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[foreststarflaime]

And the new award for funniest latin word I have ever seen goes toooo: ✨gubernaculum✨

(Meaning helm or rudder, but it’s pronounced like goober knack-oo-loom and I cannot stop giggling)

[breitzbachbea]

I still need Himaruya to move away from Imperial Rome and back to late Republican Rome, if only because I want anime cicero to one-shot kill classics tumblr.

[beeing-stuupid]

someone tell me why the bee family is in my seneca

[stingraystudiess]

Good Morning

Chai Lagbe?

Do you need chai?

Hello lovely jublies! Yesterday did not go as planned, however, we move on.

Day 2 of 27 days of excellence

Basic list

* Wake up before 10

* Drink 2 bottles of water ☑️

* 30 min of reading ☑️

* Balanced meals (no unnecessary means)

* Keeping in touch with family ☑️

* Journal entry whenever possible

* Planning in diary

* Planning for the day ahead

* Sticking to subject tasks planned daily

* Staying consistent

* No video games ☑️

* 3 hrs max screen time

Study list

History - notes ☑️

Physics - Seneca

Biology - Seneca

Spanish - tut hw

Ok thank you for reading and will update!

Signing off~

StingrayStudies

[peonycats]

Not to be a bother but what's your interpretation of the first nations and indigenous tribes as characters

Don’t worry about being a bother!! I have a few indigenous OCs, such as the haudenosaunee from a while back! I also have some others, like Mister Numunu (Comanche) and Miss Diné, who is pictured below!

I kinda dislike using a blanket “indigenous” Alfred to represent all of the diverse tribes of the USA, so when in doubt, I prefer to actually personify the tribes/groups, who are independent from Alfred ^^

From left to right: Miss Mikmaqi, Miss Diné (Navajo), Miss Onodowaga (Seneca)!

Miss Mi’kmaqi belongs to @letttalias

[and-let-it-run]

Source - Kevin Colton Photography, HWS Colleges TWIP Archives

William Smith Rowing on Seneca Lake

[prodigaldaughteralice]

today thoughts:

1) I watched Birds of Prey last night and fucking loved it and now I can’t concentrate on anything else

2) which is a damn shame because I have a TON of homework to finish today and tomorrow

3) god I want to be working on my cosplay (Hessonite; I’ve done all I can on the Ruby Red until I can get more wood for the brace which I cannot go out and buy because of the fucking plague) but I have to do all this schoolwork

4) I don’t actually have an absurd amount of homework for someone taking seven classes but being trapped in the house all day is ruining my concentration as well as my sleep schedule

5) BIRDS OF FUCKING PREY I already wanted to watch B:tAS because I really like the character of Harley and that’s her origin but now that desire has been kicked into overdrive

6) I had briefly considered liveblogging it but given that there’s like 85 episodes and I’m only about 2/3 of the way through the 39 episode Utena after many months I don’t think that’s going to happen

7) so then I was like “I can watch it while working on my cosplay!!” but I don’t seem to have time to do that either

8) I drew a silly connection between the first day of the Seneca Falls convention being women only and the riot grrrl “girls to the front” concert policy and even though I acknowledged it was spurious but was my example of emotional connection to the documentary I’m worried my prof will think it’s silly of me

9) I still think it’s funny that if gf and I ever did a Harley and Ivy pair cosplay I would probably be Harley and she would probably be Ivy despite the fact that I’m a long-haired redhead and she’s a blonde who often wears pigtails

10) I just want to be Doing Crafts And Sewing I feel like my hands and brain are atrophying

11) back to my hw

[awutar]

21-year-old pleads guilty to planning kidnappings and murders using Grindr

21-year-old pleads guilty to planning kidnappings and murders using Grindr

File photo. A person looks at the Grindr app on their cell phone. Photo: AP A Louisiana man pleaded guilty Thursday to using the gay dating app Grindr as a tool to kidnap and murder gay men, and carrying out the first part of his plan on a victim. Chance Seneca, 21, of Lafayette, Louisiana, pleaded guilty to kidnapping HW, a gay man he contacted through Grindr and planned to kill, the US…

[smisblog]

sunday

day 1 water fast

cut fringe to size

shave

finish my art medias

take fabric photos

3 pages of analysis and pics

walk in the evening park

...

print different fabric photos and make 3 pages of photos and contact sheet for these and other wrapped fabric and 3 best from each and drawing of different media for wrapped

page 1 title contact sheet 3 best and analysis

page 2 different media and analysis

page 3 denim and title and analysis

nina dapper for one hour set timer

long park walk

no bad addiction -1000

5000x sit-ups

dry fast

monday

wake 8am

history hw finish 9:30-12:30

long walk park 12:30-1:30

physics hw

plan art HW layout in book for research pages

no bad addiction 1000 calories

cardio nina dapper thighs and stomach

5000x situps

dry fast

tuesday

fabric title page

fabric sketches

fabric exam drawing redo w graphitr

cell biology

organisation

infection and response

bioenergetics make into quizlets and update

cute organised mindmaps for each topic and put into folder

nina dapper

long park walk

nobadaddictiob

5000x situps

wednesday

redraw art exam drawing in graphite from Pinterest

history work book qs

revise paper 1 biology

homeostasis and response

inheritance variation and evolution

ecology

practical skills

make into quizlets and update

mindmaps

5000x sit-ups

long walk

nobadaddictiob

nona dapper

thursday

revise gcse biology

and review mindmaps

friday

atomic structure

bonding

quantitive

chemical changes energy changes

make into quizlet and update

mindmaps

saturday

revise paper 1 chem

rate and extent

organic

chemical analysis

chem of the atmosphere

mindmaps

using resources

practical skills

update to quizlet

sunday

revise gcse biology and chemistry

monday

revise gcse bio and chem

energy

electricity

particle model

atomic structure

mindmaps

quizlet

tuesday

revise gcse bio chem and physics paper 1

forces

waves

electro magnetism

space

mindmaps

revise all science

wednesday

all science

Kerboodle finish textbook and make notes on how to do and do corbett maths

math mindmaps

read jekyll and hyde

thursday

science

math

history seneca all topics and quizlets and textbook highlight

mindmaps histiry

french quizlet

friday

science

math

history

french

english all past papers aqa and pmt

saturday

science

math

history

french

english

[imclelland]

Assignment Four

For this assignment I decided to tackle the issue of how much time we as a society spend on our technology. Here at HWS I felt like a-lot of students, myself included, don’t utilize the beautiful Seneca Lake that our campus is right in front of, and i wanted to capitalize on this. For my project I had a model be in front of a beautiful area, but instead of him absorbing it he was on his phone watching Tik Tok.  For the first two images I had the subject at the dock not admiring the lake, the third one was along the train track at a break in the shoreline, and the fourth was agin by the lake watching the super-moon. I felt like this project was very fun to do, however I feel like I could have given myself more time and if I would have done this I thought i could have produced better images. 

[spacesofutsc2019-blog]

The Valley

Behind the HW patio, there are a set of stairs which lead to UTSC’s Valley. The Valley usually smells earthy, there is a constant subtle whispering amongst the tall trees as the wind passes through them, and a greeting from every bird as you walk within its paths. The Valley always has something to offer for those that visit, whether a friendly tennis match at the student courts, or a place to lay under a tree to break from studying. It is a place that I feel is seen as “outside” of the University grounds, through the ways in which, it is a place almost ignored by students.

I remember my first time in the Valley. It was my first day as an employed summer student at UTSC. An older coworker drove me down to pick up the vehicle I would be using to hull plants and tools around campus. I remember him saying, “We gotta go pick up the truck, its parked in the Valley.” I was quite nervous considering it was my first day on the job, but once we turned that gravel corner, the popping of the rocks under the tires, brang me a sense of comfort, it reminded me of my Poppie’s (grandfather) long gravel driveway up north in our community. I remember thinking, “I think these trees are as tall as the ones back home,” “I wish poppie were here to see where I’m working.” I never even knew a place like this existed on campus. The sun flickered through the trees, crossing my face as we approached the bubble, “What do you think about being a summer student, do you think you’ll like working out here?” he asked, I replied, “I’ve always loved being outside.”

After working that summer, watching the plants grow, tending to them, watching the leaves encroach on the upper school grounds, or even watching the river swell as the rain cooled the summer heat, the Valley has become my favourite place on campus. As an Indigenous student living in the city, I need to work during the summer months to save for my fall living expenses. Before working at UTSC, during the summer months I would visit my family up North, spending my entire summer on our traditional lands, four wheeling in the mountains, fishing, raspberry picking, portaging, small game hunting and helping my grandfather rebuild his childhood home. Leaving that environment can be hard for people like me. People like me, concrete Indians. People who grow on lands where the trees are stories tall and made of steel. People like me, whose culture is fractured by both lack of opportunity and infrastructure. People like me, who do not know how to speak the language of their mothers people. Working in the Valley has given me an opportunity to balance both. Even though, the Valley is not my traditional territory, instead rather of peoples such as the Mississaugas of the Credit River, Huron-Wendat, Petun First Nation and the Seneca, I am still working and actively engaging with the land and or Turtle Island. The trees watch me over the course of the summer. They watch my melanin flourish under the rays of the sun. They watch the hardening of callus’s, as my hands and sweat mixed deep within the soil. They watch my plants bear their fruit, for community members to enjoy.

The Valley is a unique place, it is filled with life but also is a constant reminder of a past life. When utilizing this space we can never forget the histories that make the Valley what it is. For me, it teaches me new things everyday, but also gives me a taste of back home. This is why I love the Valley.

After working that summer, watching the plants grow, tending to them, watching the leaves encroach on the school ground, or even watching the river swell as the rain cooled the summer heat, the Valley has become my favourite place on campus.

-CB

[jessejunkocreates]

I love my homewater Seneca Lake and want to do everything I can to keep it clean! Did you know there are chemical sunscreens and mineral sunscreens? Mineral sunscreens like my fave from @beautycounter are safe for your skin and our waters, but chemical sunscreens allow carcinogens and other harmful toxins to both wash off into our waterways and to absorb into your bloodstream. Toxic sunscreens are so damaging they’ve been outlawed in many ecologically delicate tourist areas like Hawaii and Key West! Toxic sunscreen kills coral reefs and other vital aquatic life, that’s why I only use safe sunscreen from Beautycounter! PLEASE WATCH MY STORIES TO LEARN ABOUT ANOTHER WATER POLLUTING ISSUE AND TELL @nygovcuomo AND @nysdec TO PROTECT SENECA LAKE! Rally details are on Facebook! ☀️ 🌊 🧴 . . . #safesunscreen #mineralsunscreen #senecalake #waterprotector #watereights #hectorny #centralnewyork #flx #fingerlakes #savesenecalake #betterbeauty #waterislife #environmentalprotection #freshwaterlake #landlockedlake #homewater #motherseneca #seneca #defendnature (at Finger Lakes, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPqQ0y-t-Hw/?utm_medium=tumblr

[scottishdreams]

FRIDAY HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Local track stars compete at HWS

Dundee ^ | SENECA FALLS — The Mynderse varsity wrestling squad captured a victory over Dundee Friday morning. The match opened with a win for the Blue ... http://dlvr.it/QvmNzX

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HWS Seneca Review



Essay review

(For more information, see our reprint of "Seneca Review Promotes Lyric Essay" from Poets & Writers Magazine.)

With its Fall 1997 issue, Seneca Review began to publish what we've chosen to call the lyric essay. The recent burgeoning of creative nonfiction and the personal essay has yielded a fascinating sub-genre that straddles the essay and the lyric poem. These "poetic essays" or "essayistic poems" give primacy to artfulness over the conveying of information. They forsake narrative line, discursive logic, and the art of persuasion in favor of idiosyncratic meditation.

The lyric essay partakes of the poem in its density and shapeliness, its distillation of ideas and musicality of language. It partakes of the essay in its weight, in its overt desire to engage with facts, melding its allegiance to the actual with its passion for imaginative form.

The lyric essay does not expound. It may merely mention. As Helen Vendler says of the lyric poem, "It depends on gaps. . . . It is suggestive rather than exhaustive." It might move by association, leaping from one path of thought to another by way of imagery or connotation, advancing by juxtaposition or sidewinding poetic logic. Generally it is short, concise and punchy like a prose poem. But it may meander, making use of other genres when they serve its purpose: recombinant, it samples the techniques of fiction, drama, journalism, song, and film.

Given its genre mingling, the lyric essay often accretes by fragments, taking shape mosaically - its import visible only when one stands back and sees it whole. The stories it tells may be no more than metaphors. Or, storyless, it may spiral in on itself, circling the core of a single image or idea, without climax, without a paraphrasable theme. The lyric essay stalks its subject like quarry but is never content to merely explain or confess. It elucidates through the dance of its own delving.

Loyal to that original sense of essay as a test or a quest, an attempt at making sense, the lyric essay sets off on an uncharted course through interlocking webs of idea, circumstance, and language - a pursuit with no foreknown conclusion, an arrival that might still leave the writer questioning. While it is ruminative, it leaves pieces of experience undigested and tacit, inviting the reader's participatory interpretation. Its voice, spoken from a privacy that we overhear and enter, has the intimacy we have come to expect in the personal essay. Yet in the lyric essay the voice is often more reticent, almost coy, aware of the compliment it pays the reader by dint of understatement.

What has pushed https://www.the-essays.com/essay to poetry? Perhaps we're drawn to the lyric now because it seems less possible (and rewarding) to approach the world through the front door, through the myth of objectivity. The life span of a fact is shrinking; similitude often seems more revealing than verisimilitude. We turn to the artist to reconcoct meaning from the bombardments of experience, to shock, thrill, still the racket, and tether our attention.

We turn to the lyric essay - with its malleability, ingenuity, immediacy, complexity, and use of poetic language - to give us a fresh way to make music of the world. But we must be willing to go out on an artistic limb with these writers, keep our balance on their sometimes vertiginous byways. Anne Carson, in her essay on the lyric, "Why Did I Awake Lonely Among the Sleepers" (Published in Seneca Review Vol. XXVII, no. 2) quotes Paul Celan. What he says of the poem could well be said of the lyric essay:

The poem holds its ground on its own margin. The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it.

If the reader is willing to walk those margins, there are new worlds to be found.

--Deborah Tall, Editor and John D'Agata, Associate Editor for Lyric Essays

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5052 State Route 228, Trumansburg, NY

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[peonycats]

Can you draw what the Iroquois Confederacy would look like?

well first of all, they call themselves the Haudenosaunee! And the second of all, as the word confederacy implies, there are multiple nations under that term: the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora! Now designing six nations all at once is a tall order for even me, so for now, I’m going to stick to the Onondaga, Mohawk, and Seneca, the senior members of the Confederacy!

(From left to right: Mohawk, Seneca, and Onondaga in some modern dress)

Mohawk (Kanien’kehake)

a light-hearted and amiable fella; great with kids!

reigning smoke dance champion

likes to tell stories

not a fan of paperwork and slogging through layers of bureaucracy

got up to some very wild hijinks back in the day: he once stole all of France's clothes and left him out in the winter cold during the 1600s

has some very cool tattoos

Seneca (Onondowahgah)

holds a matriarchal role among the nation-tans of the Confederacy

mom friend

can be very no nonsense when provoked

makes a mean succotash

fantastic at embroidery and especially beadwork

Had a lot of beef with Mi’kmaqi (a lovely oc belonging to @hammyletto !) back in the day but now they settle for sniping at each other over embroidery and tea

Onondaga (Onundagaono)

a bit solemn; takes his responsibility as the "Keepers of the Fire" very seriously

really good at lacrosse; he keeps a running tally of him and Mohawk's lacrosse games. He lets himself take some smug satisfaction in the fact that he's currently ahead.

shot off Alfred's nose in the American War for Independence

worked alongside Mohawk in the late 1800s on a number of New York construction projects

got called pogchamp and none of the younger members of the confederacy will tell him what it means

Historical Footnotes:

I specifically designed these three with the story of the Confederacy’s founding in mind. Specifically, the three figures who played a major role in its establishment- the Peacemaker, who first convinced the Mohawk nation to give up war and adopt peace, Hiawatha, an Onondaga chief who lost his wife and daughters to war and decided to join the Peacemarker’s cause, and Jigonhsasee, a elderly woman from the Seneca who also joined the Peacemaker and convinced the women of the nations to agree to the Great Law of Peace. The Great Law of Peace is the oral constitution of the Confederacy, and outlines laws as well as ceremonies to be performed at specific times.

For Mohawk and Onondaga, I heavily referenced the regalia of the Haudenosaunee dancers in the Indian Village of the 2017 New York State Fair! Mohawk’s clothing is specifically based on Haneh Brandt of the Mohawk nation.

During community and ceremonial gatherings, men will wear gustowehs, a frame cap decorated with hawk, pheasant, or turkey feathers. They could be decorated with silver, animal hide, and hair. Each nation of the confederacy had their own unique gustoweh, denoted by the number and position of the feathers. Mohawk and Onondaga's own gustowehs reflect their unique styles.

Haudenosaunee beadwork, or "raised beadwork", was developed by the women in the early 18th century and has a very distinctive style. Small white beads create lacelike decorations around the edges of the dress's collar, skirt, and leggings. Men's clothing and accessories like purses and satchels were also decorated with raised beadwork.

I referenced this design for the embroidery, but sadly, I can’t seem to find a source for this :( If you do, please let me know so I can credit it!

The hummingbird pendant Mohawk is wearing was inspired by this beaded mask made by Callie Konwanonhsiyohstha Hill of the Turtle Clan Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory!

Women hold an especially large role in Haudenosaunee society. Both men’s and women’s councils could propose legislation to the Grand Council. Haudenosaunee clans, which are like extended family, were matrilineal, and the eldest woman, known as the Clan Mother, had a number of responsibilities. It was Clan Mothers who nominated the Hoyaneh, or chief, of the clan, and they could choose to remove him if he failed in his duties. Historically, Clan Mothers also had the right to call for a war party.

Upon first contact, the Haudenosaunee weren’t on great terms with the French, particularly because the French had chosen to ally with the Wyandot (Huron), who were bitter enemies with the Confederacy. They fought the decades long Beaver Wars against numerous other indigenous nations and their French allies.

The Haudenosaunee fought numerous wars against their neighbors, including the Mi’kmaq, who live in what is now Canada as well as the northeastern Maine.

The Three Sisters refer towards the three main agricultural crops of the Haudenosaunee, though many other indigenous groups also depended on them- Squash, maize/corn, and climbing beans. Maize was used not just in dishes like succotash, hominy, and many others, but  it was also used in weaving, baskets, and clothing. Women were responsible for crop cultivation, though men took part in the initial preparation by clearing the planting ground.

During the American War of Independence, the Confederacy attempted to stay neutral. However, the Tuscarora and Oneida ended up siding with the colonists, whereas the Seneca, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Mohawk remained loyal to the British.

The Smoke Dance is a social dance unique to the Haudenosaunee; though its origins are not clearly known, one theory says it originated from a war dance once exclusively performed by men. Nowadays, it’s primarily a competitive dance; men and women both compete during festivals and powwows.

Numerous Haudenosaunee men were hired to work on major construction projects starting in the late 19th century. They were called “Ironwalkers,” and many left their native communities to seek work in the cities. Due to the danger of the work, ironworkers partner up, and Haudenosaunee ironworkers typically partner with a brother or a relative. Some projects that the Haudenosaunee worked on include the George Washington Bridge, the Empire State Building, the United Nations, and the World Trade Center. 

Lacrosse originates from the Confederacy. The Haudenosaunee call it Tewaarathon, which means “they bump hips”, and it is seen as a gift from the Creator. It’s considered to be a medicine game, or a game to be played to heal and strengthen people, along with resolving disputes and dispelling negative feelings between clans and nations. Recently, the Irish Lacrosse team voluntarily stepped down from competing in the 2022 World games so the Haudenosaunee team could play!