Sit-in

In this primary source Dr. Martin Luther King one of few who stood and defended the Student Sit-ins, addressed the student’s sit-in movement in front of the Members of the Fellowship of the Concerned of the Southern Regional Council. Dr. King makes many valid points on what the student movement of 1961 stands for and why he supports it. He also provides historical evidence on why the movement is meant for good and is nonviolent. Different methods are being provided to show the difference in the…

Practicality. Advantages of the sit and reach test are very little equipment or facilities needed, quick and easy to set, so less time going to take, can be done anywhere, this test is quite accurate, no need of highly specialist carrying procedure and very little skill needed to complete the test. Validity. This test will suit the candidate, because candidate is active and healthy person, and it is one of the best choices of flexibility test. Also this test suit the candidate, because he is…

Father Sits in the Dark,” Rita Dove explains in “Daystar” how sitting and doing nothing can be relaxing and a great way to think clearly and without distraction. “Daystar” reveals this by mentioning how the mother sits alone thinking for her own pleasure as long as she can in order to get away from her busy life. The first two stanzas of the poem show that the mother has diapers on the line and that there is a doll laying out in the house, though the mother wants time for thinking. Ergo she sits…

People make places. As trivial as that sounds, it is of immense importance. In Keith Basso’s Wisdom Sits in Places, he explores this concept and refers to a castle that is believed to be where Hamlet lived, and how him living there changed the way people viewed it. The idea that a character in one of the most famous playwrights, William Shakespeare, lived in this castle made people view it as more important and more beautiful than any other castle, even though there is no hard evidence that…

What is a mom? According to google a mom is “a woman in relation to a child or children to whom she has given birth” but the word mom means something different to everyone. To some the word “mom” can mean a friend, hard worker , a teacher, or even a superhero. To others it could mean control freak, someone who knows no boundaries, or an evil dictator. My mom has fulfilled all of these roles at one time or another. Sometimes, she was all of these at once. My mom has worked hard her entire life…

Woolworths Department Store and sits down at the lunch counters. They are immediately served and enjoy a pleasant meal. Meanwhile, four African American men sit down at the lunch counter and are asked to leave and not served. These men were David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and Ezell Blair Jr, together known as the Greensboro four. Woolworths Department store in Greensboro, North Carolina would ever be the same again. This is because the Greensboro Sit-Ins forwarded the civil…

The Greensboro Sit-In were non-violent protests that made a huge impact on the civil right movements by changing the segregation laws of stores, and helping make a differences in ending segregation in the south. The Greensboro Sit-ins helped segregation times because even though times were still tough and people were getting harmed for standing up, it showed there was still chances and places to make a difference. This event is important because it inspired others to make a difference, and help…

I read the article Wisdom Sits in Places, about the White Mountain Apache tribe located in Eastern Arizona. The purpose of this article was describing how Anthropologist Keith Basso worked with two gentlemen from the Apache tribe in recording a topographic map of the area using Apache words. The Apache had named theses areas decades ago but the names were never recorded on a map for other tribesmen to read and learn. Mr. Basso traveled with his companions during the hot and humid…

The two ethnographies that will be compared are Wisdom Sits in Places by Keith H. Basso and Language, Discourse and Power in African American Culture. Both contain eye-opening content of varying perspectives and information regarding communities that are right in front of our noses, and are successful at providing insight and conveying meaningful messages that have the capacity to change the manner in which readers see their own respective societies. There were several similarities that can be…

A sit-down interview, in the interviewee’s classroom, on April 22, 2016, resulted in responses from Rachel Koplin, a female Elementary Education teacher at Deerfield Elementary School, in Deerfield, Wisconsin. The purpose of the interview was to gain information and insight for an individual considering entering the field of Elementary Education including areas such as expectations, requirements, frustrations, and advice. The interview contained ten initial questions, with four additional…