Overall, I was very impressed an interested throughout your analysis. It really makes me want to visit Cabbage town just to see it first hand. There were a few grammatical errors, but nothing that cant be a quick fixed. Great use of sources and citing them. Great job! Very impressive.

Nice way of re-instating your thesis statement.

How exactly did they do this ? For instance, did they ever protest on reconstructions near by or that were to happen in that area?

Great! I was going to as you to be more specific but you let me know it was what you were speaking about next.

Great observation and proof of it.

Great attention grabber!

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Nice way of referencing your source and smoothly fitting it into the paragraph.

Nice interpretation of the space and situation.. Small little grammatical errors here and there, of which I have highlighted for you.

Nice interrogation of an example to help your argument. Great use of a visual image as well.

Great way of introducing specific example and topics that you are planning touching upon.

I love the little history in your introduction. Your claim here seemed to be very straight forward and to the point. You defined exactly what you were talking about, defined it and connected it to your built environment experience.

You did a great job at using subtitles throughout your analysis, which helped identify and see exactly what you were talking about in each section.

It is all about consideration and predictability. No one person is the same but things can be made in which everyone can have easy and equal accessibility to facilitate their needs.

"A marginalized community is a group that's confined to the lower or peripheral edge of the society. Such a group is denied involvement in mainstream economic, political, cultural and social activities." (https://www.reference.com/world-view/marginalized-community-517401cfa76aa4eb)

Things can not change , if the initiative is not taken to make a difference or a change for the better. Getting more knowledge and more in depth allows for a more understandable and easier way to navigate around dilemmas and hard to address topics.

Simplifying complex areas could go a long way for not just disabled but anyone as they age. Changes to certain things that were probably meant to help the disable can turn out to help anyone through their daily activities or making their life easier.

There is no need to change those with disability , there is need to support and help them stride forth by bettering their environment.

"There are two traditions: empiricism, which holds that our knowledge is primarily based in experience, and rationalism, which holds that our knowledge is primarily based in reason."(http://www.theoryofknowledge.info/)Not only do you have to experience the sense of inequality or neglect, but you have to understand and reason with the public as to why things should change and how they should for the community as a whole. Not just one particular problem, we have to analyze multiple aspects to make bigger and better changes.

Its not only important to build things to help with accessibility, but it is also very important to not exclude people with disability. Although people with disability have become more visible the idea that we are segregating them to "special buses" or "special schools/work places" takes away the dignity and self-respect because they are made seem as different when in reality , they can probably do everything anyone without a disability can, just in a different way or form.

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It is necessary , to not just think of ourselves and how to make navigation easier for us but to also include those that have impairments which forces them to need further assistant than just normal visual signs or a figure signalling you to walk . We have to think not just of one person but of all. In order to have equal status for everyone we just make accessibility for everyone a norm.

I do agree and say that if you want something to be pushed forth and opened up for people to see you must make it visible."The ADA owes its birthright not to any one person, or any few, but to the many thousands of people who make up the disability rights movement"(https://dredf.org/news/publications/the-history-of-the-ada/)

It is sad that we go through our daily lives ignoring things such as this until something, such as an article, news, or someone else opens our eyes to the situation. We may see someone struggling to get up the stairs because they are on crutches and we may proceed to help them but we never take for account that for that person, it is a daily struggle to be out , because of the lack of accessibility.

For my supplemental reading , I decided to read “Lazy rivers and Student debts” by Kellie Woodhouse. I chose this amongst all for the simple fact that 1) I have never heard of a “Lazy River” and 2) as a college student , I can relate to the student debt accumulating and becoming a problem in our lives.(https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/06/15/are-lazy-rivers-and-climbing-walls-driving-cost-college) Throughout the article Kellie Woodhouse like Kathleen G Scholl and Gowri Betrabet Gulwadi discussed the archistructures and space used for student benefits at universities. On one side of the spectrum, “Recognizing Campus Landscape as Learning space” discusses several main points which consist of the idea that students have better focus and attention when they study and learn in nature and open environment, that colleges are spending millions on upgrading student centers, but not enough on updating the nature parts of the campus and, the fact that college campuses should have more of a green space to help its students achieve the most can. The article focuses on how to make learning more efficient and how it is has evolved over time.

The second article that was discussed focused on colleges deterring away from educational matters of importance onto matters of recreational spending. The main similarities between these two articles is that they’re both persuasive articles. Kellie Woodhouse said “One is encouraging us to focus on the environment where the students are placed in while the other questions the wisdom of colleges choosing to upgrade their auxiliary facilities before they upgrade their academic ones.” In the same article Wellman said "One can ask whether they're appropriate expenditures given that many colleges are letting their infrastructures deteriorate, even while they're investing in these things that are supposed to attract students.”The similarities also include a focus on how college campuses are affecting students. For example both articles are giving evidence on how today’s practices are influencing successful learning. Successful learning is associated to the financial sustainability and how schools were making it less affordable because of their reckless spending on amenities. The second article focuses on the consequential question colleges face when competing. How to make the campuses better. Being better has different values attached to it. How many students can they attract. Vistas and amenities are factors students do look at aside from an educational standpoint. But there lies the dilemma. Are you willing to pay more for a higher education or for a higher standard of recreational living. The article tackles and criticizes the campuses that believe in amenities over higher standards of education. While the first article discussed topics revolving around the techniques to learning more efficiently.

Summary:

Universities nationwide carry a responsibility to bring a hospitable environment and nourishing enrichment with regards to learning processes students go through. There were various concepts and questions that were addressed in this excerpt “Recognizing Campus Landscapes as Learning Space” by Kathleen G Scholl, Gowri Betrabet Gulwadi. From the role of the environment in fostering learning to the historical background behind campuses, learning was the biggest focus. Physical, social, and mental psyches were all a primary focus when discussing attention and its role within student learning. An example of what was discussed would be direct and indirect attention. Direct attention was described as an individual's ability to retain and comprehend information. While indirect is more natural process require stimuli and less work than direct. Learning and how modernization has also impacted it was a topic also discussed in minute length.

Learning has evolved hand and hand with technology but also hardships against our attention span. The environment is a very important space because it helps alleviate fatigue and other stresses that can affect one's learning. Student nature interactions were studied on how they affect students positively in a learning and environment and were shown to yield positive results. The main focal point of the excerpt was to back up their claim that open learning spaces and more nature oriented surroundings were an important mix in successful learning rather than being in a traditional closed and fixed setting . Kathleen G Scholl and Gowri Betrabet Gulwadi believed that a mixture was more commendable in terms of yielding a better and more positive results .

This made me think about how our education system is trying to stay aligned with the technological innovations that have sprung out of the twenty-first century.

I believe the decor and the environment a university showcases is ideal in making a stable learning environment for those that attend such university. Libraries , study rooms, and tutorial rooms are some of the examples that show a campus paying attention to its learning resources.

It is essential for individuals to partake in outside activities versus staying put inside a closed area. Being outside and meeting new people along with embracing new experiences helps open up a person to a more colorful world.

There seems to be a distinct connection between cognitive retention and being in a natural environmental setting. Just like in recent studies it was found that people studied better without music but if music was involved listing to classical music without lyrical content helped those to study and retain more information.

It is no secret that the processes of learning in today's culture can be seen through a physiological and psychological paradigm. Our learning styles have a direct connections to the type of psycho and behavioral techniques employed in today's classrooms.

Direct attention is the primary way of our students ability to retain and comprehend. Focus is one of the concepts that our learners aren't grasping at full capacity.

This could be a reoccurring problem for big cities such as New York or Atlanta. The lack of natural stimuli such as plants could possible reduce the amount of sleep a student may get which would possible affect their attention span during class.

Im personally glad this has been proven only because it is something that i have gotten into doing. Such as going to parks during the week when it is less populated and do some work. It seems to help my thinking process more than staying cooped up inside my dorm.

"Holistic is characterized by comprehension of the parts of something as intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole." A perfect word to describe the diversity communities in which majority of universities and institutions are located. Along with the individual needs for each student that needs to be met.

Would colleges with a more isolated campus suffer compared to colleges like Georgia State which is interactive with the community and forces students to get to know the community as well?

Summary: In Parting Ways from In Small Things Forgotten James F. Deetz does a wonderful job of writing a captivating and very detailed beginning to the little history that took place in a place very close to the historical Plymouth. He mainly focus on the underrepresented life of 4 common African American men, Cato Howe,Prince Goodwin,Plato Turner, and Quamany. It touches on several theories such as, of material culture and middle class groups in colonial America which corresponds to racial stands as well. He also demonstrated the impact that regional differences had on the development of material culture in early America. He expressed the structures of the shot houses that resemble the house makers cultural roots. He claims that it is a way for blacks to claim "heritage through their building traditions in the face of the dominant culture". Although as time passes and there is a little bit of a newer sense, the primary culture still withstands within the building forms.

"American life" is not the way Cato Howe & the 3 other men had lived. If anything, the lived a underprivileged life compared to other Americans because of their race.

"terminus post quem"-" For example, if an archeological site contains coins dated 1588, 1595, and others dated 1590 - 1625, the terminus post quem would be the coin dated 1625, i.e., the latest date obtained from the evidence" https://anthropology.si.edu/writteninbone/comic/activity/pdf/TPQ.pdf

This is a great thing , especially to learn more of how Howe, Quamany, and Plato had lived throughout their life. Its an excellent historical site to preserve . It would be hard to explain the life of those that lived their because of the lack of information on their lives but would be beneficial to express the lack of care and support for African Americans, compared to everyone else.

pro·bate ˈprōˌbāt/ noun 1. the official proving of a will. "the will was in probate" verb NORTH AMERICAN 1. establish the validity of (a will).

I believe this fact is something that happened very often for African american, slaves and even those that earned their freedom.

I remember driving from my middle school which is in Boston , 30-45 minutes from Plymouth, and going to see people reenact how people use to live. However , they had never mentioned or brought up the fact that slaves had lived in that area as well or Cato Howe's life or history. Even of his patriotism in the military.

After reading this , the author creates the idea that because of this fact things are going to be dealt with and create difficulties through Cato Howe's life and anyone associated with him.

The insufficient amount of information on Cato Howe and other blacks of Plymouth shows the lack of care and acknowledgement they received. Even after gaining their freedom.

It is amazing just how much there is still to learn. The simple idea that I, myself, have lived in Massachusetts for 15 years of my 19 years of life and have never once heard of Cato Howe's history or any of the slaves is absurd. I can just imagine how much there is to uncover.