Has meaningful experience(s)/insights into creating an inclusive and equitable experience for students with examples
Demonstrated resourcefulness or some knowledge about other communities or offices, proved to be approachable by being curious, asking questions. While describing meaningful experience(s)/insights into creating an inclusive and equitable experience for students supported by concrete examples
No meaningful experience/insight to creating an inclusive and equitable experience for students without examples
Answer lacked understanding of systematic harms/examples and showed an unwillingness to learn how to relate to others or provided no meaningful experience/insight to creating an inclusive and equitable experience for students
Has meaningful experience(s)/insight to working with a diverse group of people with examples
Applicant proved to have growth-mindset, prioritized listening and objectivity by describing experiences/examples where it was clear that they respected all aspects of that person and their situation
No meaningful experience/insight to working with a diverse group of people without examples
Revealed close-minded tendencies, unwillingness to grow and be objective. Mentioned no meaningful experience/insight to working with a diverse group of people or/and provided an answer that was not supported by in-depth examples.
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Has meaningful experience(s)/insight to working on a team with examples
Provided meaningful experience(s) that showed responsibility within the team, being communicative and supportive as well as possibly a moment of growth from a challenge and how they plan to use that in being an outstanding peer advisor.
No meaningful experience working in a team/no insight without examples
No meaningful experience provided or Applicant spoke ill of teammates/downgraded team support to highlight their own, no examples of responsibility within the team and showcased language/examples of being argumentative, hot-headed or even egotistical
Clearly states how their qualities, skills and experiences would make them an outstanding Peer Advisor/how they will add to the Peer Advising Program. Provided specific examples.
Offers an answer where organizational skills, resourcefulness, communication, and leadership/mentorship skills are main highlights. Supported by detailed examples of lived experiences where these skills are evident seen as intentional with room to grow, ask for support and makes it clear that community is a priority.
Does not clearly state how their qualities, skills and experiences would make them an outstanding Peer Advisor/how they will add to the Peer Advising Program. Did not provide specific examples.
Does not clearly state how their qualities, skills and experiences would make them an outstanding Peer Advisor/how they will add to the Peer Advising Program. Focuses on listing off leadership experience and lacks humility. Did not provide specific examples.
Clearly states why they would like to become a Peer Advisor, what aspects of the position they find most appealing, and what they hope to gain from the position. Provides specific examples.
Provides a well thought out and in-depth answer/explanation of what aspects of the position they found most appealing and what they hope to gain from this position; supported by concrete examples that showcases mental and emotional care towards others.
Kennedy wrongly called autism a “preventable disease”, labeled it an epidemic like measles, and accused experts of being in “epidemic denial”. He then said: “Genes do not cause epidemics; it can provide a vulnerability, but you need an environmental toxin.”
Using political power to provide a false narrative of medical information
multivariate environmental and social factors that contribute to well-being.
health is intersectional
Their stance is more of a shrug and sigh than a battle cry. When Kennedy claims that autism is worse than Covid-19 because the latter only kills “old people” and “metabolically healthy” people don’t die from it, or when a Maha associate claims that measles is “an essential rite of passage, immunologically”
Disclaiming and subsequently influences others that people with disabilities are a disease in themselves like a contagine
the desire to shape the population’s genetic makeup.
White people were supposed to increasingly decrease and become the minority by 2045. Sparking the fear of losing control and their place on the hierarchy
Kennedy champions living harmoniously with nature, free from the burdens of “poisonous” food additives, fertilizers, cooking oils and the most toxic chemistry of all: vaccines.
Claiming he was healthy purely because of genetics and he could consume without worry because he wasn't genetically predisposed
concept of soft eugenics: non-coercive methods of reducing certain conditions through individual choice and medical advice.
Propaganda and persuaded choice
racial hierarchy, with white Europeans at the top.
Now we define what is hereditarily desirable based on Gatlon's image
animal breeding, Galton encouraged people with “desirable” traits to procreate while discouraging or preventing those with “undesirable” traits
How do you define what is "desirable" and what is "undesirable"? Animals use strengths and what is known as predator vs prey
the idea that if you take away life-saving services, then only the strong will survive
Definition: Stripping away things that are seen as clutches for others to see who can survive without them and breeding the lesser out in doing so
And it extended, of course, to what was happening in Black academia, what was happening in Black film.
it really express what black people are going through at the decade
Because any critic of anything needs to know something more than the last 25 years of their lives. They need to know everything you all have been talking about.
Exactly, they need to know the history behind something to critic it accurately
And hip-hop at that point blew up in the suburbs in a major way. But the thing was that notion of Black writing being essential to one’s understanding of the culture, where the culture was no longer the culture as we’d known it in ’70s, ’80s and ’90s.
sad how people couldn't even afford to do what they loved because certain people didn't see the purpose in it
The way he was able to bring his poetics into writing about music and left these indelible lines — these things, they’ve formed my own critical perspective, my own critical understanding of the way in which the opportunity to talk about the music is of course the opportunity to bring our whole lives to who we are.
how do we express the feeling that music brings us? Do we let the words guide and just let the feelings express themselves? how do you structure it?
African American autonomy in the American body politic is a multifaceted one tied to necessary and interlocking social, political as well as cultural revolutions in valuing Black life. Culture critics, we know, play a pivotal role in identifying and narrating the dimensions of that value.
2020 really reupped the black movement in all different directions of growth and rebuilding the movement in unity
Their work helped lead an intellectual revolution in writing and thinking about the importance of Black sound,
how did this further the work in black sound
Frederick Douglass’s sharp observations about blackface minstrelsy to the barrier-breaking journalism of theater and music columnists like Pauline Hopkins, Sylvester Russell and Lester Walton in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Interesting how that is not widely known that frederick Douglass was apart of the original musical journalism process
that Black critics have been setting the record straight and engaging Black citizenry “in the making of its own story,”
black stories are better told by black people
he revolutionized the form and content of music journalism by centering Blackness as both the analytic framework to engage and experience popular music as well as the language to tell the story of the music itself in living color.
the beginning of the true value of music in literature. Seeing how the two connect to form one beautiful symphony
but there is something pernicious about Davis and all of those other white guys who want so badly to put white men in charge—American and European—and put Negroes in the background.
Our talents should be just as appreciated and celebrated. Like Denzel said in fences if he can play they outta let him play.
swing and blues as the enemy
how is it the enemy?
The resentment flares if these Negroes have any power to define themselves and what they are doing or if they have reputations independent of Davis’ permission or if they cannot be conventionally condescended to from the abolitionist’s perspective that so many jazz writers have in common.
Fear of Black people expressing their usefulness to the world without the need of the whit man
Piazza surely knew what he was talking about, especially since he was a white man who had been among these jazz writers when nobody dark was around, which allowed him to understand them and their various insecurities and their various resentments close up.
Piazza again was one of those people who were afraid of what they knew was right and instead of openly supporting it they hid from it
intense inferiority feelings in front of the musicians they write about.
Racial bias how the music makes people feel
This time white musicians who can play are too frequently elevated far beyond their abilities in order to allow white writers to make themselves feel more comfortable about being in the role of evaluating an art from which they feel substantially alienated
Reminds me of how Elvis was stealing from black people
Duke Ellington was trying to get his buddies to call their art “Negro music,”
The fact that something has to be specifically called "negro" for black people to get any recognition was and is still a problem. Especially with the fact that once its named that it's looked down upon
I am trying to keep myself free of the concern with detail, for apremature involvement with the details of language may keep me fromevaluating the questions of form.
If you keep focusing on how it should be said it will never be written - step 1
Are there any tangents that can be cut/oose? I used to have much moretrouble geting rid of those wonderful pieces of evidence or examples ofwriting that really did not relate to the meaning.
Dearly noted. I tend to go on tangents when writing so I need to focus on ones that are backed with more speculation than evidence
Simplicity is best. This does not mean writing in pidgin English, merelysending a telegram to the reader.
overwriting has been told to be the best method because you more to take from when your trying to write something coherent
The teacher who writes in public will expose the fact that writing oftendoes not come clear; in fact, s yntax often breaks down just at the pointwhere a new or significant meaning is beginning to break out of its shell.
How can syntax be used to help my essay?? Can use syntax as a way to reveal my flaws in my writing
Revision can be the most satisfying part of teaching composition if theteacher is willing to let go. The composition teacher must wean thestudent. The teacher must give the responsibility for the text to the writer,making clear again and again that it is the student, not the teacher, whodecides what the writing means.
Many high school teachers develop their own prompts to stir their students in a direction that doesn't allow them meaning but forces them to follow a guide that doesn't give them room to be expressive
When editors or teachers kidnap the first draft, they also remove theresponsibility for making meaning from the writer.
It is hard to find your vision when it is being suffocated by someone else's interpretation: similar to reading as a writer and a reader we see how important it is to step outside of yourself when writing
Each of these acts fits into asequence most of the time. The writer solves the problems of meaning,and those solutions make it possible to solve the problems of order, andthose solutions make it possible to solve the problems of voice.
Revising is also about finding order, and establishing a structure while you find meaning. discovering what belongs where developing a flow
The writer has to go back again and again and again to considerwhat the writing means and if the writer can accept, document, andcommunicate that meaning
write out your thoughts about your own writing then let it guide to the next phase of your writing
it is discovering meaning andclarifying it while it is being discovered.
key, discover your thesis
Meaning is usually discovered and clarified as the writermakes hundreds of small decisions, each one igniting a sequence ofconsideration and reconsideration.
everything has a why, where, what, who, when and how. Something we can not forget when writing
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the alienation between one side of the family and the other is the feeling he gives us as readers to help us better understand
an owl’s eyes
the difference in the eye shapes of his family and him
Eyedentity
Replacing the i with eye speaks to how from this poem's perspective, eyes are the first way people can distinguish your race
conditions:They begin work at eight in the morning,They do not stop working until ten o'clock at night.They have a half-hour for dinner and a half-hour for supper.Thirteen hours a day--seventy-eight hours a week,Wages--$6.00 a week.They would "probably" be discharged if they refused to work overtime
Rewrite this in a way that describes the unlawful overtime in my own words then quote 78 hours a week
“it is the substance of my books, not who is writing them, that is important”
The way she takes time to assert the difference because the distinction changes the meaning of how you address her. When you address her you hold the power that all her works holds
Unlike my bold and daring mother and grandmother, who were not supportive of talking back, even though they were assertive and powerful in their speech, bell hooks as I discovered, claimed, and invented her was my ally, my support. That initial act of talking back outside the home was empowering
The way she says "unlike" when comparing discuss how even though she does admire the women she has had as role model she finds herself slightly disappointed that they wanted her to stay down in public instead of as outspoken as these women were at home. This speaks to how WOC feel the need to draw the line when it comes to be assertive
I claimed this legacy of defiance, of will, of courage, affirming my link to female ancestors who were bold and daring in their speech.
"The legacy of defiance" why she feels the need to defy? Is she really defying or is she just taking her power back? Her courage to reunite her future with their pasts and bring about a path way for all black women to march through
can recall the surprised look, the mocking tones that informed me I must be kin to bell hooks – a sharp-tongued woman, a woman who spoke her mind, a woman who was not afraid to talk back.
they degrade what they would appreciate in a white man of color. He would be seen as strong and someone who is direct. Why is a woman seen as vulgar for this?? Not being afraid to talk back speaks to how they seek to continue to buid a community against resistance and see how OG bell hooks did that
‘talked back’ to a grown person.
Talking back has alot to do with discipline in the black community and it has alot to do with the way not only are we taught to respect the elders similar to asian culture. We are also taught to stay quiet because of those times during slavery and during reconstruction. We were supposed to stay low, "keep our heads down" and just "take it"
a family name (mother to Sarah Oldham, grandmother to Rosa Bell Oldham, great-grandmother to me), was to construct a writer-identity that would challenge and subdue all impulses leading me away from speech into silence.
Why are family names so important? Black peole trying to stay true to their names, because of the heritage they try to hold on to because of how much was taken
She writes short, anecdotal, sometimes dialogic essays in academic and popular journals, that aim to appeal “to a popular and a professionalized readership to become responsible members of a common intellectual community”
Her views on things such as love and feminism also speak to intersectionality as a whole. She does all of these things as a Black woman. So her points hold a certain weight that not alot of writers has at the time
a “widely published black feminist” writer
I actually learned about this women yesterday in her my theme program class learning about the books she's written about love. Her takes on love now speak volumes because I see how she feels like her purpose is to be as opinionated as possible
but I vividly recall every detail of how that sandwich was “customized” for me.
How does your sandwich reflect who you are?
In hindsight, it was a turning point of my attitude toward challenges, big or small, in my new life, as if procuring a proper first meal signified my will to survive in this new world I’d entered. That significance would only become obvious to me many years later.
Sandwich symbolizes her new lease on life. an adventurer
“On what bread?” The way she asked her next question made me feel she was now anticipating drawing another blank from me.
Why were these decisions so important to her, it was just a sandwich? what is the underlining meaning behind the sandwich
The woman delivered another long list but this time, both the smile and the happy tone had disappeared. Her face turned expressionless, but I could almost hear her annoyance.
Customer service is very telling about the way other people may view the character. Very telling about how the charaters tend to be oblivious
Despite growing up in a big city, I was (and still am) horrible with directions. Any destination that required more than a few turns never failed to confuse me on the return route.
literally me
the cafeteria is closed until classes start, which is one week from today.”
Classic college life, is this their way of preparing you for a life of poverty?
I pushed open the heavy double door and stepped out of Selleck quadrangle, the graduate housing at University of Nebraska - Lincoln. The frigid January air entered my nostrils and instantly froze the hair inside. What a strange sensation!
good use of sensory details to set scene. You can tell it's her first time in America based on the excited tone
We look at the italicized home movie for a while, then her memories, then the movie, and so on, letting one strand surface while the other is momentarily submerged.
When everything just begins to flow in the essay. Everything intertwines
For Dillard’s weasel-skull conclusion to feel truly satisfying, however, it must mimic life, which is never completely complete. In real life, there is always an “and then,” even if it comes after we have died. So the best conclusions open up a bit at the end, suggesting the presence of the future.
The future, the end even. The circle is complete but it has an opening left for growth. Why is that? Does everything in life have room to grow?
Writer’s block is not their problem since their minds overflow with remembered experiences and related ideas. While a fiction writer may need to invent from scratch, adding and adding, the essayist usually needs to do the opposite, deleting and deleting. As a result, nonfiction creativity is best demonstrated by what has been left out. The essay is a figure locked in a too-large-lump of personal experience, and the good essayist chisels away all unnecessary material.
Writers block is a part of the process. Most of the time the way out of it is just to keep moving forward
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alt="">with a thesis and aim, arrow-like, at a pre-determined bull’s-eye.
The core of the story. What is the objective? What are they trying to get across?
One interesting side note: trauma, which is a common source for personal essays, can easily cause an author to get stuck on the sort of plateau Kittredge described. Jo Ann Beard, while clearly wrestling with the immobilizing impact of her own trauma, found a way to keep the reader moving both forward and upward, until the rising tension reached its inevitable climax: the graduate student firing his gun.
How does trauma keep us connected into the story? Does the possibility of it being relatable root us into the essay?
If she flatlines on an emotional plateau, not raising the tension, then we are likely to lose interest and walk away.
I would say this describes the climax of a good story or how sometimes there barely is a climax in an essay
Savvy essayists, as a result, twist their chronology, beginning at the end or breaking to a moment in the past, even weaving together several timelines. More crucial, though, is their use of tension, which changes the flat line of chronology into a rising line—a plot. Such tension forces the reader into a climb, muscles contracting. It raises anticipation. Will we reach the top? And what will we see from there?
Where are the lines we see in narrative? What are the directions we can take? How dark can they become?
No diagram matches the exact form that evolves, and that is because the best essayists resist predictable approaches. They refuse to limit themselves to generic forms, which, like mannequins, can be tricked out in personal clothing. Nevertheless, recognizing a few basic underlying structures may help an essay writer invent a more personal, more unique form. Here, then, are several main options.
An essay evolves as you move foward the final picture sometimes is unclear, however like art it is up to your own narrative
By trying a different angle or creating a composite of past approaches, you get closer and closer to what you intend. You begin to delineate the organic form that will match your content.
Each piece of the art explains a different part in the writing process.
Although I may start an essay with a notion of where I am headed, inevitably I veer away as I get new ideas or encounter dead ends. Sometimes I even seem to go backward, losing all direction.
many of us identify as visual learners, I would assume this is the author's way of reaching out to two different types of learners
Try considering, on the page, why you deem certain material important or where you and your narrative are without those facts. Tell the story of your research—its rewards, twists and turns, and dead ends. Write about the acts of myth-making and myth-uncovering. Write about what you don’t know.
The story of research is where you are allowed to be creative not in the actual research itself.
The absence of these items is a conflict, and without conflict, there’s no plot. And so the story of not knowing becomes the story.
why is conflict needed for it to be successful???
Aldrich had some of what she calls her friend’s “nonmementos”—spoons, an egg coddler, letters. But he had destroyed personal photos, official documents, and the like. And so, in her larger narrative, she embraces the fact of those losses and what they might have told her.
Why objects matter. Not every important object has to ooze importance from a monetary perspective. Objects like these even ones that are just practical hold deep stories.
Documents may have been destroyed or lost. Medical and legal records can require permissions an author simply can’t obtain. What we’re left with is something like an old-fashioned game of telephone, where one whisper builds on another until the original meaning is gone. And as we write, we’re stymied, trying to find facts in those diminishing whispers.
The author here is explaining why creative nonfiction exists, almost as if she is hinting that most nonfiction has at some point stretched the truth they have available. I had to do this in my history class last week for a discussion project, however in history they call it hypothesizing.
Writing a true story, we want to track down the truths, both objective and subjective, using documents, photos, and interviews to corroborate our story. But sometimes, family members are dead or otherwise unavailable to us.
What does it really take to build a story? Could the truth really just be a jumping off point?
The workshop student said there were no letters, no documents, and no one living who knew the story for certain. Did it happen? she worried.
Presumed origin of creative fiction. Reminds me of how in history the story can never be 100% accurate because everyone narrates differently. SO many different perspectives, one's truth could be completely different from someone else’s truth.
We write, I imagine. Or, I believed. We write, She told me, because the fact is that she did, and the truth conveyed to us is hers (whoever she may be).
Why does it take a simple change of phrase to make it create? Nonfiction is supposed to be facts so where is the line that brings us into this gray territory??
There are practicalities to think of, too. In the summertime, a light cotton wrap keeps yourhair up and your neck cool. In the winter, a thick one relieves you of the need for a winterhat, which can wreak havoc on natural hair.
Parts of the reasons why our represents our journeys
Once you master some layering, twisting andtucking techniques, every outfit becomes more interesting. Tying a wrap becomes aneveryday celebration of Blackness.
You’re not only expressing your Blackness. You are also continuing and representing African culture
One Black woman who trained me instructed me to wear my hair longand straight. Later, working at nonprofits, I noticed that most of the Black femaleexecutives straightened their hair. Wherever I worked, I received messages — if not in somany words — to play down my Blackness and Africanness.
I wish this trend was addressed more in sociology classes and how society downplays these acts
In Italy, I was one of a few Black students at my school, and my coiled hairmade me stand out even more than I already did. So, in middle school, I relaxed it. Atfirst, I was pleased with my straight hair.
The idea of fitting in with non-black culture because you want to assimilate. Reasons why representation is so important
I longed for that kindof freedom — from the blow dryers and curling irons I used to keep my hair straight andlong; from the daily battle with my damaged, brittle hair that now stuck to my sweatyneck. I fantasized about chopping it all off and growing a lush Afro
What a Black women's hair means to her. Our hair connects with our pride, our experiences, our emotions, and our stories
When my grandmother is overdue for a visit from thehair braider, she gossips with guests wearing soft cotton wraps in bright colors, knottedsimply at the nape of her neck.
The main reason why you see a Jamaican women's hair covered up
While my female cousins and I leftour heads uncovered, my aunties wore glossy black head wraps, tied in small bows at thecenter of their hairlines.
What does this tradition symbolize? Why does it change between generations? Could each represent a sign of wisdom with age or a cultural way to signify age
In our tradition, fabric patterns have distinctmeanings, and ours was printed with a symbol that resembles chain links, representingthe unbreakable bonds between the living and the dead.
Many cultures have a set fashion, and each has its own meaning. That is why wearing these garments are a sacred experience and when worn inappropriately it can sometimes be seen as culture appropriation