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Criteria for NY Monuments

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1. Who is the person or object?

2. What is their significance to the local or overall history?

3. Why was this monument put up in the first place?

4. Has this monument led to rise in death, incidents, or injuries?

5. Would a renovation or alteration to the moment change the community’s opioids on the monument?

6. What was the foundation that lead to that person’s historical empowerment?

7. Is it only there because of heritage?

8. Does this only exist to keep history alive?

9.  Does it represents the Confederacy?

10. Are tax payer’s money going into maintaining the monuments?

 

Why Collaborating?

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In the article “Why Collaborate” written by Ellen Lupton, she describes why she believes that collaboration will have a good effect on everyday lives but before coming to that conclusion her idea of collaborating was that, talking would be a good thing as long as she gets to work by herself at the end. Ellen discusses the many different ideas for why being able to work with people more allows for a better function such as making connections and get a better understanding. One part that stood out to me was “the project worked because the students had a degree of individual ownership”. Many times the reason why group projects do not work is because one party puts in more work than others and then it gets lost due to it being a group project so everyone is getting credit that wasn’t deserving. Although she used this article to refer mainly to school settings to get people to picture the idea of group projects, this could be used in everyday life. There are many people who prefer to work alone but working alone can only get you so far and doesn’t always reach the highest potential. The tone to this article is self reflecting, because she realized how there is something that she needs to work on such as getting more comfortable with working with people. The article was written to show to people that although there are people who agree with not collaborating with others, it is something that will benefit you in the long run by connecting with others.

Arbitrary

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Arbitrary (adjective) existing or coming about seemingly at random or by chance or as a capricious and unreasonable act of will

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/arbitrary

Article “Why Collaborate” Page 1 Paragraph 2 “I have enjoyed voluntary,informal collaboration wth my firends, but I have resented being forced into arbitrary, mismatched teams in the name of comical correctness.”

The definition of the word allows me to see the contrast of voluntary collaboration when it comes to working with others. Lupton was letting the reader know she does not like being forced to work with people. She continues to explain that she hates being forced to working with others so much she holds a resentment.

Networks

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Networks (noun)

an interconnected or interrelated chain, group, or system

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/networks

Article “Why Collaborate” Page 2 Paragraph 3 “In response to their article, I’d love to hear about successful (and unsuccessful) attempts at collaboration, and the role of social networks in the emerging design practices of today?”

With the given definition I have a better comprehension of what the statement above is stating. Lupton is stating that collaboration has an influence in the system or function in the way practice so f design are done. Lutpon believes that this system and its function can lead to success or failure therefore, she wants to further investigate.

Walt Whitman Plaque

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The monument that we chose was the Walt Whitman plaque on the Eagle and Warehouse storage building. This building was constructed in 1893 and was originally home of the newspaper Brooklyn Edge, which was edited by Walt Whitman. The plaque explains his story and how he was one of Americas greatest poets. Our article is from Biography.com. Whitman was born in 1819 and lived in Brooklyn and Long island with his family in the 1820s and 30s. At a young age Whitmans parents took him out of school so he could work with them at the family business. He started to love reading and became familiar with the works of Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and the Bible. He started to teach for a couple of years but he wanted to put his full time into journalism. He started his own newspaper called the “Long Islander”, later he became an editor for the brooklyn daily eagle”. He had a set of ideas and opinions  on topics such as Womens property rights, slavery, and immigration. He wrote a poetry book called Leaves of Grass, “it was an attempt to embrace and welcome all people and races into one vision”. Whitman was considered one of Americas most influential poets and this is an important monument.

 

Group: Sarique, Shemar, Malik

Dissection of “Why Collaborate?”

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Ellen Lupton clearly depicts the pros and cons of group work and its influence to success. Lupton goes on to explain that when a group has assigned roles to every member there is a balance of work. In theory, this will cover the work much faster than working alone however, there are members that slack on their work. This disrupts the purpose of group work, Lupton goes on to state, “few people are doing the heavy lifting.” This statement lets us know that when other members pick up the work of those slacking it becomes a burden. Lupton explains that working in a group is very beneficial to the future. Your group members can continue to provide support and networking. Networking can be beneficial if we are looking to have an independent business. The article mentioned that when individuals put hard work in their indivual work in the group project their is a degree of ownership. Lutpon concluded stating that although collaboration is usually for kids, adults could also benefit.

Bill de Blasio and the City of Chandler

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This article began explaining Mayor Bill de Blasio struggle for spotlight. Bill de Blasio has been criticized for not being or addressing serious incidents in New York. Due to recent incident Bill de Blasio is not in another tight situation this time about the removal of confederate statues. This is a tight situation for the mayor due to his support for Christopher Columbus. The article mentions his support goes as far to participating in the Columbus Day Parade. However, August 12 led to a turn events after white supremacists and other protesters protested the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee, the confederate general. This protest became deadly as one protestor was murdered causing riots across the country. Bill de Blasio condemned the violence and declaring a 90 day review of all symbols of hate on city property. The article continue to mention that Bill de Blasio will have a commission created to listen to ideas and concerns from flow New Yorkers. This commission will create a criteria although, the entire criteria is not finished some recommendations include it additional plaques to provide background info to inform the public about the individual. David Eisenbach made a very interesting point to his support of the statue of Christopher Columbus. Contrary to the belief of many who refer Columbus as a mass murderer, Eisenbach views Columbus as a legendary explorer. He is aware of the horrific things Columbus did which he believes makes his statue better. His bad and good accomplishments according to Eisenbach is a “beautiful thing”.

The US Official news published an article covering the City of Chandlers nominations for individuals or groups to be honored at the celebration Plaza. The celebration Plaza is known to be a location to honor service organization. Although, many can be nominated there is a review process each nominee will go through. The article includes very specific requirements as part of their criteria. These individuals must have some relevance to the area where they will be displayed. The elected nominees must be endorsed by the community. The individual or group have caused a ,meaningful impact either short or long term to the community. The criteria is specific to what they mean by meaningful impact. For example, the individual or group has improved the quality of life and work to the community.

http://www-lexisnexis-com.citytech.ezproxy.cuny.edu/hottopics/lnacademic/?verb=sf&sfi=AC00NBGenSrch

 

Project 2: Part 3

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When determining if a Monument deserves to remain or be disposed of you must take into consideration of these points.

1) Does the monument have a positive influence?

2) Does the monument offend people of another race,culture or religion?

3) Is the monument still relevant at this moment?

4)The effect the monument will have upon being taken down?

5)The whereabouts of the monument, where it can be taken?

6)The history (Backstory) of the monument?

Group: Shemar, Malik and Sarique.

 

 

Summation of “Why collaborate?”

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In the article “Why Collaborate” by Ellen Lupton she sheds some light on why she likes and dislikes working together. She went into detail about the positive and negative outcomes of working together. Ellen liked to work with a team that had their own defined roles and skill sets. She stated “It can be frustrating when a few people a doing the heavy lifting”. Ellen doesn’t mind working with a group however each member should be able to cooperate and all add the same value of work to the project. Ellen went on that more can be achieved by working with a group that by working by yourselves. She talks about how outside of forced group work and school, many groups of people have voluntarily worked together to do amazing things.  In school students create social networks that can last a life time and are a source of artistic inspiration. Ellen stated that “Successful collaborations are like democracy writ small”. Collaborations are resourceful, fun and can be productive depending on the peers participating with you.

Writ

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Writ (Noun)- a formal written document; specifically : a legal instrument in epistolary form issued under seal in the name of the English monarch

“Successful collaborations are like democracy writ small. Members of a civil society expect to have individual freedoms and opportunities, but in order to exercise and protect those rights, they need to participate in the larger social system.” (Why Collaborate?” by Ellen Lupton)

The term means that something is written in the term of protecting those of its audience.

~An example would be: Our writ to freedom of speech is seen in the Constitution.