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Fall 2010
The Art of Being a Neighbor by Eve Birch
- Where is Potomac River in West Virginia? Is it a real story?
- What's a 'Weekend Edition Sunday'?
- What does 'cable' mean in the American Dream?
- What does 'pry off' mean?
- What does 'courting' mean?
- camp in
- When a person's civil, what does it mean?
- I cannot completely understand the phrase"It's not so much about what I can get for myself; it's about how we can all get by together."
And for discussion, this question sent by a student: "Daniel, I don't really know what the article exactly means." That's an excellent question! We will discuss it in class.
Untitled by Elizabeth
- Lawrence-Moon Syndrome
- Can you explain '... take other people's inventory' for me. and, why is 'hitting the same walls'? is that something people used to say, like a common saying or something.
- What's the sentence of "draw out"?
- What is the lawrence-moon symdrome? is there a name in Chinese?
- I can't clearly understand what the fourth paragraph means
- 'take other people's inventory,'what does inventory mean in it?
- Are 'hurting people' hurt by else, or they just hurt other people?
- 'To return kindness in a safe place,' what does it mean?
- maybe I shouldn't be so quick to take other people's inventory
- What is "Folks that might not ever initiate a conversation are invited by them to return kindness in a safe place."means?
- What is "draw people out"?
- "inventory"
- "we're hitting the same walls and need the same things from each other."
- "we all respond to the basic tenets of kindness."
- 1.They are raw, unfiltered examples of what it is to be human.
- just the chance to be human in a world that seems to increasingly de-emphasize the importance of this exchange.
- what's "inventory" and "drawing people out"?
- "friendship have never been more important" means the most important?
- make sense of
Untitled by Noel
- "Then some of what I had been studying, about what a healing relationship is, crept into my consciousness"
- tune them out
- About 'Her visit,' is it about a phone call visit or a face-to-face visit? And,is it Ella or her daughter?
- I don't understand the second paragraph meaning. Why the physician change his thought?
- What is "barrage"? "I asked her the usual barrage of questions."
- What is "vague"? Can you explain the sentence for me? "Her visit had been for vague back pain" I don't really understand it.
- Her visit had been for vague back pain. What's the meaning of this sentence?
- I knew that my intentions at the time were important to the experience Ella would have as a patient that day. What's the meaning of this sentence?
- Not only does my body communicate emotions to all my cells, my energy field changes with my emotions, thereby letting everyone who cares, to notice how I am feeling. What's the meaning of this sentence?
- metastatic colon cancer
- I don't know what do they mean. "barrage" I knew that my intentions at the time were important to the experience Ella would have as a patient that day. Her visit had been for vague back pain.
- I still little do not know why that woman mind would become girls.
- send off
Seeing Beyond Our Differences by Sheri White
- Loving v Virginia case
- What is KKK?
- What is well-tanned?
- I believe there is more that unites us than divides us. question: More what?
- "But also in our nature, way down in the DNA that makes us human, we are almost identical." What is the meaning of this sentence?
- What is "way down"? Any special meaning?
- What does the 'where' mean in the 6th line?
- And I believe we need to remember "that". Is "that" mean "but deep down inside us, down in our DNA, we are 99.9 percent the same"?
- I don't understand the meaning of "I knew them as my parents before I saw them as people "
- I don't understand the sentenceShe is dark enough that she was refused service in a diner in 1960s Dallas.
- KKK is a secret society of white Southerners in the United States; was formed in the 19th century to resist the emancipation of slaves; used terrorist tactics to suppress Black people. What the distinguish KKK and today's terrorist?
- I am a well-tanned mix of the two of them?
Finding Freedom in Forgiveness by Jennifer Thompson-Cannino and Ronald Cotton - Winston-Salem, North Carolina
- I picked Ronald out as the man who had raped me, only to learn 11 years later that I had made a mistake?
- What does 'confessing' in the sentence - He would have gone to his grave leaving me to rot in prison without ever confessing to what he had done?
- "Discovering the truth filled me with...in prison."?
- What's the meaning of "go of"?
This is Home by Majora Carter
- maybe a little rough around the edges
- What is "a badge of "?
- green-collar means people who take action to make the environment more perfect?
- At seven, my neighborhood was the beginning and end of my universe. what does it mean?
- What does the sentence mean "I believe you don't have to move out of your neighborhood to live in a better one."?
- I don't understand this sentence"He was shot above the left eye and "we hope" died instantly." Especially, "we hope"
- in this sentence "after serving two tours in Vietnam" i dont know the usage of "serve" it can be used in this way? "serve tours"
- "universal" is an adjective,but why uses it as"my universal"?and what is the meaning of "I felt watched over"?
- uncomfortable place
A Priceless Lesson in Humility by Felipe Morales - Rowlett, Texas
- "self-induced" and "no-nonsense"
- "fellow citizens"
Life Is Wonderfully Ridiculous by Claude Knobler - Santa Monica, California
- What is shoe-in ?
- what "some days three children can feel like a hundred" means?
- "singing at the top of his lungs most every morning" means "sing loudly"?
- "yes,ever since I was six."
- I was determined to be determined.
The Power of Hello by Howard White - Lake Oswego, Oregon
- I know my fair share of them. I was busy trying to bulls-eye the "O" in the stop sign with a rock. At a certain point I asked him how far he thought I could in go in his company.
- bulls-eye
- What is "old time"?
- At a certain point I asked him how far he thought I could "in" go in his company. What is the meaning of "in"?
- What is "has their head held down " means in the last paragraph?
- I don't understand the sentence."I asked him how far he thought I could in go in his company."
- I asked him how far he thought I could in go in his company. He said, "If you want to, you can get all the way to this seat." i dont know the meaning of "in go"
- "with a rock"
- What is gazillion and cement mean? I think giving somebody our sincere is very important.Now in our world is lack of sincere,especilly in the city.After I read this paragraph,I want to smile to everybody,nomatter I meet or not.
Courage Comes With Practice by Theresa MacPhail - Berkeley, California
- I've performed stand-up comedy
- paralyzed attribute
- "in this light"?
- "seismic shift" ??
- chasing bird?
- driving force
- pajama party
A Musician of Many Cultures by Yo-Yo Ma - Cambridge, Massachusetts
- timbre
- music can make all people together
Fall 2009
Every Person Deserves Respect
- turned out
- nasty-gram
- limo
- menial
- naïve
- vicariously
- miscues
- menial
- disputes
- nasty-gram
- awkward
- dehumanizes
- cues
- moderate
- interpretation
- testy
- angry exchange
- naive
- "Palm"....Once I was being driven by limo to a hotel in "Palm" Springs to give a speech.
- civil fashion
- CFO
- imperative
- epidemiology
- mutation
- got hooked on
The Universe Is Conspiring to Help Us
- stick out - stick out my thumb and wait for a ride to work.
- split - I took my wages and split for Asia.
- full of their own worries
- solicit
- dependably
- drawn
- openness
- It was kind to help people.
- hitchhike
- outstretched
- split
- squeezed
- indebtedness
- vicariously
- benevolence
- indebted
- extravagant
- hellish
- first thing
- scout
- drawn in
- extreme
- aim at
- squeeze
- wages
- radiate
- soiled
- snaring
- knotted
Returning to What's Natural
- brunette
- contradiction
- follicle
- reinvent
- oxymoronic
- follicle
- fall out
- semi-permanent
- hypocrisy
- toddler
- wacky
- Big Bads
- for dear life
- depressing
- contradiction
- The meaning of the sentence " But this new independence could only come from dependence .
A Musician of Many Cultures
- wandering
- bounce...For many years I "bounced" among the three, trying on each but never being wholly comfortable.
- timbre...As we struggle to find our individual voices, I believe we must look beyond the voice we've been assigned and find our place among the tones and "timbre" of human expression.
- commitment
- incorporating
- intersection
- infinite
- bounced
- exclusion
- infinite
- depth
- longevity
- intersection
- implement
Courage Comes with Practice
- light - I worry that I may have betrayed my mother by writing about her in this light, but she has been a driving force in my life and, in the end, I think she would have been proud of me.
- pajama
- brain aneurysm
- in this light
- pandemic
- anthropologist
- attribute
- fiance
- inconsolable..After my brother died in an accident, my mother was "inconsolable".
- seismic shift..I was only four years old at the time, but I still understood the "seismic shift" in my mom's attitude toward safety.
- brain aneurysm..I became a natural worrier. I worry about things like getting cancer, losing my wallet, car accidents, earthquakes, having a "brain aneurysm", losing my job, and my plane crashing — disasters big and small, real and imagined.
- cornerstone..There's something else I don't usually talk about, but it's a "cornerstone" in my belief.
- hazardous
- entire
- inconsolable
- stand-up
- funeral
- attribute
- paralyzed
The Power of Hello
- gazillion
- bulls-eye
- cement
- presence
- vice of vice president
- acknowledge
- guidepost
- wag
- founder
Doing What's Natural
- cave - I am the last to cave to authority
- unyielding
- nappy
- rules be damned
- right - What I believe is that I am right and beautiful — now, in this moment, in this body, I am right and beautiful.
- nappy - A wild, nappy, adventurous, rules-be-damned sort of team.
- kink - Those little kinks burst right through within a week or two.
- straightening
- dictate
- backtalk
- unyielding
- militant
- damned
- subdued
- concede
- go over …It didn't go over well with everyone
Life Is Wonderfully Ridiculous
- I sometimes feel like Linus waiting for the Great Pumpkin to appear.
- shoe-in
- muffle"
- "observatory deck"
A Priceless Lesson in Humility
- prejudice - I acted with prejudice
- self-induced - cured me of my self-induced blindness
- no-nonsense
- reaffirm
- immigrant
- core
- busboy
- panhandler
- sightseeing
- assumed
- reflex
- loose -- In a natural reflex, I reached in to my pocket, pulled out all my loose change and placed it on her hand without even looked at her.
This is Home
Language questions
- he word "pimp"
- the phrase "dream up"
- prostitute
- propelled
- What is the usage of the punctuation, "--"?
- 1. What's the sentence 「maybe a little rough around the edges」 means?
- Sustainable
- stewardship - an environmental stewardship program ...
- clean-ups
- forthcoming
- I felt watched over
- What is green-collar job?
- "stain" It felt like a stain.
- badge
Language questions
- come out_Thirty years later, my father fully understood how his father felt when I "came out" to him as a lesbian.
- Loving v. Virginia case
- orientation - gender, sexual orientation, even political leanings.
- well-tanned - I am a well-tanned mix of the two of them.
- aisle
- KKK
- lesbian
- atheist
- geneticist
- unison-I saw their hands swinging together in "unison"
- interracial
- diner - She is dark enough that she was refused service in a diner...
- straight
Finding Freedom in Forgiveness
Language questions
- rot - he would have gone to his grave leaving me to rot in prison...
- private - was keeping me a prisoner in my own private jail
- judicial reform
- raped
- lineup
- rapist
- shackled
- pick someone out
Untitiled by Noel
Language questions:
- distant
- transpired
- barrage - I asked her the usual barrage of questions to find out
- consequences - no longer believe my thoughts are without consequences.
- What is "crept into" mean?
- What is "tune out" mean?
- dissatisfaction
- wary
- barrage - I asked her "the usual barrage of questions" to find out her
- schizophrenia
- agitated
- demeanor
- transpired
- metastatic colon cancer
- shivers
- tune - tune out-Some people are very sensitive to these subtle energies, while others have learned to tune them out.
- facilitate
- intentions-I knew that my intentions at......
- simultaneously-Simultaneously, Ella's demeanor changed.
- Is this reading mean that a doctor diagnosed wrong a patience and he feel sad?
- transpired at the end of second paragraph
- the word 「metastatic」
- the word 「demeanor」
- agitated
- subtle
- facilitate
- "beam"....She went from being a distant, wary, and withdrawn schizophrenic, to talkative and "beaming" like a 12-year old child
- crept into my consciousness
Untitled, by Elizabeth
Language questions
- take other people's inventory- ...and that maybe I shouldn't be so quick to take other people's inventory.
- free to -If this is true, and I believe it is, then I am free to be nice to other people because...
- draw out-Cameron and Rebekah, though, have a way of drawing people out.
- Lawrence-Moon Syndrome
- preferences
- unfiltered
- vulnerable
- inventory
- engaging
- assuming
- de-emphasize
- empathetically
- have never been more.....With so many hurting people and a world in chaos, kindness and friendship "have never been more" important.
- If most everyone is hurting, and I know how I feel when I'm hurting, it just makes sense to be nice.
- hitting the same walls… we're 「hitting the same walls」 and need the same things from each other.
- shutting down… And actually, there is far more to lose by 「shutting down」 to those around us.
- struggle - ...it has seemed increasingly obvious that struggle is the heart of the human experience...
- the ache of loneliness
- mentally retarded
- unfiltered examples
- noticeably
- fundamentally
- ridicule
- intuitively
- weird
- developmental stage and developmental level
- The meaning of the sentence "it has seemed increaseingly obvious that struggle isthe heart of the human experience" ?
- tenet
- What does "take other people's inventory" mean in the third paragraph?
- What does this sentence "Folks that might not ever initiate a conversation are invited by them to return kindness in a safe place." mean?
- What does "personal truth" mean in the last paragraph?
The Art of Being a Neighbor
Language questions
- shack....I came upon a "shack" in an isolated hollow, four miles up a winding mountain road over the Potomac River in West Virginia.
- accouterment...What I had believed in, all those things I thought were the necessary "accouterments" for a civilized life, were nonexistent in this place.
- real estate broker
- scour
- courting
- American dream
- banded
- shelters
- pried off - When I pried off the plywood over a window and climbed in
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