9/7
Lauren Hatch
ENG 110
Prof. Amy Amaroso
Silent Stories
When you strip away the front that a person puts up to protect themselves, you’re left with the experiences and moments that made them who they are. This is the place you need to visit to truly get to know someone and be able to relate their life with yours. A lot of the moments that help shape a person could of began with shame. People are scared of this deep, dark place inside of them because they’re nervous they will be the only ones. In Anne Hallward’s Ted talk How telling our silenced stories can change the world, she claims that we don’t like to let people in on that part of our life because, “they all have an emotional charge”(1:30). I completely agree with this. We are sometimes afraid to share our emotional stories with other because not only does it revisit the experience for you, but you are nervous what the other people will say or think of you. “But the reason is because the things that we don’t talk about actually begin to get associated with shame, they begin to make us feel as if we were bad.” (1:05) Not only could I relate this to me personally, but every person could relate to the moment for that they face when opening up to a new person, trying to share who they are and where they have been.
No one wants to be looked down upon, so they keep their emotions to themselves, and that is not at all healthy. I’ve always been told that in order to free myself from my demons, I need to talk to someone; that when I do my demons will be set free and I won’t be tied down anymore. I found out that this is true after finally working up the courage to do so; but most people never find the courage to speak up and find someone to talk to, whether that be a professional or a good friend. By opening up to one another, we’ll find that we all have things deep in the closet that we hoped never to see again and fear of judgement will never have to be an issue again. If we all say what we need to, the world can change and we can finally be honest people.
9/12
Lauren Hatch
ENG 110
Prof. Amy Amoroso
Shame
I think that Anne Hallward Ted Talk about shame is relatable to almost every person in one way or another. The first thing that I thought of when listening to this, was about my friend that committed suicide. I had just seen him that week, I had known him for eight year, EIGHT YEARS, of my life. I couldn’t tell something was up. I couldn’t tell something was wrong. So for the longest time after, I was ashamed. Ashamed of who I was, and I felt as if it was some how my fault. That there should have been a sign, or something off, that I could’ve read into and stopped it from happening. When in reality, there wasn’t anything I could have done. I couldn’t tell, because he wasn’t showing any signs, it was the spur of the moment. One decision, and he lost his life. Not only did he ruin his life, but he left behind a women, who is now a single mother, with a child, a house, a dog, and many loved ones. All from one decision that was lead by shame and internal pain. I question if he had had something like what Anne Hallward had created, if it would have changed anything.
9/14
Lauren Hatch
ENG 110
Prof. Amy Amoroso
Social Cohesion
I do believe that Anne Hallward is creating what Helen Epstien would have called social cohesion with her Safe Space Radio. She is trying to bring everyone out in the the open so that the subjects that are touchy and unwanted can become easier to talk about. The high stress situations that are caused by shame. She is creating social cohesion by bringing these issues out into the light. trying to bring people together and create a community who is better understanding. Which would cause Epsteins social cohesion. Creating awareness and daring attention. If only more people knew about it and how to utilize these kinds of things, I feel that they could be of great use. By opening the closed doors, Hallward is helping the situation. If she continues doing what she is doing, with TED talks, and Safe Space Radio, there will be a large increase in awareness and I think others should follow suit.
10/3
Lauren Hatch
ENG 110
Prof. Amy Amoroso
LGBTQ- Why Is It Still An Issue?
The issues within the LGBTQ community continue to play a huge role in our everyday lives. In 2015, “marriage is a constitutional right, available to everybody regardless of general sexual orientation” became a law. Marriage equality. The community is changing peoples views, hoping to draw positive attention to the situation and make it so that people can see that there is nothing wrong with being gay/transgender, and to help people be able to come out to their families and friends. Within the Safe Space Radio talk, Out Takes; the unheard stories of LGBTQ teens, my favorite story was Samantha’s. She shares her story of coming out to her friend during her senior year in high school, the difficulties she faced sharing her story. Her best friend turned her away, decided to drop her because she came out for who she was. I have never understood why people are so cruel to the LGBTQ community. It doesn’t affect them. It’s not contagious. It doesn’t rub off. However it is what they are, and they’re trusting their friends to share their stories, and they chose to respond to that with negativity. Just be accepting, and caring, and kind. They don’t have to believe in it, they don’t have to accept it, but they can still treat them with respect, like they’re a human.
10/5
Lauren Hatch
ENG 110
Prof. Amy Amoroso
Anne Hallward created a safe space radio where people can openly talk about their issues free of judgement. Her main goal is to help create social cohesion around hand to talk about topics. Social cohesion needs to take place when it comes to climate change. A way to do that cold be stepping up to share your stories/experiences to help others have a deeper and more complex idea of climate change. Hallward states “the microphone is a talking stick… its the most universal that is the way that other people can connect and it brings out stories… find a way to tip each other and it brings it our final into the larger culture” (8:50). People sharing their stories and talking about the issue within a larger culture, we should be able to get the ball rolling to stop climate change.
10/10
Lauren Hatch
ENG 110
Prof. Amy Amoroso
We should care about social change because there are still people that are affected negatively by society, and if we aren’t going to be the change we wish to see, who will? If we don’t get the ball rolling to try to get it to the point that we think it should be, our children will grow up in a cruel, unforgiving world. The process of social change takes a long time, and lots of effort from a lot of people. In knowing this, will you be willing to put the effort in to help the change, or will you be one of the ones who says ‘ah, someone else will do it’, or pass it off in some other way. Don’t do that. You want to know whats going on within your society and the changes that are taking place, because when change happens, hang on tight.
10/12
Lauren Hatch
ENG 110
Prof. Amy Amoroso
Why are there still racial inequalities?
It continues to have a large impact on our society because we continue to draw attention to events that take place that involve racial stereotype. We see it in the headlines of newspapers almost daily, ‘black male assaulted by white police officer’ or other articles that follow the stereotypes around race. An event that started with Colin Kaepernick, is still continuing today. He used the shooting of a young, unarmed African American to prove his point about equality. He believed that this country was not following the guidelines for the flag and what it stood for, so he wouldn’t stand for it. With that, he knelt for the anthem. Following his footsteps, people have started to create change, people everywhere have started kneeling or staying seated for the pledge. With this has created social change, bringing attention to something that needs to be changed to seek for change. Is this the way to do it? Bringing political views and standpoints into sports seems to be pissing a lot of people off. But it gave the action the attention that was needed to start change. This only didn’t affect players or people watching the games, but those who we stand for their families. The role of someone so famous or known to be famous, affects younger adults and younger children. We all follow the roles of other people if we think that it is okay to do so.
10/26
Lauren Hatch
ENG 110
PRof. Amy Amoroso
McKibbins Point of View
To create climate change, we would have to unite many ideas and many people to help create change. When it comes to climate change, I think Duhiggs ideas about social change having to do with string and weak ties could help tremendously. We need groups of people to come together to start the little changes that we need to see in order to have an impact on our environment. Looking at the 350 movement that took place is a prime example about how Duhiggs ideas about strong and weak ties will be able to help. People from all over the world were posting pictures and putting in their opinions about the matter at hand. But everyone who was participating had the same general idea and all supported similar things; they want change for our planet. Little groups were coming together to stand up against fossil fuel systems by “making noise” which is McKibbins idea to be able to get this movement started. If we don’t band together as a community and create those strong and weak ties so that we can get our point across, we might not have a planet to come back to. The planet takes care of us, its about time that we start taking care of it.
10/31
Lauren Hatch
ENG 110
Prof. Amy Amoroso
Changing for our Planet
Global warming is very important and is going to have a huge impact on us as a society if we do not choose to do something about it. We stand back and watch idly, some knowing it is taking place but not knowing what to do to change it, and some are still ignorant to the fact that global warming is even a ‘thing’. Standing up to make sure that your voice has an impact is going to be key when trying to fight this. The fossil fuel system has a large presence within our society and they bring in a lot of money, a few reasons as to why a lot of people continue to stay oblivious to the situation at hand. It is happening. The facts have been put out there, publicly, for everyone to see. Educate yourself and then decide where you stand. Every voice is going to matter. Every voice will have an influence. Make one of those voices yours. We need to act now, do your part to help our world. Change for our planet so that we can help the change we need to see for it to improve.
Fossil fuel companies have a very large pretense within our society, in order to make a change and have a large effect on our planet, we all are going to have to unite and do what is best to create significant changes.
This change can be accomplished by strong and weak ties and by making your voice known.
