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17:27 Sat -- Admin updated New Media Journalism @ Seton Hill University
Video Game Culture and Theory (J-Term 2010)
It is an online J-term course, so you can take it from anywhere where there’s internet access - you don’t have to be at SHU during J-Term. In the last decade, a growing number of scholars have noticed the importance of video games to modern culture, as a form of story telling,... ... (271 more words, 0 comments)
| 13:27 Fri -- AprilMinerd updated April Minerd
Fair Freedom
"Press freedom is not conditioned upon fair and balanced reporting." Robert J. Haiman, Best Practices for Newspaper Journalists Something seems amiss in the fact that there are legal repercussions for bad drivers but not bad reporters; however, conditions of First Amendment rights are extremely complex when it comes to... ... (190 more words, 1 comments)
| 13:15 Fri -- GladysMares updated GladysMares
Woahhhhh Easy, Browning!
"Three times her little throat around, And strangled her. No pain felt she;" Okay this poem was so incredibly dramatic! I was thrown off half way through when he... oh yeah KILLS HER! At first I thought this was going to be a romantic poem and it turned out to... ... (55 more words, 2 comments)
| 12:51 Fri -- MichellePolly updated MichellePolly
Porphryria's Lover
I found this poem to be incredibly meaningful. Well obviously, because its about love and feelings which is all very significant. When reading this, it wasnt difficult to hold on to or to grasp like other poems from the 1800s. Often times I find myself struggling with trying to... ... (121 more words, 0 comments)
| 11:37 Fri -- NeilDonnelly updated NeilDonnelly
THE CRIMSON
After looking through the site, what I liked most were the photographs and videos. they help to tell stories that would be super lame in print, such as, Cambridge is pretty in the fall. Instead, there are pictures that prove to me that Cambridge is pretty in the fall. http://www.thecrimson.com/gallery/2009/11/19/autumn-cambridge-photoessay/... ... (41 more words, 0 comments)
| 11:03 Fri -- Kayla Lesko updated KaylaLesko
Well... That was Unexpected
Robert Browning's poem "Porphyria's Lover" "In one long yellow string I woundThree times her little throat aroundAnd strangled her. No pain felt she;" (lines 39-41) Was anyone else totally got by surprise when this happened? I was. This is the turning point in the poem (which Roberts may have already... ... (41 more words, 0 comments)
| 10:21 Fri -- AjaHannah updated AjaHannah
It's Getting Cold Outside
So put on all your clothes. I much prefer The Cavalier Daily's website to Harvard's or Seton Hill's. The three pictures are really attractive to the eye. There is a lot of white space, but that is ok with me. I'd rather there be white space than overcrowding with text.... ... (106 more words, 0 comments)
| 10:01 Fri -- Kayla Lesko updated KaylaLesko
Unstressed, Stressed, Unstressed, Stressed...
Ch. 13 of Writing About Literature. "Poets invite us to change speeds while reading--to slow down and linger over some words and sounds and to pass rapidly over others" (185). If only we had read this chapter sooner, because I just had to write and do an essay on a... ... (79 more words, 0 comments)
| 09:53 Fri -- AjaHannah updated AjaHannah
Application
I'm not going to bash The Harvard Crimson especially since they have a better website than we do. Here are some things I noticed (positive and negative): The site was text heavy Some pictures in slide were repeated at the bottom of the page if you scrolled down They had a... ... (116 more words, 0 comments)
| 02:38 Fri -- DavidWilbanks updated DavidWilbanks
Roberts Got It Wrong: Vowel Sounds and the English Language
EL237 Okay, it's late, and honestly, I was just going to read the chapter (13 in Roberts), and blog about it later. However, one thing in it annoyed me enough that I really gotta blog right now (Expect the bags under my eyes to be a shade darker than usual... ... (369 more words, 0 comments)
From Jerz's Literacy Weblog
Death to the file, long live the URL
Part of an Ars Technica review of Google's new operating system.Longtime Ars readers may be familiar with my periodic rants about the increasing disutility of the "volume/directory/file" metaphor for modern networked machines. Saving files, copying them, syncing them--this is all...
New York Times Link Generator (presented by reddit)
I guess I won't be linking to any many more NYT articles.NYT has disabled their special access for webmasters...
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