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"The Evening the Morning and the Night" and Social Discrimination

We touch on the social a lot in this class, which then highlights the notion of social discrimination by default. On page 43, Lynn explains that, despite Alan being bright, he likely wasn’t going to get into medical school because he had double DGD inheritance, though Lynn notes they would never tell him that was the reason for his denial. The ease in which she seems to accept and repeat that fact, even employing a bit of dark humor when explaining that medical schools likely wanted to spend their time and money training doctors who would live long enough to use the training, feels sad. This story is categorized by a certain amount of hopelessness experienced by the characters who have DGD. They all seem to acknowledge and accept their oppression, believing the stereotypes that surround them, reflecting the ways in which social oppression can create self-discrimination. Despite these instances of oppression being external, it still leads to internal trauma for those who experience the oppression. It’s also noteworthy that medical professionals block those who have an under-researched disability from getting necessary training that may lead to them making improvements related to their disease. They’re preventing those impacted by DGD from leading the conversation about their own disease, apart from those employed at Dilg. Instead of allowing oppressed people to actively improve their quality of life, those in power keep those they deem below them oppressed to perpetuate the social hierarchy they created: those that the top can’t have a hierarchy without those at the bottom. “The Evening and the Morning and the Night” shows the psychological impact that social oppression creates and does a good job of showing its long-lasting effects on oppressed people. Those with DGD are outwardly socially rejected because of their eventual self-destructive and violent tendencies, but if you constantly treat those with a predisposition towards self-harm poorly, do you not then play a part in how quickly they turn towards self-harm? This story seems to acknowledge that, within social hierarchies, those in power don’t care about their cruelty; they will do anything to remain in power, no matter what.

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Dickson’s frantic writing makes it seem as though the poem came to her, and she, in a panic, rushed to find something to write it on. The poem, then, was a surprise to her as she went about her ordinary life, thus taking on the form of a pleasant surprise as it came during typical, less interesting circumstances. For whatever reason, Dickinson never transcribed this poem in a more official manner. Perhaps she thought to capture the moment of surprise and spontaneity, believing that the form benefitted from the material.

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1. This newspaper features dense rows of information that contain subheadings naming the information featured in the row, written in a small, varied font, with a title, using a bold, blocky font, at the top of the first rectangular page. Each page contains a lot of tightly packed, varied information. The structure of the pages forces you to read top to bottom through the columns as well as a bit slower than usual due to how dense the information is as well as how small the text is. Traditionally in book reading, the font is larger and the text spaced out in what is essentially one column across the page, and further separated into chapters. Books normally contain less information per page than newspapers which have to condense much more information into a smaller booklet. When describing a newspaper to someone who has never seen one before, I would express that they’re smaller collections of local and global information condensed into a format and writing style that is easily accessible for everyone (except, in this case, those who have poor eyesight who would definitely require a magnifying glass to read this paper). Their goal is to inform a large audience.

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2. A large part of this story feels more like an essay than a detective story; it, in a way, feels closer to a report on analytical thinking one might publish in a periodical, like Poe’s preferred Southern Literary Messenger, than a creative work. Poe essentially uses the crime to express why he values a certain way of thinking, analytical power, more than others. In this piece, analytic power relates to creativity and the ability to fully absorb environmental details to solve a problem, while simple ingenuity relates to a more concentrated form of methodological thinking. Poe, then, asks us to pay attention to alternative ways of problem-solving. Oftentimes, when problem-solving we have to take a step back and try to separate ourselves from any preconceived notions we may have otherwise we may get obsessed with what we perceive to be the truths of the case. Objectively looking at the details of an issue will bring us closer to the truth than our notions of how to effectively solve a problem may.

3. Poe notes that, as soon as the balloon leaves the earth, it is subject to external circumstances that can affect how well it will fly. Once a book gets mass published, and leaves the hands of the author, and enters into the world, the author loses authority over it, in a way. It has to survive based on what it had, the strength of the piece, prior to its publication. As the book passes into the hands of new people, it can take on a new life different from the author’s intentions based on varying interpretations of the work. The public’s opinion can easily be swayed by the opinions of those they see as having more authority over a subject, book reviewers, or other published authors in this case. They can act as external forces working to keep the book out of the hands of the public based on how loudly they can voice their dissenting opinions through poor reviews. In that way, then, an author’s career was subject to more attention and opinions than ever before. Mass publishing moved literature into the hands of more people and away from the select few who could afford to read until then. This theoretically created new external circumstances that could harm the success of certain works and authors.

1. This newspaper features dense rows of information that contain subheadings naming the information featured in the row, written in a small, varied font, with a title, using a bold, blocky font, at the top of the first rectangular page. Each page contains a lot of tightly packed, varied information. The structure of the pages forces you to read top to bottom through the columns as well as a bit slower than usual due to how dense the information is as well as how small the text is. Traditionally in book reading, the font is larger and the text spaced out in what is essentially one column across the page, and further separated into chapters. Books normally contain less information per page than newspapers which have to condense much more information into a smaller booklet. When describing a newspaper to someone who has never seen one before, I would express that they’re smaller collections of local and global information condensed into a format and writing style that is easily accessible for everyone (except, in this case, those who have poor eyesight who would definitely require a magnifying glass to read this paper). Their goal is to inform a large audience.

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A.

1. This image shows a skeleton, wearing a human-like mask, a billowing green cape with “radical reform” etched on it, and a red cap, grabbing onto a female-presenting warrior holding a golden sword with “the laws” written on it, with a shield presenting the Union Jack on it leaning on her, leaning on a boulder with “religion” emblazed on its side. Behind the skeleton is an inhuman army, wearing red caps, in a cloud of smoke and flames, all holding bent swords with unique words written on them. Behind the warrior stands a lion, wearing a collar naming it “loyal”, and royal imagery in the heavens.

2. The author likely expects the audience to recognize the imagery of skeletons and their connotation of death. The Union Jack represents the United Kingdoms, situating the setting for those previously unaware of it, alongside the motto of the Monarch of the United Kingdom “Dieu et mon droit” turning the audience’s attention towards the monarchy. The lion also typically represents courage, though British kings have also been called “Lionhearted” in the past. As the primary audience was intended to be British, they likely would understand the imagery of the red caps; they likely have a political affiliation that I am unaware of.

3. This image obscures the female warrior’s support; ie. it fails to illustrate, apart from the lion, any sort of army backing her as opposed to her skeletal opponent. If the warrior reflects the political opposition of the “Radical Reformist”, it fails to show said political party. It shows the skeletal army as an overwhelming force, essentially casting the warrior as the underdog. It also casts “Radical Reformists” as inhuman, essentially stating that only those who lack humanity would be “Radical Reformists.”

4. This image likely was used to warn against rising “Radical reform” in the United Kingdom and the way it would threaten the monarchy.

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B.

1. Shelley contrasts Cruikshank’s image by presenting the monarchy as ill-fitted and terrible rulers, who treated their subjects so poorly they had no other option than to protest. Both evoke imagery of swords and armies, with Shelley’s army fighting against the reformists while Cruikshank’s army is comprised of the reformists. Both describe laws as golden, with Cruikshank illustrating it as a golden sword, though Shelly uses this description in a more satirical way. Shelley provides a more hopeful and positive view towards reform than Cruikshank; he ends his poem with the image of some “Phantom” who will point the old society towards a fairer future whereas Cruikshank’s phantom-like image of the skeleton leading the army holds a negative connotation.

2. Shelley seems to use both poems to speak out against political abuse; both detail the destruction that comes to a kingdom, and thus innocent subjects, at the cost of the hubris and poor ruling abilities of their rulers.

A.

1. This image shows a skeleton, wearing a human-like mask, a billowing green cape with “radical reform” etched on it, and a red cap, grabbing onto a female-presenting warrior holding a golden sword with “the laws” written on it, with a shield presenting the Union Jack on it leaning on her, leaning on a boulder with “religion” emblazed on its side. Behind the skeleton is an inhuman army, wearing red caps, in a cloud of smoke and flames, all holding bent swords with unique words written on them. Behind the warrior stands a lion, wearing a collar naming it “loyal”, and royal imagery in the heavens.

2. The author likely expects the audience to recognize the imagery of skeletons and their connotation of death. The Union Jack represents the United Kingdoms, situating the setting for those previously unaware of it, alongside the motto of the Monarch of the United Kingdom “Dieu et mon droit” turning the audience’s attention towards the monarchy. The lion also typically represents courage, though British kings have also been called “Lionhearted” in the past. As the primary audience was intended to be British, they likely would understand the imagery of the red caps; they likely have a political affiliation that I am unaware of.

3. This image obscures the female warrior’s support; ie. it fails to illustrate, apart from the lion, any sort of army backing her as opposed to her skeletal opponent. If the warrior reflects the political opposition of the “Radical Reformist”, it fails to show said political party. It shows the skeletal army as an overwhelming force, essentially casting the warrior as the underdog. It also casts “Radical Reformists” as inhuman, essentially stating that only those who lack humanity would be “Radical Reformists.”

4. This image likely was used to warn against rising “Radical reform” in the United Kingdom and the way it would threaten the monarchy.

Frankly, Voyant isn’t the most intuitive program to use; some functions aren’t clearly defined and with a few wrong clicks, it can be hard to return to the initial results produced by the program. You don’t have the option to ask the program to look for specific words or phrases; rather, it identifies them based on frequency among the document(s) and unique words used within each individual document. You also can only see information related to the text you choose; it doesn’t recommend similar works or instinctively compare them to like things. It only works with the information that the user provides upfront. The program doesn’t appear to have a bias; it’s focused entirely on converting the facts surrounding the text into clear numbers and visual diagrams. The program lacks the ability to make any assumptions and would benefit from being coded as a more intuitive thing willing to make connections that the author didn’t bring with them into the program themselves.

I ended up using Voyant to compare Wordworth’s “Exposition and Reply”, Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”, Blake’s “The Fly”, and Shelley’s “Ozymandias” to see if there would be any words or phrases that crossed over between the works. Ultimately, Voyant showed that the only words that ended up crossing over between the four texts were “like” and “round.” Frankly, Voyant showed that, even within each document, not that many words repeated apart from “fly” in “The Fly.” It really shows that, despite the author’s larger body of works being grouped together as Romantic, randomly selected individual pieces don’t have a lot of crossed over content.

Though it’s been a while since I’ve used or seen Voyant, I have a bit of familiarity with the tool. Visually, Voyant is a simple webpage, yet somehow simultaneously confusing once you get past the initial page, that promises to “see through your text.” Voyant is an open-source, online tool used to analyze and interpret texts either uploaded or taken from their database. Users can play with various tools offered by Voyant, such as word clouds or graphs of word frequency or collocation. It allows you to take a larger body of text, or collection of texts, and reduce it to a size in which is more suitable for close reading. Voyant, then, can be used to compare documents, ideally, the poems from the Romantic poets looked at thus far, in order to see how much content—and thus general subject matter and themes—crosses over between these poets who commonly get grouped together.

https://voyant-tools.org/

Book Binding

A binder first fold the sheets of the book properly, based on its format using both headlines and page numbers as a guide

The book’s sheets then were placed in their correct order

The binder then beat the folded book flat to the desired thickness

Then, the book was placed onto a sewing frame and the sheets were sewn by hand using a needle and thread

Next, the endpapers, sections of blank paper used to reinforce the joints of covers and add protection to the end pages of the book, were sewn on

The binder then rounded the spine of the book and given shoulders for the covers

The binder then cut the outer three edges of the book with a plough

Headbands were attached to the top and the bottom of the spine to maintain its longevity

The book was covered, typically with leather, and the spine reinforced with a piece of either paper or vellum

Finally, decoration was added to the cover using hot metal stamps

(Photo retrieved from: https://cpclbookgirl.wordpress.com/book-binding/)

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Containment of the Past. New York. 2021

Within this jar rests a collection of sentimental and every-day clutter that reflects the creator’s mixture of frustration with the nature of life, the progression of time, and the notion of significance.

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I bought these earrings at Artists & Fleas the summer after my freshman year of college while my friend Ashley got her cartilage pierced in a small shop in the back of the Markets. I honestly love them; there’s something wonderfully fun and very mod about them. Still, I rarely wear them, and I couldn’t really tell you why. Maybe it’s because their color palette varies just enough from my normal one that I simply can’t find outfits to pair them with regularly. Maybe they’re just slightly too adventurous, varying too much from my typically minimalistic jewelry choices. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I have really bad luck holding onto dangling earrings; I’ve lost so many over the years that it’s honestly criminal and I should be permanently banned from ever wearing them. It doesn’t matter. What does matter is that they’re beautiful and deserve to be displayed.

I finished up this marker earlier this week, which I thankfully predicted would happen before my return to campus as I purchased a new one not long before I headed back to campus. I decided to keep it solely for the purpose of putting it in my jar; there was something funny to me about putting something empty inside something that previously was if that makes any sense. It is a bit weird to think that I’ve held onto something that should be considered trash, but maybe this all goes back to my acceptance of hoarding.

After getting our first covid tests on campus, we had to wear these little orange abominations around until told otherwise. I’m the type of person who hates wearing anything on their wrists and made sure to make this just loose enough when putting it on that I could easily slip it off when I inevitably became frustrated with it. That’s to say that I took it off about twenty minutes after getting into my apartment, tossing it into my desk drawer for whatever reason. I suppose this is the part where I admit something; I have a little bit of a hoarding tendency. I mainly hold onto small, inconsequential things; ticket stubs or cutouts from museum brochures. I’m not entirely certain why this is. Maybe it stems from my conviction to make a scrapbook. Maybe it stems from how shitty my memory is; maybe I hold onto little things in hope that they will jog some sort of vivid recollection of times when I was undeniably feeling lighter than I am now. I don’t know. All I know is that I feel as though my jar has become a very visual representation of my little hoard.

I lost the other half of this barrette set sometime last semester, and haven’t worn it since; I refuse to wear a mismatched set. So, it’s sat untouched in my desk drawer since. It seems kinder to put it somewhere that has some intention behind it for the time being rather than leaving it lonesome among my remaining matching pairs of hair clips.

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