Endnotes

For this podcast transcript, I used information found from another podcast I listened to while researching called Future Squared. Specifically, I listened to episode #382: "The Psychology of Friendship with Lydia Denworth". I paraphrased everything when using information from this source, I didn't want to completely copy the structure of which this information was conveyed. It just so happened to work perfectly for my plan. I also used information from a website all about the psychology of friendship, called LoveToKnow. The specific article I drew information from was written by Gabrielle Applebury, titled "Family vs. Friends: Comparing Key Relationships". Once again, I only ever paraphrased. I wanted to give the character of Maria Costa a different way of speaking, still technical, but not quite as enthusiastic.

The last source I used for this transcript was a magazine - Time Magazine - article (specifically “Why Friends May Be More Important than Family” written by Amanda MacMillan) mentioning a few studies involving friendship and happiness/health. The author of these records was William Chopik, and these studies found a correlation between heightened happiness/health and an increase in closer friends. I paraphrased this as well.

Sadly, there isn't actually a podcast known as 2 Peas in a Podcast and there isn't a Dr. Maria Costa, at least not that I know. I decided on the name for the podcast because it was a cute play on words, and I thought giving the podcast a friendship theme in the name as well as within the episode would work best.

In this found poem I used a large amount of quotes from my previous research to create a poem about a family like friendship where the two people open up to each other. I wanted to convey information I'd learned from sources regarding family like friendships and how they are different then familial relationships. An article I drew inspiration from was from Metro, "13 Reasons Why Your Friends Are Your Family" which talked about how friendships that seem close build off of family values, which is why they feel like familial relationships. You can rely on family a good amount of the time, even if you fight or argue and friends can empathize with you more than family can in some cases. The other source I drew information from for inspiration was an article from Human Media, called "Stages of Friendship", which touched on Intimacy and vulnerability in closer friendships. The closer you get to a friend, the more you are willing to share with one another. Your bond strengthens to a level similar to family relationships, where you put trust and support into one another.

When I was choosing quotes to use in this found poetry, I looked for quotes involving intimacy or someone thinking fondly of someone they consider a friend. Near the end, I have the line mentioning the parents, and there I wanted to allude tot he fact that this is a moment similar to a family connection; This person has only ever cried in front of their parents, and now, Maybelle. This compares their relationship in a way I wanted.

The link to all the quotes in order of how I put them to create the found poetry is here. They also have the correct MLA Citations.

These posters were all created based off of a series of quotes as well as research I found for this project. I grouped them together because of their similarities both here and on their page.

The first quote I took inspiration from was as follows, “Then Ruby was kicking and screaming underneath Vernon’s twitching body, and Joseph sank to his knees. I heaved Vernon’s bulk aside and lifted Ruby into my arms and cradled her close, whispering she should look away.” (Latham 358). This quote, to me, shows that even though William just went against his previously set morals (killing people is wrong, white people are superior to black people, etc.), he is willing to do the right thing to save his friend, Ruby. He comforts Ruby, without any hesitation. This gives me the sense that he is doing everything in order to help her and better her life, similar to how Aristotle describes the purest form of friendship, which I will go into detail later.

The second quote I used as inspiration was as follows, “”One-Fifteen killed him,” I say. “And he wasn’t doing anything wrong. How much of a bigger picture do you need?”” (Thomas 105) . Once again, this is a case where a character goes against previously set boundaries in order to do the right thing. Starr has mentioned before in the book she does not talk back to cops or lash out in any way, but since her friend was unjustly killed, she does what she knows needs to be done. Even if he is dead, she is trying to pursue the right thing and bring about a better situation involving the killing of black people. This is also similar to Aristotle's philosophy in a way.

The research I used for these posters was taken from two media articles. One of them - Friendship Is Risky. Here’s Why It’s Worth It. by Dorian Speed - focused on the "Pursuing the Good" aspect of Aristotle's philosophy, and the other - Aristotle’s Philosophy of Friendship Still Matters Today by Rana Zat - focused on the bettering of the people within the close friendship. These two articles talked a lot about how the closer a friendship gets, the more the two people better each other, which adds to my topic well. I never directly quoted anything, I only ever paraphrased. The quotes were always quite long and detailed, and for posters, that's not what I was looking for.

I chose a brain for one of the posters because friendship is mostly psychology, and the other one had simple designs so that you could focus on the words instead of the elements. I chose colors that were either all warm or all cool, as to not have too much contrast but still look appealing to the eye.