Final Projects and Reflections

from http://www.fishhabitat.org/partnership/ohio-river-basin-fish-habitat-partnership

Greetings,

Your website formatted research projects are hyperlinked below.  In the comment box, please answer the following question or add any reflections about the class content.

How does Beloved, your archival exploration or your final project affirm, challenge or change  your understanding of  The Golden Triangle Region of Kentucky, 19th Century American Culture or the arts of storytelling as demonstrated by Toni Morrison in American literature?

Thank you for a wonderful semester!

http://educationandlit.wix.com/educationandlit
http://infantcide.wix.com/infantcideinbeloved
http://jobsinthetriangle.weebly.com/
http://belovedmd.weebly.com/
http://belovedas.weebly.com

Ashton Pitera and Jordan Rouse: About Me

Ashton Pitera

Jordan Rouse

We are Ashton Pitera and Jordan Rouse who are student at the University of Kentucky, in Lexington. We are in an Living Learning Program called Arts and Science Wired. This LLP promotes us to learn through technology and use the materials to learn in a class enviroment. One of the main requirements for our LLP is to take a A&S class. We chose a chose this class called The Golden Triangle: Beloved. In this class we read the book Beloved by Toni Morrison and watched the movie starring Oprah Winfrey. We used themes from the book during the 19th century to relate to a common interest of ours and to relate back to Kentucky. We recognized an issue in Beloved that symbolized a greater issue during the early 19th century. This issue was medical racism. We chose medical racism because we are both pursing careers in the medical field. Having a subject that related to our interests in the medical field helped us explore the history of how medicine was originally practiced and made us realize the far advancement it has made morally and ethically. 

Sarah Brogdon and Lacacia' Ellis: About Me

Hello I am LaCacia' Ellis. I am a freshman at the University of Kentucky and I am currently studying Human Nutrition. When reading the novel Beloved I was almost shocked as to how little the characters were educated in the book. So after reading the novel I had became very interested in education in the 19th century in the Golden Triangle. So Sarah and I had started researching the education and literature in the 19th century. We both think that people will be amazed at our findings.

Hello my name is Sarah. I am a Secondary English Education major at the University of Kentucky. After pursuing my English major I will become a high school English teacher, and eventually be promoted to a principal. I am a member of WSD and I like to participate in events sponsored by the Black student Union. After reading the novel Beloved I was intrigued to study and research Education and Literature in the 19th century in the Golden Triangle.

About Me: Allyson Taylor

My name is Allyson Taylor. I'm from Elkhorn City, Kentucky and I am in the Wired Living Learning Program at the University of Kentucky where I major in Anthropology and Art Education.

Emily Miniard & Sabel Overlin: About Me

About Me:



My name is Emily Miniard and I am a freshman at the University of Kentucky. I am currently participating in the A&S Living Learning Program here at UK. It has really helped me with my major, Psychology, and has opened a lot of opportunities for me. I love being a “wired” student because I get to meet many others that are interested in Psychology as well. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been wanting to study psychology because I’ve always been interested in learning more about myself. Within Psychology you get to learn new things about yourself and the world around us and that is what has truly kept my interest. 

About Me:

My name is Sabel Overlin and I am currently a freshman at the University of Kentucky.  I am a part of the A&S Wired Living Learning Program.  I joined Wired so I could participate in classes that incorporate technology into everyday learning.  I am currently majoring in Psychology and Elementary Education.  After graduating from UK I would like to either be an elementary school teacher or guidance counselor.  My interest in Psychology encouraged me to research the psychological side of the novel Beloved. 

Taylor Braun and Kelly Novak About Me:

Taylor Braun (left) lives in Dallas, Texas and Kelly Novak (right) lives in Cleveland Ohio, but current Braun and Novak have come together to attend the University of Kentucky.  They are both freshman that play for the women's soccer team at UK. Novak is studying Kinesiology and Braun is studying Biosystems Engineering.  In their free time, Novak enjoys staying active, hanging with friends and go shopping, while Braun loves to spend time with her closest family and friends , shop and do anything adventurous.

National Council on Undergraduate Research - 2015

from http://www.cur.org/ncur_2015/abstract_submission/

2015 National Conference Undergraduate Research 

The National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) is an interdisciplinary conference where students representing universities and colleges from all around the U.S., and internationally, will present their research and creative works in oral, poster and performance/visual arts presentations. 

The mission of the National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) is to promote undergraduate research scholarship and creative activity done in partnership with faculty or other mentors as a vital component of higher education. more info...

Please consider if you would like to submit the research associated with your final research project to the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.  

• 2014 National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) - http://www.cur.org/ncur_2014/
• 2014 Nathan Moore Research for NCUR - http://afrofuturelit.blogspot.com/2014_03_01_archive.html
• 2014 Mekhatansh K McGuire for NCUR - http://www.prettypoliticspopculture.blogspot.com/2014/04/mekhatansh-k-mcguire-presents-at-ncur.html

If you are interested in submit your research for this prestigious conference, please set up an appointment with me. We will discuss your project and the conference in greater detail. 

Dr. Hill 

Wired Research Interests on Beloved and the Golden Triangle

from http://www.kentucky.com/2013/01/28/2493949/merlene-davis-dont-look-to-hollywood.html

Greetings, Class. 

You have been assigned to build a research portfolio in the form of webpage for your final project. The research based webpage will be comprised of 1000 word academic reflection (essay) about one aspect from the novel Beloved and how it connects to any historical/cultural information about The Golden Triangle region in the Nineteenth Century.  

The website must make a significant claim about an aspect of Nineteenth Century life in TheGolden Triangle and how the novel introduced these aspects of society to you. 

Different perspectives of your research should be presented on different pages of the website, accompanying work should be indicated as pages, posts, or hyperlinks in the webpage.

In the comments box below, please post your a 2 to 3 sentence statement about your research intentions and any pertinent information  about your research project. 

Authorship in a Remix Society and Building a Webpage about Beloved

Greetings.

In class, we will be discussing the practices and theories associated with scrapbooking and remixing research projects.  You are also assigned to read The Evolution of Authorship in a Remix Society.   You may refer to the information in this article when answering the questions below. 

Scrapbooking

What is scrapbooking?  How long has humanity engaged in the process of scrapbooking?
Are practices associated with scrapbooking present or invisible in your academic studies and research projects?  

Remix 
What is remixing?  How long has humanity engaged in the process of remixing? When did remixing become popular?

Do you think remix theories and popular technology influence or improve your understanding Beloved and your research? If so, how? If not, why?

from - http://boingboing.net/2012/02/26/the-everything-is-a-remix-theo.html

After viewing the video,  please consider how theories of scrapbooking and remix may intersect in your own research.

Theories associated with memory, scrapbooking and remix will be very important aspects of this course.  You may want to consider how those theories my be evident in your researched based webpage.

Your truly, 

Dr. Hill

What is scrapbooking?  How long has humanity engaged in the creative process of scrapbooking?
Are practices associated with scrapbooking present or invisible in your studies and research projects? How do you envision using remix theory when constructing your research based webpage.

The Impact of Gender and Intersectional Identity in Slave Communities - Beloved

Study the Masters by Lucille Clifton

like my aunt timmie.

it was her iron,

or one like hers,

that smoothed the sheets

the master poet slept on.

home or hotel, what matters is

he lay himself down on her handiwork

and dreamed. she dreamed too, words;

some cherokee, some masai and some

huge and particular as hope.

if you had heard her

chanting as she ironed

you would understand form and line

and discipline and order and

america.   

-  Callaloo 22.1 (1999) 54

Greetings, Class. 

In Beloved, we are exploring the ways gender and intersectional identity may have impacted the experiences of the characters, former enslaved people.  This poem by Lucille Clifton may help us to unpack some of the complexities associated with gender in slave communities.  

Consider how gender (male or female) and intersectional identity (black/African American and female) impacted the individual experiences of the characters because they were people that once lived in  enslaved communities.  

How are Paul D's memories of slavery different from Sethe's or Ella's?  How might the traumas associated with slavery impact the ways certain communities or individuals remember America and negotiate 'freedoms'?    

You may include examples from Beloved.  Feel free to include links and additional resources as examples. 

Dr. Hill