Having already gotten into the bulk of my English classes required for my major, I felt that this class would be unnecessary, as I had already learned many of the foundational skills I need by being thrown into the fire of upper-level coursework. However, this class provided something I haven’t had since English 110: an […]
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Blog 7
As consumer entertainment has melded with the rapid expansion of internet capabilities, video games such as Call of Duty, League of Legends, and massively online multiplayer games have risen to prominence among the sales charts. These games all encourage forms of cooperation, interaction, and coordination of skill between friends and strangers alike, making gaming a […]
Unreliability and Significance of Rafaela’s Narrative
In the final two chapters of Tropic of Orange, two shocking events happened: the heavily suggested rape of Rafaela, and the accidental shooting of Emi. While Emi’s chapter was clear cut in what occurred, Rafaela’s featured an ambiguous sequence of events obscured by poetic imagery, and that made the event more of an emotional climax than […]
The Commerce of Humankind
Forgiving his spontaneous waterfall sequence in the previous chapter, I have to say that of all the characters, Arcangel is my favorite. Not only is he my favorite, but I think he is by far the most significant in telling what is happening in the grand scheme of the story. He is an ethereal character, able […]
Context and Politics
I liked the thought on page 236 after talking about Hobbes and Rousseau’s different views of nature that different views reveal “much more about the observer than about what is objectively out there.” This made me think about how I see nature, and how we ought to function as a society, and more importantly, why […]
Slippery Slope to Confirmation Bias
In our reading, we read about time and space. Each is relative between human experiences, and each has a profound ability to influence our perceptions of the world as well. The part about how space affects our lives interested me. Your socioeconomic status, race, gender, etc. all affect who you are, how you act, and […]
Authority, Authorship, and “Han Shot First”
I suppose the subject is completely open-ended based on our responses to any of the reading, so I will write about what interested me the most: the question over authorship and authority. Is interpretation limited to the intent of the author? Or is it for the reader to decide on the material presented, as an […]