So I'm posting on this blog as part of schoolwork. This is pretty interesting.
I spent the last 15 minutes trying to remember my password, so that wasn't a good start. It's Wednesday night which means I had English early today and am pretty tired after classes, sports, and a new martial arts/dance program which I just joined on a whim. I just had some late dinner, so what better time to write this than after a very unhealthy meal.
Speaking of eating, I didn't get to "digest"(hehehhehe) the articles we read in class today (Barthes) as well as I would've liked. I think I did a somewhat decent job of finding his thesis for the first article, but that's about it. It was pretty odd to read something relating to taking the author out of the textual picture completely, in an English class, but it's a new way to look at things so that's always good. Besides those articles, I think I've settled on Finding Forrester for my author/movie project. I remember it was a deep movie from when I saw it a while back, so it'll be nice to expand on it. Sean Connery also has a cool accent.
That's about it, I'm going to spend the next half hour trying to find the homework in Learn@UW because I'm bad with computers, so more English for me.
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I forgot about Finding Forrester. Nice choice...
And hopefully you won't have any trouble finding Friday's reading on Learn@UW. Let me know, though, if you have any problems.
You're not alone in your struggle against your Blog; I too must have spent about fifteen minutes trying to get back onto my site. Anyways we both did, which is good.
I also found the material unapproachable on the first reading. As Scot mentioned it was probably written that way intentionally, and with an audience other than an 8:50 group of undergrads in mind. I think discussing the work in groups was most helpful. Personally, just articulating what I was thinking helped a lot as I attempted to grasp the bigger picture. I know I'm looking forward to continuing our talks tomorrow, although I won't mind when we get back to slightly less theoretical articles.
well if either of you guys need help, i consider myself pretty electronic and especially computer savvy. getting back to Barthes, i believe he makes his writings difficult to read for the purpose of supporting his arguments. what better to relay a message to readers than to have the piece be the prime example. but it's good that the pieces got us all thinking.
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