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14:46 Mon -- DavidStanley updated Reeves Library
Pardon Our Mess!
Over the next few weeks the library will be undergoing some changes--mainly the relocation of some of our holdings. If you need something and cannot find it let us know and we can help you. Also, some items that are... ... (60 more words, 0 comments)
| 10:14 Mon -- MikeRubino updated Tranquility Lost
Hypothetical Representations of an NHL Game with Play-by-Play on Versus
You know what's funny about Mike Richards? He's good friends with Mike Modano from the Dallas Stars. Both of those guys are named Mike, but with very different last names. It's amazing that people from such different families can still be friends. And the Dallas Stars used to be called the Northstars when they were in Minnesota. I guess when they moved south, they had to drop the "north!" The Penguins scored again. ... (530 words, 0 comments)
| 09:57 Mon -- LeeMcClain updated McClain's College Reading Blog
Reading: Is it important?
Over on Community College English, Holly posted this after seeing a film and hearing a presentation about learning disabilities: My reaction after seeing the film was to wonder how many of my students who seem to have difficulty reading might... ... (216 more words, 2 comments)
| 09:45 Mon -- KevinHinton updated Kelo The Great
A Step By Step Process
As my junior year ended with a bang of an uncertain reality, several questions seem to swirl around in my head. After fighting in some of the advanced English classes, I feel a little winded and wounded. I start to... ... (142 more words, 0 comments)
| 10:22 Sat -- KarissaKilgore updated Sugarpacket
Congrats, class of 2008!
I wanted to extend my congratulations to the class of 2008 on a job well done. You're graduating today, and while I know the likelihood that you'll be checking any blogs today is slim, I wanted to say I'm proud... ... (54 more words, 1 comments)
| 12:22 Fri -- DavidStanley updated Reeves Library
CONGRATULATIONS GRADUATES
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| 11:46 Fri -- Dennis G. Jerz updated New Media Journalism @ Seton Hill University
Journalism/Writing Internship -- OpEd News
To get hired, you need experience. To get that experience, apply for an internship. Here's an interesting one...OpEd News, one of the higher traffic media... ... (1039 more words, 0 comments)
| 21:07 Thu -- Dennis G. Jerz updated New Media Journalism @ Seton Hill University
Writer Needed - SLUniverse Forums
Someone in Second Life is looking for a writer. I'd be very surprised if this position were paid, but if you want to get experience... ... (78 more words, 0 comments)
| 19:30 Thu -- ChelseaOliver updated Barely a woman, but 18 years in...
95% of my friends have left
My iTunes is on shuffle and I forgot I even had this song on there. But, it actually means something to me now when I listen to it. It's weird to call some place else home for such a long time... ... (319 more words, 1 comments)
| 14:24 Thu -- StormyKnight updated VoiceBox.
EL200: Project Portfolio
Hello, and welcome to my weblog where this entry is the final compilation of my term project for EL:200 Media Lab at Seton Hill University. This is a course taken for 0-1 credits for participation with the campus newspaper, The... ... (184 more words, 0 comments)
From Jerz's Literacy Weblog
Boston Globe: Without a robust study of literature there can be no adequate
reckoning of the human condition - no full understanding of art,
culture, psychology, or even of biology. As Binghamton University
biologist David Sloan Wilson says, "the natural history of our species"
is written in love poems, adventure stories, fables, myths, tales, and
novels.
The study of literature is worth doing - and worth doing
well. No one should be content to watch it fading gently into that good
night.
I'm not the first to argue for a closer engagement of
literary studies with science. For instance, in his famous 1959 essay
on "The Two Cultures," the British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow
lamented the scientific ignorance of "literary intellectuals,"
identifying it as a main reason for the yawning divide between the
cultures of literature and science.
But I would go beyond Snow's
suggestion that literary scholars should know more about science.
Literary scholars should actually do science. --Jonathan Gottschall
A thoughtful post about the fate of film criticism. Much of this boils down what happens when film criticism leaves the world of print journalism and adapts to the TV -- not only in the content of the review but the context of celebrity/insider/gossip in which movies are pressnted to the public. (Armond White, New York Press, via) In the Ebert age of criticism, the Aesthetic of the Hit dominates
everything. Behind those panicky articles about critics losing their
jobs (what about autoworkers and schoolteachers?), lurks the writers'
own fear of falling victim to the same draconian industry rule: Most
publishers and editors are only interested in supporting hits in order
to reach Hollywood's deep-pocket advertisers. This is what makes
traditional criticism seem indefinable and obsolete, leaving web
criticism as a ready (but dubious) alternative.
The Internetters who stepped in to fill print publications' void seize
a technological opportunity and then confuse it with
"democratization"--almost fascistically turning discourse into babble.
They don't necessarily bother to learn or think--that's the privilege of
graffito-critique. Their proud non-professionalism presumes that other
moviegoers want to--or need to--match opinions with other amateurs.
That's Kael's "layman" retort made viral. The journalistic buzzword for
this water-cooler discourse is "conversation" (as when The Times
saluted Ebert's return to newspaper writing as "a chance to pick up on
an interrupted conversation"). But today's criticism isn't real
conversation; on the Internet it's too solipsistic and autodidactic to
be called a heart-to-heart.
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