My favorite author is Edgar Allan Poe, but to brighten the mood of poetry and this class, I have chosen a poem by W.B. Yeats, a free-spirited Irish man.
A Crazed Girl, by William Butler Yeats
That crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,
Her soul in division from itself
Climbing, falling She knew not where,
Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship,
Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare
A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing
Heroically lost, heroically found.
No matter what disaster occurred
She stood in desperate music wound,
Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph
Where the bales and the baskets lay
No common intelligible sound
But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea.'
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Essay Skeletons
For each of the books that there was a mini-presentation on, I am going to structure an essay for each based on an essay prompt given by the group. Here goes nothing.
Themes known from presentation:
1. The difference between dreams and reality
2. The power and beauty of mucis in the world
3. Interactions between family members.
Characters in Kafka:
Kafka and Nakata (One and the same?)
What I know about character relationships:
1.Kafka has a bad family life, with a longing to see his mother and sister whom also ran away
2. There is a similar sex life as in Oedipus Rex.
3. Kafka's plotline meets up with Nakata's plotline.
General Statement to summarize essay:
Through Kafka's broken family affairs, the author exhibits the sense of longing and confusion which encompass him as a character.
Paragraphs:
1. Based on how he comes from a broken family life. Shows how broken his life is at the beginning of the book. He plotline is completely seperated from Nakata's, and he begins his journey to find himself
2. Plotlines converge. Nakata's character and Kafka's seem to become one as they come together. Through the murder of Johnny Walker, you are able to see both Kafka's mental and physical struggles in the book.
3. Confusion. He confusion in his sexual relationship with his family.
Essay Prompt:
Is bullying a good enough reason to kill? Use examples from the novel "Carrie" to support your position.
Themes:
1. Need of acceptance in society
2. Revenge on those who deserve it.
3. The play of religion and its restrictions
Bullying in Carrie:
1. Other girls are mean to her
2. Her parents tell her everything she does is wrong and sinful
3. A group of girls pour pigs blood on her at a dance.
4. This causes Carrie to unleash pyschic powers, killing 440 people in the town in a rampage called the assassination.
Ideas:
1. Hard topic to relate to since it encompasses the death penalty argument. Stick to things in the novel.
2. Schadenfreude
3. They drove her to the breaking point. So she broke them.
4. They lead their own fate.
General Statement for essay:
The book Carrie exhibits a situation in which characters in the book seal their own fates through horrible deeds that go unpaid for expect through their untimely deaths.
Paragraphs:
1. Bullying. The effects it has on Carrie, and how is slowly drives her to the breaking point
2. The assassination. How Carrie went crazy on the member on the town, and the way she wasn't completely in control as it happened
3. How it was deserved. The members in the town made her life hell, and she sent them there.
Essay Prompt: Religion plays a big role in Life of Pi. Discuss the part of religion in the novel and how it affected Piscine's journey.
Themes in Life of Pi:
1. Self Discovery
2. Religious Acceptance
3. Territorial/Animalistic Behavior
Religion in Life of Pi:
1. Piscine grows up Hindi, and lives his life in that manner, until he meets a priest and accepts Christianity, then meets an Imam and adds Islam to his list.
2. It is a story of self discovery, and he takes the best parts of all three religions, and refutes none of them.
3. He takes religion in a very pure manner, just wanting to worship god.
General Statement for the Essay:
Religion plays a role in Piscine's story by showing how he discovers himself through the ideas and experiences he meets and accepts throughout his life.
Paragraphs:
1. How Pi sees all three religions. How he accepts each one as it comes.
2. How Pi shows the three religious leaders how poorly they are acting towards each other. How his purity opens their eyes.
3. How through his journey on the boat, he truly finds himself, and how his background in spirituality plays a vital part in this discovery.
1. Kafka on the Shore:
Essay Prompt: Explain how the author develops a character through the use of relationships and encounters with othersThemes known from presentation:
1. The difference between dreams and reality
2. The power and beauty of mucis in the world
3. Interactions between family members.
Characters in Kafka:
Kafka and Nakata (One and the same?)
What I know about character relationships:
1.Kafka has a bad family life, with a longing to see his mother and sister whom also ran away
2. There is a similar sex life as in Oedipus Rex.
3. Kafka's plotline meets up with Nakata's plotline.
General Statement to summarize essay:
Through Kafka's broken family affairs, the author exhibits the sense of longing and confusion which encompass him as a character.
Paragraphs:
1. Based on how he comes from a broken family life. Shows how broken his life is at the beginning of the book. He plotline is completely seperated from Nakata's, and he begins his journey to find himself
2. Plotlines converge. Nakata's character and Kafka's seem to become one as they come together. Through the murder of Johnny Walker, you are able to see both Kafka's mental and physical struggles in the book.
3. Confusion. He confusion in his sexual relationship with his family.
2. Carrie
Essay Prompt:
Is bullying a good enough reason to kill? Use examples from the novel "Carrie" to support your position.
Themes:
1. Need of acceptance in society
2. Revenge on those who deserve it.
3. The play of religion and its restrictions
Bullying in Carrie:
1. Other girls are mean to her
2. Her parents tell her everything she does is wrong and sinful
3. A group of girls pour pigs blood on her at a dance.
4. This causes Carrie to unleash pyschic powers, killing 440 people in the town in a rampage called the assassination.
Ideas:
1. Hard topic to relate to since it encompasses the death penalty argument. Stick to things in the novel.
2. Schadenfreude
3. They drove her to the breaking point. So she broke them.
4. They lead their own fate.
General Statement for essay:
The book Carrie exhibits a situation in which characters in the book seal their own fates through horrible deeds that go unpaid for expect through their untimely deaths.
Paragraphs:
1. Bullying. The effects it has on Carrie, and how is slowly drives her to the breaking point
2. The assassination. How Carrie went crazy on the member on the town, and the way she wasn't completely in control as it happened
3. How it was deserved. The members in the town made her life hell, and she sent them there.
3. Life of Pi
Themes in Life of Pi:
1. Self Discovery
2. Religious Acceptance
3. Territorial/Animalistic Behavior
Religion in Life of Pi:
1. Piscine grows up Hindi, and lives his life in that manner, until he meets a priest and accepts Christianity, then meets an Imam and adds Islam to his list.
2. It is a story of self discovery, and he takes the best parts of all three religions, and refutes none of them.
3. He takes religion in a very pure manner, just wanting to worship god.
General Statement for the Essay:
Religion plays a role in Piscine's story by showing how he discovers himself through the ideas and experiences he meets and accepts throughout his life.
Paragraphs:
1. How Pi sees all three religions. How he accepts each one as it comes.
2. How Pi shows the three religious leaders how poorly they are acting towards each other. How his purity opens their eyes.
3. How through his journey on the boat, he truly finds himself, and how his background in spirituality plays a vital part in this discovery.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Literature Analysis: The Signal and the Noise
Prelude: This is my second economics book, in a series of very different books which I am reading relating to my eventual major in the field. This being said, I am still analyzing the book based on literary elements, as well as how the author decided to puts thoughts into words. So here it goes.
Summary: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver is a book based on predictions in today's world. How to make them, why you should be cautious, what can be seen, what can't, etc. The main message of the book, is that in an information intensive day and age, we have to sift through endless amounts of information to determine what is truly important (signal), and what can be forgotten (noise). Prediction plays a key role in economics, and failed predictions can lead to events such as the market crash in 2008, after the housing bubble exploded. And here is where the book begins.
"Big Data"
The book has logos strewn into its pages into the fullest extent, using series of numbers and graphs to help prove its point. These numbers are brought about in one of two ways. Either through an anecdote, or by raw data.
Anecdote: " It was October 23, 2008. The stock market was in free fall, having plummeted almost 30 percent over the previous five weeks. Once esteemed companies like Lehman Brothers had gone bankrupt. Credit markets had all but ceased to function. Houses in Las Vegas had lost 40 percent of their value."
Raw Numerical Data: "IBM estimates that we are generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day, more than 90 percent of which was created in the last two years."
In order to keep the book both interesting and relevant, the author wrote about pop culture incidents to keep the reader's attention, as well as data that affects many of us on a daily basis.
Allusion: "At the time Michael Lewis was busy writing Moneyball, the soon-to-be national bestseller that chronicled the rise of the Oakland Athletics and their statistically savvy general manager Billy Beane."
The book also uses personification in one part to make the ideas more easily understood by general audiences
"The fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Hedgehogs are type A personalities who believe in Big Ideas-...Foxes, on the other hand, are scrappy creatures who believe in a plethora of little ideas and in taking a multitude of approaches toward a problem."
Pun: "How to know if your forecasts are all wet."
Now much of the book is about numbers. Recessions, earthquake forecasts, loan forecasts, how the stock market reacts to different phenomena. However, there were parts of the book which significantly peaked my younger minds interest in the subject. Starting with this quote:
"Voulgaris had watched a lot of Lakers games: he liked what Jackson was doing with the club. So he place $80,000- his entire life savings less a little he's left over for food and tuition- on the Lakers to win the NBA championship."
This being a success story in a sea of failed gambling yes, but the author included it to show what happens when predictions succeed. From that point on he used both keen knowledge of the sport, along with a computer program specifically designed by himself, to gamble on almost every professional sports game, earning 1-3 million dollars a year on the craft. Now from this side story, he introduces a very important equation to the prediction style that the author supports. Bayes's theorem. Like Hayek's book, the author mixes in relatively unimportant interesting topics, in his the heart of the subject to both keep the reader interested, and get the message across in one fell swoop. Which is what seems to be the pattern between the two economics books that I've read so far. More to come.
Summary: The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver is a book based on predictions in today's world. How to make them, why you should be cautious, what can be seen, what can't, etc. The main message of the book, is that in an information intensive day and age, we have to sift through endless amounts of information to determine what is truly important (signal), and what can be forgotten (noise). Prediction plays a key role in economics, and failed predictions can lead to events such as the market crash in 2008, after the housing bubble exploded. And here is where the book begins.
"Big Data"
The book has logos strewn into its pages into the fullest extent, using series of numbers and graphs to help prove its point. These numbers are brought about in one of two ways. Either through an anecdote, or by raw data.
Anecdote: " It was October 23, 2008. The stock market was in free fall, having plummeted almost 30 percent over the previous five weeks. Once esteemed companies like Lehman Brothers had gone bankrupt. Credit markets had all but ceased to function. Houses in Las Vegas had lost 40 percent of their value."
Raw Numerical Data: "IBM estimates that we are generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data each day, more than 90 percent of which was created in the last two years."
In order to keep the book both interesting and relevant, the author wrote about pop culture incidents to keep the reader's attention, as well as data that affects many of us on a daily basis.
Allusion: "At the time Michael Lewis was busy writing Moneyball, the soon-to-be national bestseller that chronicled the rise of the Oakland Athletics and their statistically savvy general manager Billy Beane."
The book also uses personification in one part to make the ideas more easily understood by general audiences
"The fox knows many little things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. Hedgehogs are type A personalities who believe in Big Ideas-...Foxes, on the other hand, are scrappy creatures who believe in a plethora of little ideas and in taking a multitude of approaches toward a problem."
Pun: "How to know if your forecasts are all wet."
Now much of the book is about numbers. Recessions, earthquake forecasts, loan forecasts, how the stock market reacts to different phenomena. However, there were parts of the book which significantly peaked my younger minds interest in the subject. Starting with this quote:
"Voulgaris had watched a lot of Lakers games: he liked what Jackson was doing with the club. So he place $80,000- his entire life savings less a little he's left over for food and tuition- on the Lakers to win the NBA championship."
This being a success story in a sea of failed gambling yes, but the author included it to show what happens when predictions succeed. From that point on he used both keen knowledge of the sport, along with a computer program specifically designed by himself, to gamble on almost every professional sports game, earning 1-3 million dollars a year on the craft. Now from this side story, he introduces a very important equation to the prediction style that the author supports. Bayes's theorem. Like Hayek's book, the author mixes in relatively unimportant interesting topics, in his the heart of the subject to both keep the reader interested, and get the message across in one fell swoop. Which is what seems to be the pattern between the two economics books that I've read so far. More to come.
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Slaughterhouse-Five 20 Literary Elements
20 Literary Elements in the book, Slaughterhouse-Five:
1. Motif: The repeated phrase which signifies the theme of the story is "So it goes." "Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is 'So it goes."
2. Metonymy: The third bullet was for the filthy flamingo, who stopped dead center in the road when the lethal bee buzzed past his ear.
3. Allusion: "Weary looked like Tweedledum or Tweedledee, all bundled up for battle. He was short and thick."
4. Illustrations: Vonnuget actually provided three or four small illustrations to add to the writing. (Page 79)
5. Dark Humor: "Billy coughed when the door was opened, and when he coughed he shit thin gruel. This was in accordance with the Third Law of Motion according to Sir Isaac Newton...This can be useful in rocketry."
6. Aphorism: "There is no why."
7. Juxtaposition of attitudes: When Billy was stuck on a boxcar to be sent off to a German camp, he had a hobo is his car who stated, "I been hungrier than this. I been in worse places than this. This ain't so bad."
8. Symbolism: "But, lying on the black ice there, Billy stared into the patina of the corporal's boots, saw Adam and Eve in the golden depths. They were naked. They were so innocent, so vulnerable, so eager to behave decently. Billy Pilgrim loved them"
9. Irony: "The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs.She had been borrowed that morning form a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess."
10. Perspective: "The soldiers' eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh."
11. Repetition: "The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal."
12. Direct Characterization: "He had been unpopular because he was stupid and fat and mean, and smelled like bacon no matter how much he washed."
13. Indirect Characterization: "They supposed that he was a splendid specimen. This had a pleasant effect on Billy, who began to enjoy his body for the first time."
14. Figurative Language: "The hobo could not flow, could not plop. He wasn't liquid anymore. He was stone."
15. Antagonist: Paul Lazzaro. Vows revenge on Billy Pilgram.
16. Dialect: ""Yank," told them "Good show," promised them that "Jerry was on the run," and so on."
17. Allusion #2: "He was given a book to read. The book was The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane. Derby had read it before."
18. Onomatopoeia: "Poo-tee-weet?"
19. Hyperbole: "An unseen hand turned a master valve. Out of the showerheads gushed scalding rain. The rain was a blowtorch that did not warm. It jazzed and jangled Billy's skin without thawing the ice in the marrow of his long bones."
20. Protagonist: Billy Pilgram. Travels through time and space realizing this will go how they will.
1. Motif: The repeated phrase which signifies the theme of the story is "So it goes." "Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is 'So it goes."
2. Metonymy: The third bullet was for the filthy flamingo, who stopped dead center in the road when the lethal bee buzzed past his ear.
3. Allusion: "Weary looked like Tweedledum or Tweedledee, all bundled up for battle. He was short and thick."
4. Illustrations: Vonnuget actually provided three or four small illustrations to add to the writing. (Page 79)
5. Dark Humor: "Billy coughed when the door was opened, and when he coughed he shit thin gruel. This was in accordance with the Third Law of Motion according to Sir Isaac Newton...This can be useful in rocketry."
6. Aphorism: "There is no why."
7. Juxtaposition of attitudes: When Billy was stuck on a boxcar to be sent off to a German camp, he had a hobo is his car who stated, "I been hungrier than this. I been in worse places than this. This ain't so bad."
8. Symbolism: "But, lying on the black ice there, Billy stared into the patina of the corporal's boots, saw Adam and Eve in the golden depths. They were naked. They were so innocent, so vulnerable, so eager to behave decently. Billy Pilgrim loved them"
9. Irony: "The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs.She had been borrowed that morning form a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess."
10. Perspective: "The soldiers' eyes were filled with a bleary civilian curiosity as to why one American would try to murder another one so far from home, and why the victim should laugh."
11. Repetition: "The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal."
12. Direct Characterization: "He had been unpopular because he was stupid and fat and mean, and smelled like bacon no matter how much he washed."
13. Indirect Characterization: "They supposed that he was a splendid specimen. This had a pleasant effect on Billy, who began to enjoy his body for the first time."
14. Figurative Language: "The hobo could not flow, could not plop. He wasn't liquid anymore. He was stone."
15. Antagonist: Paul Lazzaro. Vows revenge on Billy Pilgram.
16. Dialect: ""Yank," told them "Good show," promised them that "Jerry was on the run," and so on."
17. Allusion #2: "He was given a book to read. The book was The Red Badge of Courage, by Stephen Crane. Derby had read it before."
18. Onomatopoeia: "Poo-tee-weet?"
19. Hyperbole: "An unseen hand turned a master valve. Out of the showerheads gushed scalding rain. The rain was a blowtorch that did not warm. It jazzed and jangled Billy's skin without thawing the ice in the marrow of his long bones."
20. Protagonist: Billy Pilgram. Travels through time and space realizing this will go how they will.
SO IT GOES
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Brave New World Pre-write/first draft
Writers often highlight the values of a culture or a society by using
characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender,
race, class, or creed. Choose a play or novel (BRAVE NEW WORLD)
in which such a character plays a significant role, and show how that
character’s alienation reveals the surrounding society’s assumptions and
moral values.
Pre-write:
Character alienated: Bernard Max
Why alienated:
-He thinks for himself more than the other characters
1. Society's tendency to follow orders, and do what is told of them for "the greater good." Following tradition blindly
-Alienation due to Bernard's reluctance to such ideas
- Soma, orgy-porgy, elderly being sent off
- Motifs
2. Happiness. Things that make Bernard happy don't seem to affect others around him. Others seek artificial happiness.
-Use of soma
-Conditioning
-Setting and description
3. Repression. Bernard accepts reality outside as it is. He allows himself to be sad, even angry. Others don't care to feel such emotions, and simply but these emotions off.
-Reservation
- Lack of use of pathos by any character besides John.
First Draft:
Society is an idea born out of the ideas of the people that encompass it. Those who feel attuned to this ideology share commonalities of value with those around them. Those who have contradicting ideals are able to highlight what the society values through the juxtaposition of there own ideas. In the book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, these contradictions of society can be seen through the character Bernard Marx. Huxley uses Bernard to show a society that has lost its humanity as well as its individuality. As a character, Bernard is seen to struggle through his own sense of being in a society which acts as a single being. Bernard's alienation in the society, seen through the literary techniques of motifs, setting, and a general lack of pathos by others in society, exhibit themes of lack of individual thought, artificial happiness, and repression of feelings within this world.
The society thinks as one omnipresent being. Individuals are all taught to enjoy the make things, and to not make any decisions of there own intellectual thought. The use of soma, hypnopaedia, orgy-porgies, and the caste system are all examples of this. These individual things are used as motifs for the author, which with its own individual significance. Bernard is seen as reluctant to these things throughout the book, and the several of these are introduced through Bernard. The society seems to think that it is all working for the greater good, and Bernard is challenging these ideas though reflection.
Everyone in the society is conditioned to one thing. To be happy. Happiness is the only care for the individuals in the society. Soma helps keep this up artificially, as does everyone being conditioned to love their individual caste. Bernard is able to see beauty and happiness is ways that others can not. Others are conditioned to hate nature, while Bernard wonders why he still has love for it. The author puts Bernard's happiness in the book through subtle undertones of reaction to the setting around. Bernard's enjoyment of natural beauty shows his potential for true happiness, and the lack of such feeling in the general public.
The society as a whole is quite devoid of genuine human emotion in general. They repress their sadness, their anger, their anxieties. Another outcast revealed at the end of the book shows this repression. When John is exiled, and flogs himself, the others don't feel pity or horror. Instead they culminate their efforts through an orgy-porgy to get rid of such poor emotions. Bernard also does not take soma on the savage reservation, and instead allows himself to be exposed to such things as old age. A majority of the characters defend their society through the use of faulty logos, and the use of emotion is minimilized to get rid of any discomfort.
Brave New World shows a society that is almost inhumane. Not fully enjoying the human experience through the denial of anything negative shows such feelings. The author is able to put forth this message through characters that don't quite fit this mold of inhumanity, such as Bernard and John. The author's use of motifs, setting, and logos, all contribute to his general themes throughout the book.
characters who are alienated from that culture or society because of gender,
race, class, or creed. Choose a play or novel (BRAVE NEW WORLD)
in which such a character plays a significant role, and show how that
character’s alienation reveals the surrounding society’s assumptions and
moral values.
Pre-write:
Character alienated: Bernard Max
Why alienated:
-He thinks for himself more than the other characters
- He questions certain traditions that the society has, seen in such things such as reluctance in Ford Day, and not taking soma while at the Savage reservation
- While Lenina is distraught at the sight of the elderly, Bernard takes it in calmly
- Bernard values little things in life, such as nature, which the others among his society have been conditioned to disregard. Seen through him staring into the ocean and viewing the clouds as beautiful.
- He feels emotions different than any of the other characters, and accepts these emotions as his own. When sad, he doesn't take large gulps of soma to repress these feelings of sadness, he deals with them more on a personal level.
1. Society's tendency to follow orders, and do what is told of them for "the greater good." Following tradition blindly
-Alienation due to Bernard's reluctance to such ideas
- Soma, orgy-porgy, elderly being sent off
- Motifs
2. Happiness. Things that make Bernard happy don't seem to affect others around him. Others seek artificial happiness.
-Use of soma
-Conditioning
-Setting and description
3. Repression. Bernard accepts reality outside as it is. He allows himself to be sad, even angry. Others don't care to feel such emotions, and simply but these emotions off.
-Reservation
- Lack of use of pathos by any character besides John.
First Draft:
Society is an idea born out of the ideas of the people that encompass it. Those who feel attuned to this ideology share commonalities of value with those around them. Those who have contradicting ideals are able to highlight what the society values through the juxtaposition of there own ideas. In the book Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley, these contradictions of society can be seen through the character Bernard Marx. Huxley uses Bernard to show a society that has lost its humanity as well as its individuality. As a character, Bernard is seen to struggle through his own sense of being in a society which acts as a single being. Bernard's alienation in the society, seen through the literary techniques of motifs, setting, and a general lack of pathos by others in society, exhibit themes of lack of individual thought, artificial happiness, and repression of feelings within this world.
The society thinks as one omnipresent being. Individuals are all taught to enjoy the make things, and to not make any decisions of there own intellectual thought. The use of soma, hypnopaedia, orgy-porgies, and the caste system are all examples of this. These individual things are used as motifs for the author, which with its own individual significance. Bernard is seen as reluctant to these things throughout the book, and the several of these are introduced through Bernard. The society seems to think that it is all working for the greater good, and Bernard is challenging these ideas though reflection.
Everyone in the society is conditioned to one thing. To be happy. Happiness is the only care for the individuals in the society. Soma helps keep this up artificially, as does everyone being conditioned to love their individual caste. Bernard is able to see beauty and happiness is ways that others can not. Others are conditioned to hate nature, while Bernard wonders why he still has love for it. The author puts Bernard's happiness in the book through subtle undertones of reaction to the setting around. Bernard's enjoyment of natural beauty shows his potential for true happiness, and the lack of such feeling in the general public.
The society as a whole is quite devoid of genuine human emotion in general. They repress their sadness, their anger, their anxieties. Another outcast revealed at the end of the book shows this repression. When John is exiled, and flogs himself, the others don't feel pity or horror. Instead they culminate their efforts through an orgy-porgy to get rid of such poor emotions. Bernard also does not take soma on the savage reservation, and instead allows himself to be exposed to such things as old age. A majority of the characters defend their society through the use of faulty logos, and the use of emotion is minimilized to get rid of any discomfort.
Brave New World shows a society that is almost inhumane. Not fully enjoying the human experience through the denial of anything negative shows such feelings. The author is able to put forth this message through characters that don't quite fit this mold of inhumanity, such as Bernard and John. The author's use of motifs, setting, and logos, all contribute to his general themes throughout the book.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
March Literature Analysis
The current book that I am reading is called the signal and the noise. It is yet another book related to economics, and its general theme is that through all of the information we get now, we have to figure out what is important (signal) and what is not (noise). It is based off of today's technology, and what is available to us, as well as predictions as we know them.
Monday, February 18, 2013
I AM HERE
Explain my process this semester.
My most progressive part of this semester has been the process to my smart goal of reading and analyzing economics books. Being in the last semester of high school, it is nice to transfer work to be very relevant to what is coming up for me in education. I have enjoyed analyzing the literature parts of the books, which try to focus on facts, but have to keep the book interesting for those reading it. My first analysis is out, and I am hard at work on the second one, and on track to finish that goal. Other than that I have kept fairly up to date on the rest of my work for the course, but need to start my collaborative working group up once more.
My most progressive part of this semester has been the process to my smart goal of reading and analyzing economics books. Being in the last semester of high school, it is nice to transfer work to be very relevant to what is coming up for me in education. I have enjoyed analyzing the literature parts of the books, which try to focus on facts, but have to keep the book interesting for those reading it. My first analysis is out, and I am hard at work on the second one, and on track to finish that goal. Other than that I have kept fairly up to date on the rest of my work for the course, but need to start my collaborative working group up once more.
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