Well, hello all you lovely people!
You may be wondering - "wow she does english as crafts?" or.. "What crafts? She says this is a blog about crafts!"
Well, I had this blog for my english 102 blog but I have decided to make it a crafting blog. What does that mean? I don't really know yet ;)
But I do know that I am excited for what this will bring to my crafting world!
I love crafts! I love to do crocheting, sewing, painting, well let's just say I have dabbled in a lot.
I really love doing mixed media pages in an art journal I have created.
So I am thinking that is what this blog will have a lot of.
Hopefully more, but right now - that is where I will start!
I hope you enjoy!!!!
<3
Elizabeth
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Friday, May 3, 2013
Reflection on the Course!
I hope you enjoy!
Have a great summer everyone!!!
Elizabeth
Saturday, April 27, 2013
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Tentative Thesis Paragraph
Oh gee, this essay is going to be challenging for me - but I am up for the challenge!!!!
I chose option #1 pretaining to Supermarkets.
Remember, this is tentative :)
"In Blacksmith, in the supermarket....I feel I'm learning important things everyday..." (p.36). Not most people would find a supermarket as a place to learn new and important things but in the book "White Noise" by Don DeLillo, the supermarket is a very prominent place of learning. Have you ever wondered why people even think to talk at supermarkets? Can't they just be on their way and act like people aren't around? There is a certain atmosphere in supermarkets that affects every person in there. The supermarket is a recurring and important theme in "White Noise" because it shows the normality of an American life, the regularity of people, and the ability for one place to have an effect on a person's whole attitude and thinking.
I am really hoping this is going to be "flowable" if that is considered a word :)
I chose option #1 pretaining to Supermarkets.
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Remember, this is tentative :)
"In Blacksmith, in the supermarket....I feel I'm learning important things everyday..." (p.36). Not most people would find a supermarket as a place to learn new and important things but in the book "White Noise" by Don DeLillo, the supermarket is a very prominent place of learning. Have you ever wondered why people even think to talk at supermarkets? Can't they just be on their way and act like people aren't around? There is a certain atmosphere in supermarkets that affects every person in there. The supermarket is a recurring and important theme in "White Noise" because it shows the normality of an American life, the regularity of people, and the ability for one place to have an effect on a person's whole attitude and thinking.
I am really hoping this is going to be "flowable" if that is considered a word :)
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Summary and Response to a Critical Article
The article I have chosen to respond to is The (Super)Marketplace of Images: television as unmediated mediation in DeLillo's White Noise by John N. Duvall. (written in 1994)
This was quite the article. He made points I wouldn't have thought of making based on the texts he incorporated. So, basically what his whole article was about was how there was this idea of facism that was placed in this book. This idea of fascism was overthrown by post modernity. He is making the arguement for this happening - fascism being overthrown by post modernity. Near the end of the article he says this, "...fascism is diffused throughout American mass media and its representations (451)". This shows exactly what his whole article was about. He brought up points about how the Gladney's lives revolved around television, and they felt lost without it. The Gladney's were living off credit. Everything was aesthetic, only for looks, and not as beneficial as other things could have been. He talks a lot about how the way that the Gladney's were living, and really everyone in Iron City, is all about what they can get to please themselves, and most of that comes from the media that is always around them, nonstop.
My response..
I learned a lot about White Noise, like I said before, he connected things I wouldn't have thought to connect (which happens quite often to me really). However, the main thing that I learned about White noise through this article was that it really is about showing a new perspective on things. DeLillo went into this essay trying to show that the world is not all about fascism, and America is really becoming dulled from that through our media. I understood that media was a big part of this book, I just didn't link that to it being a way of showing what America is NOT and how it is slowly becoming more and more not a fascist place. Fascism is really the opposite of the post modernity that Duvall and DeLillo were talking about and it makes sense how they both pointed that out and how Duvall backed that up.
:)
Citation
Duvall, John N. The (SUPER)MARKETPLACE OF IMAGES: TELEVISION AS INMEDIATED MEDIATION IN DeLILLO'S WHITE NOISE. White Noise. New York City: Penguin Group, 1998. 432-55. Print.
This was quite the article. He made points I wouldn't have thought of making based on the texts he incorporated. So, basically what his whole article was about was how there was this idea of facism that was placed in this book. This idea of fascism was overthrown by post modernity. He is making the arguement for this happening - fascism being overthrown by post modernity. Near the end of the article he says this, "...fascism is diffused throughout American mass media and its representations (451)". This shows exactly what his whole article was about. He brought up points about how the Gladney's lives revolved around television, and they felt lost without it. The Gladney's were living off credit. Everything was aesthetic, only for looks, and not as beneficial as other things could have been. He talks a lot about how the way that the Gladney's were living, and really everyone in Iron City, is all about what they can get to please themselves, and most of that comes from the media that is always around them, nonstop.
My response..
I learned a lot about White Noise, like I said before, he connected things I wouldn't have thought to connect (which happens quite often to me really). However, the main thing that I learned about White noise through this article was that it really is about showing a new perspective on things. DeLillo went into this essay trying to show that the world is not all about fascism, and America is really becoming dulled from that through our media. I understood that media was a big part of this book, I just didn't link that to it being a way of showing what America is NOT and how it is slowly becoming more and more not a fascist place. Fascism is really the opposite of the post modernity that Duvall and DeLillo were talking about and it makes sense how they both pointed that out and how Duvall backed that up.
:)
Citation
Duvall, John N. The (SUPER)MARKETPLACE OF IMAGES: TELEVISION AS INMEDIATED MEDIATION IN DeLILLO'S WHITE NOISE. White Noise. New York City: Penguin Group, 1998. 432-55. Print.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
White Noise Response
You can click the top right corner and zoom it in, since I know it is a tad small :)
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