converse and point out new things to one another, which "increases connection to the practice," as Nasir would say.

    2. Still, she wanted to make sure that she had spotted the right formation,and thus she began consulting several books in search of a picture of M103 thatcould confirm or reject her inferences

      Access to these books is part of what establishes her identity as an astronomer and not just a stargazer -- without these, she is just a star gazer. Certainly reminds me of the individual pieces of track equipment which reinforced the hurdler's identities in Nasir & Cook

    1. IN the late 1980s, a small but influential group of criminologists predicted a coming wave of violent juvenile crime: “superpredators,” as young as 11, committing crimes in “wolf packs.”

      Describing children as superpredators and wolf packs? Reminds me of The Purge.

    1. commitment to using sources of knowledge about the game other than those immediately at hand in their own practices. One player summarized his learning about baseball outside of practice as follows: In baseball season, I look at the paper every day. I watch, like, the high-lights on the news, listen to the radio. and I hear different stuff, like what other players are doing and that lets me know, like, that's a new thing for me. I always keep learning new things about baseball, and it makes me do the same things on the field

      Motivation for learning outside the designated learning space (baseball practices or games). I think this relates to constructing Funds of Knowledge, these boys are creating a new specific fund of knowledge by engaging with existing sources of information. Which then that reminds me of LPP, these boys as newcomers reaching out to oldtimers for information and knowledge. However, it's complicated because they are not directly in contact but instead learning through artifacts and secondary sources created by the oldtimers.

    2. eachers need to move beyond the formal confines of the curriculum to parallel, build on, and expand the content and forms of everyday reasoning. H

      References possibilities for motivation by recognizing and engaging different literacies - reminds me of the Islands of Expertise. "Even when a child loses interest and an island of expertise begins to fade, the abstract and general themes that used the island's rich knowledge as a launching pad will remain connected to children's other knowledge" (pg. 334). That knowledges and practices are built and expanded upon, provides for complex means of motivation

    1. The line is immaterial.  Mr. Worthing, I confess I feel somewhat bewildered by what you have just told me.  To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution. 

      Lady Bracknell no longer approves. She started out loving him--he was the perfect fit for her daughter. As Jack tells her about his background, Lady Bracknell realizes that this is not the type of person they want in their family..

    1. Now,instead of routinely helping adults, children are often involved in specialized child-focused exercises to assemble skills for later entry in mature activities from whichthey are often excluded in childhood. These specialized child-focused situations—especially schooling, but also pre-school lessons and child-focused conversation infamilies—often employ instructional practices and a concept of learning that wereheavily influenced by the organization of factories, forming a cultural traditionthat contrasts with intent participation.

      This reminds me of Lave and Wenger's chapter 3 where they discuss the importance of apprenticeship. Rogoff instead suggests the importance of intent participation may not necessarily build the craftsmanship that an apprenticeship may, but that students can learn the social skills, and interactions that will happen in the work environment through these participations. This idea of assembling skills for late entry doesn't seem to work since students aren't being immersed in the scenario since they are only surround by adults. This is why "school is a lousy place to learn", sometimes.

    1. activitieshave high use value rather than exchange value, in the sense that young peoplelearn skills that they put to use to solve meaningful problems, rather than problems

      This reminds me of Resnick's article - that school knowledge is so disconnected and isolated from the rest of what we do, real life, issues that effect us. high use value challenges this isolation

    1. It's like looking at something under a microscope as opposed to giving it a casual passing glance. The closer you look, the more you see, and the more you see, the more fascinating it gets.

      This reminds me of an exhibition of Pablo Picasso's Las Meninas that I saw over the summer. Pablo Picasso drew about fifty paintings of his interpretation of the original las meninas painting and by doing this, he created a unified theme and I assume analyzed the painting thouroughly but for the viewer it was just mass obsession and repetition

    2. The idea of working in series or in distinct purposeful directions can actually be the opposite of condemning oneself to a life of sameness or repetition. The process is not about repetition at all, but rather about being able to explore, investigate, examine or address particular ideas, themes, issues, compositions, concepts or topics in progressively deeper and more meaningful ways, and from a richer variety of perspectives than is possible by making just one or two.

      This reminds me of poetry guidelines. While yes, they constrict they also allow us to consider more options. They allow us to work within a set boundary and when we fulfill our conditions we usually create something fantastic. When we work within boundaries and fill these walls to the brink we show that we have the ability to work within constraints and use them to our advantage.

    1. The boathouse is a place that reminds me of the countless hours of work my teammates and I have contributed to a sport that means so much to us. The physical environment is exactly what shapes our experience of rowing. Without that tangible setting, our experience would be much different and perhaps not exist at all. The Boston College Boathouse is the essential place that brings us together as a team. It is our place.

      In your conclusion it seems like you have drifted into talking about the importance of the boathouse to your team as a whole and it is no longer about your personal experience. I think that the team is a very important aspect of the significance of your place, but I think you should focus more on its importance to you personally especially as you are tying the paper together in your conclusion.

    2. The boathouse is a place that always reminds me of that and that I can always bring with me.

      This is what I interpret is your project, that whether you're actually there or not, the boathouse always stays with you. Try to incorporate this idea into your conclusion as well to make your essay come full circle.

    1. re-use culture and “reappropriate the space organised by techniques of sociocultural production”

      Reminds me of Whyte's ideas about the ways in which the interaction between the city and the people changes. How people use the city spaces and how they don't, and how urban planning must acknowledge and respond to that.

    1. How do you do I forgive you everything and there is nothing to forgive.

      This phrase reminds me of the paranoia and doubt someone can face when trying to forgive someone who has severely hurt them. The diction depicts doubt throughout, or even show forms of an abusive cycle. As I look at this sentence more and more, I think of how one can feel there is a lot of accumulated damage from one particular person, but by the time an apology is needed, all is forgiven so the cycle can continue.

    2. Left again left again. Exceptional considerations.

      Is this a potential play on words? Left is the opposite of right. And right also means the opposite of wrong. Is this left trying to say "wrong again, wrong again" and the many "considerations" of direction?

      The fact that left is a direction, it reminds me of a road and its "many considerations." There are many directions on where to go and there may be a struggling on which one to take.

      Or this left could mean "abandoned." Like "Abandoned again, abandoned again." This would mean that a narrator is talking about loneliness and the vast majority of considerations on how to handle feeling constantly abandoned.

    3. Who is a permit.

      A permit reminds me of a person who has a driver's permit. Someone who has a drivers permit is permitted to drive with the supervision of an experienced driver who is over a certain age.

      To personify a permit would be like that that piece of paper that is given to drivers who need assistance on the road while they drive.

      This person is limited because they are that key/access/piece of paper that allow them to do something, but they aren't allowed without supervision.

      This reminds me of the poem Lucinda Matlock. This personified permit potentially has an illness that needs tending to by a professional.

    4. Something about the repetition in the piece, and the sometimes seemingly aimless or roundabout lines remind me of all the truncated sentences or incomplete thoughts one might speak or think over the course of a day, especially a busy day. A lot of talk just kind of evaporates, leads nowhere. There's something frenzied and anxious about the snippy fragments, even though they all end flatly with periods. The repetition of names in particular reminds me of all the times we speak family members' and friends' names for one reason or another.

    5. Next to barber.

      I think the shape of the poem really sticks out in these 13 lines. This is where I first realized how much the shape of the poem kind of reminds me of breathing. Except for the few really long lines. The poem as a whole tends to have smaller lines that lead to bigger lines, then back to small.

    1. ro be hfted to the summit of the World Trade Cent . o t f h . ' er ts to be l'f . u o t e City s grasp

      "The city's grasp" reminds me of the personification of New York. We wouldn't usually say that a place has grasped a person, or that anyone is trapped or held by a space. That's something that's unique to New York.

    2. Must one finally fall back into the dark s h b k pace w ere crowds ac and forth, crowds that, though visible from on high are them m,ove ~nable to see down below? An Icarian fall

      All this talk about looking down on NYC like a god reminds me of the anonymity of the city that talked about in class. It seems that the only way to escape this persona is to be standing above it all, yet as soon as you step down and reach street level again, you're back to being a nobody

    3. extremes of ambition and degradation, brutal oppositions of races and styles, contrasts between yesterday's buildings, already trans-formed into trash cans, and today's urban irruptions that block out its space.

      This reminds me of how in Mistress America, there is talk of how the city is constantly under construction. The city is so fluid that it changes so much to the point where it is literally undefinable.

    1. Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again.

      This reminds me of the scene in Romeo and Juliet when the two first meet and kiss. Romeo says,

      Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again. Image Description

    1. Oh the roaring, and singing and dancing, and yelling of those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell. And as miserable was the waste that was there made of horses, cattle, sheep, swine, calves, lambs, roasting pigs, and fowl (which they had plundered in the town), some roasting, some lying and burning, and some boiling to feed our merciless enemies

      Okay, the singing and dancing seems like something that would unify everyone together, yet the indians are being depicted as objects from hell? Why is hell being linked to the indians who enjoy singing and dancing? The whole scene just reminds me of a party so it confused me that Rowalndson represents the Indians are being from hell. What does everyone think about this? Is hell being linked to the Indians because of them being different?

    2. Oh the roaring, and singing and dancing, and yelling of those black creatures in the night, which made the place a lively resemblance of hell.

      This reminds me of some of the imagery in Heart of Darkness.

    1. I accept the idea that companies (and people) act in their own self-interest. That’s what Apple has done here.

      what's the main reason? large number of users? Or commercial monopoly? It reminds me one example in China, Tencent QQ, popularly known as QQ,As of January 2015, there are 829 million active QQ accounts, with a peak of 176.4 million simultaneous online QQ users. QQ also offers a variety of services, including online social games, music, bookstore, microblogging, movies, platform of games and group and voice chat.

  6. Sep 2015
    1. “When thou passeth through the waters I will be with thee, and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee” (Isaiah 43.2).

      The subtle integration of scripture reminds me of a sermon.

    1. "funds of knowledge"to refer to the diverse social networks that in-terconnect households with their social environments and facilitatethe sharing or exchange of resources, including knowledge, skills, andlabor essential for the households' functioning, if not their well-being(for details, see Greenberg, 1989; Velez-lbanez, 1988, in press; Velez-lbanez & Greenberg, 1989).

      This reminds me a lot of the transmission of knowledge that happens with student club leaders that I work with at NYU. Previous board members will sit with new board members and download insider information to make their terms smoother right off the bat. This works nicely sometimes but other times, it backfires especially if changes need to be made. Students get stuck in "the way we've always done it" rather than thinking outside the box about how we might improve upon past successes.

    2. Our example highlights how, within such a distributedsystem, children can draw on the resources of teachers, materials,and, most important, one another to shape and direct their academicactivities.

      Reminds me of Resnick's discussion of tool manipulation outside of school versus the emphasis of pure mentation in school. Also reminds me of the everyday activity observations, so often I saw people using eachother as tools or resources to learn how to effectively do their task. In this case, these students are using the tools available to direct their learning.

    3. teacher in these classrooms is that of a mediator, in the Vy-gotskian sense: to provide guidance, strategic support, and assistanceto help the children assume control of their own learning

      I really like this conception of Teacher as Mediator, reminds me of the discussions of oldtimer mentorship in AA in Lave and Wenger and Holland et al.

    4. "fluid reality" ofthe households, the changes in household composition, residence,jobs, and social relations; it is within this fluidity that the experiencesof families must be understood.

      This idea reminds me a lot of Holland et. al. when they first introduced Figured Worlds (FW) as cultural worlds. That so much of what a person is has to do with what goes on in their predominant FWs and further, what makes sense in one FW (language, action, interaction) may make no sense in another - so we can't copy and paste actions/interactions/language/etc. from one FW to the next and expect it to explain anything.

    5. They met as a group several times a week,sometimes with an adult and sometimes on their own, to read, dis-cuss, and interpret the books.

      LPP--students having natural conversations with their peers about important issues. Something that as adults is done often. Also reminds me a bit of a staff meeting.

    6. ndeed, help in finding jobs, housing, better deals on goods and ser-vices, and assistance in dealings with government agencies and otherinstitutions is of far greater significance to survival than are the ma-terial types of aid these households provide one another

      Funds of knowledge reminds me of Bourdieu's social and cultural capital. But in his work, working class minority families would be looked at as having "low" social capital, but here we can see that the Sanchez family has a huge network that benefits all members of the family. I guess Bourdieu was looking more at the disadvantages these families might face (such as not the best schools, lack of access to better jobs, etc). But funds of knowledge allows us to look at this concept under another light--one that shows that these social connections do have power and meaning, just a different kind than is discussed in Bourdieu's work.

    1. digital systems and displays oftenundermine mutual availability and visibility. Removing the visibility ofthe scene of action from the view of others not only undermines co-participation and collaboration at the exhibit itself, but removes thepossibility of others seeing and making relevant sense of what people aredoing elsewhere within the scene. The relevant ecology of action is largelydenied to those who happen to be within the same space. In contrast, it isworth adding that even those who design for fairgrounds and similar venueshave long recognized the importance of making their displays visible to a‘gathering’, allowing others to participate in various ways in the scene ofaction

      In our world of constant digitization, it is important to be aware of how technology creates individual and group experiences. If, in order to appreciate the work, you have to participate (i.e. run the controls), you are turning what could have been a group experience into an individual one.

      This also reminds me a lot of Marshal McLuhan's ideas on hot and cold media.

    2. Their bodily comportment, their orientation, exploration,investigation, manipulation and the like become sensible, by virtue of their‘connection’ to the installation.

      I think my comment a bit tangental, but it reminds me of a principle social justice education - just reading about injustices is not sufficient. People are more effectively engaged with social justice issues if they have encountered injustices themselves or can connect to those who have. Learning to read, comprehend, and understand experiences and your own and other people's actions

    3. Exhibits themselves are thought of as having ‘stoppingpower’ and the interest and pleasure that people gain arises through theirindividual engagement with the art work.

      Reminds me of the beginning of Allen's inquiry cycle - must start with a surprising phenomenon to engage the visitor throughout the exhibit. With hopes to provoke interest and pleasure

    4. important issues for ourunderstanding of visual communication. It directs our attention towards theidea of an ‘active spectator’ who constitutes the sense and significance ofobjects and artefacts

      This reminds me of something someone (I'm sorry I couldn't find the post) highlighted in the AA chapters. This idea that there are people outside the immediate Figured world (Last week it as AA and those who are family members/friend, here it is the art makers and those who look at/experience the art) that play a role in what goes on in the FW. So cool.

    5. The conduct of others within the same space can feature in how peopleorient, what people choose to look at and how they experience particularobjects, artefacts and events.

      this reminds me of the bookstore observation and the types of learning the students had there, as well as how people would react differently depending on what would happen.

    6. A feature of the world is progressively discovered by virtue of oneperson noticing someone else notice something. The objects, their character,interdependence and functionality are assembled then and there by virtue ofhow others selectively orient and respond to the world in which they arelocated

      This reminds me of elementary school science fair!

    1. suffering rather than indifferentism-for out of suffering may come the cure. Better to have pain than paralysis: A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers a new world.

      Back to reflection and action combined. This really reminds me of Marxism.

    1. he questions“what’s going on?”and“so what?”were usedas label headings to help raise visitors’curiosity at these intermediate steps, as wellas to scaffold them through the cycle.

      Reminds me of the "Project Approach" curriculum method

    2. The environment provides myriad personal choices, withoutany teachers forcing learners to do something unappealing, without curricular constraints

      Connecting to the idea of a "safe space" in Social Justice, museums are a safe space for learning - supportive and nonjudgemental

      Reminds me of Becker's discussion on low-risk testing and evaluations

    3. However, we have also discovered that“more is not necessarily better”when it comesto interactive features

      This reminds me of a comment made by Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel about the number of buttons on the steering wheel of the car, comparing it to driving and texting at the same time. Silly comment, but it came to mind

    4. alternative to a school science classroom: hands-on exhibits are novel, stimulating, evidence-rich, multisensory, and fun

      this passage reminds me of "It directs our attention towards the idea of an ‘active spectator’ who constitutes the sense and significance of objects and artifacts." from crafting participation piece. So is the use of a hands on approach the same as an active spectator in the Heath piece?

    1. The Panopticon immediately reminds me of the Fujian Tulou in southern China and the Tietgenkollegiet in Copenhagen. Fujian Tulou has the same concept as the Panopticon but it is used as residential housings for community living, and also protecting the families against the enemies in the olden days. While the Tietgenkollegiet's design referenced the concept of the Tulou, and it is one of the most popular dorms in KU, where students live in a community and share the common space in the center of the architecture.

    1. As a result, the film adaptation has generally been de cribed and evaluated on the basis of its adequacy to the literary text, whereby it tends to be judg d as an unfaithful or distorted communication of the author's expressive intention. Such a judge ent, however, routinely involves the unwitting application of a third term, a dominant or authori live interpretation of the text, which the critic applies as a standard on the assumption that the film should somehow inscribe that and only that interpretation (for examples, see Orr, 1984).

      this reminds me of our previous reading regarding film adaptations. I think this passage does a really good job of noting how film adaptations have so much pressure on them to follow the novel versions to the t, otherwise, even if it is a beautiful and well-executed film, it can be discredited by the audience.

    1. That seems like a clue to me that they aren’t worth a shit.

      Reminds me of the story of one of the grandfathers who own Jack Daniels telling his children and grandchildren, "we only sell the shit" as a caution against drinking alcohol.

    1. Unless it be that marriage perhaps with a dash of Indian blood will throw up a girl so desolate so hemmed round with disease or murder that she’ll be rescued by an agent—

      This reminds me of tainting "pure" white blood.

      At this time American Indians were forced into boarding schools to "civilize" them. I wonder if this could be a reference to these schools where a part Indian child might be "reared by the state", and "rescued by an agent" working for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

    1. so full of humanity are these infidels before those Christians

      Wow. I think this is really important. The "infidels," the Indians, are full of more humanity than the Puritans. It reminds me of the quote earlier in the paragraph that said that the Puritans "had learned to work all to their own ends, and make a great show of Religion, but no humanity"

    2. and would bring bottles of strong liquor to him

      reminds me of the scene from the first pirates of the caribbean where jack and elizabeth get marooned on the island with all the rum lol

    1. This relationship [teacher-student] involves a narrating Subject (the teacher) and patient,listening objects (the students).

      kinda reminds me of freshman year science with all of those equations.. one thing always has to belong to the other, going hand in hand in order for them to work

    2. like Freire the discussion is over because it is 'scientifically proven' that their theory of revolution is

      Reminds me a lot if Syria and what is going to happen after their war?

    1. Strange to say, there were hairs in the centre of the palm

      this is not sexy--it's normal until you take a closer look. It's also not european. Its a little animalistic, and not British--more of an eastern look. Reminds me of nigel thornberry

    1. Thou ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did'st by my side remain, Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad expos'd to public view,

      Could this be a snub on plagiarism? Reminds me of The Smith's song "Cemetry Gates" off the Queen is dead

    1. Dost dream of things beyond the Moon And dost thou hope to dwell there soon?

      I like this line a lot....for some reason it reminds me of being an innocent kid, daydreaming about space!

    1. Even today, we are very connected to our machines–they are extensions of ourselves, even though we aren’t physically connected to them.

      This statement is so true, it's almost frightening. I bring my laptop or cell phone everywhere I go because it holds everything I need. If I didn't have those photos, my e-mails, my Google calendar, any of the apps on my phone, I would be lost. Like you, three years ago I would not have cared if I lost my phone. But now it's a part of me. It reminds me of Transhuman with the hand extension with tools. Our iPhones/Androids are extensions of our hands that come with tools. Where will we be in ten years or even five? Will our machines no longer be extensions of us but actually a part of us like in Blindsight?

    1. As they gave the younger students instructions anddrills, they used language and gave feedback in a way that mirrored what their coachdid with them. This instance was an extension of Octavia beginning to take moreresponsibility for herself and others in the track context.

      Reminds me of the apprenticeship example in LPP, and how it is important to learn from those around you. Octavia can show how much she's learned and how strong her identity is as a track member by replicating her coach's behavior as she teaches the elementary school students

    2. Coach J differentially distributed access to the specializedequipment, perhaps strengthening Gloria's track identity but not Harrell's

      Reminds me of the AA example. One cannot identity as a member of AA if the other members do not accept that person as a member. Similarly the track identity here is dependent on the coach.

    1. Yet the new par-ticipatory culture offers many opportunities for youths to engage in civic debates, participate in community life, and even become political leaders

      This reminds me of a photo I saw circulating my FB feed a few years back... (not that I am endorsing this particular political party... Just goes well with this passage...) Image Description

    1. Within a bottom-up framework, the focus is not so much on the highest levels of empathy, but rather on its simplest forms, and how these combine with increased cognition to produce more complex forms of empathy. How did this transformation take place? The evolution of empathy runs from shared emotions and intentions between individuals to a greater self/other distinction—that is, an “unblurring” of the lines between individuals. As a result, one’s own experience is distinguished from that of another person, even though at the same time we are vicariously affected by the other’s. This process culminates in a cognitive appraisal of the other’s behavior and situation: We adopt the other’s perspective.

      This reminds me of Dan Gilbert)'s (and others) notions of the mind being a simulator.

    1. to smite this yong man with a greeveous disease, of which he dyed in a desperate maner, and so was him selfe ye first yt was throwne overbord. Thus his curses light on his owne head; and it was an astonishmente to all his fellows, for they noted it to be ye just hand of God upon him.

      This kind of, only a little bit, reminds me of Billy Budd

    1. They sent notice of their decision to the nearest settlement of Indians and told them at the same time how to make propitiation when necessity forced them to kill one of the deer tribe.

      this reminds me of the indians as spaniards and the animals as the indians in another certain case..

    1. The movie "Happy" (http://www.thehappymovie.com) claims that there is something about movement that stimulates feelings of happiness in people in a very direct physiological way. Watching children and animals, it is not a stretch to see a natural connection between joy and movement for living beings. Many great thinkers have noted that the happiness that humans seek is the feeling of aliveness. It seems to me that movement is the very symbol and epitome of being alive - at a very basic physical level, it is the foundation for freedom, empowerment, and generative power. Thus, if one is not enjoying movement, then one is feeling the opposite of aliveness - burdened and enslaved by it. I think it's as simple as that - if you feel enslaved by any activity or anything, it cannot contribute to your sense of liberty and aliveness, can it? Until you can feel movement to be a liberating enlivening thing, it cannot increase your happiness and will actually do the opposite, drag you down.The good news, however, is that we all really enjoy movement, naturally, but have just forgotten - we have turned exercise into a job, an obligation, and forgotten the joy we once felt in it as children. I think everyone can recapture that joy, if they can find the right context and the right kind of movement to enjoy again, and if they can shift their perspective to movement as a source of potential pleasure rather than pain or boredom.

      This reminds me somewhat of the "Primal" notion of play.

    1. I share that bizarre thought with you because it underlines how difficult it is to decode imagery createdbya vanished culture.

      Reminds me of Gaiman's story about preserving the warnings about nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, in his How Stories Last LongNow talk. In the end, the recommendation was to invent a culture.

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    1. told the people that they had much more power than all their chiefs

      This is how they get them to convert they trick them into it, by deception.

      This reminds me of Things Fall Apart.

    1. Then truly, you did bring that Lady to me just now

      This exchange reminds me of the lines in Rochester's Satyr: "Nor can weak truth your reputation save: / The knaves will all agree to call you knave."

    1. on the road the certain notice of the deaths of the religious who were in that convent, and of the alcalde mayor, some other guards, and six more Spaniards whom they captured on that road

      This reminds me of the lack of preparation that the British experienced when they went to war with the American colonists. Europeans were used to a different types of warfare. Neat, organized, where people waited their turn to get killed. However, the land of south/ central/ north america allowed for guerrilla warfare. Hide and seek killing. Ok, rant over. It's no wonder the Spanish were so unprepared.

    2. plot for a general uprising of the Christian Indians

      This reminds me of some of the plot of Things Fall Apart. Even though that one took place in Africa, their are similar conflicts that follow colonization

    1. learning how to "do" school appropriately

      YES school is not just understanding how to math and how to write a paper but how to function inside an institution. How to be on time, how to talk to adults, how to work in groups, etc etc. Some kids come to school already understanding this concepts, and unfortunately, since these concepts aren't always explicitly taught, kids who come with out knowledge of them are left behind (reminds me of a book I read for another class, Unequal Childhoods) #inspired

    1. Think of all the everyday situ­ations in which people coparticipate to a limited extent, thereby gaining access to modes of behavior not otherwise available to them, eventually developing skill adequate to certain kinds of performance

      everydayactivities

      Reminds me of the people I saw using "team-work" to re-fill their metro cards (one person holding the money or wallet while other person pushed buttons)

    2. Learning is a pro­cess that takes place in a participation framework, not in an individual mind

      Another connection to #resnick and the individual/shared cognition contrast between in-school learning and out of school learning. Reminds me of how often I look at other people and observe before I do something. For example, the first time I bought a metro card I watched other people do it first before I attempted. I do this a lot, and I would even say it was one of my most important survival techniques when I lived in Japan, and attempted #everydayactivities

    3. Reminds me of Resnick's comment about on the job training: “although there is very little teaching, there is much learning” (p 17)--reminder that learning can occur all over, and outside of the traditional classroom #resnick

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    1. If technology becomes this prominent in our lives, we could face a future similar to the one displayed in Blindsight.

      Jackson’s point here reminds me specifically of a time over the summer this year I was traveling. I was in an airport in Minnesota at a restaurant where every single table had two iPads attached. The waiter simply came over to tell me how to order on it, swipe my own card, and left.

      I was upset because the app was confusing and I just wanted to order my food normally. The entire lunch i sat through at this restaurant while only communicating with the iPad made me realize how posthumanistic we already are. The fact that our world has already begun to lose the face-to-face interaction at a public restaurant is terrifying when looking to the future at how our world will be like in 2082.

    1. I never told my father that I needed money because then he would have sent it, and I would never know if I could do it by myself.

      Reminds me of The Coming Bachelor Girl because she suggested you stay independent and build your own success, instead of asking your family for money.

    1. attempted to adapt

      This reminds me of something I heard in one of my classes long ago "Guys! We're English Majors, we can just totally bs it until it fits!"

    1. He used a different style of speaking when he addressed white political leaders than when he addressed southern black congregations.

      Reminds me of Ebonics and how that was a big issue with education and schools with funding as another language.