This is not a race issue. This is a commitment to education issue.

By the fall of 2013, the impoverished Normandy District was sending more than a $1 million a month to whiter, wealthier ones. Back at the height of the St. Louis desegregation program in the 1980s, they had a term for this-- black gold.

Obviously, when I'm at work these offices are open. When I get off, they're closed. So what I would do is take later lunches on my job, go to my car, sit in my car after I've written down telephone numbers and names the night before, and I would spend my whole lunch hour calling these offices.

This is a commitment to education issue

So Cameron said he normally goes to the counselor's office because this was not unusual. And we spent that whole entire hour talking about what his ambitions are, his history in the Normandy school system, and how he regretted not leaving.

so fast paced at short moments,

Phenomenology is the idea on how individuals experience things and interpret these experiences. There are many ways to engage in a phenomenal perspective.

In volleyball, attitude is very different, once you step foot on the court everything changes.

Phenomenology is the idea on how individuals experience things and interpret these experiences.

ese were sold out within 3 days of receiving them in shipment

It is hard to say whether it was because they were trying to be protective of their own health or wanted the sales associate to see that they understand the gravity of the situation the world is in and they are adjusting their behavior accordingly.

heightened sense of awareness

For this case, phenomenological ideas were used to evaluate how GNC customers interacted with the store and the sales associate within. Notably, these interactions took place after a stay at home order was issued to the state. The fact that these customers came in to begin with may suggest something about how they are experiencing the pandemic.  

to be sure

Phenomenology can be understood as the ways that people know and experience things within their lives. In thinking about phenomenology it can be useful to study other people’s personal experiences with the environment they interact with.

splitting migraine

It was

These challenges influence an individual’s outlook on an experience and shape it. In this way

real

open posture

The store is where customers shop for clothes and employees sell and assist customers.

The overall store is set up with men’s clothing to the right when you enter and women’s clothing to the left.

In this case,

In this experiment, the behavior of two employees were analyzed based on they acted out on the floor of the store. The results to this were than compared to how they acted in the stockroom. Along with this, the 2 employees were also asked “how are you?” once in both the store and in the stockroom.

out

experiment

Phenomenology studies conscious experience as encountered from a first person point of view, thus seeking to understand things as they appear to us

The subject of phenomenology looks at the structure of experiences.

and application side

y sense of geographic space

ometimes our rangers would tell us, but other times they would leave notes and disappear into the forest to shadow us as we trekked from location to location. The confrontation of so many unknown factors was the heart of the challenge, but I can say that these challenges were taken in stride by our crew of strangers.

Hiking Into Heaven When discussing concepts of geographic thinking, the idea of phenomenology is a persistent one: how and individual’s experience are shaped through their senses. These senses are not limited to the basic five, but also extend to more subjective feelings. This includes emotions, the flow of time, the self, and the significance of objects. Such concepts are linked to studies of geography as an individual’s senses influences their relation to their geographic space and thinking. So when it came time to reflect on the concept of phenomenology I could think of no better experience than that of my Rayado trek in the summer of 2019 at the Philmont Scout Ranch in Cimarron Mountain Range of New Mexico.

When discussing concepts of geographic thinking, the idea of phenomenology is a persistent one:

and

Self regulation can be defined in various ways. In most cases, it involves controlling one’s behavior, emotions, and thoughts in the pursuit of long-term goals.

Survey

ustainability and similarly sustainable appear in the cloud.

Dog Day Afternoon "On the other and substantial hand,

Retail spaces have a huge impact on residents in gentrifying neighborhoods.

makes to attempt

still,

Black queerness is something that is completely absent from opera.

My opera studies have always been strictly heteronormative – I have not performed any operatic works that are for male leads; I’ve never portrayed a different gender or etc. The closest form of gender-fluidity that I’ve portrayed is the aria, “Ballata” by Ottorino Respighi. When I studied this song, it fit the correct voice part and intonation needed for my voice (soprano), but when I looked up a performance of the piece I also found that it could be performed by a male tenor. There are many pieces that have gender-neutral lyrics which could be for any gender to sing, and maybe these lyrics also allow a space for queer people to sing about/to whomever partner they prefer. In my experience, however, my voice teachers have assumed that I would be singing to a male protagonist/antagonist and maybe that is because they never knew about my queerness. (Perhaps, it was also because of how we assume most people to be heterosexual before anything else which is less of an operatic issue and more of a cultural/social issue.)

castrati and the homo-eroticism of being able to perform as gender-fluid icons on stage: even though it is unspoken, gay men are widely more accepted and prevalent in the opera world than gay women. I felt more accepted in the discipline when I was told of modern operas now allowing women to play ‘contralto’ and ‘countertenor’ parts. According to Merriam-Webster Dictionary, a contralto is “…a singing voice that has the range between tenor and mezzo-soprano [typically females]…” (Merriam-Webster) A countertenor is “…a tenor with an unusually high range [typically males]…” (Merriam-Webster). (A tenor is typically described as a high-voice male vocal part, and a mezzo-soprano is a middle-high voice for a female.)  This allowed for women to play the parts of male characters in lead roles. This is a phenomena not to be thought of in the older years of opera and it allowed me to feel more comfortable with my identity when I found this out. Another interesting factoid, though, is that I’m a soprano which usually fares to more traditional female roles. For my voice part, there aren’t many roles that allow me to explore gender-bending or any form of masculinity.

In my personal experience with my own sexuality, I feel as if I have to perform as a straight woman in order to properly portray females in a heteronormative way.

The men who played these roles went through a process of testicular castration  in order to keep their voices high-pitched and these performers were called, “castrati”

were playing

to

but even during the turn of the century women having sexual fluidity was still considered a crime and mental illness, but it was still subordinate to homosexual men due to patriarchal dynamics about gender (women are weaker than men, so their sexual preferences aren’t as detrimental as men’s…men must be straight because they are stronger).

or being not fully heterosexual as

experimenting

the

There is this idea of women being able

I also found out that I had two gay male relatives, and I began to discuss the hypocrisy behind accepting them and not their own daughter to my parents.

and wasn’t ashamed of who I was

also

this unspoken sentiment of

Around this timeframe, the years of experimental childhood play occurred and I had all of my playground girlfriends “play doctor” with me: these sessions included seeing each other naked, comparing body parts, pretending to be each other’s “boyfriends” with small kisses and touches here-and-there. I was fascinated more by female friends’ body parts than my male friends, and a lot of my female friends developed earlier than me, and I would be in awe of their curvaceous figures, noticing how they resembled the body of the porn star I saw at age 6. Paired with these external manifestations of my budding lesbianism came the voyeuristic ventures of late-night erotica on T.V. Although my parents thought they were protecting my innocence by not allowing my Internet access, they put a cable T.V. in my room, forgetting about the massive amount of sex all over the place in the media. Perhaps they thought I would fall asleep before the phone sex advertisements, sex toy infomercials, and softcore erotic movies/shows would come on, but I was a youthful insomniac, unable to fall asleep until 3 or 4AM at times.

Ever since I was a child, I knew that I had an attraction to women. I remember the first image of a naked body that really stayed fragmented in my mind was not of my own body, it was an image of a naked, white woman from a pornographic adverstisement pop-up on my family computer. We had a computer virus that flooded our homepage with pornography and I remember seeing this image and then my mother walking in on me seeing the image and subsequently freaking out because I had seen something that would potentially “corrupt” me. I wasn’t allowed to use the computer until the virus had been fixed and even years after that incident, when I was old enough to have my own computer in my room, I still wasn’t allowed to have Internet connectivity in fear that I would see more sexualized images…but I digress.

it makes it hard for someone who doesn’t fit into these molds of heteronormativity to find an authentic operatic voice when portraying a role, reenacting a scene, or just trying to relate to the lyrics in a particular song.

,

not showing much grey area when interpreting

I personify a lot of non-realities

Sexualizing Identity and Opera

Eventually, she stopped coming around him and he stopped pursuing her because another white girl that looked like her caught his eye… and then my minor infatuation for him trailed off because I thought I was a lesbian

“White love” is love, heartbreak, tragedy, etc. but there is no level of inequality due to racial inferiority/superiority dynamics.

On the cusp of being a virgin and on being a “slut” is where I stand.

presents itself as

to preserve

over

An urban park situated in Washington D.C., The Yards Park, neighboring the Washington Navy yard represents riverfront revitalization with an award-winning design, high-end restaurants, spaces for recreation and community gatherings, and river views.