We will table the Tulia, TX assignment. We ended up discussing TKW and looking at poetry from Reed's book, the next chapter, Men and Women. I gave students an Initial Planning Sheet and we started talking about the freewriting assignment, which was to find a poem from Totems, Nature and Place, that tied in thematically with chapters 6-8.
Students were in varying stages of completion of the freewrite when we looked at Caldonia's love for Henry and an exploration of the topic.
Homework is to take a topic from chapters 6-8 and a corresponding poem or two and use both the poem and evidence from the book to support the thesis. Use IPS to map out your strategy first. Post the IPS and the three-five paragraph essay on the topic.
Mine was love and grief. You could look at "justice" and its application or "freedom," how easily it is lost for someone who is not respected or privileged like Augustus. Post your short essays here.
The other assignments re: signal phrases and published block quotes are due next week. Bring to class. If there are any questions: call me.
I really enjoyed the discussion today. Some students are lost. Get a tutor and read the book with them if a study group is out of the question.
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Ahu Yildirim
Prof. Wanda Sabir
English 1B
12 September 2010
TKW and Reed’s Selection of Poem
The Garter Snake & Moses
Sneaky Sneak
After the death of Henry , Caldonia and Moses developed sexual intercourse routines. Moses pleased Caldonia in advantage to take Henry’s place in her and for his freedom. Even though Henry is dead, Caldonia still loves and admires him. The more Moses created mythes of brilliant Henry, the more Caldonia allowed him to be close to herself. Here we see one of his creative story about Henry at the book: “Moses waved the most imaginative story yet about how Henry Townsend had tamed the land and made the place he would bring his bride to” (273). He continued to tell Caldonia that “she was the one to make Marse Henry happy” (273). Moses was faking her, I chose this poem The Garter Snake from Nature & Place to twist my thoughts with the character Moses and his behaviors from TKW:
It looked like an overgrown worm,
tiny and quick as it flashed
across the trail,
its sidewinding motion
leaving marks in the dirt.
As we noticed, we forgot
what we said about poetry
how those things vanish,
then reappear before us,
how we admit black and green bands
of the garter snake
are the same colors
we keep missing each time
we try to write anything (25).
In one of the symbolic definition of snake represent sneaky human qualities in symbolism. Sneakiness is a state of dishonesty and deceitfulness. Moses attempt for Caldonia’s love was very dishonest.
In this poem Garter Snake, poem talks about an overgrown worm which lives and leave marks at the dirt. By talking about colors and reappearance of snake, he states the sneakiness of the snake. Caldonia trusted Moses first. But Moses thoughts and behaviors behind Caldonia, turned Moses into a sneaky character in the TKW.
Work Cited
Gonzales, Ray. “The Garter Snake.” From Totems to Hip Hop. Ed. Ishmael Reed.
Massachusetts: Da Capo Press. 2003. Print.
Jones, Edward P. The Known World. London: Harper Perennial, 2003. Print.
Mauricio Cavero Alprecht and Ricardo Pedro
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
30 September 2010
Block quotes and signal phrases
In the article Hillary Clinton: A quiet brand of statecraft by Howard LaFranchi, the authors uses the block quote above in the right way, because he introduces the person and the topic that is exposed in the block quote before the block quote so the readers know who and why the person is saying it..
Both the Middle East negotiations and the policy review will provide a measure, these critics say, of Clinton's ability to think in new ways and to fashion a foreign policy for 21st-century America.
"I admire and appreciate the way she has really drilled down on some of these crises that have come up, from the Pakistan floods to the earthquake in Haiti, even her handling of the Kyrgyzstan turmoil – she's working herself ragged on these things and you can see it in her face," says Steven Clemons, publisher of the widely read Washington Note blog and a foreign-policy specialist. "But what we need is an innovator – not an incrementalist, but someone who envisions the strategic leaps that can get us out of these holes we're in, and I just haven't seen it in Hillary Clinton."
The signal phrase used below by LaFranchi is well used because he first quotes Hillari Clinton and then after her quote he tells us who said the quote.
"When I was in Nairobi last year, a very nice man offered 40 goats and a number of cows for the chance to marry my daughter," she said as cellphone cameras snapped a shot of one of the world's most powerful and recognizable women.
The signal phrase below explains that the former secretary of State Madeleine Albright makes the statement in quotes.
"Where she could leave her mark is in putting into practice this idea of smart power," says former secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
In the signal phrase below, LaFranchi connects the relation between Clinton and Albright before the quote.
A longtime friend and close associate of Clinton's who describes the "plethora of issues" facing the secretary of State today as "more complex than anything I've ever seen."
The below signal phrase below try to convince us that the person that LaFranchi is quoting has a lot of knowledge because his blog is widely read by stating his credentials and by showing his legitimacy in the subject.
"I admire and appreciate the way she has really drilled down on some of these crises that have come up, from the Pakistan floods to the earthquake in Haiti, even her handling of the Kyrgyzstan turmoil – she's working herself ragged on these things and you can see it in her face," says Steven Clemons, publisher of the widely read Washington Note blog and a foreign-policy specialist.
Work cited:
LaFranchi, Howard. “Hillary Clinton: A quiet brand of statecraft.”
Christian Science Monitor; 25 September 2010, p 1
Ariunbold Damdinbazar
Wanda Sabir
English 1B
30 September 2010
Paul Saffo, managing director for Discern Analytics, a Silicon Valley forecasting firm, says there's a case to be made that the Internet is helping to make individuals smarter. There have been studies showing that not just Web searches but also video games are good at stimulating and strengthening parts of the brain.
“Video games turn out to be amazing for the brain,” Lehrer says. “They're like doing pushups for the brain.”
This is a single phrase because Paul Saffo say that it helping brain to become smarter and Lehrer here proves it with his expert opinion.
SPEAKING OUT The Rod Blagojevich saga
"I don't recall any single political story that splashed across the media landscape with the shock, intensity and sensationalism as the Blagojevich arrest. I've watched mayors and governors and aldermen come and go, some on their own, some criminally, but nothing like the Blagojevich saga, which ranks among the most sensational political stories I've ever seen — not politically, but in terms of the theater, the pathos, the hyperbole and entertainment."
This is a block quotes because it has more than four lines of text in quotation mark.
ANDY SHAW, former WLS-TV/Channel 7 reporter who covered Illinois
politics for 37 years and is now head of the Better Government Assn.
SPEAKING OUT Violence: at Fenger and beyond
"
The outrage doesn't change the problem at all. The town hall meetings don't change the problem. What changes the problem is when you adopt a strategy that is proven to work. It doesn't change because of anger. It changes when you completely change your understanding of the problem. That's why we designed our program. I don't think people are used to thinking about a scientific approach in the context of violence."
GARY SLUTKIN, physician, University of Illinois at Chicago
professor and executive director of anti-violence group Cease Fire
this is a block quote
"Chicago has not been on the international consciousness to any degree. One of the great things that came out of this effort was the publicity about Chicago and what it is today — a great international city of commerce and diversity. There is a different perception of Chicago now, a more balanced perception."
MARC GANIS, Chicago-based sports business consultant
this is a block quote
Ariunbold Damdinbazar
Wanda Sabir
English 1B
30 September 2010
Paul Saffo, managing director for Discern Analytics, a Silicon Valley forecasting firm, says there's a case to be made that the Internet is helping to make individuals smarter. There have been studies showing that not just Web searches but also video games are good at stimulating and strengthening parts of the brain.
“Video games turn out to be amazing for the brain,” Lehrer says. “They're like doing pushups for the brain.”
This is a single phrase because Paul Saffo say that it helping brain to become smarter and Lehrer here proves it with his expert opinion.
SPEAKING OUT The Rod Blagojevich saga
"I don't recall any single political story that splashed across the media landscape with the shock, intensity and sensationalism as the Blagojevich arrest. I've watched mayors and governors and aldermen come and go, some on their own, some criminally, but nothing like the Blagojevich saga, which ranks among the most sensational political stories I've ever seen — not politically, but in terms of the theater, the pathos, the hyperbole and entertainment."
This is a block quotes because it has more than four lines of text in quotation mark.
ANDY SHAW, former WLS-TV/Channel 7 reporter who covered Illinois
politics for 37 years and is now head of the Better Government Assn.
SPEAKING OUT Violence: at Fenger and beyond
"
The outrage doesn't change the problem at all. The town hall meetings don't change the problem. What changes the problem is when you adopt a strategy that is proven to work. It doesn't change because of anger. It changes when you completely change your understanding of the problem. That's why we designed our program. I don't think people are used to thinking about a scientific approach in the context of violence."
GARY SLUTKIN, physician, University of Illinois at Chicago
professor and executive director of anti-violence group Cease Fire
this is a block quote
"Chicago has not been on the international consciousness to any degree. One of the great things that came out of this effort was the publicity about Chicago and what it is today — a great international city of commerce and diversity. There is a different perception of Chicago now, a more balanced perception."
MARC GANIS, Chicago-based sports business consultant
this is a block quote
Ariunbold Damdinbazar
Wanda Sabir
English 1B
30 September 2010
Paul Saffo, managing director for Discern Analytics, a Silicon Valley forecasting firm, says there's a case to be made that the Internet is helping to make individuals smarter. There have been studies showing that not just Web searches but also video games are good at stimulating and strengthening parts of the brain.
“Video games turn out to be amazing for the brain,” Lehrer says. “They're like doing pushups for the brain.”
This is a single phrase because Paul Saffo say that it helping brain to become smarter and Lehrer here proves it with his expert opinion.
SPEAKING OUT The Rod Blagojevich saga
"I don't recall any single political story that splashed across the media landscape with the shock, intensity and sensationalism as the Blagojevich arrest. I've watched mayors and governors and aldermen come and go, some on their own, some criminally, but nothing like the Blagojevich saga, which ranks among the most sensational political stories I've ever seen — not politically, but in terms of the theater, the pathos, the hyperbole and entertainment."
This is a block quotes because it has more than four lines of text in quotation mark.
ANDY SHAW, former WLS-TV/Channel 7 reporter who covered Illinois
politics for 37 years and is now head of the Better Government Assn.
SPEAKING OUT Violence: at Fenger and beyond
"
The outrage doesn't change the problem at all. The town hall meetings don't change the problem. What changes the problem is when you adopt a strategy that is proven to work. It doesn't change because of anger. It changes when you completely change your understanding of the problem. That's why we designed our program. I don't think people are used to thinking about a scientific approach in the context of violence."
GARY SLUTKIN, physician, University of Illinois at Chicago
professor and executive director of anti-violence group Cease Fire
this is a block quote
"Chicago has not been on the international consciousness to any degree. One of the great things that came out of this effort was the publicity about Chicago and what it is today — a great international city of commerce and diversity. There is a different perception of Chicago now, a more balanced perception."
MARC GANIS, Chicago-based sports business consultant
this is a block quote
Ariunbold Damdinbazar
Wanda Sabir
English 1B
30 September 2010
Paul Saffo, managing director for Discern Analytics, a Silicon Valley forecasting firm, says there's a case to be made that the Internet is helping to make individuals smarter. There have been studies showing that not just Web searches but also video games are good at stimulating and strengthening parts of the brain.
“Video games turn out to be amazing for the brain,” Lehrer says. “They're like doing pushups for the brain.”
This is a single phrase because
Paul Saffo say that it helping brain to become smarter and Lehrer here proves it with his expert opinion.
SPEAKING OUT The Rod Blagojevich saga
"I don't recall any single political story that splashed across the media landscape with the shock, intensity and sensationalism as the Blagojevich arrest. I've watched mayors and governors and aldermen come and go, some on their own, some criminally, but nothing like the Blagojevich saga, which ranks among the most sensational political stories I've ever seen — not politically, but in terms of the theater, the pathos, the hyperbole and entertainment."
This is a block quotes because it has more than four lines of text in quotation mark.
ANDY SHAW, former WLS-TV/Channel 7 reporter who covered Illinois
politics for 37 years and is now head of the Better Government Assn.
SPEAKING OUT Violence: at Fenger and beyond
"The outrage doesn't change the problem at all. The town hall meetings don't change the problem. What changes the problem is when you adopt a strategy that is proven to work. It doesn't change because of anger. It changes when you completely change your understanding of the problem. That's why we designed our program. I don't think people are used to thinking about a scientific approach in the context of violence."
GARY SLUTKIN, physician, University of Illinois at Chicago
professor and executive director of anti-violence group Cease Fire
this is a block quote
"Chicago has not been on the international consciousness to any degree. One of the great things that came out of this effort was the publicity about Chicago and what it is today — a great international city of commerce and diversity. There is a different perception of Chicago now, a more balanced perception."
MARC GANIS, Chicago-based sports business consultant
this is a block quote
Ariunbold Damdinbazar
Wanda Sabir
English 1B
30 September 2010
Paul Saffo, managing director for Discern Analytics, a Silicon Valley forecasting firm, says there's a case to be made that the Internet is helping to make individuals smarter. There have been studies showing that not just Web searches but also video games are good at stimulating and strengthening parts of the brain.
“Video games turn out to be amazing for the brain,” Lehrer says. “They're like doing pushups for the brain.”
This is a single phrase because
Paul Saffo say that it helping brain to become smarter and Lehrer here proves it with his expert opinion.
SPEAKING OUT The Rod Blagojevich saga
"I don't recall any single political story that splashed across the media landscape with the shock, intensity and sensationalism as the Blagojevich arrest. I've watched mayors and governors and aldermen come and go, some on their own, some criminally, but nothing like the Blagojevich saga, which ranks among the most sensational political stories I've ever seen — not politically, but in terms of the theater, the pathos, the hyperbole and entertainment."
This is a block quotes because it has more than four lines of text in quotation mark.
ANDY SHAW, former WLS-TV/Channel 7 reporter who covered Illinois
politics for 37 years and is now head of the Better Government Assn.
SPEAKING OUT Violence: at Fenger and beyond
"The outrage doesn't change the problem at all. The town hall meetings don't change the problem. What changes the problem is when you adopt a strategy that is proven to work. It doesn't change because of anger. It changes when you completely change your understanding of the problem. That's why we designed our program. I don't think people are used to thinking about a scientific approach in the context of violence."
GARY SLUTKIN, physician, University of Illinois at Chicago
professor and executive director of anti-violence group Cease Fire
this is a block quote
"Chicago has not been on the international consciousness to any degree. One of the great things that came out of this effort was the publicity about Chicago and what it is today — a great international city of commerce and diversity. There is a different perception of Chicago now, a more balanced perception."
MARC GANIS, Chicago-based sports business consultant
this is a block quote
Ariunbold Damdinbazar
Wanda Sabir
English 1B
30 September 2010
Paul Saffo, managing director for Discern Analytics, a Silicon Valley forecasting firm, says there's a case to be made that the Internet is helping to make individuals smarter. There have been studies showing that not just Web searches but also video games are good at stimulating and strengthening parts of the brain.
“Video games turn out to be amazing for the brain,” Lehrer says. “They're like doing pushups for the brain.”
This is a single phrase because Paul Saffo say that it helping brain to become smarter and Lehrer here proves it with his expert opinion.
SPEAKING OUT The Rod Blagojevich saga
"I don't recall any single political story that splashed across the media landscape with the shock, intensity and sensationalism as the Blagojevich arrest. I've watched mayors and governors and aldermen come and go, some on their own, some criminally, but nothing like the Blagojevich saga, which ranks among the most sensational political stories I've ever seen — not politically, but in terms of the theater, the pathos, the hyperbole and entertainment."
This is a block quotes because it has more than four lines of text in quotation mark.
ANDY SHAW, former WLS-TV/Channel 7 reporter who covered Illinois
politics for 37 years and is now head of the Better Government Assn.
SPEAKING OUT Violence: at Fenger and beyond
"The outrage doesn't change the problem at all. The town hall meetings don't change the problem. What changes the problem is when you adopt a strategy that is proven to work. It doesn't change because of anger. It changes when you completely change your understanding of the problem. That's why we designed our program. I don't think people are used to thinking about a scientific approach in the context of violence."
GARY SLUTKIN, physician, University of Illinois at Chicago
professor and executive director of anti-violence group Cease Fire
this is a block quote
"Chicago has not been on the international consciousness to any degree. One of the great things that came out of this effort was the publicity about Chicago and what it is today — a great international city of commerce and diversity. There is a different perception of Chicago now, a more balanced perception."
MARC GANIS, Chicago-based sports business consultant
this is a block quote
Ariunbold Damdinbazar
Wanda Sabir
English 1B
30 September 2010
Paul Saffo, managing director for Discern Analytics, a Silicon Valley forecasting firm, says there's a case to be made that the Internet is helping to make individuals smarter. There have been studies showing that not just Web searches but also video games are good at stimulating and strengthening parts of the brain.
“Video games turn out to be amazing for the brain,” Lehrer says. “They're like doing pushups for the brain.”
This is a single phrase because Paul Saffo say that it helping brain to become smarter and Lehrer here proves it with his expert opinion.
SPEAKING OUT The Rod Blagojevich saga
"I don't recall any single political story that splashed across the media landscape with the shock, intensity and sensationalism as the Blagojevich arrest. I've watched mayors and governors and aldermen come and go, some on their own, some criminally, but nothing like the Blagojevich saga, which ranks among the most sensational political stories I've ever seen — not politically, but in terms of the theater, the pathos, the hyperbole and entertainment."
This is a block quotes because it has more than four lines of text in quotation mark.
ANDY SHAW, former WLS-TV/Channel 7 reporter who covered Illinois
politics for 37 years and is now head of the Better Government Assn.
SPEAKING OUT Violence: at Fenger and beyond
"The outrage doesn't change the problem at all. The town hall meetings don't change the problem. What changes the problem is when you adopt a strategy that is proven to work. It doesn't change because of anger. It changes when you completely change your understanding of the problem. That's why we designed our program. I don't think people are used to thinking about a scientific approach in the context of violence."
GARY SLUTKIN, physician, University of Illinois at Chicago
professor and executive director of anti-violence group Cease Fire
this is a block quote
"Chicago has not been on the international consciousness to any degree. One of the great things that came out of this effort was the publicity about Chicago and what it is today — a great international city of commerce and diversity. There is a different perception of Chicago now, a more balanced perception."
MARC GANIS, Chicago-based sports business consultant
this is a block quote
Ariunbold Damdinbazar
Wanda Sabir
English 1B
30 September 2010
Paul Saffo, managing director for Discern Analytics, a Silicon Valley forecasting firm, says there's a case to be made that the Internet is helping to make individuals smarter. There have been studies showing that not just Web searches but also video games are good at stimulating and strengthening parts of the brain.
“Video games turn out to be amazing for the brain,” Lehrer says. “They're like doing pushups for the brain.”
This is a single phrase because Paul Saffo say that it helping brain to become smarter and Lehrer here proves it with his expert opinion.
SPEAKING OUT The Rod Blagojevich saga
"I don't recall any single political story that splashed across the media landscape with the shock, intensity and sensationalism as the Blagojevich arrest. I've watched mayors and governors and aldermen come and go, some on their own, some criminally, but nothing like the Blagojevich saga, which ranks among the most sensational political stories I've ever seen — not politically, but in terms of the theater, the pathos, the hyperbole and entertainment."
This is a block quotes because it has more than four lines of text in quotation mark.
ANDY SHAW, former WLS-TV/Channel 7 reporter who covered Illinois
politics for 37 years and is now head of the Better Government Assn.
SPEAKING OUT Violence: at Fenger and beyond
"The outrage doesn't change the problem at all. The town hall meetings don't change the problem. What changes the problem is when you adopt a strategy that is proven to work. It doesn't change because of anger. It changes when you completely change your understanding of the problem. That's why we designed our program. I don't think people are used to thinking about a scientific approach in the context of violence."
GARY SLUTKIN, physician, University of Illinois at Chicago
professor and executive director of anti-violence group Cease Fire
this is a block quote
"Chicago has not been on the international consciousness to any degree. One of the great things that came out of this effort was the publicity about Chicago and what it is today — a great international city of commerce and diversity. There is a different perception of Chicago now, a more balanced perception."
MARC GANIS, Chicago-based sports business consultant
this is a block quote
Ariunbold Damdinbazar
Wanda Sabir
English 1B
30 September 2010
Paul Saffo, managing director for Discern Analytics, a Silicon Valley forecasting firm, says there's a case to be made that the Internet is helping to make individuals smarter. There have been studies showing that not just Web searches but also video games are good at stimulating and strengthening parts of the brain.
“Video games turn out to be amazing for the brain,” Lehrer says. “They're like doing pushups for the brain.”
This is a single phrase because Paul Saffo say that it helping brain to become smarter and Lehrer here proves it with his expert opinion.
SPEAKING OUT The Rod Blagojevich saga
"I don't recall any single political story that splashed across the media landscape with the shock, intensity and sensationalism as the Blagojevich arrest. I've watched mayors and governors and aldermen come and go, some on their own, some criminally, but nothing like the Blagojevich saga, which ranks among the most sensational political stories I've ever seen — not politically, but in terms of the theater, the pathos, the hyperbole and entertainment."
This is a block quotes because it has more than four lines of text in quotation mark.
ANDY SHAW, former WLS-TV/Channel 7 reporter who covered Illinois
politics for 37 years and is now head of the Better Government Assn.
SPEAKING OUT Violence: at Fenger and beyond
"The outrage doesn't change the problem at all. The town hall meetings don't change the problem. What changes the problem is when you adopt a strategy that is proven to work. It doesn't change because of anger. It changes when you completely change your understanding of the problem. That's why we designed our program. I don't think people are used to thinking about a scientific approach in the context of violence."
GARY SLUTKIN, physician, University of Illinois at Chicago
professor and executive director of anti-violence group Cease Fire
this is a block quote
"Chicago has not been on the international consciousness to any degree. One of the great things that came out of this effort was the publicity about Chicago and what it is today — a great international city of commerce and diversity. There is a different perception of Chicago now, a more balanced perception."
MARC GANIS, Chicago-based sports business consultant
this is a block quote
Ariunbold Damdinbazar
Wanda Sabir
English 1B
30 September 2010
Paul Saffo, managing director for Discern Analytics, a Silicon Valley forecasting firm, says there's a case to be made that the Internet is helping to make individuals smarter. There have been studies showing that not just Web searches but also video games are good at stimulating and strengthening parts of the brain.
“Video games turn out to be amazing for the brain,” Lehrer says. “They're like doing pushups for the brain.”
This is a single phrase because Paul Saffo say that it helping brain to become smarter and Lehrer here proves it with his expert opinion.
SPEAKING OUT The Rod Blagojevich saga
"I don't recall any single political story that splashed across the media landscape with the shock, intensity and sensationalism as the Blagojevich arrest. I've watched mayors and governors and aldermen come and go, some on their own, some criminally, but nothing like the Blagojevich saga, which ranks among the most sensational political stories I've ever seen — not politically, but in terms of the theater, the pathos, the hyperbole and entertainment."
This is a block quotes because it has more than four lines of text in quotation mark.
ANDY SHAW, former WLS-TV/Channel 7 reporter who covered Illinois
politics for 37 years and is now head of the Better Government Assn.
SPEAKING OUT Violence: at Fenger and beyond
"The outrage doesn't change the problem at all. The town hall meetings don't change the problem. What changes the problem is when you adopt a strategy that is proven to work. It doesn't change because of anger. It changes when you completely change your understanding of the problem. That's why we designed our program. I don't think people are used to thinking about a scientific approach in the context of violence."
GARY SLUTKIN, physician, University of Illinois at Chicago
professor and executive director of anti-violence group Cease Fire
this is a block quote
"Chicago has not been on the international consciousness to any degree. One of the great things that came out of this effort was the publicity about Chicago and what it is today — a great international city of commerce and diversity. There is a different perception of Chicago now, a more balanced perception."
MARC GANIS, Chicago-based sports business consultant
this is a block quote
Ariunbold Damdinbazar
Wanda Sabir
English 1B
30 September 2010
Paul Saffo, managing director for Discern Analytics, a Silicon Valley forecasting firm, says there's a case to be made that the Internet is helping to make individuals smarter. There have been studies showing that not just Web searches but also video games are good at stimulating and strengthening parts of the brain.
“Video games turn out to be amazing for the brain,” Lehrer says. “They're like doing pushups for the brain.”
This is a single phrase because Paul Saffo say that it helping brain to become smarter and Lehrer here proves it with his expert opinion.
SPEAKING OUT The Rod Blagojevich saga
"I don't recall any single political story that splashed across the media landscape with the shock, intensity and sensationalism as the Blagojevich arrest. I've watched mayors and governors and aldermen come and go, some on their own, some criminally, but nothing like the Blagojevich saga, which ranks among the most sensational political stories I've ever seen — not politically, but in terms of the theater, the pathos, the hyperbole and entertainment."
This is a block quotes because it has more than four lines of text in quotation mark.
ANDY SHAW, former WLS-TV/Channel 7 reporter who covered Illinois
politics for 37 years and is now head of the Better Government Assn.
SPEAKING OUT Violence: at Fenger and beyond
"The outrage doesn't change the problem at all. The town hall meetings don't change the problem. What changes the problem is when you adopt a strategy that is proven to work. It doesn't change because of anger. It changes when you completely change your understanding of the problem. That's why we designed our program. I don't think people are used to thinking about a scientific approach in the context of violence."
GARY SLUTKIN, physician, University of Illinois at Chicago
professor and executive director of anti-violence group Cease Fire
this is a block quote
"Chicago has not been on the international consciousness to any degree. One of the great things that came out of this effort was the publicity about Chicago and what it is today — a great international city of commerce and diversity. There is a different perception of Chicago now, a more balanced perception."
MARC GANIS, Chicago-based sports business consultant
this is a block quote
Ahu Yildirim & Sara Hachim
Prof. Sabir
English 1B
30 September 2010
Signal Phrases & Block Quotes
SIGNAL PHRASES
According to the COA library data base in the sections of mythology article talks about Joseph Campbell’s life time work mythology, Joseph Campbell tells that “A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.”
As Campbell long ago wrote that "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" (1949): “In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dream. The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change.”
Campbell explains hero’s adventure in his book “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” (1949): A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man.”
In Campbell's account, there is little to fear and much even to be thankful for. According to him, the prophet's second sight derives from his sexual experience: "There's a good point there-when your eyes are closed to distracting phenomena, you're in your intuition, and you may come in touch with the morphology, the basic form of things."
Campbell gives examples about the hero’s initiations and he tells that “Odysseus was sent to the Underworld by the goddess Circe: His true initiation came when he met Tiresias and realized the unity of male and female’s.”
BLOCK QUOTES:
Campbell tries to open his perspective to the reader, to explain this, he states:
All of the great mythologies and much of the mythic story-telling of the world are from the male point of view. When I was writing The Hero with a Thousand Faces and wanted to bring female heroes in, I had to go to the fairy tales. These were told by women to children, you know, and you get a different perspective. It was the men who got involved in spinning most of the great myths. The women were too busy; they had too damn much to do to sit around thinking about stories.
The Power of Myth by Joseph Campbell gives so many evidences about Campbell’s
point of view and explains the functions of characters’ roles in mythology. The Power of Myth states:
In The Odyssey, you'll see three journeys. One is that of Telemachus, the son, going in quest of his father. The second is that of the father, Odysseus, becoming reconciled and related to the female principle in the sense of male-female relationship, rather than the male mastery of the female that was at the center of The Iliad. And the third is of Penelope herself, whose journey is [...] endurance. Out in Nantucket, you see all those cottages with the widow's walk up on the roof: when my husband comes back from the sea. Two journeys through space and one through time.
Only after the Romantic movement does the purpose of the hero's journey become the
search for self-understanding that Eliot describes in "Four Quartets":
We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
Work Cited
Lefkowitz, Mary R. “Joseph Campbell: The Myth of Joseph Campbell.” American Scholar;
Summer90, Vol. 59 Issue 3, p429, 6p.
Senay Ghidei
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
23 September 2010
In the poem “Endangered Species” the author talks about the scarce of eagles. He explains the problems that the eagles were facing and tried to connect it with humans. He shows how the species were affected by the surroundings and bad conditions. The author said, “Martha, like most eagles mothers who are victims of stress, lay their eggs on the ground and not in the nest; lay thin-egged shells that beak under the weight.” (11)
In the book “The Known World,” the author tells a story that happened during slavery. In this book he states that the slaves were the only ones that exposed to a fatal disease, as a result, they ended up dying. It seems very impossible and massacre because a lot of them were dead in a very short period of time. “More than half of the slaves on Counsel’s plantation had died, some sixty-two human beings, ranging in age from nine months to forty-nine years; that number included one-year old Becky, who was teething but whose mother had nursed her as often as she could with the hope that the disease would pass on by her child.”(225)Although the eagles suffered strange fatal disease, they were unable to be remembered as monument or national symbol. “Ben Franklin opposed the eagle as our national symbol for he insisted on our need to make our definition in an image far more flattering we cannot know our nation through this disgraceful thief who bloats on food he filches robbing smaller birds who gather and are dutiful.”(13) The eagles shouldn’t be used as a symbol because they disgraced us and didn’t help us anything in building our nation. Rather they played a role in destroying our nation by acting as a thief: stealing food from people and eating birds.
Cory Hollamon
Professor Sabir
English 1b
14October 2010
After Henry died , Caldonia and Moses started to have sexual intercourse . Moses helped Caldonia,he tried take Henry’s place in her heart. Even though Henry is dead, Caldonia still loves him. Moses just kept telling Caldonia whatever she wanted to hear so he can get closer to her.
The poem I chose to compare this situation with is disneys Cinderella because that situation because henry to her is like the evil stepmother and Moses is sort of the prince. For example the prince makes Cinderella feel good inside and tells her what makes her feel good. While on the other hand Mosese is doing the same thing because he knows she is in her time of need because Henry died.
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