Jane's revenge

Chris was woken up by Professor Gaughan tapping on his desk asking about what he thought of Pablo Picasso’s blue period.”
Wiping the drool from the corner of his mouth, he muttered “good.”
The frustrated Prof Gaughan said “Chris, what is good?”
“I don’t know” said Chris
“Well can anyone else please help Chris hear, what are some opinions of Picasso’s blue period?”
Chris began to wake up and could not believe he had just missed the entire review of his Art History class because he was sleeping. Suddenly it was not as good of an idea to go out last night.

Authorship

I think that Roland Barthes was correct when in “Death of an Author” when he said “Once the Author is removed, the claim to decipher a text becomes quite futile. To give a text an Author is to impose a limit on that text, to furnish it with a final signified, to close the writing.” This is very important because it doesn’t matter what the author gets out of the text. It only matters what the readers get from the text. If something was meant by the author to appear in a certain way but to most people do not recognized it in that sense then the author’s original thoughts/intentions are not relevant.

I think that this idea is a constant struggle with many writers. I know for example many movie directors have a lot of trouble with this. Sundance Film Festival is an event that many directors show there films but most of them never become popular because they are not the typical movie. They usually are very long and take a particular type of person to appreciate. These videos are usually the way the author wants viewers to see the movie. It is rare that a Sundance film to become popular in mainstream society.

Co writing story

Rebecca and I agreed that the characters name will be Harry, the story will be a tragity, and it will be in present.
Me
Harry was going on vacation to Florida so he went to the airport with all of his bags packed to catch his flight. He was really nervous because it was his first time flying and on top of that he was by himself. Harry was so nervous that he had gone to his doctor and got a prescription for some meds that would help him relax on the plane. So eventually he got on the plane and just as the plane began to leave the ground,
Rebecca
He was very relaxed. About 15 minutes into the plane ride, that passenger next to Harry said “Hi, I’m Phil”
“Hiya Phil” said a heavily medicated Harry. “I’m Harry”
“Nice to meet you Harry, I’d like you to know that I am legally obligated to tell you that I suffer from a flesh eating bacteria, and if you even touch my skin for a second you will most likely be infected too. And probably die.”
“Wha-?” a shocked Harry was cut off when the plane experienced a rather violent fit of turbulence. Harry who was heavily medicated had seen no reason to put his seatbelt on at the start of the flight was onto flesh eating Phil. , rubbing his bare arm against Phil’s arm.
Me
Harry screamed and tried to get up and run away from Phil but couldn’t because of the meds he was on. He ended up tripping over his own feet and falling into the Stewardess. She fell backwards hitting the emergency exit lever on the door and it flew open. The vacuum sucked Harry and the stewardess out of the plane and they began to fall. They both ended up colliding midair before reaching the ground and as a result were killed.

THE END

Brendan Keys
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Sexual innuendos have become increasingly popular in recent years among authors, producers, and directors. In many new literary forms sexual innuendos have become a regular and it seems it is almost necessary to become popular. Take current TV shows or top 10 songs on the radio, all filled with these dual meanings. Is this much different then Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin heteroglossia? Bakhtin, a philosopher, introduced the term saying “base condition governing the operation of meaning in any utterance” meaning that most statements have multiple meanings. Would it be fare to say that many of today’s advertisements have the same concept of heteroglossia that Bakhtin was referring to hundreds of years ago?
My text is an advertisement that has a large screw on a black and white poster with the phrase “Screw me.” Now this can be taken many different ways, some may think that a picture of a screw and saying screw me would obliviously imply the screw itself. But what this under the picture leads to a completely different interpretation. “More than 50% of people in the U.S. will get a sexually transmitted disease in their lives.” This makes the viewer come to a drastically different conclusion about the meaning of the sign. This advertisement is most likely designed to make people aware of the increasing problem of sexually transmitted disease but depending on the viewer it can be understood in many different ways.
In most texts, the creators are using many different techniques to help grab the attention on the viewer. Heteroglossia has been used for a long time to help do this in many different

Collaborative Learning

Collaborative Learning can be subdivided into two categories, abnormal discourse and normal discourse.
Normal Discourse is the conventional way that people tend to think and learn. An example would be to write a 5 paragraph paper for a class that included introduction, thesis, body paragraphs, and conclusion. This tends to be what most people think of first the way that we have all been taught since first entering school.
Abnormal discourse is much different in the fact that it is doing addressing something through an unusual way. For example most people would not consider if a teacher asks to write a summary of a particular story for the student to make up a completely different plot, characters names, setting, ect but have the story still have the same themes. This would be considered abnormal discourse. I find this to be much more interesting but there are dangers associated with it. For some professors/classes this would be impossible to do and completely unacceptable. If someone was to be doing a scientific report to be entered into a medical journal it is most likely that any form other the normal discourse would be accepted.
In the book that I am doing, The Language of God, Dr. Collins goes about much of his life with an abnormal discourse approach. For him to believe in God and creationism is very interesting because for someone that is a genetic evolutionary biologist this is rare. He is considered abnormal among most of his colleagues because of his beliefs.

The Language of God

The Language of God is a book about a famous geneticist, Francis Collins, who was the lead scientist of the Human Genome Project. This book is interesting because often a geneticist is a scientist that has devoted most of his/her professional career proving genetic evolution is the reason for such a diverse world which goes against many forms of religion. Dr. Collins is a strong believer in his faith and an accomplished scientist which he explains how he thinks the two can coexist.
Collins gives his theory and attempts to explain how we can believe in both if God and science. Collins begins his book with letting the reader that was he was a child he was agnostic, unsure of what to believe. He describes his early belief as not so much I know but more as “I don’t want to know.” But after graduating Yale his beliefs began to shift from agnostic to atheist. He blames his educational career for changing him because with dual Ph.D degrees is mathematics and physical chemistry he believed that everything has to be explained by laws of science and math.
After graduating Yale with two PhD’s he decided to take a biochemistry class that he tried so hard to avoid earlier in his life to “broaden his horizon.” He fell in love with what he was learning and what the question of life was. He applied and was accepted to medical school at UNC where his beliefs began to change. He was exposed to many extremely sick, terminally ill patients that seemed very relaxed and confident everything would work out. He spent a lot of time talking to these people about their beliefs and was fascinated with the faith that they had in their religion. These people began to leave lasting impressions on Dr. Collins and ended up causing him to investigate religions.

The Doctor and the Doctor's Wife

I thought that the story was intersting but a little unsure how it is going to relate to class. I could not figure out how it will relate to collaborative learning but

I thought it was very interesting when Doc becomes angry when one of the Native Americans telling him that he has just stole a nice lot of wood. Doc thinks what he is doing is fine until someone else comments on it and he becomes uppset. I think this shows that he knew it was wrong all along but was trying to rationalize it in his own head.

I was unsure what the importance of him going inside loading and unloading his gun and talking to his wife. Why does the story specifically mention the wife's religion (Christian Scientist)? Does that mean that she is against what Doc is doing?