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  1. Mar 2024
    1. Instead, we can help them gain the tools they need to maintain their confidence in learning by keeping them focused on the process of achievement.

      I wholeheartedly agree with this statement. I hate when professors or teachers just assume we know things or remember things. I'm not asking you FOR the answer, I just want to know what I need to do or find or reference in order for ME to get the answer on my own. I need practice doing research and guidance on how to do it- I don't want to take the easy way out, but come on!

    2. the more they exercise it, the stronger it becomes.

      This is also the reason why doctors recommend doing brain exercises like crosswords or puzzles to help elderly people keep their brain healthy and active.

    3. We don't want to make something done quickly and easily the basis for our admiration.

      This makes it sound like we don't praise those types of situations? I mean, an A is an A. If it was easy, they could have rushed through and gotten a lower grade because they just weren't paying attention.

    4. skills, knowledge, and areas they could change through effort and learning.

      Do you think the accessibility of homework helper sites or PhotoMath help or hinder the student's ability to learn the steps or methods necessary to find information- are they learning anything?

    5. She finds it new, hard, and confusing, unlike anything else she has ever learned. But she's determined to understand it.

      Again, is this a nature vs nurture situation? How has that child had learning presented to them? Is it presented as an unwanted chore or as an exciting challenge? How much of that perception is based on the parents own educational experiences?

    6. rather than correct them, they try to hide them

      This has to be nurtured by a parent or adult figure in their life. It sounds like they are afraid of the repercussions of failure and that's why they try to hide it. Someone is making them feel less and perpetuating that feeling.

    7. Einstein or a Mozart,

      then we need to stop perpetuating the myth of the child genius, who like Beethoven, laid his ear on a piano and could play something he never heard just by the vibrations on his head.

  2. Feb 2024
    1. While it is commendable to see the show’s producers trying to address the issue of male rape and prison rape,

      This should be more talked about an d represented because it is a very true thing that happens in life.

    2. how the once vibrant Charlotte became a shell of herself, how she became sexually frigid, how her body bore witness to the physical damage of rape.

      This is the truth about how it can affect a person physically and mentally.

    3. where they could have a conversation about rape as something that did not only happen with strangers

      This is how it should be, not something a person should be ashamed to talk about or bring up.

    4. We have also, perhaps, become immune to the horror of rape because we see it so often and discuss it so often, many times without acknowledging or considering the gravity of rape and its effects.

      We should never become used to talking about rape, it should always be a horror.

    5. We live in a strange and terrible time for women

      We are literally going backwards in time. Women are losing their rights to their body that we have worked so hard for over the years.

    6. There is the exposure to unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, vaginal and anal tearing, fistula and vaginal scar tissue.

      Even if you do get pregnant and want to have an abortion you are looked down upon for the decision.

    7. Strangely, there were no questions about the whereabouts of the father while this rape was taking place

      It's always on the other women figure in the child or womans life that take the blame not the actual rapest.

    8. The actual rape ends but the aftermath can be very far reaching and even more devastating than the rape itself.

      A person can carry the damage of rape around them for years and even 20 years later a person can still deal with the side effects.

    9. woman can “ask for it”

      No women in the world every is "asking for it", they are just simply dressing in what they feel comfortable in. The main problem with this stuff is the mindset of the men.

    10. The way we currently represent rape, in books, in newspapers, on television, on the silver screen, often allows us to ignore the material realities of rape, the impact of rape, the meaning of rape.

      Well said.

    11. The unspeakable will be televised.

      Even now, though instagram, snapchat, and even twitter you can see people get killed, get into car wrecks, and sadly get raped.

    12. In the Times article, the phrase “sexual assault” is used, as is the phrase “the girl had been forced to have sex with several men.”

      The word rape needs to be said.