Study Groups!
As I was sitting here in the COA Library, I was surprised to see Ezra, Jeremy and Hassan pass by me headed to the study rooms to discuss the reading for tomorrow and do their homework.
Wonderful! I hope to see others of you following this example. I also wanted to mention that the Obama books are on reserve at the library for those who do not have the books yet. You can do your assignments here.
As I was sitting here in the COA Library, I was surprised to see Ezra, Jeremy and Hassan pass by me headed to the study rooms to discuss the reading for tomorrow and do their homework.
Wonderful! I hope to see others of you following this example. I also wanted to mention that the Obama books are on reserve at the library for those who do not have the books yet. You can do your assignments here.
posted by Professor Wanda's Posse at 12:32 PM
7 Comments:
Thank you for the recognition Prof. Sabir. It's a pleasure being in your class. I hope I don't irritate you because I love to laugh and I always look for the humor in almost everything. LOL
It was good seeing you in library Ms. Sabir, I spend alot of my free time in the library and enjoy the resources provided by the college.
Thank you for posting that link explaining the Battle of Trenton, I believe that our understanding of the past is our best bet at acting efficiently in the future.
Oh, Ms. Sabir.
I wanted to share something I wrote with you. I wrote it the day after the inauguration, but I wasn't sure it fitted any of our assignments, so I didn't submit it:
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Inauguration Day.
There is something so inherently emotional to me about inauguration day, something unique and visceral. It has always been a day of fruition, a culmination of either a dream or a nightmare (depending on your views on the preceding government).
Eight years of reckless and criminal governing have made us a damaged, jaded, and divided people. But now there is a leader who even through his presence alone inspires a sense of coming prosperity.
It has become almost cliché to be “anti-government” or “anti-establishment”, and we have all become accustomed to the dozens of news channels that fill our heads day after day with the feelings of insurmountable crisis and impassable confusion.
And even on this most auspicious day, the inauguration and declaration of a new leader, this cloud of critical mistrust still looms.
Personally, I am critical not only of the actions of my government, but also of the inaction of the citizenry of this great nation.
As our new president speaks I look at the faces of my comrades and realize that most of them hang on his words, not with duty or true understanding, but instead with their collective hands out. With grandiose visions of some newly materialized messiah they all make frivolous statements like “Now let’s see if he really lives up to this” and “I hope he can pull it off”.
I find myself deeply disturbed by this backward and misguided stance that somehow the government and the governed are separate entities. I constantly witness this daft insinuation by the masses that we are to “sit back” and wait for change and promises to come and save us all.
We as a people can not afford to be only citizens of words and virtues, of high hopes and glistening eyes. We must most of all be citizens of action and determination.
Pres. Barack Obama is our leader, and a brilliant and gifted one he is.
But we are his troops, the strength in his arm, the architects of our collective will.
The wars against hatred, corruption, injustice, and poverty can not be won by executive order alone, or by policy alone. It is our duty in every moment, not just on the days that patriotism is prescribed to us, to make better of ourselves, and each other.
To be true, and just, and unwavering in our everyday lives with every decision we make.
We can not expect or demand justice from our government if we are not involved and just within ourselves.
Pres. Barack Obama is a bold, consummate luminary and orator, and I received renewed inspiration from his eloquent address. But somewhere beyond the pageantry, the confetti and cannon-fire, there is a humble man reciting a creed as old as democracy itself.
A complex and ever-evolving belief that as a people, united and productive, we can create a better way of life.
It is only through renewed devotion to better our lives on all levels that we can temper the storms of doubt and misguidance.
It is only through courage and the shouldering of our duties that we will step forth from the forge of our will and labor as a bright, shining civilization.
So on this day, Inauguration Day, I can sense a new resolve.
A statement that together we can remove the lines that divide us and impinge on our rights, we can become hardworking and virtuous; and most of all we can be one people.
Hassan L. Moore
Hassan,
I hope you see this..i was wondering if i could join your study group..i would appreciate if you could help me with my writting.... i am not in your class i am in the 8 o 9 but maybe we could work something out...if you want you could give me your email so we could talk more...
thanks
paola
sure thing, if anyone wants to work in study group, my email is hassanmoorecollege@gmail.com
Hassan this is lovely. Where do I start, the illustrations, the references to the past and the hope for the future, the analysis of what you witnessed and are witnessing when you look at your constituency?
We should publish a book called: "The First 100 Days, Reflections on a New Era in American History, A Call and a Response."
Would you like to be the editor? You are a great writer. Thanks for sharing. The Laney College Tower is always looking for other writers to cover events, like those on COA campus.
WS
Ms. Sabir, I think it is a great idea to write a book, and I would be honored to be editor.
Would it be a class project?
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