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19:25 Fri -- Derek Tickle updated DerekTickle
Use Some Positive Judgement
"An environmental leader said, 'Bad behavior is rewarded because what gets reported is the most outrageous statement made.' For every reader who thought the press was guilty of showing a political or ideological bias in the news columns, there were many more who complained about what they called 'negative' bias"... ... (257 more words, 0 comments)
| 14:06 Fri -- MichellePolly updated MichellePolly
John Henry Part One
There is so much meaning behind it, and we all know that makes for a great story. The more meaning and background and sincerity shown in a story, the more you are able to relate to the readers and grab their attention and reel them in and lock them... ... (177 more words, 0 comments)
| 14:06 Fri -- MichelleTantlinger updated MichelleTantlinger
Article I Referred To In Class...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/06/fort-hood-shooter-alive I accessed this through the BBC news site. Upon reflection, it isn't a well written article. ... ... (0 more words, 0 comments)
| 13:32 Fri -- CarissaAltizer updated CarissaAltizer
I Have a Theory and I Want to Know Yours!
I miss reading modern books. I must admit, I was upset over the Editorial assignment for this class because I haven't read anything newer than Paradise Lost all semester. I used to read for fun all the time, but now I am basically only reading to keep up with classes.... ... (660 more words, 0 comments)
| 13:13 Fri -- HeatherMourick updated HeatherMourick
Lost
"First, it is the duty of black men to judge the South discriminatingly" (3,22). "Ever-recurring query of the ages, Is not life more than meat, and the body more than raiment" (6,11). Alright, so W.E.B.DuBois makes almost no sense to me at all. I found these selections to be... ... (84 more words, 0 comments)
| 13:01 Fri -- HeatherMourick updated HeatherMourick
Whistle While You Work
"Any one who is willing to work ten hours a day at the brick-yard... in order that he or she may have the privilege of studying academic branches for two hours in the evening, has enough bottom to warrant being further educated" (13,3). I kind of wish that this... ... (336 more words, 0 comments)
| 09:53 Fri -- Kayla Lesko updated KaylaLesko
Left with a Sense of... Something
John Henry Days by Colson Whitehead is certainly... interesting. At least it has a plot... to some extent. The jumping around to different characters was a bit annoying at first, but neccesary. And I have to say that the characters are actually tolerable. "J. experiences an involuntary physical response to... ... (126 more words, 1 comments)
| 09:36 Fri -- Kayla Lesko updated KaylaLesko
I Heart You
Ch.23-24 of How to Read Literature Like a Professor. "Aside from being the pump that keeps us alive, the heart is also, and has been since ancient times, the symbolic repository of emotion" (208). Amazing how this hasn't changed. I don't think I'd ever be able to associate the heart... ... (51 more words, 0 comments)
| 09:36 Fri -- JessieKrehlik updated JessicaKrehlik
Yay for another book about a Journalist!
The final event of John Henry Days was her first assignment, it turned out differently than expected, and she remembers instructions from last semester's Intro Journalism class....She approaches an older couple dressed in identical green and red jogging suits. She identifies herself as a writer for Charleston Daily Mail and asks... ... (362 more words, 0 comments)
| 09:18 Fri -- CodyNaylor updated CodyNaylor
J. Better Come Through...
"This is some far-out shit, this is a fucking ironic way to" (76). I would like to start out that, though I am thus far unsure whether or not I am going to like this book, I really appreciate it when authors do not shy away from the nitty-gritty language... ... (303 more words, 1 comments)
From Jerz's Literacy Weblog
'Fakeosphere' latest Web trap for consumers
Welcome to the "fakeosphere." Internet marketing veteran and analyst Jay Weintraub says fake blogs - or flogs - fake news sites and manufactured testimonials are the fastest-growing segment of Internet advertising. He thinks it's a $500 million-a-year industry -...
Hope or Hype on the Cloud
At the 2009 Educause Conference, Inside HIgher Ed reports on The Cloud. Woo, who took the anti-cloud position, said that just because higher education is moving en masse toward outsourcing services such as e-mail and data management to external providers...
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