Sources in-progress

Data-based sources
http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-availability-(per-capita)-data-system/.aspx#26675

http://www.census.gov/housing/hvs/

http://www.endhomelessness.org/pages/snapshot_of_homelessness

http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i2330e/i2330e.pdf

Database/Scholarly sources

http://ps.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/appi.ps.53.5.565

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9515.00085/pdf

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1533-8525.1993.tb00127.x/abstract

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J059v16n02_02#.VGvpUPnF9fs

Other (secondary) sources

http://www.globalissues.org/article/35/foreign-aid-development-assistance

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-foreign-aid/2011/04/25/AF00z05E_story.html

Pre-research

2. Generate small questions:

•  Why do people feel more need to help those of faraway other countries than those who need aid in their own backyard?
•  How does the American Dream play into this?
•  How do homeless/disadvantaged people feel when they see giant billboards advertising for donations to "End Hunger in Africa"?
• Enough food to feed everyone in world, yet...?
• How much does it cost for a tube of toothpaste?
• SNAP only applies to food - no welfare fund for necessities???
• How important is toothpaste, really?
• transients
• foreign poor (think typical village life)
• 
  

3. Generate Key Words:

• Guilt, pride, dignity of recipients
• Veil Of Ignorance of givers
• Justification
• Race, ethnicity
• "American Dream"
• foreign aid, foreign poverty
• scale of foreign vs domestic

3. Generate a list of four disciplines for formal research:

• Sociology
• Psychology
• Anthropology
• Economics

4. Generate a list of three types of primary source artifacts that might speak to your questions.

• Social media posts
• Personal opinion - blog posts
• Advertising
• 
  

Freewriting for project 3

For your final project in this course, you will develop a compelling question that
blends the self, the other, and concerns related to the course topic , and delves deep
into the personal, social, cultural, creative, scientific (etc, etc. etc.) implications of
these differences.

Use Walker, Wallace, or Rodriguez structural models

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Global development
Self and other
awareness?
situation bias?
Veil of Ignorance - mental changes considering circumstantial reversal

WALLACE - narrow question, extends to broader ideas in a meandering sort of way - that's how my mind works to some degree, and I'm comfortable with that, so that might be easiest...

Beginning question
-exploratory, +more questions
-train of thought/reasonings/transitions into more questions, also maybe some tentative answers?
-more explanation, more answeryish things, + questions
-+questions, only vague answers and rhetorical/thoughtful questions if possible
End

Topics I want to explore:
Veil of Ignorance
-what happens if you were on the receiving end
-pride?
-pride, dignity, sense of self - what is their sense of self once they begin to rely on it?
-how much do ppl feel the need to justify themselves/rely on their self rather than the other
-at what point in poverty? compare those who originated in poverty to those who became impoverished....obviously cases for both? Sometimes international aid become a way of life for many
Who is the "other": for both the givers and the receivers....giver perhaps broader because of technology and not being as isolated - poor don't have access to everyday news + etc
Race
Perspective
Perspective of other people on why you'd help - contribute to aid

Simple beginning question
How much does it cost for a tube of toothpaste?

Consider the Lobster response

My first response here is that 'Jesus christo this is a fricking long article!!!" Outside of that, I liked the way the author tied the gigantic Texas State Fair-like Maine festival into a discussion about the culture of the past, the culture of now, and potentially the culture of the future. A bit of history is all and well, but a bit of history with a side serving of social class history - that's even better.
Funny how traditions and low-vs-high class food changes - I wonder if the tops of the tops would think if what they pay so much for, used to be enjoyed by those at their feet. Equality in mealtime, that's what I like.

But I guess the argument here is the "cooked alive" part, which isn't readily accessible to people of all social classes unless you're in Maine...or somewhere similar. At this point of the article though, I can't help but mention my consistent thoughts of ALARM BELL OVERFISHING???? Which also leads to the idea of lobster farming - which may be a different subject than this article was intending. I shall find out.

And there is the point of it - cooking animals alive for our own pleasure. I do admit, I had (and may still have) similar withholdings - I used to watch my mom cook crab, and she would always buy them cheap but fresh and undoubtedly alive from the asian supermarket, and until dinnertime, or whenever she cooked it, every time I opened the fridge, I would be greeted by the scratchy sounds of claws moving against a brown paper bag. I have since gotten used to it- or maybe 'hardened my heart' would be the correct term for those animal activists.

Reflection on "In Search Of Our Mothers' Gardens: The Creativity of Black Women in the South"

Personally, it was a little of a struggle to annotate this - I expected it to be more of a scholarly article, one with important points that I could highlight and make note of. But this took me by surprise - at first I couldn't find anything to highlight, as I was pulled into the poetic, flowing language. There is so much gorgeous imagery that it's impossible to pick a specific, powerfull/important statement. The overall imagery of the first several paragraphs is rather violent and harsh, as Alice Walker poetically expresses their struggles and their subsequent mental or physical transformations. The harsh environment that their ancestors experienced shaped them, and instead of destroying them, they flowered even as they broke. This is essentially what Alice Walker is trying to express, and it really creates a different perspective on the culture of black women and their history. Interestingly enough, men are only brought in as side characters, or white men as villains.

Response to the glittery naked san franciso man (article)

(First of all, I apologize in advance if this post is not very clear - I was in GW's engineering building from 7 pm until around 8 am today. ):  )

My first impression of the essay was that it was neither like the opinion piece in which section I remember it belonging in - or rather, a news article from The NY Times - nor like an essay which I am familiar with - it more resembles Montaigne's definition of an essay as "a try", and more in line with his meandering, thought provoking and thought-jumping style. I personally like that type of style, as it gives an insight into the writer's state of mind and train of thought. This is particularly related because I have an interest in the human mind, although not enough of one to pursue a serious degree in its study. Although in this essay the subjects seem to hop around, it does achieve what his goal was, in my opinion, which was to simulate a walk in San Francisco. Onto the subjects of the essay - the naked man was ab it jarring at first, but like most intros in thoughtful essays, they lead to other profound things. I really appreciated how he began with a naked man reference and expanded on it, and how he concluded with a naked man reference - a revelation or extra detail, if you will. Rather than adding to just the description of the naked man and what he represents, the glitter ties up the entire essay and all of its ideas in a unique and satisfying manner.

reverse outline and five p essay

Reverse outline

Five paragraph essay