In class on Tuesday we watched a film by director, Angela Carroll about social critic and activist, Professor Angela Y. Davis. After a lively discussion, students were then introduced to the three-part thesis sentence form which we practiced.
Students were to respond to the film in three paragraphs. Homework was also to start reading one's approved collection of stories or novel and to begin thinking about the Social Entrepreneur project and doing the Frontline World exercises.
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Bishwojit Sharma
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
18 October 2010
Angela Davis
Angela Davis was born on January 26,1944 in Birmingham,Alabama. she was socialist, philosopher, political activist and also retired professor. she was arrested as a suspected to attempt to free George Jackson from a courtroom in Marin country, California, august 7, 1970. the guns used were registered in her name.
In the video we can see how she had contributed for prisoners. for decades, sh had been one of the most influenced activist. she has been icon of the 1970s black liberation movement, her work around issues of gender, race, class and prisons has influenced critical though and social movement for years. she was fired as a professor from ULCA due to her membership in the communist party and her leading a campaign to defend three black prisoners at sole dad prison. she was threatened to be killed and there were also many attack but she never got scared and always continued to do what she wanted. she is really a great person that we can hardly find in this century.
Ahu Yildirim
Prof. Sabir
English 1B
19 0ctober 2010
Reflection on Angela Davis Video
Angela Davis is a socialist, philosopher, political activist and professor, who was born in January 26, 1944. Through her activism and her scholarship over the last decades, Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation’s quest for social justice. Angela continued to fight for the freedom and liberty of wrongfully held prisoners throughout the United States. Today the video, we watched in class was mainly about her political revolutionary acts. She is a radical for good social change. Her work as an educator is extremely reputable. She also works with Justice Now, which provides legal assistance to women in prison and engages in advocacy for the abolition of imprisonment as the dominant strategy for addressing social problems. Professor Davis is especially concerned with the general tendency to devote more resources and attention to the prison system than to educational institutions. She is a gift of our century.
Shonta Jones
Wanda Sabir
English 1B
In the film Radical Pedagogy by Angela Carroll she shows how diverse people were that knew about Angela Davis. Angela shows how educated and intelligent Angela Davis is, with staff and students who have worked with her. Angela Davis always seeked more knowledge than what she was given or spoke in seminars. Angela talks about how more knowledge and how knowledge needs to be domination throughout peoples lives.
Angela Davis is all for helping the community grow, by producing new strategies to better the community. Angela encourages others to visit the incarcerated victims and speak to them about knowledge and how they can better themselves by the time they have to be released. To be ready for the environment outside of what they are used to living in, to better educate themselves so that they will not end up in the same situation again.
Angela Davis is a young African American woman that made sure her young African American students had all the materials they needed to survive in college life and how to better educate themselves in knowing what is out there for them and what better helped them to graduate. Angela was the type of women who read so much that she knew mostly about what her students were writing in there papers. Angela helped those in the lower class so that they could have better knowledge of the world around them, and to always seek more knowledge than what someone has told them. Knowledge is power and ways to use that knowledge to get where you need to be.
Cory Hollamon
Professor Sabir
English 1b
20 October 2010
I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. ( Angela Davis) Angela Davis is a socialist, philosopher, political activist and professor, who was born on January 26, 1944 in Birmingham Alabama. She was active during the civil rights movement and part of the Black Panthers.
Angela Davis wanted to reach all ages and change the world. For example, She used her students writings and ideas to try to reach out to the younger generation. She also put out films and papers to reach citizens
Senay Ghidei
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
18 October 2010
Response to Angela Davis Video
Angela Davis was an activist and a professor who was born in 1944 and spent most of her life representing, fighting, and providing easy access to minority. Although Angela Davis is from Alabama, originally, she spent most of her life in the bay area. She taught in UCLA, San Francisco State University, and UC Santa Barbara until she got retired.
In the video, Radical Pedagogy, it shows that many people know Angela Davis and followed her theory and perception on education as well as living matters. During her educating period, Angela Davis had a massive problem with the law because she was a revolutionist; which was viewed as a destruction and interference with her job by the authority. Angela Davis was teaching in San Francisco State University when she got fired by Ronald Reagan, when he was a governor of California, because of her teaching materials: criticizing the government and declaration of revolution.
Mauricio Cavero Alprecht
English 1B
Professor Wanda Sabir
29 October 2010
Political mentor, prisoner abolisher, leader are some of Angela Davis’ adjectives. But, who is Angela Davis? Born in January 26th of 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama, Angela was part of the Communist Party USA, the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Panther Party. She is an American political activist, teacher and author.
Davis is portrayed in the documentary Radical Pedagogy by Angela Carroll, as a person that comes up with strategies to help communities. Carroll also reveals that although Angela Davis is known in the political media, she is barely known amongst the white young community. In the documentary there is a scene where several young adults are asked “Do you know who Angela Davis is?” and more than the 90% of the answers were negative.
This shows that although Angela Davis has been out of the eye of the public for quite a bit, the voice that she raised in the sixties and seventies are still thundering some of the older audience nowadays.
The one attribute that really stood out for me in the documentary is that the people that were interview said that she always pushed the limits of the vocabulary to new heights and that she believes that the community has a better knowledge of what is going around that some bureaucrats in power.
Johna Manibusan
Professor Wanda Sabir
English 1B
November 18, 2010
Angela Davis
Angela Davis was a rights activist. She was a radical in an extreme position. She was a symbol of a radical pedagogy. She was a model of how you should teach. She did things a different way than others. She was very passionate about her rights and influenced her students in society. Not only was she a rights activist, she was much more. She was a socialist and a philosipher as well.
She fought for freedoms, she was a revolutionist which was mistaken for destruciton. The law was intimidated by her and did not allow her to protest and stand up for her rights at all times.
Angela Davis was someone not many people knew about when asked on the streets. The people who did know about her, knew a lot about her and were very passionate about her and could tell you a whole lot of information on how good of a person she really was.
Sha'Quea Pratt
Professor Sabir
English 1B
20 October 2010
The Story of Angela Davis
Angela Davis was born on January 26,1944 in Birmingham,Alabama. she was arrested as a suspected to attempt to free George Jackson from a courtroom in Marin country, California in 1970.
She is now a socialist, philosopher, political activist and professor. She is contributing to fighting for justice with imprisoned women, giving legal assistance to them.
The video shows that Angela Davis is well known to people who are familiar with the work she does. When asking people on the streets about her only a few actually knew of her and studied her work. Whereas many others had no idea who she was, at all. This was interesting to me because I love to see African American women doing positive things to help their society.
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