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April 30, 2006
Ascension
Resurrection Blues 3 -- Jerz: Intro to Literary Study (EL150)
At the end of the play when I read how Charley rose to heaven...it made me realize that his character is much more than originally portrayed. I think that it is better for him to be in this play as an outside character because it shows that he overcomes every rotten thing that happens in the play. I think Henri make that realization to with this quote:
The world will never again be changed by heroes...
That, to me can be taken two ways. The fact that their campaign against Chaley will destroy any good thing that is left in there country. Or maybe that this world is so cruel that it is not worth it any more. I really enjoyed this play, I can tell Arthur Miller wrote this.
Posted by KevinHinton at 8:51 PM | Comments (4)
April 27, 2006
Nails, Blood, Products, and Ratings
Miller, Resurrection Blues 2 -- Jerz: Intro to Literary Study (EL150)
I have never seen a Miller play so interesting. I saw a lot of the story to the play we read in EL250, Traction. We see a "messiah" that only a few people takes seriously. But only this time, people are taking advantage of this situation by selling product and airing this man's crucifixion. It seems that our society seems to take advantage at some of the things that are terrible. Being in the business of war, for example, will get you a a lot.
Back to the play, Emily sees a complete problem with this (Others do to... but she is the director of the execution filming). But she was egged on by her boss, who's clearly in it for the money. While reading this play, I asked myself this question: Does money takes the lead over morals and justice?
Of course we would like to say no, but look at our materialistic, "media-saturated" world and see if you can get a clear answer.
Posted by KevinHinton at 12:50 PM | Comments (3)
April 18, 2006
Utopian To Psychos!
Hayles, ''Is Utopia Obsolete?'' (Online) -- Jerz: Intro to Literary Study (EL150)
After I read Hayles article, I can understand what she is talking about. I think that instead of making themselves better through tehnological advances they actually degraded themselves.
Hayles mentioned the part of Bud executions by nanobodies in his bloodstream... does that seem Utopian to you? But at the same time, it is (with the primer at least) a good leap forward in education:
"A marvel of sophisticated nanocomputing, the Primer can be thought of as itselfutopian, for it represents a world so compelling that it seems to provide abounded and secure alternative to the real world."
Maybe that is what the book is in search of...an true education. If the Primer is meant to give students the first hand experience in a cruel world like that than there is no way it could be anything different.
I for one would like to say that I hope I never see this book again. (My apologies Dr. Jerz)
Posted by KevinHinton at 9:38 PM | Comments (1)
April 11, 2006
The Unclear Cut Diamond
Intro to Lit Study--EL 150
Stephenson, The Diamond Age
I really, really would love this book better if I understood it. Nevertheless, I think I got the basic groundwork for what is happening. In this whole portion, so many characters and terms in this science fiction make this choice the most difficult to read. Just imagine the world like the one in the book. The end of Democracy as we know it, machines in some point are extremely more advanced than humans, and deliquent loans are answered by a trip to a camp and possible execution. The world is changing, but do you want the world as strange and dangerous as Diamond Age? (I'm not making this up) There is a plan implementing to have a 'credit' system without using card by using fingerprints. Trust me when I say the future is closer than you think.
Posted by KevinHinton at 10:14 PM | Comments (1)
April 9, 2006
Dashing & Spectacular
Truss 4 & 5 -- Jerz: Intro to Literary Study (EL150)
Truss describes how to use the dash and the hyphen in this chapters. But here's what I don't understand, she claims that the hyphen is barely used. I do not question her decision but I think it is the dash that is seldom used. Everyone hyphens everything nowadays. For goodness sake I saw a streetsign that had the words "train station" hyphened. I think we should stop ourselves from over hypenating the world!
Posted by KevinHinton at 9:44 PM | Comments (1)
April 2, 2006
Rationalize or Romaticize
Intro to Lit Study--EL 150
Haddon, Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-TIme
When I read this in the summer, I read this mostly for fun. But now that I am reading this for a class, I see this book in a different light. Chistopher is seen a boy with little emotions, which maybe due to his autism. Nevertheless, when he found the letter that his mother wrote after her "death" he didn't know what to do. When she people with mental disorders as people that is beyond our help and understanding. Yet it is Christopher who is totally a mathmatical genius and one hell of a detective . So what should Christopher do? He is the only one that can solve the problem about the death of Wellington, yet he is emotionally detached from the rest of the world.
In the confusing game of life and death should we:
Learn as much as we can about our cultures and anything else we need to know (Since we are told that education is everything)?
Or
Care about what is going on in the world and stop taking everything face value?
Posted by KevinHinton at 12:13 PM | Comments (3)