Thinking and Inquiry Read the following information and answer the question outlined below Question: Are the main changes that occur during brain development associated with life

Directions: Read Pages 1-24(Andersen & Collins) and answer the following questions.
Lorde discusses the experience of being marginalized in American society on multiple levels. She discusses the role of art, and especially poetry as a means by which women of Color have been able to historically express themselves and share the experiences of their marginalization. The issue of the poetry and prose by women of Color and their exclusion from college curriculums are addressed as a way in which these past difficulties and issues are allowed to continue and repeat in our society.
Lorde also discusses the importance and need to recognize human differences to fully understand each other, but that these differences need not lead to further marginalization. Instead, they can be used to help develop an understanding of each other, and these understandings can be what helps to reduce marginalization amongst persons of different races, ethnicity, class, and sexual orientations.
How does Audre Lorde perceive the intersection between being Black and a lesbian? What solutions are proposed?
What does Lorde argue as being the importance of poetry? How is it seen as a different art form?
Review this website – 15 Black Women Poets Everyone Should Know: http://www.forharriet.com/2014/04/15-black-women-poets-everyone-should.html
Find a poem written by one of these 15 poets. Do you feel you can relate to them even if you are of a different race or gender?
Review the Black Space Blog: http://blackspaceblog.com/
Choose one of the posts in this blog. Are you familiar with the subject matter? If not, why do you think that is? Give a brief summary of the blog you chose to review.
Trask describes her experiences of growing up and learning about Hawaiian history from two sources. Her family described the “‘life of the old ones'”how they planted, fished, danced and chanted. The second source, textbooks, described a very different Hawaii “‘Pagan Hawaiians'” could not read or write and were “‘lustful cannibals.'” Trask is troubled by how native language has been suppressed by school knowledge. She concludes that historians had never learned the 3
language of the Hawaiian people. Therefore, the story of Hawaii, its culture and connection to the land remains unwritten.
Is the failure of historians to learn the Hawaiian language the result of ignorance or ethnocentric bias? Please explain your answer.
Briefly tell me what Trask meant when she wrote: “I was reading the West’s view of itself through the degradation of my own past.” Provide at least three examples that she uses to base this conclusion.
Why is language so important to understanding a people’s culture and heritage?
How did the land tenure changes instituted by Westerners affect Hawaiians?
Review the Aha Punana Leowebsite.
What is the vision of the organization?
Would Trask support or oppose this organization? Please explain.