Comments by Meredith Voigt Most recent public comments by Meredith Voigt https://nowcomment.com/users/94351 Poise https://nowcomment.com/documents/295852?scroll_to=2627799 https://nowcomment.com/documents/295852?scroll_to=2627799 Her energy shifts and she becomes introverted as she is speaking about being an introvert and how she had to make a shift in her work that is a more difficult task for an introvert versus an extrovert. Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:16:04 -0500 Poise: Chaos https://nowcomment.com/documents/295852?scroll_to=2627791 https://nowcomment.com/documents/295852?scroll_to=2627791 When Susan is talking about chaotic situations she uses hand motions and makes her voice pitch differently and at a different speed. This helps the audience feel the chaotic energy that Susan is trying to describe. Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:16:04 -0500 Poise: Using Props https://nowcomment.com/documents/295852?scroll_to=2627776 https://nowcomment.com/documents/295852?scroll_to=2627776 Props can be used to focus attention on the speaking points you are trying to make, make connection with visually oriented members of your audience, create interest, add variety, and make your points more memorable. add realism to your speech Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:16:04 -0500 Poise https://nowcomment.com/documents/295852?scroll_to=2627771 https://nowcomment.com/documents/295852?scroll_to=2627771 Poise comes from being focused on the audience and being of service to your audience, I feel like Susan Cain does an amazing job connecting with her audience and makes it feel like a room wide conversation. Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:16:04 -0500 Poise https://nowcomment.com/documents/295852?scroll_to=2627747 https://nowcomment.com/documents/295852?scroll_to=2627747 In this moment she her passion for her topic shows and she starts to move a lot, speed up her tone, and even gets a little bit louder. Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:16:04 -0500 Poise https://nowcomment.com/documents/295852?scroll_to=2627731 https://nowcomment.com/documents/295852?scroll_to=2627731 From the start, she seems comfortable speaking and calm as well. She connects comfortably with the audience and even makes them laugh. Tue, 23 Nov 2021 09:16:03 -0500 Persistence https://nowcomment.com/documents/288499?scroll_to=2571002 https://nowcomment.com/documents/288499?scroll_to=2571002 Although Sister Corita has had many difficult life obstacles she has had the strength to persist through and touch so many lives while in the process of doing so. Mon, 22 Nov 2021 21:14:47 -0500 If Teak Cake is around thirty, that means he is around double of her age, this only seems to be a problem in this part of the book though. https://nowcomment.com/documents/231819?scroll_to=2539853 https://nowcomment.com/documents/231819?scroll_to=2539853 Fri, 03 Sep 2021 08:53:43 -0400 Everyone has something to say about everything she does now or a question. She does things that other people don't do and people cannot handle that, so they interrogate her. https://nowcomment.com/documents/231819?scroll_to=2539852 https://nowcomment.com/documents/231819?scroll_to=2539852 Fri, 03 Sep 2021 08:46:04 -0400 These people are treated with no purpose throughout the day. Anything the say or do is meaningless. https://nowcomment.com/documents/231819?scroll_to=2539837 https://nowcomment.com/documents/231819?scroll_to=2539837 Fri, 03 Sep 2021 08:39:25 -0400 What does this mean? https://nowcomment.com/documents/247448?scroll_to=2532408 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247448?scroll_to=2532408 What mental connections are made to have these things align? Mon, 30 Aug 2021 23:18:25 -0400 Generative listening is the art of developing deeper silences in yourself. Picking and choosing what is important and what does not need any attention. https://nowcomment.com/documents/247448?scroll_to=2532400 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247448?scroll_to=2532400 Mon, 30 Aug 2021 23:13:50 -0400 The difference between listening and hearing.This Habit of Mind takes it one step further, how to make listening meaningful. This is what the world struggles with the most in my personal opinion. https://nowcomment.com/documents/247448?scroll_to=2532394 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247448?scroll_to=2532394 Mon, 30 Aug 2021 23:09:04 -0400 I agree with you. There are people that hold a lot of knowledge and amazing things in their head, but have not been taught how to use it to their advantage. https://nowcomment.com/documents/247448?scroll_to=2532388 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247448?scroll_to=2532388 Mon, 30 Aug 2021 23:05:00 -0400 "How students behave when they don't know an answer" https://nowcomment.com/documents/247448?scroll_to=2532385 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247448?scroll_to=2532385 I think this is funny to think about. Getting flustered and looking all around the room and through all of your papers to try and find the answer and you can feel your face getting red and all of your classmates eyes on you. Mon, 30 Aug 2021 23:01:14 -0400 I agree as well. When you hear something you don't necessarily agree with or think the same way, you don't give the same amount of attention to the conversation or the same energy as you would have if you had thought the same. https://nowcomment.com/documents/247448?scroll_to=2532377 https://nowcomment.com/documents/247448?scroll_to=2532377 Mon, 30 Aug 2021 22:51:45 -0400 "The process of writing never feels finished to me." https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376409 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376409 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:41 -0400 Even before covid, schools were over crowded. Covid or no Covid it is unsafe to have a school over capacity. This is because it can be unsafe in the event of a tornado, a fire, or an intruder. https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376403 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376403 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:41 -0400 "With the stitches my mom beat into my spirit" https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376401 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376401 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:41 -0400 These poems are not just about what is happening in school, it is a lead up story. "We made it to school alive" meaning there was a fight to get here. https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376399 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376399 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:41 -0400 Agreed, if I step into a classroom on the first day of school and my teacher does not smile back at me, I would automatically have a negative feeling towards the class. https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376395 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376395 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:41 -0400 "The sun and moon only have my son to look after" https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376393 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376393 Humans are wired to be self-minded. When you think and jump into other peoples perspective you see that they need the sun and moons protection just as much as you or your family. Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:41 -0400 "As far as his hand chooses to reach" https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376391 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376391 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:41 -0400 "Holding down mop buckets to keep the water running" https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376389 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376389 He has worked odd jobs and any other thing that can get him money to keep the water running and food on the table. Anything to provide for his family Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:00:03 -0400 Most parents want the best for their child and will fight to give them the best opportunities they can receive. https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376378 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376378 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:41 -0400 It is interesting to hear other peoples opinions on Covid-19. Whenever you are personally affected by it, meaning someone important in your life is high risk, you think of the virus differently and you act on it differently. https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376373 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376373 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:41 -0400 Tears are falling onto this child's desk and he rearranges his tears into a smily face, total opposite of the current emotion. But, for a kid to do that it is cute. If an adult did that to another adult it would be a "read the room" type of moment. https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376357 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376357 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:41 -0400 They are building up her life and allowing her to become someone who can fight her own battles and live on her own. But, they want her to look back at the lead up to that and "read" what she has become. https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376341 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376341 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:40 -0400 It is sad that a seven year old is already threatening to give up on school and she is not even half way done. Kids this young should not feel this frustrated. https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376327 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376327 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:40 -0400 When you are young little things seem to be the biggest problems. Having a bad day at school was the hardest because you could not take it out in anyway. At that age you are too young to know how to deal with this type of emotion. https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376319 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376319 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 15:00:01 -0400 "Sea of reefs" is a metaphor because he will not literally explode into a sea of reefs https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376282 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376282 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:40 -0400 The poster is not doing the work. The only way to succeed is through yourself and your own work. Looking and reading a poster is not going to fix your problems but if you take what that poster has to say and make it reality, then you will be successful. https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376274 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376274 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:55 -0400 Sometimes you don't leave a place for so long it starts to feel like there is no where else in the world. https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376264 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376264 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:39 -0400 The mom is walking her son into this classroom that she was taught at. She recognizes that they are watching a Youtube video for educational purposes. At the time she was in school, this probably seemed unrealistic https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376230 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376230 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:39 -0400 Sometimes as you grow up you forget that kids have not seen the world like most teenagers or adults. Kids are not fully aware of how big this world actually is. https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376223 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376223 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:58 -0400 Oppression is malicious or unjust treatment or exercise of power. But, he discovered this when he got in school. Which leads me to ask how well was he being educated? https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376214 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263250?scroll_to=2376214 Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:59:56 -0400 Rules https://nowcomment.com/documents/263224?scroll_to=2373552 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263224?scroll_to=2373552 Who would make a comment on the water dripping off their coats and umbrellas? The students have no control over this. Thu, 11 Mar 2021 09:21:47 -0500 Preparation https://nowcomment.com/documents/263224?scroll_to=2373549 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263224?scroll_to=2373549 The students had tactics to try not and get attacked by their teacher. My question is was this all worth the class? And also why did they not drop the class? Thu, 11 Mar 2021 18:56:24 -0500 Other Languages https://nowcomment.com/documents/263224?scroll_to=2373546 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263224?scroll_to=2373546 In most languages there is gender attached to objects. For people that speak English it is very easy to misgender the item in text, because we do not do this. But, making this mistake in France seemed like a crime when Sedaris did it. Thu, 11 Mar 2021 09:34:38 -0500 Learning a New Language https://nowcomment.com/documents/263224?scroll_to=2373536 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263224?scroll_to=2373536 This comment stuck out to me. He is in the works of leaning how to speak french. Usually, the alphabet is the first thing you are taught when learning a language. Fri, 03 Sep 2021 09:47:27 -0400 Learning in the Dark https://nowcomment.com/documents/263224?scroll_to=2373532 https://nowcomment.com/documents/263224?scroll_to=2373532 I can not imagine how difficult learning would be when you can only understand half of what your teacher is saying. He is taking a big risk by coming into live in this new place without knowing much of the language that people speak. Wed, 10 Mar 2021 11:29:37 -0500 "This is a training ground" https://nowcomment.com/documents/262700?scroll_to=2373518 https://nowcomment.com/documents/262700?scroll_to=2373518 Malcolm says that school is a training ground for the real world. We are taught capitalism at a young age, starting in school. There is segregation in schools and some groups are taught to survive in this world by leading it, while the others just follow and fall. Wed, 10 Mar 2021 08:06:34 -0500 Getting an Education https://nowcomment.com/documents/260957?scroll_to=2355557 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260957?scroll_to=2355557 Fredrick seems to be aware that having an education is important. He learns to read and write using anything he can get his hands on. For example he talks the little master, that can write, "I would tell him I could write as well as he could" knowing that he could not, but now the boy is going to write and provide Fredrick with a writing lesson. Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:02:08 -0400 Realization https://nowcomment.com/documents/260957?scroll_to=2355505 https://nowcomment.com/documents/260957?scroll_to=2355505 This sentence makes me believe that Fredrick was twelve years old when he had the first realization that this might be his entire life, he might always be working as someones slave. Mon, 13 Sep 2021 16:02:08 -0400 Botanical gardens https://nowcomment.com/documents/258458?scroll_to=2334129 https://nowcomment.com/documents/258458?scroll_to=2334129 A botanical garden is a garden dedicated to the collection, cultivation, preservation and display of a wide range of plants labelled with their botanical names. Fri, 12 Feb 2021 09:04:40 -0500 Interpretation https://nowcomment.com/documents/258111?scroll_to=2334119 https://nowcomment.com/documents/258111?scroll_to=2334119 The way I interpreted this stanza, specifically "your money and your guns your say, so against my pepper spray." My mind immediately thought of the recent riots and movements fighting for African Americans rights. "Your money your guns your say" referring to racist people and they have all the right to carry a gun, but they are against her right to own pepper spray. Fri, 12 Feb 2021 12:06:08 -0500 Character https://nowcomment.com/documents/246973?scroll_to=2301218 https://nowcomment.com/documents/246973?scroll_to=2301218 "He would never allow himself to make money off of others," this tells me that Morrie has great character because a lot of people in this world would take the money away from the people that genuinely deserve it. Fri, 29 Jan 2021 08:36:15 -0500 Kimberly, I agree . Children can't attribute to situations that involve their own safety. Everyone deserves to have a place called home that is safe. Covid-19 took away this families home. https://nowcomment.com/documents/246060?scroll_to=2265100 https://nowcomment.com/documents/246060?scroll_to=2265100 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:36:33 -0500 The woman in this picture seems so excited for the new year. But, I am sure she had no clue how awful of a year it was about to be. Looking at this picture after living through 2020 the first thing that came to my mind was they are so close without masks. https://nowcomment.com/documents/246060?scroll_to=2260267 https://nowcomment.com/documents/246060?scroll_to=2260267 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 08:34:05 -0500 Sources https://nowcomment.com/documents/240008?scroll_to=2187319 https://nowcomment.com/documents/240008?scroll_to=2187319 The "R Slur" has grown to be a word that does not exist in my vocabulary. It is a word used to beat down people with disabilities. This was still the case when this movie was released. So, how I see this as is the writer pointing out that sometime in Lucien's life he picked up that word. Someone referred to him as the "R slur." Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:27:35 -0500 Jacks Dedication https://nowcomment.com/documents/240008?scroll_to=2187302 https://nowcomment.com/documents/240008?scroll_to=2187302 Mrs. Tracy called in for an appointment for marriage counseling. "When you're here, you're not here" Mrs. Tracy says because he is constantly thinking or doing something for the boys. He is emotionally unavailable for his wife it seems. His energy all goes towards the boys. His focus is always on the boys. Jack is so consumed that he forgot his own birthday. Fri, 06 Nov 2020 16:16:13 -0500 In addition https://nowcomment.com/documents/240008?scroll_to=2187142 https://nowcomment.com/documents/240008?scroll_to=2187142 My view on the new neighbors is that they are very entitled. "He is a traditional kind of man" talking about her husband. What does traditional not match with neighbors with a disability? Then, she goes on to say the "R slur" which should not be said especially referring to people with disabilities. I think the director wrote this into the movie to show the reality of this world. Even though they have not done anything to affect the new neighbors in a negative way, they are debating the house choice due to the boys having disabilities. Fri, 06 Nov 2020 15:42:45 -0500 Hidden Donuts https://nowcomment.com/documents/240008?scroll_to=2187124 https://nowcomment.com/documents/240008?scroll_to=2187124 Norman comes back home from work, which is at a donut shop, with a bump in his shirt. It is obvious to Jack and the audience that there is a box of donuts hidden under his shirt. But, Norman think he has Jack fooled. When Jack points it out, Norman acts very surprised, as if he did not know he put it in there. Fri, 06 Nov 2020 15:30:37 -0500 Learning from mistakes https://nowcomment.com/documents/240008?scroll_to=2184101 https://nowcomment.com/documents/240008?scroll_to=2184101 Berry says this to his student he is teaching at his golf lessons. This line is interesting to me. The way I took this line is learning from your mistakes, in most cases, can be more beneficial than being taught how to do something. Learning what to do, by doing what not to do. Fri, 03 Sep 2021 09:47:19 -0400