Commonplace Book: Entry 10 “I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool” F. Scott Fitzgerald. In this quote, Daisy is talking about her daughter. She pretends she is happy that she has a daughter; however, in reality she knows that the 1920’s is […]
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Commonplace Book: Entry 9
Commonplace Book: Entry 9 “Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today, and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, […]
Commonplace Book: Entry 8
Commonplace Book: Entry 8 In 2014, 1.3 million foreign-born individuals moved to the United States” (Zong, Batalova 8). The United States of America was founded on July 4th, 1776 with the signing of the emblematic Declaration of Independence. From its birth, the United States of America has served as a […]
Commonplace Book: Entry 7
Commonplace Book: Entry 7 “There were … sacred … rocks — I dunno, they were ancestors, who knows — they were sacred,” said Lawrence. “And you’re not supposed to sit on them, because you’re not supposed to expose your genitalia to them. “I, however, was in a wetsuit for this whole shoot – oh my […]
Commonplace Book: Entry 6
[A]n education [. . .] that was designed to support a truly direct, deliberative democracy [. . .] would be an education oriented to the ‘strong publics’ of decision-making rather than the ‘weak publics’ of opinion formation. (205) In my opinion, in this quote Fleming argues that encouraging students to think for themselves and make […]
Commonplace Book: Entry 5
“Shall Property owned by the University System of Georgia and utilized by providers of college and university student housing and other facilities continue to be exempt from taxation to keep costs affordable?” A few words that jump out to me when reading this sentence are the following: shall, continue, exempt, taxation, and affordable. For example, […]
Commonplace Book: Entry 4
Commonplace Book: Entry 4 The photograph above explores the pioneering concept of gender neutral bathrooms. For as long as I can remember, bathrooms have always been divided by gender. However, over the past years the idea that human beings should not be categorized or labeled based on their gender has become predominant in society. Certain […]
Commonplace Book: Entry 3
Commonplace Book: Entry 3 “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.” Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Root Sentence: “He (subject) tried (verb).” “He tried” is the root sentence of Tolstoy’s quote mentioned above. The rest of the […]
Commonplace Book: Entry 1
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Atlantic Post
LaFrance, Adrienne. “Hillary Clinton, As Defined by 12 Years of Google Searches” The Atlantic. “Motherhood isn’t necessarily a status that ambitious women are taught to trumpet in the professional world. While men get a pay bump for being fathers,women’s pay drops with each additional child.” Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Quisque elit lacus, […]