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Plaques

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Plaques(noun): a thin, flat plate or tablet of metal, porcelain, etc., intended for ornament, as on a wall, or set in a piece of furniture.

“On its face, the whole project is Stalinist: Just as the Soviet dictator purged historical photographs to remove his defeated rivals from the record, this aims to take down (or annotate with politically correct plaques) monuments raised in the past on the grounds that, wow, some New Yorkers no longer see things the same way.” “De Blasio’s begging for trouble with this ‘monument review’ commission”

When I encounter the word Plaques, I have no idea what it mean. I never heard of it and context clues wasn’t helping me at all. After I read the definition, it gave me a picture of an award, an award that can be hang on the wall or set in a piece of furniture as the definition said. I thought it’s just a piece of round metal that we receive for our achievements but it’s way different than I thought until I found a picture online. I’ve figured that a plaques is what we use for “hall of fame” award in grades school. I’ve seen it multiply time but never knew that it has their own name; plaques.

Empower

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Empower(verb):to give power or authority to; authorize, especially by legal or official means. 

“Sociology can empower people to effectively address the problems affecting them by helping them develop a ‘sociology imagination.’ Page 10 “Sociology lecture notes”

I encounter the word while I was reading my sociology notes. I heard of the word before but I’ve never really search up the meaning of it, all I know is that the word “power” is in it. I took a guess and thought the word means gaining the power because the following sentence gave me a hint of it. ‘Affecting them by helping them develop…’ the word helping and developing both representing something positive. When I search up the word, it means giving powers, when the sentences were put together, it means “sociology can give powers to people to effectively address the problems…’

Agitate

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Agitate (Verb)- To stir up public discussion of

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

“In response to recent and ongoing protests around the country- and most notably in Charlottesville,VA- agitating on one side for both the removal of controversial monuments and on the other for their preservation, Mayor Bill de Blasio called for an examination of New York City’s monuments.” (Project#2: Monument Surveying)

This word came to my attention while I was reviewing the requirements for Project #2. I used the sentence it was used in to help define the word and that helped out a little. I still wanted to find a way to define it in my own words.

After researching the word, the understanding became more clear but there were at least four definitions that I needed to decipher through to see which one best fit the sentence I had read. now my understanding of the the word to that word to its context would be “to create a buzz about a particular topic”. In the sentence, it was saying that there was great discussion about the removal and remaining of certain monuments around the world that was creating buzz in NYC also.

 

 

Atrocities

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Atrocities: (Noun) an extremely wicked or cruel act, typically one involving physical violence or injury.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/atrocities

“In a sense this project is also a history lesson in of itself and bringing the actions of these people to light is what society should do to show that people should be remembered for the good things they have brought to the future rather that of just a man who found someplace just to commit atrocities to a group of people and ruin their daily lives.”

I came across the word “atrocities” while reading one of my colleagues posts on their reflection on project 2. I read the sentence carefully and gained an understanding from the context clues. The person was speaking on how people brought good things to the future, and the key word that helped me was “rather”. Once the word rather was stated I knew a statement would be opposite of someone doing good. Before looking up the actual definition I looked up synonyms relating to the word atrocities and words such as “cruelty, abuse, horror, and abomination” came up. This word can be used to describe a terrible act committed by someone. For example, ” The penalty is only given to a criminal who committed several atrocities.” Remember an atrocity is a noun so you can use it to describe a person place or thing.