“ ’Chicken Little is imprinting on me. That’s her name. Wanna see?’ She approached and … and I could see the chick’s bright, beady eye. ‘Okay, that’s enough,’ Ocean said, … ‘I don’t want her to imprint on you.’ (p. 159)”

Ocean treats Chicken Little with a great affection. She lets Yumi to see it but just for a moment because she does not want it to recognize Yumi as its mother. Moreover, she may wants to be its only mother.

All Over Creation: Identity, Perspective, and Interconnection

Ruth Ozeki’s text is an exploration of environment. The social, the religious, and the natural environments influence and are influenced by the characters in the novel. Throughout All Over Creation, it is plain to see that the interpersonal relationships in the novel form a network – an environment, so to speak – that affects everyone and everything else.

In Ruth Ozeki’s book “All Over Creation”, it is clear to see the identity and environment closely related to each other. The environment here means not only physical environment but also social environment and, which both help shaping people’s identity. The complexity of the relationship between people’s identity and environment is revealed in the book.

Fucking and Places: Sexual and Spatial Memory in All Over Creation

I decided to have our class in our original classroom, Taylor F, because it was raining outside and we haven't been in our original classroom for a while. At the beginning of the class, very loud and disruptive noise was coming out from the windows. This caused people to have to speak up over the noise and caused the normally peaceful setting to be tumultuous. However, we decided to close the windows after a while, but I personally found the temperature inside the classroom far too hot to be comfortable.

Last November, @ the National Women's Association Conference in Puerto Rico, Jody and I presented @ a roundtable entitled “Seeking Justice Inside and Outside the Walls.” One of our co-presenters was Sue Castagnetto, who teaches Philosophy and Women's Studies @ Scripps College in California; the other was Romarilyn Ralston, who had taken a poetry class with Sue when she was inside. When she was released from prison, she enrolled in and graduated from Pomona College, and is now pursuing a master's degree @ Washington University in St. Louis.

Romarilyn just published this piece in the Ms. Magazine blog, which I thought might speak to y'all:

“The Sixth Extinction” by Elizabeth Kolbert Ch.5 notes and class teaching plan

By Grace, Creighton, Beatrice, and Caitlin

Chapter XIII: The Thing With Feathers

(Aayzah, Khadijah, Amaka, Abigail)

• When humans try to process disruptive information, "their first impulse is to force it into a familiar framework" 
• Paradigm Shifts 

Examples in chapter 

1. Ordovician extinction, first of the mass extinctions, was caused by plants

2. Rats "deforested the landscape"

Humans need to recognize there is an issue and that we have a large impact.