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Monday, June 6, 2011
Sunday, June 5, 2011
Blogging the Blog
Blogging is something that I never had an interest in and didn’t really care much about, but this class has altered my stance on it a little. The overall blogging experience was pretty good because Blogger is pretty user friendly but I did run into frequent problems with commenting on other people’s blogs. I really enjoyed the freedom given to us because these blogs didn’t feel forced. I’ve learned through this experience that communicating well online is equally as important as it is in person. More than likely I will have to use the internet as a platform so this was a great experience to see the challenges of online educating.
Project Progress
Well I am going to take this time to vent about how our project is going. Our project has been a little bit altered from the original plan but things are ok. We are going to be making one or two trailers that cover all to most of the texts from class. This should be quite the project because Kunkle gave us so much freedom to choose how we wanted to presents these projects. Hopefully our acting skills will be up to par as we start filming. I can see my name up in lights already…
Persepolis Theme
Persepolis is a graphic novel that uses real life experiences and jams them in to a narrative that helps us understand the Iranian culture. Marjane Satrapi’s experience bleeds through this book and her descriptions of what her life growing up in Iran are eye-opening and have big impacts. The theme of innocence is recycled a lot in literature these days and it is found in this book when Marji finds a new home in a new country. She tries to fit in but she doesn’t understand why people act the way they do or believe in what they believe. For me, it just didn’t work. In all honesty, this book is a bit boring to read and adding in this redundant theme of “oh, I hope I can fit in, but not change who I am” is simply annoying. What do you think about this?
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