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 Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 10:59 am
William Adolphe - "Angels Playing Violon"
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:00 am
What a perfect picture to leave off with. :)
Charles Burton Barber - "Off to School"#f51379
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:03 pm
Good afternoon everyone.
Another great day of presentations. My classmate Christian did a presentation on how video games are becoming the new media for people to look at as literature, besides books and films. I can't remember what video game he referred to in particular ((if you really want to know what it was, I can give you a summary of the plotline and you can try to help remind me of the name, lol)). Anyway, my classmate Megan questioned on whether video games could have the same influence as books and films - in other worlds, reflect the society and what not of the time period the video game came out - or if it was just pure entertainment. I argued that it could be both. Some might just play video games for fun; but there could be a way to look at video games critically and get an idea of what society was like... or historical events that were occurring (I used war video games as an example - a lot of seemed to come out after 9/11).
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:05 pm
Christian's presentation got the most responses. My teacher Carol even had to cut off the questions/comments off, so the other presenters could present, before returning to the discussion afterwards.
I just think it's funny that I even participated in the conversation when I don't play video games all that much myself. *laughs* But at least I do have some experience with a wide range of games from Zelda to DDR to Wii Sports to Halo to Grand Theft Auto. *shrugs* Mostly the popular games, but still... it's a nice range of video games to get an idea of variety out there, and potential ideas of how one would critically analyze a video game to learn more about society, history, etc.
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:18 pm
I was going to take care of doing the bun hairdo I want to have for my look for tonight, but my hair is so long - and the spring hairogami thing keeps springing on me - so I'll have to have Mom help me out with it. *sighs* Shouldn't take too long to do though.
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 3:19 pm
Off to do my homework. Be back in awhile.
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:30 pm
I'm back. I tried reading the two reading assignments I needed to do for 20th/21st C. Lit. class, but after awhile I go bored... and just skimmed over the remaining pages. whee
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:49 pm
Now to do my reading for 17th/18th C. Lit. class... which hopefully will be short pieces. Hopefully...
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:56 pm
Like I've done in the past, I will post any selections that stand out to me from any of the pieces I have to read.
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 4:59 pm
"Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?" (Emerson, "Nature" 1110).
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:01 pm
"Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man; space, the air, the river, the leaf. Art is applied to the mixture of this will with the same things, as in a house, a canal, a statue, a picture" (Emerson, "Nature" 1111).
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:03 pm
"I am not solitary whilst I read and write, though nobody is with me" (Emerson, "Nature" 1111).
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:05 pm
"To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. In the presence of nature, a wild delight runs through the man, in spite of real sorrows" (Emerson, "Nature" 1112).
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:06 pm
"In the wilderness, I find something more dear and connate than in streets or villages" (Emerson, "Nature" 1112).
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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:09 pm
"...Nature satisfies the soul purely by its loveliness, and without any mixture of corporeal benefit" (Emerson, "Nature" 1115).
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