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  1. Feb 2020
    1. it would be the removal of the entire head of the penis and much of the shaft, too.

      There are forms of FGM that are this extreme. Most are not. Much of the clitoris is internal, so Type I FGM (which remove the prepuce or clitoris) might consists of removing part of the head of the penis.

    1. ne morning, as Gregor Samsa was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous verminous bug. He lay on his ar-mour-hard back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his brown, arched abdomen divided up into rigid bow-like sec-tions. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. His numerous legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circum-ference, flickered helplessly before his eyes

      Why would the author want to start the reading with the main character as a bug? Why not slowly have the readers see the change happening?

    1. he deepest puzzles can’t be solved in purely physical terms, because they all involve the unavoidable presence of experience in the equation.

      I don't think this is true. We can start to explain people's perception of reality, start to model, start to link it to the physical.

      There will always r. emain a final step in this process that is impossible, how does one link one's model of reality to inside one's own head. But perhaps, all one needs to assume is that one's own experience is that same as others (a phenomological assumption, for sure) to leave one a physical explanation.

    2. The Blind Spot arises when we start to believe that this method gives us access to unvarnished reality.

      I would agree with that. All we ever have are models in our head that agree with reality. But perhaps our connection to our machines and technology are so consistent that we need nothing else.

    1. He tells me, my dear Gertrude, he hath found The head and source of all your son's distemper.

      This is kinda funny that everyone is just missing the mark.

  2. reserves.library.emory.edu reserves.library.emory.edu
    1. Nestorians around Mosul, angry at a mere child's elevation ascatholicos, broke from the church and acknowledged the Latin Pope astheir spiritual head.15In the aftermath of the schism, the patriarchal see ofthe ``traditionalist'' faction moved to the village of Qudshanis (Kochanes inBritish and American missionar ycorrespondence) in the heartland of theNestorian tribal confederations, amidst the almost impenetrable mountainsof what is toda ythe Turkish province of HakkaÃri.16The pro-Catholicfaction retained the name Chaldean while the traditionalists in the moun-tains simpl ycalled themselvesSuryani, helping to confuse outsiders as tothe theological distinctions between Nestorians and Jacobites

      Chaldeans = Assyrian Catholics. They unified with Rome but retained their East Syriac liturgy in worship.

    1. Just how I would do it I could never decide: by reading law, by healing the sick, by telling the wonderful tales that swam in my head,—some way. With other black boys the strife was not so fiercely sunny: their youth shrunk into tasteless sycophancy, or into silent hatred of the pale world about them and mocking distrust of everything white; or wasted itself in a bitter cry

      It seems like he felt like success was the only way to triumph over oppression, while hatred and anger were wastes of time. I feel like sometimes those sorts of negativity are almost necessary; they definitely have their place.

    2. . Just how I would do it I could never decide: by reading law, by healing the sick, by telling the wonderful tales that swam in my head,—some way

      In this sentence it almost feels as if the author was detailing how he would perform a heist, suggesting the path of success for a colored man was way less likely.

    3. Just how I would do it I could never decide: by reading law, by healing the sick, by telling the wonderful tales that swam in my head,—some way

      Hoped he could prove that he was worthy to be treated like a person by working hard, while the white kids didn't have to prove anything, working or not. This mindset is going to create a mentality of never being enough.

    1. A woman who has a head full of Greek, like Mme. Dacier,  or who carries on fundamental controversies about mechanics, like the Marquise de Chậtelet, might as well also wear a beard

      As an Enlightenment philosopher, I am surprised at the narrow-mindedness Immanuel Kant exerts in this excerpt. Why could he not revisit the role of women during his so-called intellectual time of rebirth?

    1. The Sedition Act of 1918 (1918)

      Truth be told and I think I mentioned this before but I didn't know there was a scare before the one that occurred in the 50s, but apparently communism started to poke it's head into America way before that time.

    1. Around the same time, Dr. Li and other medical professionals in Wuhan started trying to provide warnings to colleagues and others when the government did not. Lu Xiaohong, the head of gastroenterology at City Hospital No. 5, told China Youth Daily that she had heard by Dec. 25 that the disease was spreading among medical workers — a full three weeks before the authorities would acknowledge the fact. She did not go public with her concerns, but privately warned a school near another market.

      China Youth Daily.

  3. pressbooks.bccampus.ca pressbooks.bccampus.ca
    1. you mark them carefully, all acts are always significant, and you can gauge character by even the slightest signs. The lecherous man is revealed by his walk, by a movement of the hand, sometimes by a single answer, by his touching his head with a finger,a by the shifting of his eye.

      maybe should go elsewhere?

    1. Nor is there any requirement, as Grussgott seems to think, that a religious institution employ "ordained clergy" at the head of an "ecclesiastical hierarchy." Such a constraint would impermissibly favor religions that have formal ordination processes over those that do not. S

      Compare to Agape

    1. Shay adds that the first step in healing must be the establishment of “sobriety, safety, and self-care.”

      I agree but I feel like the person can overcome traumatic by fisting head on.

    1. For decades, China harshly restricted the number of babies that women could have. Now it is encouraging them to have more. It is not going well.

      This is a drastic change in China's policy and honestly, this shocks me. The Fact that their former policy is being turned on its head is surprising as it was a key feature due to overpopulation.

    1. “I’ve been beaten in my head with hammers, I had my ear drum busted, I had my nose busted, I been hit in the ribs with a bat,” one woman told researchers. “When I started fighting back he know what happens now, [they] got these laws where you both fight you go to jail. So I got a jail record for assault. . . . God, what is the justice in this?”

      What is the justice

    1. Pouring forth In a hot battle-fume, the breath of the monster Burst from the rock. There was a rumble underground. Down there in the barrow, Beowulf the warrior Lifted his shield: the outlandish thing 2560 Writhed and convulsed and viciously Turned on the king, whose keen-edged-sword, And heirloom inherited by ancient right, Was already in his hand.

      This is a very well written battle section. I can picture everything so clearly in my head.

    2. When the wind blows up and stormy weather Makes clouds scud and the skies weep, Out of its depths a dirty surge Is pitched towards the heavens

      Beautiful imagery!!! I can see this picture perfectly in my head

    1. The beak of a shoveller-duck (Spatula clypeata) is a more beautiful and complex structure than the mouth of a whale. The upper mandible is furnished on each side (in the specimen examined by me) with a row or comb formed of 188 thin, elastic lamellae, obliquely bevelled so as to be pointed, and placed transversely to the longer axis of the mouth. They arise from the palate, and are attached by flexible membrane to the sides of the mandible. Those standing towards the middle are the longest, being about one-third of an inch in length, and they project fourteen one- hundredths of an inch beneath the edge. At their bases there is a short subsidiary row of obliquely transverse lamellae. In these several respects they resemble the plates of baleen in the mouth of a whale. But towards the extremity of the beak they differ much, as they project inward, instead of straight downward. The entire head of the shoveller, though incomparably less bulky, is about one-eighteenth of the length of the head of a moderately large Balaenoptera rostrata, in which species the baleen is only nine inches long; so that if we were to make the head of the shoveller as long as that of the Balaenoptera, the lamellae would be six inches in length, that is, two-thirds of the length of the baleen in this species of whale. The lower mandible of the shoveller-duck is furnished with lamellae of equal length with these above, but finer; and in being thus furnished it differs conspicuously from the lower jaw of a whale, which is destitute of baleen. On the other hand, the extremities of these lower lamellae are frayed into fine bristly points, so that they thus curiously resemble the plates of baleen. In the genus Prion, a member of the distinct family of the Petrels, the upper mandible alone is furnished with lamellae, which are well developed and project beneath the margin; so that the beak of this bird resembles in this respect the mouth of a whale.

      Each gradation serves a purpose

    2. It is not easy to imagine two objects more widely different in appearance than a bristle or vibraculum, and an avicularium like the head of a bird; yet they are almost certainly homologous and have been developed from the same common source, namely a zooid with its cell.

      Species may look "similar" but each will have evolved gradually over time making them drastically different when looking closer at their traits.

    1. The educational assistant was monitoring recess when she was accidentally hit in the side of the head with a football thrown by a student.

      This is very bad for teachers and students. Students have to play with care so that they can create a safe work area for teachers and other staff members.

    1. The company said there’s no HFMD outbreak at its property. “As a result of the recent cases reported of hand, foot and mouth disease in The Dominican Republic, the Head of General Medicine from Hospiten, an international private medical provider, concluded after thorough review of the resorts in the area… that there is no indication of an outbreak at our resort.” RELATED IMAGES view larger image One family says their daughter was misdiagnosed by staff at the hospital and the resort’s on-site, 24-hour medical station. var mobileArticleImage; jQuery(document).ready(function() { requiresDependency('https://static.ctvnews.ca/bellmedia/common/js/jquery.bxslider.min.js', function() { jQuery("ul#articleImage li").addClass("activeSlide"); $('#articleImage').css("visibility", "visible"); }); jQuery('a.galleryitem').lightBox(); jQuery('a.viewLargerIcon').click(function(e){ e.preventDefault(); jQuery('.activeSlide a').click(); }); }); var cbAuthor = ''; var paragraphs = jQuery(".articleBody").children("p").length; var sideItems = jQuery(".sideItems"); if(paragraphs > 3) { sideItems.fadeOut("fast", function() { var thirdItem = jQuery(".articleBody").children().eq(2); jQuery(".sideItems").insertAfter(thirdItem); sideItems.fadeIn("fast"); }); } else { sideItems.fadeOut("fast", function() { var lastItem = jQuery(".articleBody").children().last(); jQuery(".sideItems").insertAfter(lastItem); sideItems.fadeIn("fast"); }); }

      I wonder how many people who travel contract Hep C, the flu, diarrhea ect. Its risky everywhere you go, especially with kids. If there child was here at home an contracted HFMD and had the same reaction would we hear about; od do we hear about it because it cost them so much extra money?

    1. Placing myself in a soccer environment allows me to clear my head and escape the real world.

      Again, active voice, e.g.: 'I find that when I am on the soccer field my head clears and I can escape real-world stresses' or something like that.

  4. Jan 2020
    1. I shall scold you for scandalizing the Genius of my Friend Romney & for speaking so profanely of your own Person — If He does not paint a Head of you that is at once both Like & Lovely I promise you I will throw it into the Fire

      Romney painted Seward's portrait during her visit to Eartham.

    1. ome people take their hair for granted and say the same thing “its just hair” however for some people it is so much more than just hair on top of your head.

      I agree with you on that. people see their hair as who they truly are.

    1. Mental-health care is chronically underfunded. If a parent has one child with diabetes and one with anxiety or depression and they seek help, the child with diabetes receives world-class care. The child with mental illness is given a sheet of paper and a 12- to 18-month wait.

      This is something that unfortunately i believe will take a long time to change. There are still so many people out there that don't believe that mental health is a real issue; people believe that it is just a person looking for attention or that it is all in their head. Mental health comes in many different forms and just like many other "medical" illnesses, mental health can lead to death. So why is it still not getting thee recognition from the government and health care system that it deserves. In my opinion mental health is not recognized as it should be simply because in most cases it is not something that can be seen and measured my health care professionals, therefore it doesn't exist.

    1. Eukaryotes, whose chromosomes each consist of a linear DNA molecule, employ a different type of packing strategy to fittheir DNA inside the nucleus (Figure 9.7). At the most basic level, DNA is wrapped around proteins known as histonesto form structures called nucleosomes. The DNA is wrapped tightly around the histone core. This nucleosome is linked tothe next one by a short strand of DNA that is free of histones. This is also known as the “beads on a string” structure; thenucleosomes are the “beads” and the short lengths of DNA between them are the “string.”

      When thinking of this my brain pictures the DNA and al the other structures as a size that if in front of me I could see. I almost think about it in a way that makes it more tangible for my brain I guess. Whereas in reality I would need a microscope and I still wouldn't be able to wrap my head around how something so small has such a enormous presence in the world.

    1. Every couple of years, mainstream media hacks pretend to have just discovered libertarianism as some sort of radical, new and dynamic force in American politics. It’s a rehash that goes back decades, and hacks love it because it’s easy to write, and because it’s such a non-threatening “radical” politics (unlike radical left politics, which threatens the rich). The latest version involves a summer-long pundit debate in the pages of the New York Times, Reason magazine and elsewhere over so-called “libertarian populism.” It doesn’t really matter whose arguments prevail, so long as no one questions where libertarianism came from or why we’re defining libertarianism as anything but a big business public relations campaign, the winner in this debate is Libertarianism. Pull up libertarianism’s floorboards, look beneath the surface into the big business PR campaign’s early years, and there you’ll start to get a sense of its purpose, its funders, and the PR hucksters who brought the peculiar political strain of American libertarianism into being — beginning with the libertarian movement’s founding father, Milton Friedman. Back in 1950, the House of Representatives held hearings on illegal lobbying activities and exposed both Friedman and the earliest libertarian think-tank outfit as a front for business lobbyists. Those hearings have been largely forgotten, in part because we’re too busy arguing over the finer points of “libertarian populism.” Milton Friedman. In his early days, before millions were spent on burnishing his reputation, Friedman worked as a business lobby shill, a propagandist who would say whatever he was paid to say. That's the story we need to revisit to get to the bottom of the modern American libertarian "movement," to see what it's really all about. We need to take a trip back to the post-war years, and to the largely forgotten Buchanan Committee hearings on illegal lobbying activities, led by a pro-labor Democrat from Pennsylvania, Frank Buchanan. What the Buchanan Committee discovered was that in 1946, Milton Friedman and his U Chicago cohort George Stigler arranged an under-the-table deal with a Washington lobbying executive to pump out covert propaganda for the national real estate lobby in exchange for a hefty payout, the terms of which were never meant to be released to the public. They also discovered that a lobbying outfit which is today credited by libertarians as the movement’s first think-tank — the Foundation for Economic Education — was itself a big business PR project backed by the largest corporations and lobbying fronts in the country. It starts just after the end of World War Two, when America’s industrial and financial giants, fattened up from war profits, established a new lobbying front group called the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) that focused on promoting a new pro-business ideology—which it called “libertarianism”— to supplement other business lobbying groups which focused on specific policies and legislation. The FEE is generally regarded as “the first libertarian think-tank” as Reason’s Brian Doherty calls it in his book “Radicals For Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern Libertarian Movement” (2007). As the Buchanan Committee discovered, the Foundation for Economic Education was the best-funded conservative lobbying outfit ever known up to that time, sponsored by a Who’s Who of US industry in 1946. A partial list of FEE’s original donors in its first four years— a list discovered by the Buchanan Committee — includes: The Big Three auto makers GM, Chrysler and Ford; top oil majors including Gulf Oil, Standard Oil, and Sun Oil; major steel producers US Steel, National Steel, Republic Steel; major retailers including Montgomery Ward, Marshall Field and Sears; chemicals majors Monsanto and DuPont; and other Fortune 500 corporations including General Electric, Merrill Lynch, Eli Lilly, BF Goodrich, ConEd, and more. The FEE was set up by a longtime US Chamber of Commerce executive named Leonard Read, together with Donaldson Brown, a director in the National Association of Manufacturers lobby group and board member at DuPont and General Motors. That is how libertarianism in America started: As an arm of big business lobbying. Before bringing back Milton Friedman into the picture, this needs to be repeated again: “Libertarianism” was a project of the corporate lobby world, launched as a big business “ideology” in 1946 by The US Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Manufacturers. The FEE’s board included the future founder of the John Birch Society, Robert Welch; the most powerful figure in the Mormon church at that time, J Reuben Clark, a frothing racist and anti-Semite after whom BYU named its law school; and United Fruit president Herb Cornuelle. The purpose of the FEE — and libertarianism, as it was originally created — was to supplement big business lobbying with a pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-economics rationale to back up its policy and legislative attacks on labor and government regulations. This background is important in the Milton Friedman story because Friedman is a founding father of libertarianism, and because the corrupt lobbying deal he was busted playing a part in was arranged through the Foundation for Economic Education. According to Congressional hearings on illegal lobbying activities 1946 was the year that Milton Friedman and his U Chicago cohort George Stigler arranged an under-the-table deal with a Washington lobbying executive to pump out covert propaganda for the national real estate lobby in exchange for a hefty payout, the terms of which were never meant to be released to the public. The arrangement between Friedman and Stigler with the Washington real estate lobbyist was finally revealed during a congressional review of illegal lobbying activities in 1950, called the Buchanan Committee. Yes, there was something called accountability back then. I only came across the revelations about Friedman’s sordid beginnings in the footnotes of an old book on the history of lobbying by former Newsweek book editor Karl Schriftgiesser, published in 1951, shortly after the Buchanan Committee hearings ended. The actual details of Milton Friedman’s PR deal are sordid and familiar, with tentacles reaching into our ideologically rotted-out era. False, whitewashed history is as much a part of the Milton Friedman mythology as it is the libertarian movement’s own airbrushed history about its origins; the 1950 Buchanan Committee hearings expose both as creations of big business lobby groups whose purpose is to deceive and defraud the public and legislators in order to advance the cause of corporate America. The story starts like this: In 1946, Herbert Nelson was the chief lobbyist and executive vice president for the National Association of Real Estate Boards, and one of the highest paid lobbyists in the nation. Mr. Nelson’s real estate constituency was unhappy with rent control laws that Truman kept in effect after the war ended. Nelson and his real estate lobby led what House investigators discovered was the most formidable and best-funded opposition to President Truman in the post-war years, amassing some $5,000,000 for their lobby efforts—that’s $5mln in 1946 dollars, or roughly $60 million in 2012 dollars. So Herbert Nelson contracted out the PR services of the Foundation for Economic Education to concoct “third party” propaganda designed to shore up the National Real Estate lobby’s legislative drive — and the propagandists who took on the job were Milton Friedman and his U Chicago cohort, George Stigler. To understand the sort of person Herbert Nelson was, here is a letter he wrote in 1949 that Congressional investigators discovered and recorded: "I do not believe in democracy. I think it stinks. I don’t think anybody except direct taxpayers should be allowed to vote. I don’t believe women should be allowed to vote at all. Ever since they started, our public affairs have been in a worse mess than ever." It’s an old libertarian mantra, libertarianism versus democracy, libertarianism versus women’s suffrage; a position most recently repeated by billionaire libertarian Peter Thiel — who was Ron Paul’s main campaign funder in his 2012 presidential campaign. So in 1946, this same Herbert Nelson turned to the Foundation for Economic Education to manufacture some propaganda to help the National Association of Real Estate Boards fight rent control laws. Nelson chose to work with the FEE because he knew that the founder of the first libertarian think-tank, Leonard Read, agreed with him on a lot of important issues. Such as their mutual contempt for democracy, and their disdain for the American public. Leonard Read, the legendary (among libertarians) founder/head of the FEE, argued that the public should not be allowed to know which corporations donated to his libertarian front-group because, he argued, the public could not be trusted to make “sound judgments” with disclosed information: "The public reporting would present a single fact—the amount of a contributor’s donation—to casual readers, persons having only a cursory interest in the matter at issue, persons who would not and perhaps could not possess all the facts. These folks of the so-called public thus receive only oversimplifications or half-truths from which only erroneous conclusions are almost certain to be drawn. If there is a public interest in the rightness or wrongness of corporate or personal donations to charitable, religious or education institutions, and I am not at all ready to concede that there is, then that interest should be guarded by some such agency as the Bureau of Internal Revenue, an agency that is in a position to obtain all the facts, not by Mr. John Public who lacks relevant information for the forming of sound judgments…Public reporting of a half-truth is indeed a significant provocation." So in May 1946, Herbert Nelson of the Real Estate lobby, looking for backup in his drive to abolish federal rent control laws on behalf of landlords, contacted libertarian founder Leonard Read of the FEE with an order for a PR pamphlet “with some such title as ‘The Case against Federal Real Estate Control’,” according to Karl Schriftgiesser’s book The Lobbyists. What happened next, I’ll quote from Schriftgiesser: "They were now busily co-operating on the new project which the foundation had engaged Milton Friedman and George J. Stigler to write. It was to be called Roofs and Ceilings and it was to be an outright attack on rent controls. When Nelson received a copy of the manuscript he wrote Read to say, “The pamphlet…is a dandy. It is just what I wanted." The National Association of Real Estate Boards was so pleased with Milton Friedman’s made-to-order propaganda that they ordered up 500,000 pamphlets from the FEE, and distributed them throughout the real estate lobby’s vast local network of real estate brokers and agents. In libertarianism’s own airbrushed history about itself, the Foundation for Economic Education was a brave, quixotic bastion of libertarian “true believers” doomed to defeat at the all-powerful hands of the liberal Keynsian Leviathan and the collectivist mob. Here is how libertarian historian Brian Doherty describes the FEE and its chief lobbyist Leonard Read: "[Read] would never explicitly scrape for funds… He never directly asked anyone to give anything, he proudly insisted, and while FEE would sell literature to all comers, it was also free to anyone who asked. His attitude toward money was Zen, sometimes hilariously so. When asked how FEE was doing financially, his favorite reply was, “Just perfectly.”… Read wanted no endowments and frowned on any donation meant to be held in reserve for some future need." And here is what the committee’s own findings reported—findings lost in history: "It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the Foundation for Economic Education exerts, or at least expects to exert, a considerable influence on national legislative policy….It is equally difficult to imagine that the nation’s largest corporations would subsidize the entire venture if they did not anticipate that it would pay solid, long-range legislative dividends." Or in the words of Rep. Carl Albert (D-OK): "Every bit of this literature is along propaganda lines." The manufactured history about libertarian’s origins, or its purpose, parallels the manufactured myths about one of big business’s key propaganda tools, Milton Friedman. As the author of The Lobbyists, not knowing who Milton Friedman was at the time, wrote of Friedman’s collaborative effort with Stigler: “Certainly [the FEE’s] booklet, Roofs or Ceilings, was definitely propaganda and sought to influence legislation….This booklet was printed in bulk by the foundation and half a million copies were sold at cost to the National Association of Real Estate Boards, which had them widely distributed throughout the country by its far-flung network of local member boards.” There's no idealism here. The notion that libertarian ideas have captured the political imagination of millions in this country is a root problem: if we're going to escape the corporate oligarchy that is running this country–their ideas can't possibility be the alternative solution. This movement has to be recognized for what it is.

      Standard smear piece from a subhuman lefty that want to control people. They'll never be taken seriously since their ideology is dependent on violence and being an entitled little shit.

    1. she naturally bounded out to greet him. In a moment captured by disturbing surveillance footage, as Dutchess came toward the officer, he instinctively fired three gunshots into her head.

      how would it be different if a person came bounding out of the house towards the officer?

    1. Cú Chulainn shows striking similarities to the legendary Persian hero Rostam, as well as to the Germanic Lay of Hildebrand and the labors of the Greek epic hero Heracles,

      This sentence really illustrates who Cuhullin was and puts a clear picture in my head. Especially the Hercules part.

    2. “I swear by the god by whom the Ulstermen swear, the bending with which I will bend my head on him, and the eye that I will make at him, he will not turn his head on you, and he will not dare to move.”

      Here Cuchulainn is claiming to have already tamed this wild deer to an extent.

    1. Deion Sanders Says He Will Be A Head Coach In College Football By Next Year

      Deion Sanders is one of the best trash talkers of all time. That's why I like him.

    1. "I was introduced to Andrew about 10 years ago at the Senior Bowl by Leslie Frazier so I've known him for quite some time," Head Coach Kevin Stefanski said. "I've always respected him for the way he's carried himself in this profession. Andrew is extremely knowledgeable and is always looking to improve himself. We share a vision on the type of team we need to build to have the success our fans deserve. I'm excited and very much looking forward to getting to work with Andrew and developing the type of partnership needed for sustained success."

      the Browns are trying to show that because the head coach likes him, we should like him

    1. Dusan Savicevic

      For nearly 50 years, Dusan Savicevic, PhD, has made major contributions to the field of adult and continuing education and is regarded as one of the leading experts in andragogy (adult education) in South-Eastern Europe. He has worked internationally, in institutions for the development of modern adult education, participating in efforts aimed at enabling all categories of adults to assume greater responsibilities in their professional life and society.

      Savicevic is a professor of andragogy in the Department of Andragogy, University of Belgrade, Serbia. He served as head of the Department of Education, head of the Institute of Pedagogy and Andragogy and dean of Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. He was also a visiting professor at Simon Rodriguez University of Venezuela, University of Wisconsin, Madison, and People Normal University, Beijing, China.

      Savicevic’s greatest theoretical contributions in the field of lifelong learning are in clarifying the concept of andragogy and education and learning of adults, in setting up strategies for recurrent education, in comparative education of adults, in methodology of research in adult education, in the concept of educational needs of adults, in contemporary concepts in andragogy, in history and evolution of andragogical ideas, and in the philosophical basis of andragogy, as well as in clarifying the process of learning and aging.

      https://halloffame.outreach.ou.edu/inductions/hof-2006/savicevic/

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    1. On the other hand, creativity can be inhibited if one is overly concerned with following rules regarding "proper" design, which can become a cause of "designer's block,"  

      I didn't know creators and creativity could be blocked, maybe because it can expand so many ways, that it doesn't seem to end in my head, but that also may be from my lack of properness, and following rules.

    1. So he didn’t blurt out the insults he had intended. But he couldn’t hold in everything.

      Tea Cake is showing more signs of empathy and respectfulness. Throughout the book you can see him develop as a person and you can identify the places where he is growing. He has slowly become more and more mature throughout the book. He had many reasons to insult Turner in his head but he decided to mostly take the high road.

    1. A teenage girl sits at a large green table with her head bent over a Venn diagram. A younger boy sits at a nearby computer searching for images on the Internet using Google.

      The ways learning is conducted has changed but "traditional" methods are still in practice.

    1. thEFiRSt hUnDREDYEARSof management educa-tion focused on building strategies and tools that formalized execution and efficiency for existing businesses. Now, we have the first set of tools for searching for new business models as we launch start-up ventures. It also happens to have arrived just in time to help existing companies deal with the forces of continual disruption. In the 21st centurythose forces will make people in every kind of orga-nization—start-ups, small businesses, corporations, and government—feel the pressure of rapid change. The lean start-up approach will help them meet it head-on, innovate rapidly, and transform business as we know it.

      This is exciting for for companies entering the market, this "new" approach to building a business model is more accessible and evens the playing field. To me disrupting the market is a good thing but how long will it last? And will it just become a part of how we think about business now.

    1. When a relationship ends but love remains, it can be both frustrating and embarrassing.

      Dessa, a well-known rapper, singer and writer from Minneapolis, knows the feeling well. She'd spent years trying to get over an ex-boyfriend, but she was still stuck on him.

      "You're not only suffering," she says, "you're just sort of ridiculous. Discipline and dedication are my strong suits — it really bothered me that, no matter how much effort I tried to expend in trying to solve this problem, I was stuck."

      Your Besotted Brain: A Neuroscience Love Song SHOTS - HEALTH NEWS Your Besotted Brain: A Neuroscience Love Song But things changed when Dessa turned to the frontiers of neuroscience for help. She came across a TED Talk by Helen Fisher, a biological anthropologist and visiting research associate at Rutgers University. Using a type of brain scan called functional MRI, or fMRI, Fisher had looked into the brains of love-struck people and noticed that certain parts of their brains were unusually active.

      "That you could objectively measure and observe 'love' — that had never occurred to me before," Dessa says.

      She wondered: If science could map the sources of love in her brain, could it somehow make that love go away?

      The question led her to a controversial therapy technique called neurofeedback.

      The idea is simple: If you want to learn to lower your heart rate, it helps to be able to hear your pulse. And if you want to change patterns of brain activity, it might be helpful to be able to see what your brain is up to.

      One flavor of neurofeedback therapy uses a technology called electroencephalography (EEG). A cap full of electrical leads picks up brain waves and translates them into visual or audio cues — like shifting colors on a screen or a series of dings.

      The idea is that people can use this feedback to retrain those brain waves, changing underlying patterns in the process — turning down unwanted brain activity or turning up regions that are too quiet.

      Clinicians have used neurofeedback to try and treat all kinds of mental health issues: anxiety, depression, autism, and ADHD. And they say they've seen some positive results. Patients say they feel better.

      The growing popularity of EEG-neurofeedback has been met with skepticism. Some scientists say the power of this therapy may stem from the placebo effect. (They also point out that a lot of neurofeedback research is done by people who have a financial stake in the industry.)

      But more rigorous research from the past couple of years supports the idea that, at least in some cases, neurofeedback can be used to train the brain. Most of this research uses fMRI brain scans — not EEG — to peek inside the skull.

      Dessa Separates Head From Heart, With A Little Help From Science MUSIC INTERVIEWS Dessa Separates Head From Heart, With A Little Help From Science In one study, participants learned to turn up a brain region linked to motivation and focus. In another, patients with depression were able to alleviate some of their symptoms. But scientists doing this research say there's a lot of work to be done before it can be applied clinically.

      Could neurofeedback provide a balm for broken hearts? No research has been done in this area. But that didn't stop Dessa from trying a sort of experiment on herself: nine EEG-neurofeedback sessions aimed at helping her brain escape the rut of romantic obsession.

      She says she felt different when she was done.

      "Before, I felt that I was really under the thumb of a fixation and a compulsion," she says. "And now it feels like those feelings have been scaled down."

      Now, maybe the neurofeedback had worked as practitioners suggest it does. Or maybe, alternatively, Dessa got the therapy she wanted in other ways — by talking through her experiment, by writing about it, by composing songs for her new album.

      Or maybe, her neurofeedback sessions helped her via the placebo effect. They suggested that her emotions are grounded in a physical organ — one that she might be able to influence. Maybe simply believing that she wasn't helpless helped her change her mind and heal her heartbreak.

      Whatever the reason, Dessa is happy to begin to move on and to start a new chapter with her music.

      "I've written a bunch of sad rap bangers — I'd like to write other kinds of songs," she says.

    1. The entire setting is wholly or, in some places, partially trans-parent

      Possibly eluding to Willy's flashbacks and the synthetic nature of his current domestic lifestyle against the thoughts in his head. The transparency between the house not only allows the audience to view the home but it also adds to the disillusionment that Willy is experiencing later on.

    2. You and Hap and I, and I’ll show you all thetowns. America is full of beautiful towns and fine, upstand-ing people. And they know me, boys, they know me upand down New England. The finest people. And when Ibring you fellas up, there’ll be open sesame for all of us,’cause one thing, boys: I have friends. I can park my car inany street in New England, and the cops protect it like theirown. This summer, heh?

      It is clear that Willy has experienced a lot in life. It makes sense that he now finds himself in his head a lot, reminiscing of past times.

    3. [young biffandyoung happyappear from the direc-tionwillywas addressing.happycarries rags and a pail ofwater.biff,wearing a sweater with a block ‘‘S,’’ carries afootball.]

      I'm not sure if this is an indication of the transition into a memory or something that Willy is creating in his head. Is he still speaking out loud?

    1. solutions to the many resulting problems may well require understanding evolutionary interactions among species and their mutual dependencies

      Understanding evolutionary interactions absolutely is a critical part in beginning to work towards a solution. Having as much information as possible before jumping head first into trying to solve such a big issue is really important and is also the more efficient way of attacking an issue as large scale as climate change.

    1. Does Curry recommend passivity, then? Not at all. In her view, research should be diversified to encompass study of the natural causes of climate change and not focus so obsessively on the human factor.

      Curry has her head buried in the sand. The thing she 'recommends' here is what is already happening.

      It is not the fault of the scientists in the field that it turns out that a major contributing factor is the human factor. Given the human factor is 1) a factor we can actually do something about and 2) a significant input it does actually make sense to focus on that.

    1. First one elder reached out and felt its flapping ear. "An elephant is soft but rough and flexible, like a leather fan." Another grasped its back leg. "An elephant is a rough, hairy pillar." An old woman took hold of a tusk and gasped, "An elephant is a cool, smooth staff." A young girls seized the tail and declared, "An elephant is a fringed rope." A boy took hold of the trunk and announced, "An elephant is a water pipe." Soon others were stroking its sides which were furrowed like a dry plowed field, and others determined that its head was an overturned washing tub attached to the water pipe.

      This passage to me just shows that people can perceive things in many ways. Even though they were all exploring the same thing just in different spots, they all came up with a different conclusion. Although they all were touching different areas, they still only wanted to believe what they thought was right and not what the others had to say.

    2. See for yourself," the traveler replied.The elders of the village were a little afraid of the strange-smelling creature that took up so much space in the middle of the village square. They could hear it breathing and munching on hay, and feel its slow, swaying movements disturbing the air around them. First one elder reached out and felt its flapping ear. "An elephant is soft but rough and flexible, like a leather fan." Another grasped its back leg. "An elephant is a rough, hairy pillar." An old woman took hold of a tusk and gasped, "An elephant is a cool, smooth staff." A young girls seized the tail and declared, "An elephant is a fringed rope." A boy took hold of the trunk and announced, "An elephant is a water pipe." Soon others were stroking its sides which were furrowed like a dry plowed field, and others determined that its head was an overturned washing tub attached to the water pipe.At first each villager argued with the others on the definition of the elephant as the traveler watched in silence. Two elders were about to come to blows about a fan that could not possibly be a pillar. Meanwhile the elephant patiently enjoyed the investigations as the cries of curiosity and angry debate mixed in the afternoon sun

      Firstly, I enjoy the use of irony the author uses in this first line, very creative. But this paragraph reminds us that, as long as there are other people and different sides to an argument, people would much rather waste time arguing than come together to piece things together and reach a conclusion. In the end, yes they did, but that was only after quite a while, representing how our world decides over things.

    3. First one elder reached out and felt its flapping ear. "An elephant is soft but rough and flexible, like a leather fan." Another grasped its back leg. "An elephant is a rough, hairy pillar." An old woman took hold of a tusk and gasped, "An elephant is a cool, smooth staff." A young girls seized the tail and declared, "An elephant is a fringed rope." A boy took hold of the trunk and announced, "An elephant is a water pipe." Soon others were stroking its sides which were furrowed like a dry plowed field, and others determined that its head was an overturned washing tub attached to the water pipe.

      Initially upon reading this, my first thought was that everyone had formed their own opinion to the animal. Everyone was looking at this new object and trying to relate it to their own experience. I think we as humans tend to take things that we don't really understand and relate them to our own experiences in hopes of understanding it. When something we don't get enters our lives, we are going to make sense of it in our own way even if it ends in arguing, which it always usually does. I wonder whether or not the writer is referring to money at the end when mentioning wages? I'm not quite sure.

    1. One of those wanderers was an outsider named Peter Deutsch. Even before discovering the TX-0, Deutsch had developed a fascination for computers. It began one day when he picked up a manual that someone had discarded, a manual for an obscure form of computer language for doing calculations. Something about the orderliness of the computer instructions appealed to him: he would later describe the feeling as the same kind of eerily transcendent recognition that an artist experiences when he discovers the medium that is absolutely right for him. THIS IS WHERE I BELONG. Deutsch tried writing a small program, and, signing up for time under the name of one of the priests, ran it on a computer. Within weeks, he had attained a striking proficiency in programming. He was only twelve years old. He was a shy kid, strong in math and unsure of most everything else. He was uncomfortably overweight, deficient in sports, but an intellectual star performer. His father was a professor at MIT, and Peter used that as his entree to explore the labs. It was inevitable that he would be drawn to the TX-0. He first wandered into the small "Kluge Room" (a "kluge" is a piece of inelegantly constructed equipment that seems to defy logic by working properly), where three off-line Flexowriters were available for punching programs onto paper tape which would later be fed into the TX-0. Someone was busy punching in a tape. Peter watched for a while, then began bombarding the poor soul with questions about that weird-looking little computer in the next room. Then Peter went up to the TX-0 itself, examined it closely, noting how it differed from other computers: it was smaller, had a CRT display, and other neat toys. He decided right then to act as if he had a perfect right to be there. He got hold of a manual and soon was startling people by spouting actual make-sense computer talk, and eventually was allowed to sign up for night and weekend sessions, and to write his own programs. McKenzie worried that someone might accuse him of running some sort of summer camp, with this short-pants little kid, barely tall enough to stick his head over the TX-O's console, staring at the code that an Officially Sanctioned User, perhaps some self-important graduate student, would be hammering into the Flexowriter, and saying in his squeaky, preadolescent voice something like "Your problem is that this credit is wrong over here . . . you need this other instruction over there," and the self-important grad student would go crazy—WHO IS THIS LITTLE WORM?—and start screaming at him to go out and play somewhere. Invariably, though, Peter Deutsch's comments would turn out to be correct. Deutsch would also brazenly announce that he was going to write better programs than the ones currently available, and he would go and do it.

      A 12 year old in MIT going hard on the TX-0.....insane.

    2. There were two factions of TMRC. Some members loved the idea of spending their time building and painting replicas of certain trains with historical and emotional value, or creating realistic scenery for the layout. This was the knife-and-paintbrush contingent, and it subscribed to railroad magazines and booked the club for trips on aging train lines. The other faction centered on the Signals and Power Subcommittee of the club, and it cared far more about what went on under the layout. This was The System, which worked something like a collaboration between Rube Goldberg and Wernher von Braun, and it was constantly being improved, revamped, perfected, and sometimes "gronked"—in club jargon, screwed up. S&P people were obsessed with the way The System worked, its increasing complexities, how any change you made would affect other parts, and how you could put those relationships between the parts to optimal use. Many of the parts for The System had been donated by the Western Electric College Gift Plan, directly from the phone company. The club's faculty advisor was also in charge of the campus phone system, and had seen to it that sophisticated phone equipment was available for the model railroaders. Using that equipment as a starting point, the Railroaders had devised a scheme which enabled several people to control trains at once, even if the trains were at different parts of the same track. Using dials appropriated from telephones, the TMRC "engineers" could specify which block of track they wanted control of, and run a train from there. This was done by using several types of phone company relays, including crossbar executors and step switches which let you actually hear the power being transferred from one block to another by an other-worldly chunka-chunka-chunka sound. It was the S&P group who devised this fiendishly ingenious scheme, and it was the S&P group who harbored the kind of restless curiosity which led them to root around campus buildings in search of ways to get their hands on computers. They were lifelong disciples of a Hands-On Imperative. Head of S&P was an upperclassman named Bob Saunders, with ruddy, bulbous features, an infectious laugh, and a talent for switch gear. As a child in Chicago, he had built a high-frequency transformer for a high school project; it was his six-foot-high version of a Tesla coil, something devised by an engineer in the 1800s which was supposed to send out furious waves of electrical power. Saunders said his coil project managed to blow out television reception for blocks around. Another person who gravitated to S&P was Alan Kotok, a plump, chinless, thick-spectacled New Jerseyite in Samson's class. Kotok's family could recall him, at age three, prying a plug out of a wall with a screwdriver and causing a hissing shower of sparks to erupt. When he was six, he was building and wiring lamps. In high school he had once gone on a tour of the Mobil Research Lab in nearby Haddonfield, and saw his first computer—the exhilaration of that experience helped him decide to enter MIT. In his freshman year, he earned a reputation as one of TMRC's most capable S&P people. The S&P people were the ones who spent Saturdays going to Eli Heffron's junkyard in Somerville scrounging for parts, who would spend hours on their backs resting on little rolling chairs they called "bunkies" to get underneath tight spots in the switching system, who would work through the night making the wholly unauthorized connection between the TMRC phone and the East Campus. Technology was their playground. The core members hung out at the club for hours; constantly improving The System, arguing about what could be done next, developing a jargon of their own that seemed incomprehensible to outsiders who might chance on these teen-aged fanatics, with their checked short-sleeve shirts, pencils in their pockets, chino pants, and, always, a bottle of Coca-Cola by their side. (TMRC purchased its own Coke machine for the then forbidding sum of $165; at a tariff of five cents a bottle, the outlay was replaced in three months; to facilitate sales, Saunders built a change machine for Coke buyers that was still in use a decade later.) When a piece of equipment wasn't working, it was "losing"; when a piece of equipment was ruined, it was "munged" (Mash Until No Good); the two desks in the corner of the room were not called the office, but the "orifice"; one who insisted on studying for courses was a "tool"; garbage was called "cruft"; and a project undertaken or a product built not solely to fulfill some constructive goal, but with some wild pleasure taken in mere involvement, was called a "hack." This latter term may have been suggested by ancient MIT lingo— the word "hack" had long been used to describe the elaborate college pranks that MIT students would regularly devise, such as covering the dome that overlooked the campus with reflecting foil. But as the TMRC people used the word, there was serious respect implied. While someone might call a clever connection between relays a "mere hack," it would be understood that, to qualify as a hack, the feat must be imbued with innovation, style, and technical virtuosity. Even though one might self-deprecatingly say he was "hacking away at The System" (much as an axe-wielder hacks at logs), the artistry with which one hacked was recognized to be considerable. The most productive people working on Signals and Power called themselves "hackers" with great pride. Within the confines of the clubroom in Building 20, and of the "Tool Room" (where some study and many techno bull sessions took place), they had unilaterally endowed themselves with the heroic attributes of Icelandic legend. This is how Peter Samson saw himself and his friends in a Sandburg-esque poem in the club newsletter: Switch Thrower for the World, Fuze Tester, Maker of Routes, Player with the Railroads and the System's Advance Chopper; Grungy, hairy, sprawling, Machine of the Point-Function Line-o-lite: They tell me you are wicked and I believe them; for I have seen your painted light bulbs under the lucite luring the system coolies . . . Under the tower, dust all over the place, hacking with bifur- cated springs . . . Hacking even as an ignorant freshman acts who has never lost occupancy and has dropped out Hacking the M-Boards, for under its locks are the switches, and under its control the advance around the layout, Hacking! Hacking the grungy, hairy, sprawling hacks of youth; uncabled, frying diodes, proud to be Switch-thrower, Fuze- tester, Maker of Routes, Player with Railroads, and Advance Chopper to the System. Whenever they could, Samson and the others would slip off to the EAM room with their plug boards, trying to use the machine to keep track of the switches underneath the layout. Just as important, they were seeing what the electromechanical counter could do, taking it to its limit.

      It is cool to see the principle of finding out how something works and not just accepting that it does can be seen in this direct real world example of Samson needing to understand how the train system worked. Further pushing him into the realm of electronics and computers.

    1. I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..." Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike.

      I would argue that because the author references his high school experience being in the 1950's, too much has changed to make this reading relatable to those in his situation of this generation. Now, if a class is too easy for you, there are loads of different levels of every class. From different levels of honors classes to AP classes, students have the ability to always make their work harder if they choose to do so.

    1. Six months of wearing black passed and not one suitor had ever gained the house porch. Janie talked and laughed in the store at times, but never seemed to want to go further. She was happy except for the store. She knew by her head that she was absolute owner, but it always seemed to her that she was still clerking for Joe and that soon he would come in and find something wrong that she had done. She almost apologized to the tenants the first time she collected the rents. Felt like a usurper.

      I feel this is a very important piece in the story, because his is the moment that Janie has official control of her life, totally aware. For years she was silenced by Joe, even to a psychological point, but despite her mourning of Joe she is free, and won’t be so misguided by her past choices, or put her grandmothers words of a healthy marriage In vain.

    1. The Pentagon has said this Iran is directly linked to the deaths of more than 600 service members during the occupation.

      We do not want to cause any harm, but if our troops are in danger we have no choice but to fight back and win.

    2. "If each one of us puts aside one American dollar, we will have 80 million American dollars, and we will reward anyone who brings us [Trump]'s head with that amount."

      The Iranians feel that this threat will scare the US but in reality, they are causing more reason for us to be on watch.

    3. He was the commander of the IRGC's Quds Force, and oversaw Iran's foreign military strategy and covert operations.

      I heard he was also very well liked by the people of Iran.

    4. The Pentagon has said this Iran is directly linked to the deaths of more than 600 service members during the occupation.

      I am guessing that since the attack this number has risen.

    5. including a rocket attack that killed an American civilian and the storming of the American embassy in Baghdad.

      Storming a US embassy will never amount to anything good for your country.

    6. The administration is yet to provide evidence to support the assertion, despite intensifying pressure from lawmakers and the media.

      I wonder why the administration is hesitant to give reasons for this attack.

    7. "We are 80 million Iranians," he said. "If each one of us puts aside one American dollar, we will have 80 million American dollars, and we will reward anyone who brings us [Trump]'s head with that amount."

      This shows how strongly the Iranians hate Trump. A threat like this will most likely cause more tension.

    8. "If each one of us puts aside one American dollar, we will have 80 million American dollars, and we will reward anyone who brings us [Trump]'s head with that amount."

      80 million Iranians are willing to contribute money for the death of President Trump.

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    1. Copts of Egypt comprised the other numerically large Christiancommunit yin the Ottoman Arab territories with perhaps between ten to®fteen percent of Egypt's total population, estimated variously at the timeof the Ottoman conquest to be between two and three million people.21Their spiritual head, the Patriarch of Alexandria, had long before 1517moved his actual see to Cairo. As was the case with the Jacobites and theArmenians, the Copts had embraced the Monophysite de®nition of Christ'snature and had been persecuted under the Byzantines

      Coptic Orthodox

    1. Any text contained within <figure> is being understood as "commentary on the figure in the source"

      This is not what the quoted passage in the Guidelines says, in my understanding. The "head" element may e.g. capture the real caption accompanying a figure in the source, without being a "commentary" on it.

    1. ity": attempts to protect "the public" from the envi- ronmental problems of the built environm

      I think that the public should be faced with these problems and don't need to be protected from them. If they have to deal with them head on I think that solutions would be more commonly thought of.

    1. Moving Beyond Access: Inclusivity and Disability in the Performing Arts

      a. This forum discussed how important both access and inclusivity should be to organizations. There was an emphasis on how important access is and how it is rarely discussed while engaging in conversations regarding equity diversity and inclusion. Panelist expressed that can not have these things unless people have access to the organization. It too felt that the discussion mostly focused around physical disability and barley touched about people with intellectual and developmental disabilities

      b. It was very unclear if there was a moderator or "leader" during this forum. This made the panel disorganized and not cohesive. Though what was emphasized amongst the panelist is having conversations and actively listening to people suggestions. No one knows what it is like to live with a disability especially being that one can not appropriate disability. Therefore figuring out the best steps to creating an organization more accessible is by speaking to the people who are effected the most. Additionally, there was much tension amongst the different panelist in the room, which made me think that the panelist did little planning prior to the event. Thus reminding me how important it is to practice and be prepared before presenting in front of other, ones lack of readiness is always apparent.

      c. I agree that conversations about people with disability can not be had without someone living with a disability in the room. Though this should be said for all marginalized groups, no one person can make assumptions about another persons life. Although I emphasis the importance of collaboration in work, I do think there need to be some type or leader or head to keep the group organized and on track.

      d. Being that it felt as though there was a lot of tension and disagreement amongst panelist I would say that this forum was not very useful. I think that part of the disorganization was due to the fact that this topic that has only recently been discussed and emphasized in the arts.

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      this is the second biggest mine and its been alive for 80 years

    1. CT is also the initial test of choice in evaluating patients with suspected malignancy of the gallbladder, the extrahepatic biliary system, or nearby organs such as the head of the pancreas.

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    1. Feynman: I actually did the work on the paper. Weiner: That s right. It wasn’t a record of what you had done but it is the work. Feynman: It’s the doing it — it’s the scrap paper. Weiner: Well, the work was done in your head but the record of it is still here. Feynman: No, it’s not a record, not really, it’s working. You have to work on paper and this is the paper. OK?
    1. The saucer dropped beside her, rolled once in a small circle, once just around its edge, and lay still. It lay still and dull and metallic, different and dead.

      This saucer could not contain any living creatures, as it is clearly smaller than a car tire, which can be implied by the fact that it was able to attach to her head quite easily and not cause permanent damage to her skull or brain, which would occur if it was any larger.

    2. She hit my ear, wet, hard, and a huge, pointed pain lanced into my head. She pulled, she lunged away from me, and all the while my hand was caught in her hair. I couldn't have freed her if I had wanted to. She spun to me with the next wave, battered and clawed at me, and we went into deeper water.

      Why is this girl so determined to kill herself that when someone who is clearly trying to help, she attacks them violently and tells them to go away and to let her die alone.

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    1. Color Psychology- Build your Brand Image using Color Theory January 9, 2020 shivkumar Logo & Branding Color, psychology and branding are all very different things, but when we combine all of them, you get a guide that helps businesses in building their brand using color psychology. Why You Should Care About Color Psychology? Human behavior has always been a very interesting area of study for many scientists, questions like-Why everyone has different opinion about certain things? Why do women and men think differently? And thousands of different questions needed to be answered. One of the questions that scientists have been researching about is colors and its effect. Humans are one of the few species that can see colors. The other species like monkeys, ground squirrels, some birds, insects etc. can see few colors but not as good as humans. So, it becomes essential for us to find out why. Color influences our daily behaviors in many ways. We react differently when we look at certain colors. It creates a physiological change in your body’s biochemistry, which leads to certain decision like buying it or not.  Using this knowledge, we can help businesses in building their brand image by addressing the psychological behavior of a customer. Taking this path for influencing the customers, make it an easier and effective approach for business as it saves money, time and other resources. What is Color Theory? Color theory is a guide that designers use to mix, match and combine to create visual effects in their designs. There are 18 decillion numbers of colors that is, 1 followed by 33 zeros, it becomes extremely hard to create a guide and include all those colors in a book. Since designers are more creative people, and providing them with a study material containing details about these colors can be overwhelming for them. So, Color theory was introduced that helps a designer to create his/her own color that they want. If you want to understand the color theory, we need to understand what a color wheel is? Color Wheel for Better Understanding of Color Psychology Color wheel is an arrangement of different colors and illustrates the relationship between primary, secondary and tertiary colors. In order to understand color psychology, we need to understand what colors are, which can only be done using color wheel. Components of Color Wheel The color wheel contains different colors and can be categorized as follows- Primary Colors Primary Color consists of three colors that make all the other colors. The three colors are red, blue and yellow. These colors are also used to make secondary colors. Secondary Colors Secondary colors are purple, green and orange which are placed between two primary colors. The secondary colors are formed by mixing the primary colors, which is as follows- Red+ Blue= PurpleBlue + Yellow= GreenRed+ Yellow= Orange Tertiary Colors Tertiary Colors are a combination of primary and secondary colors. The color formed is similar to the primary color but with a difference in its tone. There are six tertiary colors which are as follows- Red-OrangeYellow-OrangeYellow-GreenBlue-GreenBlue- PurpleRed-Purple Saturated Color or Hue Saturated Colors or Hue are those colors that are pure in nature meaning the colors are untouched. In this color scheme, no other colors are mixed with the original color to form a pure color. Tone Adding grey color to the base color gives a toned color. For example-adding grey to red increases the tone of red and you achieve a different color. Since, grey is made up of black and white, altering the percentage of black and white in the grey gives different grey color which in turn alters the red color. Tone is often used to decrease the intensity of the color. Tints Adding white color into the base color gives a tinted color. For example-adding white color to red forms a different color, which lightens the brightness of the color red. You get a pinkish color which is also one of the favorite colors of women. Tints are often used to decrease the brightness of the color. Shade When black is added to the base color, we get a different shade of the color. For example- adding black color to red color, form a maroonish red which is a darker form of red color. Shades are often used to intensify and decrease the brightness of the color.  Warm and Cool Color Since white light is made up of seven colors therefore, whenever the light hits the surface of the color, it absorbs some colors and reflects others. For example- when light hits a blue color surface, it absorbs all the color but reflects the blue color, giving it its blue color. Colors can be distinguished into two broad categories based on the amount of light it reflects and absorbs. Warm colors and Cool colors, as the name suggests, warm colors are hot in nature and cool colors are cool in nature. You can find the difference between warm and cool color by drawing a line in between the color wheel. Neutral Colors Neutral Color are those colors that are neither warm nor cool hence, they are named cool. These colors are hidden in the color wheel and cannot be found easily. Neutral colors include black, white, gray, brown and beige. They are called neutral colors because of their distinction from the other colors. Neutral colors are used to create shade, tone, tint and other color alteration.   Color Schemes for Branding Your Business Now, we know what colors are and different types of colors that can be used for branding. Creating a brand design is more than just using colors, but, it is using colors for a purpose that tells a story. Using a color combination of two or three colors helps in creating a design that is lively and conveys a story. The color wheel helps us in finding these combinations that go well with each other. There are few general geometric combinations that look very good and can hold true for any color. These geometric shapes when moved from color to color, the other colors also match accordingly. Complementary Colors Complementary colors are those colors that are placed opposite to each other in a color wheel. This combination is best when you want to make things stand out like on a CTA button, CTA Text etc. It visually registers better when we use complementary color because of the contract created by the color. Opposite attracts which makes these color schemes more appealing to the eyes and can be used to instantly attract the attention. As the above image shows, the complementary color (Left Side) helped the CTA button to get highlighted easily, whereas, on the right side, we have to add shadow to make it look distinct and still the design cannot do the job that a complementary design does. You can use the complementary color scheme in the logo design to make your logo different and help it to stand out from the crowd. These colors are versatile and are best for marketing your business. You can use this color scheme to create your website as well as a logo that complements each other.  Split Complementary Colors Split complementary colors are best if you want to use three colors. In this color scheme, the contrast is not complementary but still creates a distinction that gets registered. Using split complementary colors in the designs is quite tricky and might come as funky. So, if you are a business that deals with professionals, businesses must keep away from these colors. As the above image shows a web page design that uses three split complementary colors. The design has a base color as rose pink and purple as supporting complementary color. The CTA buttons are yellow-greenish (Rio Grande) color. They complement each other and at the same time do not create intensity that complementary colors do. Analogous Colors Analogous means similar or comparable. Analogous colors are a group of three colors placed next to each other in the color wheel. These colors have the potential to create a seamless look that relaxes you. This type of color scheme is subtle yet alluring which makes it best choice for interior decoration, posters design, paintings etc. Monochromatic Colors Monochromatic colors are those colors that use tone, tints or shades of a single color. The use of monochromatic colors is to add sophistication and elegance to the design. They are also seamless and can be used for product package design, website design, photography etc. The best way to use the monochromatic colors is with a neutral color to create a distinction that is necessary for certain designs. Using Triad, Tetradic, and Polychromatic Color Schemes for Branding There are lot of colors and different color models to follow. Marketing your brand has multiple channels and each channel has its own design requirement. Since, design and art are subjective, it is not necessary to follow just two are three colors. You can use multiple color schemes to create a design for your brand. These color schemes are named as triad, tetradic, and polychromatic colors which means three colors, four colors and multiple colors respectively. There are two different channels when it comes to marketing and these are Digital marketing and print marketing. Both of these channel uses different model for designs. CMYK Color Model CMYK stands for cyan, magenta, yellow, and key (black). This model is used for the printing process which uses ink plates with the same color. All the branding materials that require you to print like business card design, flyer, ad poster etc. must follow this color model to get the best results. RGB Color Model RGB stands for red, green and blue. This model is used for marketing over digital medium. Since the screens of our devices RGB pixels for displaying the image, it is the best choice to create a design based on RGB model. Choose the Best Colors for Your Business There are overwhelming numbers of colors in the world. There are so many options to choose from. What should I choose? Well! It depends on different factors like demographic, culture, gender etc. but we can narrow down our search for the best color for branding your business image by learning about the psychology of colors and how they emotionally affect our choices. Color Psychology of Red Red is a powerful color and can grab instant attention. It contains high energy and can be associated with attraction, love, anger, strength, power and many other emotions. A business that needs to create stimulates physical senses like hunger, lust and passion. Psychologically, it energizes the physical body and increases blood circulation and heart rate, which makes it the best option for the food industry. Some of the businesses using the color red are McDonalds, KFC, Coca Cola, etc. Color Psychology Negative Effect of Red Red is a very powerful color and requires a balancing color which cancels out the negative effect. Some of the negative traits that are associated with red color are danger, anger, aggressiveness etc. therefore, it becomes extremely important for you to balance this emotion by adding colors like white, blue, yellow etc. Color Psychology of Blue Blue is the most used color for branding as it is the safest due to its quality. It evokes calmness and serenity feelings which make it the best option for business. Many studies suggest that, blue color is also the most preferred color for men. A business that wants to create trust and sincere feelings in their customer heart should use this color. Some of the businesses using the color red are Facebook, Samsung, HP, Intel etc. Color Psychology Negative Effect of Blue Blue can create a feeling of aloofness and sadness and can lead to loss of appetite which makes it the worst option for the food industry. To balance these emotions, you need to pair it with a complementary color or neutral color like white.  Color Psychology of Green Green color is nature’s color and therefore, associates it with growth and vitality. We can find green color in nature and when we see green color, we often get an image of leaf, plat or tree in our head. It is a very relaxing color and evokes a feeling of safety and compassion. It is also associated with money because of the use of green color in Dollar. You can find many businesses related to finance industry to have green or blue color logo design because of its association with growth, nature, security etc. Some of the businesses using the color green are Subway, Starbucks, TD Ameritrade etc. Color Psychology Negative Effect of Green The color green can induce a feeling of jealousy, which works sub consciously. Jealousy is a negative emotion but, if used correctly, can increase your business growth. Cultural significance is really important when dealing with the color green as different culture has different meaning associated with this color. Color Psychology of Yellow The color yellow is the brightest color of all the visible color spectrum, filling it with energy and optimism. It can grab instant attention and increase metabolism due to its energetic nature. Traffic signs and warning signs are all written in red and yellow. Some of the businesses using the color yellow are McDonalds, Lays, IKEA, Nikon, IMDB etc.   Color Psychology Negative Effect of Yellow Aggressiveness is also associated with the color yellow, therefore, often balanced with black or white. Some of the compatible colors of yellow are blue, red, orange etc. Color Psychology of Orange Orange is the combination of red and yellow making it energetic like them. It can grab attention and can induce feelings like excitement, enthusiasm, and warmth. Halloween is associated with orange color, therefore, it can have a cartoonish and dark assessment by the viewer. Some of the businesses using the color orange are Amazon, Modzilla, Harley Davidson, JBL etc. Color Psychology Negative Effect of Orange We see orange colors in nature either on a flower, fruits, vegetable or on the dying leaves during autumn season. This makes it a contradicting color which makes it a controversial. It gets balanced when using it with colors like white, black, blue etc. Color Psychology of Purple Purple is a royal color that can be found as the go-to choice of many historical figures. You can find many royal prince and princess dressed with a beautiful silk and muslin clothes colored purple. Wisdom and prosperity is indicated by using purple color. Some of the businesses using purple color are Cadbury, Yahoo, Twitch, FedEx etc. Color Psychology Negative Effect of Purple Purple is also associated with mysteriousness and Premiumness which makes it unopened or approachable to everyone. If your business image demands you to be open then it becomes very difficult for you to use this color. You can use the color with other colors to get past this feeling and create the balance. Color Psychology of Gold Gold, as the name suggests, is a royal and rich color. Gold as a metal is a high priced metal that makes it one of the most valuable things on earth. This quality can also be noted when we use the gold color in our designs. It expresses charm, confidence, luxury, and treasure which makes it valuable. Some of the businesses using the color gold are Royal Stag, Bacardi etc. Color Psychology Negative Effect of Gold Since it is associated with premium class and rich features, this color is not for everyone. If your customer base is a premium class, then you can use this logo, and if you want to be approachable to every section of the society, then you must use some other color. Color Psychology of Silver Silver is a metallic color that is associated with strength and power and therefore, is often used by card manufacturers. It’s glamorous, modern, sleek, high-tech etc. making it an appealing choice for a young audience. Some of the businesses using the silver in their brand image are Audi, Jaguar, Lexus, Toyota, Honda etc. Color Psychology Negative Effect of Silver Silver can be a little cold and impersonal, which makes it un-connecting. This color sets a fence around it making it un-approachable which can be good as well as bad depending on your customer base. For a luxury brand, the customer base is the premium class of society, making it acceptable. Color Psychology of Black Black is the darkest and most powerful color of all. It is the most mysterious and sophistication oriented color making it the best option for premium and popular brands. Some of the businesses using the black color are Nike, Addidas, Gucci, Puma, Apple Inc. etc.   Color Psychology Negative Effect of Black Black can be aloof, secretive, sad, and negative feelings that can intrigue your inner insecurity. It has the potential of depressing you and creating a void within. It is necessary for you to use this color with caution and to balance it with a color like white, yellow etc. The color black can match any color, making it versatile color choice.   Color Psychology of White White is opposite of the color black and is innocent and self-sufficient. It’s a neat, pure, simple color that evokes the same feeling. Some of the businesses using the color white are Vans, WordPress, Wikipedia, etc. Color Psychology Negative Effect of White White is often connected with boring and un-impressive features. The color white when used alone can easily pass you conscious mind, but, when used with other colors can create an influential design that can get instant attention. Color Psychology for Marketing and Branding There are many studies that show that color has a huge influence in creating a brand. Human beings are visual animals making it one of the most used channels to influence. Branding and marketing depend highly on visual imagery to promote their brand image and products. Color appeals to the psychological part of the human brain and creates an influential patch for brands to adapt. The right color for your brand depends on many factors like brand voice, brand image, demographic, culture, industry and much more.

      Color psychology plays an important role in building a brand image. Branding and marketing use colors to influence customers and branding.

    1. What is it like to be you right now? You’re seeing this text on the screen, you smell the coffee next to you, feel the warmth of the cup, and hear your housemates arguing about whether Home Alone was better than Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. There’s a lot going on in your head — your conscious experiences

      First of all, this is a great podcast and a great episode. Lots of great exchanges. This actually 'adds value' (cringey term, sorry) in terms of your understanding of those topics that come up in deeper-than-deep late-night wistful hours conversations. If you are interested in what it means to live you should listen to this episode. Don't waste your life not listening to this episode.

    1. Standing sentinel

      Means "standing guard." This metaphor encourages the reader to imagine the bottle standing like a guard next to the sleeping bum's head, keeping watch over him.

  6. Dec 2019
    1. He turned to the fanatic Felix Dzerzhinsky, the head of the newly formed Cheka, which during the first year of the revolution officially executed 6,300 people, which I suspect is a huge underestimate.

      Suspect?

      What is your source?

      Explain?

    1. This means that the easiest place to add the new node is right at the head, or beginning, of the list. In other words, we will make the new item the first item of the list and the existing items will need to be linked to this new first item so that they follow.

      if we add the new node at the end of the existing list, then you need to go through the whole list and set the next of the last node to refer to this new node --- O(n). However, since the list we build is unordered, so we can set the order of the list according to our own ideas. So the easiest way to add a new node is just insert this node at the start of the list, that is the head of the list --- O(1).

      in this way, the linked list stored all the items in a reversed order compared to the adding order of the items.

    1. [4] As Prusias was hated by his subjects on account of his extreme cruelty they became greatly attached to his son, Nicomedes. Thus the latter fell under the suspicion of Prusias, who sent him to live in Rome. Learning that he was much esteemed there also,note[In 149 BCE.] Prusias directed him to petition the Senate to release him from the payment of the money still due to Attalus. He sent Menas as his fellow ambassador, and told him if he should secure a remission of the payments to spare Nicomedes, but if not, to kill him at Rome. For this purpose he sent a number of small boats with him and 2,000 soldiers. As the fine imposed on Prusias was not remitted (for Andronicus, who had been sent by Attalus to argue on the other side, showed that it was less in amount than the plunder), Menas, seeing that Nicomedes was an estimable and attractive young man, was at a loss to know what to do. He did not dare to kill him, nor to go back himself to Bithynia. The young man noticed his delay and sought a conference with him, which was just what he wanted. They formed a plot against Prusias and secured the cooperation of Andronicus, the legate of Attalus, that he should persuade Attalus to take back Nicomedes to Bithynia. They met by agreement at Bernice, a small town in Epirus, where they entered into a ship by night to confer as to what should be done, and separated before daylight.[5] In the morning Nicomedes came out of the ship clad in the royal purple and wearing a diadem on his head. Andronicus met him, saluted him as king, and formed an escort for him with 500 soldiers that he had with him. Menas, pretending that he had then for the first time learned that Nicomedes was present, rushed to his 2,000 men and exclaimed with assumed trepidation, "Since we have two kings, one at home and the other going there, we must look out for our own interests, and form a careful judgment of the future, because our safety lies in foreseeing correctly which of them will be the stronger. One of them is an old man, the other is young. The Bithynians are averse to Prusias; they are attached to Nicomedes. The leading Romans are fond of the young man, and Andronicus has already furnished him a guard, showing that Nicomedes is in alliance with Attalus, who rules an extensive dominion alongside the Bithynians and is an old enemy of Prusias." In addition to this he expatiated on the cruelty of Prusias and his outrageous conduct toward everybody, and the general hatred in which he was held by the Bithynians on this account. When he saw that the soldiers also abhorred the wickedness of Prusias he led them forthwith to Nicomedes and saluted him as king, just as Andronicus had done before, and formed a guard for him with his 2,000 men.
      1. Prusias' cruelty turned his subjects against him, who loved his son Nicomedes. This garnered the suspicion of Prusias. He sent his son away to Rome, but he was loved there just as well. Prusias tried to use this to his advantage, and sent Menas as an ambassador to secure the remission of his reparations to Attalus. If this failed, Menas had to kill Nicomedes at Rome, and was sent with some soldiers.

      It failed, but Menas didn't want to kill Nicomedes, or return to Prusias in Bithynia. The two collaborated with Andronicus, Attalus's legate, to convince Attalus to return Nicomedes to Bithynia.

      1. The set off in a ship, and Nicomedes was crowned and saluted as king by Andronicus with 500 troops. Menas convinced the 2,000 troops with him to turn against Prusias because of the latter's cruelty, old age, and political disfavor. They salute Nicomedes as king.
    1. Tempest and Midixsummer Night’s Dream

      Two of Shakespeare's more fanciful plays, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream explore the limits of the human form through its characters: the grotesque monster-human hybrid Caliban in The Tempest and the comical Bottom from Midsummer, a human with the head of an ass.

      Shelley is conscious of Frankenstein's play with generic convention, and the role genre has in its agreement with representation of reality. In his review of the first edition in 1818 for Edinburgh Magaizine, Sir Walter Scott seems cognizant of the shift in consciousness. He notes: "The real events of the world have, in our day, too, been of so wondrous and gigantic a kind--the shiftings of the scenes in our stupendous drama have been so rapid and various, that Shakespeare himself, in his wildest flights, has been completely distanced by the eccentricities of actual existence."

    2. She was there, lifeless and inanimate, thrown across the bed, her head hanging down, and her pale and distorted features half covered by her hair.

      Shelley most likely drew this scene from Henry Fuseli's painting The Nightmare. See Anne Mellor, Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters (New York: Routledge, 1988), p. 121.

    1. Her hair was the brightest living gold, and, despite the poverty of her clothing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head. Her brow was clear and ample, her blue eyes cloudless, and her lips and the moulding of her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness, that none could behold her without looking on her as of a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features. 22The peasant woman, perceiving that my mother fixed eyes of wonder and admiration on this lovely girl, eagerly communicated her history. She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman. Her mother was a German, and had died on giving her birth. The infant had been placed with these good people to nurse: they were better off then

      In 1831, the foundling Elizabeth's nobility appears to be recognizable in her physiognomy. Her features are described in terms that might be read as typical markers of whiteness: “thin of frame, fair of skin, and possessed of golden hair and blue eyes.”

      During the early 19th century the field of “race science” was already established and growing. For instance, Linnaeus’ Systema naturae (1758) infamously contains a hierarchy of homo sapiens based on skin color.

      In discussions of these contextual sources in the “race science,” scholars have often focused on the Creature as a symbol of the racialized other. This alteration to Elizabeth’s description in 1831 lends further credence to these readings by positioning Elizabeth, the spiritually and racially pure female, as has his ultimate victim.

      See, for instance: Mellor, Anne K. “Frankenstein, Racial Science, and the Yellow Peril” in Frankenstein Norton Critical Edition, 2nd Edition, ed. J. Paul Hunter (New York & London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2012), 481-489.

    2. pursued its noisy way beneath. The same lulling sounds acted as a lullaby to my too keen sensations: when I placed my head upon my pillow, sleep crept over me; I felt it as it came, and blest the giver of oblivion.

      The 1831 edition adds this passage to emphasize, with the word "lullaby," the childlike fears Victor is now constantly trying to calm.

    3. attempted to accompany them, and proceeded a short distance from the house; but my head whirled round, my steps were like those of a drunken man, I fell at last in a state of utter exhaustion;

      In this 1831 revision, Victor tries to accompany the party but collapses in a "state of utter exhaustion." In all earlier editions, Victor does not attempt to accompany the party at all.

    4. Justine shook her head mournfully. “I do not fear to die,” she said; “that pang is past. God raises my weakness, and gives me courage to endure the worst. I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me. Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of Heaven!”

      In 1831, this brief passage where Justine comforts Elizabeth's misery by stating that she accepts her doom replaces a lengthier exchange, in the 1818 edition, in which a distraught Elizabeth attempts to comfort Justine despite her imminent death.

    5. There was a considerable difference between the ages of my parents, but this circumstance seemed to unite them only closer in bonds of devoted affection. There was a sense of justice in my father’s upright mind, which rendered it necessary that he should approve highly to love strongly. Perhaps during former years he had suffered from the late-discovered unworthiness of one beloved, and so was disposed to set a greater value on tried worth. There was a show of gratitude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doating fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues, and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her. Every thing was made to yield to her wishes and her convenience. He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind, and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind. Her health, and even the tranquillity of her hitherto constant spirit, had been shaken by what she had gone through. During the two years that had elapsed previous to their marriage my father had gradually relinquished all his public functions; and immediately after their union they sought the pleasant climate of Italy, and the change of scene and interest attendant on a tour through that land of wonders, as a restorative for her weakened frame. From Italy they visited Germany and France. I, their eldest child, was born at Naples, and as an infant accompanied them in their rambles. I remained for several years their only child. Much as they were attached to each other, they seemed to draw inexhaustible stores of affection from a very mine of love to bestow them upon me. My mother’s tender caresses, and my father’s smile of benevolent pleasure while regarding me, are my first recollections. I was their plaything and their idol, and something better—21their child, the innocent and helpless creature bestowed on them by Heaven, whom to bring up to good, and whose future lot it was in their hands to direct to happiness or misery, according as they fulfilled their duties towards me. With this deep consciousness of what they owed towards the being to which they had given life, added to the active spirit of tenderness that animated both, it may be imagined that while during every hour of my infant life I received a lesson of patience, of charity, and of self-control, I was so guided by a silken cord, that all seemed but one train of enjoyment to me. For a long time I was their only care. My mother had much desire to have a daughter, but I continued their single offspring. When I was about five years old, while making an excursion beyond the frontiers of Italy, they passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como. Their benevolent disposition often made them enter the cottages of the poor. This, to my mother, was more than a duty; it was a necessity, a passion,—remembering what she had suffered, and how she had been relieved,—for her to act in her turn the guardian angel to the afflicted. During one of their walks a poor cot in the foldings of a vale attracted their notice, as being singularly disconsolate, while the number of half-clothed children gathered about it, spoke of penury in its worst shape. One day, when my father had gone by himself to Milan, my mother, accompanied by me, visited this abode. She found a peasant and his wife, hard working, bent down by care and labour, distributing a scanty meal to five hungry babes. Among these there was one which attracted my mother far above all the rest. She appeared of a different stock. The four others were dark-eyed, hardy little vagrants; this child was thin, and very fair. Her hair was the brightest living gold, and, despite the poverty of her clothing, seemed to set a crown of distinction on her head. Her brow was clear and ample, her blue eyes cloudless, and her lips and the moulding of her face so expressive of sensibility and sweetness, that none could behold her without looking on her as of a distinct species, a being heaven-sent, and bearing a celestial stamp in all her features. 22The peasant woman, perceiving that my mother fixed eyes of wonder and admiration on this lovely girl, eagerly communicated her history. She was not her child, but the daughter of a Milanese nobleman. Her mother was a German, and had died on giving her birth. The infant had been placed with these good people to nurse: they were better off then. They had not been long married, and their eldest child was but just born. The father of their charge was one of those Italians nursed in the memory of the antique glory of Italy,—one among the schiavi ognor frementi, who exerted himself to obtain the liberty of his country. He became the victim of its weakness. Whether he had died, or still lingered in the dungeons of Austria, was not known. His property was confiscated, his child became an orphan and a beggar. She continued with her foster parents, and bloomed in their rude abode, fairer than a garden rose among dark-leaved brambles. When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa, a child fairer than pictured cherub—a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks, and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills. The apparition was soon explained. With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her. They were fond of the sweet orphan. Her presence had seemed a blessing to them; but it would be unfair to her to keep her in poverty and want, when Providence afforded her such powerful protection. They consulted their village priest, and the result was, that Elizabeth Lavenza became the inmate of my parents’ house—my more than sister—the beautiful and adored companion of all my occupations and my pleasures. Every one loved Elizabeth. The passionate and almost reverential attachment with which all regarded her became, while I shared it, my pride and my delight. On the evening previous to her being brought to my home, my mother had said playfully,—“I have a pretty present for my Victor—to-morrow he shall have it.” And when, on the morrow, she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally, and looked upon Elizabeth as mine—mine to protect, love, and 23cherish. All praises bestowed on her, I received as made to a possession of my own. We called each other familiarly by the name of cousin. No word, no expression could body forth the kind of relation in which she stood to me—my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only. CHAPTER II. We were brought up together; there was not quite a year difference in our ages. I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute. Harmony was the soul of our companionship, and the diversity and contrast that subsisted in our characters drew us nearer together. Elizabeth was of a calmer and more concentrated disposition; but, with all my ardour, I was capable of a more intense application, and was more deeply smitten with the thirst for knowledge. She busied herself with following the aerial creations of the poets; and in the majestic and wondrous scenes which surrounded our Swiss home—the sublime shapes of the mountains; the changes of the seasons; tempest and calm; the silence of winter, and the life and turbulence of our Alpine summers,—she found ample scope for admiration and delight. While my companion contemplated with a serious and satisfied spirit the magnificent appearances of things, I delighted in investigating their causes. The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine. Curiosity, earnest research to learn the hidden laws of nature, gladness akin to rapture, as they were unfolded to me, are among the earliest sensations I can remember. On the birth of a second son, my junior by seven years, my parents gave up entirely their wandering life, and fixed themselves in their native country. We possessed a house in Geneva, and a campagne on Belrive, the eastern shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league from the city. We resided principally in the latter, and 24the lives of my parents were passed in considerable seclusion. It was my temper to avoid a crowd, and to attach myself fervently to a few. I was indifferent, therefore, to my schoolfellows in general; but I united myself in the bonds of the closest friendship to one among them. Henry Clerval was the son of a merchant of Geneva. He was a boy of singular talent and fancy. He loved enterprise, hardship, and even danger, for its own sake. He was deeply read in books of chivalry and romance. He composed heroic songs, and began to write many a tale of enchantment and knightly adventure. He tried to make us act plays, and to enter into masquerades, in which the characters were drawn from the heroes of Roncesvalles, of the Round Table of King Arthur, and the chivalrous train who shed their blood to redeem the holy sepulchre from the hands of the infidels. No human being could have passed a happier childhood than myself. My parents were possessed by the very spirit of kindness and indulgence. We felt that they were not the tyrants to rule our lot according to their caprice, but the agents and creators of all the many delights which we enjoyed. When I mingled with other families, I distinctly discerned how peculiarly fortunate my lot was, and gratitude assisted the developement of filial love. My temper was sometimes violent, and my passions vehement; but by some law in my temperature they were turned, not towards childish pursuits, but to an eager desire to learn, and not to learn all things indiscriminately. I confess that neither the structure of languages, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states, possessed attractions for me. It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things, or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my enquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or, in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world. Meanwhile Clerval occupied himself, so to speak, with the moral relations of things. The busy stage of life, the virtues of heroes, and the actions of men, were his theme; and his hope and his dream was to become one among those 25whose names are recorded in story, as the gallant and adventurous benefactors of our species. The saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp in our peaceful home. Her sympathy was ours; her smile, her soft voice, the sweet glance of her celestial eyes, were ever there to bless and animate us. She was the living spirit of love to soften and attract: I might have become sullen in my study, rough through the ardour of my nature, but that she was there to subdue me to a semblance of her own gentleness. And Clerval—could aught ill entrench on the noble spirit of Clerval?—yet he might not have been so perfectly humane, so thoughtful in his generosity—so full of kindness and tenderness amidst his passion for adventurous exploit, had she not unfolded to him the real loveliness of beneficence, and made the doing good the end and aim of his soaring ambition.

      The next 11 paragraphs have been heavily altered from the 1818 edition. See individual comments.

    1. There are two main Seq2Seq models we willcompare to in this work, along with the statisticalmodel from Narayan and Gardent (2014). Zhangand Lapata (2017) proposed DRESS (Deep RE-inforcement Sentence Simplification), a Seq2Seqmodel that uses a reinforcement learning frame-work at training time to reward the model for pro-ducing sentences that score high on fluency, ad-equacy, and simplicity. This work showed state-of-the-art results on human evaluation.How-ever, the sentences generated by this model are ingeneral longer than the reference simplifications.Zhao et al. (2018) proposed DMASS (Deep Mem-ory Augmented Sentence Simplification), a multi-layer, multi-head attention transformer architec-ture which also integrates simplification rules.This work has been shown to get state-of-the-artresults in an automatic evaluation, training on theWikiLarge dataset introduced by Zhang and Lap-ata (2017). Zhao et al. (2018), however, does notperform a human evaluation, and restricting evalu-ation to automatic metrics is generally insufficientfor comparing simplification models. Our model,in comparison, is able to generate shorter and sim-pler sentences according to Flesch-Kincaid gradelevel (Kincaid et al., 1975) and human judgments,and provide a comprehensive analysis using hu-man evaluation and a qualitative error analysis.

      Question 6: How is the literature used in relationship to the problem?

      The literature is used to describe the existing approaches for text simplification and also emphasize that the current approaches do not focus on the diversity of the output.

    1. arina mentioned that she became an RA because she had a hard time freshmen year, for she “didn’t know that [she] was having the same problems as other people” and felt like she had no one to talk to. Because of this, she wants to “have a conversation about universal issues with the girls in [her] hall,” for “she thinks it is helpful to have someone who has gone through the same problems to talk to.”

      Here, I decided to only focus on this one quote from Sarina, rather than include another quote from Oliver and an observation from their meeting. I decided to do this so that I could explain what specific things sparked ideas in my head. This allowed me to explain not only what caused me to develop new ideas, but why they did so, and how they influenced my thinking.

    1. When we learned about the 100th anniversary, we thought it was a good time to talk about the relationship between sport and religion, especially between the Habs and the religious context in Montreal and in Quebec," Bauer said.

      have to do with leaders and the head of it with other people following the sport.

    1. Her young vigour and health, the beautiful heavy hair and sunburnt neck of a country girl, the frank honesty of eye and gesture, all these things, thought he, were possessions of the child of seven years ago; and twice or thrice he shook his head as though to say that, in truth, she had not changed. But the consciousness too was there that he, if not she, had changed, for the sight of her before him took strange hold upon his heart.

      Seems like the one who got away. He is in love with her.

    2. Perhaps it is wicked of me to say so; but all my married life I have felt sorry that your father's taste was for moving, and pushing on and on into the woods, and not for living on a farm in one of the old parishes."

      She was follow his orders since he was the head but moving seem like it was a bad idea because why move when things are good on the farm, now they are having hard times.

    3. This chill and universal white, the humbleness of the wooden church and the wooden houses scattered along the road, the gloomy forest edging so close that it seemed to threaten, these all spoke of a harsh existence in a stern land

      great descriptive detail that really paints a picture in your head at the very start

    1. I'm curious about what this work looks like--as a classroom teacher--I have encountered what I would call the backfiring of teaching about whiteness through the lens of privilege. As I head back to the drawing board, this is an area I need to understand more.

    1. The imagination is something that I have always found intriguing. It’s something that can put such extremely vivid images into your head like they are right there in front of you when they don’t even exist at all

      I added this entire paragraph to the original draft. Also, throughout the first two paragraphs, I added some questions in regards to why this place made me feel the way it does. I added this last paragraph because I wanted the focus of my essay to put forward a voice of confusion and puzzled-ness in regards to the imagination. The thinking behind adding these questions throughout the first two paragraphs was that it would show some of that confusion I was feeling in regards to the imagination, as well as my curiosity to find out more about this topic. The thought process behind adding this completely new final paragraph was that it would show my attempt as to understanding the human imagination, which ultimately, is something that to this day can't be explained or understood by some of the smartest people in the world. In conclusion, I do think that my revisions on this draft change the focus of this short piece to a voice that sounds puzzled and confused, which was exactly what I was feeling at the time of writing my original draft, as well as when I was writing this investigation of the human imagination here in this last paragraph.

    2. Upon

      This piece originated from a short response titled "Tire Treads", which was a piece in which we were asked to write as a preliminary idea for our Meditation on Place essay. In the original version of this draft, I focused primarily on what this specific spot reminded me of, and how it reminded me of these specific things. I chose to work on this piece further because I remembered that I as wrote this response, I was curious as to how a certain place or object can remind you of certain things and make you feel a certain way. When I was writing this piece before my meditation on place, I remember wanting to investigate the imagination and how it works because I have always found it extremely interesting how the brain can put this extremely vivd images into your head like you are seeing them in front of you when in reality they aren't there at all. Therefore, I decided to revise this draft and shift the focus of this draft from a place's meaning to me personally, to the puzzling aspects as well as the complexity of the human imagination.

    1. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent.

      Ideas are getting more and more abstract. These mentions of place are perhaps symbolic of the memories she had of them, or of the relationships she once had there.

      She misses them but it she is still okay and everything is fine.

      Elizabeth BishopOne Art by Elizabeth Bishop

      Elizabeth Bishop’s One Art is a poem whose apparent detached simplicity is undermined by its rigid villanelle structure and mounting emotional tension. Perhaps her most well-known poem, it centres around the theme of loss and the way in which the speaker – and, by extension, the reader – deals with it. Here, Bishop converts losing into an art form and explores how, by potentially mastering this skill, we may distance ourselves from the pain of loss. At eight months old, Elizabeth Bishop lost her father, her mother then succumbed to mental illness and she later lost her lover to suicide. Therefore, we may see this poem as in part autobiographical. In it, the poet presents a list of things we may lose in life, increasing in importance, until the final culmination in the loss of a loved one.

      One Art Analysis

      The title should not be overlooked. With these two small words, Elizabeth Bishop encompasses the poem’s entire purpose: to remove the pain of loss by first levelling out everything that we lose; from door keys to houses to people (One), and second by mastering the fact of losing through practise (Art).

      The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. In the first stanza, Bishop sets out her intentions. She seems to affirm that loss is part of the human condition: we lose both significant and insignificant things constantly and should thus accept this as a natural part of life, and even master this practice so as to remove any sensation of disaster we may take from it. These two points will be repeated throughout the poem so as to emphasise them.

      Lose something every day.

      In the second stanza, she invites the reader in by naming two extremely common things to lose: keys and time. The enjambment between the first and second lines causes us to pause and contemplate how ridiculous is this ‘fluster’ that occurs when we lose our keys. She eases us slowly into her idea: the universality of these two occurrences allows us to relate and thus agree that indeed, this is not too hard to master and is certainly not a disaster.

      Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. The emotional tension begins to subtly build in the third stanza as Bishop incites us to further our practise, broadening the scope of our loss. Here, the things we lose are more related to thought and memory: people, places and plans that, with time, naturally escape our head and no longer form part of our lives. This is harder for the reader to accept and the familiar affirmation that this will not bring disaster becomes less comforting. House keys and an hour here and there seem commonplace and natural and to consciously lose these things to aid our mastering of losing does not seem too difficult. Places, names and plans require a larger effort and a degree of emotional distancing that the second stanza did not call for.

      There is a subtle change from the third to the fourth stanza, a perfect split in keeping with the poem’s rigid structure. Almost imperceptibly, the speaker switches from addressing the reader to drawing on her own experience. It is here that Bishop begins to undermine her meticulous structural details and carefully impassive tone. “I lost my mother’s watch”, she states, an admission that seems to come from nowhere. However, the casual tone is disappearing; the inexplicable mention of this personal aspect of the speaker’s life has upped the emotional stakes. As the stanza continues, it becomes clear that this is a further attempt to demonstrate the universality of loss. The picture becomes bigger and the distance larger. The exclamation: “And look!” betrays yet more emotion, despite it’s apparent offhand tone. Now Bishop tells us to look at our losses on a bigger scale: the houses we lived in – not so disastrous except for the use of the word “loved” here. Indeed, these were just places we lived in, but we nonetheless also loved in them.

      The first person speaker continues in the fifth stanza as the poet attempts to further distance herself from loss. She is stepping further and further back and the picture she is painting reaches a higher geographical level: to cities and continents. Nevertheless, this is undermined by a wistful tone: the cities she lost were “lovely ones” and, although she maintains that their loss was not a disaster, she does admit that she misses them. Faced with this unusual outlook, the reader is forced to ask at this point: if the loss of a continent is no disaster, what would thus constitute one?

      Bishop is also a traveller and called a lot of places home

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    1. Whether it is through real life examples of political leaders, or examples of interactions that I have had happen to myself multiple times, Wallace is able to bring that sense of connection between himself I. Personally, I believe that being able to connect the real life experiences of the reader with the examples that he gives is the most effective way to persuade a reader, and Wallace hits the nail on the head with that in this piece. 

      I think that my revision of my conclusion was a terrible decision. In my original draft, I at least attempted to try and evoke a new thought. However, in my new conclusion, I shied away from trying to bring forward a new thought in regards to my thoughts after reading Wallace's essay and completing this essay. I think that I made this revision because I got intimidated with the fact that it was recommended that I should expand on this "new thought" that I brought up in my first draft. This caused me to go for a more straightforward and basic conclusion as a safety-net for trying to conclude this essay, rather than going beyond my boundaries and striving for a new thought about this topic.

    1. to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame, rejected yet confessing out the soul to conform to the rhythm of thought in his naked and endless head,

      The process of rearranging "syntax and measure" is a typical way of forming poetry. Although, by saying the words are "confessing out of the soul" establishes a connection between the soul and the body - more specifically the mind. The mind is vulnerable and is an "endless" cycle of thoughts. By engaging in this form of expression, it will create "naked" and truthful knowledge. Thus, this knowledge can be used to create a poem.

    2. who dreamt and made incarnate gaps in Time & Space through images juxtaposed, and trapped the archangel of the soulbetween 2 visual images and joined the elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pater Omnipotens Aeterna Deus to recreate the syntax and measure of poor human prose and stand before you speechless and intelligent and shaking with shame, rejected yet confessing out the soul to conform to the rhythm of thought in his naked and endless head,

      Here he delineates the experience of what I am presuming is poetry. To him it holds the ability to trap "the archangel of the soulbetween 2 visual images" and join the "elemental verbs and set the noun and dash of consciousness together jumping with sensation of Pate[...]". Poetry holds power for Ginsberg. It brings to mind the notions of force we have discussed in class, the ability to speak to some liminal part of the human experience. I find that poetry at times often exposes the desire one has to escape, yet Ginsberg uses poetry to expose a reality of the world that many perhaps have tried to avert there eyes from.

    1. His Holiness Pope Pius XI has appointed as his Plenipotentiary His Eminence the Most Reverend Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli, his Secretary of State.

      Pope Pius XI, born Ambrogio Damiano Achille Ratti, was head of the Catholic Church from 6 February 1922 to his death in 1939. He was the first sovereign of Vatican City from its creation as an independent state on 11 February 1929.

    2. Apostolic Nuncio

      "is a permanent diplomatic representative (head of diplomatic mission) of the Holy See to a state or to one of two international intergovernmental organizations, the European Union or ASEAN, having the rank of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary, and the ecclesiastical rank of titular archbishop"

      (Wikipedia)

    1. They were all covered with wounds. One had his head fractured; another his arm broken; another had an [page 25] arrow in his eye; another had his hand cut off by a blow from a hatchet

      It is clear that there was definitely enemies at the fire. This makes it seem very gory and graphic, when, in actuality, this is probably something that occurred and was seen often

    1. “It is incumbent upon us, the leaders of this state, to attack this issue head-on,” Colyer said at a news conference on the sexual harassment order. “We now have the opportunity to look in the mirror and see whether we can do a better job of protecting state employees. This executive order is an important step toward ensuring Kansas employees are treated with the dignity and respect they deserve.”

      Intervene skillfully: I like how Colyer intervenes on this issue. This is a perfect example of intervening skillfully. Colyer sees an issue that many people care about. He gains the trust of many through getting elected and after that he sings an executive order into law pertaining to that issue that the community cared about. This was a skillful and popular intervention.

    1. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood10Commend my woman-love to thy belief,-11Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed,12And rend the garment of my life, in brief,13By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude,14Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief.

      Here, we have a thwarted lover. The "silence of [her] womanhood" is unrealized love. This is very Petrarchan, but it also twists Petrarchan sonnets. These sonnets culminate in marriage, and "marriage, as much as the feminine position, is an institution more usually found outside the sonnet tradition" (Williams 89). Not only is the speaker feminine, but the relationship will go somewhere. Again, she's turning the Petrarchan tradition on its head.

    1. America isn’t progressive enough to elect a black woman as head of state, any more than it was when Shirley Chisholm ran in 1972. It’s questionable whether our country can elect a woman, period.

      Rather than claiming that America isn’t progressive enough to elect a black woman, it could be said, given that such a candidate will inevitably emerge from the far left of the political spectrum, she will never garner widespread support. Whereas, if said woman were a Republican, her appeal and electability would be significantly enhanced.

    1. The entire company, he said, would restructure itself around what he called “two-pizza teams.” Employees would be organized into autonomous groups of fewer than ten people—small enough that, when working late, the team members could be fed with two pizza pies. These teams would be independently set loose on Amazon’s biggest problems. They would likely compete with one another for resources and sometimes duplicate their efforts, replicating the Darwinian realities of surviving in nature. Freed from the constraints of intracompany communication, Bezos hoped, these loosely coupled teams could move faster and get features to customers quicker. There were some head-scratching aspects to Bezos’s two-pizza-team concept. Each group was required to propose its own “fitness function”—a linear equation that it could use to measure its own impact without ambiguity."

      Culture of competition; can lead to stress;

    1. e, too, could boast that his father was an American statesman, His name was George. His mother had been employed as a servant in one of the principal hotels in Washington, where members of Congress usually put up. After George's birth his mother was sold to a slave trader, and he to an agent of Mr. Green, the father of Horatio. George was as white as most white persons. No one would suppose that any African blood coursed through his veins. His hair was straight, soft, fine, and light; his eyes blue, nose prominent, lips thin, his head well formed, forehead high and prominent; and he was often taken for a free white person by those who did know him. This made his condition still more intolerable; for one so white seldom ever receives fair treatment at the hands of his fellow slaves; and the whites usually regard such slaves as persons who, if not often flogged, and otherwise ill treated, to remind them of their condition, would soon "forget" that they were slaves, and "think themselves as good as white folks."

      The white slave, George.

    1. My father didn’t show up to my goodbye celebration, this hurt me, but I would make him proud when he reads what I write.

      In the characters head he believes that this is the only way to stop what he believe the north did to him and his family so, even though his father disapproves of this action, he thinks that his mission will be successful and his father would forgive him.

    2. One time I asked her "Mom, where does dad and John go at night" and she responded with "This group that is only for adults". I asked her what the white matching outfits were for and she said, "What they wear I hope you never have to put on like your brother did". I asked her why she was never a part of the group like my brother and father. All she did was shake her head and change the subject. I started to notice patterns with my mom. Mom and my dad started to argue more and more.

      This is where the main character starts to see that his mother may not fully agree with what the characters father believes in and also bringing their eldest child into that life

    1. And with every heave we disappear and become lost to each other in these sudden clouds of our own making, these fountain-bursts of snow.

      It's interesting that he uses clouds in this part of the poem and how they both seem to have created it by themselves and are lost in it.

      At first I assumed that it must be fog because of the word "lost" and that maybe the speaker is getting distracted, but that would not make any sense at all. Having one's head in the clouds is a phrase that implies that.

      Clouds in western mythology or religion is often associated with the homes of gods or angels. But in Eastern culture, clouds are more associated with transition and transformation. I mean essentially a cloud is a sort of union between water and air. Often water is associated with cleansing, life, and freedom. Air also is connected with the mind, spirit, and the soul especially in the zodiac.

      So with that in mind, I believe this means that the speaker is slowly sinking into meditation or concentration with the Buddha - slowly transitioning.

      Sudden clouds - metaphor

    1. "During the course of the argument, Walton pushed (the woman) against a wall and punched her several times in the face and head.

      This is disgusting that a man would do this to a woman who is pregnant with his own baby.

    1. I wanted all Jews too die, so I drove to the synagogue and I killed as many Jews as I can before I got caught. I remember walking in and seeing them pray, I started with the young men, one shot to their feet and then up to their head, I wanted them to be in pain

      This is from another video I watched I added to it, but once again I would never do something like this to anyone.

    1. I sit and sew—a useless task it seems, My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams—

      she wishes that she could use her energy in a creative manner instead of weaving fabric that will one day deteriorate and leave the hearts of people.

    2. My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams—

      An example of the woman's work is expressed through her body (the movement of her hands) and mind (the thoughts of her future dreams.) Although six lines later, the work this woman truly desires is revealed from within her heart.

    3. My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams— The panoply of war, the martial tred of men, Grim-faced, stern-eyed, gazing beyond the ken Of lesser souls, whose eyes have not seen Death, Nor learned to hold their lives but as a breath—

      Men had to put their dreams on hold to go fight in a war that drained the souls out of them.

    4. I sit and sew—a useless task it seems, My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams—

      Similar to Gwendolyn Bennett, Dunbar-Nelson is writing about themes of "domesticity", but it seems as if she doesn't want to sew or she feels that it is pointless to sew from the day to day things that makes her tired.

    1. She stands up, and walks towards the door. She pauses, as if to say one last thing, but ultimately decides to keep walking, until she is gone. I remain seated, hollow, and defeated. The silence remains unbroken.

      This chapter seems good. Still sad that Felix is poop head

    1. I should be relieved by this, but I’m not. I’m happy, I’m loved, I’m fulfilled for once in my life, and the first thing I hear from my friends is that I should get a room? I know it was a joke, but I feel like I deserve more recognition for making it work with Eve of all people. Maybe they’re just jealous, I wouldn’t put it past them. For the rest of the day, I try to push that frustration out of my head. It works for a while, until I notice Eve in conversation with Elias. Does he not know what boundaries are? He has to know how uncomfortable that must make me. He’s doing it on purpose. I move over to Eve and give her another kiss on the cheek. This stops her conversation with Elias, but she gives me a slightly confused look. I get an increasingly prominent feeling of anxiety as the day goes on. I knew going public was a bad idea. When I’m alone with Eve, there’s no pressure. It’s just us. Now, there are a million factors to consider. Are my friends eying her? Is she off talking to Elias? How much affection is appropriate to show?

      lot of drama for them not even being together for a month lol I don't think it needs to be changed, but I just thing its funny

    1. The​​study​​found​​that​​7.8​​percent​​of​​children​​born​​tomothers​​that​​did​​not​​qualify​​for​​DACA​​had​​high​​rates​​of​​mental​​illness

      Of course these people would have a higher mental health illness, to have that hanging over your head would only provoke feelings of anxiety and depression and i can only imagine what it must be like to go through that.

    1. Dr. Boyd, THE Dr. Boyd, head chemist

      I think the amount of emphasis on this being THE Dr boyd is unwarranted, as Dr Boyd wasn't really mentioned too much elsewhere. Maybe a little bit more detail on who Dr Boyd is, their accomplishments/relevance, and stuff

    1. The crowd kept yellin’ but he didn’t hear, Just kept on dancin’ and twirlin’ that cane And yellin’ out loud every once in a while. I know the crowd thought he was coo-coo.

      Showcases some internal vs. external conflicts. The jazz participant has been taken over by the music and is dancing to the beats; in his head he finds the music to be soothing and relaxing. On the outside perspective, he is also seen as a little weird based in his physical actions.

    1. Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turn’d round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread*.* Coleridge’s “Ancient Mariner.”

      This passage occurs near the end of "Ancient Mariner." It is a point just before the curse breaks (according to Coleridge's gloss notes).

    1. e sits behind me in math class and puts a lot of confusing thoughts in my head. Although he lives in town and not on the reservation, he’s a real Indian. He looks like it, he talks like it, and he acts like it, swaggering arrogance combined with a sweet tongue.

      Interesting that she attributes his "swaggering arrogance and sweet tongue" to his Indian identity. I wouldn't say I'm well versed on Indian stereotypes having grown up in suburban Northern California but these were not ones I have heard. At least they seem to be fairly complimentary. Apparently this gives him the bad boy look, which apparently is working out.

    2. We are your real parents. We raised you; we clothed you; we fed you; we educated you. You have a roof over your head because of us. Never forget that,”

      What he believes is the criteria to be a 'real parent' but sometimes it takes more than that. it takes love and understanding. This could highlight how adopting a native child was more of an act of charity rather than parenthood.

    1. This wasn’t how I wished to view the world but at the time, being young and dumb I took this sense of power and I let it go to my head and I let it change how I saw everything. White was not any longer just the color of my skin but it empowered me in my mind. 

      The KKK act on the beliefs that the white race and Christianity are superior to anything or anyone else. Meanwhile the Klan's acting members are trying to make it seem like they are becoming more accepting of other cultures the roots of the organization are strong with these racist views. The views stem all the way back to 1865 after the abolishment of slavery and another strong surge of the Klan during the civil rights movements.

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    1. Cushioned at the Queen’s feet and upon her knee Finding glory for mine head,—still, nearly shamed Am I, the King, to bend and kiss with sharp Breath the olive-pink of sandaled toes between;

      The King is questioning if he should respect the Queen.

    2. Cushioned at the Queen’s feet and upon her knee Finding glory for mine head,—still, nearly shamed Am I, the King, to bend and kiss with sharp Breath the olive-pink of sandaled toes between;        20 Or lift me high to the magnet of a gaze, dusky, Like the pool when but the moon-ray strikes to its depth; Or closer press to crush a grape ’gainst lips redder Than the grape, a rose in the night of her hair; Then—Sharon’s Rose in my arms.

      I feel as this is describing the life of a king and a queen. The respect the king has to show the queen even though he is in power. The description of their clothes and diet, typically grapes .

    1. hey could count on him retaliating and they would rather see him in the penalty box than on the ice

      To me, it is not worth getting clubbed over the head with a stick just to see him going to the penalty box. Got to learn to pick your fights and he is not one to fight.

    2. Not surprising, then, that a French paper published a cartoon of Campbell’s bloody head on a platter with the caption, “This is how we would like to see him.”

      Wow! Somehow this did not scare Campbell off from coming to the game though...

    1. Slaves to the alchemy which calls itself technological progress, we seek the elixir of life which will defeat death and the philosopher’s stone of limitless wealth. We seek to live unendingly, chained to the wheel of progress uncontrolled, and we seek to turn base metal, and plastic, and silicon, into gold, turning ourselves into creatures of base metal in the process, unregenerate still in head and heart.

      Powerful statement to chasing the pagan?

    1. to me with tales of fortune that I could reap from the sale of my virtue I bowed my head to Vice.

      I’m guessing the only way she could survive was to be an entertainer or pleaser for white men

    1. The lack of primogeniture in China meant that equal division ofproperty among males was the common practice when the head of afamily died. The imperial code of laws required partible inheritance andso prevented the rise of a landed nobility such as occurred in Europe. Ifa member of the family did not become an official for two or three gen-erations, the family would sooner or later disintegrate. Each generationwas potentially insecure and had to prove itself in official life.

      Lack of primogeniture i.e. partible inheritance => no security of social status for the elite => must constantly get back into imperial civil service (if status is to be maintained)

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    1. I get twenty-five dollars a month, with victuals and clothing; have a comfortable home for Mandy,—the folks call her Mrs. Anderson,—and the children—Milly, Jane, and Grundy—go to school and are learning well. The teacher says Grundy has a head for a preacher. They go to Sunday school, and Mandy and me attend church regularly. We are kindly treated. Sometimes we overhear others saying, “Them colored people were slaves” down in Tennessee

      Jourdan demanded a higher wage, access to more food and clothing, a home for his family, and the ability for his family to attend church and school.

    1. Let walker be a TreeWalker equal to Document.createTreeWalker().

      This should specify values for root an whatToShow.

      Two issues, in particular, that need to be addressed:

      1. "Find an exact match with context" asserts that walker.currentNode is a text node, but that will never be the case unless the walker is first initialized to point at one.
      2. Advancing the walker to the next node text node might have surprising results if this can include elements that are not rendered. The most obvious example that will almost always occur is the <head> content.
    1. my head weighed down with dreams— The panoply of war, the martial tred of men, Grim-faced, stern-eyed, gazing beyond the ken Of lesser souls, whose eyes have not seen Death, Nor learned to hold their lives but as a breath

      These events of life and society are the weights that drag the dreams down into a heavier state of mind because of the present scenario in the piece.

    1. At the Boston Garden on March 13, 1955, bespectacled Bruins defender Hal Laycoe had another of his endless run-ins with Richard, leaving the Habs' star cut on the head after a high stick. A brawl ensued, and the Rocket broke his CCM stick over Laycoe's back.

      This makes me think, where there any suspensions for things like this?

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    1. r, human beings "themselves employ the term 'expres- sion', and conduct themselves to fit their own notions of expressivity" (1976, p. 75). Gender depictions are less a consequence of our "essential sexual natures" than interactional portrayals of what we would like to convey about sexual natures, using conventionalized gestures. Our human nature gives us the ability to learn to produce and recognize masculine and feminine gender displays-"a capacity [we] have by virtue of being persons, not males and females

      It has been nailed to the head since youngins to have to fit into a gender. its like "nature". we dont even catch ourselves enforcing these elements sometimes. It comes so naturally at this point

    1. My head fills with thoughts of tomorrow as I pick up a textbook chip and its corresponding notes chip. Placing them in their displays, the name of the textbook pops up “Procedures of the Nation for an Efficiently Functioning City”

      Casually mentioning technology like this clues the audience in that this world is more advanced then ours, perhaps being set in the future, before we learn many concrete details about it. Gives a taste about what this world is like.

    1. n his head was a new solar system, crackling with light as he created the planets, the novas, the sun and the moon and the stars. "Look!" he cried. "Look!" The dutiful aunts, busy with housekeeping and food, didn't see. The more he tried to show, the more they wouldn't see. The boy hesitated, and with his uncertainty his system began to break Thrown off its trajectory, the sun became erratic, and the planets went cold. The stars burned fiercely in the cold dark, but the aunts didn't notice that, either.

      Wow! So powerful. His imaginative world not valued or nurtured by his aunts, so it stagnated and degenerated.

    1. the carcass of a singular-looking land-animal. It was three feet in length, and but six inches in height, with four very short legs, the feet armed with long claws of a brilliant scarlet, and resembling coral in substance. The body was covered with a straight silky hair, perfectly white. The tail was peaked like that of a rat, and about a foot and a half long. The head resembled a cat’s, with the exception of the ears—these were flopped like the ears of a dog. The teeth were of the same brilliant scarlet as the claws.

      What? Like an opossum? Those shouldn't live there as far as I know

    2. I felled Parker with a blow on the head from the pump-handle which I had brought with me. In the meantime, Augustus seized one of the muskets lying on the floor and shot another mutineer Wilson through the breast.

      I get that Peters has killed before, but uh. Aren't y'all like 17, 18? I thought you'd have some hesitation at murdering folks, even murderers themselves, in cold blood?

    3. A scene of the most horrible butchery ensued. The bound seamen were dragged to the gangway. Here the cook stood with an axe, striking each victim on the head as he was forced over the side of the vessel by the other mutineers.

      But... why?

    4. rubbing his nose against my hand, appeared to be waiting for my approval of what he had done. I patted him on the head, when he immediately made off again.

      Dude do you not know how dogs work?

    1. Effectively, each time the red arrow is clicked, the "brain draws the bullet" again meaning that the murder is replayed in the narrator's head with different details surrounding the situation that make the narrator seem innocent and wrongly viewed by society.

      interesting!

    1. Then God himself stepped down – And the sun was on his right hand, And the moon was on his left; The stars were clustered about his head, And the earth was under his feet. And God walked, and where he trod His footsteps hollowed the valleys out And bulged the mountains up.

      This stanza reminds me of how much God revolves all . Also God is power over all

    2. Then God himself stepped down – And the sun was on his right hand, And the moon was on his left; The stars were clustered about his head, And the earth was under his feet. And God walked, and where he trod His footsteps hollowed the valleys out And bulged the mountains up.

      This paragraph gave me the most beautiful imagination of the creation of the earth and how mighty God is in that he is bigger and powerful over all things in space and on this earth .

    1. Does the technology allow students to focus on the task of the assignment or activity with little potential distraction? Does the technology motivate students to start the learning process? Does the technology cause a shift in the behavior of the students, where they move from passive to active social learners? Does the technology tool aid students in developing or demonstrating a more sophisticated understanding of the content, creating opportunities for creation/production over consumption? Does the technology create scaffolds to make it easier to understand concepts or ideas? Does the technology create paths for students to demonstrate their understanding of the learning goals in a way that they could not do with traditional tools? Does the technology create opportunities for students to learn outside of their typical school day? Does the technology create a bridge between school learning and everyday life experiences? Does the technology allow students to build skills that they can use in their everyday lives?

      A few years ago I had a very small English 9 class and our school had just purchased a class set of laptops available for sign out. My department head wanted to see students more mindfully engaged in vocabulary development. Just as he was presenting his vision to me, I discovered Vocaulary.com. My students loved it. A couple of my boys got into the competition aspect of the website and worked on vocabulary outside of class even when it was not assigned for homework. I was very pleased with how engaged they were, but after reading these guiding questions I am wondering if the site was as effective as I thought. I am including my answers in relation to the site below.

      1. The competition aspect and the slowness or other loading glitches were possible distractions.
      2. It did motivate students to work on vocabulary but I am not sure it placed the words in context or helped them be more useful/used in everyday speech.
      3. I think the site did help them become more active.
      4. I think it was a lot about playing the game and not very creative.
      5. It was designed to scaffold but it was too easy for students to bypass the scaffold on the way to completion or competition points.
      6. Other than quizzing with the computer it was a lot of the traditional methods transferred to the screen.
      7. It did draw students into optional participation outside of class. There was no bridge fro the activities to non-class usage. Somewhat if they choose to transfer the words to daily use but otherwise no. I hope these answers show ho theses questions are very helpful when evaluating a certain tech option for class.
    1. They’re all around us, living with us. We are hardly ever aware of their existence, because they can make themselves look like us, and do most of the time; and if they can look like us, there’s really no need for them to think like us, is there?

      Jerome Bixby must enjoy this theme of being s living here on earth for thousands of years disguised amongst us because it is literally the entire plot of his latest work The Man from Earth was a screenplay he started in 1946. He completed the screenplay on his death bed in 1998. An idea he came up with prior to writing The Slizzers which shows how long this concept has been in his head. Giving us more understanding on Jerome Bixby.

    1. “By starting with a newborn animal and never letting it know what it is,” he said, “we can get a complete extension of the animal into the machine, in its orientation. So complete that if you took it out of the machine after it grew up, it would have no more idea of what had happened than–than your brain if it were taken out of your head and put on a table!”

      See above annotation.

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    1. Then, out of nowhere, he started talking about his feelings for her. He talked abouthow hard it had been for him when she went away for break, not knowing if she had anold high-school boyfriend she might reconnect with back home. During those twoweeks, it turned out, an entire secret drama had played out in his head, one in whichshe’d left campus committed to him, to Robert, but at home had been drawn back tothe high-school guy, who, in Robert’s mind, was some kind of brutish, handsome jock,not worthy of her but nonetheless seductive by virtue of his position at the top of thehierarchy back home in Saline.

      In the beginning/middle of the story, she liked his vulnerability, but now she finds it to be a turn-off.

    2. 10/2/2019“Cat Person” | The New Yorkerhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/12/11/cat-person22/23“I felt like we had a real connection did you not feel that way or . . .”“Maybe I was too old for u or maybe you liked someone else”“Is that guy you were with tonight your boyfriend”“???”“Or is he just some guy you are fucking”“Sorry”“When u laguehd when I asked if you were a virgin was it because youd fucked somany guys”“Are you fucking that guy right now”“Are you”“Are you”“Are you”“Answer me

      Interesting change in Roberts character how he goes from being seen as sweet and cares about her to now making fun of her and calling her a whore. He before, as described by her, was sweet and when he kissed her on the head it made her think he was a nice guy. You can tell how he is feeling hurt and betrayed in this dialogue.

    1. Almost immediately he emptied both barrels of the shotgun into his head.

      This totally blew my mind the first time reading the end of this story, I could not believe the rollercoaster that this short story took me on. First, I thought It was a vampire story then it was and father son story with vampire elements in the background, and finally it turns into a suicide over finding out the truth about his family. Keep in mind that this story is from the 1930’s right after the great depression, and most sons of doctors became doctors, Arthur felt, as many young men in the 1930's felt that they were not in control of their own destiny. Rather than go down the same path of his father Arthur decides that he will take his own life, and not perpetuate the cycle any further.

    1. House after house is gray concrete with mold growing on the corners. Old bricks are used to pave the roads because the Goldsfield mayor is too cheap to have nicely paved roads. There are no natural parks where people to have leisure time in. Houses have no lawns unless they are the rich apartments close the Game Center.

      Love this! It creates an image of the city in my head.

    2. “Good morning Mom, everything smells wonderful,” I said lovingly.“Well, thank you Marcus,” she replied. “Everything has to be perfect for you today in order for my little boy to come back a winner.”“You got it, Mom. I’m gonna win.” I walk behind my mom and head towards the musty Oak cabinets where we keep our dishes. I pull out an old, metal cup and fill it with water and sit down at the table waiting for my food to be ready. The cheap feeling chairs and tables made from hard plastic are features of Goldsfield I will not miss once I am living in Moroni.“Your food is ready, son,” my Mom said. “I hope you enjoy it.”

      This seems like an interaction that would be had on a normal day between mother and son, which confuses me because this is supposed to be the last day they spend together.

    1. Enough, the brute must die!    Quick! Chain him to that oak! It will resist    The fire much longer than this slender pine.    Now bring the fuel! Pile it round him! Wait!    Pile not so fast or high! or we shall lose    The agony and terror in his face. And now the torch! Good fuel that! the flames    Already leap head-high. Ha! hear that shriek!    And there’s another! wilder than the first.    Fetch water! Water! Pour a little on The fire, lest it should burn too fast. Hold so!    Now let it slowly blaze again. See there! He squirms! He groans! His eyes bulge wildly out,    Searching around in vain appeal for help!    Another shriek, the last! Watch how the flesh    Grows crisp and hangs till, turned to ash, it sifts Down through the coils of chain that hold erect    The ghastly frame against the bark-scorched tree.

      This makes me think of the justices system and the way the black people are treated.

    1. But I end up coming back to this simple stuff because I can’t shake the feeling that digital literacy needs to start with the mirror and head-checks before it gets to automotive repair or controlled skids. Because it is these simple behaviors, applied as habits and enforced as norms, that have the power to change the web as we know it, to break our cycle of reaction and recognition, and ultimately to get even our deeper investigations off to a better start.

      I find it interesting that despite having coined the phrase “abstinence-only web education” in 2009 to describe scholars’ response to solely rely on library materials rather than the Internet to avoid misinformation --- and despite having worked with Ward Cunningham, the American programmer who developed the first wiki in 1994 – Caulfield instead chose to develop a grassroots response that challenged the abstinence-only web education mainstream belief by creating the Digital Polarization Initiative to improve web literacy skills for college age undergraduates, i.e. the next generation of scholars and members of mainstream culture who could then be well versed fact checking online information before disseminating it across the web.

    1. Man

      Manu (Sanskrit: मनु) is a term found with various meanings in Hinduism. In early texts, it refers to the archetypal man, or to the first man (progenitor of humanity).The Sanskrit term for 'human', मानव (IAST: mānava) means 'of Manu' or 'children of Manu'. In later texts, Manu is the title or name of fourteen mystical Kshatriya rulers of earth, or alternatively as the head of mythical dynasties that begin with each cyclic kalpa (aeon) when the universe is born anew. The title of the text Manusmriti uses this term as a prefix, but refers to the first Manu – Svayambhuva, the spiritual son of Brahma.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_(Hinduism)

    1. Christine Galler told the assem-bled delegates, "I am a woman and you might think it funny that the Colvilles elect a woman ... but the capacity of an Indian woman's head has the same amount as a man or a white man."

      decentering European men in the construction of manhood

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    1. to which we are not awakened by our Genius

      I can't forget Emerson's line about shunning his family when his genius calls him. It's such a pretentious way of saying that an idea popped in your head and you want to write it down before you forget it. I could suddenly think that I should pick up some more oil at the grocery store, I wouldn't call that my "Genius," certainly not with a capital G. These American literature authors crack me up and I mean that endearingly of course

    1. “Devoting 80 percent of field agents to stopping international terrorism including Islamic extremism and only 20 percent to stopping domestic terrorism including far right and white supremacist extremism.”

      I found this statistic surprising. The article by the Daily Beast, cited in the preceding paragraph, goes into more detail about this aspect of the FBI and the changes made in the Department of Homeland Security. I would be interested in researching how the changes that have been implemented have played out in terms of preventing domestic terrorism. The head of the Intelligence and Analysis Office of the DHS claims that the Office has increased its engagement in preventing domestic terrorism and become more effective than before, but other DHS sources cited in the article disagree.

    1. For brave Macbeth--well he deserves that name-

      Here we can see the first time Macbeth enters into the scene, he is already demonstrating the power of his positive attributes and strength, wielding a sword ready to give everything to smite Macdonwald with all his will and might. The term smoked with bloody execution is used to describe the way in which he entered the battle with an expression of bloody murder. He even stated that he was not willing to leave until the rebel had been decapitated and had his head impaled on a stake outside their camp.

    1. Conan, a U.S. military canine that participated in the operation and is expected to head to the White House next week.

      Conan is a military dog who helped take down the head of ISIS.

    2. Sharing an image of the military dog’s head photoshopped onto the face of a real Medal of Honor recipient struck some as bizarre and inappropriate, despite Conan’s rapidly growing fan base.

      I don't know why people would be upset

    1. I sit and sew—a useless task it seems, My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams— The panoply of war, the martial tred of men, Grim-faced, stern-eyed, gazing beyond the ken Of lesser souls, whose eyes have not seen Death, Nor learned to hold their lives but as a breath— But—I must sit and sew.

      In the first stanza it seens like she is uncomfortable in just sitting and sewing. it seems like she wants to speak out but something isn't letting her

    1. When Slavery crushed thee with its heel,

      Possibly a reference to scripture, where the serpent bruises the hell, but the heel crushes the head of the serpent--ultimately a metaphor for God defeating evil.

    1. Mom, where does my father and older brother go at night" and she responded with "This group that is only for adults". I asked her what the white matching outfits were for and she said "What they wear I hope you never have to put on like your brother did". I asked her why she was never a part of the group like my brother and father. All she did was shake her head and change the subject.  I started to notice patterns with my mother, her and my father started to argue more and more.

      This is where the main character starts to see that his mother may not fully agree with what the characters father believes in and also bringing their eldest child into that life

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    1. But wherefore it was that after having repeatedly smelt the sea as a merchant sailor, I should now take it into my head to go on a whaling voyage

      This is the main motivation of the character and the story, as Ishmael sets out on a journey

    1. It seems to work, fortunately, and as we expand upon our conversation about religion I continue to follow her line of logic, careful to hold back any opinions that she might find offensive. My new strategy allows us to branch our conversation out considerably, with very little conflict, and I’m relieved. As the night goes on, there’s some invisible force pulling us closer and closer together until finally, my leg brushes against hers. I feel my face begin to blush, and an intense heat and pulse courses through me. I muster the courage to look up at her face and see that she’s blushing as well. She laughs softly, again breaking the silence, her signature move. We lock eyes for an impossibly long couple of seconds, and as I’m about to form the words “What about Elias”, she leans forward and kisses me. The kiss is short and soft, but somehow leaves my head spinning when she pulls away. She smiles at me, and for the first time, I’m finally able to admit to myself that I want to be with her. When the right one comes along, everything really does happen naturally. She lays her head on my chest, and I stroke her hair until we both fall asleep.

      Haha! My guy Felix. I love this stuff, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside. This is the thing I was talking about when I was talking about writing Felix's description of Eve when they first met, but maybe it was too soon for it.

    1. While scanning a paper on the properties of intensively heated, liquid Uranium, a notification pops up on my phone. For a split second, I assume it’s a text from Eve. I pick up my phone to respond, but I’m surprised to see that it’s an email. I immediately gasp. A few weeks ago, I emailed QuantuMetrics Lab, a prestigious scientific facility partnered with the Chemistry department at Halcyon, briefly summarizing my research, and requesting a meeting with their head chemist. They finally reached out to me and not only granted my meeting request, but supervised use of their chemistry lab, at my earliest convenience. A rush of validation fills my head. My research proposal has enough potential to catch the attention and endorsement of a major scientific institution. I email them back, and after a few exchanges, they are able to offer me access to their facility today. In the hours before my meeting, I continue toiling away at my research, hoping to outline some kind of basic rough draft for the compound synthesis procedure. I finally come up with something I’m relatively confident with, although there are a few technical processes that I haven’t fully elaborated on. I check the time, and realize I have to leave immediately. My brain buzzes with activity throughout the entire drive there.

      This entire section feels like it is rushed. Did all of it happen at once, from getting a reply back about research, and then immediately going to this new facility? Especially if it is a very prestigious one. I feel like it should have been built up a little bit, maybe in a previous chapter, and then maybe Felix could have shared the reply of the Lab with Eve, and then built that into something? I just feel like in this section there could have been a little bit more added to have helped keep all elements of the story so far more exciting, if that makes sense.

    1. But in Clerval I saw the image of my former self; he was inquisitive, and anv3_023xious to gain experience and instruction. The difference of manners which he observed was to him an inexhaustible source of instruction and amusement. He was for ever busy; and the only check to his enjoyments was my sorrowful and dejected mien. I tried to conceal this as much as possible, that I might not debar him from the pleasures natural to one who was entering on a new scene of life, undisturbed by any care or bitter recollection. I often refused to accompany him, alleging another engagement, that I might remain alone. I now also began to collect the materials necessary for my new creation, and this was to me like the torture of single drops of water continually falling on the head. Every thought that was devoted to it was an extreme anguish, and every word that I spoke in allusion to it v3_024caused my lips to quiver, and my heart to palpitate.

      There has been such a change in Victor since the beginning of the novel. Victor sees Henry as his "former self," and he compares this former self to his current state--agitation.

    1. Here’s how two struggling consultants FINALLY “released the breaks”, and grew their business from 2 clients per month to 13 clients per month ...In less than 30 days

      This sub-head is not compliant. It suggests that if the person follows these instructions then they too will get 13 clients per month

    1. After forcing out the sentence I head back to back to my boat. My heart begins racing as I have memories of my time in my pod flash in front of my eyes.

      I love this caveat. Sometimes stories get a little too unrealistic with character development. Seeing her struggle is okay! It takes time to grow from a trauma like, I don't know, your city, which you practically have been worshiping since birth, attempt to drown you. But I digress. I am not sure if your story is completed, but if it is not, then I would like to see her continue to grow.

    1.  “You must understand the, frankly, confusing nature of trying to grant funding to a non-student, non-faculty, non-credentialed member of the community,” said Dr. Bjorn Urlinski, the head of the Wayne State Physics department.     “Respectfully, Dr. Urlinski, the discovery of physical truth doesn’t require a Ph.D. What Janette, here, has done can be viewed as important of an achievement as Jason Witten’s unification of M-theory. This could change everything; it demands to be investigated,” interjected Stephen. Stephen was lucky enough to have some credibility with the department head.     “I have to agree,” commented Professor Angie Gardener, a Wayne State specialist on String Theory Supersymmetry. “There’s a lot of potential in what Janette here is saying. I’ve only had a week to look through the paper, since it was brought to me by Stephen and his friend. But with some further development we can involve the experimental department, and see if there's anything that can be drawn from the findings.”

      Although this could be argued as irrelevant, it really adds to the world-building, illustrating how S313 has changed the way Detroit citizens handle their surroundings.

    1. he popped Mr. PERSONNE up into the air many yards, and he alighted head-foremost into the fire, where he had intended to have dedicated the sable brat, with his nine lives, to Moloch!!!

      slave threw mr personne into the fire