Vivian O’Bannon

Jody Cohen

Emily Balch Seminar – Changing Our Story

December 6, 2016

Agency Does Not Cancel Out

On Thursday December 1, 2016, I led our class to the Enid Cook Center Library for Class. I chose this location because it is one of the most concealed and closed off spaces to the campus. Prior to selecting this class location I sat of the ECC Board of directors as the Community Outreach Coordinator, and of our goals was to provide the Bryn Mawr community the opportunity to learn more about, and see what lies beyond the locked doors of ECC. The ECC was built as a reprisal for the Perry House building which was built so that the black students who attended Bryn Mawr had a place to stay. Perry House held 10 people, but because of the poor conditions that number dwindled to 7. Eventually Perry House was allowed to get so bad that, it would be too costly to fix and was torn down.

We'll meet Thursday @ 11:25 in Anne's classroom, Taylor F, and then again @ 7:30 in the English House Lecture Hall, in order to hear the rest of your presentations. We'll do these in the order listed below; if you are on this list, please be sure that whatever you are projecting is up on Serendip by classtime; this will help us to be efficient about the technical details here, so we can spend our time on meatier matters!

We'll begin Thursday morning's class with some questions for, or responses to, Jessica and Melinda's Tuesday presentation on LGBT and low Income students, then have some general conversation about the similarities and differences we saw among the 6 presentations we heard that day: what claims reinforced, which ones challenged one another?

Here's a friend of mine who's an interpreter doing an ASL version of "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift. 

Not art made by a deaf person, but definitely Deaf culture.

https://vimeo.com/126808499

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=even+dwarfs+started+small

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRAFNTKJuSc 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXbQ5jkmSUA&index=2&list=UUQRPS2UEAW2DSQ0VMV94RLg this is a video 

https://www.arts.gov/NEARTS/2014v3-healing-properties-art-health/dancing-disability this is the company 

https://youtu.be/UTrb6i7gJAk

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1zp-gTkG9-DjONPIb-JGGZ_z7B_OSKbuvJ0Bu3LHL7KA/edit?usp=sharing

After reading As The World Burns written by Jensen and Mcmillan to page 150, I get the similar feeling of reading The Collapse of Western Civilization(“The Collapse" for short), but in a more comic and hilarious way. Because The Collapse is constructed as a historical review from the future aspects, gathered a great amount of datas and details, however, As The World Burns is more like a narrative story that hides its meanings behind its exaggerated characters in a humorous way. The collapse is a scientific novel while ATWB is a graphic novel. But both books reflect the reality that human is consuming the earth resources and destroying the place where we live in.