visual arguments

1. first this article is too long
2. second read the first

from my understanding towards the beginning the inference is made that for the past 30 years or so, the use of images has been more present in the situations of making an argument, or getting across one's point. Often a picture can express ones feelings more than a slew of words, hence the phrase, a picture is worth a thousand words, one thousand words...you get my point.
the article shows arguments explaining the reasons for which one would go about replacing text with scenery. When going about making an argument in a visual or text way, the visual object, being the picture, must convey the text it is trying to enforce or interoperate. without this, all arguments would be considered invalid if taking the side of whether or not a picture can get a point across just as text would.

When going about using visual objects or examples, the article gives some pointers or examples about the different color schemes and their mood tones which are represented by the reader, blue for coolness, red for warmth, black for dark. the question is raised, is it possible to understand arguments in a picture, or between 2 people? the question is answered with the examples of ones facial expressions or hand gestures. The question is also made if adds in magazines with text are more assertive or powerful over plain visual non text adds?
some may speculate that an ad with text is more inviting or persuasive than one without but would one with text sort of defeat the purpose of a visual only argument?

the closing arguments are that visual depictions are not as strong as textual, why this had to be proven over 18 pages?, i don't know? my argument in text to the length of this piece is step number one listed earlier. as for a visual i don't have a paper shredder on me, but if i did theres a chance it would be a picture of this article going through it.

Meddy's link

this is a great correlation between the arguments of nicholas carr and gopnick in the beginning of the semester. when studying both their pieces there were heavily accusations by carr saying how we are relying too much on the internet, and the devices that have them. gopnick himself made an inference to a harry potter character using an iPad as well in his article. here we see a child "brainwashed" in carrs terms, by the reliance of a technology used every day in society. in my argument i can only say that learning to read from a screen rather a book has no difference, as long as you obtain the important information presented in front of you, whats the difference? yes the infant has relied on the iPad using the same gestures in the magazine as if it would resound the same way, but as time when he/she grows older, they will realize the difference between ink on paper verses text on screen! but thats just my .02

project video

project video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQbvzm5aR-c

Paper 2 thoughts

I've been thinking about my own draft for project 2 and I have to tell you that, this was a very hard project shakespear is no easy work to decipher. Comparing a sonnet to the play having to put the words of the sonnet into a mouth of one of the characters was very hard.
1. My purpose was to show the contradictions of Benedict not jus that but how the sonnet I chose was related to his love speech about beatrice.
2. I feel that my writing was only seclusion for our lass because I did not give relative information about the entire play, I only gave enough information so that my class mates would know what I am talking about
3. 3 rhetorical moves
I. Sonnet 1 how Benedick can relate his love speech
II. When benedick needs fuel for his love sonnet one describes love as a flame needing fuel
III. Benedick NASA hunger for love from a child as the sonnet says love is a hunger that can cause famine

4. I was a bit repetitious with the concept of love and benedicks speech about Beatrice

5. I think I Should try to relate more of the situation in the play to Benedict's speech because of almost the vague or repetitious behavior I had when writing this paper drafting

Act 3 questions

1. Why would claudio John don and Pedro fool Benedict with the love story about Beatrice liking him?
2. Did claudio John don and Pedro know Benedict and Beatrice would fall in love after tricking them both?
3. Why would Benedict change his mind so suddenly to liking Beatrice when right when the play starts off he is shot down by her rude remarks?
4. Why did Beatrice change her mind on love about Benedict once she was tricked as well by her sisters?
5. Knowing Beatrice loves him now, according to leonato John don and claudio, why did she change her mind for Benedict?
6. Why would claudio and leonato just believe what they thought they saw his wife to be mistressing around with another man? Why not confront her in the act?

Poor claudio

Claudio fell in love with the strike of cupids arrow, supposedly. When he heard his friends taking about Beatrice how she adored, and loved him, he was filled with a level headed arrogance, a love stricken notion set into mind. Once he heard all the remarks over his shoulder by his friends how she thrived for him, he began to fall in love. Once his friends sent her to call him for dinner he fell in love.

Leonato and his daughter

Leonato at his daughters wedding finds out through her husband to be that him and his fellow brothers have caught her in the act of cheating the night prior to her wedding. As they are about to marry, claudio disowns Leonardo's daughter, and puts her on the spot, along with his brothers as to why she had taken part in such a debauchery the night before they were to marry. Claudio storms out with his brothers and friends leading Leonato to disown his daughter. As he slaps her and. Disowns her she is in shock to the total situation not knowing what any one is talking about. The action taken is completely normal to be friends with the man who is supposed to marry your daughter and then find out that she supposedly slept with another man the night prior. To react like this is a but harsh but this is totally justifiable to have complete trust in someone and then find out they have taken it away by committing such a haines act of adultery.

Sonnet 8

Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to another,
Strikes each in each by mutual ordering;
Resembling sire and child and happy mother,
Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing:
Whose speechless song being many, seeming one,
Sings this to thee: 'Thou single wilt prove none.'

The sonnet describes ones self interest in music and life. I think it has to do with someone being upset. If you hear such joyful music why are you still upset? You act as if you are annoyed by the music and your ears are so offended. Each string resembles the beauty of family yet being single proves nothing which this person will wind up because they are obviously so cold

Shakespear sonnets

Beatrice " I would rather hear a dog bark at a crow than a man swear he love me"
One minute response to this.
I think Beatrice may have been effected by men in her past in a negative way leading up to her rude and bitter comment. She sounds awfully cold as if she does not want to do anything with men, especially their love which she denies

First video on YouTube today

Tis poem is impossible t follow both by the so called poets rhetorical tone and the flashing words on the screen make it unreadable as well.

From what I got the poet was trying to convey that we no onger are abe to express ourselves online on paper or in voice because of the changes we are going through

Everything that begins with sl

Slut
Slant
Slick
Slope
Sloth
Slit
Slam
Slimy
Slim
Sleep
Sleek
Sloppy
Slough
Slot
Slurp
Slander
Slouch

Collins and sonnet

Both shakespeare and Collins are mocking their mistress, or their lover. Both give an entire list of reasons and examples of what their wife or lover is like. Although not perfect in the end they both come to the conclusion that their wife's are for Collins, the bread and knife and somehow wine, and shakespeare, no one can compare. Over time lovers can pick out the differences and downfalls of one another but they still have their incomparable virtues that make them who they are.
Both use comparisons to show how they feel about them. Coral is more red than her lips are, she is more like the fish under the bridge. Both negative but end somewhat positively..good can come out of bad in this case

Bill Collins

The poet uses humor to reach his audience. Almost every poem I've read in my lifetime had to always be a serious tone. His diction mimics the poem but in stead of using a serious tone, he makes it. Understandable and funny. All he has to do is take two lines interprate the rest and come up with his own. His tone and language makes fun of the poem, he uses a bland tone which makes it funnier because he is mocking the original poems tone

Dickens's poem

Her poem sounds somewhat sadistic in tone when read aloud. She sounds assertive in getting her point across about how to tell the truth, but not so much the full truth as she implies.
When I said it sounds sadistic it gives well with the poem and the meaning not only because of the way she wants to get her point across, but the meaning of telling the truth with a small lie must be told in the way the poem is written. When you want to make a point you have to be assertive and somewhat cold as her poem sounds, as when you tell a lie you must make it cold and not easily visible

3rd blog fir fre writing

I think the main point that the rapper is trying to get appoint is not to hold things in, but only to let them out when given the chance. Do nit speak when you are not asked to. Speak when spoken to. He says speak what you mean which means do not bullshit your way out of a situation, tell it like it is and not sugar coated at all

Free writing

10 things observed
1. End lines with questions
2. Uses rhetoric to make audience laugh
3. Uses different tones to make people laugh at what he's saying
4. Looks like he has a form of add
5. Carried same tone throughout the stand up
6. Wasn't really a poem
7. Personally found difficult to follow

The machine is using usnb

The Machine is Using Us
Michaels main point of the film was to show us the uses of the internet and how anything we do can be altered or used by anyone however they do please.
The machine is Using Us id not a literal meaning. At least I think so. I feel the exact opposite. We as humans created the Machine, so in essence, we are the ones using it, not vise versa. We in fact are the ones using other peoples ideas as shown on the video, taking them and adding our own information changing the way they are represented. The video shows how easy it is to do so, especially sites like Wikipedia. With this, there are no ways of telling if the information we are seeing is correct due to the vast amount of users who are able to add their own information about a topic, on that site. People have found the way to, with just the click of a button, distort the views of one, to persuade the views of another. So as I said earlier, It is Us who are using the Machine.

Thursday's blog

1.  The readers in the text are both those of new and old age.  The ideal of the topic is to grasp a broad range of listeners from 2 different age groups.  Those who grew up without these technological advancements, and those who have, preferably the younger generation.  Acceptance and tolerance of the new technologies is the main topic of the essay

2.  As a reader, and as a group, we were able to pull apart each paragraph relating our experiences, and thoughts on the topic presented, and written about.  Not only that but we were able to disect each sentence or word choice we found inadequate, and fill in our own

3.  I am a reader who wants to get things done, same applies to my way of writing.  I try to locate key and valuable terms to execute the fastest way of finishing my assignments.  An example would be to look at any questions about the reading first and try to locate with a pen the precise ideals relating to the questions or topic.

4.  Yes I believe as a reader and writer of the same topic I belong in the Text.  The reason is as someone participating in the assignment, I have to see which mistakes, if any, are made to not only correct the essay, but mine as well.  I also believe as someone growing up in this technological revolution, if you would, I have the say as to my opinion on the topic.  I wouldn't want just one side of someones view because they're used to just old plain and simple, I want my peers, as well others, to realize and really empathize the key factors which make me and others my age believe in this revolution

Is Google Making us Stupid?

There were some similarities in the article about Google, and the links between ones deterioration of their mental skills, and the article, The Internet Gets Inside Us.

While comparing both articles, both make similar assumptions about the way the general population reacts to the usage of the website Google.  Both exemplify how most people succumb  to the ads or pop ups placed by google.  Often most people wander off to other websites, straying from the original topic they've entered in the search engine.  Gopnik makes the correlation that students today, when faced with a task in hand, turn to the internet for guidance.  He uses the example of Hermioney and the iPad when having to research something in class as an assignment.  Although Gopnik does not see the internet as a threat, yet rather " a gift"  Carr thinks differently.  He accuses search engines such as google as a deterioration of the brain, to one day seize and take control of the human mind by becoming so advanced it takes over as he used an example from the movie 2001 a Space odyssey.  Although Gopnik does not share the exact ideals on the situation, he gave the example of how people are leaving their daily rituals such as dinner to full their needs with the internet. Although Gopnik and Carr shared somewhat similar accusations, Gopnik seemed rather lenient on the situation, rather paranoid, a bit too paranoid, on the situation.

Google take over

1. Is the author showing more signs of ADD rather the effects of a website trying to take over ourlives

2. Could it be as time goes on and the Internet advances, we become lazier and less motivated

3. If people sought type writers and television as the threat back when they came about, yet adapted, is it possible we will do the same with the Internet

4. Could it be websites like google present more ads and links for the benefit of the user, only trying to give them the greatest majority of information, rather than dumb them down and distract them

5. Are ads and links placed by google to distract the readers attention

6. Is the author a little too paranoid, or do we just not see the threat as we were raised in the technological revolution where as they were raised by different standards

Materialities of Writing

1.  When given the task to write with crayons, I at first thought It was going to be a simple grade school assignment due to the relation I had made between crayons and my child hood.  When going about finishing the assignment, I realized what more effort had to be put into writing the short response.  Normally jotting down a few sentences would take merely minutes with a pen or pencil, but with crayon, you have to select which words you want to use taking up the least room on the paper provided in order to get your entire point across with the room provided.  After a while my hand started to cramp up leaving me focusing more on that issue then what else to write next, forcing me to take much longer than anticipated to finish the task.

2.  For most of the pages both me, and the people in my group commented on, we all basically jumped to the same accusations.  All picking number two, we all stated the best way to describe that paper was to be well written and executed.  The individual who wrote it was able to convey and interoperate all messages within Dickenson's poem, but accomplish getting their entire point down on the little space provided on the paper.

3.  I feel as if a culture composed entirely of crayons and only that, would be a physically and mentally strain for it's individuals.  I feel as if most people would not have the time to write with such large words using a less profound diction to convey their messages, or what ever it is they're writing.  Things would be very difficult as well both on they eyes and on the hands, both to read and write due to the soft texture of the crayon leading it to wear out and break so often.

4.  Based on using crayon's for the assignment the other night, I would much rather look into a form of free writing.  As I prefer pen over pencil, and crayon, I find myself to write down what comes to mind, rather writing out any ideas first and building around that.   Writing in free form allows me to use my writing potential to it's fullest without any stops or pauses in-between because when I usually sit down to accomplish something, I tend to not get up, or become distracted until that task is finished

Inventing Nelson L

While observing the Pantene add, the first thing that comes to mind are the shattered pieces of ones life, represented in the shattered violin of the deaf girl.  Throughout the ad, you are exposed to a brief overview of 2 girls personal lives.  One deaf with no friends, the other a mean girl taking her anger and frustration out on the deaf child, most likely due to the way she is treated at home.  I've observed the parents strict tolerance, for the child when making mistakes on the piano.  In jelousy she would take it out on the deaf girl, who's life is shown to be a constant struggle.

Each scene for the deaf girl is like a shattered memory, in the end while gaining the courage to get up on stage, her violin, broken by a group of violent peers, was put back together using only tape.  This shows how she is able to overcome every bad scene in life, or symbolically, every shard of broken wood from her violin.  Unleashing a fury in the end, whether  she was playing, or what was inferred an act of her overcoming all obstacles in life,  the audience applauded, showing her overcoming her rival, the girl who only tortured her emotionally for all of her life.