LIL 120

“And that’s the Web. That’s your domain. You cultivate ideas there – quite carefully, no doubt, because others might pop by for a think. But also because it’s your space for a think.” I really like this quote because it made me realize that ePortfolio is this space. It’s not for social reasons, but more … [Read more…]

“For a car or a handbag, once stolen, no longer is available to its owner, while the appropriation of an article of ‘intellectual property’ leaves the original untouched.” This quote is a response to the “bullying” from statements made by companies to keep people from recording and reselling pieces of media that don’t belong to … [Read more…]

The description of the English major on UNE’s website is only a small blurb. It gives a broad, but vague, explanation of what students should expect in their time here. It does not, and could not, include everything about what being an English major entails. The description actually relates to one paragraph in Scheuer’s work, … [Read more…]

Though many other courses may or may not be necessary(since I’m not sure we need two British literature classes), the Eng. 201 course seems to specifically focus on looking critically at and reimagining the literature studied. This fits with the expanding of education within a major. The knowledge or method used may not be required … [Read more…]

What is the central tension Boyer discusses in his chapter? Support your response with a quote from Boyer and at least 4 sentences of explanation.  With the way that our society and job market is today, students have more need for a high paying job than a fulfilling one. “The point is that all students, … [Read more…]

“Many practitioners and critics alike argue that a biographer’s affection for her subject is essential… But a biographer’s feeling for his subject is often more like that of a crazed stalker than that of a faithful husband… When Ellis refers to Jefferson as his ‘quarry’, he employs a common metaphor: the biographer as hunter” (134).  … [Read more…]

“All images that display the violation of an attractive body are to a certain degree, pornographic. But images of the repulsive can also allure. Everyone knows that what slows down highway traffic going past a horrendous car crash is not only curiosity” (95). I’ve had this exact thought while reading previous chapters of this book. … [Read more…]

“Perhaps the only people with the right to look at images of suffering of the extreme order are those who could do something to alleviate it” (42).  This quote seems like it’s supposed to be kind of sarcastic, but also thought provoking. The citizens of the world deserve to know what is going on; what … [Read more…]

“And photographs of the victims of war are themselves a species of rhetoric. They reiterate. They simplify. They agitate. They create the illusion of consensus.” The part of this quote that really sticks out to me is how the photographs “create the illusion of consensus”. As far as I can find for a simpler wording … [Read more…]