The Gallaudet Eleven

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Citations

Graybiel, Ashton: General Chairman. (1965). Symposium on the Role of the Vestibular Organs in Space Exploration.U.S. Naval School of Aviation Medicine. Pensacola, FL.

Greenmun, Bob. (1958-1963). Letters from Greenmun to family and friends.

NASA. (1988). A Chronology of Defining Events in NASA History, 1958-1988. Web. Retrieved from http://history.nasa.gov/40thann/define.htm

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Collection by David Myers, Harry Larson, Jerald Jordan.(1961-1966).

John F. Kennedy – The Goal of Sending a Man to the Moon. (1961). University of Virginia Miller Center. Web. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhsQouI8FEg

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Beloved: Coming Back From the Dead

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Beloved is Toni Morrison’s haunting story of a mother’s struggle to protect her children in post-slavery America. Sethe, mother of  children and with one on the way, runs away from a plantation in search for her husband’s mother and a safe home. 
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“It’s gonna hurt. Anything dead coming back to life hurts.”

Sethe’s degirls-no-10---belovedfinition of love and motherhood is to protect her children at all costs from slavery, and this brings her to attempt to murder all of her children, succeeding with one. It also brings her to protect her children from her own stories that she herself cannot even move on from.

“Some things you forget. Other things you never do…If a house burns down, it’s gone, but the place—the picture of it—stays, and not just in my rememory, but out there, in the world” (43).

Beloved walks out of a river one day, with “new skin, lineless and smooth, including the knuckles of her hands” (61), and thus Sethe must finally confront her guilt and her past.

Morrison, Toni. Beloved: A Novel. New York: Knopf, 1987. Print.

Bressler, Charles. Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory and Practice. Longman, 2011. 5th ed. Print.

On cycling

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a man in a gray shirt and cargo shorts, visible from the waist down, is detaching a bright orange bike from a bike rack.

I’ve had a long and violent history with bikes. I’ve lost years off my life, centimeters off my knees, and the edges around my ego. When I was invited for a bike ride in DC last Sunday, I must admit to being nervous. I took bike rides last summer during a family vacation in Columbus, Ohio, where the streets are quiet and idyllic, and crashed into a parked car. I took bike rides from my home in Austin, Texas to the nearby pool or coffee joint, and nearly drowned in my own sweat. But DC is different, with their one-way streets and abysmal intersection lights. I got on a borrowed bike, trying not to dwell over the conspicuous lack of a helmet or even elbow and knee pads.

When I asked my friend where we were going, he laughed and replied, “Onward.” Onward, indeed. Within fifteen minutes we were already at Eastern Market, far faster than the metro on a good day. Chinatown in twenty, Union Station in ten, even Georgetown in a little over thirty. No near death experiences, either. It felt as though the cars were terrified of us, making a wider berth for us than they would a beached whale. We breezed through red lights, zig zagged along empty streets, and skipped ahead of cars to make turns.

This Saturday there’s going to be a charity-run bike sale at DuPont Circle. I’ll be going, and trying to figure out where to put a bike in a college student budget.