Obligations
Oct. 29th, 2002 06:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
morrigirlI'm taking a break from school related activities at the moment. I just realized how much I have to do tonight. At seven I have to go participate in Audrey Klein's pychology experiment. I have to prepare my Inanna presentation, and I have to start writing my Larsen paper.
I spent the last hour taking notes on "Passing." I think I'm going to focus on how the creation of double-consciouness promotes the need for racial allegiance, but how, at the same time, it becomes so pervasive within the individual psyche that it splits all interactions, even those with others of the same race, in two making the show of allegiance a tenuous one at best. The book explicitly shows that when Clare's presence threatens to disturb Irene's safety, all sense of allegiance melts away. I think it is the very presence of double-consciousness that causes such dissention in the ranks, so to speak.
Hellenga sent out an email today telling everyone to come in tomorrow with a hard question to ask me after my presentation. Eek! 24 hard questions. He's trying to massacre me. Eh, not that I'm worried. If nothing else, MVA trained me to deal with impossible questions and how to bullshit my way through them. Thing is, Hellenga wants me to read my paper aloud, which i think, kills the entire point of an oral presentation. Also, I haven't revised my paper yet and i don't want to embarress myself by reading the first draft which is, admittedly, kinda hard to follow. So, I plan to scrap Hellenga's suggestion and simply present my paper rather then read it. I think I can express the idea of the paper in a clearer and more entertaining way if I summarize.
But that will require a bit of extra work on my part. Gonna have to set up and explain the Wolkstein interpretation that I'm refuting, explain why I don't think it works, and then go through my whole interpretation.
Ugh, it's gonna be a long night :-p
I spent the last hour taking notes on "Passing." I think I'm going to focus on how the creation of double-consciouness promotes the need for racial allegiance, but how, at the same time, it becomes so pervasive within the individual psyche that it splits all interactions, even those with others of the same race, in two making the show of allegiance a tenuous one at best. The book explicitly shows that when Clare's presence threatens to disturb Irene's safety, all sense of allegiance melts away. I think it is the very presence of double-consciousness that causes such dissention in the ranks, so to speak.
Hellenga sent out an email today telling everyone to come in tomorrow with a hard question to ask me after my presentation. Eek! 24 hard questions. He's trying to massacre me. Eh, not that I'm worried. If nothing else, MVA trained me to deal with impossible questions and how to bullshit my way through them. Thing is, Hellenga wants me to read my paper aloud, which i think, kills the entire point of an oral presentation. Also, I haven't revised my paper yet and i don't want to embarress myself by reading the first draft which is, admittedly, kinda hard to follow. So, I plan to scrap Hellenga's suggestion and simply present my paper rather then read it. I think I can express the idea of the paper in a clearer and more entertaining way if I summarize.
But that will require a bit of extra work on my part. Gonna have to set up and explain the Wolkstein interpretation that I'm refuting, explain why I don't think it works, and then go through my whole interpretation.
Ugh, it's gonna be a long night :-p
