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  The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice in American Jesuit Higher Education   American Jesuit Higher Education for faith and justice, it’s a place where they want to manifest in three complementary dimensions of Jesuit higher education: in who our students become, in what our faculty do, and in how our universities proceed . they want to change the way the world thinks. They want to raise awareness of injustice. As Jesuit higher education, they want to adopt new ways of learning and training in the search for the solidarity of adults; new research and teaching methods in an academic community of dialogue; and a new university way of practicing faith-justice in society. They promote the dignity of human life, the promotion of justice for all, the quality of personal and family life, the protection of nature, the search for peace and political stability, a fairer distribution of the resources of the world and a new economic and political order that better ser...

               Doing a little background research into John Milton who wrote “When I consider how my light is spent”, he started to go blind during the mid years of his life and the poem is him lamenting about how he is going blind. He starts by questioning why God would take away his sight so that he cannot use his great talent, writing poetry, anymore. However as the poem goes on, he realizes that he must trust God and the actions he did are part of his greater plan and to truly worship and serve God, he must have trust and faith that God is doing the right thing. For the next poem, “The Red Palm” by Gary Soto depicts a man doing backbreaking labor in order to provide basic necessities for his family such as groceries and electricity. Throughout much of the poem, its walks through the life of the man, but once you reach the end of the poem, his child comes and the man asks him a math question and that shows you that the father, who used to ...

  These three readings all relate in tone, each author does a great job introducing maturation, and making it acceptable. The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice in American Higher Jesuit Education relates growth and maturation amongst individuals who are seeking Jesuit education. This resides with me the most because as a college student at a Jesuit university I notice many similarities from this reading and my everyday encounters. The one saying that stuck out to me the most was also coined a formula, “the service of faith and promotion of justice”. This “formula” is extremely vital to the development of an individual as a whole. Specifically at Loyola with the mantra of “strong truths well lived”. These formulas and mantras serve as expectations and guidelines for individuals to live by who wish to seek and embrace maturation. Red Palm written by Gary Soto to me represents maturation of hard work, hence the title “red palm”. In this poem, the narrator is doing his be...

 Milton, Soto, and Kolvenbach's writings all seem to be about life and its different forms. How our lives are affected by how we live them.  Milton's poem is about a man contemplating how his life is spent. The light meaning to represent life and darkness representing darkness. His personification of God meant to represent morals and doing the right thing. Soto's poem personifies the plants themselves. " You raise a hoe, swing, and the first weeds Fall with a sigh." The plants being reaped representing death. I believe he does this to easily explain to the reader the importance of living life. Life is short and can be "harvested" any time so it is important we do something that will outlive us, such as helping others.  Kolvenbach is specifically about the Jesuit lifestyle. The care for others and devoting yourself to others and caring for the whole person. "Acura personalis." The importance and benefits of thinking and doing for others. It...

  Milton, Soto, Kolvenbach Analysis In the poem When I Consider How My Light is Spent by John Milton, after doing my own research on Milton I found that he was going blind in the mid-1650s. I used this crucial piece of information to better understand the text. It is clear that he is having a vulnerable conversation with God. He seems lost in this big world and is asking for guidance. He compares his frustration to something dark. He states, “Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,” it almost sounds like he’s counting the days before he dies. But quickly he comes to the realization that no matter what, he will never be enough for God with or without his sight, but because of God’s unconditional love he can still use him as a vessel. He can finally grasp on the hope that is his light in knowing that he was born with a purpose despite his unfortunate circumstance and that is a lesson everyone can learn from.  In the poem A Red Palm by Gary Soto, he writes about a husband...

  In the poem “When I consider how my light is spent”, the theme of light is meant to represent time and the poem discusses how we waste much of our daylight doing wasteful or even sinful things instead of putting our minds to work. I think the writing is specifically trying to say this in reference to religion, as all these poems seem to have underlying motifs of religion and faith. So the writer is trying to convey that we waste the divine light that God has given us by ignoring it and staying in the dark.  The story “A Red Palm”, there is a father who works in a cotton field to supply food to his poor family. I found this work the most relatable because when you do strenuous or boring activities it really has more to do with mental fortitude, like this work seems to implying and less to do with the physical strain of having your muscles worked. It's much harder to do something when your mental state isn't working with you. A person without legs is more likely to climb a s...

  At a first glance, all of these writings gave me a different message. I then looked them over again and realized the similarity they have. Life is about the work we personally put in, physically and mentally. It is also about following our faiths and respecting them.  The first piece of writing, “When I consider how my light is spent”, we read and question how we spend our own days. The light that is given to us is so special, but do we work hard doing those hours? Is that what it is really all about? John Milton makes us think about these questions and helps us realize that God does not need our physical labor necessarily, but our mental strength and show patience. In many ways, I think  mental strength and showing such strong patience is much more difficult to master, than it is to master your physical strength. This is seen in the next piece of writing as well.  “A Red Palm”, is a story of a father who works in a cotton field. He expresses how the harder phy...

  Liam White Dr. Ellis EN 101 September 29, 2021 Connecting Views             There are many different ways to look at life. There are religious views and there are working views. Each different way has its own aspects that allow people to see something new in life. From Jesuits to working men, each view allows the reader to understand some new aspect that would not have been seen if they had not read that poem or writing.             For example, in The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice in American Jesuit Higher Education , I believe that his main point was to show you why Jesuits do what they do. This is important because attending a Jesuit school, you are expected to hold up certain values. I have always liked Loyola’s education but have never understood what it meant for it to be a Jesuit education. I believe that the last couple of pages of this...

  John Milton was an English poet born in 1608, who also had a background and interest in politics. A biography written in 1796 describes Milton as the “greatest English author”. The poem “When I consider how my light is spent” was written in the mid- 1650s after Milton lost his eyesight. He speaks of blindness referring to it in the literal and figurative sense. Milton believes he’s meant to use his talent as a writer to serve God, yet his current state of living serves quite the opposite purpose. Milton towards the end of the passage recognizes that it is not his work that brings him to God’s graces yet his faith and the way he serves.             Gary Soto is a Mexican American poet who stems from a poor background, which worsened after his father died. The passing of his father affected his family dynamic greatly, and especially the support received from his family when it came to his education. The poem seems to be qu...

Milton's, Soto's, and Kolvenbach's readings were all linked by a shared sense of education and religion. Despite the fact that they had a similar link, each of them had their own unique backstory in order to convey this message to us. “ When I consider how my light is spent” by Milton speaks on faith and disability. Milton asks in this poem how he would accomplish the task entrusted to him by God since he is losing his God-given talents in his life. He responds to himself by declaring that God is king, and as such, he does not demand gifts from people; rather, mankind is better suited to serve God via faith. Soto’s “A Red Palm” emphasizes the importance of education as it tells a tale of a man who struggles with guilt in life, doing laborious tasks from dusk to dawn because he was unable to pursue good education in his youth. As he ends his day by testing his son with multiplication, we see this man hope for better education in his son. Through imagery and diction of ...

     All of the readings are connected through religion and education, but each conveys its own idea. The Service of Faith and the Promotion of Justice in American Jesuit Higher Education by Peter-Hans Kolvenbach talks about Jesuit education. It says that Jesuit schools were “​​originally founded to serve the educational and religious needs of poor immigrant populations, they have become highly sophisticated institutions of learning in the midst of global wealth, power and culture.” Jesuit education was to help poorer populations who need an education and a path for their religious needs.       In A Red Palm by Gary Soto is a poem about a man who did not take his education seriously and now must work extremely hard to provide his family with essentials. The speaker is a lower-class worker who works on a cotton field to support his family and regrets daily that he did not do good in school and hopes his sons will not follow in his steps. The speaker est...

  DATE AND TIME BEGINNING   Phil Kaye is a Japanese-American poet writer and fillmaker and he was born in California to a Japanese mother and Jewish-American father. Kaye was sent to American kindergarten. He began perfoming spoken word poetry at the age of seventeen.   Kaye in his book always says “Every great story has a beginning, middle and end, not necessarily in that order” he tries to emphasize that the events he experienced do not have to be in the particular order that they occured. I think that he also tries to teach that everyone lives life in their own way and everyone does things at different times and not necessarily in a specific way. This kind of books are different than we are used to it because he is explaining just some experiences that he lived in poems and each poem   don’t have any relation to the corresponding one. In the second part of the book, he’s explaining his chilhood with his best friends and he is remembering their memories...

 The second third of date and time makes things between the narrator and the audience more personal.  The narrator reflects upon his past self, majority of his past has been a constant battle between self identity, and self worth. The narrator also highlights that there is no longer  struggle between happiness and sadness, Kaye begins to let the audience inside his headspace, what he really believes to be right and wrong. In his poem depression, you're given the impression that this would be something he's ashamed of or something he's trying to hide. The poem reads, "I enjoy the company/ our easy camaraderie/ though after a while/ it begins to hurt/ pulls in places I cannot reach". This particular excerpt displays how the feeling of depression is affecting Kaye. It seems almost as if he wasn't sure what to expect at first so he welcomed this new feeling, having no speculation or suspicion of what may come next. As this feeling grew stronger and stronger he...

  As I continue to read Date and Time , Kaye’s aim for this book is becoming more clear to me. He presents a distinct shift from childhood to adolescence, something that we all grow through but looks different for everybody. He experiences emptiness from his parent’s divorce, embarrassment from a stutter he develops, an identity crisis for being Japanese American in American society. After deep reflection in his adulthood, he recognizes a new way of looking at his life. He now emphasizes in Begining, Middle, & End, “a great story has a beginning, middle, & end but not necessarily in that order we all have great stories,”       When his parents left each other, the 3 words “I love you” meant nothing to him. At the young age of seven, how could he possibly understand that his parents “loved” each other despite the divorce yet their love wasn’t strong enough to keep them together as a family? Inevitably he was left confused and even developed a stutter due ...

" Assimilation , in anthropology and sociology, is the process whereby individuals or groups of differing ethnic heritage are absorbed into the dominant culture of a society ." ( Elizabeth Prine Pauls, Assimilation, Britannica.com ) " Racism , the inability or refusal to recognize the rights, needs, dignity, or value of people of particular races or geographical origins." ( Sinclair Ross, Racism, OxfordReference.com ) "The Beginning," is about the author's younger years and experiences with racism and the struggle of trying to find friends. This chapter of the story of his life in poetry focuses heavily on the rift in his family, divorce, cultural assimilation, racism, and bullying.  "Apparition," in particular, is about his time in school and how it was affected by racism and bullying. Phil Kaye in this poem talks about his friendship with Jonathan and how society changed the way they viewed themselves. Kaye talks about how Jonathan was bull...

  In the second part of “Date & Time”, there are motifs of identity and control, or more specifically the lack of control humans have over their identity. Phil is often antagonized by his classmates over things he cannot control, for example, a classmate says to him “Woah you're practically a skeleton” (43). Then later on he is made fun of by Jonathan for being Asian. His thinness and race are both things very central to his identity. For this reason, this part of the book seems to have an air of restlessness,  as Phil struggles with fitting in. Human identity is often based on appearance, environment, and actions. He feels as though he is powerless, with the identity that was given to him piloting the way the environment, that he also didn't get to choose, treats him, but he's also able to recognize that those around him don't have much more control over their identities either. On page 58 Phil recognizes that Jonathan doesn't really have a choice over what his...

                                                                                                Analysis In the beginning of the second third, of Date and Time by Phil Kaye, we read that the author goes through his teenage years and adulthood with being faced with the challenge of his body image that one will see developes a big insecuri .      Like every other teenager and even in adulthood, people are faced with many insecurities due to the fact of constantly being compared or comparing yourself to others, always wishing what someone in particular has, whether that be there body type, money, family, or even their job. In this case the author faces body issues.      The ...

     As students growing up we are told a story must have a beginning, middle, and end. In this book, we find that it doesn't always have to be in that order. Kaye starts  Date & Time  with the ending which isn't very common in most stories. Although he starts the story with the ending it doesn't ruin the plot because we still don't know how he got to that point. In the second half of the book, Kaye mainly focuses on his identity crisis and growth from childhood. Using this format where he is telling the story from different lenses at different points in his life helps us as readers better understand his growth into adulthood and his current state of mind.       Kaye undergoes a huge identity crisis, as most first-generation immigrant children do. Being too American for your cultural friends, and too cultural for your American friends. Kaye does not only feel that split outside with friends but also with family being that he is of Japanese and...

Amber Delgado  In Phil Kayne's "Date  Time," readers are given a glimpse into Kayne's childhood and defining moments that made him who he is. The chapter "Beginning" gives a lot of insight into childhood racial trauma, self consciousness and even history pieces about his family. There is a lot of variety between happy and sad moments in this chapter but it seems like the title "beginning" is referring to the beginning of his issues and the beginning of when he discovered happiness. He writes about how he falls in love with a girl, how he has always been too skinny and insecure about that, how his best friend made fun of him to be accepted in a different crowd and many more.  The poem "Apparition," I feel, gives a true glimpse into the struggles Kayne had to go through on a daily basis in an all white neighborhood. The definition of apparition is "the appearance of something remarkable or unexpected." Jonathan was someone that go...

  In Date & Time , author Kaye preaches the concept that "a story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end, but not necessarily in that order" (Jean-Luc Godard). In the first third of Date & Time, he begins with his “Ending”, followingly readers are introduced to his “Beginning” in the second third. This section in the center is a brilliantly detailed sequence of himself in the youth of his existence. In the “Beginning”, Kaye addresses his identity crisis in America, his childhood as an Asian American, the sentiments and experiences he faced as a child. Each of his subtopics in this section introduced important variables in his youth from the "reflections on the new glass" about his experience of warm love to "teeth" about his conflicting racial identity. Despite the fact that each story were all distinct, they all focused on his development from experiences and feelings of invalidation to the man he has become. The poem Apparition , in partic...

In the second third of date and time, Phil Kaye touches on many topics, from depression to bullying and racism, his family's history and even the internet. The topics shared in the beginning are a foundation to what the rest of the book is based on, as Kaye throughout the book writes extensively on these topics and in the middle of the book, he introduces them all back when he was a young kid. Kaye brings up many topics that people today, especially young kids might experience as he believes that writing about personal experiences can help make reading more interesting and bridge the gap between the reader and the author. I think one poem that really touched on me was “Numbers Man”, where Kaye impersonates a computer that is thinking to itself. At first the computer brings up basic search concepts such as music listened too, but as the poem goes on, the computer becomes more aware of its user, knowing more and more information. The computer starts to believe the ones and zeros that...

 Gabriel Mourao  In the second half of "Date & Time" Kaye focuses a lot more on him growing up. With topics like his depression, times he was bullied when young, and his experiences with WWII. Through Kaye's life he has a seen many different perspectives because of his family being mixed with Jews and japaneses. Through those perspectives he has many stories to tell that is shown in his poetry.  For example the "teeth" text talks about the split in his family with two of his grandfathers fighting on two different sides in WWII. Kaye's japanese grandfather even has a strong line that shows the tension that Kaye had to experience first hand, "...how am I to forgive the men that served the trunk of my family tree and used its timber to warm the cheeks of their own children"(Kayle 53). This quote is directed to Kaye's grandfather that served America, because of this turmoil and many other factors you can start to see Kaye's struggle to find...

     Date & Time  by Phil Kaye is a uniquely written story of the author's life and experiences. He believes that there is a beginning, middle, and end in every story but not particularly in that order. He gives us characteristics and information about himself through his poems that allow us to realize the type of person he is. We now have two parts of his life and stories, it will be interesting to see what is revealed in the last section. What does he consider The Middle in his life?       In the first part The End we learned about his life through the lens of an adult mindset of his past thoughts and experiences. But in The Beginning, I think his lens or mindset is his experiences as a kid. When times were simpler and he did not have an adult experience that would change his views on things. We are told about the history he is learning through family, he is growing up as we read but it is all with a different mindset than The End part....

  Date & Time by Phil Kaye is a book like no other that I have read before. Every book has a beginning, middle and end and always in that order. Phil Kaye does not feel that it needs to be in that order. Reading The End first got me eager to keep reading his story, to find out how he got to where he ended up. Kaye then jumps to The Beginning, sharing a different part of his story. We learn more about Kaye as a character and we are able to start putting more of the pieces together. We have been given The End, The Beginning, and now we just have to read The Middle, to bridge the two together. But will it really bridge them together? Or is it just another part of Kaye’s story? After reading The Beginning, I felt I was reading about a whole different character than I had in The End.       I learned that at a young age he was being teased for his ethnicity. His “best friend” has turned on him one day, making fun of him, all to gain a spot at the “cool table” in...