Amusing, I ponder silently, while I satirically questioned the puerility; is their spellings OK? Sound and body language was hardy indeed but a few anxious cold male mouthing comments erupted involuntarily in whispers as narrow assessments on this pedagogy’s space and time. I remember one ice breaker; I thought to try, dumbly, was to mention that after the tea and the big jelly bagel, I would increase grotesquely from the surroundings and probably model the loss of a great Adonis.
(To be continued)
Today is October 8, 2009; I should have finished this story of delight, when I began it, but I now wish to put pen to paper that I saw her again today sitting in the cafe. This time, I happened to weirdly take a seat behind her while she furiously studied and worked. I wanted to talk to her but I was a little disturbed (part of the identity of age) for that reason or the other. I observed “truth is what works” and her personality certainly attracted notice of that fact. She was a dream entity. She was connected; the kind that wishes for things she likes best; makes common symbolic gestures of spirit; and seemed most sexually defined as to drive one crazy.
To conclude, I experienced that even in small psychological properties of imprinted beautiful short romantic interludes lays embedded the production reasons of why we live. She sparked, I courted and lo and behold the day allowed us to simultaneously score deep emotional fulfillments. Of course, talks to take measures further were unopposed in different proportions and the airs of distinction blended with the obvious heat that baked delicious social bread. Differences, I realize emerged from procuring mediums of understood cannons, authorities and critical contents that end as mental fluid constructs that synthesize into personal balance. I happily developed these joyful factors at least on this occasion, where a design converged upon meanings with such delivery of understanding that two strangers became friends. The ability, I comfortably engaged was a good level articulation (for the most part) and I shared correctly in border spaces, when one clearly moves with another, outside the boundaries of their own mundane character, toward new excitement of friendship. JJF
Meeting A Friend
Technology
I started to wonder with all these dynamic progressive innovations that lead to the revolutionary use of computer technology over the passed three-decades if students today read literature off the computer like I had read off those favorite outside magazine rack sources. Most local folks I know have dramatically moved forward to face passionate lifestyles and connect to some part of this global society. I think the rise of computers and the rise of networking in the market place today has transformed a good part of those old bayer aspirin candy store cultures. I know that I string along moving toward being a native computer user and record a significant share of measured observations. These are recognitions from the modernizations new intelligences expose from old media and musical sounds. I now rejoice about new meanings discovered from a technology perspective. We faced a no brainier situation, we are forced to construct and learn with the computer. These perceptions are said to have caused cyber phobia, where technological advances seem to encroach on reality, and those migrant non-user thoughts compare electronics to that of the invented Frankenstein. I think these skeptics are caught in a time vortex of machinery anxiety and not in a selfish monster, probably, because those were probably non subscribers to sports illustrate or road and track back when it counted. Now with this emergence of old medium toward new understandings from prior knowledge we find a realignment (what was to what is) that redefines and remakes customs to replace those familiar corner store memories. To think and to communicate computer influences allows us to learn from a virtual cornucopia of new interests. Reading, writing, listening thinking and sensing become their own entity and mental functions that individually speak out and say I should revisit, revised and engaged in responses to what I have comprehended and participated in the technology that has brought us out of the ice age. What does it mean to be literate? What kind of literacy makes life all right? The future is ours to see and this may be well grounded in how we learn to prune that ever-expanding technological tree.
Contemporary Criticism
“A man does not live by bread alone….but by every word from the mouth of God” is a good motto for the Gavan Hurley story. He allegorically articulates being happy to have found writing because he has escape ignorance and symbolizes this state of the art standard to the tale of the Socrates Plato Republic prisoners escaping their blindness of cave life. In his blog, “Parting of a Fog” he narrates a philosophical ideology of readability and curiosity which proves a good groom of literacy for the post modern man. His reflections are a male gender orientated discipline and could be contrasted to his connected protegé Melissa Brinkman strong women voice. In Melissa poetic blog “Blistering Hot and Humid” female body language and voices dominate an interesting comparison. Both Gavan in his male identity practice and Melissa’s female counter part rhetorically engage in a mental pedagogy skills during the same writing grace period of time. Melissa’s poetry is an adult toy and offers giant steps to relate feminine reality while Gavan stoically mimics a writing reproduction of verbal expressions and techniques in line with popular music and lyrical composition. These personalities saw truth and authorship staring back at them in the mirror. In a duet of discovery of gender relationships they affect a coming of age and right of passage experience. Gavan masculinity reflects a trendy male voice that produces exemplary verbal insights, for example, he wrote, “I delight in writing and reading convoluted, stark language, and therefore will not see myself abandoning it anytime soon in the future.” Melissa is a poetic Woolf.
Gavan is to Melissa as Melissa is to critical reading, thinking, and writing. They both move purposeful themes causing psychological imprints on audiences. Melissa, for instance, takes advantages through a comic reinvented articulation that interrogate the senses in a light-hearted and submissive girl type poetry communication. She balances and invites deeper levels of emotional meaning. Gavan style argues with the use of a strong enlightened and talented philosophic rhetoric. This comparative outlook collaborates a form of contemporary criticism. These two writers connect selectively with an obvious lightness of spirit and a hidden dark side of workmanship that revolve like hotel doors or like Zen ying yang symbols moving a distribution of signs pointing to a great read. The appropriate criticism here may be that her allusion in poetry masks the idyllic illusion of his sound prose. This music man philosopher accepts new excitements stirred from the depth of a poet and the poet finds a huge attraction viable to a man’s writing style.
Illness Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
By JJF
There are gypsy fortune-teller times, when life is played like cards of chance; and, how unfortunate when we are dealt that card of death in some form of illness or the other. Correct me if I am wrong but most people whose energies become depleted through sickness want to recruit all possible solutions to become well again. In so doing people usually solicit a higher authority (doctors) to put up a good fight for them. Susan Sontag attempts in her book, Illness Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors to provide patterns and nuances, changes and tendencies that should occur in societies’ good fight. Her informative writing, from a social contract point of view is the criteria for a revolutionary perspective and we get to realize from her research the many wrongs in the usage of metaphorical labeling of serious diseases. She exaggerates through a social philosophy that there is nothing worse than a sugar-coated fantasy explanation of a serious illness. In her reliable discovery she found in some pertinent yesteryear medical history longevity fantastical fallacies connected to mystifying the patient away from the ethics or the value theory of understanding a disease both on the individual and the community level. She provides readers wit persuasive proof of the doctors’ nonsense told to patience about the painful TB; the shameful cancer; the demeaning syphilis and the environmental cholera. For example, cancer is now voiced in a similar manner as the once dubious TB illness, “where no one knows anything and if they did, they would not tell you about it.” She explains that the professional medical spirit sadly had patients hear only a glossing over in metaphoric or symptomatic themes in (understated imagery) of the truth about their serious disease. She philosophically narrates a polemical cultural criticism about divine wrath or supernatural punishments often used to explain a less understood medical territory and one disguised in metaphorical cover ups because of additional dreadful dilemmas feared that would cost a family or patient much more harm if they understood the simple truth. The activity she writes is signified as a voice of reform that suggests the education of a long neglected condition. Susan Sontag argues for scientifically empirical information, not metaphorical inherited and unsatisfactory scientist of imagery doctors have come to identify the body sickness. This fantasy she claims proves nothing more than an obsolete and confusing attempt to relieve suffering. There are excellent investigations on these absurd descriptions and she was determined relate that only a misanthrope would appreciate such nonsense. Confusing the lack of values was a horrendous medical obstacle of intelligence not a well researched directive. These legendary reservations were an outdated cheap villainous frustration of some old medical school ideas that happily dealt nothing but cards of death.
In the second part of Sontag book, Aids and Its Metaphors, a descriptive piece of Social epistemology is presented on how the serious illness (Aids) has long been ignorantly reported. She enhances the need for an instructional process that will uses historical medicinal societal educations to complement a crusade against crippling miss comprehension that encourage incorrect labeling and defining of a serious malady. She points out man’s nature is orientated towards a particular body space (risk group) to describe social conflicts. The disease, Aids, that develops in stages is a social medical conflict. Sontag points out the reasons why we should not use metaphor to catalog perceptions intelligences of such foul diseases. She promotes the knowledge of a broad spectrum of inoculations that would begin a good effort to recognize the concerns of this unmanageable illness. She thinks initiation of formidable defense parameters through disclosures of meaningful antigenic stimulus on the plague, influenza, cholera and other bacteriological comparisons to aids, cancer and syphilis build in society’s mind creates defenses for developing new types of immune criteria that indirectly strengthen the awareness of the Aid virus. This is a preventive ideology, and suggests that a medical education for patients obtained through the study of case histories would help predict the spreading of many repressed evil epidemics.
Of Possibility
Yes, we have no frameworks; we have no frameworks today. Yes this humorous parody sounds like the “Irving Berlin” song, “Yes we have no bananas” and is actually a subjection of attempting a symbolized lack for recognizing sets of original formalism in good literature. It appears to me to be a good representation of why I desire to obtain the knowledge of contemporary English-speaking literary criticism. The frameworks (imaged bananas) of course substitute the background organization that explains the signs that emphasis the appearances of thoughtful engagements. So, then I ask do these hypothetically frameworks prove to be a nourishing and satisfying effect on someone’s hungry mind like a banana would? After weighing this preponderance I decided that good designs suggest a try. Therefore, not to be at lost in different reading, I wish to non-matriculate in the fall of 2010 with Ellen Friedman, ENGL 505 Contemporary Literary Theory and Methods.
Five Questions I have About The Learning Record
After reading through the Learning Record material I think there are five questions I would like to discuss in class.
How much of better is this method for the student then say the average grade report card?
How much better is this method for the teacher reliability for assessing the student ?
How does this effect the grading system?
How much involvement do the parents play in this system?
Does this communication between student and teacher create better quality workmanship ?
