User:Laurenabb/sandbox

Updated Draft: 3.26.18

Activism

Sexual Assault Advocacy

On January 20, 2018, in New York City, Halsey delivered a speech to more than 200,000 protestors at the second annual Women's March. The and  movements has pushed progressive activists, including celebrities, to demand immediate social and political change.

Instead of a traditional speech, Halsey performed a five-minute poem titled "A Story Like Mine," in which she told personal stories of sexual assault and violence throughout her life. Her personal narrative included accompanying her best friend to Planned Parenthood after she had been raped, her personal account of sexual assault by neighbors and boyfriends, and women sexually assaulted by Olympic doctor Larry Nassar.

Within society, a celebrity's voice is heard above others and recognized as legitimately significant in our media systems, they have the power to connect popular culture to political culture, Halsey stated, "Listen, and then yell at the top of your lungs, be a voice for all those who have prisoner tongues."

Speeches prompted women to reflect and debate our underlying misogynistic and patriarchal societal values, Halsey read, "What do you mean this happened to me? You can't put your hands on me. You don't know what my body has been through. I'm supposed to be safe now. I've earned it." Sexual assault victims felt connected and empowered by Halsey in the same way children identify with and implicitly trust their parents, Halsey exclaimed, "Every friend I know has a story like mine." Halsey completes her speech by requesting all—"Black, Asian, poor, wealthy, trans, cis, Muslim, Christian" —sexual assault victims to listen and support each other.

Social Movements are more powerful vehicles of culture change, rather than political. New York marchers felt empowered by the speeches, "I feel like the revolution is now." CNN.com stated," Halsey's Women's March speech moved people around the world." On the day of the Women's March, Halsey's tweet featuring "A Story Like Mine" had received 153K retweets, 302K likes and 5.9K comments.

Week 11: Draft copied from Halsey (singer)

Activism

Sexual Assault Advocacy

On January 20, 2018, in New York City, Halsey delivered a speech to more than 200,000 protestors at the second annual Women's March. The and  movements has pushed progressive activists, including celebrities, to demand immediate social and political change. Within society, a celebrity's voice is heard above others and recognized as legitimately significant in our media systems, they have the power to connect popular culture to political culture.

Instead of a traditional speech, Halsey performed a five-minute poem titled "A Story Like Mine," in which she told personal stories of sexual assault and violence throughout her life. Her personal narrative included accompanying her best friend to Planned Parenthood after she had been raped, her personal account of sexual assault by neighbors and boyfriends, and women sexually assaulted by Olympic doctor Larry Nassar.

Social Movements are more powerful vehicles of culture change, rather than political. Speeches prompted women to reflect and debate our underlying misogynistic and patriarchal societal values. Sexual assault victims felt connected and empowered by Halsey in the same way children identify with and implicitly trust their parents. New York marchers felt empowered by the speeches, "I feel like the revolution is now." CNN.com stated," Halsey's Women's March speech moved people around the world." On Twitter, Halsey's tweet featuring "A Story Like Mine" has received 153K retweets, 302K likes and 5.9K comments.

Week 10 : Sources for Halsey

1) Music and Social Movements

2) Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture

3) Women's March 2018: Protestors Take to the Streets for the Second Straight Year

4) Halsey's Recital Of 'A Story Like Mine' Traces The Staggering Prevalence Of Assault

5) Sexual Assault Statistics

Week 8: Choose Potential Articles (2/26/18):

1) Halsey

I would like to contribute a whole section to Halsey's wiki page on Halsey's poem, "A Story Like Mine." It is evident that this poem received a lot of press coverage and therefore, I believe her page should have a detailed paragraph about her poem, the lyrics, and the impact. I would also include a picture of her from the march. I would also use scholarly sources to discuss sexual assault throughout the paragraph. 2) they
 * Add to "Me too" page under Music
 * Try to find other pages where this would be relevant
 * Make an "Activism" section for Halsey similar to Lady Gaga

I would edit the "Singular-they" section under "they" by using information from singular they's page. I would want to create a concise, informative explanation of "Singular-they."

3) International Women's Day

I would add a section for "2018- #PressForProgress." I would also use scholarly sources describing the problems women are facing in society.

Week 7: Add to an Article (2/19/18) Halsey

On January 20, 2018 in New York City, Halsey delivered a speech at the Women's March. Instead of a traditional speech, Halsey performed a poem titled "A Story Like Mine," in which she told personal stories of sexual assault and violence throughout her life. Her personal narrative included accompanying her best friend to Planned Parenthood after she had been raped, her personal account of sexual assault by neighbors and boyfriends, and women sexually assaulted by Olympic doctor Larry Nassar. Week 6: Article Evaluation: Singular they (2/16/2018)

In class, we discussed that using "they" as a gender-neutral pronoun is controversial. More specifically, we discussed the history of "they" or "themself" in the 14th to 16th centuries and other gender-neutral options such as "huh" or "yo." Our class discussions included arguments both supporting and rejecting "they" as a gender-neutral pronoun. A factual, unbiased Wikipedia page will do the same. The Singular-they page is a more in-depth analysis of our class discussions.

At first glance, Singular-they is well-organized. The content is organized by inflected forms and derivative pronouns, usage, acceptability and prescriptive guidance, grammatical and logical analysis, cognitive efficiency and comparison with other pronouns. This page educates the reader with a wholistic understanding of Singular-they through a grammatical and logical analysis. I found the Inflected forms of third-person personal pronouns chart extremely organized and helpful in understanding the usages of "they" as a singular pronoun in relation to "he" or "she." The history of the usage of Singular-they (from the 14-16 centuries) was also a great transition into how the pronoun is used in society today (contemporary usage).

Throughout the article, the verbiage is neutral and the tone is informative. Overall, the article is unbiased. While discussing Singular-they as a gender neutral pronoun, the information was presented in an unbiased and respectful tone. They refer to transgender people in an appropriate and correct fashion. All viewpoints are equally represented due to the immense amount of information about the history, grammar, usage etc. The information is cited from a variety of sources ranging from style guidebooks, dictionaries, newspapers, Oxford and Cambridge University Press and books. I also thought it was diverse that the article contains usage guidance in British style, American Style, and Australian style.

The sources are dating from 1560-until 2016. Although older sources are sometimes questionable, these sources are essential in order to explain the history of Singular-they in the 14-16 centuries. Majority of all the information has a citation. The citations I checked are all clickable and lead to the proper sources. Each source reflects the information presented in the article. However, with 135 sources, I am sure some information is outdated, links are broken etc.

Although this page is extremely informative, I believe it could be condensed. I have a hard time understanding information presented in this article such as notional agreement, distribution and referential and non-referential analysis. I believe the Usage section is the most informative and easy to understand.

This article is apart of WikiProject Linguistics and has been rated as "Start-class." This article is also the subject of a Wiki Foundation-supported course assignment. Some discussions on the Talk page include: a contradiction between they vs. it, a WSJ article, the introduction being too broad, "everyone" as plural, the difference between "gender-neutral and "neutral between masculine and feminine, clarification of contemporary usage paragraph. In the "introduction being too broad" discussion, users were discussing how verbiage was too broad and therefore incorrect, and the need for a reliable linguistic source. Users on the talk page are trying to analyze sources and get input from other uses in order to put generalized, unbiased sentences on the actual page. Many of these discussions are extremely complex, and I have a hard time understanding them.

This information could be used to create a concise, factual and informative paragraph about Singular they, to be moved to the They page, under Special uses-Singular.