My presentation was about my personal contact zone due to the clothes that I buy. My closet is overwhelmingly Urban Outfitters; So I decided to research the brand and the company. What I discovered was unsettling. I discoverd that a brand that I have supported for many years has been in the midst of numerous controversies revolving around racism, mental illness, inequality, and insensitivity. In addition to their design controversies, they have been discovered by the US Department of Labor to be using sweatshop-like labor in dowton LA. In conclusion, I discovered that we have to be conscientious consumers and research what our favorite brands really stand for, because if we don't stop consuming, they won't stop abusing. 

At first, I found Waring's ideas to be very difficult to grasp--the article we were to read for class was very difficult for me to parse, perhaps because of my health difficulties this week. However, as I am watching the documentary on her work, I am profoundly intrigued. I had heard of news stories of her before, but had never seen her work in action. The facts and ideas I am drawing from this have sent me barreling down a new line of thinking. It strikes me that economics is fundamentally patriarchal and colonial.

Americanah reading notes

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“All his life, he had eaten oranges without seeds, oranges grown to look perfectly orange and to have faultless skin and no seeds, so at eight years old he did not know that there was such a thing as an orange with seeds”

-I think that the orange might be a reoccurring them, because she does always ask for OJ. I noticed it when she was first in Kimberly’s house, and thought how odd it seemed that she asked for Orange Juice when asked if she’d like a drink.

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“…I told him to look at my son. There are only two of them in the whole school.”

rokojo & I reported on our gathered info regarding trans inclusion at Bryn Mawr (link to the ppt here). We talked to different people in order to view the issue/debate from multiple angles. During the presentation, we discussed some history of transgender representation and admissions policies. In particular, in 2007 there was a plenary resolution to create a transgender task force in order to make the environment (with respect to this topic) at the college a safe, healthy, inclusive, and supportive one.

Over the years, technology has been groundbreaking. Recent innovations have been released that could possibly change the world. However, these original gadgets have become so addictive, that people have became more depending on their personal gadgets. Ranging from smartphones to laptops-- too much exposure can harm human health and in Today’s times, it is almost impossible to find anyone without the latest gadget in the palm of their hand. But, what happens when it’s time to dispose a gadget? 

Silvi Shameti

Innovation in education can exist in many different forms; it can be in the curriculum that a teacher carefully and deliberately chooses in order to focus on specific things; it can be in the methods a teacher uses in the classroom and the expectations and standards they set for their students; it can be in the way they handle their students’ backgrounds and take into account their cultural knowledge; and it can be in the way they make use of resources outside of the classroom, like a student’s family or community.

To understand what innovation in education can be, it is important to understand where the need for innovation comes from. The word itself implies a process of making something new and better, and is often attributed to using some new tool that previous did not exist. Thus, the idea of innovation in education is often connected to the use of more advanced technologies in the classroom and as a tool for learning. However, the form of education that we are referring to in our framing of the word ‘innovative’ is not reliant on utilizing a previously inaccessible resource, but is rooted in exploring the relationships between people, and how an educational space can be changed depending on how we choose to, and are able to, think and interact.

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