{"id":5878,"date":"2020-04-19T18:07:29","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T22:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2020-04-19T18:07:29","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T22:07:29","slug":"reading-response-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/2020\/04\/19\/reading-response-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Response"},"content":{"rendered":"

The start of the reading really resonated with me because I often do think about how as an individual I can’t make a change.\u00a0 But I often correct myself by thinking about how if everyone thought that about themselves and never does anything then no changes will be made, so even if I am just one person I will be a\u00a0part\u00a0<\/em>of the change.\u00a0 But this reading gave a new perspective on this.\u00a0 It showed how you can make an impact even when you might not realize it, so whether you are a part of the big change or not, you are still part of something.\u00a0 I’m not sure how well I explained this, but I really liked this new perspective that is discussed at the very beginning of the reading.<\/p>\n

A common theme I saw in the reading was power, which connects to what I saw at the very beginning of the reading.\u00a0 We often underestimate the power and impact that we have which can limit us.\u00a0 But it is important to recognize that your power in a situation depends on how much power you think you have, so it’s important to know your power and own it.\u00a0 The reading had a quote that went along with this: “don’t give up the game before all the cards have been played.”\u00a0 During this pandemic, it is also easy to feel powerless especially since we are encouraged to stay home.\u00a0 But there are so many ways that we can help others like making care packages for homeless people, or delivering meals or groceries to the elderly, or even just face-timing a friend that you haven’t talked to in a while because maybe they are feeling really alone and isolated.\u00a0 This feels a little cheesy to be saying but it’s what I kept thinking about as the reading was talking about our power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The start of the reading really resonated with me because I often do think about how as an individual I can’t make a change.\u00a0 But I often correct myself by thinking about how if everyone thought that about themselves and never does anything then no changes will be made, so even if I am just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}