Paper 4

If I must I must

In the mary popins clip her Uncle is addicted to laughing which causes him to float to the ceiling. Then the 2 kids and the other guy start laughing and then they float to the ceiling. Mary trys to get them down but in the end she decides it is a lost cause and says If i must i must and then joins them. She decides that to end up getting what she wants in the end she must join them. She thinks it its better not to argue if in the end she wants to get what she wants.

The same is true with language. Sometimes you have to say some things not the way you want to. You do this so in the end you get your point across. In the poem Hubris at Zunzal the writer uses language to get his point across. He says different things like "Nearly sunset, and time on the water of 1984. Language its tracer"to get his point across that the government might be trying to control what everybody says and does.

Stickiness

In my opinion stickiness is when you remember what you read right away. When an article is "sticky" it has a instant affect on you and you remember it quickly. These article have something about them that just sticks in your head. Most of the time you don't have to re-read these articles because they just have an instant effect.

I do agree that some articles can be sticky. For me there is some things that just stick. When i watch some TV shows or read something that i like a lot i can remember some lines of it right after i see it. There is some episodes of the show scrubs that after the first time i see the episode i can re-site lines of it instantly.

Stalking

For me i think that the stalking experiment in the library was a very useful for writing. I do because what it helps us with is learning how to write about what we see around us. What we are practicing is writing about what we see around us. What we are stretching is our creativity because we have to be creative on our feet. We are training, strengthening, and conditioning our minds to see what is around us or what someone is doing and transferring it onto the paper and writing something about.

What the dog saw

In "what the dog saw" the writer talks about human to dog interaction and human to human interaction. Throughout the essay he is arguing that dogs and people have to know that you are the authority. They have to know that you are the boss and that they are not in control. What he also argues is that your posture and how you walk and how you present your body matters. If you look scared and tense the dogs will get defensive and that is when they attack. If you are calm so will the dogs. When two dogs see each other they will first look at the owner of the other dog. If that owner looks scared and is holding the lease very hard that is when they start to bark because they think they will be attacked. If you are calm you will the other dog.

The triad of "exercise, discipline, and affection" is the key to understanding this essay because you need all three to have a good interaction with dogs, or people. If you don't show them love they most likely won't love you back. But if you don't show discipline they will always take advantage of you and they will never think that you are the boos and you will never have good interaction.

Litany Answer

Is he making fun of the original writer?

I think that he is making fun of the original writer. I think that he thinks that the comparison that the original writer makes don't make any sense. So he then starts to make comparisons that also don't make much sense. He then at the end repeats what the original writer says to try and make fun of him even more.

Litany Questions

1: Why is she the bread and the wine?
2:Why isn't she all the other things?
3:Do all of those things symbolize something?
4:Why does he repeat the bread and the wine at the end?
5:Is he making fun of the original writer?
6:Is this poem for somebody?

Chelsea's questions

When Jackson compares hypertext to a moving vehicle does she mean it can easily be changed unlike a book which is "in search of a place of rest?"

I think that Jackson is trying to say that a hypertext can easily be changed and that a book can't. I think that a moving vehicle means it can change because when you are driving it is easy to change where you want to go and you can turn around or change your direction very easily. I think that a book is "in search of a place to rest" because once it is printed you can't do anything with it. That particular book will always be the same and it will never be able to change. Once it is printed all it can do is find a place to settle down and sit there.

Stich Bitch Questions

1: Who is Stitch Bitch?
2: Why does she use so many metaphors?
3: Why does he do a title after every paragraph?
4: What point is she trying to tell us?
5: Is she Shelly Jackson or Shelly Shelly?
6: Does she think that metaphors help people understand more?

Stitch Bitch

After reading Stitch Bitch I really didn't understand what she was talking about. I thought that she used to many metaphors for me to understand it. She doesn't really stick to one point and keep going with it. She likes to jump around and go back to points. For me this was very hard to read because i kept having to think about it after I read something.

The Ecstasy of Influence part 2

Throughout this essay Lethem talks a lot about how plagiarism is a disadvantage to writers. He thinks that when somebody re-uses somebodies work it loses some of the emotion and meaning that the original author was using when he wrote it. It does because the author who is taking something from another author doesn't know how the persons felt when they were writing it. They don't know the felling behind the writing and they might change the meaning behind what the author wanted it to mean.

"But the truth is that with artists pulling on one side and corporations pulling on the other, the loser is the collective public imagination from which we were nourished in the first place, and whose existence as the ultimate repository of our offerings makes the work worth doing in the first place."

What Lethem is trying to say with this paragraph is that with the artists on one side and corporations on the other that it is hard to make up new ideas and that it forces use to use other authors ideas to make our own work.

The Ecstasy of Influence

In Jonathan Lethem's "The Ecstasy of Influence" Lethem talks a lot about authors using other authors work. Some people may say that he is saying that plagiarism is okay. But in my opinion i think that he is just saying that most good ideas are built of other good ideas. He thinks that these others works can be used to build off of to make a good story. I think that building off other authors idea shouldn't be seen as shameful. I think so because if people didn't use others work to inspire work, people wouldn't be able to write these good works because they wouldn't have anything to inspire them.

Mark Twain

In Mark Twain's Letter to Orion Clemens, 23 March 1878 he said "You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God’s adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by." I think that that is true. If you think that what you write will be perfect the first time then you are destined to fail. You have to re-read what you write and fix the things that are wrong. You also have to make sure you don't put adjectives close to each other. Adjectives are better when they are further apart because they will be more meaningful. The same is true when your blogging. If you don't check what you write and use a lot of adjectives people are going to think that you are dumb. They are going to think that you are just some unintelligent idiot that just decided to make a blog on his computer. You have to make sure that you re-read what you write to make sure it sounds good.

AT&T Commercial

In class we watched an AT&T commercial that was about Hansel and Gretel. In the commercial Hansel and Gretel are in a city and they are dropping bread crumbs so they can kind there way home. Throughout the commercial the bread crumbs keep getting stepped on or eaten by birds. By the end they notice that all the crumbs are gone. They then take out a phone with gps and the go home. When i first watched the commercial i thought it was just another stupid commercial with no really meaning. Then we had to pick things up and ask questions which totally changed my mind. I realized that it was about how things are changing. How things like dropping bread crumbs aren't going to cut it anymore. You need to use new technology or you are just going to be lost in the world.

First Post

So here I am at Hofstra, and I am blogging. Writing online makes me feel bored. Every time i have to write I'm i don't want to do this. The only time i write online is for school. I don't often write on facebook or any other website. When i write online it is usually for this class. I get bored because there is alot of thing i would rather be doing.