Respond to these on you own Blogs and I will find them there.
1. Summarize the main point of the Nakamura (p707-713) essay. Describe what kinds of evidence the author uses to support this point. Do you think the author makes her point effectively? Why or why not? What is your response to the main idea you summarized, explain with evidence and support.
(3-4 paragraphs)
I will grade these posts on Wednesday between 10:40 and 11:35am. If you do not post your responses by 11:35 they won't be counted for a grade.
2. Read through the other blogged responses to assignment 1.
Choose 2 posted responses and write a thoughtful and specific 1-3 paragraph response to each of the 2 posts that you have chosen. (Respond to the posts individually with the comment/reply feature)
Monday, March 27, 2006
1020 In Class 3.27.06
Write a one paragraph proposal that summarizes what you are going to work on for your final project. What do you think your focus might be? Why are you interested in this topic/issue?
1020 Assignment for week of 3.27.06
Please post this assignment by 5 pm on Friday 3.31
On Monday you wrote a little about your final project issue and how you think you are going to approach that. After thinking about this during the week, and doing more research, write in more detail about the potential scope of your final project.
What is the issue? What is the 'angle' you want to take on this issue (how are you going to approach and focus the topic to be specific to your needs and interests)? Who do you think your audience will be for your 'argument'?
Additionally, what kinds of information/sources have you found so far, and what more do you think you might need to find?
I would like a 1-2 page proposal of your final project posted on your blog. Although the scope of the project is subject to change, please be as specific about the project as is possible. Include any information from any of the sources that you are thinking about using.
On Monday you wrote a little about your final project issue and how you think you are going to approach that. After thinking about this during the week, and doing more research, write in more detail about the potential scope of your final project.
What is the issue? What is the 'angle' you want to take on this issue (how are you going to approach and focus the topic to be specific to your needs and interests)? Who do you think your audience will be for your 'argument'?
Additionally, what kinds of information/sources have you found so far, and what more do you think you might need to find?
I would like a 1-2 page proposal of your final project posted on your blog. Although the scope of the project is subject to change, please be as specific about the project as is possible. Include any information from any of the sources that you are thinking about using.
Monday, March 20, 2006
1020 In Class Writing 3.20.06
Using specific examples from the 3 pieces (T, S, R) write about the issues of gender stereotyping and how each of these writers presents or points to alternative perspectives/lifestyles/ideas about gender.
15 min, 2-4 paragraphs
15 min, 2-4 paragraphs
Monday, March 06, 2006
1020-Short Essay Assignment-week of 3.6.06
Instead of a writing a short blog response this week, please post a complete essay to your blog by class time on Friday. Copy this assignment to your blog post.
Assignment: Take one of the readings or articles we've talked about in regard to professional concerns, summarize the main idea of the article, and then respond to that idea. Use quotes and information from the article, explain how the main idea/point is made, develop a thoughtful and detailed response that addresses the main idea that is presented.
You essay should be about 2 pages typed in Word in a 10-12 point font (600-800 words).
Assignment: Take one of the readings or articles we've talked about in regard to professional concerns, summarize the main idea of the article, and then respond to that idea. Use quotes and information from the article, explain how the main idea/point is made, develop a thoughtful and detailed response that addresses the main idea that is presented.
You essay should be about 2 pages typed in Word in a 10-12 point font (600-800 words).
Links to Women and Work Information
http://www.uml.edu/centers/women-work
http://www.cluw.org/programs-payequity.html
http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2004-08-26-women_x.htm
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/SP60.asp
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4509605&sourceCode=RSS
to find more stuff: google women and pay, google women in fortune 500
http://www.cluw.org/programs-payequity.html
http://www.usatoday.com/money/workplace/2004-08-26-women_x.htm
http://www.jrf.org.uk/knowledge/findings/socialpolicy/SP60.asp
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4509605&sourceCode=RSS
to find more stuff: google women and pay, google women in fortune 500
Wednesday, March 01, 2006
1020 in class and homework response blog assignments 3.1.06
First, copy this assignment onto a new blog post, and then respond. You will begin working on this in class, and finish for homework (by class time Friday) since I otherwise didn't post a blog assignment for this week.
1. Write about the 'Individual and Society' especially in light of the personal and cultural issues we've already talked about and your thoughts on professional and/or academic interests: how do all of these relate to each other? What kinds of connections can be made between all three areas (personal/cultural/professional)? Why are the connections important to think and talk about? Explain in detail and use examples.
2. Continue this for Friday and add a discussion about gender, race, and class issues in regard to professions and jobs. What about vocations vs jobs, and 'alternative' (or outside of 'mainstream') types of work/career? How does college prepare (or not prepare) you for what comes after/outside of college?
In the end, you should have a MINIMUM of 2 thoughtful and detailed paragraphs.
1. Write about the 'Individual and Society' especially in light of the personal and cultural issues we've already talked about and your thoughts on professional and/or academic interests: how do all of these relate to each other? What kinds of connections can be made between all three areas (personal/cultural/professional)? Why are the connections important to think and talk about? Explain in detail and use examples.
2. Continue this for Friday and add a discussion about gender, race, and class issues in regard to professions and jobs. What about vocations vs jobs, and 'alternative' (or outside of 'mainstream') types of work/career? How does college prepare (or not prepare) you for what comes after/outside of college?
In the end, you should have a MINIMUM of 2 thoughtful and detailed paragraphs.
Friday, February 24, 2006
daily tao friday 2.24.06
Some say that my teaching is nonsense.
Others call it lofty but impractical.
But to those who have looked inside themselves,
this nonsense makes perfect sense.
And to those who put it into practice,
this loftiness has roots that go deep.
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thoughts,
you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.
Translation by Stephen Mitchell.Site Copyright (C) 2003-5 Glen Sanford
Others call it lofty but impractical.
But to those who have looked inside themselves,
this nonsense makes perfect sense.
And to those who put it into practice,
this loftiness has roots that go deep.
I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
Simple in actions and in thoughts,
you return to the source of being.
Patient with both friends and enemies,
you accord with the way things are.
Compassionate toward yourself,
you reconcile all beings in the world.
Translation by Stephen Mitchell.Site Copyright (C) 2003-5 Glen Sanford
notes for 1020 on Culture
texts you might think about using for your culture paper:
Tough Guise with Jackson Katz (video)
Parisi: 'Black Bart' Simpson
Baber: 'Is Tupac Really Dead?'
Sieving: 'Cop Out?'
Tupac Resurrection (video)
Mehta: 'Society's Need for a Queer Solution'
Intro to 'Reading Culture'
Pough: 'Do the Ladies Run This?'
see The World is a Text for page numbers and etc.
Tough Guise with Jackson Katz (video)
Parisi: 'Black Bart' Simpson
Baber: 'Is Tupac Really Dead?'
Sieving: 'Cop Out?'
Tupac Resurrection (video)
Mehta: 'Society's Need for a Queer Solution'
Intro to 'Reading Culture'
Pough: 'Do the Ladies Run This?'
see The World is a Text for page numbers and etc.
on cultural theory and same-sex relationships in culture
in an effort to make some connections in what will ultimately end in a simplistic discussion, and which may even potentially result in some misinterpretation of Benjamin, Adorno, and Williams. Here goes…
The other day I finally saw Brokeback Mountain, which is in line to win some Academy awards, has already won some awards, is bring praised in many circles for its quality, etc. I haven’t really followed any of the praise or criticism, though I am surprised that I haven’t heard more criticism given the fact that the movie portrays a romantic relationship between two male cowboys, and in fact includes a nearly explicit sex scene. In any case, this movie has been with me for days now, for a variety of reasons (including but not limited to my sudden desire to move to Nowhere, Wyoming and write stories that pull on your heart strings, or even effect change—the movie is based on Annie Proulx’s short story set in Wyoming), part of which is the issue of the movie’s popularity, particularly when in the last major elections a number of states changed their constitutions to definitively ban any ideas of legalized same-sex marriage.
And so, I turn first to Benjamin with the hope that this movie might be considered an example of his idea of the potential democratizing nature of film. I don’t believe Benjamin thought any sort of a utopian society was possible, however, the idea of potential utopian impulses in art and culture would dictate that we all be allowed to love and relate regardless of sexual orientation or whatnot. And so, the utopian potential in art, and particularly in the form of mainstream film, might then be a place for positive political action. If you were ambivalent about whether or not two male cowboys could find true love before you entered the theater, you might have come to a more clear opinion upon leaving. You might then vote differently, next time around.
I don’t know what Adorno would have said if he saw this movie. But I will make something up. I can’t help thinking about the lack of challenge to the movie by the conservative religious right, for example. Maybe there has been some criticism that I’ve not heard because I don’t pay enough attention. But I feel like if there were going to be a cultural filter working toward maintaining the conservative status quo, the religious right would take on this role and make a fuss about the content of the film. I’ve heard no fuss, only praise. The film seems to be doing something new and different in its opening up to the mainstream these traditionally non-mainstream issues; it is not simply the same reiteration of conservative cultural messages. Of course, we could make this argument for many films that come out of corporate Hollywood yet challenge dominant cultural ideologies in some way or another; certainly these are complicated notions that can’t simply be simplified. Nonetheless, here is another simple question: isn’t this movie still just doing the same thing that we have already seen and read a million times? Isn’t it, after all, the same old classic tragic love story, the Casablanca unfulfilled love story, the metaphorical unfulfilled life story? How is the movie actually different than the one we want to hear time after time: that we need passion and pain to know that we are really living, etc, etc… So, does Adorno ultimately win on this one?
Or, is it (silly question) more complicated than this? I am still working through Williams and his reiteration that everything is more complicated. We can’t simply reduce Marxism to basic notions that will help us analyze literature or art, for example. We can’t also simply talk about our social culture in terms of determined and static institutional forms and traditions, but that ‘social consciousness’ emerges through lived, active, relationships, and ‘in relationships which are more than systematic exchanges between fixed units.’ Social consciousness then is a process, and this process can result in, as he says, ‘frequent tension between the received interpretation and practical experience’ (130). A film such as Brokeback Mountain may then be seen as responding to, or participating in, a social moment of more open feeling for, and understanding of, the difficulty of ‘closeted’ sexual orientation. Although there has been greater (and more genuine) representation of same-sex relationships in the media, one might still argue that this film makes quite a leap away from the more stereotypical gay characters of Will and Grace to challenge ‘real masculinity’ in its portrayal of gay cowboys.
We might also combine the contemporary cultural sentiments of greater openness at the time of the movie’s release with the history of the writing of the story by Proulx, and the torture and death of Matthew Shephard, a gay college student in Wyoming, in the late 90s. We have here a combination of institutional changes (more legislation against hate crimes, and greater awareness of the destructive nature of violent prejudice, etc.) and personal changes in perception by individual members of society. Maybe this film, as an example of Williams’ ‘articulation of presence’ (135) points to the forming of a new ‘structure of feeling.’ He writes:
as a matter of cultural theory this is a way of defining forms and conventions in art and literature as inalienable elements of a social material process: not by derivation from other social forms and pre-forms, but as social formation of a specific kind which may in turn be seen as the articulation (often the only fully available articulation) of structures of feeling which as living processes are much more widely experienced (133).
And I’m going to leave it at that, for now, and keep working on Williams...
The other day I finally saw Brokeback Mountain, which is in line to win some Academy awards, has already won some awards, is bring praised in many circles for its quality, etc. I haven’t really followed any of the praise or criticism, though I am surprised that I haven’t heard more criticism given the fact that the movie portrays a romantic relationship between two male cowboys, and in fact includes a nearly explicit sex scene. In any case, this movie has been with me for days now, for a variety of reasons (including but not limited to my sudden desire to move to Nowhere, Wyoming and write stories that pull on your heart strings, or even effect change—the movie is based on Annie Proulx’s short story set in Wyoming), part of which is the issue of the movie’s popularity, particularly when in the last major elections a number of states changed their constitutions to definitively ban any ideas of legalized same-sex marriage.
And so, I turn first to Benjamin with the hope that this movie might be considered an example of his idea of the potential democratizing nature of film. I don’t believe Benjamin thought any sort of a utopian society was possible, however, the idea of potential utopian impulses in art and culture would dictate that we all be allowed to love and relate regardless of sexual orientation or whatnot. And so, the utopian potential in art, and particularly in the form of mainstream film, might then be a place for positive political action. If you were ambivalent about whether or not two male cowboys could find true love before you entered the theater, you might have come to a more clear opinion upon leaving. You might then vote differently, next time around.
I don’t know what Adorno would have said if he saw this movie. But I will make something up. I can’t help thinking about the lack of challenge to the movie by the conservative religious right, for example. Maybe there has been some criticism that I’ve not heard because I don’t pay enough attention. But I feel like if there were going to be a cultural filter working toward maintaining the conservative status quo, the religious right would take on this role and make a fuss about the content of the film. I’ve heard no fuss, only praise. The film seems to be doing something new and different in its opening up to the mainstream these traditionally non-mainstream issues; it is not simply the same reiteration of conservative cultural messages. Of course, we could make this argument for many films that come out of corporate Hollywood yet challenge dominant cultural ideologies in some way or another; certainly these are complicated notions that can’t simply be simplified. Nonetheless, here is another simple question: isn’t this movie still just doing the same thing that we have already seen and read a million times? Isn’t it, after all, the same old classic tragic love story, the Casablanca unfulfilled love story, the metaphorical unfulfilled life story? How is the movie actually different than the one we want to hear time after time: that we need passion and pain to know that we are really living, etc, etc… So, does Adorno ultimately win on this one?
Or, is it (silly question) more complicated than this? I am still working through Williams and his reiteration that everything is more complicated. We can’t simply reduce Marxism to basic notions that will help us analyze literature or art, for example. We can’t also simply talk about our social culture in terms of determined and static institutional forms and traditions, but that ‘social consciousness’ emerges through lived, active, relationships, and ‘in relationships which are more than systematic exchanges between fixed units.’ Social consciousness then is a process, and this process can result in, as he says, ‘frequent tension between the received interpretation and practical experience’ (130). A film such as Brokeback Mountain may then be seen as responding to, or participating in, a social moment of more open feeling for, and understanding of, the difficulty of ‘closeted’ sexual orientation. Although there has been greater (and more genuine) representation of same-sex relationships in the media, one might still argue that this film makes quite a leap away from the more stereotypical gay characters of Will and Grace to challenge ‘real masculinity’ in its portrayal of gay cowboys.
We might also combine the contemporary cultural sentiments of greater openness at the time of the movie’s release with the history of the writing of the story by Proulx, and the torture and death of Matthew Shephard, a gay college student in Wyoming, in the late 90s. We have here a combination of institutional changes (more legislation against hate crimes, and greater awareness of the destructive nature of violent prejudice, etc.) and personal changes in perception by individual members of society. Maybe this film, as an example of Williams’ ‘articulation of presence’ (135) points to the forming of a new ‘structure of feeling.’ He writes:
as a matter of cultural theory this is a way of defining forms and conventions in art and literature as inalienable elements of a social material process: not by derivation from other social forms and pre-forms, but as social formation of a specific kind which may in turn be seen as the articulation (often the only fully available articulation) of structures of feeling which as living processes are much more widely experienced (133).
And I’m going to leave it at that, for now, and keep working on Williams...
Monday, February 20, 2006
1020 response week of Feb 20
On TUPAC RESURRECTION and in relation to what we have been talking about for this section on Culture: think about why it is important to interpret and analyze contemporary American culture and, as it says in Reading Culture, ‘how cultural ideas and ideals are communicated in the home, the workplace, the school, and through the media’ (2). What are cultural ideas? How are these communicated? Why is it important to think about them critically as both individuals and members of the larger society?
Respond on your blog by class time Friday
Respond on your blog by class time Friday
Monday, February 13, 2006
the t-shirt commodity as a site of resistance
'The Black Bart T-shirt is not alone as an expressive use of a commodity to support personal and social identity and convey resistant social messages.'
(Peter Parisi, "'Black Bart' Simpson: Appropriation and Revitalization in Commodity Cuture')
In the early 90s t-shirts with different ethnic and cultural representations of Bart appeared ('illegally' produced) all over the country. According to Parisi, the cultural icon-ness of Bart was subverted and the image Bart as Black or Asian or Rastafarian used as a means of resistance against the larger cultural domination of whiteness. Whiteness is all pervasive and it is 'unmarked' as in while it is the norm (against which all other non-white groups are compared, or are set in relation to...) we don't even see it; we don't recognize how white prime-time television is until we see that there may be alternatives. In the early 90s, more diverse respresentation was badly needed (we might argue it still is; but then again, so much more is also needed on prime time and etc tv programming!) on the television. The Simpsons in its unfearing raising of and commentary on every sort of social issue, race and ethnicity issues included, may have pointed to first its own whiteness (yellow still assumed as the white norm) and second to the lacking other-than-whiteness of the show. And so, whether or not resistance forms in the minds of the industrious persons who happen to print and begin to sell the shirts, it is intuited in the masses who consume and popularize the visual message of the call for greater representation.
And so the commodity (the shirt, and the Bart as icon commodity) is used to express both the personal (intuited or overt) sense of making a social/cultural statement, and the larger social call for recognition of group identity in various forms of media. On the surface, a shirt is just a shirt, but thinking a little further we might notice how a shirt can present a message that is one in contrast to more dominant messages dispersed as cultural norms.
(Peter Parisi, "'Black Bart' Simpson: Appropriation and Revitalization in Commodity Cuture')
In the early 90s t-shirts with different ethnic and cultural representations of Bart appeared ('illegally' produced) all over the country. According to Parisi, the cultural icon-ness of Bart was subverted and the image Bart as Black or Asian or Rastafarian used as a means of resistance against the larger cultural domination of whiteness. Whiteness is all pervasive and it is 'unmarked' as in while it is the norm (against which all other non-white groups are compared, or are set in relation to...) we don't even see it; we don't recognize how white prime-time television is until we see that there may be alternatives. In the early 90s, more diverse respresentation was badly needed (we might argue it still is; but then again, so much more is also needed on prime time and etc tv programming!) on the television. The Simpsons in its unfearing raising of and commentary on every sort of social issue, race and ethnicity issues included, may have pointed to first its own whiteness (yellow still assumed as the white norm) and second to the lacking other-than-whiteness of the show. And so, whether or not resistance forms in the minds of the industrious persons who happen to print and begin to sell the shirts, it is intuited in the masses who consume and popularize the visual message of the call for greater representation.
And so the commodity (the shirt, and the Bart as icon commodity) is used to express both the personal (intuited or overt) sense of making a social/cultural statement, and the larger social call for recognition of group identity in various forms of media. On the surface, a shirt is just a shirt, but thinking a little further we might notice how a shirt can present a message that is one in contrast to more dominant messages dispersed as cultural norms.
1020 response for week of feb 13
Interpret the lyrics and content of a hip hop song (or you can use another type of song if you like). Include the name of the song and the artist. Include the address of a web page where a reader can find the lyrics (if you can find one; for example I found the lyrics of Ice-T's 'Cop Killer here: http://it.uwp.edu/gangsters/ice-t.cop.killer.html).
Can the song you chose be interpreted in different ways? How or why? Does it have deeper social or cultural implications that may not be specifically stated in the song? How might we use this song to think about larger social or cultural issues in some way? Explain.
post by class time on friday.
Can the song you chose be interpreted in different ways? How or why? Does it have deeper social or cultural implications that may not be specifically stated in the song? How might we use this song to think about larger social or cultural issues in some way? Explain.
post by class time on friday.
Monday, February 06, 2006
1020- Response for week of Feb 6
This week we will be talking about culture and watching a video called Tough Guise. What does it mean to put on a 'guise'? What does Jackson Katz (from the video) have to say about how gender is constructed in our society? How do we learn to 'act' masculine or feminine? Use some specific examples from the video to explain your response.
Post by class time on Friday.
Post by class time on Friday.
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Guidelines for Personal Essay Group Review
The guidelines are posted below. You might want to print them out so you can follow them while responding. Please follow these, respond to your group members' papers with specific written comments (you can post comments to the blog; use email if something doesn't work right with that), and print and attach the comments to your draft. On Monday turn in the final, revised version of the paper along with the draft from Friday with the printed comments. Please email me with any questions/issues.
Also, please note the sections in the SF writer that you may find helpful in writing your essay. Flip through and find the places that may be most relevant to your particular writing situation:
Part 1: Working as a Writer
Part 2: Shaping Language
Part 7: Understanding Grammar
1020 Darling
Guidelines for Personal Essay Group Review
Please respond to at least 3 papers from your group. Look at the comments and respond to those who have not otherwise received comments (ie. make sure everyone in your group gets 3 readings/sets of comments in response to their paper). Please send me email if you are having trouble getting comments on your paper from your group members.
To the Writer: Write a little about the purpose and audience for your essay and attach it to the bottom of your essay blog post so your group members can see what you’ve said about the following: What are you trying to accomplish and how does the paper go about doing that? Who is your audience for this paper and how did you take that into consideration while writing?
To the Reader:
Write comments to the writer’s blog post that respond specifically and thoughtfully to the following:
Does the essay have a clear focus? What is it; what is the main idea?
Is the essay clearly and fully developed around this focus/main idea? How might the writer focus more clearly? Do places in the essay need further explanation and development? Where (point these out specifically in your comments to the writer) and how might these places be further developed? Does the writer need to use more or more specific examples as support for the claims s/he is making? Respond and explain.
How is the essay organized? Offer the writer suggestions for more effectively organizing the material in the essay.
Does the essay cohere? Does it flow clearly and effectively; does it make sense from beginning to end? Do the individual paragraphs make sense from sentence to sentence. Are they thoughtful and fully developed? Are there any paragraphs that need to be expanded or are there places that need more explanation? Are the individual sentences grammatically and structurally correct? Are there sentence-level errors that need to be fixed? Explain and respond specifically and fully so that the writer can revise her/his paper effectively.
Also, please note the sections in the SF writer that you may find helpful in writing your essay. Flip through and find the places that may be most relevant to your particular writing situation:
Part 1: Working as a Writer
Part 2: Shaping Language
Part 7: Understanding Grammar
1020 Darling
Guidelines for Personal Essay Group Review
Please respond to at least 3 papers from your group. Look at the comments and respond to those who have not otherwise received comments (ie. make sure everyone in your group gets 3 readings/sets of comments in response to their paper). Please send me email if you are having trouble getting comments on your paper from your group members.
To the Writer: Write a little about the purpose and audience for your essay and attach it to the bottom of your essay blog post so your group members can see what you’ve said about the following: What are you trying to accomplish and how does the paper go about doing that? Who is your audience for this paper and how did you take that into consideration while writing?
To the Reader:
Write comments to the writer’s blog post that respond specifically and thoughtfully to the following:
Does the essay have a clear focus? What is it; what is the main idea?
Is the essay clearly and fully developed around this focus/main idea? How might the writer focus more clearly? Do places in the essay need further explanation and development? Where (point these out specifically in your comments to the writer) and how might these places be further developed? Does the writer need to use more or more specific examples as support for the claims s/he is making? Respond and explain.
How is the essay organized? Offer the writer suggestions for more effectively organizing the material in the essay.
Does the essay cohere? Does it flow clearly and effectively; does it make sense from beginning to end? Do the individual paragraphs make sense from sentence to sentence. Are they thoughtful and fully developed? Are there any paragraphs that need to be expanded or are there places that need more explanation? Are the individual sentences grammatically and structurally correct? Are there sentence-level errors that need to be fixed? Explain and respond specifically and fully so that the writer can revise her/his paper effectively.
Tuesday, January 31, 2006
a good blog to look at
since it's on the internet we might as well share cool stuff...here is a blog from another 1020 class...you can read through to get an idea of what the assignments were which prompted the particular responses.
http://1falsemove.blogspot.com
http://1falsemove.blogspot.com
my own relationship to detroit
this is a topic/essay long in the waiting and will not be at all covered in the space of this five minute blog... so here is a short list of thinking on this as we have been talking in our 1020 class, and, the superbowl will be held in downtown detroit this coming weekend for the first time ever...well the first time it will be in detroit, it is the XLth superbowl if you know how to read those kinds of numbers...
the short list:
-superbowl...have to go downtown and take some photos of the fancification of the d. i've heard in places buildings are being covered for aesthetic purposes...is this a rumor or is it true??
-superbowl...the homeless people are being rounded up to get them out of the way for the weekend, but i think they are also having some special events and activities for them at the local area shelters/organizations...they are asking for donations...the biggest money event in d's recent history and the homeless need donations to be fed for the weekend...
-wayne state...having returned to the city after years of living away (mariana islands, new mexico, colorado, connecticut) after first attending u of d mercy across town...getting to know the culture of wayne to begin with and reknow the culture of the city. it's nice to be urban. i also love walking in the woods. my hope is that one day d. will be spiffied up enough so that you could walk down woodward, say from the wsu area, all the way to downtown and have shops and restaurants and art gallerys and etc neat stuff (not even trendy fancy stuff like royal oak but just regular commercial business and city stuff...pedestrian stuff...commerce and stimulation of the urban space...). that is one idea. last year i spend time in nyc in which you can walk for miles etc... i mean, you can walk down woodward now, but there is not a whole lot to do and see.
-essay project...i have in mind a couple of writing projects that involve walking around, visiting different areas of the city, writing short pieces in response to the space the place (but not in the sun ra sense of outer space though sometimes in some areas of d. you feel like you are on another planet not in the 1st world usa the wealthiest country on this planet...so maybe this is in some way related to sun ra and his ideas...)...i also was thinking about doing a quick version of this with the superbowl downtown scenes writing that up whatnot...i think photos are important...or filmaking...amateur documentaries of the mysterious and underrated, underdiscussed city of d. ok, so, yes, documenting detroit in a way...
that's all for now, keep thinking and watch as the people pile in for the weekend.
the short list:
-superbowl...have to go downtown and take some photos of the fancification of the d. i've heard in places buildings are being covered for aesthetic purposes...is this a rumor or is it true??
-superbowl...the homeless people are being rounded up to get them out of the way for the weekend, but i think they are also having some special events and activities for them at the local area shelters/organizations...they are asking for donations...the biggest money event in d's recent history and the homeless need donations to be fed for the weekend...
-wayne state...having returned to the city after years of living away (mariana islands, new mexico, colorado, connecticut) after first attending u of d mercy across town...getting to know the culture of wayne to begin with and reknow the culture of the city. it's nice to be urban. i also love walking in the woods. my hope is that one day d. will be spiffied up enough so that you could walk down woodward, say from the wsu area, all the way to downtown and have shops and restaurants and art gallerys and etc neat stuff (not even trendy fancy stuff like royal oak but just regular commercial business and city stuff...pedestrian stuff...commerce and stimulation of the urban space...). that is one idea. last year i spend time in nyc in which you can walk for miles etc... i mean, you can walk down woodward now, but there is not a whole lot to do and see.
-essay project...i have in mind a couple of writing projects that involve walking around, visiting different areas of the city, writing short pieces in response to the space the place (but not in the sun ra sense of outer space though sometimes in some areas of d. you feel like you are on another planet not in the 1st world usa the wealthiest country on this planet...so maybe this is in some way related to sun ra and his ideas...)...i also was thinking about doing a quick version of this with the superbowl downtown scenes writing that up whatnot...i think photos are important...or filmaking...amateur documentaries of the mysterious and underrated, underdiscussed city of d. ok, so, yes, documenting detroit in a way...
that's all for now, keep thinking and watch as the people pile in for the weekend.
Monday, January 30, 2006
Response assignment for 1020 week of Jan 30
Write 2-3 paragraphs about your Personal Essay. What are you writing about? Which articles from the book did you choose to use? Why did you choose these; why are these articles interesting to you?
Monday, January 23, 2006
Response assignment for 1020-week of Jan 21
Copy this assignment and respond to it on your blog with a clearly labled title such as: blog response for the week of jan 21.
Your assignment this week:
Write 2-3 paragraphs about your relation to detroit and/or the metro area using examples from, or references to any of the articles we read about the suburbs or the city.
The responses are due before class on Friday.
Your assignment this week:
Write 2-3 paragraphs about your relation to detroit and/or the metro area using examples from, or references to any of the articles we read about the suburbs or the city.
The responses are due before class on Friday.
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