The thing that I found most significant in Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky’s lecture was the effect that the 1992 Congress had on changing the government’s sexist bias. That year, for the first time, there were close to 50 women in Congress, and their perspective brought to light a number of inequities that were eventually addresses. Before that time, the National Insti
Although the two last pieces Rebecca read touched me personally because I have recently lost my father, the piece I'd like to talk about in terms of this class is "The Gift of Sweat." The reason I asked Rebecca at the end of the session whether she had planned to create a reference to the Christian sacrament of the Eucharist, or Holy Communion, is that I saw that ref
Professor Katherine Hayles’s lecture was interesting and entertaining on a number of levels for me. For example, my work on my website has taught me many ways in which the printed page and the hypertextuality of the web interact and influence each other. Also, being familiar with the 18th-century novel Tristram Shan dy, which has the “marbled” and black pages
This lecture, like the one by Dr. Abrams, was optional for this semester's course, but I am interested in seeing what you have to say about either one, if you attended. Please add your response by using the link below to "add a comment." Ms. Hall took a personal approach to a community topic, explaining how her parents had been involved in what were then cal
I will reveal my bias by saying that I expected this presentation to be informational rather than inspirational or promotional. I should have read the poster a little closer, near the bottom, where the invitation was to "come hear Beatrice and Stephen speak out against modern day slavery." But of course these two people would be speaking out against slavery.
I am curious to see how many of you can make connections between the "predictable factors" that Professor McCallum mentioned and the factors that affect the children you tutor at Urban Kidz or that affect the women and men you serve at the shelters. Let me remind you of these factors: self esteem, hopelessness, expectations about adulthood, closeness to the mother, d
Of all of the interesting and informative things that Professor Mason said today during his Provost Forum lecture, I thought that the following was the most useful connection to our literature class. First, Professor Mason said that his music is entertaining but that simple entertainment is not its purpose. I think the same thing can be said of the literature that w
I was surprised and delighted that the story, “The More I Like Flies,” read by the visiting writer Reginald McKnight, fit in so many different ways with the stories we have read and Fuller’s Soldier’s Play , which we are reading now. One thing that I find significant is the narrator’s sympathy with the new recruits at the Air Force Academy because of the way th
Welcome to our class blog in which you will respond to the intellectual and cultural events required for our class. Immediately after each event I will post a comment of my own, and each of you will follow suit. The best method will be to follow the "what, how, why" approach. That is, what was most significant to you about the event, how did the speaker make it signif
Anyone needing to make up a journal entry for the term may use this space to do so. Please write about what you found most significant about the event you attended and why you found it significant. Be sure to focus your comments on something that relates to the central themes of this course: issues of gender, race, or class. <!--
I was delighted to see three of you at the poetry reading yesterday. It is obvious that our study of poetry in class has influenced your choices of intellectual and cultural events to attend. You are making good connections between your classroom learning and your extra-curricular education. My strongest response to Kate Daniels' poems was to her first two,
I was glad to see so many of you at my Provost Forum presentation Thursday morning, and especially that most of you sat right up front. I am going to give you a choice on how to respond to my presentation. One, you may write about what you found to be the most interesting intertextual relationship at Stowe and why you found it interesting. Two, you may write
Given the information that Ms. Graham presented yesterday during the Provost Forum--for example, the fact that until recently Alabama Death Row inmates were living in cells with a heat index of 120 degrees during the summer months, or the fact that most Alabama inmates are living three to a cell that measures 8-by 10 feet, or the fact that many inmates are not getting
Anyone who has seen the DVD cover of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 and who still defines the film as a documentary has ignored a clue as big as the state of Texas that Moore is working within a different but equally respectable genre: satire. The image on the DVD shows Moore and President Bush holding hands and smiling as they walk across the White House law
Although this was not a required Intellectual and Cultural event for this class, I was glad to see so many of you there, and I'd love to get your reactions to the poems. I will respond to one of McGrath's poems using a shortened version of the "what, how, and why" approach,and I invite you to do the same. As a poet and teacher of writing, I was fascinated by
Although I was interested to hear at the end of Dr. Dalto's report how the Alabama population differs from the population in the rest of the United States, I would like to emphasize a couple of things he said about gender stereotypes. First, he said that although men have more testosterone and women more estrogen, which might lead us to believe men to be more aggress
Although I was fascinated by what he said about the physics of flying and singing, I was even more interested in what Professor Smith pointed out about the tension between the form and the content of the song cycle by Shubert, Winterreise . The Romantic movement was one that often focused on human emotion, and the singer's feelings of unrequited love were nothin
The thing in Professor Hubbs’ lecture today that struck me as being most related to our class readings was this: in embracing the concept of “loyalty,” white southerners in places like Greensboro created something admirable and created something terrible. Loyalty required an institutionalized inclusion and exclusion of individuals. In other words, if an individual a
I'm always reminded of a couple of truths when I listen to a live concert like the one given by the Chagal Trio this morning during Common Hour. First, even if I happen to know the musical piece well (and I had never heard the piece that the Trio played this morning) I notice something new about it each time I hear it. Sometimes the performers accentuate their parti
Welcome to our class blog in which you will respond to the intellectual and cultural events required for our class. Immediately after each event I will post a comment of my own, and each of you will follow suit. The best method will be to follow the "what, how, why" approach. That is, what was most significant to you about the event, how did the speaker m
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