Looking with Intention

3 Small Projects

Light at the End, 2023

Look Forward, 2023

Blooming, 2023

These 3 pictures are from the path I walk everyday to get to my home. I pass by these areas all the time, but I realized I don't take the time to acknowledge the beauty that surrounds my home. I'm always in a hurry to get home and work on class assignments and projects for work. I'm missing all of this beautiful nature that I could easily see right outside; this vibrant sun that's slowly setting for the day, the gentle warmth it provides, the blossoming leaves signaling that spring is just around the corner. Looking with intention and with attention, I acknowledge what amazing things I could enjoy if I spared just a moment.

Bell Hooks Quotes

“Conventional representations of black women have done violence to the image. Responding to this assault, many black women spectators shut out the image, looked the other way, accorded cinema no importance in their lives (120)."

"For black female spectators who have "looked to deep" the encounter with the screen hurt. That some of us chose to stop looking was a gesture of resistance, turning away was one way of protest, to reject negation (121)."  

Teens are making historical events go viral on TikTok – what does a history teacher think? | The Guardian

“There is a long-held stereotype that teenagers spend a lot of time online, uninterested in real life events.”

The same adults complaining about teens being uninterested in real-life events are the same that will complain when teens do get involved. The common response from these dismissive adults was "oh your just a kid what do you know." I'm envious of the strength and courage the teens of today have because I shut down when an adult told me this.

“Jones explains that the personification of countries in historical events is helpful in understanding intention and gives a boring textbook subject some personality.”

I have a difficult time reading long passages. I usually have to go back and re-read the same sentence over and over again just to understand what I'm reading. For all the times I've reread information from my history textbooks, you'd think that I remember a lot of information but no. I truly don't remember much of anything. What I do remember from history classes in high school though, was when my teachers would play us YouTube videos that would be comedic interpretations of historical topics. The way I passed history class was to build a foundation from those videos and fill in the blanks with what little I did grasp from my history textbook. I would have loved having these short-form videos instead when I was younger because sometimes those YouTube videos could be too long for my attention span. These history TikToks are definitely contributing to my current learning. I still like watching these types of videos now, because I think it's a good thing to keep learning history even if I'm no longer in a classroom setting.