There were no real challenges that I, or my group faced this week. Like I have said in the past we all work really well together. I enjoy the people I was assigned to work with because I see how were all very determined about […]
Category: All Work
Specialization: The Enriched Major
“Students overwhelmingly have come to view general education as irritating interruption– an annoying detour on their way to their degree. They all too often do not see how such requirements will help them get a job or live a life” (Boyer 217). Understanding annotation “The […]
Journal #17
This week in class, we were able to finalize all details of the project that were left. It included cleaning up our resources, adding new pictures, and making sure writing meets the word count. It was really helpful to be all in the same room […]
Journal #16
I thought this last class was really productive for our group. We were able to look at our other groups work, and see how it compared to ours. I felt ours was different from the others group which was great because it doesn’t feel like […]
Historians Who Love Too Much: Reflections on Microhistory and Biography QCQ’s
“The subject of some microhistories are important, famous people, and, at least according to Backscheider, the subjects of some biographies are humble folk. Second, it is unhelpful: it simply begs the question of classification” (Lepore 132). I don’t like to this that everyone there has […]
Regarding the Pain of Others (Chapters 1 & 2) QCQ’s
Q: “Woolf begins by observing tartly that a truthful dialogue between them may not be possible. For though they belong to the same class, “the educated class,” a vast gulf separates them: the lawyer is a man and she is a woman” (Sontag 1). C: […]
Journal #15
Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to be in person with my group this week to do work on our project. To combat this problem, I had to be diligent on my communication with my group. this meant texting with them in our group chat and giving […]
Journal #14
During this week, I was able to accomplish a lot for this project. We assigned out roles, me taking the lead on the testimonial portion of the project. With that I reached out to a couple students and staff members on campus through email, requesting […]
Regarding the Pain of Others (Chapters 6-9) QCQ’s
Q: “Calling such wishes “morbid” suggests a rare aberration, but the attraction to such sights is not rare, and is a perennial source of inner torment” (Sontag 96). C: This is a really conflicting statement for me personally, not something I particularly agree with Sontag […]
Journal #13
There is a couple things I enjoyed in this chapter so I am going to list them each reflecting a little: It was interesting, and something I understood, that groups do not mean numbers but mean commonality. Think of groups as hereditary, common social interests, […]
