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@strawzy-studies
I reblogged one of these but this one is even better.
Here’s your reminder that the US doesn’t have an official language.
Here’s your reminder
that the US doesn’t have an
official language.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
in the mood for a laugh so go here and put the text in the tags
the psychology students
as requested by @hugefrogkai
textbooks stacked on your desk in neat piles, sticky notes marking the passages you have to memorize
warm tea with honey on cold mornings
studying the work of those who have gone before, wanting to make your own discoveries
basement laboratories, bright with the glow of fluorescent lights
antique sketches of the brain stuck to your walls
wanting to help people, chasing the greater good
strong opinions on your favorite and least favorite famous psychologists
learning the psychology of memory and using it to study more efficiently
soft hair clipped up out of your face
clean morning light through your window
studying in a cafe, enjoying the sounds of people living their lives all around you
a need to understand human behavior
tortoiseshell glasses and silver earrings
knowing meyers-briggs isn’t scientifically valid but making your friends take it anyway
neat handwriting, black pen on crisp white paper
keeping your favorite research papers on your desk, annotated with your thoughts in the margins
adhering to a firm code of ethics
long hallways and big lecture classes
cold objectivity tempered by a keen sense of empathy
the political science students
as requested by the lovely @sincerenaissance
bookshelves full of nonfiction and biographies
grayscale tones of old newspaper
always fact checking, digging through sources to find the answer that’s closest to the absolute truth
sharp blazers over button-down shirts
watching old political speeches just for the fun of it, memorizing your favorite parts
digging through long papers
studying systems of government from ancient civilizations
always staying updated on current events, watching the news when you need a study break
bold red lipstick and confident words
spending all your time in the library, open books strewn across your desk
wanting to hold politicians accountable
late nights doing research into niche subjects, flipping through subsections and footnotes until you find what you’re looking for
hot black coffee from the pot in the common room
wanting to understand the world through the ways people govern themselves
loving history and connecting it to the present
taking a stand against intolerance and corruption in politics
pages underlined with decisive black pen
analyzing data and demographics, looking for answers in graphs and numbers
the history students
hanging photos of ancient monuments on your walls
memorizing dates, creating a timeline in your mind’s eye
slow violin music
browsing wikipedia late at night
learning the constellations and wondering how many people have looked at them before you
crumbling buildings and faded paper
adding detail in the margins of your textbooks for the stuff they left out
soft sweaters and messy hair
pages of notes, written and underlined and studied again and again
watching documentaries for fun
analyzing primary sources, picking apart biases from fact
a cup of herbal tea on the desk, keeping you grounded
a hunger to understand all that has gone before you
sunsets that turn the sky the golden color of aged parchment
collecting biographies of your favorite historical figures, piling them on your shelf
treasured family heirlooms
notes written in fountain pen, hands stained with ink
visiting the same museum exhibits over and over, knowing there’s always more to learn
studying by candlelight
thick textbooks spread out across your desk
treating history as a cautionary tale, turning pages of notes into lessons for the future
Fighting the urge to move to a small seaside town, open a bookshop and leave everything behind
my new English teacher is a tumblrina i love him
beginner grammar: the grammar is used in this specific way. here are some simple examples to demonstrate the point.
intermediate grammar: ehh actually the grammar’s kinda complicated and it has a lot of different uses and exceptions. but there are still general rules you can follow.
advanced grammar: this language is a lawless wasteland where rules are simultaneously both arbitrary and incredibly specific and only strictly adhered to by 32% of the population anyway. but if you use them incorrectly you’ll sound awkward and unnatural. good luck!
i’m watching this documentary about halloween and there’s a part where they’re explaining that ghost stories got really popular around the civil war no one could really deal with how many people went off and died and
the narrator just said
“the first ghost stories were really about coming home”
fuck
#but wow let me tell you about how the american civil war changed the whole culture of grief and death #because before that people died at home mostly #where their family saw them die and held their body and had proof they were really dead and it was a process #but during the war people left and never came home their bodies never came back there was no proof #people died in new horrific ways on the battlefield literally vaporized by cannonballs or lost in swamps and eaten by wild animals #and there were NO BODIES to send home #and people simply couldn’t grasp that their son or father or husband was really gone #there are stories about people spending months searching for their loved ones #convinced they couldn’t be dead if there were no body they were simply lost or hurt and they needed to be saved and brought home #embalming also really started during the civil war as a way for bodies to be brought home as intact as possible #wow i just wowowow the culture of death and grief and stuff during this time period is fascinating and sad #history (via souryellows)
#quietly reblogs own tags #also the civil war was when dog tags and national cemetaries became a thing #and during the war there was n real system in place to notify families of the deaths #like they’d find out maybe from letters from soldiers who were there when their loved one died nd stuff #but there was no real system #and battlefield ambulances were basically invented because so many people died on the battlefield when they could have been saved if they co #…could have been moved frm the battlefield to a hospital #like there was this one really inlfuential dude whose son died that way and he became dedicated to getting an ambulance system in place
I’m not doing this in the correct tag-style, but.
IIRC, the Civil War also played a huge part in forming the modern American conception of heaven as this nice, domestic place where you’re reunited with your loved ones. People (particularly mothers) responded to the trauma of brother-killing-brother by imagining an afterlife in which families would once again be happy together.
(also not doing this in the correct tag-style, because I wanna KNOW— )What documentary is this? Or is there more than one? Any books on the subject? THIS IS FASCINATING.
cool (ghost) story, bro.
reblogging because, as a us history phd student, i want to say YAY for how much of this is totally on point. i also want to rec the book where a lot of this is covered very, very well, which is Drew Gilpin Faust’s “This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War.”
a lot of books on the Civil War are deadly dull because they’re about battles and shit, but as a transformative moment in mindset and ideology, it becomes *fascinating*
the other book I’d even more highly rec is David W. Blight’s “Race and Reunion,” which is about how the “(white) brother against (white) brother” image of the war was invented and how throwing African Americans to the merciless viciousness of post-Reconstruction racist whites was part of constructing this “oh everybody was white men and everybody was noble let’s celebrate them all” approach to Civil War remembrance
very good stuff
Thank you! This looks like exactly the sort of reading I’m after! *adds to wish list*
Also, look for David Blights recordings of his Yale lecture series on The Civil War. 21 hours of class lectures, and its FASCINATING. He barely touches on the battles other than to use them as timestamps as to what was going on. Most of it focuses on what the mindset of everyone was going into the war, and what happened on the way out. It’s an amazing series that will change your entire perception of the war - how it happened, and how it wasn’t going to be possible to avoid it, because of the inherent evil of slavery and how it was destroying damn near *everyone* except rich white people.
Natural History Museum.
there is a very real tendency of teenagers with anxiety disorders self diagnosing with considerably more stigmatized and impairing mental illnesses (e.g. schizophrenia, DID, personality disorders), but the best response to that isn't to get angry with them for "appropriating" lol. instead you show them coping resources for the problems they're actually having and deemphasize diagnostic categories in general. if an 18 year old is claiming to have alzheimer's, they're probably making an innocent mistake and are in genuine distress. be kind.
Also I think this trend comes, at least in part, from how brushed aside anxiety disorders can be. If your parents and teachers dismiss you with 'oh everyone feels anxious', then inevitably you're going to start thinking that there must be something else going on with you
as we’re nearing the end of the semester, a lot of people (myself included) are cramming for an overload of assignments and finals. if this is you, here’s a quick reminder to please take care of yourself. take some intermittent breaks, do a couple stretches, stay hydrated. try to get in your 8 hours. i am very proud of you for coming so far and i love you 💕
Now that college students no longer have access to their libraries in the same way we used to and have to do most of our learning at home it would be just terrible if we all knew about https://1lib.eu/ a website which has books on basically every topic ever available for free including college textbooks. Imagine if people were researching their thesis without paying for it.
DO NOT USE THIS SITE AND DEFINITELY DO NOT NOT TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT THIS SITE, THEY MIGHT START DOING THESIS RESEARCH FOR FREE OR JUST START READING BOOKS THEY FOUND ON THERE FOR FUN BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE INTERESTING. This would be terrible :( :(
Reblog to spread the word so that everyone knows to avoid this site!
Hey everyone they have NOT moved to:
https://2lib.org/
Do NOT enter this url to find free books :)
Some more websites to definitely not look up:
pdfdrive.com for 79,081,664 eBooks for free
core.ac.uk for the world’s largest collection of open access research papers
citationsy.com which is a free referencing tool for making citations
archive.org a non-profit library of millions of free books, movies, software, music, websites, and more
elephind.com for free newspaper articles from around the world
don’t tell your friends :)
Tartar Mosque (Minsk, Belarus) - Monika Bulaj
The Belorussia Tartars are an incredible synthesis between Christianity and Islam. They read the Koran in Slavic, written in Arabic letters. They make use of incense in their Mosques, and spread it with the same passion as the Popes. They sing the Salah, the Muezzin prayers following the Byzantine polyphonic music. They cover the bodies of the dead with fragments of their Sacred Books, challenging one of the strictest Islamic taboos, that forbids one to set the Koran under the ground. But there is more: the sins of the dead can be alleviated by the living, with the same Catholic logic of indulgences. Once a year they visit the graves of their dead to share food with them. They cry and talk, as the Belorussian farmers of the good old times. They pray only on Fridays, but for hours, much longer than any other Muslims. They have survived the darkest years of Stalinism. They paid unaffordable taxes to the regime and have managed to always keep their Mosques open.
Things That Weren't Invented/Discovered By White People: Scientific and Mathematical Theories Edition
Heliocentrism: the astronomical model in which the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. We typically learn that it was invented by Copernicus and/or Galileo in the 16th century CE; in reality, heliocentrism is mentioned in the Aitareya Brahmana, an ancient Indian text c. 600 BCE.
Atomism: the theory that the world is composed of fundamental indivisible components. While the Greeks did independently come up with this theory in the 5th century BCE, Indian philosophy worked with atomic theory as early as the 9th century BCE.
Algebra: the study and manipulation of mathematical symbols. The title of "The Father of Algebra" had also previously gone to a Greek named Diophantus. However, a Persian man named Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī (last name also sometimes transliterated as Algorithmi, so you see where the names for 'algebra' and 'algorithm' come from) was the first to treat algebra as an independent discipline (rather than associated with geometry).
Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena
Romeo and Juliet, Frank Dicksee, 1824 / Romeo and Juliet, Julius Kronberg, 1886.
