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  1. Jun 2016
    1. hat educators and students alike have found themselves more and more flummoxed by a system that values assessment over engagement, learning management over discovery, content over community, outcomes over epiphanies.

      YES!

    2. I feel like a lot of this has to do with us as a society forgetting that education is a right and not a privilege, because we treat it this way no one is living up to their full potentials as educators

    3. For many of us, it is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish between our real selves and our virtual selves,

      I wouldn't say that, but I would say there is a difference of who you are in the digital world and who you are in the real one.

  2. Dec 2015
    1. INTENTIONAL FALLACY

      Intentional: existing, occurring, or carried Fallacy:a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument

      very interesting considering the paper.

    2. One demands that it work

      Okay, so I don't think I like this. What if it works for you, but it doesn't work for me? No sir pudding and books are not the same and they cannot be lumped together in the judging category.

    1. Meantime Mary had spent six thousand dollars on a new house for herself and a pair of slippers for her pastor, and then had fallen peacefully to rest.

      getting ahead of ourselves aren't we..

    2. At first his conscience was sore on account of the lie he had told Mary—if it was a lie

      how do you not know if you have lied to your wife or not..

    3. I—Edward, it is my belief that this town’s honesty is as rotten as mine is; as rotten as yours.

      The town isn't at all what you actually think it is. Its just a mask they wear to seem better than everyone else.

    4. And it will make all the other towns jealous; for no stranger would trust such a thing to any town but Hadleyburg

      This is very interesting. They pride themselves on being wholesome and good yet they want people to envy them.

    5. He contrived many plans, and all of them were good, but none of them was quite sweeping enough: the poorest of them would hurt a great many individuals, but what he wanted was a plan which would comprehend the entire town, and not let so much as one person escape unhurt. 

      This guy is kind of sadistic.. was he not loved enough as a child?

    1. is the way it allows us “to make and remake” texts in order “to produce meaning after meaning.”

      I really like this idea.. maybe I don't hate digital humanities like I thought I did.

    2. The Deformed Humanities is all around us. I’m only giving it a name. Mashups, remixes, fan fiction, they are all made by breaking things, with little regard for preserving the original whole.

      Okay, you just blew my mind

    3. The end result of deformance as most critics would have it is a sense of renewal, a sense of de-forming only to re-form.

      So you break something down and make it your own, only to build it back up to what it originally was?

    4. The word is much more indebted to the socially acceptable activity of performance than the stigmatized word deformity.

      I would agree with this. However the word is just really weird.

    1. That is, digital media, functioning as they do in the world of networked computing, often break down the boundaries we once took for granted in setting tasks for our students:

      I would have to agree with this one however, because of the digital age we learn faster due to everything being at our fingertips. However, this isn't always a good thing.

    2. How have reading and writing changed in the digital era?

      Okay, I understand what they are saying I guess I just have a problem with this radical idea.. and yeah I said Radical.

    3. Digital humanities is a diverse and still emerging field that encompasses the practice of humanities research in and through information technology

      I don't like this, for some reason.

    4. will the Digital Humanities become a separate field whose interests are increasingly remote from the Traditional Humanities

      Why do we have to separate the two..

  3. Nov 2015
    1. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world.

      Two best lines in the entire poem hands down.

    2. I acknowledge the duplicates of myself, the weakest and shallowest is deathless with me

      Is it other poets or is it like his "bad side" kind of like his alter ego..?

    3. Did you fear some scrofula out of the unflagging pregnancy?

      what is a scrofula and how does it related to an unflagging pregnancy.. also wth is he trying to say here..

      new favorite word SCROFULA.

    4. Evil propels me and reform of evil propels me, I stand indifferent,

      evil propels him to be good. I mean Transcendentalist believed everything and everyone was good.. nature is good people are good.

    5. 12 The butcher-boy puts off his killing-clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market,

      I really like this part, i think it has to do with his word choice.

    6. The suicide sprawls on the bloody floor of the bedroom, I witness the corpse with its dabbled hair, I note where the pistol has fallen.

      Well that escalated quickly.

    7. They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life,

      I rest my case the man is a transcendentalist

    8. This grass is very dark to be from the white heads of old mothers, Darker than the colourless beards of old men, Dark to come from under the faint red roofs of mouths.

      Thats one way to describe grass

    9. A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands, How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.

      This makes me think he's a transcendentalist but also a realist. I know he wrote during the shift in lit. movements. And incorporated Realism also into his works.

    10. The sniff of green leaves and dry leaves, and of the shore and dark-color’d sea-rocks, and of hay in the barn, The sound of the belch’d words of my voice loos’d to the eddies of the wind

      He's a transcendentalist! or is he a realist.. food for thought.

    1. Our task remains, however, to show how historical agency is trans- formed through the signifying process; how the historical event is repre- sented in a discourse that is somehow beyond control.

      How culture evolves...?

    2. postmodernity, postcoloniality, postfemin- ism - has any meaning at all, it does not lie in the popular use of the 'post' to indicate sequentially

      interesting

    3. I used architecture literally as a reference, using the attic, the boiler room, and the stairwell to make associations between certain binary divisions such as higher and lower and heaven and hell.

      breaking it down from a small minds.

    4. Terms of cultural engagement, whether antagonistic or affiliative, are produced performativelyfThe representation of difference must not be hastily_read as the reflection of pre-given ethnic or cultural traits set in the fixed tablet of tradition.

      Is he saying culture is ruled by the more dominate race? that culture is pre determined or am I already lost?

    5. the singularities of 'class' or 'gender' as primar y conceptual_ and organizational categories, has resu lted in an awareness of the iubject positions

      So we should move away from these things..?

    6. A boundary is not that at which something stops but, as the Greeks recognized, the boundary is that from which something begins its presenting.

      I like this a lot

    1. for his dying hour was gloom.

      After his meeting with the devil and seeing that evil lives in everyone his life had no more meaning, no more good, his entire life was gloom much like his death.

    2. Evil is the nature of mankind. Evil must be your only happiness. Welcome, again, my children, to the communion of your race!”

      Man is naturally evil. Perverseness is in our DNA

    3. “Welcome, my children,” said the dark figure, “to the communion of your race! Ye have found, thus young, your nature and your destiny. My children, look behind you!”

      Satan welcoming him into his "flock"

    4. It was strange to see, that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.

      Hawthorne, hands down has the best sentences ever.

    5. The blue sky was still visible, except directly overhead, where this black mass of cloud was sweeping swiftly northward

      The devil is making him question everything he has ever known to be good and true.

    6. seeing that the least rumor of the sort would have driven them from New England.

      Because he's the devil and they would have been accused of sorcery/witchcraft!

    7. His head being turned back, he passed a crook of the road, and looking forward again, beheld the figure of a man, in grave and decent attire, seated at the foot of an old tree.

      Its the Devil!

    1. The company at the wedding awaited his arrival with impatience, trusting that the strange awe, which had gathered over him throughout the day, would now be dispelled. But such was not the result. When Mr. Hooper came, the first thing that their eyes rested on was the same horrible black veil, which had added deeper gloom to the funeral, and could portend nothing but evil to the wedding

      I love this because they are all so worried about this thing! Also, why would a black veil bring evil to a wedding..

    2. There was nothing terrible in what Mr. Hooper said, at least, no violence; and yet, with every tremor of his melancholy voice, the hearers quaked.

      Favorite sentence so far.

    3. Yet perhaps the pale-faced congregation was almost as fearful a sight to the minister, as his black veil to them.

      Taking something that has always been good, and now turning it into something bad... all because of a black veil...

    1. but it is not in our mere power as practitioners to bring him to that point where the real journey beings.

      Did he just "dis" himself and the abilities he and other psycho therapists like him...?

    2. This moment in which the mirror stage comes to an end inaugurates by the identification with the imago of the counterpart and the drama of primordial jealousy (so well brought out by the school of Charlotte Bühler in the phenomenon of infantile transitivism), the dialectic that will henceforth link the I to socially elaborated situations.

      So this stage pretty much leaves your unconscious mind with a lasting affects, that effects the way you interrupt your I?

      (affect/effect... never can get those. fingers crossed)

    3. Correlatively, the formation of the I is symbolized in dreams by a fortress, or a stadium - its inner arena and enclosure, surrounded by marshes and rubbish-tips, dividing it into two opposed fields of contest where the subject flounders in quest of the lefty, remote inner castle whose form (sometimes juxtaposed in the same scenario) symbolizes the id in a quite startling way

      We discover our "self" in our dreams also.. not just through this stage

    4. I am led, therefore, to regard the function of the mirror-stage as a particular case of the function of the imago, which is to establish a relation between the organism and its reality - or, as they say, between the Innenwelt and the Umwelt

      By discovering yourself you, discover the world.

    5. o sufficient in itself is this condition that the desired effect may be obtained merely by placing the individual [pigeon] within reach of the field of reflection of a mirror.

      Mirror stage is not only for recognizing yourself but others?

    6. -the mirror-image would seem to be the threshold of the visible world, if we go by the mirror disposition that the imago of one's own body presents in hallucinations or dreams, whether it concerns its individual features, or even its infirmities, or its object-projections; or if we observe the role of the mirror apparatus in the appearances of the double, in which the psychical realities, however heterogeneous, are manifested

      Okay, so we are able to see our world more clearly because of the mirror stage? But what? Theres a but there and I can't find it.

    7. The fact is that the total form of the body by which the subject anticipates in a mirage the maturation of his power is given to him only as Gestalt [an image of a whole], that is to say, in an exteriority in which this form is certainly more constituent than constituted, but in which it appears to him above all in a contrasting size that fixes it and in a symmetry that inverts it, in contrast with the turbulent movements that the subject feels are animating him.

      Im sorry what? You lost me at The...

    8. This meaning discloses a libidinal dynamism, which has hitherto remained problematic, as well as an ontological structure of the human world that accords with my reflections on paranoiac knowledge.

      Is he saying that because we go through the mirror stage we view life as refections? Or am I a crazy person, talking crazy talk...?

    9. n essential stage of the act of intelligence

      Being able to recognize yourself, but also possibly others. I see why this is could be used as an intelligence test for some animals!

    1. the discovery of the absence of a penis in women. He concludes that the penis

      I keep telling myself, he cant out do what he said before, and the he goes and proves me wrong.

    2. penis and vagina were represented by the faecal stick and the rectum.

      There are no words for how I feel about this, or really life in general anymore.

    3. He either parts obediently with his faeces, “sacrifices” them to his love, or else retains them for purposes of auto-erotic satisfaction and later as a means of asserting his own will. If he makes the latter choice we are in the presence of defiance (obstinacy) which, accordingly, springs from a narcissistic clinging to anal erotism.

      If you didn't already know, you can fuck your kids up when their potty training simply by doing or saying the wrong thing.

    4. I have had occasional opportunities of being told women’s dreams that had occurred after their first experience of intercourse. They revealed an unmistakable wish in the woman to keep for herself the penis which she had felt

      This seems like a BS to me. Like who told him this, I want to meet her.

    5. that nature has given babies to women as a substitute for the penis that has been denied them

      And this is why baby and penis are interchangeable everyone.. I mean they're the same thing right?

    6. In other women we find no evidence of this wish for a penis; it is replaced by the wish for a baby, the frustration of which in real life can lead to the outbreak of a neurosis

      Why is he so sexist?

    7. Chance mishaps in the life of such a woman, mishaps which are themselves frequently the result of a very masculine disposition, have re-activated this infantile wish and, through the backward flow of libido, made it the chief vehicle of her neurotic symptoms.

      So not only does this complex affect men, but also women.. in turn "making" them into lesbians, to obtain what they have lost or feel they deserve?

    8. castration complex

      Realizing the differences between the sexes physically. "Women have been castrated because they do not have a penis like me"

    9. relation between “baby’ and “penis’.

      No where else will you ever see these two words together like this.. and if you do well ask yourself "would your mother approve..?" Then ask yourself "why does it matter if my mother approves"

    10. evelopment of the libido in man the phase of genital primacy must be precededed by a ‘pregenital organization’ in hiwch sadism and anal eroticism play the leading parts.

      Really setting the stage with this one.

    1. she was no longer an object of desire:

      She was always just a thing to him. The idea of her intrigued him, but in reality she wasn't what he really wanted.

    2. Prithee, don’t plague me, man,” cried Mrs. Crayton impatiently, as the servant advanced something in behalf of the unhappy girl. “I tell you I don’t know her.”

      I really hater her. At firstI thought, okay she's just being who she wants to be. But no she's just a heartless bitch.

    3. a mother, nor took the least notice of her child except to ask whose it was, and why it was not carried to its parents.

      Why are we reading this, its just to sad. Now I know why people cried at her fake grave.

    1. child’s longing for the happy, vanished days when his father seemed to him the noblest and strongest of men and his mother the dearest and loveliest of women.

      You only create such wild ideas, because you are longing for happier times.

    2. If anyone is inclined to turn away in horror from this depravity of the childish heart or feels tempted, indeed, to dispute the possibility of such things, he should observe that these works of fiction, which seem so full of hostility, are none of them really so badly intended, and that they still preserve, under a slight disguise, the child’s original affection for his parents.

      Just because a child has these thoughts and day dreams, doesn't mean they don't have affection towards their parents. (still weird though)

    3. Chance occurrences of this kind arouse the child’s envy, which finds expression in a phantasy in which both his parents are replaced by others of better birth.

      This is so true.

    4. On the other hand, there is a class of neurotics whose condition is recognizably determined by their having failed in this task.

      Psychopaths and Sociopaths.

    5. s one of the most necessary though one of the most painful results brought about by the course of his development

      Your parents can totally mess you up, and you carry that for ever and ever. Even if you are free thinking adult.

  4. Oct 2015
    1. Part of what constitutes sexuality is precisely that which does not appear and that which, to some degree, can never appear

      Is she saying you cannot define what sexuality is? Because its not a physically defining thing?

    2. It is important to recognize the ways in which heterosexual norms reappear within gay identities, to affirm that gay and lesbian identities are not only structured in part by dominant heterosexual frames, but that they are not for that reason determined by them

      Is like when you have a gay or lesbian couple and one takes on the role of man, while the other the female? Is she saying that you cannot get ride of heterosexual norms, gay/lesbian relationship?

    3. If I claim to be a lesbian, I “come out” only to produce a new and different “closet.”

      So if "I" come out as a lesbian, my work is now viewed differently than a straight author? Once you come out, everything changes..? Is that she is saying?

    4. And in no way does it settle the anxiety for me to say that this is “part” of what I am. To write or speak as a lesbian appears a paradoxical appearance of this “I,” one which feels neither true nor false.

      Why is it important to label authors as "gay, lesbian, bi.." does it make the way they speak different? No. Their work is equally the "same" as straight authors.

    1. He is manifested as the figure of strength, but that we may not regard him as any thing more than a figure, his soul is formed in no sort superiour, but every way equal to the mind of her who is the emblem of weakness and whom he hails the gentle companion of his better days.

      So she's saying that men are viewed as all powerful and strong, while women are viewed as weak and 'sickly' even though we posses the same/equal mind...?

    2. Yes, ye lordly, ye haughty sex, our souls are by nature equal to yours; the same breath of God animates, enlivens, and invigorates us

      Yes the lord gave us two sexes, but that doesn't mean we aren't equals.

    3. we can only reason from what we know, and if an opportunity of acquiring knowledge hath been denied us, the inferiority of our sex cannot fairly be deduced from thence.

      I love this! You cannot call 'us' the weaker sex, if you deprive 'us' of education/knowledge. The reason 'we' are seen as a weaker sex is because of man.

    4. The province of imagination hath long since been surrendered to us, and we have been crowned and undoubted sovereigns of the regions of fancy

      This makes it sound like women are not women, but fragile little girls who need to be taken care of.

    5. THAT minds are not alike, full well I know,

      I feel like she is being sassy. I really don't think that she would say that males and females minds are different in the aspect of obtaining knowledge/ receiving an education. Unless she is trying to say men an women think differently and I don't think she is, because that would defeat the purpose of an essay about equality.

    1. I would, I must repeat, by all means guard them against a low estimation of self

      Protecting her daughter and other women, from the hard reality of a male driven world

    2. A young lady, growing up with the idea, that she possesses few, or no personal attractions, and that her mental abilities are of an inferior kind, imbibing at the same time, a most melancholly idea of a female, descending down the vale of life in an unprotected state;

      Such a beautifully written paragraph with such sad realities.

    3. but, it must be your part, my sweet girl, to render yourself worthy respect from higher motives:

      I don't think she is saying "make sure you keep your body nice so men will like you" I feel like she saying its your job to keep your mind sharp and educated so not only men but others will respect you more and take you more seriously.

    4. Those, for example, who have the care of a beautiful female, they assiduously guard every avenue,

      Hiding away truths from women in order to protect their fragile state..?

    5. Rous’d by a new stimulus,

      Not going to lie, I know this is about educating women and empowering them, but this poem just made me think about sex. especially this part.

    1. Him, firmly believing that he is able and will deliver us against our enemies; and that no weapon form’d against us shall prosper; only let us be steady and uniform on our walks, speech and behaviour; always doing to all men as we wish and desire they would do to us in the like cases and circumstance

      If you believe and do right by God, he will reward you and give you strength to preserver.

    2. tis not for want of courage in you, for they know that they dare not face you man for man, but in a mob, which we despise,

      This is an interesting notion. A white man wont go "head to head" with a black man, because he "knows, he will lose?" Instead they (the white man) intimate the black men in mobs, in order to gain more control.

    3. Let us seek those things which are above, which are sure and steadfast, and unchangeable, and at the same time let us pray to Almighty God, while we remain in the tabernacle, that he would give us the grace and patience and strength to bear up under all our troubles,

      We cannot change the situation that we are in, we cannot change the minds of our oppressors, but we can pray to God to give us the strength to make it through. INTERESTING.

    4. he great law-giver, Moses, who instructed by his father-in-law, Jethro, and Ethiopean, how to regulate his courts of justice, and what sort of men to choose for the different offices; hear now my words, said he, I will give you counsel, and God shall be with you;

      Making a connection between God and Africans. I really like this, to me its stating that 'we' are all the same. not only that but I also view it as "taking" the white mans religion that has been pressed upon them, and making it into their own.

    5. let us see them dragg’d from their native country, by the iron hand of tyranny and oppression,

      This is interesting to me because after reading other African Americans remarks on their experiences of being in America, this one seems to be the one that is pointing fingers if you will at the oppressor, when in the last reading he tried very hard to get back to his Master (another word for Oppressor), and in the next reading she's happy she was brought to this land. I guess its just very interesting to see the split views, if you will.

    1. I had nothing now to do, but to seek an Opportunity how I should make my Escape.

      Didn't he just say he was living nicely and now had some "freedom", clearly he didn't view his "freedom as FREEDOM.

    2. o paid them Ten Dollars for me,

      This is sad to me, that a humans life is only worth 10 dollars. Its also sad that, that was probably a decent amount of money back then.

    3. I met with a Press-Gang who immediately prest me, and put me into Goal, and with a Number of others I was confin’d till next Morning, when we were all brought out, and ask’d who would go on board the King’s Ships, four of which having been lately built, were bound to Old-Spain, and on my refusing to serve on board, they put me in a close Dungeon,

      Poor man can't catch a break!

    4. the Indians came after me, and insisted on having me again, as I was their Prisoner

      Why would you willingly let a prisoner go.. then ask for them back?

    5. I immediately jump’d overboard, chusing rather to be drowned, than to be kill’d by those barbarous and inhuman Savages

      Clearly they do not view themselves as having a common enemy, which honestly is crazy to me. I love the fact that a man, who as we all know has probably also been called a savage at a point in his life (just because of his skin) is calling these Natives inhuman savages! Which is crazy to me, because I'm pretty sure majority of the white people back then would have called him inhuman or compared him to an animal!

    6. we found them, to our very great Surprize, to be Indians of which there were Sixty; being now so near them we could not possibly make our Escape; they soon came up with and boarded us, took away all our Arms[,] Ammunition, and Provision.

      These do not sound like "Happy Natives" to me. My question however is this, Clearly the white man has oppressed them and treated them with blatant disrespect, but hasn't the white man also done this to the black man? Why aren't the natives 'helping' the african americans? Could you argue that they have a common enemy? This may have been a stupid question, but it was on my mind.

    1. Remember, Christians, Negros, black as Cain, May be refin’d, and join th’ angelic train.

      Your race doesn't matter, just be a kind person. Not only does your race not matter, but other 'historic' christian could have been black... "Black as Cain" that suggests a whole lot of something.

    1. The Constitution nominates the citizen Toussaint-Louverture,

      Didn't he pretty much write this Constitution? So he's not only writing all the rules so to speak, but he also appointed himself as Governor. I mean I'm sure other people were okay with this, it just seems weird to me.

    2. Art. 63. – The residence of any person shall constitute an inviolable abode. During nighttime, no one shall have the right to enter therein unless in case of fire, flooding or upon request from within. During the day, one shall have access for a special determined object or, by a law, or by order issued from a public authority.

      "At night you may not enter another persons home, but feel free to during the day when you also might not be welcomed!"

    3. Art. 53. – They are divided in paid colonial guard and unpaid colonial guard.

      Why are half of the men paid while the other half isn't, that doesn't seem fair to me. It doesn't matter where or who you are protecting you should all be paid the same.

    4. Art. 52. – The Armed Forces are essentially obedient, they can never deliberate; they are at the disposition of the Governor who can mobilize them only to maintain public order, protection due to all citizens, and the defense of the colony.

      So the soldiers are "owned" in a sense? They cannot deliberate amongst themselves because what..? It will bring tyranny to the masses.. or is the government they ate considered the soldiers will over throw..?