Cullen Hunt Professor Cripps ENG 110B 11 September 2019 Project 1 Draft 1 College’s across the United States are making efforts to make their campuses’ and learning environments more friendly and accepting to all. These efforts are aimed towards making it so students are more willing to learn the material and grow off of what they learn in order to apply it to other aspects of their lives. However, a higher education where students are encouraged to grow is hard…
SAMPLE I ORIGINAL As Lukianoff and Haidt say in their article, “Microaggressions are small actions or word choices that seem on their face to have no malicious intent but that are thought of as a kind of violence nonetheless.”A topic of discussion that Dweck covers is having different mentalities when trying to do work and what teachers can do to ‘help’. SAMPLE I REVISION As Lukianoff and Haidt address in their article, “Microaggressions are small actions or word choices that…
Cullen Hunt Professor Cripps ENG 110B 11 September 2019 Project 1 Draft 1 Dweck, Haidt, and Lukianoff are all concerned with free speech and academic betterness, along with their own personal opinions about schools and campuses becoming too safe to a point in which academics are being conflicted with inappropriate/rude comments and actions. Some of these issues consist of microaggressions and trigger warnings. Another solution that has been said that having different mentalities when trying to do work, and what…
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Task I What big concerns did you have about your draft as you completed the first draft? Some of the biggest concerns that I had when writing my first draft. I was worried about getting my thoughts down correctly. I was also worried about implementing my quotes in the correct places. Something else that I was concerned about was whether or not I would be able to gather enough information to complete the assignment well. What did your peers like…
2) Dweck, Haidt, and Lukianoff are all concerned with free speech, academic betterness, along with their own steps/methods that can be taken to achieving a “safer” more friendly learning environment. A very controversial conversation/argument between academic readiness and conflicts interfering with learning. Some of these issues consist of microaggressions, trigger warnings, different mentalities to have when trying to do work, and what teachers can do to ‘help’. Many of the suggestions from authors may seem to be irrelevant or even…
2) There has been a lot of reason behind these extreme examples, some students are making a big deal out of something that is not actually that big of a deal. However, there are some students that do have valid reasons for taking certain things so seriously. An example from “The Coddling” of an extreme action, “A group of women later vandalized Mahmood’s doorway with eggs, hot dogs, gum, and notes with messages such as “Everyone hates you, you violent…
The authors define (and italicize) the terms microaggressions and trigger warnings and offer a set of examples they think “border on the surreal.” They draw a distinction between what they term “political correctness” of the 1980s and 1990s and what they think is happening today. What, on their view, is that difference and why does it matter for education? What do you make of their ideas in the first section of the article? Be sure to quote from the text…
At the Involvement fair there were numerous clubs and organizations that new students could join. Some of the clubs that interested me were the outdoors club, Club Rugby, and Club Hockey. I signed up for Club Hockey and Club Rugby and learned some information about each. I learned that for Club Hockey, there are two or three practices a week. I learned that there may not be a spot to store my equipment so I will need to store it…
