SUMMER 2021

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Violet Week Two Assignment

Baldwin’s remarks have a simple beauty that prays for all black people to be free of the residues and arrogance of slavery. One of the great human beings, James Baldwin, reminded his nephew about all the atrocities that black people suffered and continue to bear. James Baldwin stated in the letter that “They are in effect still trapped in a history which they do not understand and until they understand it they cannot be released from it” and it is still true in 2021. To me, Gorge Floyd’s death is a good example of relating this letter by James Baldwin. His death in America sparked a worldwide surge of anti-racism demonstrations. It means black people are still fighting for their equality. Gorge, a 46-year-old parent, was apprehended by Minneapolis police on May 25th, suspect of buying cigarettes using counterfeit money. As MR Floyd was knocked to the ground, a white police officer has observed keeling on his neck. “I can’t breathe,” he sobbed again. For eight minutes and 46 seconds, he was kept down. He stopped moving after six munitions. Many other deaths have echoed with the death of Gorge Floyd’s. Now the world fight for their justice, liberty, and equality because of Gorge Floyd, we all have come together. We are changing the world, we have come out with lots of valuable slogans such as “Black lives matter”, “No justice no peace”, and so on. That is not only for the black people but also I believe these slogans matter for every nation that is still fighting for equality.

Moreover, the article Between the world and me seemed very inspiring to me. This article adds to the effort to educate members of the human race to make the world a better, more courteous, and more equitable place for everyone. It is extremely disgusting that people in history treated one other with less respect and equality because of their skin color, which is wrong and unacceptable.

In the movie, I am not Your Nigro I have become hooked on this statement by James Baldwin that “ you want me to make an act of faith, risking myself, my wife, my children, on some idealism which you assure my exists in America which I have never seen”. In this sense, what he said, black people have to do something trustworthy to earn someone’s trust. However, everyone trusts a white person without any judgment. In France, a young black guy climbed almost five storey building from the outside without any safety equipment to save a french child. The black person was awarded as a citizen of France. As the person risk his life, everyone started trusting him which in my point of view is not a proper way to judge a person. We shouldn’t doubt any person based on their skin color.

 

Hello All

Hi everyone, my name is Nadja, and I am majoring in architecture. I was born in Montenegro, raised in Italy and Germany and moved to New York almost 4 years ago. I started my studies in architecture at Pratt Institute and later transferred to CityTech, for its focus on technical skills and specific areas of architecture and construction. I took a couple of classes in mechanical engineering and loved working hands-on with manual milling machines and later CNC machines. It never ceases to amaze me what technology can do and that we have the possibility to build things that can leave a positive impact on society. I would love to learn more about electrical engineering and incorporate that in my architecture projects, create kinetic art that responds to movement or sound. I see there are students in computer science, and I always found problem-solving and analytical skills fascinating and fulfilling, sometimes unreachable.

I was a competitive swimmer until I moved to the US, and still love to do various sports. I am not a professional skier but I love to ski in the winter and swim in the summer as much as possible. I am taking 3 summer classes (maybe too much?) but I’m really trying to graduate by the end of the Fall so I can switch to a work visa and stay in the US. I can’t imagine living anywhere else but New York! The genre I usually read is novels as I can experience that immersive feeling that only music, drawing or architecture can give me. One of my favorite books is “One flew over the Cuckoo’s nest” by Ken Kesey and one of my favorite quotes from the book: Because he (McMurphy) knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there’s a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.” The novel deserves to be read because even today the message that emerges in the book is extremely current and is not limited to a ruthless criticism of psychiatry that, like all institutions created by man, can’t be considered infallible since it focuses its attention on the abstract concept of “normal”. What makes the reading of this novel extremely fascinating is the metaphorical use of the writer, through the description of the events occurring in the psychiatric institution, to denounce a brutal system created by men themselves. The system that the writer attacks is symbolized by Miss Ratched, a smiling and inflexible head nurse, the perfect representation of a mythical and oppressive system. She dominates all the patients in the ward , coldly and cynically exploits their fear of the outside world, in fact there are not a few patients who have decided to self lock themselves due to the inability to bear the pressures exerted by a society that would like them to be equal to others.

The main character McMurphy, refuses to obey and seeks freedom. Throughout the book I love seeing how his character begins to awaken the same desire for rebellion in other patients as well. It allows them to face their fears and, even for a limited period of time, rebel against the oppressor.

I would love to hear more suggestions on books about social protest.

Ameer Week Two Assignment

POST: Comment on a particular line, paragraph, scene, theme, or rhetorical move (from Baldwin, Coates, and Peck) that you found especially interesting. Be sure not to post on what a previous student has posted on.

I chose the following lines below from the article “Between the world me and you”. which I found very interesting. The following lines basically talks about slavery and how the American economy was brought up upon; not only that it gives the Arthur a sense of feel of how diverse, and divided  it was between the people. Mainly it shows how slaves were being treated; used for, and how it all led to the  civil war.

“At the onset of the Civil War, our stolen bodies were worth $4 billion, more than all of American industry, all of American railroads, workshops, and factories combined, and the prime product rendered by our stolen bodies—cotton—was America’s primary export. The richest men in America lived in the Mississippi River Valley, and they made their riches off our stolen bodies. Our bodies were held in bondage by the early presidents. Our bodies were traded from the White House by James K. Polk. Our bodies built the Capitol and the National Mall.”

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