Seminar Log for 10/24/16

1:25-1:51 Focused Free Write

• (Jawan) A community is stronger at a young age, but solitude can help as you mature
• Relationships help encourage people to do things they wouldn’t do
• Middle school joining the baseball team and practice for the pitcher
• (Kylar) Choosing between solitude and community is unfair to choose
• (Isaiah) Community is more successful because they show you your mistakes
• (Venecia) “Find your way back” The group didn’t make it back but would’ve been more lost if she was alone
• (Juwan) Community is better since communicating with others is a greater skill
• (Kim) Solitude helps you think and community can give you their input.
• (DaShonae) Solitude can help a person think through and community can share their ideas
• (Tobi) Wouldn’t have been able to
• (Antoine) Restart the project when he found out he was doing it wrong
• (Kristina)
• Solitude helps with essays and assignments
• Groups good for track meets (Team sports)
• Compromise, as some cases depend on one way or the other
• (Tamia)
• Helps make important phone calls
• Fed ideas off each other and passed
• Community is more important because having different types of food in a restaurant for example and it helps to give feedback
• (Alex)
• Solitude is best for writing essays
• Community is best for things like construction
• Prefers community over solitude (Cannot recognize success without others)

1:52 - Looking at Solitude and Society (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

[Definition] Transcendentalism: Philosophical movement that says divinity spreads through all nature and humaneness. Usually progressive.

• Everyone is god’s children, so they should communicate with each other (Isaiah)
• Don’t be ashamed of who you are (Juwan)
• Some substances can withstand nature, but others need to be kept in something to stay pure (Ms. Pruyn)
• (Note line of interest, “Few substances are found pure in nature.”)
• Needed isolation to work their abilities because if in groups, there wouldn’t much concentration (DaShonae)
• Being part of the society means to be civilized and cultured or you’re seen as “uncultured swine” (Kaila)
• Promoting people to be part of the community as more worthy than those who isolate themselves (Kylar)
• Fit society’s norms and not worry about anything (Isaiah)
• Easy to be the same type of person you’re surrounded by (Alex)
• Cherishing that one person that stands out from everyone else (Antoine)

Where’s the Thesis?

• Having a balance between the two (Kylar)
• American Independence vibe (Jawan)

2:18: On Privacy by F. Gonzalez-Crussi (2015)

• Observing Anglo-American culture (Kylar)
• Individual rights that aren’t noted but should be (Jawan)
• Separation between people (Venecia)
• Not enough privacy (Kylar)
• Privacy is still enveloped in society (Venecia)

What’s The Thesis?

• All people have an inner space and must be protected or they would lose a part of themselves (Venecia)
• We could know who we are of given the idea from others (Isaiah)
• Change the makeup of ourselves as we see fit (Jawan)
• Some cultures shouldn’t decide what another sees privacy (Jawan)
• Judgemental of American culture at first, but eventually becomes neutral (Kylar)
• Could it possibly be a binary? (Venecia)
• What is more important? Inner self, or outside perception of yourself? (Jawan)
• Double consciousness is a way to help them survive (Kaylar)

2:46 Research Paper Info

Sorry for the late post. Hopefully, posts from me will be more timely. If I missed anything that you remember from that day, please leave a comment below.