tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73230667477688121802024-03-05T22:09:12.609-07:00Coming to Terms with FictionGideonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13328578010572353558noreply@blogger.comBlogger164125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-59869853646101096482013-06-20T15:14:00.000-06:002013-08-30T11:46:46.637-06:00Meeting my Learning Outcomes: The Final Roundup We have come to the end of this term! This means that the time has come to asses what we have done to meet our learning outcomes!<br />
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1. Know the basic literary terms and methods<br />
2. Know the basic literary genres and representative texts<br />
3. Write Literary Arguments<br />
4. Engage in literature creatively and socially<br />
5. Use emerging communication tools and pedagogical methods<br />
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Here is how I met them!<br />
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LO#1:<br />
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<li>I published a <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/choosing-rebecca.html">post</a> in which I identified fiction literary terms that I found present in the novel I am reading, Rebecca, for my personal study.</li>
<li>I also did this as I attempted to analyze short stories: <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/crafting-louise-mallard.html">"The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin</a> (part of an assigned reading) and <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-point-of-intersection.html">"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov</a> (personal study.)</li>
<li>I showed more examples of this in my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/never-quite-so-simple.html">Personal Literary Narrative</a> where I analyzed Gwendolyn Brooks and her poem <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-different-view-of-we-real-cool.html">represented in the media</a>. </li>
<li>I did this when we were studying poetry once again with <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/murdering-to-dissect.html">"The World is Too Much With Us" by William Wordsworth.</a></li>
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<li>I wrote <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/o-that-this-too-too-frail-post-wont-fail.html" target="_blank">this post</a> about terms that I recognized from <i>Hamlet, </i>which I was re-reading as part of my personal study for Drama Week.</li>
<li>I published <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/i-know-that-poetry-week-is-over-but.html" target="_blank">a post</a> analyzing literary structure within the play <i>Othello </i>(this helped me with my personal learning plan as well, which is based on becoming better at analyzing poetry)</li>
<li>I also <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-did-i-write-it.html" target="_blank">identified literary elements</a> and how they enhanced Elie Wiesels memoir <i>Night.</i></li>
<li>As I identified different genres of Drama, I also <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/exploring-different-genres-of-drama.html" target="_blank">identified literary terms that I recognized</a> in each.</li>
<li>I <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-little-pre-analysis.html" target="_blank">identified literary terms</a> in the poem I would refer to in my final paper as I did a close reading of it ("The World Is Too Much With Us")</li>
<li>I made <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/helen-and-helen.html" target="_blank">a post</a> comparing "Helen" by H.D and "To Helen" by Edgar Allan Poe, where I identified literary terms that they used to convey different messages.</li>
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LO#2:<br />
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<li>I categorized <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/choosing-rebecca.html">Du Maurier's </a><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/choosing-rebecca.html">Rebecca</a> as a work of fiction.</li>
<li>I pointed to <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/crafting-louise-mallard.html">"The Story of an Hour"</a> and <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-point-of-intersection.html">"The Last Question"</a> as being short stories part of the fiction genre.</li>
<li>I identified <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/looking-back-at-sonnet-89.html">Shakespeare's "Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault"</a>as a sonnet and <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/murdering-to-dissect.html">"The World is Too Much With Us"</a> as a petrarchan sonnet. </li>
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After the Midterm:</div>
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<li>I <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-did-i-write-it.html" target="_blank">blogged</a> about Elie Wiesel's memoir <i>Night </i>and identified it as a sub-genre of nonfiction.</li>
<li>I <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-many-possibilities-of-nonfiction.html" target="_blank">wrote another blog</a> about a sub-genre of nonficiton (and one of my favorites) Travel Writing. I shared one of my favorite travel writing blogs. </li>
<li>I <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/exploring-different-genres-of-drama.html" target="_blank">looked into exploring different genres</a> of drama that I had encountered before and during this term.</li>
<li>I experimented with <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/one-good-use-in-day.html" target="_blank">producing a work of my own</a> in the sub-genre of nonfiction: the personal essay.</li>
<li>I <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/when-do-we-go-too-far.html" target="_blank">identified</a> Mary Shelley's <i>Frankenstein </i>as gothic fiction.</li>
<li>As part of research for my paper <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-whole-deal-with-romanticism.html" target="_blank">I looked into</a> romantic literature and the Romantic Movement.</li>
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LO#3:<br />
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<li>I approached this outcome as I took a stance in interpreting <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/crafting-louise-mallard.html">"The Story of an Hour"</a> and talking about the importance of a third person point of view used by Chopin. </li>
<li>I also argued that <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/never-quite-so-simple.html">Brooks diction in "We Real Cool"</a> helped to invoke great meaning in such a short poem. </li>
<li>I finally pointed to Wordsworth's use of a sonnet to <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/murdering-to-dissect.html">enhance the meaning of "The World is Too Much With Us."</a> </li>
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After the Midterm:</div>
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<li>In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-did-i-write-it.html" target="_blank">this blog post</a> I claimed that nonfiction was a legitimate genre of literature by looking at Elie Wiesel's <i>Night.</i> </li>
<li>I engaged in the different claims that I had naturally developed from discussions that we had had in class in <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/what-has-struck-me.html" target="_blank">this blog post</a>.</li>
<li>As part of writing my research paper, I experimented with <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-quest-for-great-thesis.html" target="_blank">writing several types of claims </a>that I could base my paper on.</li>
<li>I argued that perhaps there is an extent to which we should analyze literature in <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/when-do-we-go-too-far.html" target="_blank">this post</a>.</li>
<li>And most importantly of all, I shared <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-rough-rough-draft.html" target="_blank">various drafts</a> of my working final paper which was argumentative.</li>
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LO#4: <br />
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<li>I worked on this learning outcome first by<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/choosing-rebecca.html"> choosing a novel to read</a> for my personal study plan through the use of my <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/19983419-sined-yepez">Goodreads account</a> based on the recommendations I received there.</li>
<li>I also talked about the importance of learning to appreciate poetry by analyzing it <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-why.html">here.</a></li>
<li>I talked about poetry being shared creatively in the new media <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/prezi-is-awesome.html">through Prezis</a> and Youtube videos as part of my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-different-view-of-we-real-cool.html">Poetry Adaptation Analysis.</a> </li>
<li>I engaged in literature socially, furthermore, by<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/sharing-blog-posts-scary-and-rewarding.html"> posting one of my blog posts</a> in a personal social network site.</li>
<li>By posting my literary experiences in this blog I have also engaged in literature creatively and socially. </li>
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After the Midterm:</div>
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<li>I engaged in literature socially when I watched an adaption of "All's Well That Ends Well" through Films On Demand with my roommates.</li>
<li>I engaged in literature creatively <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/i-know-that-poetry-week-is-over-but.html" target="_blank">as I sought</a> poetic patterns in the play <i>Othello.</i></li>
<li>I used my <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/19983419-sined-yepez" target="_blank">Goodreads</a> account to choose a work of nonfiction as I considered a nonfiction related claim for my paper (I chose <i>Night </i>by Elie Wiesel)</li>
<li>I engaged in literature creatively as <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/one-good-use-in-day.html" target="_blank">I wrote a personal essay</a> and posted it on the blog.</li>
<li>I engaged with literature socially as I<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/and-winner-is.html" target="_blank"> circulated my thesis statements </a>(though I worded them differently to make them more friendly) in my personal social media and with my roommates.</li>
<li>I furthermore engaged with literature socially through the <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/behold-my-paper.html" target="_blank">help I received</a> from my friends and classmates with editing my paper.</li>
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LO#5:<br />
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<li>The main way in which I achieved this learning outcome was through interaction in this blog with my instructor and fellow classmates.</li>
<li>I also explored this by looking into <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/prezi-is-awesome.html">Prezi presentations</a> and <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-different-view-of-we-real-cool.html">Youtube videos</a> as ways of portraying poetry</li>
<li>Furthermore, I have used my <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/19983419-sined-yepez">Goodreads account</a> to <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/choosing-rebecca.html">shape my personal study plan</a>.</li>
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After the Midterm:</div>
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<li>Again, I achieved to meet this learning outcome through blogging in this blog.</li>
<li>I also used my personal blog to <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/and-winner-is.html" target="_blank">circulate ideas for my thesis statement</a> as well as to <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/behold-my-paper.html" target="_blank">recruit help</a> with editing my paper.</li>
<li>I also <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-many-possibilities-of-nonfiction.html" target="_blank">furthermore explored</a> the sub-genre of Travel Writing by looking at "travel blogs."</li>
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And that about wraps it up folks! Happy end of Spring Term!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16797362178658910564noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-68225624931804618542013-06-19T23:36:00.000-06:002013-06-19T23:40:48.269-06:00Learning Outcomes? Check!At the beginning of this term, I outlined <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/so-heres-plan.html" target="_blank">my personal learning plan</a> for achieving the learning outcomes of our class.<br />
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<span style="background-color: #d3e4f4; font-family: Cardo; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">1. Know basic literary terms and methods </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #d3e4f4; font-family: Cardo; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">2. Know basic literary genres and representative texts</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #d3e4f4; font-family: Cardo; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">3. Write literary arguments </span><br />
<span style="background-color: #d3e4f4; font-family: Cardo; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">4. Engage literature creatively and socially</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #d3e4f4; font-family: Cardo; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">5. Use emerging communication tools and pedagogical methods</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cardo;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">When I made my first plan, I became aware of the gaps in my literary knowledge. I was reminded that even though I had taken AP Language and AP Literature in high school, those were not substitutes for continued active reading and learning. I knew I had to do better, not only for this class, but because I care about English and enjoy being able to talk about it intelligently. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cardo;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">1. Know basic literary terms and methods</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cardo;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">I think I displayed this best in my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/tulipomania.html#more" target="_blank">analysis of "Tulipomania"</a> by Katrina Vandenberg, but the majority of my learning in this area was done simply in my personal reading and learning. I utilized <i>A Handbook to Literature</i> a lot, studying terms that I had once learned but now forgotten, and terms I hadn't known in the first place. Our class discussions helped my learning in this aspect as well. Anytime I would hear a term I didn't recognize or couldn't immediately recall, I made an effort to learn it and apply it in my own reading. Simply being a more conscious reader has helped me too - I read two pieces of fiction this term, <i>The Art of Fielding</i> by Chad Harbach and <i>The History of Love</i> by Nicole Krauss. In each case I was more aware of the literary devices at play and how those affected the stories.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cardo;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">2. Know basic literary genres and representative texts</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cardo;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">This learning outcome was really enjoyable for me, because I don't often take the time to think about actively absorbing literature from various genres at an even pace. In my past habits, I stick mostly to the broad genre of fiction, occasionally veering off into other genres when they particularly appeal to me. But with the motivation from this class, I've been much improved, and made the necessary efforts to read widely across the four main genres. I outlined my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/poetry-time.html" target="_blank">personal reading of poetry</a>, then delved into <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/poetry-that-speaks.html" target="_blank">one of its subgenres</a>, and even examined an <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/poetry-in-pairs.html" target="_blank">emerging subgenre</a> within that. I analyzed some<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/tackling-nonfiction.html" target="_blank"> nonfiction</a> I had already read, and analyzed a <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-crack-up.html" target="_blank">subgenre I was currently reading</a>. My favorite part of this learning outcome was discussing emerging genres that haven't necessarily been named or fine-tuned yet, like <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/lizzie-bennet.html" target="_blank">The Lizzie Bennet Diaries</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cardo;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">3. Write literary arguments</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cardo;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">I definitely had fun with this one. In my post about nonfiction, I argue in favor of Jonathan Safran Foer's book, Eating Animals. In my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/tulipomania.html#more" target="_blank">analysis of Tulipomania</a>, I made arguments stating the favor humans pay toward fragile and broken things. I argued in favor of the use of <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-media-with-meisenbachs.html" target="_blank">new media within families</a>, I reasoned with why <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/lizzie-bennet.html" target="_blank">The Lizzie Bennet Diaries</a> was a successful series, I argued in favor of <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/amateurs-eh.html" target="_blank">the rise of the amateur</a>, and of course the biggest literary argument was in <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/my-final-draft-and-how-it-came-to-be.html" target="_blank">my final paper</a>. The best part of this learning outcome to me is that making literary arguments is already so intertwined with the way we talk about literature - it's almost impossible to talk about literature without posing an opinion or argument of some sort. This means that all we need to do as lifelong students of literature is pay attention to what we ourselves and those around us are saying, and then create intelligent discussion from what's already there. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cardo;"><span style="background-color: #ffd966; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">4. Engage literature creatively and socially</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cardo;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">This was a really important learning outcome for me because it gave me the push I needed to step out of my comfort zone and really engage with the people around me, both in real life and on the internet. My first endeavor with this was writing a review for <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/and-500-pages-later.html" target="_blank">The Art of Fielding</a> and posting it on <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/557111775" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>. I addressed the result of this in my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/progress.html" target="_blank">personal midterm progress post</a>. Next up I started engaging with others on new media that was already using, and I discussed how this helped me <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/engaging-literature-socially.html" target="_blank">connect with people</a>. But probably the most daunting way I engaged literature socially this term was in my simple <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/fathers-day.html" target="_blank">Father's Day</a> gift. Giving a piece of literature (especially one that is important to me) to someone who doesn't typically read was pretty nerve-wracking, but I think it's important that I'm making the effort to share something important to me. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cardo;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">Well the best part of this learning outcome is simple: <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6097424-lindsey-meisenbach" target="_blank">Goodreads</a>! I love love love Goodreads, and I love it even more now that I've been brave enough to start posting reviews. I addressed this learning outcome in <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/poetry-that-speaks.html" target="_blank">my posts</a> about <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/poetry-in-pairs.html" target="_blank">spoken word</a> poetry, and <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/engaging-literature-socially.html" target="_blank">engaging literature socially</a>. I also shared a <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/memorizing-poetry-with-new-media.html" target="_blank">new help for memorizing poetry</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Cardo;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;">But most importantly, I've enjoyed blogging for this class so much that I decided to start<a href="http://foreveronherwayout.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> my own literature blog</a>. I'm really excited to continue blogging, and I'm hopeful that maintaining my blog will keep me motivated to maintain the learning outcomes I've achieved and continue my personal growth. </span></span>Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10881114543882008577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-42999462020120623582013-06-19T15:45:00.000-06:002013-06-26T15:43:53.574-06:00Reviewing My Progress During the TermFor my first post I made a <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/my-plan.html">personal learning plan</a> which gave an outline of how I was going to accomplish the five learning outcomes of our Literature class:<br />
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1. Know basic literary terms and methods <br />
2. Know basic literary genres and representative texts<br />
3. Write literary arguments <br />
4. Engage literature creatively and socially<br />
5. Use emerging communication tools and pedagogical methods<br />
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When making my plan I identified where I was weak in my understanding and application of the learning outcomes. I decided that each week I would track my progress by logging my reading time in my posts and also by the content of those posts. After my midterm review I was told to make in improvements in the learning outcomes of Literary Terms, Writing Literary Arguments, and Creatively and Socially Engaging Literature. I also was told to not just use, but analyze new media which I have done in my more recent blog posts. I highlighted my new posts and improvements in green to show how far I have come in all five learning outcomes. I believe these posts represent the growth that I have had during this class:<br />
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I made a post about symbolism called <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-things-i-carry.html">The Things I Carry</a><br />
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In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-second-circle.html">The Second Circle</a> I talk about how important it is to define terms so that we can understand poetry. I also talk about how I spent a few hours reading about poetry in our textbook showing my efforts to understand poetic methods and terms and improve upon my weaknesses in that area which goes along with my learning plan. This post was my Personal Literary Narrative for the class.<br />
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<span style="background-color: lime;">In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/do-not-go-gentle.html">"Do not go Gentle"</a> I talk about how was able to identify themes by using poetic methods.<br /><br />I defined what Literature and its boundaries are in <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/are-motivational-books-literature.html">Are Motivational Books Literature?</a><br /><br />In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/patterns-followed-patterns-compared.html">Patterns Followed, Patterns Compared</a> I talked about the uses of exposition and dramatic irony.<br /><br />I described the literary method of perspective in <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-secretary-in-bonds-world.html">A Secretary in Bond's World</a><br /><br />I talked about the uses of realism and fantasy in <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/realism-vs-fantasy.html">Realism vs. Fantasy</a><br /><br />I defined and expounded upon Catharsis and the use of literature as an escape in <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/whatever-you-imagine.html">Whatever You Imagine</a><br /><br />I used <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/thesis-of-bonds-generation-and-our.html">thesis statements</a> to seek possible paths for my paper on James Bond<br /><br />In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/im-hooked.html">I'm Hooked</a> I talked about the importance of literary hooks in novels.<br /><br /><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/his-gun-spoke-twice-from-hip.html">"His Gun Spoke Twice From the Hip"</a> defined and discussed the terms of exposition, rising action, climax, denouement, and tension.</span><br />
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2.Know basic literary genres and representative texts<br />
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In my posts involving <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/search/label/Short%20Story">Short Story</a>, <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/search/label/Invictus">Invictus</a>, <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/search/label/The%20Inferno">The Inferno</a>, <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/search/label/Drama">Drama</a> and <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/search/label/Novel">Novel</a> I was able to show my understanding of literary genre by breaking down the readings and their meanings. I also provided appropriate representative texts.<br />
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<span style="background-color: lime;">I explored the genre of Escape Literature in <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/exploring-genre.html">Exploring the Genre</a><br /><br />In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/shakespeare-script-vs-stage.html">Shakespeare: Script vs Stage</a> I talked about the difference between reading a drama and seeing one on stage.<br /><br />I talked about the genre of drama in <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/everyman.html">Everyman</a><br /><br />I discussed the uses of travel blogs in <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/travel-family-and-internet.html">Travel, Family, and The Internet.</a><br /><br />In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-death-of-salesman.html">The Death of a Salesman</a> I represented the literary genre of drama.<br /><br />All of posts on <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/search/label/James%20Bond">James Bond</a> focus on the literary genre of fiction.<br /><br />In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/do-not-go-gentle.html">Do Not Go Gentle</a> I represented Poetry.</span><br />
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3. Write Literary Arguments<br />
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In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/do-not-go-gentle.html">"Do not go Gentle"</a> I make an argument about the possible meaning of the repeated chants in the poem.<br />
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With <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-second-circle.html">The Second Circle</a> I made an argument for how the author's use of language set the tone for the work and the importance of understanding that knowledge so that we could gain a better grasp of it.<br />
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In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-labour-of-love.html">"A Labour of Love"</a> I was able to argue the importance of detailed language in fiction.<br />
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<span style="background-color: lime;">In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-secretary-in-bonds-world.html">A Secretary in Bond's World</a> I argue for the women's perspective in Bond's world and the 1950's<br /><br /><br />In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/grandpas-generation-vs-ours.html">Grandpa's Generation vs Our Generation</a> I made an argument for the model of masculinity found in the James Bond Novels, Mad Men, and our Grandparent's generation in generation in general.<br /><br /><br />I made five different <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/thesis-of-bonds-generation-and-our.html">thesis statements</a> to argue my point for my Bond Paper</span><br />
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-things-i-carry.html">The Things I Carry </a> made an argument about the importance of symbolism in literature and in our very own lives.<br />
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<span style="background-color: lime;">I made an argument for the benefits of technology in <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/travel-family-and-internet.html">Travel, Family, and The Internet</a></span><br />
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4. Engage Literature Creatively and Socially<br />
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In my post on <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/search/label/Invictus">Invictus</a> I loved Dr. Burton's post on delivery and rhetoric because they gave me greater insight into how I could interpret poetry based on how it is delivered.<br />
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-labour-of-love.html">"A Labour of Love"</a> included comments by Dr. Burton, Jocelyn, and Briggs. All were very complimentary and they talked about the use of Imagery in fiction. I especially liked Briggs' comment on how reading literature could be a spiritual experience.<br />
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Charly's comments on my post about <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-little-clay-cart.html">The Little Clay Cart</a> helped me understand the connections the play had to other cultural spheres such as Shakespeare and Medieval Europe's social system.<br />
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<span style="background-color: lime;">I was able to discuss my paper on James Bond with my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/talking-with-my-grandma.html">grandmother</a> who is from the generation that I was addressing.<br /><br /><br />I was able to get feedback from friends, family, and others within my blog post post and outside it in <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/grandpas-generation-vs-ours.html">Grandpa's Generation vs Our's</a><br /><br /><br />When I posted my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/thesis-of-bonds-generation-and-our.html">five thesis statements</a> I got useful feedback from Dawn, Sined, Prof. Burton, Charly, and Kimara on how to revise and shape my thesis statement.<br /><br /><br />With my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/james-bond-is-needed-now-more-than-ever.html">early rough draft</a> I gained some useful insights on how to make my paper sound more professional from Leah, Jocelyn, and Taylor.<br /><br /><br />In class we traded papers several times and I was able to make some great revisions after getting feedback from Briggs and Jocelyn.</span><br />
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Also I was able to further connect with others creatively and socially through my <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/19937082-philip-barr">goodreads profile</a>.<br />
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5. Using Emerging Communication Tools and Pedagogy<br />
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My <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/invictus-and-morgan-freeman.html">poetry adaptation analysis</a> showed connections between poetry and film. It used new media in the form of video.<br />
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My <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-slaughterer.html">post</a> on the differences between the original novel and film From Russia With Love also uses video.<br />
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<span style="background-color: lime;">In<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/james-bond-is-needed-now-more-than-ever.html"> Patterns Followed, Patterns Compared</a> I used two videos to discuss dramatic devices used in the Bond movies and I compared them with the novels.<br /><br /><br />With the <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-story-of-my-paper.html">Story of my Paper</a> I posted a video that gave me some ideas for the why and how of my argument in my Bond paper.<br /><br /><br />In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/soda-headphones-and-chinese-characters.html">Soda, Headphones, and Chinese Characters</a> I used pictures to symbolize the writing rituals that I have.<br /><br /><br />My post on <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/shakespeare-script-vs-stage.html">Shakespeare: Script vs Stage</a> had a video which I was able to analyze and use for my comparison between reading a play and its performance on stage.<br /><br /><br />In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/grandpas-generation-vs-ours.html">Grandparent's Generation vs Our's</a> I used a video from Mad Men to illustrate the difference between my grandparent's generation and the hippie generation. Also, I used a video called the menaissance which argued for men today to go back to the values of our grandparents.<br /><br /><br />In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/travel-family-and-internet.html">Travel, Family, and The Internet </a> I talked about the importance of travel blogs and facebook in staying connected in our society.<br /><br /><br />In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/whatever-you-imagine.html">Whatever You Imagine</a> I used a song from the movie The Pagemaster to show how literature can influence our imaginations.<br /><br /><br />My post on <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/everyman.html">Everyman</a> compared the play with It's a Wonderful Life using the ending to discuss what is most important in life.<br /><br /><br />I used a video clip from Mad Men to compare visions of the American Dream with <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-death-of-salesman.html">The Death of a Salesman</a></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04684442064064497270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-45473172331308111212013-06-19T13:37:00.000-06:002013-08-30T11:47:46.564-06:00Learning Outcomes RevistedI've tried to dictate the content of my posts this term around our class learning objectives. The new stuff is highlighted in blue. How'd I do?<br />
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Know basic literary terms and methods</span></b></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/neil-gaiman.html">osted about tone and diction</a> in an excerpt by Neil Gaiman</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">P<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/knowing-basic-reading-terms.html">osted a basic plot structure and analyzed it</a> in relation to The Hunger Games</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">D<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/greasy-lake.html">iscussed the themes</a> of Greasy Lake</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/dorian-gray.html">Discussed the themes and plot</a> of The Picture of Dorian Gray</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/wonderwall-by-oasis.html">Analyzed rhythm in song structure as poetry</a> in "Wonderwall" by Oasis</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/wonderwall-by-oasis.html">Discussed the effect of iambic foot</a> in "Wonderwall"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/dear-room.html">Analyzed the use of metaphor</a> in "Dear Room"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/dear-room.html">Analyzed the use of personification</a> in "Dear Room"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-house-on-mango-street.html">Wrote about chapter length and structure variation</a> with "House on Mango Street"</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/sidewalk-art.html">Wrote a haiku with its 5-7-5 form</a> in relation to sidewalk art</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/loves-labours-lost-act-5-scene-2.html">Argued about the voice and tone in Love's Labour's Lost</a>, with its accompanying emotions</span></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/death-of-salesman-analysis.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Analyzed the use of flashback and stage direction in "Death of a Salesman"</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/harry-potter-musical-review.html">Discussed the types of stage and parody</a> in "A Very Potter Musical"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/fiction-subgenre-dystopian-societies.html">Wrote about themes</a> in dystopian literature</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/fiction-subgenre-dystopian-societies.html">Wrote about common plot elements </a>in dystopian literature</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/summarizing-text.html">Discussed the technique of summarizing</a> in analyzing literature</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/fiction-romance-genre.html">Posted about foreshadowing and plot structure</a> in A Walk to Remember</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/thoughts-on-creative-non-fiction.html">Discussed imagery</a> in "from Heaven and earth in jest"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-last-lecture.html">Wrote about the effect of tone and mood</a> in The Last Lecture</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/saving-punjab-response.html">Discussed irony</a> in "Saving Punjab"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-italian-dish.html">Discussed use of onomatopoeia</a> in cookbooks</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/ode-to-my-socks.html">Analyzed the use of metaphor</a> in "Ode to my socks"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/historical-fiction-secret-life-of-bees.html">Analyzed the use of first-person narration</a> in The Secret Life of Bees</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/childrens-fiction-hans-christian.html">Analyzed the use of anastrophe, parallelism, and metaphor</a> in "The Little Mermaid"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/ficiton-subgenre-signette-house-on.html">Discussed the use of signette</a> in House on Mango Street</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/it-be-cliche-to-say-i-love-reading-but.html">Created a reading list </a>including historical fiction, a memoir, and cultural fiction books.</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/neil-gaiman.html">Posted about horror books</a> (fiction sub-genre) (The Graveyard Book)</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/wonderwall-by-oasis.html">Posted about lyrical poetry</a> with "Wonderwall"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/dear-room.html">Discussed contemporary romantic poetry</a> with "Dear Room"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-house-on-mango-street.html">Wrote about cultural fiction</a> with "House on Mango Street"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/another-earth.html">Wrote about science fiction drama</a> in "Another Earth"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/interesting-poetry-forms-swan-and-shadow.html">Wrote about concrete poetry</a></span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-secret-life-of-bees.html">Discussed historical fiction</a> in "Secret Life of Bees"</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26">Discussed the use of <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-media-and-poetry.html">new media in contemporary poetry</a></span></div>
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Wrote about <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-media-and-poetry.html">Shakespearean sonnets</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/sidewalk-art.html">Wrote a haiku</a> - form of poetry</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/loves-labours-lost-act-5-scene-2.html">Wrote about performance literature </a>in relation to Love's Labour's Lost</span></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/loves-labours-lost-act-5-scene-2.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Wrote about Shakespearean literature</a></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/death-of-salesman-analysis.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Wrote about performance drama</a></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/harry-potter-musical-review.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Wrote about parody subgenres of drama</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/fiction-subgenre-dystopian-societies.html">Wrote about dystopian literature</a> and societies (fiction sub-genre)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/why-does-it-matter.html">Discussed how the "why" question makes up the memoir</a> in works such as Last Lecture</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/fiction-romance-genre.html">Wrote about romance novels</a> (fiction sub-genre)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/thoughts-on-creative-non-fiction.html">Wrote about the power of short stories </a>(creative non-fiction)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/social-circles-political-discourse.html">Wrote in the form of a political discourse</a> (creative non-fiction)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-last-lecture.html">Wrote about the memoir </a>(creative non-fiction)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/saving-punjab-response.html">Reviewed a news story</a> (creative non-fiction) with "Saving Punjab"</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-italian-dish.html">Reviewed a cookbook blog/food blog</a> (creative non-fiction)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/ode-to-my-socks.html">Analyzed an ode</a> (poetry)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/historical-fiction-secret-life-of-bees.html">Reviewed a historical fiction book</a> (fiction)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/childrens-fiction-hans-christian.html">Reviewed children's literature</a> (fiction)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/ficiton-subgenre-signette-house-on.html">Discussed signettes</a> (fiction)</span></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Write literary arguments</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></b></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/neil-gaiman.html">nalyzed the diction and tone</a> in an excerpt from The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/greasy-lake.html">Discussed the themes and metaphors</a> of Greasy Lake</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/jabberwocky-by-lewis-carroll.html">Analyzed the poetry and language</a> of "Jabberwocky" by Lewis Carroll</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/wonderwall-by-oasis.html">Wrote about the underlying themes</a> in "Wonderwall"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/dear-room.html">Discussed the use of metaphor as contributing to theme</a> in "Dear Room"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-house-on-mango-street.html">Wrote how chapter structure contributes to the theme</a> of House on Mango Street.</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/interesting-poetry-forms-swan-and-shadow.html">Wrote about the authenticity and implications of concrete poetry</a></span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-secret-life-of-bees.html">Argued that literature should make you uncomfortable</a> if it is to evoke change</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-media-and-poetry.html">Discussed the importance of new media</a> for visual learners in regards to poetry</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/loves-labours-lost-act-5-scene-2.html">Argued about the importance of the visual aspect of literature</a> in relation to Shakespeare</span></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/loves-labours-lost-act-5-scene-2.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Argued about Shakespeare's intentions for performance literature</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/death-of-salesman-analysis.html">Wrote about the evidence of a relationship deterioration</a> in "Death of a Salesman"</span></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/harry-potter-musical-review.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Argued the destructive effect of too much vulgarity</a></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/harry-potter-musical-review.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Argued the positive benefits of little to no props</a></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/fiction-subgenre-dystopian-societies.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Argued the benefits of political freedoms in regards to literature</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/why-does-it-matter.html">Wrote about the importance of answering the "why"</a> in literature and research</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/summarizing-text.html">Discussed the importance of summarizing text</a> for analyzing literature correctly</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/fiction-romance-genre.html">Argued that the film/drama adaptation </a>of A Walk to Remember was better than the book</span></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/thoughts-on-creative-non-fiction.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Argued that dictionaries were not literature</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/social-circles-political-discourse.html">Argued about the use of social media</a> as not being destructive</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/thesis-victory.html">Argued the book version</a> of The Last Lecture was more authentic than the video</span></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/ode-to-my-socks.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Argued the importance of showing vs. telling in poetry</a></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/historical-fiction-secret-life-of-bees.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Argued the importance of voice in first-person narration</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/childrens-fiction-hans-christian.html">Discussed the differences</a> in Andersen's "Little Mermaid" for theme purposes</span></div>
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<b id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="font-weight: bold; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Engage literature creatively and socially</span></b></div>
<span style="color: blue; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">C</span><span style="color: blue; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">r</span><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/it-be-cliche-to-say-i-love-reading-but.html" style="color: blue; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">eated a reading list</a><span style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span>and posed questions to blog readers about the books.</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/greasy-lake.html">sked readers</a> for their opinions about Greasy Lake and personal experiences</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/jabberwocky-by-lewis-carroll.html">Used a YouTube rendition</a> of "Jabberwocky" for visual effect</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/wonderwall-by-oasis.html">Analyzed a YouTube song and video as poetry</a> with "Wonderwall"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/dear-room.html">Highlighted and used color for "Dear Room"</a> to demonstrate the visual aspect of poetry</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/dear-room.html">Connected to a song by the Barenaked Ladies in theme similarity</a> for "Dear Room"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-house-on-mango-street.html">Linked and wrote based on a post by another blogger</a> with "House on Mango Street"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/another-earth.html">Wrote about science fiction and the film version of the trailer</a> for "Another Earth"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/another-earth.html">Had a conversation about the implications of "Another Earth"</a> on our class blog</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/interesting-poetry-forms-swan-and-shadow.html">Wrote about poetry forms</a> in visual poetry with concrete poetry</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-secret-life-of-bees.html">Argued the feelings</a> literature should provoke</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-media-and-poetry.html">Linked to YouTube to discuss the visual nature of poetry</a></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/sidewalk-art.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Linked poetry to local artwork</a></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/loves-labours-lost-act-5-scene-2.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Wrote a review of performance literature</a></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/death-of-salesman-analysis.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Analyzed an excerpt of "Death of a Salesman" based on stage direction</a></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/harry-potter-musical-review.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Wrote a review of a YouTube play</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/fiction-subgenre-dystopian-societies.html">Related dystopian literature</a> to popular literature The Hunger Games</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/why-does-it-matter.html">Challenged readers to answer the "why" </a>question in literature</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/summarizing-text.html">Challenged readers to employ summary</a> in academic writing</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/fiction-romance-genre.html">Had a discussion with classmates on Blogger</a> about the book version of A Walk to Remember compared to the film</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;">Used Blogger to<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-last-lecture-comments-please.html"> post thesis ideas</a> for paper</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;">Used Blogger to <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-last-lecture-comments-please.html">revise thesis</a> and draft paper</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/thoughts-on-creative-non-fiction.html">Posed question to classmates</a> about the possibility of encyclopedias and dictionaries being considered literature</span></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/social-circles-political-discourse.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Wrote literature as a political speech</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;">P<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-last-lecture.html">osted a link to YouTube version of memoir</a> (visual)</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-working-paper.html">Posted a draft of my paper</a> to the blog via Google Doc</span></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/ode-to-my-socks.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Broke down a Neruda poem into colors based on literary device</a></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/childrens-fiction-hans-christian.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Broke down an excerpt of "The Little Mermaid" into colors based on literary device</a><br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I started blogging on our class blog at least five times per week.</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I created a <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/">Goodreads</a> account.</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/jabberwocky-by-lewis-carroll.html">Linked to a YouTube rendition</a> of Jabberwocky</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/wonderwall-by-oasis.html">Discussed YouTube and its comments</a> with "Wonderwall"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/dear-room.html">Connected to a song with similar themes</a> to connect to the poetry of "Dear Room"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-house-on-mango-street.html">Linked and wrote based on a post by another blogger</a> with "House on Mango Street"</span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/another-earth.html">Linked to YouTube trailer of "Another Earth" as science fiction drama</a></span></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/another-earth.html">Had a conversation about the implications of "Another Earth"</a> on our class blog</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/interesting-poetry-forms-swan-and-shadow.html">Had a discussion about the implications of concrete poetry on our class blog</a></span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-secret-life-of-bees.html">Discussed the feelings of literature</a> on our class blog</span></div>
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-7906e0bb-5d6f-d296-708d-1a81befb9b26"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/new-media-and-poetry.html">Linked to YouTube to discuss the visual nature of poetry</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/sidewalk-art.html">Linked poetry to other blog photos</a> of sidewalk art</span></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/loves-labours-lost-act-5-scene-2.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Wrote a review of performance literature</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;">Analyzed and <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/death-of-salesman-analysis.html">used photos of scene direction</a> in Death of a Salesman</span></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/harry-potter-musical-review.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Wrote a review of a YouTube play</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/fiction-subgenre-dystopian-societies.html">Wrote about accessibility </a>of literary resources and religious works</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/why-does-it-matter.html">Used blogger to discuss the importance of answering the "why"</a> in all writing</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/summarizing-text.html">Discussed the importance of summarizing</a>, which can be easily done with online resources</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;">Wrote for an informal audience about <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/fiction-romance-genre.html">comparing film and book versions of the same work on Blogger</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-last-lecture-comments-please.html">Used Blogger to post thesis ideas</a> for paper</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;">Used Blogger to <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-last-lecture-comments-please.html">revise thesis</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/thoughts-on-creative-non-fiction.html">Discussed the use of online sources</a> such as Wikipedia for quick information in writing</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/social-circles-political-discourse.html">Discussed the use of Facebook</a> in literature and creative connectivity</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-last-lecture.html">Posted a link to YouTube</a> of the visual version of the memoir</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/saving-punjab-response.html">Used an online newspaper</a> to review an article</span></div>
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<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-italian-dish.html" style="background-color: cyan;">Discussed an online food blog</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-working-paper.html">Created a Google Doc</a> to get feedback on my essay</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: cyan;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/ficiton-subgenre-signette-house-on.html">Inserted a definition</a> from online Webster</span></div>
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1. After the midterm evaluation, I was told to work more on writing about subgenres, which I did</div>
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<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/harry-potter-musical-review.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> with parody (drama)</span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/fiction-subgenre-dystopian-societies.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> with dystopian literature (fiction)</span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/why-does-it-matter.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> with themes in writing in regards to The Last Lecture/memoirs (creative non-fiction)</span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/fiction-romance-genre.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> with romance (fiction)</span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/thoughts-on-creative-non-fiction.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> about the short story (creative non-fiction)</span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/ode-to-my-socks.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> with an analysis of an ode by Pablo Neruda (poetry)</span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/historical-fiction-secret-life-of-bees.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> with historical fiction</span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/childrens-fiction-hans-christian.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> with children's fiction</span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/ficiton-subgenre-signette-house-on.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> with the signette (fiction)</span></li>
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<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/fiction-subgenre-dystopian-societies.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> about dystopian societies </span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/why-does-it-matter.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> about answering the "why" in academic writing</span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/summarizing-text.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> about the importance of summarizing for correct analysis in academic writing</span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/social-circles-political-discourse.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> in a political discourse</span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/saving-punjab-response.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> about a news story "Saving Punjab"</span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/ode-to-my-socks.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> with an analysis of Pablo Neruda</span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/historical-fiction-secret-life-of-bees.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> with a review of The Secret Life of Bees</span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/childrens-fiction-hans-christian.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> with the themes of children's fiction</span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/ficiton-subgenre-signette-house-on.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> with the signette of House on Mango Street, and </span></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/from-musing-thoughts-to-concrete.html" style="line-height: 1.15;">here</a><span style="background-color: cyan; line-height: 1.15;"> with a review of the story of my paper.</span></li>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-44036990227647107292013-06-19T00:12:00.000-06:002013-06-19T00:13:03.441-06:00My Final Draft and How It Came to BeTo really get to the backstory of my paper, we've got to look back about...two years. That's right. Two years ago I began to embark on my journey of utilizing the internet for purposes other than Facebooking. I created my Tumblr and started actively using it. It took a little while, but I started making "internet friends," following people who were doing Cool Creative Things that I cared about, and occasionally doing a few creative endeavors of my own. I gained followers who I could share things with and it was really fantastic to discover this whole creative world on the internet that I had never known existed.<br />
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This is the point in my life at which the internet became something more than merely a homework helper or a time waster. After joining Tumblr, the internet became a place that was intertwined with my life.<br />
Around this time I also became a much more active YouTube viewer, particularly watching vloggers. Though their YouTube videos weren't necessarily creative content, most of the vloggers I watched created other things in their "real life" - like YouTuber and bestselling author John Green, for example. YouTube became a place where I could interact with people who I admired, and who were doing Cool Creative Things that I could consume.<br />
Add in some Twitter action, and the internet was a place that was really important to me.<br />
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So two years later... I'm in an English class, and we're utilizing the internet in ways I really enjoy. But there's some negative connotations floating around, and they irk me every time I hear them mentioned. There's vague mentions, not necessarily from any one person, of<i> writing on the internet isn't as valuable as writing in print</i>, or <i>the rise of the amateur is bad because look at these annoying people who aren't even good poets</i>, or <i>how dare they put their writing on the internet when it sucks</i>, etc. You get the point - people view work on the internet condescendingly, often with the attitude that it is less meaningful or important than published writing. Well, I just couldn't let that stand. I had already discussed internet works in a few posts, including topics like <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/poetry-that-speaks.html" target="_blank">spoken</a> <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/poetry-in-pairs.html" target="_blank">word</a>, <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/lizzie-bennet.html" target="_blank">The Lizzie Bennet Diaries</a>, and <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/amateurs-eh.html" target="_blank">the rise of the amateur</a>.<br />
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I wanted to write a paper that would defend internet work as valuable while also noting the importance of it in the simple fact that it is more accessible, especially to people who might not take an interest in literary pursuits when not on the internet (i.e. people who aren't going to pick up a volume of poetry in their spare time, but who will read it if it shows up on their Tumblr feed).<br />
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I think I did a pretty good job, and because I used the projects and creators I follow as my case studies, I was passionate about my topic.<br />
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Here's the full finished paper, for anyone who wants to read it.<br />
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New Media’s Literary Expansion: Everyday Accessible</div>
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Why do we read? Why do we
watch drama performances? Why do we memorize poetry? Why do we consume any form
of literature? On the one hand, we do it for entertainment. A comedy that
brings us laughter, poetry that helps us relax, a happy ending that helps us to
feel hopeful – it is easy to understand why we pursue literature that brings
about positive emotions. But what about the other side of literature – the works
that lay bare the less joyful aspects of life? It is a bit more difficult to
understand why we choose to partake in literature that reminds us of the less
than perfect events and endings that exist, so why do we still do so? What do
we gain from literature, regardless of the positive or negative emotions that
it can evoke from us? The answer is quite simple for anyone who values
literature in their life – it allows us to see from the perspective of others,
to understand complicated situations in ways that our own personally limited
worldview might not provide, to gain greater empathy for others, and by the
combination of all of these things, to become better people. If this result can
be brought about by the consumption of literary works, then should we really
look down at works that are made available by the internet? Fanfiction? We
scoff. Poetry in YouTube videos? Sounds questionable. An amateur posting their
own work? It must not be of high enough quality if it is not printed on paper.
But the truth is that this condescending attitude toward literature in new
media is unhelpful to both the creators and consumers of such content. Here is
the important part: new media has allowed literature to grow and remain active in
many people’s lives, and whether or not the literature made available is of
higher or lower quality is inconsequential, as absorbing literature at all is
beneficial to the consumers of it. The rise of literary content presented through
new media makes it more accessible to people who might otherwise turn away from
it. </div>
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Since the internet’s
inception, it has been providing new platforms with which to share everything
in one’s life. The way people interact with their friends, family, and mere
acquaintances has been affected by the world wide web, so it is not surprising
that the way in which people create and share content is changing as well. From
vloggers to poets to actors, the internet has provided a forum for creative
growth and expansion. Naturally, a huge part of this is literary in nature.
Viewing three differing aspects of creative work, new media has allowed for
growth in the way creators present content, and in the way society views and
consumes said content, and this growth is inherently beneficial in keeping
literature an active part of people’s lives. This new media allows for the
creation of new genres and subgenres, new formats, and new levels of
experience. </div>
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One way new media has
expanded is in the rise of the amateur on new media platforms that allow
creators to publish their own work. This has allowed for the creation of new
genres like “fanfiction,” and has given bloggers, poets, and novelists new ways
to present their work to a relatively large audience without the struggle of
getting it in print. Does this mean that a vast amount of the work one
encounters on the internet will be of novice quality? Undoubtedly. But does
that mean it is inherently negative? No. If one views literature as a means of
becoming engaged in the lives of others, experiencing greater empathy for those
around them, and growing into a generally better citizen of the world, then any
exposure to even awful, unrefined, amateur literature proves beneficial for the
consumer of it. If people, especially the rising generation, are suffering from
a lack of literature in their lives, then the expansion of literary pursuits on
internet forums serves an extremely valuable purpose by bringing it closer to their
everyday lives and making it more accessible. </div>
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One example of the rise
of the amateur can be seen in Tyler Knott Gregson, a poet made famous by the
popular blogging site Tumblr, on which he publishes typewriter poems and daily haikus
on love. While Gregson is an amateur in the dictionary definition of the word
(writing isn’t his day job) his work certainly merits the literary respect that
many published poets receive. Better still, this amateur has what many
published writers still seek – a large and engaged audience. Gregson’s
followers “reblog” his work and his daily poetry posts often easily reach
thousands of “likes” and “reblogs.” Do we look condescendingly at Gregson, as
he pursues what he loves and has succeeded in finding supporters of it? Some
people might, but looking from a broader perspective we can see that Gregson success
does not only benefit himself – thanks to the unique blogging platform of
Tumblr, his work reaches thousands of people who might not otherwise be exposed
to poetry regularly. This means that the rise of this amateur is helping keep
people engaged in literature, which is the valuable pursuit we are concerned with.
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New media likewise allows
older content to be recreated in new ways, as seen in The Lizzie Bennet
Diaries, a modern day adaptation of <i>Pride
and Prejudice</i>, by Jane Austen, in which the story is presented in vlog
format on YouTube. The production provides audiences with a new way to connect with
a classic story, and teaches the same lessons as the original novel, along with
a few new lessons of its own. The audience consists of people who had never
read <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> and those
who have read it too many times to count. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries was the
first of its kind, creating an entirely new subgenre that has yet to be named.
Not only is it a modern adaptation, it is also a fictional story conveyed on a
medium that was not created with fiction in mind. So do we look condescendingly
on this new subgenre of drama? Do we insist that this production is only
ruining the classic that is <i>Pride and
Prejudice</i>? Some might, but from a broader perspective one can see that The
Lizzie Bennet Diaries actually served to make many audience members more
engaged in the already classic story. It taught new lessons, had new focuses,
and ultimately presented literature in a way that made it accessible in the
everyday lives of its viewers. </div>
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While new media has also
allowed for genres to expand and subgenres to be created, it also allows
literature to be elevated to new levels of experience. This is most seen in the
expansion of performance poetry, which the growth of has been enabled by online
video sites like YouTube. Performance poetry heightens the level of immersion
of the listener by drawing them into the poem and allowing them to view the
full emotion of the poet performing their work. The act of watching a poet can
feel much more participatory than simply reading their words on a page, which
allows an entrance for people who might otherwise feel put off by poetry. Performance
poetry has also allowed for even more growth within itself, including poems
performed by more than one person. The expansion of traditional poetic genres
built by new media is beneficial in its access level for consumers. For many,
genres like performance poetry bring literature to those who would otherwise
not be willing consumers of it. The ability to simply share a link with our
friends makes spreading work that a person loves extremely easy, giving people
more ways to connect with each other. And if one considers the way poetry,
especially performance poetry, allows people to gain insight into the lives of
others, then it is easy to see how consuming this particular brand of literature
can help people become more engaged and empathetic towards those around them. Do
we look condescendingly at the idea that a poem in a YouTube video could be
worth our time? Some might, but those who take the time to gain a broader
perspective know that even amateurs who step onstage can bring something
valuable to the table. Not only is performance poetry now widely accessible
thanks to the internet, it is always widely accessible thanks to its own style
and platform. A teenager might think of poetry as “overly dramatic words with
senseless and pretentious spacing and indenting,” until they watch a video of a
poet that makes their eyes water or causes goosebumps to rise on their neck. Reading
fifteenth century sonnets and looking for rhyme scheme does not hold appeal for
a vast majority, but listening to a person on stage rant about any aspect of their
life has the ability to pull a person into their world and keep them there for a
minute. </div>
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New media has brought
about the expansion and growth of literature in both expected and unexpected
ways. While some people may look at this growth with condescension, it should
actually be valued and praised. The growth of literary pursuits through new
media are beneficial to everyone because they have made literature of every
quality accessible to those utilizing new media, which is a number that will
only grow as the years pass. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 200%;">Harmon,
William.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="text-align: start;">A Handbook to Literature</i><span style="text-align: start;">. Upper Saddle River, N.J: Prentice Hall, 2006. 440. Print.</span><span style="line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 200%;">August,
John. "Johnaugust.com." Web log post.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="text-align: start;">Johnaugustcom
RSS</i><span style="text-align: start;">. N.p., 1 Mar. 2006. Web. 18 June 2013.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; line-height: 200%;">Rubenstein,
Grace. "Kids Feel the Power of Poetry in Performance."<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i style="text-align: start;">Edutopia</i><span style="text-align: start;">. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 June 2013.</span></div>
Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10881114543882008577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-64402893739694664902013-06-18T22:23:00.001-06:002013-06-18T22:57:44.016-06:00Behold: My PaperWell ladies and gents, the time has come, the unveiling of my <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WM0kg4_hdPFCqSqcr_Yhq5agHsWUCm23dMrTbEJkOn4/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">final draft</a>! It was road with many turns and changes, which ultimately led to a finished product which I must say is far better than its predecessors.<br />
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It all began as <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/what-has-struck-me.html" target="_blank">I started musing</a> about what topic had most captivated me during this term in my English class. I discovered that there were two themes which I was most interested in exploring: the <b>literary worth of non-fiction</b> and <b>what we gain when we analyze romantic poetry in specific</b>. Finding both subjects very interesting, I became torn as to which I would choose! My interest for the first one had arisen from rereading Elie Wiesel's memoir <i>Night</i>, and <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-did-i-write-it.html" target="_blank">pondering about the literary elements</a> that made it stand out. The I became interested in the second as I embarked on my personal study of poetry, exploring different genres and <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/murdering-to-dissect.html" target="_blank">analyzing different works</a>.<br />
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I decided to inquire the help of my social media coupled with that of friends and roommates in order to chose between the two possible topics! First, however, <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-quest-for-great-thesis.html" target="_blank">I created a list</a> of the different types of claims that I would make. I then carefully chose which I thought were best and <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/and-winner-is.html" target="_blank">circulated them</a>. I tried not to do this too bluntly, though. For instance, when seeking for help in my personal blog I posed my claim as a thought that had been circling my mind and wanted to share to see if others felt the same way. When talking to my friends and roommates, I struck a casual conversation and snuck my claim in (if I would have told my friends it was for school, they most likely would have not been as engaged!)<br />
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When I finally decided on a topic that I would address for my paper (The analytical tool as observed in romantic literature), I moved on to developing it by first testing what I would specifically talk about. By using Dr. Burton's suggestions on how to develop a literary analysis, I began to move forward with my paper as I did some research on <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-whole-deal-with-romanticism.html" target="_blank">genre and literary period</a>. I also performed a <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-little-pre-analysis.html" target="_blank">close reading</a> that allowed me to identify literary elements that would later help me support my argument.<br />
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Having done this, I felt like I was on good ground to actually start my paper! I then went on to create an <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bz1Tbg__xB6DVHpHdHFZMTQwem8/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">outline</a> that greatly helped stay organized throughout the rest of the process of writing my paper. I proceeded to write a <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-rough-rough-draft.html" target="_blank">first incomplete draft</a> to obtain feedback regarding the direction of my paper. I received great feedback from my peers, (specially <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-rough-rough-draft.html#comment-form" target="_blank">Jennifer!</a>) as well as my roommates who I gave physical drafts to.<br />
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I took their advice and fixed what they suggested, moving then quickly onto writing one of my final draft, which I again circulated amongst friends in addition to the peer review held in class (thanks again Jennifer!)<br />
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Until, finally... I finished it!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16797362178658910564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-90454038117311589452013-06-17T22:26:00.000-06:002013-06-17T22:27:12.717-06:00The Story of My PaperI guess the idea the idea for my paper came from an Elder's Quorum discussion we had a few months ago on what it means to be a man. Later someone from our Elder's Quorum posted a video on the art of manliness on facebook:<br />
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The video talked about going back to the masculinity found in males of our grandparent's generation or becoming a retro-sexual. I found this very interesting and it was something I had thought about for awhile after our discussion. When thinking of ideas for my paper I noticed that made a lot of posts on <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/search/label/James%20Bond">Bond</a>, my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/search/label/grandpa">Grandpa</a>, and <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/search/label/Mad%20Men">Mad Men</a>. I noticed that all of these post had a common theme. All of them were focused on a certain generation, particularly the period between the 50's and 60's. This brought me back to the video and discussion that left impressions on me a few months back.<br />
<a name='more'></a> Then I thought to myself, what if I wrote a paper on the comparisons between my grandparent's generation and my own? I was able to find various examples in the <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/some-old-books.html">Bond books</a> I had collected and I began to synthesize ideas for my paper. I began with a post exploring the themes and values of <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/grandpas-generation-vs-ours.html">grandparents generation</a> because I was hoping to gather some ideas for a thesis. After I received feedback from roomates, a few facebook friends and from conversations with relatives (most notably my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/talking-with-my-grandma.html">grandma</a>) I was able to generate 5 different <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/thesis-of-bonds-generation-and-our.html">thesis statements</a> based on the subject. I had received some great feedback on these as well and I started to brainstorm with some pre-writing exercises. I started by trying to find the <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-secretary-in-bonds-world.html">opinion of women</a> on Bond within the novels. Next I wrote down the reasons of <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/why-i-am-writing-my-james-bond-paper.html">why</a> I was writing this paper. This helped to further develop many of the ideas I had for my thesis and I believe that it gave me further motivation and purpose to write my paper. I looked at <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/patterns-followed-patterns-compared.html">patterns</a> found in the Bond novels and movies as well to learn more about Bond a s a man. Later, I went to the library to find a general reference book for my paper and I found <i>Harmon and Holman's Handbook to literature</i> very helpful. I began to explore the <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/exploring-genre.html">genre</a> of the Bond novels from here and I was able to find some interesting elements about escape literature that made their way into my paper. After these writing exercises I was ready to start my paper and I posted the <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/james-bond-is-needed-now-more-than-ever.html">rough draft</a> to get some feedback. I found the feedback to be constructive and largely beneficial to the final rough draft of my paper. I also was able to get my roommate to read it and he was able to help as well. I posted my final paper to be read for your enjoyment and I hope that this whole process will have contributed to a great and engaging paper.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04684442064064497270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-79726268306770615382013-06-17T22:19:00.001-06:002013-06-17T22:20:51.144-06:00The Final Final DraftSo I just wanted to post this final draft of my paper for your enjoyment and critique before I send it in to my professor, any feedback would be very appreciated.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Bond, James Bond: A Man For All Times<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
world today has unique definitions of gender roles in society. Recently, there
has been much discussion on topics such as gay marriage, the breakup of the
family system, and the overall definition of what a man is in the 21<sup>st</sup>
century. Many of these issues can be traced back to the social movements and
changes that happened during the 1960’s and onward. Because of the women’s
rights movement many women today have equal opportunities in the workplace and
have surpassed men in graduating college. These changes have brought a lot of
benefits to our society because now the female voice has a say in many of the
decisions that go on at home, at the workplace, and in the world. However, while
women have risen to new prominence in their roles today, men have diminished in
theirs. Men today are more self-centered, less masculine, and have lost their
sense of responsibility. Men of our grandparent’s generation were dependable,
took action, and they defined what it is to be manly. Popular characters of
their generation like James Bond personified this idea of the alpha male and
masculine traits. Actually, Bond was so masculine and direct in his demeanor
that when the Bond novels first came out they were considered edgy by many and
even downright misogynistic by some. Still, today he remains the man that men
want to be, and the man that women want to be with. Although James Bond is a
flawed and sometimes overtly sexist character, he does represent a kind of
masculinity that men in our society desperately need right now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
first James Bond book was printed in 1953 in a time when the nations of the
seemed to be searching for and settling into their new identities. The United
States and the Soviet Union became the new world powers after World War II and
countries like Britain had taken a smaller role in the governance of the world.
The James Bond novels were Ian Fleming’s
answer to the decline of British superiority in the world stage and they
hearkened back to the glory days of Britain. He was their ultimate hero, a one-man
army on Her Majesty’s Secret Service who could solve the world’s problems
without the help of Britain’s larger cousin the United States. Long gone were
the times when Allied soldiers were fighting against evil and oppression in the
vast areas of the world. Tales of duty and good vs. evil were now found in the
James Bond novels and their popularity rapidly increased among the general
populace. Bond provided escape and excitement to readers in a time of peace. He
has timeless qualities that can be admired in any generation and culture. They
are the reason why he has remained immensely popular to this day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">As
mentioned earlier the James Bond novels are a form of escape and can be
categorized under the umbrella of Escape Literature. According to Harmon and
Holman’s <i>A Handbook to Literature</i>
Escape Literature is defined as:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> “Writing whose clear intention is to amuse and
beguile by offering readers a strong world, exciting adventures, or puzzling
mysteries. It aims at no higher purpose than amusement. Adventure stories,
detective stories, tales of fantasy, and many humorous stories are frankly
escape literature, and they exist for no other purpose than to translate
readers for a time from the care ridden actual world to an entrancing world of
the imagination (Harmon and Holman, p.209).” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
Bond novels are an escape for men because while they read them they can be in
the exciting world of Bond for a few hours. They can get the beautiful exotic
girl, they can travel round the globe, and they can save the day. All of the
fantasies of the male mind are written into the novels, and Bond represents the
epitome of those fantasies. His masculine qualities and instincts are just as
relevant today as he was in the 1950’s. We need him now more than ever as men
in our generation further lose sight of the definition of manliness and sink
deeper into states of irresponsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Several
young men today live at home with their parents and they go out into the real
world much later than the past generations. According to a recent survey, 19%
of men today ages 25 to 29 still live with their parents. The percentage has
risen 8% just from the 1980’s (Snider). Though he is a fictional character,
Bond’s life story can be an example of independence and self-worth. Orphaned at
the age of 11 because of his parents’ death in a sudden mountain climbing
accident, Bond had to become self-reliant at a young age in order to support
himself. Later, he served in the Royal Navy as an intelligence officer during
WWII and started his work with the British Secret Service afterwards to fight
Britain’s battles behind the scenes. The talents he perfected during his
military service adequately prepared him for his later career. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In
the beginning of the novel <i>Moonraker</i>,<i> </i>Bond more than qualifies for his
marksmanship scores when he practices on the shooting range. “[His instructor]
was pleased with Bond’s shooting, but he wouldn’t have the thought of telling
him that he was the best shot in the Service. Only M was allowed to know that,
and his Chief of Staff, who would be told to enter the scores of that day’s
shoot on Bond’s confidential record” (<i>Moonraker</i>,
4). Because he honed his shooting skills in the military Bond was able to
continually impress his superiors which is something desired by every
professional in his field. After shooting practice Bond used some of his
analytical attributes and abilities to examine “Two days [worth] of dockets and
files” (<i>Moonraker</i>, 5). James Bond was
able to use the training he received during his service to become a well
disciplined and diversified professional who could contribute to society. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Many
young men of Bond’s generation also answered the call to serve in WWII, and
later the Korean War. Afterwards, many of these men were able to assimilate
back into society and contribute to said society with the skills they gained
from their service. This is not to say that every young man these days should
enlist in the military to gain the necessary experience and skills for life and
career. The men of our grandparent’s generation did it because it was what they
had to do. They either volunteered for service or they were drafted. There really
weren’t any other options. Actually, today men have more opportunities because
without an active draft they can choose to spend their early years building and
educating themselves in universities or even vocational schools. Gaining an
education will help more than anything else for getting ahead in today’s
society. But unfortunately men today are slacking in this department. In 2003
there were 1.3 female four-year graduates for every male. Contrast this with
1.6 male four year graduates for every female in 1960 (Francis). Men are
clearly not stepping up to the plate these days and if something isn’t changed
about our culture soon they will find themselves ill-equipped in the workplace.
If men today were able to look at getting a college degree with the same sense
of duty and zeal that Bond’s generation looked at their military service then I
believe that this problem could be alleviated. With the skills gained in post
high school education they could not only get ahead in the workplace, but they
could also make a profound difference in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Additionally,
men in recent times are not shown as much respect in the home as they were
previous decades. This is reflected in media portrayals of the clueless and
ineffective dad on modern sitcoms such as <i>The
Simpsons </i>and <i>Arrested Development</i>.
These sad portrayals of men were unheard in the time of the Bond novels. Men
back then were the providers of the family. They established themselves, got
married, and then strived to support their family. It was expected of them to
do so because it was their duty. Although not portrayed as a family man in the
novels, James Bond certainly had a similar sense of duty and responsibility. He
could have spent his time in idle pursuits; instead he devoted his entire life
to a higher cause which was the protection and the safety of the Western world.
Sure he pursued his own interests, but they were always secondary to his
greater mission and purpose. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">A
relatively unknown and somewhat surprising fact about Bond is that several
times in his life he had seriously pondered the idea of getting married and
having a family, especially with his lovers Vesper Lynd and Tiffany Case. In <i>On Her Majesty’s Secret Service </i>however,
he actually did succeed in marrying the beautiful and resourceful Countess
Teresa “Tracy” di Vicenzo. He had planned to settle down with her and start a
new life, but unfortunately for Bond she was killed shortly after the wedding
by his arch-nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofield. This shows that Bond was not the
heartless womanizer that many people make him out to be. He was a man who
believed in love as most of us do and he was willing to sacrifice his personal
interests for it. Today we find that many men put their own interests first by
marrying much later in life, or they even decide to live as bachelors
indefinitely. Many men waste their lives away with video games, television, and
seemingly endless internet browsing, all of which only leads to stagnation
career wise and personally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Men
can also improve with how they treat and relate to the opposite sex. Often we
hear the saying that “chivalry is dead”.
Many have claimed that James Bond was just a sexist womanizer in the
past, but a closer look at the novels reveals that he certainly knows how to
treat women. There is a reason why so many women are attracted to him and that
most of the women aren’t fictional. He sincerely complimented all of the women
he pursued and made them feel like they were the most beautiful women in the
world. He was confident and assuring and he courted women without looking desperate
or needy. Often times throughout his adventures he even treated his female
counterparts as important assets to his success. This Bond quote from the short
story <i>Quantum of Solace</i> offers some
insight into Bond’s character: “Quantum of Solace-the amount of comfort. Yes, I
suppose you could say that all love and friendship is based in the end on that”
(<i>Quantum of Solace</i>, 76). That may
come as a shock to some who think of Bond as a sexist and misogynist. Bond
understood that in relationships there has to be genuine care for the comfort
of one another, that it isn’t something that is one sided. There has to be
mutual respect and care between the two parties. Men in the dating world today
could learn a lot of lessons from 007.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Just
as the countries of the world were searching for their identities when the Bond
novels were released, men today are searching for their own identities within
the modern world. Much has changed since the time that James Bond burst onto
the scene with his novels. Social reforms and movements have given new
characterizations for what men are and how they should act in society. Once the
sole providers in the home, men are now being consistently outmatched by women
in college and in the workplace. Men of today need to step up, but many don’t
have the knowledge or motivation to do so. Thankfully history is often our
greatest teacher. Men in our grandparent’s generation went through the Great
Depression and the Second World War. After that they went to work to provide
for themselves and their families. This generation of men and their great
examples of manhood were epitomized in the James Bond novels. Men of today can look back to the James Bond
novels and learn about what has to be done to progress now. He was and still is
the definitive man: stalwart, responsible, and unwavering in his display of
masculinity. He was developed partly to rescue Britain’s declining sense of
worth and return Her to her glory days. Today he can be used similarly to help
us strive to become the best men that we can be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Works Cited<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Harmon,
William and C. Hugh Holman. <i>A Handbook to
Literature</i>, p.209.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Fleming, Ian. <i>For
Your Eyes Only</i>, “Quantum of Solace”, p.76.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> New York, New York: The New American Library,1964.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> ----- <i>On Her
Majesty’s Secret Service</i>. New York, New York: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
New American Library, 1963.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> ----- <i>Moonraker</i>,
p. 4-5. United States: Penguin Books, 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Francis, David R. “Why do women outnumber men in college?”
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">National Bureau of Economic
Research</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">, Website. 6/12/13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">http://www.nber.org/digest/jan07/w12139.html<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Snider, Julie. “Living with Parents”. <i>USATODAY</i>. Survey. 8/1/2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04684442064064497270noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-89165410917748382013-06-17T12:22:00.000-06:002013-06-17T12:22:56.612-06:00From Musing Thoughts to Concrete Arguments<u>The Last Lecture</u> by Randy Pausch seemed to be calling me. I'd seen it in the "Great Gifts" section of Barnes & Noble at Christmastime, seen it at the top of "Must Read" lists on every book-selling website, and seen it on Pinterest with several thousand repins. When we were allowed to create our own reading lists this term, I decided it was finally time to read it. I checked it out from the library, a tattered burnt-orange copy that looked much older than 2008, with a frayed cover and worn pages from being dog-eared so many times.<br />
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I decided to begin with watching the original <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo">speech</a>, which Pausch gave at Carnegie Hall. I first <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-last-lecture.html">reviewed the book</a> and posed the question "What would be my last words?" This would eventually develop into a thesis as I considered Pausch's last words and their authenticity. I began developing a thesis with <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-last-lecture-comments-please.html">a few different driving ideas</a>, and <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-last-lecture-comments-please.html">posted</a> them for opinions. I received great feedback from <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964">Jocelyn</a>, <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/03006044467932263633">Danielle</a>, <a href="https://plus.google.com/106492663129878193744/posts">Sined</a>, <a href="https://plus.google.com/101937211857446324342/posts">Dr. Burton</a>, and <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/09533569851981704520">Dawn</a>, as well as <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2318271.The_Last_Lecture">the Goodreads page for the book</a> and my roommates. Ultimately I decided on <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-last-lecture-comments-please.html">prompt #4</a> (the evaluation claim) because I felt it was an argument I could make logically and had solid textual evidence. I did, however, <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/thesis-victory.html">switch my view point</a> to the book being the more authentic version after having my opinion changed from further reading of the text.</div>
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To begin writing the paper, I <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/summarizing-text.html">summarized the text.</a> What points did Pausch make? What points did I make? What were the differences between the video and the book? I combed through the book line by line and marked spots where he talked about events prior to the speech, events in the speech's aftermath, and any reflections on the speech itself. This helped me to identify spots where I could make solid arguments.</div>
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Next, I had to <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/why-does-it-matter.html">answer the question why does it matter?</a> Ultimately I came to the conclusion that Pausch felt there was more he needed to say after the speech in order to make his children fully understand, and that was why he wrote the book. It mattered because his message wasn't complete without the book. This became a central point to my paper.</div>
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After gathering notes and writing, I <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-working-paper.html">posted a draft</a> and received feedback from roommates, classmates outside of class(thank you <a href="https://plus.google.com/106492663129878193744/posts">Sined</a>!) and a great comment from <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/03006044467932263633">Danielle</a>. She <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-working-paper.html">brought up a great point that the book conveyed a range of Pausch's emotions as opposed to just the optimism in the speech.</a> This also became a central point of my paper.</div>
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Overall, I'm happy with the way it turned out. I wanted to write in a way that was real and honest, yet still academic, and I think this paper achieves that.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-57713657381504940452013-06-14T16:31:00.000-06:002013-06-14T16:31:06.242-06:00A learning outcomes review: How did I do?<div dir="ltr" style="display: inline !important; line-height: 1.15; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Additionally, I was told after the midterm that I should refer more specifically to subgenres which I did in<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/pushed.html"> this post</a>, <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/nonsense-literature-finding-genre.html">this post,</a> and <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/genre-i-mean-whoa-man.html">this post</a>. I was also told to refer more to literary terms which I did in reference to terms used with nonsense literature for my paper.</span></span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I identified some literary terms for fiction in </span><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/analyze-yourself.html" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Analyze Yourself.</a></span></li>
<li>I took inspiration from symbolism in two texts we've read for class in my post, <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/in-my-purse.html">In My Purse.</a></li>
<li>I identified poetic literary terms in my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/personal-literary-narrative.html">Personal Literary Narrative.</a></li>
<li>I found more poetic literary terms in my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/poetry-in-russian.html">analysis of Barbie Doll.</a></li>
<li>I identified literary terms in my analysis of<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/for-lifes-not-paragraph-and-death-i.html"> Since Feeling is First</a></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I used basic dramatic literary terms in my analysis of <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-little-mermaid.html">The Little Mermaid</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I talked about character in my analysis of <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-truth-is-rarely-pure-and-never_25.html">The Importance of Being Earnest.</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I identified terms I was interested in when I <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/in-search-of-claim.html">looked for a claim for my paper.</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I learned about types of thesis statements when I <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/winnie-pooh-in-5-thesis-statements.html">wrote 5 for my paper.</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I identified<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/does-this-make-sense.html"> useful quotes</a> for my paper.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I made two<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/just-little-outline.html"> outlines</a> for my paper</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">I identified The Ice Queen as a fictional work in my post, </span><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/ice-cold.html" style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ice Cold</a></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/my-to-read-list.html">I came up with things that I want to read</a> and categorized them into category by genre. Out of the list so far I have read most of the poetry.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.15;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I identified the genre of a book I was reading as well as the genre of another book mentioned in the first book in my post, <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/perception-is-reality.html">Perception is Reality</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="line-height: 1.15;">I identified an example of poetry in my post <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/poetry-in-russian.html">Poetry in Russian</a></span></li>
<li>I found more poetry examples in my post <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/for-lifes-not-paragraph-and-death-i.html">Life's not a paragraph...</a></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I understand the genre of drama in my post <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-little-mermaid.html">The Little Mermaid</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I understand that <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-truth-is-rarely-pure-and-never.html">The Importance of Being Earnest</a> falls under the genre of drama</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I discussed drama in my post,<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/it-runs-in-family.html"> It Runs in the Family</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I learned that my job involves me writing Nonfiction in my post, <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-red-dirt-bride.html">The Red Dirt Bride</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I looked at nonfiction in my post <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/pushed.html">Pushed.</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I discussed the sub genre of<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/nonsense-literature-finding-genre.html"> nonsense literature.</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I looked at sub genres of fiction <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/genre-i-mean-whoa-man.html">in this post</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/analyze-yourself.html" style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Analyze Yourself</a><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">, I made a literary argument for a fictional piece that I wrote.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">I wrote a brief literary argument for The Ice Queen in </span><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/ice-cold.html" style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ice Cold</a></span></li>
<li>I wrote a literary argument for a favorite poem of mine in my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/personal-literary-narrative.html">Personal Literary Narrative.</a></li>
<li>I wrote a literary argument for Barbie Doll in my post, <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/poetry-in-russian.html">Poetry in Russian.</a></li>
<li><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/for-lifes-not-paragraph-and-death-i.html">In Life's not a paragraph... </a>I attempted to write a literary argument for Since Feeling is First.</li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I argued that the production of <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-little-mermaid.html">The Little Mermaid</a> I saw was awful.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I wrote a controversial argument on <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/i-think-oedipus-rex-would-be-boring-to.html">Oedipus Rex.</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I analyzed <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-truth-is-rarely-pure-and-never_25.html">The Importance of being Earnest</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/winnie-pooh-in-5-thesis-statements.html">my 5 thesis statements </a>I made literary arguments</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The posts dealing with my paper were all about my literary argument.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I analyzed and made an argument for <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/when-half-gods-go-gods-arrive.html">Give All to Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/analyze-yourself.html" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Analyze Yourself</a><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">, I attempted to analyze a creative writing piece that I wrote.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-write.html" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">In the post Why Write? </a><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I creatively talked about why writing is important in our community.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I creatively talked about reading and literature in my post, <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/ticket-to-everywhere.html">Ticket to Everywhere</a>.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I creatively personalized poetry with my poem <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/in-my-purse.html">In My Purse.</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/poetry-in-russian.html">I creatively analyzed Barbie Doll</a> by translating it in and out of Russian.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Additionally, I set up </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/19936038-jocelyn" style="line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">a Good Reads profile here</a><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to engage in literature socially.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #222222; line-height: 17px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I engaged in literature while reading <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-truth-is-rarely-pure-and-never.html">The Importance of Being Earnest</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: inherit;">I told about my experience with drama in my post, <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/it-runs-in-family.html">It Runs in the Family</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I creatively wrote in the form of scripture for my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/behold-this-new-and-social-media.html">New Social Media post.</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I asked friends to comment on <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/winnie-pooh-in-5-thesis-statements.html">my 5 thesis statements.</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I got <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/thanks-for-feedback.html">great feedback</a> on my thesis statements.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I talked about why I chose my paper topic in <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/this-is-why.html">This is Why</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I posted <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/teaching-sense-through-nonsense-with.html">versions of my paper</a> on the blog to get feedback</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I creatively told the<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-story-of-my-nonsense-paper.html"> story of my paper</a></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">I linked to my personal blog in </span><a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/analyze-yourself.html" style="line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">Analyze Yourself,</a><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"> which is an emerging communication tool.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;">I used videos of spoken poetry in my post <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/for-lifes-not-paragraph-and-death-i.html">Life's not a paragraph...</a></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">I used video clips from The Dead Poet's Society to make a point about analyzing in my post <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-dead-poets-society.html">The Dead Poet's Society.</a></span></li>
<li>Here are a few posts that I had a good conversation through comments:<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/lets-talk-gatsby.html"> this one</a> and <a href="http://coming2terms-nonfiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/mrs-mallards-final-hour.html">this one</a> and <a href="http://coming2terms-drama.blogspot.com/2013/05/a-lovely-way-to-pass-time.html">this one</a>.</li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With the other contributors of this blog, I taught my English class about analyzing fiction through a jeopardy game.</span></span></li>
<li><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 1.15; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Additionally, all the posts I did were on an emerging communication site (this blog).</span></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I used color coding in my analysis of <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-truth-is-rarely-pure-and-never_25.html">The Importance of Being Earnest</a> to help readers understand the quotes.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I talked about the benefits of social media in my <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/behold-this-new-and-social-media.html">New Social Media post.</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I searched for a claim for my paper by <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/in-search-of-claim.html">looking at past blog posts and comments.</a></span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/thanks-for-feedback.html"> got feedback</a> on my thesis statements for my paper.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I color coded <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/when-half-gods-go-gods-arrive.html">this post</a> when I analyzed the poem.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">I also talked to several people on the phone when getting feedback for my paper</span></li>
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I started with <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/winnie-pooh-in-5-thesis-statements.html">a few different thesis statements</a> to get the ball rolling. I came up with these after a close reading of Winnie-the-Pooh to determine what all the stories had in common and how I could implement that into a paper. I thought the biggest thing was the grammatical errors. That also seemed to be what people were complaining about in their Good Reads comments.<br />
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I got some <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/thanks-for-feedback.html">great feedback on my thesis statements.</a> The comment from my sister even lead me to what I thought would be my thesis. However as I continued to research, I realized there was more to the grammatical errors thing than originally met the eye. A second look at the Good Reads comments introduced me to the genre of <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/nonsense-literature-finding-genre.html">Nonsense Literature.</a><br />
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Once I researched the genre a little more, I found that what I thought were grammatical errors were actually forms of implementing nonsense into the story. And from there, my new thesis was born. I was even able to <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/does-this-make-sense.html">compile all the quotes</a> I thought were grammatical errors but turned out to be related to the genre. It was so helpful to do this, because I could see all the elements of the book I wanted to reference in my paper.<br />
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Then before I could begin writing the paper, I had to <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/just-little-outline.html">make an outline!</a> I am HUGE fan of the outline. If I do enough research there, I've done nearly all the work of writing the paper. All I have to do is turn my half baked thoughts into complete sentences and BAM! I'm done. However once I started writing the paper and came up with <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/teaching-sense-through-nonsense-with.html">a rough draft,</a> I realized that my outline was a litte too detailed because I had too much information. It would have been great for a 10 page paper but for my 6 page paper, some stuff had to go.<br />
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After some serious re-working which included cutting and combining paragraphs, I came up with my final rough draft. But it was still rough which meant I still had some editing to do. I<a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/final-rough-draft-of-winnie-pooh-paper.html"> posted the draft in a google documen</a>t and was able to edit it with guidance from my mom over the phone. It was cool because she could offer suggestions and then watch me make the changes from her computer in Georgia.<br />
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Once I was happy with how it looked, I created <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/an-after-outline.html">an after outline</a>. This gave me a second look at the flow of my paper. It was interesting to see how the before and after outline had changed. Then in class, I classmate peer reviewed my paper and thankfully only had one big thing that confused him that I needed to fix. And what I came up with is a finished product, which I am happy to say is finished several days before it's due.<br />
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Now that's one of the best feelings ever!Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-87546731975818307882013-06-14T02:10:00.000-06:002013-06-14T02:52:32.456-06:00My (sort of) Final DraftHere's my sort of final draft! I'm still working on it, but I think I've made some pretty big improvements since my first draft. I would really really love feedback. Jocelyn pointed out in my last draft that my thesis was unclear, so I tried to fix that, and I would really appreciate if you guys could let me know if you think my thesis is clear and easy to find now. Anywho...<br />
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Why do we read? Why do we
watch drama performances? Why do we memorize poetry? Why do we consume any form
of literature? On the one hand, we do it for entertainment. A comedy that
brings us laughter, poetry that helps us relax, a happy ending that helps us to
feel hopeful – it is easy to understand why we pursue literature that brings
about positive emotions. But what about the other side of literature – the works
that lay bare the tragedies of life? It is a bit more difficult to understand
why we choose to partake in literature that reminds us of the less than perfect
endings that exist, so why do we still do so? What do we gain from literature,
regardless of the positive or negative emotions that it can evoke from us? The
answer is quite simple for anyone who values literature in their life – it
allows us to see from the perspective of others, to understand complicated
situations in ways that our own personally limited worldview might not provide,
to gain greater empathy for others, and by the combination of all of these
things, to become better citizens of the societies in which we live. If this
result can be brought about by the consumption of literary works, then should
we really look down at works that are made available by the internet?
Fanfiction? We scoff. Poetry in YouTube videos? Sounds questionable. An amateur
posting their own work? It must not be of high enough quality if it is not
printed on paper. But the truth is that this condescending attitude toward
literature in new media is unhelpful to both the creators and consumers of such
content. Here’s the important part: new media has allowed literature to grow
and expand in new ways, and whether or not the literature made available is of
higher or lower quality is inconsequential, as absorbing literature at all is
beneficial to the consumers of it. </div>
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Since the internet’s
inception, it has been providing new platforms with which to share everything
in one’s life. The way people interact with their friends, family, and mere
acquaintances has been affected by the world wide web, so it is not surprising
that the way in which people create and share content is changing as well. From
vloggers to poets to actors, the internet has provided a forum for creative
growth and expansion. Naturally, a huge part of this is literary in nature.
Viewing three differing aspects of creative work, new media has allowed for
growth in the way creators present content, and in the way society views and
consumes said content, and this growth is inherently beneficial in keeping
literature an active part of people’s lives. This new media allows for the
creation of new genres and subgenres, new formats, and new levels of
experience. </div>
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One way new media has
expanded is in the rise of the amateur on new media platforms that allow
creators to publish their own work. This has allowed for the creation of new
genres like “fanfiction,” and has given bloggers, poets, and novelists new ways
to present their work to a relatively large audience without the struggle of
getting it in print. Does this mean that a vast amount of the work one
encounters on the internet will be of novice quality? Undoubtedly. But does
that mean it is inherently negative? No. If one views literature as a means of
becoming engaged in the lives of others, experiencing greater empathy for those
around them, and growing into a generally better citizen of the world, then any
exposure to even awful, unrefined, amateur literature proves beneficial for the
consumer of it. If people, especially the rising generation, are suffering from
a lack of literature in their lives, then the expansion of literary pursuits on
internet forums serves an extremely valuable purpose by bringing it closer to
our everyday lives and making it more accessible. </div>
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One example of the rise
of the amateur can be seen in Tyler Knott Gregson, a poet made famous by the
popular blogging site Tumblr, on which he publishes daily haikus on love, and typewriter
poems. While Gregson is an amateur in the dictionary definition of the word
(writing isn’t his day job) his work certainly merits the literary respect that
many published poets receive. Better still, this amateur has what many
published writers still seek – a large and engaged audience. Gregson’s
followers “reblog” his work and his daily poetry posts often easily reach
thousands of “likes” and “reblogs.” Do we look condescendingly at Gregson, as
he pursues what he loves and has succeeded in finding supporters of it? Some
people might, but looking from a broader perspective we can see the Gregson not
only succeeds for himself. Thanks to the unique blogging platform of Tumblr,
his work reaches thousands of people who might not otherwise be exposed to
poetry regularly. This means that the rise of this amateur is helping keep
people engaged in literature, which is always a valuable pursuit. </div>
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New media likewise allows
older content to be recreated in new ways, as seen in The Lizzie Bennet
Diaries, a modern day adaptation of <i>Pride
and Prejudice</i>, by Jane Austen, in which the story is presented in vlog
format on YouTube. The production provides audiences with a new way to connect with
a classic story, and teaches the same lessons as the original novel, along with
a few new lessons of its own. The audience consists of people who had never
read <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> and those
who have read it too many times to count. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries was the
first of its kind, creating an entirely new subgenre that has yet to be named.
Not only is it a modern adaptation, it is also a fictional story conveyed on a
medium that was not created with fiction in mind. So do we look condescendingly
on this new subgenre of drama? Do we insist that this production is only
ruining the classic that is <i>Pride and
Prejudice</i>? Some might, but from a broader perspective one can see that The
Lizzie Bennet Diaries actually served to make many audience members more
engaged in the already classic story. It taught new lessons, had new focuses,
and ultimately presented literature in a way that made it accessible in the
everyday lives of its viewers. </div>
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While new media has also
allowed for genres to expand and subgenres to be created, it also allows
literature to be elevated to new levels of experience. This is most seen in the
expansion of performance poetry, which the growth of has been enabled by online
video sites like YouTube. Performance poetry heightens the level of immersion
of the listener by drawing them into the poem and allowing them to view the
full emotion of the poet performing their work. The act of watching a poet can
feel much more participatory than simply reading their words on a page, which
allows an entrance for people who might otherwise feel put off by poetry. Performance
poetry has also allowed for even more growth within itself, including poems
performed by more than one person. The expansion of traditional poetic genres
built by new media is beneficial in its access level for consumers. For many,
genres like performance poetry bring literature to those who would otherwise
not be willing consumers of it. The ability to simply share a link with our
friends makes spreading work that a person loves extremely easy, giving people
more ways to connect with each other. And if one considers the way poetry,
especially performance poetry, allows people to gain insight into the lives of
others, then it is easy to see how consuming this particular brand of literature
can help people become more engaged and empathetic towards those around them. Do
we look condescendingly at the idea that a poem in a YouTube video could be
worth our time? Some might, but those who take the time to gain a broader
perspective know that even amateurs who step onstage can bring something
valuable to the table. Not only is performance poetry now widely accessible
thanks to the internet, it is always widely accessible thanks to its own style
and platform. A teenager might think of poetry as “overly dramatic words with
senseless and pretentious spacing and indenting,” until they watch a video of a
poet that makes their eyes water or causes goosebumps to rise on their neck. </div>
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New media has brought
about the expansion and growth of literature in both expected and unexpected
ways. While some people may look at this growth with condescension, it should
actually be valued and praised. The growth of literary pursuits through new
media are beneficial to everyone because they have made literature of every
quality accessible to those utilizing new media, which is a number that will
only grow as the years pass. </div>
Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10881114543882008577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-57931204096818463122013-06-14T02:05:00.001-06:002013-06-14T02:05:16.345-06:00"So what do you plan on doing with that?"I plan on pursuing an artistic career after I graduate. Yes, it's "risky." Yes, there are no guarantees of success. I understand this. I hear it all the time. I get to have the "what's your major?" "English" "And what do you plan on doing with that?" conversation all. the. time. My answer changes depending on the person. Usually they follow that question with "Teaching or writing?" And I take the easy way out by merely saying "both" and offering up nothing else. I'm sorry but when did people decide that there are only two possible outcomes with an English major? But really that's a tangent for another time. <div>
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Next I put in my headphones and I go on Pandora or YouTube for music. This time I listened mostly to the (500) Days of Summer soundtrack and other alternative stuff, mixed with in with some James Bond theme songs to get some inspiration for my paper. I listened to Sweet Disposition by The Temper Traps like a thousand times last night:<br />
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Actually I am listening to it right now as I am writing this blog post. There is something about music that propels us. It has an energy of its own that fuels our creative engine, giving us the momentum necessary to write for hours. Music is also very nostalgic. It brings us back to moments or emotions we had long forgotten. Sometimes we need to go back in time in order to find inspiration for our lives now. This ritual has also been with me since as long as I can remember and although writing without any noise around you is sometimes needed, writing with a soundtrack provides us with the best results creatively.<br />
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When I was a kid I used to sketch a lot in my downtime and I started sketching when I had writer's blocks in high school. When my creative flow would hit a wall I would simply go around it in another way with my sketches. Now that I am learning Mandarin Chinese I have decided to replace my doodling with Chinese characters. Chinese characters are notoriously known for their difficulty and there are nearly impossible to memorize without devoting hours to them. But they kind of remind me of sketching so I deciding instead of making a bunch of mostly useless scribbles I'd devote my time to writing characters. They help think about something productively for 10-15 minutes then I get an idea for my paper. Having little diversions when we get writer's blocks can help tremendously. Its a lot better than just sitting there banging our head against the desk trying find something to write.<br />
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world today has unique definitions of gender roles in society. Recently, there
has been much discussion on topics such as gay marriage, the breakup of the
family system, and the overall definition of what a man is in the 21<sup>st</sup>
century. Many of these issues can be traced back to the social movements and
changes that happened during the 1960’s and onward. Because of the women’s
rights movement many women today have equal opportunities in the workplace and
have surpassed men in graduating college. These changes have brought a lot of
benefits to our society because now the female voice has a say in many of the
decisions that go on at home, at the workplace, and in the world. However, while
women have risen to new prominence in their roles today, men have diminished in
theirs. Men today are more self-centered, less masculine, and have lost their
sense of responsibility. Men of our grandparent’s generation were dependable,
took action, and they defined what it is to be manly. Popular characters of
their generation like James Bond personified this idea of the alpha male and
masculine traits. Actually, Bond was so masculine and direct in his demeanor
that when the Bond novels first came out they were considered edgy by many and
even downright misogynistic by some. Still, today he remains the man that men
want to be, and the man that women want to be with. So although James Bond is a
flawed and sometimes overtly sexist character, he does represent a kind of
masculinity that men in our society desperately need right now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
first James Bond book was printed in 1953 in a time where the entire world
seemed to be searching for and settling into their new identities. The United
States and the Soviet Union became the new world powers after World War II and
countries like Britain had taken a smaller role in the governance of the world.
The James Bond novels were Ian Fleming’s
answer to the decline of British superiority in the world stage and they
hearkened back to the glory days of Britain. He was their ultimate hero, a one-man
army on Her Majesty’s Secret Service who could solve the world’s problems
without the help of Britain’s larger cousin the United States. Long gone were
the times when Allied soldiers were fighting against evil and oppression in the
vast areas of the world. Tales of duty and good vs. evil were now found in the
James Bond novels and their popularity rapidly increased among the general
populace. Bond provided escape and excitement to readers in a time of peace. He
has timeless qualities that can be admired in any generation and culture. They
are the reason why he has remained immensely popular to this day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">As
mentioned earlier the James Bond novels are a form of escape and can be
categorized under the umbrella of “Escape Literature”. According to Harmon and
Holman’s <i>A Handbook to Literature</i> “Escape
Literature” is defined as “Writing whose clear intention is to amuse and
beguile by offering readers a strong world, exciting adventures, or puzzling
mysteries. It aims at no higher purpose than amusement. Adventure stories,
detective stories, tales of fantasy, and many humorous stories are frankly
escape literature, and they exist for no other purpose than to translate
readers for a time from the care ridden actual world to an entrancing world of
the imagination (Harmon and Holman, p.209).” The Bond novels are an escape for
men because while we read them we can be in the exciting world of Bond for a
few hours. We can get the beautiful exotic girl, we can travel round the globe,
and we can save the day. All of the fantasies of the male mind are written into
the novels, and he represents the epitome of those fantasies. His masculine
qualities and instincts are just as relevant today as he was in the 1950’s. We
need him now more than ever as men in our generation further lose sight of the
definition of manliness and sink deeper into states of irresponsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Several
young men today live at home with their parents and they go out into the real
world much later than the past generations. According to a recent survey, 19%
of men today ages 25 to 29 still live with their parents. The percentage has
risen 8% just from the 1980’s (Snider). Though he is a fictional character,
Bond’s life story can be an example of independence and self-worth. Orphaned at
the age of 11 because of his parents’ death in a sudden mountain climbing
accident, Bond had to become self-reliant at a young age in order to support
himself. Later, he served in the Royal Navy as an intelligence officer during
WWII and started his work with the British Secret Service afterwards to fight
Britain’s battles behind the scenes. The talents he perfected during his
military service prepared him well for his later career. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">In
the beginning of the novel <i>Moonraker</i>,<i> </i>James more than qualifies for his
marksmanship scores when he practices on the shooting range. “[His instructor]
was pleased with Bond’s shooting, but he wouldn’t have the thought of telling
him that he was the best shot in the Service. Only M was allowed to know that,
and his Chief of Staff, who would be told to enter the scores of that day’s
shoot on Bond’s confidential record” (Fleming, <i>Moonraker</i> p. 4). Because he honed his shooting skills in the
military Bond was able to continually impress his superiors, and making a good
impression on our bosses is something wanted in every profession. After
shooting practice Bond used some of his analytical attributes and abilities to
examine “Two days [worth] of dockets and files” (Fleming, <i>Moonraker</i> p. 5). James Bond was able to use the training he
received during his service not only for his deep cover intelligence missions,
but for his desk job as well. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Many
young men of Bond’s generation also answered the call to serve in WWII, and
later the Korean War. Afterwards, many of these men were able to assimilate back
into society and contribute to said society with the skills they gained from
their service. This is not to say that every young man these days should enlist
in the military to gain the necessary experience and skills for life and career.
The men of our grandparent’s generation did it because it was what they had to
do. They either volunteered for service or they were drafted. There really weren’t
any other options. Actually, today men have more opportunities because without
an active draft they can choose to spend their early years building and
educating themselves in universities or even vocational schools. Gaining an
education will help more than anything else for getting ahead in today’s
society. But unfortunately men today are slacking in this department. In 2003
there were 1.3 female four-year graduates for every male, contrast this with
1.6 male four year graduates for every female in 1960 (Francis). Men are
clearly not stepping up to the plate these days and if something isn’t changed
about our culture soon they will find themselves ill-equipped in the workplace.
If men today were able to look at getting a college degree with the same sense
of duty and zeal that Bond’s generation looked at their military service then I
believe that this problem could be alleviated. With the skills gained in post
high school education they could not only get ahead in the workplace, but they
could also make a profound difference in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Additionally,
men in recent times have not been shown as much respect in the home as they
were previous decades. This is reflected in media portrayals of the clueless
and ineffective dad on modern sitcoms such as <i>The Simpsons </i>and <i>Arrested
Development</i>. These sad portrayals of men were unheard in the time of the
Bond novels. Men back then were the providers of the family. They established
themselves, married, and then strived to support their family. It was expected
of them to do so because it was their duty. Although not portrayed as a family
man in the novels, James Bond certainly had a similar sense of duty and
responsibility. He could have spent his time in idle pursuits; instead he
devoted his entire life to a higher cause which was the protection and the
safety of the Western world. Sure he pursued his own interests, but they were
always secondary to his greater mission and purpose. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">A
relatively unknown and somewhat surprising fact about Bond is that several
times in his life he had seriously pondered the idea of getting married and having
a family, especially with his lovers Vesper Lynd and Tiffany Case. In <i>On Her Majesty’s Secret Service </i>however,
he actually did succeed in marrying the beautiful and resourceful Countess
Teresa “Tracy” di Vicenzo. He had planned to settle down with her and start a
new life, but unfortunately for Bond she was killed shortly after the wedding
by his arch-nemesis Ernst Stavro Blofield (Fleming, <i>On Her Majesty’s Secret Service</i>). This shows that Bond was not the
heartless womanizer that many people make him out to be. He was a man who
believed in love as most of us do and he was willing to sacrifice his personal
interests to do so. Today we find that many men put their own interests first
by marrying much later in life, or sometimes they decide to live as bachelors
indefinitely. Many men waste their lives away with video games, television, and
seemingly endless internet browsing, all of which only leads to stagnation
career wise and personally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Men
today also have a problem with the way they treat women. Often we hear the
saying that “chivalry is dead”. Many
have claimed that James Bond was just a sexist womanizer in the past, but a
closer look at the novels reveals that he certainly knows how to treat women.
There is a reason why so many women are attracted to him and that most of the
women aren’t fictional. He sincerely complimented all of the women he pursued
and made them feel like they were the most beautiful women in the world. He was
confident and assuring, he courted women without looking desperate or needy.
And often times throughout his adventures he even treated his female
counterparts as important assets to his success. This Bond quote from the short
story <i>Quantum of Solace</i> offers some
insight into Bond’s character: “Quantum of Solace-the amount of comfort. Yes, I
suppose you could say that all love and friendship is based in the end on that”
(Fleming, p.76). That may come as a shock to some who think of Bond as a sexist
and misogynist. Bond understood that in relationships there has to be genuine
care for the comfort of one another, that it isn’t something that is one sided.
There has to be mutual respect and care between the two parties. Men in the
dating world today could learn a lot of lessons from 007.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Just
as the countries of the world were searching for their identities after WWII,
men today are searching for their own identities within the modern world. Much
has changed since the time that James Bond burst onto the scene with his
novels. Social reforms and movements have given us new characterizations for
what men are and how they should act in society. Once the sole providers in the
home, men are now being consistently outmatched by women in college and in the
workplace. Men of today need to step up, but many don’t have the knowledge or
motivation to do so. Thankfully history is often our greatest teacher. Men in
our grandparent’s generation went through the Great Depression and the Second
World War. After that they went to work to provide for themselves and their
families. This generation of men and their great examples of manhood were
epitomized in the James Bond novels. Men
of today can look back to the James Bond novels and learn about what has to be
done to progress now. He was and still is the definitive man: stalwart,
responsible, and unwavering in his display of masculinity. He was developed
partly to rescue Britain’s declining sense of worth and return Her to her glory
days, today he can be used similarly to help us strive to become the best men
that we can be.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Works Cited<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Harmon,
William and C. Hugh Holman. <i>A Handbook to
Literature</i>, p.209.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Fleming, Ian. <i>For
Your Eyes Only</i>, “Quantum of Solace”, p.76.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> New York, New York: The New American Library,1964.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Fleming, Ian. <i>On
Her Majesty’s Secret Service</i>. New York, New York: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
New American Library, 1963.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Fleming, Ian. <i>Moonraker</i>,
p. 4-5. United States: Penguin Books, 2003.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Francis, David R. “Why do women outnumber men in college?”
<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: .5in; text-indent: .5in;">
<i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">National Bureau of Economic
Research</span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">, Website. 6/12/13.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 200%; margin-left: 1.0in; text-indent: .5in;">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">http://www.nber.org/digest/jan07/w12139.html<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;"> Snider, Julie. “Living with Parents”. <i>USATODAY</i>. Survey. 8/1/2012<o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04684442064064497270noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-51148521525218234952013-06-13T04:49:00.001-06:002013-06-13T04:49:13.173-06:00Father's DayTotally random post! Yay!<br />
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Anyway, as you are all aware (or should all be aware) Father's Day is this Sunday.<br />
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Father's Day always brings one important issue to mind: what kind of present do I get for my dad? This is especially difficult if your dad is like mine, and already buys himself the things he wants.<br />
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And this year I finally came up with the most brilliant (and also hilarious) answer: BOOKS!<br />
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Why haven't I thought of this sooner?<br />
(And why is this hilarious, you ask?)<br />
Well, my dad recently admitted he hasn't read a book since high school. In his words, "unless you count the thousands of pages of paperwork I read for work." Sorry Dad, but I don't.<br />
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So then comes the harder part - which book do I give him? After some thinking, and combing back through my "read" list on Goodreads, I decided on <i>The Things They Carried</i>. I think it's a topic that he would enjoy enough that he might actually read it. Plus, since I've already read it, we can discuss afterward.<br />
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I could probably just get my dad a tie and call it a day, but I think giving him a book is a much more personal gift coming from me. Giving someone a book makes it a gift that you can both participate in, and it's a gift that will last through the years (after all, no one ever throws away books).<br />
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What are you guys getting your dads for Father's Day?Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10881114543882008577noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-51839558278048149892013-06-12T17:45:00.003-06:002013-06-12T17:45:29.460-06:00Ficiton Subgenre: The Signette: House on Mango StreetIn my original <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/it-be-cliche-to-say-i-love-reading-but.html">reading plan</a>, I decided to read <u>House on Mango Street</u> by Sandra Cisneros. It is a collection of....well, I'm not sure how you'd classify it (I'll get to that)...but together they all tell a story of a young girl living in Chicago, the people she meets there, her wish to escape, and her promise to come back for those she loves. I couldn't decide how to classify this book - definitely fiction, but what kind of fiction. It's almost poetic in its language at times, but it's not quite a collection of short stories either. I did some digging, and here's what I found:<br />
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<b>1. </b>A decorative design placed at the beginning or end of a book or chapter of a book or along the border of a page.</div>
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<b>a. </b>A short, usually descriptive literary sketch.</div>
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<i>tr.v.</i> <b>vi·gnet·ted</b>, <b>vi·gnet·ting</b>, <b>vi·gnettes</b><br />
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<b>1. </b>To soften the edges of (a picture) in vignette style.</div>
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<b>2. </b>To describe in a brief way.</div>
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[French, from Old French, diminutive of <tt style="font-size: 11pt;">vigne</tt>, <i>vine (from the use of vine tendrils in decorative borders)</i>; see<b>vine</b>.]</div>
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This seems to be the perfect definition to me. It's a collection of <b>vignettes. </b>None alone are long or complete enough to be a short story, but it's a collection of snippets that ultimately tell a tale. Exploring more into this genre. When looking up common examples, this came up: a blog. So while I thought we were all writing informally this term, we've actually been practicing our vignettes. :)</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-1333036131852809022013-06-12T17:40:00.001-06:002013-06-12T17:40:14.566-06:00An after outlineI've heard of a lot of revision techniques in my days as a professional student. I personally employ reading out loud, printing it out and reading it with a red pencil to edit as I go, and passing it along to someone else who hasn't written it and can give me a fresh take.<br />
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What I hadn't heard of (until my teacher mentioned it) is making another outline after you've written the paper to make sure it flows. What a weird concept. But I think I'll try it.<br />
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My paper's structure did change a bit after I wrote and edited it. <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/just-little-outline.html">You can compare it to my first outline here.</a><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Outline:</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduction</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Introduce A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh stories</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Stories for children are generally to teach as they are constantly developing</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Compare to a story written to teach a lesson- The Story of Snow: The science of Winter’s Wonder by Mark Cassino</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Using verse forms like strict rhyme and meter or heavy alliteration and assonance keep nonsense from getting too out of control</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">“It is the heretical mission of nonsense literature to teach the young that the world constructed by their elders is an artificial thing. Nonsense literature usues the spirit of playfulness to rearrange the famililiar world. It thereby reveals that the rules we live by are not inevitable, nor do they exist on a purely objective plane and apart from human intentions.”</span></div>
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Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-39376705119863543902013-06-12T17:37:00.002-06:002013-06-12T17:37:54.287-06:00Children's Fiction: Hans Christian AndersenI try to read one fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen a day. Some of them are better than others ("The Flying Trunk" - good, "Little Shuteye" - not so good). The one I want to analyze for this post is "The Little Mermaid," which is actually nothing at all like the Disney movie. It's darker. She doesn't get her prince in the end, the sisters try to convince her to murder him, and instead of magically losing her voice, the witch cuts off her tongue. It has a gracious ending though, in which she basically gets to be an angel because of her selflessness and isn't cursed to hell like the rest of her kind.<br />
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There is a lot of rich language in the story, and I'm going to analyze it by highlighting the <span style="color: magenta;">imagery</span>, <span style="color: cyan;">anastrophe</span>, and <span style="color: orange;">parallelism</span>.<br />
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The little mermaid <span style="color: magenta;">drew back the purple curtain from the tent door</span> and saw the lovely <span style="color: magenta;">bride asleep with her head on the prince's breast</span>; and, stooping down, she kissed him on his beautiful forehead, <span style="color: orange;">looked</span> <span style="color: magenta;">up at the sky where the dawn was growing brighter and brighter,</span> <span style="color: orange;">looked</span> at the <span style="color: magenta;">sharp knife</span>, and again turned her gaze on the prince, who <span style="color: cyan;">murmured in his dreams the name of his bride</span>. <span style="color: cyan;">She alone was in his thoughts, and the hand which held the knife trembled</span>. But then all at once <span style="color: magenta;">she threw it far into the waves, which shone red where it fell, as though drops of blood were trickling from the water</span>. Once more she looked, with half-glazed eyes, at the prince; then <span style="color: magenta;">she plunged into the sea, feeling her body melt into foam</span> as she did so.</blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-22376953705729084092013-06-12T17:21:00.001-06:002013-06-12T17:21:31.632-06:00Historical Fiction: The Secret Life of BeesIn my original <a href="http://coming2terms-fiction.blogspot.com/2013/05/it-be-cliche-to-say-i-love-reading-but.html">learning plan</a>, I talked about wanting to read <u>The Secret Life of Bees</u> by Sue Monk Kidd. As a preface to this review, I would advise anyone who's thinking about reading it not to see the movie first. Not because the movie isn't worth seeing (it is), but it is one of the rare movies that follows the book to a tee. Having seen the movie first, there really were no surprises or unexpected plot twists I found while reading, or even moments where I found myself thinking "hmmm that's so different from the movie."<br />
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One of the things I was impressed about with this book was the way that it tackles issues of the <b>theme</b> of racism head-on. No beating around the bush. There are moments when she uses language that makes us cringe in our modern day. There are moments when the characters are so ignorant it makes you facepalm. But there are almost moments of surprise for Lily as she tests the boundaries of what she has been raised in.<br />
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It was foolish to think some things were beyond happening, even being attracted to Negroes. I'd honestly thought such a thing couldn't happen, the way <span style="color: blue;">water</span> could not run uphill or <span style="color: #666666;">salt</span> could not taste sweet. A law of nature. Maybe it was a simple matter of being attracted to what I couldn't have. Or maybe desire kicked in when it pleased without noticing the rules we lived and died by.</blockquote>
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The author does a great job of remembering the character's <b>voice</b>. Lily wants to be a writer, and there are moments when she writes like it, such as when she speaks in <b>metaphors</b> about how "salt could not taste sweet" in terms of attraction. She's conscious of the character's development and acknowledgment of the rules of society. <br />
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There is a great scene in Chapter 8 when August asks Lily a question she has never been asked before - what do you love? It's a question she is thrilled to answer, but it also reveals a lot about her character in the things she doesn't say but narrates in her <b>first person</b> dialogue.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">Right off the bat I wanted to say I loved the picture of my mother, how she was leaning against the car with her hair looking just like mine, plus her gloves and her picture of the black Mary with unpronounceable name, but I had to swallow that back. </span>"Well, I love Rosaleen, and I love writing stories and poems - just give me something to write and I will love it...This may be silly, but after school I love Coca-Cola with salted peanuts poured in the bottle. And when I'm finished with it, I love turning up the bottle to see where it came from...And I love the color blue- the real bright blue like the hat Mary had on at the Daughters of Mary meeting. And since coming here, I've learned to love bees and honey." <span style="color: red;">I wanted to add, <i>And you, I love you</i>, but I felt too awkward.</span></blockquote>
Her hidden feelings are discoveries are in red and are her thoughts, but the author uses more direct language to convey these. More straight forward. The things that are superficial, like loving Coca-Cola, she describes with<b> imagery.</b><br />
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Overall, I'd recommend this book. It's easy to read, but the complexity of the themes and issues can be hard to swallow if you're not prepared. It has heavy content, especially in terms of self-guilt, but it's also this part that is applicable to our own lives.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-53991699006359569402013-06-12T16:57:00.000-06:002013-06-12T16:57:04.812-06:00Final rough draft of Winnie the Pooh paperOk folks, I edited my Winnie the Pooh paper so it's the right length, not redundant and it actually makes sense. I ended up cutting entire paragraphs, combining other paragraphs, and editing down others. So much to your excitement (I'm sure) it's 6 pages and not 10.<br />
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/16JS-gV4b5ob690TQC-Fsd5ry3hsNmhqO0h8A0gEhegs/edit?usp=sharing">Here is the link to read the whole paper.</a> Feel free to read it if you want. Or read parts of it. I always love feedback.<br />
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If you care to give me some feedback, please look specifically at how well I made my argument, my grammar and tone, and how well the paper flows together.<br />
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Let me know what you think with some comment love!!Jocelynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13885049805769065964noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-54100927581515767132013-06-11T10:34:00.003-06:002013-06-11T10:35:02.139-06:00Google vs. HBLLOkay so, upon hearing that we had to choose a formal literary reference work I became a little concerned because I didn't really know how to use the library website. However, I decided to do a little experiment. I decided that I would try to find a very good reference on the library website and another one through goggle and see how easy it would be in both of them.<br />
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I went on to the next search result to find a sketchy "Free Dictionary" entry:<br />
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And ended up finding a great, trustworthy entry on Romantic Literature!<br />
Lesson learned!<br />
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16797362178658910564noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-57441827970749234002013-06-11T04:59:00.000-06:002013-06-11T04:59:08.941-06:00I swear the finished product is going to be WAY better than this...My working draft! Keep in mind that it's a <i style="font-weight: bold;">working</i> draft, and I've still got a lot of work planned to put into it! But here it is for now. I would be super happy for any feedback.<br />
Also, I don't have a conclusion yet. Conclusions kill me every time I write an essay. So I'm holding off on that at the moment, to spare your eyes from the awfulness that it would be.<br />
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Thesis Draft</div>
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Since
the internet’s inception, it has been providing new platforms with which to
share everything in one’s life. The way people interact with their friends,
family, and mere acquaintances has been affected by the world wide web, so it
is not surprising that the way in which people create and share content is
changing as well. From vloggers to poets to actors, the internet has provided a
forum for creative growth and expansion. Naturally, a huge part of this is
literary in nature. Viewing three differing aspects of creative work, new media
has allowed for growth in the way creators present content, and in the way
society views and consumes said content, and this growth is inherently
beneficial in keeping literature an active part of people’s lives. This new
media allows for the creation of new genres and subgenres, new formats, and new
levels of experience. </div>
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One
way new media has expanded is in the rise of the amateur on new media platforms
that allow creators to publish their own work. This has allowed for vast
quantities of “fan fiction,” in which writers create stories involving the
movies, television shows, and novels they consume. New media has also allowed
for an eruption of bloggers, poets, and novelists who have new ways to present
their work to a relatively large audience without the struggle of getting it in
print. Does this mean that a vast amount of the work one encounters on the
internet will be of novice quality? Undoubtedly. But does that mean it is
inherently negative? No. If one views literature as a means of becoming engaged
in the lives of others, experiencing greater empathy for those around them, and
growing into a generally better citizen of the world, then any exposure to even
awful, unrefined, amateur literature proves beneficial for the consumer of it. One
example of this can be seen in Tyler Knott Gregson, a poet made famous by the
popular blogging site Tumblr, on which he publishes daily haikus on love and
typewriter poems. While Gregson is an amateur in the dictionary definition of
the word (writing isn’t his day job) his work certainly merits the literary
respect that many published poets receive. Better still, this amateur has what
many published writers still seek – a large and engaged audience. Gregson’s
followers “reblog” his work and his daily poetry posts often easily reach
thousands of “likes” and “reblogs.” </div>
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New
media likewise allows older content to be recreated in new ways, as seen in The
Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a modern day adaptation of <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>, by Jane Austen, in which the story is presented
in vlog format on YouTube. The production provided audiences with a new way to
connect with a classic story, and taught the same moral lessons as the original
novel along with a few new lessons of its own. The audience consisted of people
who had never read <i>Pride and Prejudice</i>
and those who had read it too many times to count. The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
was the first of its kind, creating an entirely new subgenre that has yet to be
named. Not only is it a modern adaptation, it is also a fictional story
conveyed on a medium that was not created with fiction in mind. </div>
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New
media has also allowed for subgenres to be created, and for genres to expand
and be elevated to new levels of experience. This is most seen in the expansion
of performance poetry, which the growth of has been enabled by online video
sites like YouTube. Performance poetry heightens the level of immersion of the
listener by drawing them into the poem and allowing them to view the full
emotion of the poet performing their work. The act of watching a poet can feel
much more participatory than simply reading their words on a page, which allows
an entrance for people who might otherwise feel put off by poetry. Performance
poetry has also allowed for even more growth within itself, including poems
performed by more than one person. The expansion of traditional poetic genres
built by new media is beneficial in its access level for consumers. For many,
genres like performance poetry bring literature to those who would otherwise
not be willing consumers of it. The ability to simply share a link with our
friends makes spreading work that a person loves extremely easy, giving people
more ways to connect with each other. And if one considers the way poetry,
especially performance poetry, allows people to gain insight into the lives of
others, then it is easy to see how consuming this particular brand of
literature can help people become more engaged and empathetic towards those
around them. </div>
Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10881114543882008577noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-88088149413184816972013-06-10T21:23:00.000-06:002013-06-10T22:24:29.658-06:00Amateurs, Eh?Since my thesis involves the rise of the amateur artist thanks to new media platforms, I've spent a lot of time thinking about the amateur writers littering social media sites like Tumblr. One in particular that holds my attention is <a href="http://tylerknott.com/" target="_blank">Tyler Knott Gregson</a>. He's an "amateur" poet known for his typewriter poems and daily haikus on the site. But is being an amateur really a bad thing? For him, all signs point to "no." Writing isn't Gregson's day job, (he makes his living as a wedding photographer) but his words still reach a wide audience, making an impact in their lives in the same way that poets in print impact others.<br />
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This brings to light our personal definition of the label of "amateur." Technically, an amateur is anyone that pursues an activity on an unpaid basis. So why do we view being an amateur, and being an amateur who utilizes new media to get their work seen, as somehow less than the "professional" writer who gets a paycheck? For one, we see the professional automatically as a better writer than the amateur. But that isn't a particularly effective way of viewing the situation. Someone with that perspective can end up consuming a lot of Stephenie Meyer quality work, which we all know is not superior simply because a publishing company decided to print and bind it.<br />
We also know that most writers don't choose the career for the paycheck, as for most it isn't very considerable in size. Why do most writers write? Because they can't bear to do anything else, because it helps them maintain their sanity, etc. So why do we as consumers of the work care if someone got paid for the writing or if they put it out to the world for free? We assume that something we have to pay for will be of a higher quality than something we can obtain for free.<br />
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Luckily the abundance of new media society interacts with on a daily basis allows us to break through that assumption as we discover that the free content made available on the internet is just as varied and worthy as the volumes of work we would come across in a bookstore. Just as you can find Shakespeare and Stephenie Meyer in the same Barnes and Noble, you can find quality work and... less than quality work on the same internet.Zhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10881114543882008577noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7323066747768812180.post-37459821389854720982013-06-10T19:49:00.001-06:002013-06-10T22:31:21.813-06:00James Bond is needed now more than everSo this is my early rough draft for my English paper I hope you enjoy and I welcome any feedback. Of course it is incomplete in its current state so bear that in mind.<br />
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we live in a world that has unique definitions of gender roles in society.
Recently there has been much discussion on topics such as gay marriage, the breakup
of the family system, and the overall definition of what a man is in the 21<sup>st</sup>
century. Many of these issues can be traced back to the social movements and
changes that happened during the 1960’s and onward. Because of the women’s
rights movement many women today have equal opportunities in the workplace and
have surpassed men in graduating college. These changes have brought a lot of
benefits to our society because now the female voice has a say in many of the
decisions that go on at home, at the workplace, and in the world. While women
have risen to new prominence in their roles today, men have diminished in theirs.
Men today are more self-centered, less masculine, and have lost their sense of
responsibility. Men of our grandparent’s generation were dependable, took
action, and they defined what it is to be masculine. Popular characters of
their generation like James Bond personified this idea of the alpha male and
masculine traits. He is the man that men want to be, and the man that women
want to be with. While James Bond is a flawed and overtly sexist character, he
does represent a kind of masculinity that men in our society desperately need
right now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">The
first James Bond book was printed in 1953 in a time where the entire world
seemed to be searching for and settling into their new identities. The United
States and the Soviet Union became the new world powers after World War II and
countries like Britain had taken a smaller role in the governance of the world.
The James Bond novels were Ian Fleming’s
answer to the decline of British superiority and they hearkened back to the
glory days of Britain. He was their ultimate hero, a man on Her Majesty’s
Secret Service who could solve the world’s problems without the help of Britain’s
larger cousin the United States. In fact Bond was often the solution to
problems that the U.S. or Soviet Union couldn’t solve on their own and because
of this he was extremely popular in Britain and he soon gained popularity
across the globe. Bond provided escape and excitement to readers in a time of
peace. Long gone were the times when Allied soldiers were fighting against evil
and oppression in all areas of the world. Tales of duty and the fight against
infamy were now found in the James Bond novels. James was a one-man army who
saved the day because of his intellect and physical prowess. He was a man’s man
and of course he always got the girl. Bond wasn’t popular just because he was
every British man’s hero, but because he was every man’s hero. He has timeless
qualities that can be admired in any generation and they are why he has remained
popular to this day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">As
mentioned in the above paragraph the James Bond novels are a form of escapism
and can be categorized under Escape Literature. According to Harmon and Holman’s
<i>A Handbook to Literature</i> Escape
Literature is defined as “Writing whose clear intention is to amuse and beguile
by offering readers a strong world, exciting adventures, or puzzling mysteries.
It aims at no higher purpose than amusement. Adventure stories, detective
stories, tales of fantasy, and many humorous stories are frankly escape
literature, and they exist for no other purpose than to translate readers for a
time from the care ridden actual world to an entrancing world of the
imagination (Harmon and Holman).” The Bond novels are an escape for men because
while we read them we can be in the exciting world of Bond for a few hours. We
can get the beautiful exotic girl, we can travel round the globe, and we can
save the day. All of the fantasies of the male mind are written into the novels
and he represents the epitome of those fantasies. He is just as relevant in the
world today as he was in the 1950’s and we need him now more than ever as men
in our generation further lose sight of the definition of manliness and sink
deeper into states of irresponsibility.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Men
today live often live with their parents longer, wander about aimlessly and
without through college, and they have lost their sense of what is to be a man.
This is reflected in media portrayals of the dumb dad on sitcoms like <i>Married With Children </i>and <i>Family Guy</i>. Our society has even created
a term in the last generation called metrosexual which describes a man who isn’t
homosexual, but adopts the clothing and style of a gay man. What?! Why are
straight men in our society looking to gay fashion trends to define them? As
gender roles in society have changed we have changed. Kids in recent
generations and today have grown up with new definitions of man and woman and
that is obviously reflected. According to a 2010 survey, 19% of men today ages
25 to 29 still live with their parents! The percentage had risen 8% just from
the 1980’s. This was unheard in the time of the Bond novels. Men back then were
the providers of the family. They established themselves, married, and strived
to support their family. It was expected of them to do so. Although not a
family man James Bond certainly had this sense of duty and responsibility about
him. He could have spent his time in idle pursuits; instead he devoted his entire
life to a higher cause which was the protection and safety of the Western
world. Sure he pursued his own interests, but they were always secondary to his
greater mission. Today we find the opposite as men waste their lives away in
video games, the internet, and failing to launch from their parents’ nests.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Men
today also have a problem with the way they treat women. Often we hear the
sayings that “chivalry is dead”. Now James
Bond has been called a sexist womanizer in the past, but he certainly knew how
treat women. There is a reason why so many women are attracted to him and most
of them aren’t fictional. Throughout the novels he compliments women with
phrases like “your one of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen” in From
Russia With Love and the countless accolades he pours on Moneypenny and his
personal secretary Loelia Ponsonby. All compliments were appreciated. He was
confident and assuring, he pursued his women without looking desperate or needy.
And often times throughout his adventures he even treated his female
counterparts as important assets to his success. This Bond quote from the short
story <i>Quantum of Solace</i> offers some
insight into Bond’s character: “I think it's the same with all the
relationships between a man and a woman. They can survive anything so long as
some kind of basic humanity exists between the two people. When all kindness
has gone, when one person obviously and sincerely doesn't care if the other is
alive or dead, then it's just no good.” That may come as a shock to some who
think of Bond as sexist, misogynist dinosaur.Men in the dating world today
could learn a lot of lessons from 007.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Harmon,
William and C. Hugh Holman. <i>A Handbook to
Literature</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%;">Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2009.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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