The Ethics of Climate Change

John Broome talks about how what we do today will have an affect on the future generations. The deteriorating ozone layer and natural disasters are just two of the many events that are happening as we walk this earth because of our selfishness and wastefulness. In order to help save our planet, people have to be aware of what's going on and the harmful things that are damaging it. In order to help save our planet people need to budget their money and not be wasteful of resources just because they are there for us now. Soon enough, we WILL run out of these resources and there will be no turning back around. We have to look into the future and see asks ourselves what we can do to help the future generations.

The money market is a big topic. People spend thousands of dollars on things that they don't even need. Instead of using their money to help save our planet, people are out buying fancy cars, million dollar homes, and new technology to replace their old technology that they just bought last week. In order to make a difference and to really change the pace of our planet's deterioration, we need to be aware of how we spend our money and how it is affecting our environment.

George Carlin Stand Up

George Carlin's stand up connects to Phelan's article because they both talk about the environment and evolution. Both Carlin and Phelan believe that things really arent going to make a huge difference in the world. Phelan describes how there really hasn't been evolution in humans except in a few odd cases. I feel that Phelan has more of a positive view of the earth and the people who live on it, while Carlin has a more negative view of the earth. I mean granted he is doing a stand up in front of an audience so there has to be some fun and negativity in his act, but overall his view is pessimistic towards environmentalists. Carlin states that whatever we do is not really going to be good enough to save the world. The world has been around for such a long time that it is impossible to make a difference just by recycling a few cans and plastic bottles. Carlin makes a joke saying how can we take care of our world when we can't even take care of ourselves.

Just Add Water

One symbol in the film that serves best as the "small object" was Ray. I think that Ray is the small object in this film because although he was the main character in the movie, he is only viewed as a small person in a big world or even in the town of Trona if you want to narrow it down further. Ray, although only one person, had the drive and the determination to make a change in his town. And with the help of others, he was able to achieve that goal after a thought out plan to bring down Dirk and his posse. Even though Ray was just one person with not a lot of power in the beginning of the film, he was able to completely change everything around as time continued. Not only did he make a drastic, positive difference in his life, but he changed the lives of others as well. It just goes to show you that no matter how small something is, does not limit the power it has to change the world.

Blogging

For me, blogging is a writing experience that I feel is very fun and easy to do. Being able to post works online for anyone to see is so amazing because of the freedom. Having the freedom to write a blog and go off on a tangent is such a great feeling and does not involve any stress at all. I enjoy writing blogs so much better than writing on paper because I can type a lot faster than write when I am thinking. When I type up a blog I am less likely to lose my train of thought. I write way too slow to be successful at getting everything that is going on in my brain onto the paper.

As much as I enjoy writing blogs, I also enjoy reading them as well. I think it is awesome that we are able to see the work of our classmates and acknowledge their hard work by commenting on their individual posts. We all share our ideas to one another and which is beneficial to everyone.

The Writing Center

I felt like the writing center can be very useful to students on campus if they are lucky and sign up with a good helper. My writing center experience was horrible. The whole day I was stressing about going to the right building and being there on time and I stressed myself out for nothing. The tutor was late and he was NOT enthusiastic at all. To be honest, I thought being in the writing center for him was the last thing on his list of things to do. I was there for about 15 minutes and did not accomplish anything. I don't even think he understood the paper that I had to write even though I tried to explain it to him, and I had the instructions printed out for the appointment. Alright, maybe I'm exaggerating a little bit, but I wish that my experience at the writing center was a little bit better. Maybe I would actually consider going there again for help if I had a better first experience.

Faustion Economics

Wendell Berry talks about the dangers of having no limit to things in the world. He argues that we, people who live on this earth, are damaging our planet because we are taking advantage of our resources on the earth. He describes how greedy people are and careless of their environment. When it comes to resources, the green monster (greed) comes out and people forget about the values and morals of life.

In order for Wendell Berry to get his point across to his readers, he uses plays and events that are happening in the world to support his claims about people and them being greedy, selfish and careless.

Need to Know Questions

1. What are the meanings of everyone's name?
2. How is the empty food market supposed to feed the people who live in the town?
3. What is the meaning of the movie taking place in a rundown, dry, hot neighborhood?
4. Ray seems unhappy with his home-life. Why does he remain married to his wife?
5. What was the filmmaker's purpose to use a voice over to narrate the movie?
6. Does Ray want to be more than just friends with Norah?

Just Add Water

Easy mac, just add water. How lazy can people possibly get? So many changes in life that try to help us out and make things easier actually hurt us in the end. Our race has become so accustomed to everything being premade for us that we don't even work for, cook or boil water to make a meal anymore. We just toss things in the microwave and call it dinner.

Greed

Greed, there is nothing like it. Going up to the stove to shovel food onto the platter you hold in your hand and filling the plate with food as if you haven't eaten in days is not thinking about others. You know there is no way you will be able to consume all of that food, but you don't care because you can just throw it away when you are sick of eating. Greedy is not caring about others and forcing yourself to get up from the table because you are so full to fill your plate with a second round of the meal before you have even cleared your plate a little bit.

A Writer

A writer is someone who goes above and beyond everyone else. A writer is someone who expresses his or her own ideas in the most original way. To me, everyone is a writer. We all have original opinions and ideas that we are able to share with others. We all have our own unique story to tell. Sharing these stories with others can change open the minds of others. Writing is a form of collaborative learning because we learn off of each other.

Poems by R. Jones and R. Hass

Both poems address nature in the making. These authors show us that language is very important when writing and can create imagery. Rodney Jone’s Hubris at Zunzal, says “No image like the image of language.” Language helps us tell stories and ideas. Both authors use language to show us their individual views. For Robert Hass, the problem of describing trees struggles to best describe a tree. To Hass the try has many characteristics and it is difficult to find the words on, what the tree did. He tells us the tree's actual physical structure, mentioning its "wobbly stems" and the trees cells. However, Hass humanizes the tree by saying that is a "dancer". When he says the tree is a slippery vehicle, this can be interpreted multiple ways. For example, the problem of describing trees is purposely vague, its meaning is mostly likely subjective.

“Derrida: Fear of Writing”

In Derrida’s fear of writing, Derrida says “I’m not afraid when I’m writing but I’m afraid when I dream about what I wrote.” I think that as soon as you start writing, even if it is under your real name, you start to function as somebody slightly different, as a “writer”. You establish from yourself to yourself continuities and a level of logic which is not quite the same as your real life. All this ends up constituting a kind of neo-identity which is not identical to whom you really are, this is what motivates his fear. I think he was scared about people thinking badly about who Derrida really is. For me the fear in writing comes when I have the idea, I know just exactly what I want to say and the angle at which I want to present it, at this point it’s a thing not any words, an object of thought, but the fear comes when I have to choose the words to portray the mental substance and it doesn’t announce itself right away perfectly, that’s when I feel the fear about writing.

Collaborative Learning

Collaborative learning is a situation in which two or more people learn together and is a great new technique to help students learn and understand the material. The article by Kenneth A. Brufee states that students did not want to receive help with work when it was offered. I think that the best way for students to get the help they need in order to succeed in school is to make it mandatory. The article says, "These programs failed because undergraduates refused to use them. Many solutions to this problem were suggested and tried, from mandated programs that forced students to accept help they evidently did not want. . ." I think that if students are required to get help for school, it will force them into the right direction and will make them think more because they will be working with someone else.


I think collaborative learning will be a great style of learning that will help students learn the most that they can. Working with other people is a great way to learn because peers bring new ideas to the table that maybe someone else in a group would have never thought of. Collaborative learning helps diversify ideas because everyone involved in the group is exchanging his or her own opinions. Sometimes students prefer to work with peers rather than working with teachers or professors because they have that comfort level of someone who is in the same situation as they are. Also, peer tutoring helps students because they bounce ideas back and forth off of one another. The article says, "To provide that alternative some colleges turned to peer tutoring."

Having conversations with others and discussing the thoughts that students have enables us to broaden our horizon and understand things that we otherwise would not know. Conversation allows students to debate and share ideas, which in the end helps students learn. Trying to think when one is alone does not enable that person to experience and generate ideas as much as he or she would if they were involved in conversation. The article says, To the extent that thought is internalized conversation,then, any effort to understand and how we think requires us to understand the nature of conversation;and any effort to understand conversation requires us to understand the nature of community life that generates and maintains conversation."

Sport Royal

Maria: Sport royal, I warrant you. (II, iii, 170)

Maria is saying this when she is plotting against Malvolio to try to trick him into thinking that Olivia wrote a letter to him. When Maria says sport royal, it can be translated into lets play. Maria is saying game on. Maria, Toby, and Andrew all want to watch Malvolio's reaction to this letter so they can get some entertainment out of the scheme.

Sport Inkshed

I think that sport plays an important theme in Shakespear's play because it talks about sport being related to the game of love as well as a physical activity. The sport of winning the love of someone that you have your eye on. Viola is trying to win the love of Orsino even though she is posing as a man. Olivia is trying to win the love of Cesario who is Viola, and Orsino is trying to win the love of Olivia.

New Media Project

I really enjoyed the new media projects. It was nice to see the ways how other students in our class interpreted the themes that Shakepeare uses throughout the play. Also, just looking at the collage of pictures that our classmates enabled us to use our imagination to connect how the pictures were related to Twelfth Night. I was able to piece together a little story in my own head while I was watching the projects.

Shakespeare's Concodance

Question: Where is the data you retrieved found? What is happening in context when Shakespeare employs this particular theme or image?

For our group, we looked up music and related themes in Shakespeare's concordance. Music is mentioned throughout the play, but our first hit was found in I.i. Duke Orsino was talking about music and how he relates it to his love for Olivia. He states that he wants excess of music because it makes him feel good inside.


Question: How does the data you retrieved support your first thoughts on Shakespeare's obsessive use of a particular image? What can you argue about Shakespeare's figuration?

The data that we retrieved supports our first thoughts on Shakespeare's obsessive use of a particular image because he relates most of his phrases about music back to love. We can argue that Shakespeare views music as an expression of feelings of caring and love of another. Music relaxes and brings people together.

Conclusions About Shakespeare Concordance

I think that a concordance is very useful. It is easy to use and allows you to search any word that may be used in the text. I think that using a concordance will be helpful to me when I wirte my paper because I will be able to look up and find words easily that are used throughout the entire play. As of now I am researching music and any other words that are related to music like, song, lyrics, emotions and so on. The results after you type a word in are so specific including the act, the scene, and the line or lines that the word is used.

Shakespeare Concordance

I thought that using the Shakespeare Concordance was interesting and helpful because the search engine finds exactly what you are trying to find right away. I like that you are able to type in any words related to what you are searching for and all different findings come up. For example, I typed in music and and several hits. Then I typed in song and found even more hits. I think that the Shakespeare concordance will be very helpful for me when I starting writing my paper.

Quote 3

Viola: "I am the man" (II.ii.25).

Viola is confessing that she is the man that Olivia wants, because she fell in love with the disguise that she has been wearing. Viola says that if Olivia loves her, than she might as well be dreaming because Viola is not really a man. Viola states that both her love for Orsino is hopeless because she is pretending to be a man, and Olivia's love for her is hopeless also because she is pretending to be a man.