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  1. May 2022
    1. mic Book

      curious how this fits in with the discussion of gender of characters; is there a unifying question or questions for the project? Would have been interesting to compare movie reviews/box office by the gender of the main character

    1. gle Accounts, https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQOsUQh93-pW-e60bgpWa2YV7PVeRx9B-OgZ5HWHCgkIe99_SknhaKkDsay5PUhURBDzIhnmM-aB-cL/pubhtml. Accessed 5 M

      links should be live

    1. While vaccination itself was not scientifically nearly as dangerous as the Pox itself, it would be unfair to not consider the few historical risks that inoculation did indeed posses.

      too many words :-) Just say "While the vaccine was effective, it was not without some small risks."

    2. gain, the data demonstrates that compulsory vaccination was not only more popular of a stance than being unvaccinated, but it also saved lives.This did not stop vocal opposition, which frequently came in the form of erroneous claims and sometimes blatant misinformation simply not based in reality.For example, the article to the left is actually a bit conspiratorial in nature

      center alignment (throughout the site) makes paragraphs difficult to read; consider switching all to left alignment

    1. It has been well established that the anti-vaccinate demographic of individuals in Pennsylvania got most of the spotlight

      wordy; just say "While anti-vaccination groups drew lots of attention from news media,"

    1. He has never worked on a project this demanding or difficult as this one, and he hopes that visitors of the site understand and respect that

      ehh, don't be so modest! :-)

  2. Apr 2022
    1. and lacksanalytical rigor.

      and what, exactly, dear author, do you know about its "analytical rigor"? How many scholars have you read? You know what lacks analytical rigor? THIS ENTIRE DOCUMENT.

    2. The Committee members are:

      Two things that seem noteworthy about this commttee; 1) it includes no membership from among the faculty 2) no member of the Committee is under the age of 55; while this is not a problem per se it does perhaps raise questions about a kind of generational conformity on issues of race

    3. it is antagonistic to basic Americanprinciples that GCC values, such as First Amendment liberties, equality,federalism, separation of powers, the rule of law, race neutrality, private12 Genesis 1:26, 27; 3:20, 5:3.13 I Corinthians 12:12,13; Galatians 3:27-29; Colossians 3:11; Revelation7:9,10.14 See https://www.gcc.edu/Home/Our-Story/Our-Distinctives/Student-Community.

      you provide absolutely no evidence to support the claim that CRT opposes these things. CRT is opposed to equality? to separation of powers??? This is nonsense

    4. “It allows every piece of evidence that might refuteone’s theory to be transformed into further evidence of how deep andcomprehensive the problem of oppression is.”16

      this is a)written by Carl Trueman, a fine scholar though one who is out of his depth when engaging CRT, and b) not accurate

    5. CRT is inseparable from its political activism

      says the report that then goes on to explicitly advocate that its curriculum reflect conservative political activisim

    6. CRT is incompatible with GCC’s vision, mission, and values for manyreasons. Here are a few:CRT evaluates people on the basis of race, alleged racial traits (e.g., so-called “whiteness”), and the sufficiency of their “antiracist” works. The Biblerejects such biological distinctions and focuses on the heart. And it describesjustice primarily in terms of our relationships with one another.CRT condemns people according to their alleged complicity (consciousor otherwise) with racism or racist policies and institutions. But its sweepingdefinitions of racism indict many people solely on the bases of skin color,economic status, and religious or political differences. GCC rejects CRT’sdetermination to view human behavior through the lens of race.CRT uncharitably detects aggression where none is intended, breedsresentment, and stokes recrimination. It impedes genuine repentance andforgiveness. So it corrodes the loving, unified, “close-knit family environment”that GCC seeks to encourage on its residential campus.

      note that nowhere in this passage are any examples, quotations, or citations of work by critical race theorists. If this report were a freshman essay, I would fail it for lacking any evidence to support its assertions.

    1. itch.

      what does this map show? i think you have some issues with the geocoding, since you've got several points in Sweden. Also, a dot map is not great for this, you would want to use a shape/choropleth map https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choropleth_map That can be done in Google Sheets: https://populationeducation.org/a-step-by-step-guide-to-making-a-choropleth-map-in-google-spreadsheets/ or Datawrapper https://www.datawrapper.de/maps/choropleth-map or lots of other programs

    2. ts except the one in New Jersey. The one in New Jersey stands out because it was not part of the Salem Witch Trials, and is the only one executed for murder. Everyone in 1692 was hanged except one individual, Gile

      okay - but this isn't telling us anything we didn't already know - that 20ish people were executed for witchcraft in 1692

    3. women were primarily hanged for this reason, and were accused of being a witch.

      women were hanged for lots of other crimes in this period, too - I count murder, adultery, arson, concealing birth, and others in the 1600s

    4. This graph shows the correlation between the method of execution and the race

      it doesn't seem especially useful to have categories like Asian-Pacific Islander and Hispanic in here - "Other" and "Unknown" are similarly kind of irrelevant

    1. is that a table of data can help figure out the time period of history and what historical event can be inferred from the conversion of the data table into a chart.

      I don't understand what this means. Can you be more specific about "figure out the time period...and what historical event can be inferred"?

    1. U.S. Executions 1608-2002 Final Digital History Project for Logan Wentley

      We can think of a snazzier title, right? What do you want to say about the history of executions in the US?

    2. Forms and Reasons of Executiongraphs and data for executions and research

      are these going to be buttons/links to separate pages? I think that would work best for navigation, rather than trying to cram them into columns

  3. Oct 2021
  4. Apr 2021
    1. take away or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of anoth

      exercise of liberty cannot infringe on the liberty, etc. of others

    2. obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.

      reason is a natural law limiting the destructive capacity of people to do whatever they want

    3. there must be some coercive Power, to compel men equally to the performance of their Covenants

      the state needs to enforce the rules. Also note it has to be coercive - holds monopoly of force

    1. oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor clothes to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather, and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their bree

      reforms that Swift had proposed

    2. I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasee, or a ragoust.

      note that it's not Swift himself who makes the "proposal"

    3. I profess in the sincerity of my heart, that I have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country, by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich. I have no children, by which I can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing.

      people proposing things for others that will not affect them

    4. Therefore let no man talk to me of other expedients: Of taxing our absentees at five shillings a pound: Of using neither clothes, nor houshold furniture, except what is of our own growth and manufacture: Of utterly rejecting the materials and instruments that promote foreign luxury: Of curing the expensiveness of pride, vanity, idleness, and gaming in our women: Of introducing a vein of parsimony, prudence and temperance: Of learning to love our country, wherein we differ even from Laplanders, and the inhabitants of Topinamboo: Of quitting our animosities and factions, nor acting any longer like the Jews, who were murdering one another at the very moment their city was taken: Of being a little cautious not to sell our country and consciences for nothing: Of teaching landlords to have at least one degree of mercy towards their tenants. Lastly, of putting a spirit of honesty, industry, and skill into our shopkeepers, who, if a resolution could now be taken to buy only our native goods, would immediately unite to cheat and exact upon us in the price, the measure, and the goodness, nor could ever yet be brought to make one fair proposal of just dealing, though often and earnestly invited to it.

      a clever device whereby Swift points out all the things that actually could be done instead of eating children

    5. Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and I have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. But I am not in the least pain upon that matter, because it is very well known, that they are every day dying, and rotting, by cold and famine, and filth, and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected. And as to the young labourers, they are now in almost as hopeful a condition. They cannot get work, and consequently pine away from want of nourishment, to a degree, that if at any time they are accidentally hired to common labour, they have not strength to perform it, and thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come.

      old and sick poor people are dying off soon anyway

    6. Then as to the females, it would, I think, with humble submission, be a loss to the publick, because they soon would become breeders themselves: and besides, it is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to censure such a practice, (although indeed very unjustly) as a little bordering upon cruelty, which, I confess, hath always been with me the strongest objection against any project, how well soever intended.

      Hilarious; "no one is more against cruelty than me, the guy who wants to market poor kids as food"

    7. For we can neither employ them in handicraft or agriculture; they neither build houses, (I mean in the country) nor cultivate land: they can very seldom pick up a livelihood by stealing till they arrive at six years old;

      "these poor people aren't economically productive"

  5. Feb 2021
    1. O, ye nominal Christians! Might not an African askyou, learned you this from your God, who says unto you, do unto all men as you would men should do untoyou? Is it not enough that we are torn from our country and friends, to toil for your luxury and lust of gain?Must every tender feeling be likewise sacrificed to your avarice?Page 41

      calling out contradiction and hypocrisy

    2. for I was quite oppressed and weighed down by grief after my mother and friends;and my love of liberty, ever great, was strengthened by the mortifying circumstance of not daring to eatwith the free-born children, although I was mostly their companion.

      this rhetorically is a way to "ease in" to critiquing slavery without attacking English society (yet)

    3. Surely the minds of the Spaniards did notchange with their complexions! Are there not causes enough to which the apparent inferiority of an Africanmay be ascribed without limiting the goodness of God and supposing he forbore to stamp understandingPage 30

      argument against racial essentialism here; their "situation" and not their skins

    4. And here I cannot forbear suggesting what has long struck me very forcibly, namely, the stronganalogy which even by this sketch, imperfect as it is, appears to prevail in the manners and customs of mycountrymen and those of the Jews, before they reached the Land of Promise, and particularly the patriarchswhile they were yet in that pastoral state which is described in Genesis—an analogy, which alone wouldinduce me to think that the one people had sprung from the other. Indeed this is the opinion of Dr. Gill, n011 ,who, in his commentary on Genesis, very ably deduces the pedigree of the Africans from Afer and Afra, n012, the descendants of Abraham by Keturah his wife and concubine (for both these titles are- 39 -applied to her). It is also conformable to the sentiments of Dr. John Clarke, formerly Dean of Sarum, in hisTruth of the Christian Religion: both these authors concur in ascribing to us this original.

      comparison to Jews made more explicit here

    5. We practised circumcision like the Jews, and made offerings and feasts on that occasion in the same manneras they did. Like them also, our- 31 -children were named from some event, some circumstance, or fancied foreboding at the time of their birth

      Why does he compare his people to Jews?

    6. Those prisoners which were not sold or redeemed we kept asslaves: but how different was their condition from that of the slaves in the West Indies! With us they do nomore work than other members of the community, even their master; their food, clothing and lodging werenearly the same as theirs, (except that they were not permitted- 27 -to eat with those who were free-born); and there was scarce any other difference between them, than asuperior degree of importance which the head of a family possesses in our state, and that authority which,as such, he exercises over every part of his household. some of these slaves have even slaves under them astheir own property, and for their own use

      repeated distinctions between african slavery and chattel slavery in New World

    7. Perhaps theywere incited to this by those traders who brought the European goods I mentioned amongst us. Such a modeof obtaining slaves in Africa is common; and I believe more- 24 -are procured this way, and by kidnaping, than any othe

      disruptions to African society as a result of the slave trade

    8. Sometimes indeed we sold slaves to them, but they were only prisoners of war, orsuch among us as had been convicted of kidnapping, or adultery, and some other crimes, which we esteemedheinous.

      note his distinctions about how people became slaves

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  6. Jan 2021
  7. trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov
    1. Controversies about the meaning of the founding can begin to be resolved by looking at the facts of our nation’s founding.

      The implication here, of course, is that any controversies introduced re: the nation's founding (cough)*1619 Project (cough!) are necessarily lacking in the "facts"

    2. All states, all governments, make some claim to legitimacy—that is, an argument for why their existence and specific form are justified. Some dismiss all such claims to legitimacy as false, advanced to fool the ruled into believing that their rulers’ actions are justified when in fact those actions only serve the private interests of a few.But no actual government understands itself this way, much less makes such a cynical claim in public. All actual governments, rather, understand themselves as just and assert a public claim as to why. At the time of the American founding, the most widespread claim was a form of the divine right of kings, that is to say, the assertion that God appoints some men, or some families, to rule and consigns the rest to be ruled.

      for a document that purports to give a definitive history of the founding and its legacy in about 20 pages, there's an awful lot of space spent on sophomore-level didactic lectures on political theory

    3. President Calvin Coolidge

      It's a bad sign when you have to dig into the backwaters of the Calvin Coolidge archive to find a quote supporting your thesis. That's what they call a deep cut.

  8. Dec 2020
    1. position that “presents more largely the kind of work I like to do” at the Carnegie Institution of Washington’s Department of Historical Research. 1 Jameson continued to serve as a leader in the discipline’s scholarly production (particularly as editor of the American Historical Review ), but the shift to the Carnegie Institution representedTownsend, Robert B.. History's Babel : Scholarship, Professionalization, and the Historical Enterprise in the United States, 1880 - 1940, University of Chicago Press, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/sru-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1076189.Created from sru-ebooks on 2020-12-16 07:28:23.

      annotation

    1. I resisting any officer or other person who hhall apprehend or endeavor to apprehend such slave, such officer or other person so killing huch sla\e shall be indemnified from any prosecB- tion for such killing. La\tt of Maryland, 1751 ; Q. 14, Sect, 9. Nothing in the Act of 1751. ch U, contained, shall be

      this is important

  9. Nov 2020
  10. Sep 2020
    1. But we are also in a moment of urgency about our history, given the racial and class disparities exposed by the pandemic and given police actions that have inflamed racial tensions and raised questions about the fairness of American society

      I like this phrasing "a moment of urgency about our history"

    2. Which aspect of this past is more important depends on many things—not least, what is important to our nation today. Which aspect is highlighted may depend on which history, and whose stories, we are telling.

      Trouillot - the past is a creation of the present.

  11. Aug 2020