Wednesday, September 30, 2009

9/30/09 Reading for 9/28-30

For this week's blog, I decided to read From Silence to Words: Writing as Struggle, by Min-Zhan Lu. p153-162. What I found most interesting about this reading was how much the English language was condescended upon during the Anti-Rightist movement. Just speaking the language itself was considered an anti-revolutionary act and for the author, made life much more difficult in the midst of the two conflicting worlds. Transitioning between the "home" and "school" languages could not have been done without contradicting one or the other. The same concept also surprised me in the sense that once she became fluent in the voice of the Working-Class student, the English meaning of the word "class" began to lose its meaning to her, after much exposure to her "home" life. I agreed with pretty much everything she wrote in her piece, because it was an autobiography to some extent and. Overall, I thought this real-life experience of the author was a very enlightening story to read and really depicted how the struggle between her "home" and "school" life caused her to go through the hardships and confusion at such a young age. It really makes us think about how far the education system progressed from that time to the day today.

B Choe

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

9/23/09 Group Punctuation Project

Well, first off. Lets say this is one of the more "outlandish" group projects that I've done in the history of all the group projects that I've done. A powerpoint presentation about a semicolon...Although the educational value was great in the sense that I actually learned all the uses of a semicolon, in about 99% of the writing that I have done, I have never used a semicolon, much less thought of incorporating one in my material. Maybe its b.c. English is not my first language or maybe its the fact I'd rather use the simple comma, in use with a conjunction word to get the same point across. Either way, I hardly think I'll ever use the semicolon unless its required for something. Fun, quick, easy group assignment that I think was slightly out of the ordinary, but an easy A nonetheless. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

-B choe

Wednesday, September 9, 2009

9/10/09 First Blogg

I guess I'll do my first blog post on the youtube video we saw last class about the drastic changes our world undergoes every day. Some pretty interesting stuff, particularly the one segment where the # of text messages sent/received each day exceeds the population of the planet. I was surprised that every 8 seconds, 34 babies are born. which means on average, every day 367,200 people are added to the population. Pretty much agreed on everything and disagreed on nothing since it was a video based on facts and there's nothing much I could do to dispute the evidence in the clip. Even though the clip was only 4:13 long, it captured my attention through the whole duration primarily b.c it presents things that a normal human would overlook or wouldn't even think about on a daily basis. Although it was the shortened version of the original, it did its job of convincing me that the world we live in everyday is changing exponentially. Crazy stuff.

-B Choe

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

9/03/09 Visual Narrative Topic

For my visual narrative, I will discuss and present my experience with music during my life and how it helped me communicate in a different way then with the words you speak. From my childhood experiences with the piano and saxophone, to my teen years playing and teaching guitar, I learned that with music, you are able to express emotions with diversity, creativity, and passion.