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The characters of visualization

Language as code - what the code corresponds to is where the meaning is, not the symbol or the sound.

Makes me think about poetry, though - in poetry, the sounds and "look" of the poem definitely carry some weight.

Weird thought - is a poem, in a way, an image?

see this is where i'm a little worried about the journey map idea. I definitely think it is a project that can have a prototype, and is something that can be experienced by users. I feel like the outward journey map doesn't totally solve a problem that we've identified with users, though - we are just kind of documenting experiences right now

maybe out student journey maps can serve both as an initial project while also giving us something tangible to work for to find an idea for a bigger project

I think we need to refine our challenge a bit - making a journey map for students is a little broad. what are we trying to solve by doing this?

this seems important, like i just got some secret confucius knowledge on how people work

I'm a little confused by this - are these the steps taken when designing a user experience, or the experience a user goes through when encountering a product?

Appealing to perception can be tricky - this is where it's important to remember that we are designing for humans, which are fallible

There are definitely a couple of these outside of Rounds going toward citizen's

This sounds fun. I wonder if choice architecture is used in any of the PSU admissions processes?

I'm still a little lost on this one after reading the paragraph

PACE had some examples of these

Sounds doable for us

The ultimate journey map

We gotta get our hands on one of these

I'm guessing we will have to do a bit of this to accurately get that sense of empathy needed for design

A great "design" would be if this website didn't have a header and footer that cut off half of the webpage /s

This makes me think of the critical path in the journey map

So I guess we are dealing with a complex system in our course - good to know.

very funny

I wonder if we will have any tests for the projects we design in class

I like this part. I think that getting to hung up on perfection can limit us when we are looking for solutions. Sometimes its best to just go with what works well now, and then improve it later.

see these are the concrete examples I needed five paragraphs ago

These types of sentences in the article are losing me a bit. I mean, of course a certain mindset and set of skills is needed to solve something. By interactions and systems, I'm guessing that they are talking about things like the design of the experience for first year students entering PSU. I can see how that is a design, especially when you map it out like the journey map.

At this point in the article, I'm still pretty confused about what more complex design (system-based designed?) looks like.

This is another thing I am curious about. Will we all be working on a single, massive piece, or will we all be making small cohesive parts that collect into a whole?

I'm curious about how the "Signature Projects" in general will really hit this bullet point. it kind of makes me question what the purpose of this course is. Is it to create the best possible Signature Project? Or is the purpose to allow students to create something transdisciplinary? I can see how these two could conflict.

I'm curious to see whether we will be working more with web-based interactions, or face-to-face interactions when it comes to our final presentation.

Is this a new event? I've heard of the showcase of excellence, but not of student engagement.

I think it would be a great idea to get some ideas going on what potential programs we could use for our revised journey map. I think Excel gets the job done, but isn't visually appealing. I see Canvanizer on the list above the schedule - does anyone have experience using this?

Lots of colorlessness in this so far

replaced but worse

More important than the flagon of youth???

Another example illustrating how women are ridiculed in this short story

So much for a right to bear arms

So the schoolmaster ended up being a rebel

Oh damn he said that to the wrong crowd

the same way the men used to talk about news when they would find a newspaper

But it's not King George - it's George Washington. So the country has changed - but vaguely

Interesting metaphor - the great tree is gone and is replaces by a "tall, naked pole" waving the American flag - perhaps implying that the new country is grand, but also vulnerable?

Like British rule?

He's now the outcast

Time has passed

The flagon is not the problem! YOU ARE THE PROBLEM!

As if the whole creepy cult thing never happened.

Oh snap, risky.

Reminds Rip of the past - and of Europe

Like the town itself

He moves pretty quick when he wants to

Darkness means a return to the indoors - the realm of the wife

Totally sublime, dude.

Hmmm I wonder why he can only ever bag a squirrel /s

Tranquility = no women

the King of Britain at the time - their king.

It seems like Rip is not the only man not contributing to his household. Because it's men, however, their talks are seen as ones having value. If this situation were of women talking together, it would have no value.

The years being described as years of matrimony rather than just time shows that the wife is being shown as the true villain here.

Is it a terror merely because women speak? because it seems like she just want Rip to get off his ass.

I think a feminist reading of this text could be that Rip's refusal to contribute to his family is seen as endearing and carefree, while his wife demanding help is seen as nagging and hounding.

At the expense of his family

SO how much of a great guy is Rip really.

He'll do chores for other women - but not for his wife.

AKA shotgun

He seems like a bit of a kid himself.

I wonder if Rip garners all of this attention because of his personality, or because his wife is actually awful.

the female head of a household

Even Eliza, who is supposed to be so headstrong, eventually gives in to her cousin, marries him, and gives him all of her (and the island's) wealth

And we do

But is this a critique on women, or one on the influence and power associated with Europe?

And being cool with it even though your fellow Englishmen were beheaded.

And perhaps controversial

Hmm "people like her" is interesting. Do we categorize all white colonists the same? Does it matter that she was a women? Does her gender make her less responsible for the atrocities committed?

pathos

So God likes her more because she suffered more?

I think I'd be good without the scourging thanks

Pitiful and tender-hearted because of their actions, or because they are Christians?

So the N.A.'s hostility has been orchestrated by the Lord in order to punish the English for not serving him the way he wants to be served?

Damn Daniel

Oof

Rowlandson (the author) seems to be showboating her devoutness - she should read Matthew 6:5-15

Maybe thought that Rowlandson was using pity to get a lighter load

Papoose - a Native American child

Womanhood is something to sell

Mimicry!?!

Tobacco - distraction of the devil

MAD MEN

Who this is: King Philip

Do not take fate into your own hands - trust in the Lord's plan

Translation of these verses: "When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations, and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes[a] and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you. Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back. He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors. The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you."

Details the blessings of obedience and curses of disobedience given by the Lord

Given a bible by the N.A.'s as a gift, allowed to read it

Does he have the freedom to move from place to place?

God, or someone who now owns her?

women/female children are a sellable resource

suicide = wicked, against God's will

age of child

a dome-shaped hut or tent made by fastening mats, skins, or bark over a framework of poles

Accepts her punishment - praises the subsequent healing - devout

Her current situation is the product of not obeying God's will - she deserves her punishment

narrator's child is female

female

they do not recognize the Sabbath

starvation - a change of preference

Everything good or bad that happens to her is attributed to God - but what of the actions of the N.A.'s? Where are they in God's plan?

Who is this?

compassion for each other - not just leaving the weak to die

is the power of God her misfortune as well as her salvation?

Wrath of God - punishment?

Is she with them now? A captive?

who?

female narrator

expressing sorrow; mournful

kind of like "curiosity killed the cat"

Food = prosperity

This seems like a generalization; how can we say what is and is not contemptible to "Indians" when the very word itself groups so many different people together?

The mother reveals the identity of her son's father of her own free will, doing so to put fear into the people

So do we not study it at all for fear of miscategorizing it?

So perhaps this suggests that "Native American literature" should not be categorized with "American literature" at all, and is its own beast entirely, needing a name that does not historically place it with European colonization.

This is a problem I've seen recently in satire as well. If a stereotype is repeatedly echoed, it reinforced the stereotype rather than illuminating reality

Of course, because even if we know it is not necessarily true, we will still associate the novel with the culture

Well that can't ever be problematic

I like the point that his novel is an individual view rather than the viewpoint of an entire group of people, but isn't our perception of a group made up of all the individual tellings we see and hear?

This is interesting, though, especially considering the earlier paragraphs that were considered with the "Native American "image". What changes when the audience is the other rather than the familiar?

Those in power write the history

But although the stereotype is inaccurate and reductivist, do we deny that it is, in fact, a stereotype, and that its representation persist more than the complex truth?

Like caricatures, they are represented in the extreme

Genres that are still influential and loved today

So is this considered Native American literature? European literature?

I think this story would be effective regardless of the teller or audience, and I also think that the story alone can tell listeners something about the culture by itself

Is there ever really a core meaning, though?

In a weird way, I would say yes, as its canon can show works that repeatedly prove and disprove the assumed similarities of "American Indian Literature".

I suppose the grounds could be to disprove their initial lumping together

While it does not tell us what is, it gives insight to what it is not

But to the Europeans, they were seen as the same.

as if they never existed prior to European settlement

I find it interesting that something as broad as a national "world-view" could be described as "inherently identifiable". I would think that the world view of any nation, from the perspective of its people, would change drastically depending on who was being asked.

I wonder how true this is, though, especially taking into consideration the examples listed in the paragraph below this annotation. Was Europe as ideologically homogeneous as this test says, or do we only have the ability to look back at those who had a voice, negating the viewpoints of those who did not?

Perhaps implying that literature themed by nation needs to be written in its native language? Most widely used language?