{"id":29,"date":"2020-02-02T09:42:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:42:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cooperasp\/?p=29"},"modified":"2020-02-02T09:42:50","modified_gmt":"2020-02-02T16:42:50","slug":"assignment-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cooperasp\/2020\/02\/02\/assignment-23\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 2:3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For this assignment I read the blog posts of Sarah Afful, Nargiza Alimova, Emilia Brandoli, Megan Cameron, Aran Chang, and Sophie Dafesh (it&#8217;s a complete coincidence that they&#8217;re the first six students listed on the &#8220;student blogs&#8221; page I swear). This is my list of takeaways\/summaries from their stories, along with commentary:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Home is found in the love of one&#8217;s family\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Particularly when one is young<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>The home for an immigrant is elusive, and they often feel stuck between two worlds\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0When one moves from one place to another, especially when it&#8217;s a regular thing, one is unable to develop the same kind of attachment to the geographic place wherein one resides that others do<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Home is a point in time with one&#8217;s family\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0I particularly liked this point, it emphasizes the fact that physical location isn&#8217;t as important as temporal location<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Home is found within one&#8217;s relationships\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Similar to previous points made in other stories, but makes the important point that it&#8217;s not just familial bonds that can create a sense of home, but friendships as well<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Home is a circle of love that one surrounds oneself with\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Similar to previous points made, but I particularly liked how it was worded (I pulled this almost verbatim from the story)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Home is a complicated feeling made up of many parts\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0It&#8217;s difficult to define what &#8220;home&#8221; means, and any attempt to define it will inevitably leave out an important aspect<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>One can&#8217;t truly understand one&#8217;s home until one leaves it\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Related especially to the point made about immigrants, and applies to more than just one&#8217;s home. Similar to the saying &#8220;you don&#8217;t know what you have until it&#8217;s gone.&#8221; It&#8217;s always difficult to appreciate or understand something when you&#8217;re in close proximity to it, it often requires taking a step back (physically, temporally) and viewing it more objectively\/reflectively in order to truly understand\/appreciate it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this assignment I read the blog posts of Sarah Afful, Nargiza Alimova, Emilia Brandoli, Megan Cameron, Aran Chang, and Sophie Dafesh (it&#8217;s a complete coincidence that they&#8217;re the first six students listed on the &#8220;student blogs&#8221; page I swear). This is my list of takeaways\/summaries from their stories, along with commentary: Home is found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cooperasp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cooperasp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cooperasp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cooperasp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cooperasp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cooperasp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cooperasp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cooperasp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cooperasp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cooperasp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}