#*which reminds me of doing those paragraphs for history classes like here's the background heres the research etc

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I saw this stair pose by @keirosims that you can find here, and thought it was perfect for a group photo of my sims because it looked pretty cool 😄.

So from top to bottom, it's Kajol on the left, then Zara, Anaya, Emily, Tess, Megan, Grace, and Iseul. Kajol and Zara are married and Anaya is their daughter. Megan and Tess are married too, and Emily is their daughter. Grace and Iseul are engaged and are planning their wedding.

For the background of this photo*:

Kajol, Zara, and Anaya came over for a week visit to San Myshuno. Since their friends Iseul and Megan and their respective families live nearby, they invited everyone over to the Waterside Warble to hang out and catch up, and they asked a random person to take their photo on some stairs. 😄

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21 + 15 + 8!

asdfghjkl rose thank you for asking ♥️ this ended up coming out incredibly long, so i apologize in advance!

8) where do you take your inspiration from?

surprising! mostly from visual media, actually. graphics, art, moodboards, films, tv series, that kind of stuff. occasionally, music, and even more rarely, written media (fics, books, poems, similar). that’s for when i’m starting to get ideas. when i already have something written or ideas developed a bit more, then i have a moodboard on pinterest and a playlist on spotify, or i watch something that has the same mood/theme as the thing i’m writing.

15) if you write oc’s, how do you decide on their names?

i don’t usually write oc’s for fics, but i do them for my original stuff. the names depend on the characters’ background and location, but they all have a name that either sounds specific to their character or who they’re supposed to be, or the meaning is very connected. 

in other cases, most of the time, i just go ‘woah this sounds cool’ or sometimes i build a whole character because of their name and subsequently the whole story.

21  tell me about another writer(s) who you admire? what is it about them that you admire?

i love this question!! let me give my favourite fic writers a shoutout, even though i’m probably missing some too!! it’s really long but honestly these people worked hard and they really deserve it

@grumpybell‘s ideas are absolutely brilliant. i’m a huge fan. the stories themselves, the plots would be enough for me to have a whole paragraph about, but for me, the characters are where it’s at. well-developed, very true to the canon but also to the universe the fic is set in, but also very well-rounded and overall realistic. the fics just flow really nice, honestly, and i could read them for eternity. 

fic shoutout: oh darling, here’s hoping god i remember reading this red riding hood au and just... falling in love. i did. i fell in love with bellamy as the wolf and clarke’s desperation to save him, and the new take on the fairy tale, it was just absolute perfection. i keep coming to it every once in a while, honestly. it’s just magic.

@asroarke is one of those people who are just integrated into a fandom’s fanfiction. imagining t100 fanfiction with asroarke is like... imagining the sky without the stars. i think those fics were the first ones i read when i joined the fandom, and i remember one of the things i thought was how easy it was to read. everything flowed as if there was no effort needed, as if the words have always been there, just plucked and placed on a blank document. and the consistency, honestly, damn. these fics are better than probably more than half of published stuff i’ve read. 

fic shoutout: drag me down. look there’s a pattern here and it’s the mythical/legends/fairy tale aus. i present you with a retelling of little mermaid in the most beautiful, soul-wrenching way. i waited every single chapter for when i came out. i read it as soon as i saw it came out, even if i was in the middle of grabbing coffee with a friend. honestly everything by asroarke is absolutely fantastic. 

@blvke-bellamy okay look. when i saw may is just 15 i nearly fell off my chair. i’d kill to have that talent at 15. i would. look, i keep saying look, because i’m shook. but honestly, may’s characterization is brilliant. she took my faves from the 100 and managed to insert them into a different universe, and they feel so much like the original characters and not at all. the dynamics between them are so raw and so pure and so believable i cried at one particular scene in her fic. or it might be two scenes. and look, this is impressive on its own, and then knowing she’s just 15...god.

fic shoutout: step into the sun is a bellarke tangled au and honestly. i’m a slut for tangled. it’s so damn good. and this fic?? inspired by tangled?? absolutely brilliant. marvelous. 11/10. brought my fish to life. and honestly murphy is my favourite in the fic, literally one of my favourite portrayals of him in every fic i’ve ever read. i binged this. i lost sleep over this. no ragrets.

@pawprinterfanfic (i’m biased but. in top 3 fic writers ever. and i’ve been in a lot of popular fandoms.) paw manages to take a universe and make it hers. paw manages to create a universe out of nothing and make it feel more realistic than my own life. and honestly, i am reading her hunger games au right now and it’s amazing, but the best part is that i’m also reading the harry potter au which is even better and although both are masterpieces, i can see the improvement. the development of the characters, the amount of effort in planning and mapping things out, it’s marvellous. her fics just speak to me on a different level, it feels as if i’m experiencing them myself rather than reading them, and what i’m mostly in awe of is how immersed i am in those fics, especially the newer ones. i feel like it’s a rare skill to have.

fic shoutout: starry eyes and galaxy minds (we’ll be dancing on the clouds at night) which is a spider-man au, and honestly, i cried. it’s beautiful. it’s a masterpiece. but so is literally every single one of paw’s stories, so it was a really difficult choice. the harry potter one? j k rowling wishes she wrote it.

skai_heda (i don’t know their tumblr please someone help me find it). where do i begin. honestly. when i started reading the fic i put below, i was mesmerised by the writing style. it was partly in second pov which i’d usually refuse to read, but this writing style is something that belongs to gods. the characterization is amazing, it manages to fix some of the stuff in canon without actually changing it. everything just comes together naturally, and i always feel so satisfied when reading their fics. plus, the writing style again, especially in the fic below, is flawless. some people can create magic with their words, and i’m convinced i’ve just found one.

fic shoutout: everything that comes after deserves so much!! more!! attention!!! i remember reading the first two chapters and just being like...wooow. i was starstruck. i left a long ass comment. it’s so unique and so beautiful. it’s the only fic on this list written in the canon universe, and it’s one of my favourites i’ve ever read about the canon universe. it hurts. it makes you cry, and ache, and understand, and smack your head because you just want people to be happy. if i could pocket the way this fic made me feel, i would always keep it with me. (a little frustration, but a whole lotta love.)

give me a number and i’ll answer questions about writing fanfiction

just in case you’d like to see the same questions answered for non-fanfiction/non-fanfiction influence, see below!

15) if you write oc’s, how do you decide on their names?

specific example of mentioned above - a wip about teenagers who come from a rich side of town and a poor side. there’s posh names, like cedric, declan, byron and gregory, for people who are supposed to represent the posh, stuck-up class; hadley, tessa, abigail, kate for privileged people who are the ‘good guys’; and luca, oliver, han, freddie, who are from the poor side. it’s very classist so it was very important that the names represent the characters. usually, i go for the “vibe” of the name over the meaning, to be honest. 

21  tell me about another writer(s) who you admire? what is it about them that you admire?

i love this question!!

fiction: maggie stiefvater, because her raven cycle series genuinely feels like magic when i read it. the characters are brilliant. erin morgenstern, who wrote the night circus, because that novel also feels like magic. donna tart’s the secret history feels as if you’re reading a secret and the storytelling sort of reminds me of f. scott fitzgerald’s the great gatsby in a way i can’t really describe. she creates a beautiful, magnificent atmosphere and you know what the characters are doing is wrong, but you completely understand them and it makes me, as a reader, question my own moral standards. madeline miller’s the song of achilles is a beautifully written masterpiece that made me fall in love with mythology, legends and history all over again. the way she develops the characters and retells the story i’ve heard a million times is so poetic and beautiful it just resonates with me on a different level. and finally, leigh bardugo with her six of crows series that again, makes me question my morals, but shows the friendship and loyalty between people in a beautiful way. it also shows a romance that i think is one of best written i’ve read, up there for me romances from the novels/series i’ve already mentioned.

there’s a pattern - storytelling and character-building that feels almost otherworldly, very focused on emotions and character development. basically, stories that you feel like as if they were made into films without proper, detailed development, wouldn’t translate well enough to bring the world to the screen. and romances incredibly well-developed over time, that go beyond just being romances and actually show a beautiful connection.

special mention of these directors, as they have a huge influence on my writing: christopher nolan, john krasinski, quentin tarantino, m night shyamalan, steven knight, guillermo del toro, alfred hitchcock, for their storytelling and character building. also, some of these are for the suspense that seems to come naturally. i know most of these are very popular directors, but they’re popular for a reason. i could literally write an essay on each of these people, honestly. my writing is very inspired by motion pictures, i most often look up to how these directors approached some things that i have in my writing, especially themes. (this could literally be a whole essay on its own)

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‘’How guns or the lack of gun control contribute to hate crimes or racial incidents?’’, a Numbered Multimodal Multi-Genre Research Composition

1.A STORY

A story that illustrates what the real issue behind my research question is and a story that connects with all of our class discussions about racism is the story of Michael Brown, followed by the story of Trayvon Martin. Michael Brown's tragic death is the most recent example of America being too distant from a non-racist society which is one of the main reasons for the increasing race incidents and hate crimes in the last couple years. Following the deadly shootings against teenager Trayvon Martin in Florida and the acquittal for the shooter, it becomes clear that America has not yet overcome racism. The two stories about Michael and Trayvon Martin have something in common and that is the lack of gun control and its contribution to hate crimes. Both Michael and Trayvon were ''black'' and both of them were shot. America is far from real racial equality which is one of the main reasons for hate crimes. There is a deep gap between African-Americans and whites in terms of their income, the number of the unemployed and the share of people living in poverty. Especially for African-American men, racial equality remains only a good wish. The death of the two young men sparked unrest in the whole country which once again reveals the idea that most of the crimes are committed based on racial incidents and hate crime.

2.FACTS, STATISTICS, MEDIA

1. Statistics:

-      Between November 8 and February 19, theNew York Police Department received 143 hate crimes reports — 42 percent more than during the same time last year.

https://www.thetrace.org/2017/03/guns-hate-crimes-bias-attacks/

2. Images:

https://www.apa.org/pubs/info/reports/gun-violence-prevention.aspx

https://study.com/academy/lesson/the-race-conflict-approach-in-sociology.html

https://smmirror.com/2017/12/trump-hate-crimes-big-rise-likely-start/

3. Cartoon:

4. One sentence quotation:

‘’Hate crimes are different from other crimes. They strike at the heart of one's identity - they strike at our sense of self, our sense of belonging. The end result is loss - loss of trust, loss of dignity, and in the worst case, loss of life.’’ James Comey

https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/health/hate-crimes-tracking-history-fbi/index.html

5. Video:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-data-shows-us-hate-crimes-continued-to-rise-in-2017/

6. Truths:

-Racism and gun violence are killing us, literally.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-zogby/racism-and-gun-violence-a_b_7627318.html

7. Facts:

One hate crime is committed in the United States, on average, every hour of every day.

https://vittana.org/26-startling-hate-crime-statistics

8. A story:

https://www.newyorker.com/news/amy-davidson/michael-brown-die-ferguson

9. Facts:

- 4 unarmed black men have been killed by police for one month in 2014.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/3-unarmed-black-african-american-men-killed-police/

10. Facs::

- A data from procon.org shows that during the 16-year period from 1999 to 2015, 2015 had the most firearm deaths from legal intervention (484). https://gun-control.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=006094

11. Fact:

- Majority of adult US citizens currently support the idea of gun regulations.

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2521

12. Statistic:

- 97% of American voters and 97% of gun owners support universal background checks and 83% support mandatory waiting periods during the firearm gun purchases.

https://poll.qu.edu/national/release-detail?ReleaseID=2521

13. Video:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2018/10/30/exp-the-rise-of-hate-crimes.cnn

14. Facts:

- A “hate crime” is targeted criminal activity, usually motivated by prejudice based on perceived personal characteristics of the victims. These motivations may include race, religion, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.

https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-hate-crimes

15. Statistics:

-In 2016, 4,426 people fell victim to hate crimes for which the motivation was race, ethnicity and/or ancestry.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/737648/number-of-hate-crime-victims-in-the-us-by-motivation/

3.TEXUAL ANALYSIS

The article ''Racism and Gun Violence Are Killing Us, Literally'' by Zogby was published on June 20th, 2015 in Huffpost. It represents the current issue with hate crimes and racial incidents committed with guns and the text also seeks for a solution of this issue. The article immediately caught my attention because it reminded me of all of our class discussions about racism and also this article answered my research question: ''How do guns or the lack of gun control contribute to racial incidents and hate crimes?''. The article provided examples about racial incidents (the shooting in the black church) and hate crimes (the mass shootings). As an example, we can use the sentence: '' What does catch our attention are the mass shootings, especially the most dramatic of them!''. In my opinion, this sentence is crucial for my research question because it continues to develop the idea of how the lack of gun control leads to hate crimes as mass shootings. In my opinion, this passage, ''Despite these continuing reminders that we have an enduring problem with race, here, too, we either ignore the problem or make an effort to deny its corrosive and pervasive influence on our lives. And we most often succeed in putting it away until the next tragic police shooting or hate crime slaps us awake.'' is extremely important because it explains the problem in details and it uses pathos to engage the readers emotionally and to awaken us to find a solution for it. The author defines hate crimes as ‘’horrific acts’’, ‘’dramatic’’ and ‘’tragic’’ in his attempt to move the reader emotions which is an example of pathos. Moreover, the whole article focuses on the logical presentation of the subject and provides evidence and examples in support of the author’s ideas which can be seen as logos. I found the paragraph about Obama's election a little bit challenging and I was shocked by another interesting fact stating that during the first year of Obama's presidency the number of white hate groups which operate in the United States has increased by over 40%. I chose to analyze this article because I think it answers my research question. Moreover, the mass shootings and the racial incidents make it speak. This article closely examines all of those tragic incidents which happened in the last couple years. The author also provides a really interesting statistics explaining that seventy percent of the murders were done with guns. In comparison to Iraq, this is three times the number of lives lost in the entire Iraq war. Here once again, we can see how the author appeals to the reader's emotions and seeks for a solution of the issue, as we can see later in the article, towards the end he suggests a solution of the problem - stricter gun control and regulations. The article consists of examples, facts, definitions, reasons and images as well as comparison and statistics which are all important to the argument and to the author's intentions. The author uses logos because he focuses on logical presentation and he is providing evidence and examples of his ideas. He also uses rhetorical devices as amplification, appositive, epithets to add more description to the picture, enumeratio and parallelism. I would say that the author also uses pathos to finally make the readers emotionally connected with the issue and to challenge them to find a solution of this problem.

URL: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-zogby/racism-and-gun-violence-a_b_7627318.html?fbclid=IwAR2dgZ6yZjTMw7zTuQYT-FHraKSCI1_LlJX7nhrgC2PXL_Ua8n1XiISM_ho

4.VISUAL ANALYSIS

This is a message presented and created by The American Psychological Association and originally published in their website www.apa.org. In my opinion, the target audience should be every American citizen because we all should care about our safety and the safety of our families no matter of our age, ethnicity, class, profession or interests. It seems to me as the target audience is mainly the college students because the article is written in an understandable manner for everybody and we (the college students) are the young generation which can make the change. The “text” of the message is ''HATE'' and the picture makes us see and better realize the consequences of the hate crimes and all victims. The “subtext” of the message sends messages to all members of the victim’s group showing them that they are unwelcome and unsafe in our community. It is also victimizing an entire group and decreasing their feelings of safety and security. The image seeks to address the injustice that not all citizens feel safe in our society and they live in constant fear about their lives or the lives of their children or family. Expressed are also despicable violations of our core values as Americans. The negative messages presented in the article is the dehumanization of the victims. And the positive message is that The American Psychological Association takes a public health approach to violence prevention advocacy, using psychological research to inform policies and programs. This message empowers the group of all victims and makes the world familiar with all hate crimes they suffered. The untold story is that the majority of hate crimes are never reported, so these data underestimate the true pervasiveness. We can get more information about the untold stories we should conduct more surveys and research the topic in detail. In conclusion, this image was really impactful for me because it showed the effects of hate crimes and what leads to hate crimes. It was also a representation of the injustice that not all citizens feel safe in our society. The image showed despicable violations of our core values as Americans and also its hidden message is that not all citizens feel safe in our community. Moreover, the image also makes us to thinks about an approach to violence prevention.

5.SURVEY ANALYSIS

The survey analysis shows that most of the people who took my survey were females. 71.4 % of the people who took my survey are between 18 and 21 years old and the other 28.6 % are spread between the participants in the range of 21-30 years old. Most of the people who took my survey answered that guns are ‘’bad’’ representing 71.4% of the participants and also 28.6 % chose the option ‘’undecided’’ which looks to me that they are not knowledgeable enough to express an opinion. Most of the people agreed with my thesis statement that stricter gun control should be imposed representing 85.7% of the voters. Also, 85.7% of the participants support the idea of imposing a low which requires background check and waiting periods on all potential buyers which is a really optimistic statistic. Around 72% of the participants think that stricter gun control laws would reduce hate crimes and racial incidents, and the rest 30% are equally spread between the other categories. The majority of the people are familiar with the terms ‘’hate crimes’’ and ‘’racial incidents’’. The survey results show that nobody from the people who voted was a victim of a hate crime. It looks as the all of the people who voted have the right idea of what the terms ‘’hate crime’’ and ‘’racial incident’’ mean. The majority of the people who voted define the motives for committing a hate crime mainly as race and prejudice.

6.EXPERT OPINION

The article ‘’Tulsa shooting hate crimes: The Impact of lax gun control’’ by Shanoor Seervai published on mic.com on April 11, 2012 is related to my research topic: ‘’How guns or the lack of gun control contribute to hate crimes or racial incidents’’ because it talks about the recent tragedies and also it presents a new a little bit different perspective for my topic. It also exemplifies these recent tragedies are an opportunity to address stricter firearm control. I liked that the article also talks about racism that these shootings has provoked. The author explains how most of the tragedies are mainly caused by guns and how stricter gun regulations are needed in order to prevent those incidents in the future. Shanoor Seervai is stating: ‘’Americans need to reflect on the predominance of gun-related homicide and frequent incidence of gun violence. To get to the crux of why these shootings took place and limit future similar shootings, policy makers must be willing to address how America’s lenient firearm control makes it easier for individuals to commit racist hate crimes.’’ This citation is the main idea of my research question and I really like how the author managed to sum up all of my ideas in a really precise way and made me feel more knowledgeable about my topic.

7.RESEARCH QUESTION DIALOGUE:

Me:How many hate crimes have been reported last year?

Source:‘’Between November 8 and February 19, the New York Police Department received 143 hate crimes reports — 42 percent more than during the same time last year’’ (Francesca Mirabile).

Me:How would you define hate crime?

Source: ‘’Hate crimes are different from other crimes. They strike at the heart of one's identity - they strike at our sense of self, our sense of belonging. The end result is loss - loss of trust, loss of dignity, and in the worst case, loss of life’’ (Hailey Middlebrook).

Me:What do you think about racism and gun violence?

Source:‘’Racism and gun violence are killing us, literally’’ (Dr. James J. Zogby).

Me:How often are hate crimes committed in the United States?

Source:

‘’One hate crime is committed in the United States, on average, every hour of every day’’ (Brian Levin).

Me:What are some interesting facts about hate crimes caused by guns that you would like to share with us?

Source:

‘’A terrifying statistic is showing that four unarmed black men have been killed by police for one month in 2014. Also, A data from procon.org shows that during the 16-year period from 1999 to 2015, 2015 had the most firearm deaths from legal intervention (484)’’ (Josh Harkinson).

Me:What is the adult US citizens point of view about gun regulations?

Source:‘’Majority of adult US citizens currently support the idea of gun regulations’’ (Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds).

Me:What do the American citizens think about background check and mandatory waiting periods during the firearm gun purchases?

Source:‘’97% of American voters and 97% of gun owners support universal background checks and 83% support mandatory waiting periods during the firearm gun purchases’’ (Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds).

Me: What could be a motive for committing a hate crime?

Source:‘’A “hate crime” is targeted criminal activity, usually motivated by prejudice based on perceived personal characteristics of the victims. These motivations may include race, religion, ethnicity, and sexual orientation’’ (University of Houston Police Department).

Me:How many people experienced hate crimes in the recent years and what was the main motive for those crimes?

Source:‘’In 2016, 4,426 people fell victim to hate crimes for which the motivation was race, ethnicity and/or ancestry. Out of 6,216 crimes reported: 47% were racially motivated, 21% resulted from sexual-orientation bias, 20% were motivated by religious bias,12% stemmed from ethnicity/national origin bias, and less than 1% (0.9%) was prompted by disability bias’’ (FBI).

Source:

‘’

Another pessimistic statistic is telling us that every hour in the United States somebody commits a hate crime’’ (Brian Levin).

Me: How many hate crimes are actually reported?

Source: ‘’In the US 6,222 hate crime incidents involving 7,254 offenses were reported in 2011.  Moreover, more than 3,000 state and local law enforcement agencies don’t report hate crimes to the FBI as part of their annual survey of crime in the US. The state of Hawaii is not included in any of this data because 0 agencies in the state file a report’’ (FBI).

Me:Did the hate crimes increase or decrease in the recent years?

Source: ‘’Hate crime rose in the United States by 6.8% from 2014 to 2015. This increase was largely driven by more attacks that targeted Muslims’’ (Keith Collins).

Me:What else is important to know about hate crimes?

Source: ‘’47% of the hate crimes that are reported to law enforcement are racially motivated. Another 21% are because of a sexual orientation bias, while 1 in hate crime incidents are motivated by a religious bias’’ (Brian Levin).

Me:What is the average daily number of hate crimes?

Source:‘’In the 10 days after the 2016 US Presidential Election, nearly 900 hate incidents were reported to the Southern Poverty Law Center. By comparison, from 2010-2015, there were about 36,000 hate crimes reported to the FBI. That means the average daily number of events potentially rose from 16 per day to 90 per day’’ (Maimuna Majumder).

Me:Do hate crimes involve a crime against a person or a property?

Source: ‘’About 3 out of 5 hate crime incidents involve a crime against a person. Another 1 in 2 incidents are classified as a crime against property. Incidents that involve both are reported in both categories. 65 of the hate crimes that were classified by the FBI in 2015 were categorized as being a “crime against society’’ (FBI).

Me:Do hate crimes include a gender bias?

Source: ‘’When a hate crime involves a gender bias, women are the target of the incident 70% of the time. In 2015, the total number of gender incidents that were reported to the FBI was 23’’ (Ben Leber).

Me:How many percent of the hate crimes result in an arrest?

Source: ‘’In a 2013 study, the Bureau of Justice Statistics found that only 4% of state-level hate crimes result in an arrest’’ (Brian Levin).

8.SOMETHING ELSE I WANT TO SAY

In the United States, hate crimes increased by 17% in 2017. This is the third consecutive year when the number of these incidents is increasing says the report of the FBI, quoted by the BBC. Law enforcement officials reported 7,175 hate crimes last year, compared to 6,121 in 2016. According to the FBI, the rise of this type of crime is due to the large number of police stations that have decided to start announcing them. According to the report, most often the victims of such offenses are African-Americans or Jews. The data also indicate that 59.6% of incidents are provoked by hatred on ethnic or racial grounds. Crimes of religious hatred are 20.6%, and those against sexual orientation are 15.8%.

Incidents involving firearms in the United States, which often end with mass deaths, are becoming more dangerous than terrorist acts. Local TV reporter 24-year-old Alison Parker and 27-year-old operator Adam Ward are shot dead while interviewing. They are killed by 41-year-old African-American Wester Flanagan. He shot himself in his car as he was persecuted by the police. Immediately after the shooting, Flanagan sends a fax letter to the fax saying he had decided to revenge the murder of blacks at the church in Charleston in June. Based on the events in Charleston where the 21-year-old American Dylan Roof killed nine people at a church with a gun, such tragedies are repeated in America very often. The most recent tragedy is the latest shooting at the synagogue in Pittsburg. A gunman barged into a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday (October 27th) and opened fire, killing 11 people in one of the deadliest attacks on Jews in U.S. history.Every time we hear about such tragedies, we know that in incidents of shooting in our country many more people die than in terrorist acts. 

9.CONCLUSION

There are similar cases everywhere in America - from New York through Ohio to California. However, the US law enforcement agencies act in part too hasty and are still affected by racist prejudices. No one can claim that there is a quick solution to the problem of hate crimes and racial incidents committed with guns. There are no simple answers to the question of how to improve the poor economic conditions African Americans suffer from. One thing, however, needs to be changed, quickly: the police are still a mirror of the existing racial inequality. 67 percent of the population of Ferguson, where Michael Brown is shot, are dark-skinned. Among the police officers there are 53 white Americans and only three are of another skin color. Against this background, some media have reported on the existence of tensions arising from racist conflicts.

There are many cases like this in Ferguson. The New Republic newspaper reported a study by the Ministry of Justice, according to which nearly 90 per cent of police officers are white in towns like Ferguson, with twenty thousand residents. The average share of white police officers in US police departments is 75 percent. This ratio needs to change.

Moreover, the most effective solution of the problem according to all participants in my survey requires the government to impose a law requiring licensed merchants to check the client’s past to check if there is a criminal record or a mental illness. Waiting periods and background check on all potential buyers are also strongly supported in my survey.

The other long-term goal is to invest more in education. Only by improving education the young African Americans can escape the fate which the statistics predict. Equality and better education cannot guarantee that cases like Michael Brown will not be repeated. But at least it will increase the chances to prevent this from happening again.

                                                Works Cited:

“11 Facts About Hate Crimes.” DoSomething.org | Volunteer for Social Change, www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-hate-crimes.

American Psychological Association, American Psychological Association, www.apa.org/advocacy/interpersonal-violence/hate-crimes.aspx.

Brian Levin, James J. Nolan, and John David Reitzel. “New Data Shows U.S. Hate Crimes Continued to Rise in 2017.” CBS News, CBS Interactive, 26 June 2018,www.cbsnews.com/news/new-data-shows-us-hate-crimes-continued-to-rise-in-2017/.

“Crystal Lombardo.” Vittana.org, 23 Feb. 2018, www.vittana.org/26-startling-hate-crime-statistics.

“Gunman Kills Two on Live Morning TV Broadcast.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, www.nbcnews.com/storyline/virginia-tv-shooting/wdbj7-reporter-alison-parker-photographer-adam-ward-killed-live-tv-n416221.

“Guns and Hate Crime: What We Know (and Don't Know) About the Role Firearms Play in Bias Attacks.” The Trace, The Trace, 24 July 2017, www.thetrace.org/2017/03/guns-hate-crimes-bias-attacks/.

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[hellyeahomeland]

“Paean to the People” | Directed by Lesli Linka Glatter

“Paean to the People” picks up right where “All In” left off. Carrie and Anson are speeding through the streets of Budapest Moscow Budapow. In this opening shot, their car is the only one on the bridge, adding to the feeling of just how on their own they are, without diplomatic cover, as they try to distract Yevgeny long enough to get Simone on that plane.

The arrangement in this shot!! Everyone whose face is visible is serving so much face. Simone is like, “don’t look at me.” Bennet (with facial hair!) is like, “are you fucking kidding me?” Doxie (with some pretty great side eye) is like, “I am NOT getting stuck in Budapow.” And Ms. Pink Scarf is like, “What am I doing here again? What is my job?” You and us both, Pink Scarf. You and us both.

Let’s give a full round of snaps to Sandy this season. She brought the sassy realness and Russian know-how the whole dang time. This show needs all the female energy it can get and this shot of her pulling out the chair for Clint’s “time out” is incredible. We’re not sure if she’ll be back for season eight, but if she won’t, we will miss her so.

Both Carrie and Anson know what’s at stake in this mission but in this moment, it’s Carrie who has to convince Anson how far she can and will go. We hate to say it, but the moment of recognition shared here between them screams “America First” when Quinn tells Carrie to get in the car and stay down. If seven seasons of Homeland have taught us one thing, it’s that these people all follow the same code: Get in. Get down. Shut up. Mission over self.

IJLTP.

We will hand it to the Homeland props department for getting the birthday right on Simone’s fake Carrie Mathison passport (it’s April 5, 1979). But!! Her middle name is spelled Anne, not Ann.

Simone spent a lot of time obscuring her face from the Russian officials in that car, but this glimpse of her expression after she asks Saul if he’s really going to leave Carrie--the Carrie who CLIMBED A FUCKING ROOF LIKE TWENTY MINUTES AGO TO GET TO SIMONE--in Budapow. That is a pursed lip and evil eye if we ever saw ‘em.

...And, of course, the guilt is written all over his face.

We are CACKLING at the dude in the white jacket in the background. We are not sure if he is just a really bad extra or some random stranger who saw Claire Danes in a Budapest train station and needed to share else he was met with a chorus of “pics or it didn’t happen” from his friends.

Sara and Doxie have the same birthday (November 4), which further solidifies that he is her forever man and the best Carrie Angel of them all.

We talked about the strong “America First” vibes above and the whole sequence of Carrie running through the train station is giving us heavy “The Smile” vibes, too. After seven seasons, it’s difficult for some moments not to feel like explicit callbacks from earlier episodes. After all, maybe looking at a mirror in a crowded marketplace is just Carrie’s favorite American spy woman move. But this shot, and Carrie’s smile later, are so specific that we think the homage is intentional.

IJLTP, II.

Real talk though, you really get a sense of the loneliness of the office here, as Beau faces away, back to the camera, surrounded by those heavy curtains.

Lesli Linka Glatter is a choreographer by training and she’s talked before about the diligent preparation she does before directing a Homeland episode. In sequences like these--filmed, acted, and edited with such specific clarity--that training and preparation come through loud and clear. Every shot has a purpose and we’re exposed to all angles of the action. It really is like a dance.

Here, the slow reveal of Yevgeny coming around the corner ratchets up the stakes as Carrie waits, a sitting duck in the locked room.

And here’s our duck. What’s so great about thrilling and suspenseful action sequences like this is the human moments they’re contrasted with. We can see the fear in her face as she contemplates whether to go down in a blaze of glory. She’s not made of steel. She may only have seconds left to live. She may be a hero but she is not a superhero.

Yevgeny delivers a BudaPOW (sorry, we couldn’t resist) with his punch to Carrie, but her moment of defeat is quickly transformed into one of triumph with the news that Saul and his “package” have achieved lift-off.

This smile, guys. Damn. Claire Danes is in a class all her own.

Delirious, glorious laughter. When was the last time we saw Carrie laugh?

It doesn’t last long, of course. The first rule of Homeland is that if Carrie smiles, shit’s about to get fucked up. “At least she had this moment,” we all whisper quietly to ourselves.

The shots of Saul looking down from his window at the city of Budapow--Carrie in it God knows where, the proverbial needle in the haystack--are powerful. He has left her there. And now he has to get her back.

We love this shot of everyone arrayed out like this, watching Simone’s testimony in The Room Where It Happened. Though we would like to point out that it’s hard to take Bennet seriously without facial hair. Dude, it’s 5 o’clock somewhere. Get on it! (Also there are so many VESTS this season! We count two in this shot alone.)

IJLTP, III.

This is the sequence of shots after Keane says she’ll do everything she can to get Carrie back. There was some chatter about going to Anson first (looking pensive), then Saul (looking sorrowful), and finally Max, who looks the most doubtful and suspect of them all (and, of course, almost hidden behind the others in the back). Sara actually thinks closing with Max is the most powerful. He’s been by Carrie’s side, through thick and thin, all seven seasons of this show. And after the trauma of losing Quinn last season, it’s easy to see how history may be replaying itself for him, this time in agonizing slow-motion.

So many “Pilot” vibes. This show loves playing with reversals and bookends, and having Carrie be the prisoner now is one of the most stinging of them all.

Sara would just like to say that she even looks beautiful in a Russian prison.

The book Carrie’s reading here is called Where Avon into Severn Flows, which is actually a short story by the American writer Harold Frederic and part of his book The Deserter and Other Stories: A Book of Two Wars.

Here is the opening paragraph of the story:

“A boy of fifteen, clad in doublet and hose of plain cloth dyed a sober brown, sat alone at one end of a broad, vaulted room, before a writing table. The strong, clear light which covered him and his work fell through an open window, arched at the top and piercing a stone wall of almost a yard's thickness. Similar openings to the right and left of him marked with bars of light a dozen other places along the extended, shelf-like table, where writers had now finished their day's labor, and, departing, had left covered horns of ink and cleansed utensils behind them. But the boy's task lagged behind fulfilment, and mocked him.”

It’s easy to see the parallels. Carrie is held in a Russian prison, also dressed in plain, ill-fitting clothes. She sits in a broad, vaulted room with a plain writing table nearby. Carrie might have won the battle, getting Simone back to the United States, but here in this cell, her success must feel fleeting and the irony of her current circumstance mocking.

Some major “There’s Something Else Going On” vibes here. (Sorry, we’re just gonna point out all our vibes.)

We’re just gonna call this pose from Costa Ronin the Yevgeny Lean (#IJustLikeHowHeLeans). On a more serious note, some credit needs to be given to Ronin, who brought Yevgeny to life and made him feel like a fully lived-in person. His habit of leaning back, feet propped out before him, is just one small example, but it’s representative of the care and attention he put into crafting such a three-dimensional portrait of one of the most interesting villains in the series’ history.

IJLTP, IV. 

And that IJLTP shot of Carrie, alone in that Russian prison with the stakes (i.e., her mental health) now clearly defined, is followed by the rather astounding hero’s welcome that awaits Keane back in the West Wing. This reminds Sara of those tunnels that sports teams would form after a game for everyone to run through. And now Sara wishes Keane had run through the tunnel, high-fiving everyone.

It’s Tie Color Time! Note that Beau is now back to the blue tie, having resumed his position as Vice President.

Talk about sweet karma. The scene between Paley and Keane is remarkable for a few reasons. First, Paley does all the talking. Keane doesn’t even give him the respect that comes with a response. He lowers himself to his knees, literally begging for her mercy.

Keane is often shot from below, highlighting her stance and power. But here, it’s a point-of-view shot. We see what Paley sees: this woman, whom Saul once claimed could not “rise above her own vindictiveness,” closing in on him, a bird of prey who’s finally made her catch. And then she spits in his face.

The Washington Monument, which sits due east of the Reflecting Pool, adds great dramatic effect to this beautifully shot (and scored) moment after Keane leaves her meeting with Paley. Despite the monument’s great size, in these shots its height matches Keane’s, which is likely intentional.

As the monument was being completed. Joseph R. Chandler, a Freemason and member of the House of Representatives said:

“No more Washingtons shall come in our time ... But his virtues are stamped on the heart of mankind. He who is great in the battlefield looks upward to the generalship of Washington. He who grows wise in counsel feels that he is imitating Washington. He who can resign power against the wishes of a people, has in his eye the bright example of Washington.”  

As she drives back through the DC streets at night one last time as President, she’s clearly at a crossroads. History has its eyes on her. (We will also continue to make ALL the Hamilton references.)

We’re not sure if this moment was scripted or if it was a choice by Claire in the moment. Either way, what’s happening? If she praying? Thanking God? Carrie’s relationship with religion and atonement has been basically nonexistent since the show devoted attention to it in season five. We wonder if, like Brody before her, she may be discovering--or rediscovering, as it were--it while in captivity, a salve for her inevitable isolation.

A few things to note from this headstone:

It’s the tenth anniversary of Andrew’s death.

Are we really meant to believe Keane is old enough to have had a kid in 1979? Elizabeth Marvel was born in 1969, which means she’s playing at least ten years older than she actually is. Sara does not buy this, but whatever.

Andrew is born mere weeks before Carrie, which in hindsight kind of shifts the relationship between Keane and Carrie in season six. Carrie really could be Keane’s daughter, and if Carrie indeed did see her in some small part as a mother figure, it frames her conflict with Saul last season--and the battle for Carrie’s loyalty--in an even sharper light.

This is just a gorgeous light, the rows of headstones filling the bottom half of the screen and the large, overgrown tree framing Keane in the top half. It’s her figurative “moment alone in the shade” (figurative because she’s not really in the shade, but y’all catch our drift).

Again, it was impossible to properly capture the moment when Carrie congratulates Aleksandr through anything other than a gif. The quiver in her voice, her attempt at a forced smile. After this moment, the lighting in the room shifts--she is literally forced to see the light, as the direness of her circumstances are fully revealed.

This is the last time we see Carrie before the “seven months later” coda, so now’s as good a time as any to talk about the truly tremendous work she did this season.

From the opening episode, Claire took us on the tenuous, tumultuous journey of Carrie’s war with her own mind and the battles waged within. Every episode, every moment was brought to life with exacting precision. Sometimes we loved her, and sometimes we hated her, but Claire’s commitment to every moment never wavered, whether it was seducing Dante, having nightmarish visions of her bloodied daughter, or inching her way across that GRU roof.

The throughline of this season of Carrie’s mental health makes this moment and the final scene land with even more crushing weight than they otherwise would. When Carrie experiences a breakdown so harrowing and frightening, she goes to extreme lengths to restore her own sanity. In the last three episodes of the season, we see just how invaluable that sanity is--her mind is both her greatest asset and greatest liability.

Carrie knows here what’s about to happen. She stares, eyes wide open, almost as if she’s glimpsing into the future at what lies before her. There’s no safety net this time, no pills or ECT to pull her back or hit the reset button. But for as much as she knows that she’ll lose her mind (in every sense of the word, it turns out), there is also great uncertainty, looking into “the bottom of a black hole with no walls.”

Something we find super interesting about this sequence is just how many perspectives LLG gives us of Keane’s speech, whether it’s Wellington’s from inside the Oval, Saul in his office, or Yevgeny in Budapow. Again, LLG’s choreography background comes shining through. For almost the entire speech, we see her presidency--and what turns out to be its final moments--through everyone’s lens except her own.

LLG doesn’t shoot Keane center-frame, without some extra filter of a screen, until the very end of the scene, after the speech is over. Keane talks earlier about wanting to speak directly to the American people, from the heart, but what we actually get is everyone looking at screens, at the filtered version of this woman and her office, a metaphor if ever there was one for her short-lived presidency.

As her speech (which, like Washington’s Farewell Address, focuses on the need to not let political parties and divisions tear apart the country) nears its end, we do see Keane center-frame. But, again, it’s a shot of her center-frame on the screen, and her appearance is somehow altered and filtered.

(A quick note about her wardrobe: Keane starts the day grieving for her son at Arlington, and she keeps on the same black clothing during her speech, a signal of the impending end of her presidency. The dangling earrings are also an interesting choice, and an unusual one for Keane, who usually wears studs or conservative-looking hoops. Like Carrie in “Species Jump,” this is as close as she’ll get to “letting her hair down,” and the unconventional jewelry choice conveys the peace she’s found with her decision.)

And now the lights come down on Keane and her presidency, in every sense of the word.

The dynamics of this scene remind Sara of the end of “The Choice,” when Saul sees Carrie in that hall of dead bodies after thinking she’d died in the explosion. They shared a moment of recognition at the end of that scene, standing in stark contrast to what unfolds here.

Here’s our first good shot of Carrie, and there’s a lot to take in. The swollen face and unkempt hair are startling, to say the least. Under her bulky black coat she’s wearing white (you can see a peak of her shirt here but her pants--not visible in this shot--are also white), indicating she’s been in an asylum.

The season opened with Carrie running on a treadmill, athletic and strong, the buzzy chords of jazz blaring in our ears. It ends with our heroine on the complete opposite end of the spectrum. She’s feeble and unsteady, running away from the Russian guards and straight past Saul. We hear jazz again, but it’s slower and somehow weightier.

As Saul gently brushes the hair from her face and looks into her eyes, calling her name, she is seemingly unable to recognize him. Her eyes dart from side to side, up and down, but his remain steady on her, and we can see (and share) the concern and devastation etched on his face.

She’s searching, and so is he.

[itsthelinernotes]

Do I Need To Know About Music If I Want To Write About It?

Somehow everyone likes Music, but simultaneously we can’t agree on what music we like. So what is it that we’re all in agreement about liking? This makes for a strange bit of sociology in terms of how music is approached and talked about. Since music has this odd type of universality it’s seeped deep into our culture and our discussions of it manifest in some strange ways. My love of music, and later love for philosophy and sociology is what led me to studying why music is so universal but not agreed on for six years and two degrees.

All this time studying music has led me to what I now arrogantly believe may be one of the central contradictions of music which is that it is worthless. I’m not trying to say that it’s worth is = 0 nor am I trying to misdirect with a platitude that it is “priceless” meaning that it’s worth is infinite. What I mean is that it simply cannot be defined in terms of having a worth at all. In computer terms you might consider this as being null. I don’t believe this worthlessness is necessarily bad or even good. What I do mean to point out is that it prevents us from thinking clearly about the role of music. When considering we live in a capitalist hellscape this provides a problem because we can’t assign its value at “infinite” nor can we value it at “0”. This is what I think leads to the never ending arguments surrounding the worth of music, musicians, their work.

Before I go on, I should make this clear: I support every musician in their right to get paid. I wrote my Master’s thesis on the labour rights of musicians and how they are abused. However I have a utopian vision where all music is free for everyone. That vision doesn’t jive with our world and until we have some massive societal revolution, musicians gotta eat and we have to play by the rules of capital for now.

The most frustrating way that this valuelessness manifests is that knowledge about music, be it music theory, music history, sociology of music, whatever, is always valued as a secondary skill even in the industries and structures built around music (I pause here again to remind people that I’m a recovering academic writing blogs on Tumblr, what I’m about to describe is personal, I’m mad about it, maybe that’s improper or biased but it’s how I understand my own experiences). Let me give you a few examples.

After entering the hell of the job market with two music degrees I was encountered with a great deal of false hope. There were actually fairly frequent job postings in or around the “music industries”. This was great for living in a small city, albeit one with a rich musical history. What quickly hit me though is that despite all these music jobs no one was actually looking for anyone who knew anything about music. Go ahead and search “music” on a job board, most of the jobs listed will not have “requires a knowledge of music or musical background” unless you’re teaching (I’ll get to this later). Most jobs in music require marketing, business, social media, administration, event planning, etc. Whats more they require experience in those fields so they are not open to most musicians or people who have dedicated their time to the actual music. I don’t mean to downplay those skills or say they are not relevant, I do mean to say that any actual knowledge of music is rarely prioritized. Of course people with passion for music are attracted to these positions but they can also become bloated with people who enjoy music passively. I guess the issue there is that I don’t know a single person who doesn’t enjoy music.

At this point you’re probably shrugging off my frustration as an idiot who thought studying music instead of literally anything else would help me get employed in music. Well you’re right I am frustrated because even the people I know with music degrees who work in music had to get a second degree or diploma unrelated to music to get that job. You might also say “well there are people who write about music who get hired based on their knowledge of music.” But let me dig at that point.

As someone who keeps a close eye on these job postings I can say with relative confidence that most job postings at major music publications (I recently saw one for Stereogum) require experience in journalism first. Their interest is not in proving that you actually understand the content you’ll be writing about but that you’ll be able to produce content on anything. This is most clearly shown in music reviews. Take any review of a new popular album and jot down a one sentence summary of each paragraph. You don’t have to do much to see that not only do these writers bring up the same points in each review, they often do it in the same order. I don’t say this to slander journalists, I think it’s a noble profession, one I don’t have the skills to do. I do this to point out that if you take an incredibly diverse set of information and give it to people who have been trained to write in a certain way, you’ll get largely the same output. If you don’t, you’ll encounter an editor who, having raised through the same ranks will see that it is. Of course it’s not always the case that journalists get hired to write for these publications (for instance, you may just have connections) but it is very common.

I realize this comes across as arrogant and entitled but I think the question of credentials is an important one. After all, I’ve spent six years writing about music under the scrutiny of academia to be told over and over I don’t have the qualifications to write great content like “Every Radiohead Song Ranked” because I didn’t study journalism. I hosted a campus radio show on music for four years to be told the same thing at a radio station. What seems to be happening is that obviously music is important. We’ll create an infinite amount of publications dedicated to the topic. It has worth. But it’s still second to skills that have value to the institution. What I hear from people hiring in music is “Of course music is important... it’s just not valuable”. My encyclopedic knowledge of music is not welcome in the working world unless it’s tied to another skill that can be more efficiently employed. This is because we can’t actually place value on music the way we can on skills with more quantifiable outputs.

This brings me to education. All through my time studying music I got “so you going to be a teacher?” it was something I found frustrating but I do love to teach so I always said “maybe”. Well recently I figured I might as well look into teaching. Where I live, to get a teaching degree you need to have a certain amount of course hours in “teachable” subjects. There’s band class in every school here and luckily I’ve taken a number of conducting classes and have plenty of class hours in music. When looking at the list of subjects considered “teachable” one has an asterisk next to it. It turns out music can only be your “secondary” teachable meaning you have to have majored in another topic and maybe minored in music. I talk to teachers I know in the province and they say that there are barely any music teachers and they regularly have to try and recruit from outside the province. I called one of the univeristies in my area and they assured me that my masters degree was not applicable and that I can’t even apply to be a teacher with only music credits. What I love about this is that I, as arrogant as it may sound, almost certainly know more about music than anyone teaching it in my province (there is a small program at my alma matter that gives degrees in “music education” but having spent a good deal of time with those people I’m not too worried about competition). More people would have education degrees not from the music education program and instead would all have music as a “secondary”. Meanwhile I’m not even eligible to enter most of the teaching programs here at all.

While this article certainly comes off as the complaints of a dumbass, I think there’s an importance in asking these questions. If you decide to pursue the knowledge of music academically, why is that so often viewed as a bonus to a primary knowledge? Why are our priorities in the music world on non-musical skill sets and knowledge, even in careers that are concerned with music knowledge like teaching and music writing? I don’t think it’s anything to do with the well meaning people I’ve thrown under the bus here and everything to do with our way of measuring value. Or better, our deep inability to deal with things that can’t have value assigned to them. Consider also that every LP when it came out was sold for the same price, but immediately some of them became collectable and would exponentially increase in value while others you would struggle to give away. The universality of price of a new LP in the 60s, a new CD in the 90s or an iTunes single in the 00s was because we just can’t place a value on its contents so we had to concede that every song is worth $0.99. Because a good deal of my identity and work has been put into understanding music now my skill set and that of others is in a weird non-value. Afterall everyone loves music, what’s so special about me?

[autoirishlitdiscourses]

Discourse of Monday, 08 March 2021

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I realize. This all looks good to me. Thanks for letting me know if you want to look for cues that this cut off some possibilities for discussion, but getting the class 5% of course, you will usually promote yes-or-no question, but your delivery does not exempt you from your larger-scale project. I think that making a final decision by this coming Wednesday 30 October or 6 pm section, people have done some very minor error, a productive direction, but it does good things for the movie, actually. I think that one'll work well, in large part because it touches on things that you could take this set of initial examinations of your passage, getting people to speak instead of responding to paper proposals and recitation outlines, or in addition to being more successful argument.

Which isn't to say, because this is primarily covered over by this page and copyright pages because there's a chance to do to do two things: a place where this is the full text of Pearse's speech without too much to obscure many important qualities of the specific selection that shows that you've already done this week, and file an informational report that doesn't work, Upton Sinclair's The Jungle 1906, but I felt like did a solid, though I also appreciate that this is a good impression. I assign/letter grades, I suspect that that is formatted correctly. After you've narrowed down what the success of your finals, and I won't figure participation in until your final grade for the course! —You have some very good job, but usually issued as money after 1816, though, you've done a good move on your way, and have a hard skill to learn and I will cut in and provide a very good job tonight, anyway. But I will offer you some breathing room on other classes, etc. The golden rule for equipment usage is that you are not other ways to do with the class and led them through some very perceptive readings, and you may want to go into in conversation.

Thanks! We Lost: Eavan Boland, and responded with a professional psychologist discussing it in in the writing assignment. All in all, you should have the Class Level field filled out. Again, thank you for doing a good weekend! You should still let me know ASAP remember that I'll be awake for a job well done this week. You're in charge for those meetings; it sounds like you to do whatever would be necessary, then why argue in favor of it, though. I've thought about the way this is partly a cultural difference in our backgrounds. This XTHML file was last updated 28 October 2013 There has just been going through them in the text itself and seeing what is being transmitted, specifically, and emergencies, not on me. Though it was more lecture and less a series with which you improved over your own topic; I'm normally much more quickly would have been nice to have moved forward even more than a set of readings here. You may be related to each other with more detail; thinking about it from paying off as much as it deserves on that section; got the lowest passing grade but make sure that I feel that the more likely selection.

We also insist that politics demands complex thinking and that they only discussed a single set is just to make jokes about the rebellion of 1798. Hi! Think about how you're framing it and let me know. You did a good discussion, depending on what happened last week. I'll see you next quarter! Again, I guess you could think about ways to go; it's of more or less a series with which the writer has a goatee. Discussion sections are an emergency contact that you may have arranged an alternate exam through DSP. You picked an important part of the performance that was purely an estimate of where to that point in the service of a group of talented readers, and extreme claims require very strong delivery overall. However, if you feel that it would have read to by in from a crucial point in the manner that supports microformats such as Firefox with the non-trivial illumination of both the link to them by title in your revision stage if not otherwise instructed would be for you, and you've certainly demonstrated that you could say. You are welcome to talk about outlines, or any sheet music during a quick search. No longer issued as money after 1816, though I don't really know. You handled your material very effectively this can be. All in all, from taking an incomplete for the quarter. Overall, this is not caught up on reading will probably make some very perceptive things to say to the skin on her forehead was so tight I thought I had hoped, motivating people to engage in micro-level interpretations of the division of a comparable manner to what specific structure you should have emailed me to do them gracefully into an analytical lens, and students can find applications in the future. Student Presentation Notes On poems by Yeats, O'Casey, Act II: Was I sleeping, while also leaving options for other section I've ever worked with, e. Think about what your paper's conclusion, which you perform some complex and insightful discussion. I'm happy to meet downtown at a middle A. Yeats, September 1913 next week.

At the root of these is that the professor send out are considered to be changed than send a new follower on Twitter. I am not asking you to skip to the novel and brought up some interesting and perceptive understandings of them into an explicit analytical concern would pay off, and overall you did well here: you had chosen, it's been happening intermittently this quarter, although if you have previously been attending but not necessarily that you'll need to do your recitation tomorrow. Ultimately, it's weird. How would you prefer to do recitations in section than they have a good job digging in to a woman's skirt at the Recitation Assignment Guidelines handout. Again, thank you for a job well done, both of my girlfriends. You've also been participating extensively and wind up engaging in a radio interview. Remember what we talked about this if that's why you're picking that particular speech out of town this weekend has just been going through them to ask.

Hooker p. I also know that the questions that ask people to go back to you because, when you're not in your delivery was lively, impassioned delivery. I think that what will be 500 total points for the course. Think about how you will need to reschedule, and you should then discuss the grade I gave you is going on. I'll probably do this.

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Thanks for your patience. You incur a/penalty of 40 _3, if you need to think of this effectively if the equipment does not include your bonus for performing in front of a set of readings here—my suspicion is that he has never been to section and total how many minutes away you are, even if the paper because describing a personal reflection. Well done on this you connected it effectively to themes that have come very close less than half a percent away crossing the line into the theatrical tradition. Good luck with all of this paper are borrowed from other students in the sense of the text.

It is your job to do this, but rather what does it express their situation, and that you needed to happen for this paragraph: attending section on Wednesday! You added an extra word to line 7. Let me know if you have a very good reason for missing section for a productive manner to accomplish, intellectually speaking, of course material, however, I think that it is, there are several ways in which you can instantiate a logical argument that is, your readings are excellent, and I will also photocopy it for a lot of things that are the number of things quite well here, and I want to look at. Often, B papers take risks and do a very high B.

Besides attendance, not a fair grade for the first people to make sure it's at least 24 hours in advance as part of the total grade for the quarter when we first scheduled recitations. Your delivery did quite a nice plan here. You too! 43: A narrow, rural, frequently unpaved road. It seems history is to know your final tonight went or is not because I realized that your situational and historical and cultural ties to the aspects of the research or writing requirement, etc. I'll see you next week if you send me an email letting me know if you cannot arrange a time in the English Office and on your grade back this time, fifteen minutes, not blonde, hair. Let me know if you have left, but I would have helped to have a middle A.

Thanks for doing such an excellent quarter! If you have a copy of the Western World, and The Cook, the impossibility of meaningfully taking a senior-level details of your evidence supports your assertions about female parental centrality need more backing than you're looking for, and only point of analysis, too.

Although I do this, we could meet at a different topic, I think might have helped you to talk about how you're framing it and of showing that you want to make a very limited number/of your performance. I didn't anticipate at the documents developed by my office before 5 p. I feel that it's impossible for you that this is within the absurdist tradition. Similarly, having specific plans for your health. Come by my office or after? Serving as a whole. You picked a very good paper here in order to be answering a question and letting the emotion of the class to be sure without seeing it tomorrow! Let me know if you want any changes made I have defined an A paper; I think that one thing: The hat scene in/Waiting for Godot Chris has generously agreed to share these with your own presentation skills. Barring being hit by a character referred to only as the comments that you are perfectly capable of doing this. You've done a lot of ways, and I'll see you then Great! If you are one of them received a boost of a great addition to motherhood, those who are friends of mine and whom I suspect would fit well with unexpected questions and letting the discomfort of silence force people other than misogynistic. It is not an acting class, because you are scheduled or not this lifts you to do what the exact text/date combinations.

I'd encourage you to engage in micro-level details of your paper wants to do one of the nine options; he also wrote quite a while because everyone is able to comment on them. Not the least insightful essays of anyone in your proposal for your other possible responses if this happens: 1 I think that you will leave me with a fresh eye and ask again. Don't worry about taking longer to get back to you I was wondering whether we'll be having section during the last two stanzas are good for you you have not yet linked them to be re-framed to be docking you points for the 5 p. Well tied to the hesitations and frustrations in the section guidelines handout, you should look at your current grade is OK with the paper is going OK for you if you remind me before I do; added old to what their common thread is, or you otherwise want me to give you a bit nervous and a bit in the same way that is a B for the paper you had planned to cover Ulysses. 8 p. How does he see the outline for here is some aspect of the section. All of which strike me as soon as you can see one here. You could think about how your grade, you have disclosed any part of the poem and gave a sensitive, thoughtful performance that was fair to Yeats's text; just don't assume that your general plan such as mid-century Marxist reading of Yeats's poem, then you may contact UCSB's Title IX Compliance Office, the average i. But you really want to switch to taking the final. Again, all of those sound good, nuanced, and you do this but not past your level of familiarity with the rest of the definitions of romance that you cannot think of anything to talk about it closely it quite good. 12:45 will that work for you but that your grade by Friday afternoon saying so is perfectly OK to subdivide your selected texts and what specifically has changed, but may not use GauchoSpace to calculate grades, but part of the passages in question by repeating something you said in a coffee shop, I'd suspect that that is repeated on both outlines, and bring in several very important to you. We will of course grade.

In a media-saturated age, people have received more than two-minute or so, I think the fairest grade to demonstrate this. Your initial explication was thoughtful and focused without being as closely integrated into it—this has happened, review briefly any major points of analysis, and quite enjoyed having you in lecture. Have a good discussion point as might your others. Is to have been assigned for Tuesday, so if you have to recite, the more interesting one, too.

That alone motivated most students who propose personal topics sometimes have a good reading of Ulysses is a mandatory part of the passages in question generally or always plays by the Office of Judicial Affairs that does a good Halloween! You did a solid job. If you're careful to stay prepared for the quarter. Let me know if you send it along. I'd post a slightly edited version of your life, you should definitely be very very high, and again your comments and passages from the section eventually, and think about: if you can represent your thoughts, are very impressive moves. I think you have a good job with a fresh eye and asking yourself what your discussion. My Window discussion of the early part of your grade, with no credit for attendance if they could stand? I haven't graded the final exam; b you're still listed as TBD, please see me! Very well done there. Three did not explicitly help you really have done something that I think reasons.

You expressed an interest in food-based and less discussion than other people uncomfortable enough that you would be to let you keep an eye on a literary topic; you have to evolve. I'll put you down for inaccuracies as measured against a different time. Paper-related experiences that are working, rather than moving around on the Web: New document on section one. Receiving a D on a Mantelpiece; Guitar, Fruits et Pichet; Still Life-Le Jour. Let me know, and Ocean's Bad Religion was a much stronger delivery than the syllabus pretty well in many ways, you've done some solid work here, and overall you had a lot of ways to go for answers on questions about identity formation, I also understand that it needed substantial additional work. Let me know what you'd like, in which it could conceivably have been beaten into shape this is a pretty broad word that might help students to make a contribution to our own field of action And comes to find an alternative way to contrast Irish and British colonialism, and a grade update, too, because your writing stage. You have a midterm from or? To-morrow for the recitation, and I will definitely pay off. —I will be paying attention to your literary texts rarely constitute direct proof that one thing that leaves me feeling unsatisfied about your key terms what does it express their situation, I imagine, and this question and, again, you will have to choose that passage, getting people to talk.

You really have done something that genuinely moves you and showed this in half if you have just under 95% for the course and scratch and claw for every point available for the next lower grade range—not just a moment. Passages for close reading of a text from the absolute maximum amount of time makes his use of verb tense rather complex in the United States.

Many thanks. You did a very good readings here, I don't think those criteria really apply here. I'll just have so many emails shortly before each paper grade are the similarities and differences, specifically, that connecting Lucky's speech and discussion tomorrow! There was a wonderful poem and its historical situation here, but I'm not mad at any time. Hi! And I'm smacking my own preference would be to find that speaking with me at least some background on Irish nationalism, for instance. If you have written over the holiday weekend this quarter. Just let me know what you are an emergency contact that you cannot recite the lines that you just exactly fill eight pages, and not just closely at the context of your end-of-quarter finals and papers, but I'm hesitant to make it by 10 a.

Hi! My first, and anticipate and head off potential major objections to its topic and you're absolutely welcome to ask how the poem's rhythm and showed this in paper comments, is that if you want me to leave your luggage to section and do not affect the reader's ability to serve as a check/check-minus-type grade, based on the final. You both did a very modernist view of the scenarios above; you could be set next to each other, and that this is of poor quality: The Soldier's Song Irish national anthem in Irish nationalism, I think. Well done on this you picked, the more interesting ones, and listens to a theoretically supportable level. 4:30 works with my own tongue.

I'm familiar with your own reading of is one place where this is because this often doesn't respond to the small-scale concerns very effectively and in writing in a strong recitation. Currently, there's your declaration of how I assign/letter grades onto point totals should map onto letter grades is as follows: If your point, the choice of course, think about my own favorite parts from that part of the story if you'd like, etc. First: Cubism and temporally related movements were often concerned specifically with representations of the text that you could consider the question, and I'll accommodate as many people in the lyrics or music the color green, for that week, then you might want to do what the relationship between the poem constructs tension. 45: A cultural meta-narrative that is necessary to somehow be constructed through texts that you're more effectively. Even if someone else in your paper for instance, to work harder for the quarter when we talked about it, you had an excellent Thanksgiving and a bit because this will hopefully help to motivate to talk about why a specific analysis and what you'll drop if you prefer to do so. You are currently more than five sections and you both for doing a strong job yesterday you got up in certain specific ways that I am not the only one! I'm looking forward to your discussion, your paper should consist of a historical text, be aware of areas where it is likely to receive a grade independently of the selection in the assignment requirements, minor requirements, major requirements, minor requirements, and I won't assess participation until the very rare A and F grades, which at least 80% on the final itself, just as Shakespeare doesn't necessarily tell us how one or two key issues.