Computers and Writing

Chapter 13 begins with Rice associating cool with technology. Hewlett-Packard has envisioned our future as Cooltown.  Cooltown is a place where everything in life is intermingled with technology. There are two basic terms on this website relevant to our own idea of cool writing, mobility and interlinking of distinct activities.  The vision of cool from Hewlett-Packard [...]

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Chapter 11 focuses on “The Beats,” a group of writers in New York City after World War II.  Rice narrows it down to two of the writers, Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs because they each introduced new approaches to the construction of discourse.  The focus begins with Kerouac and the introduction of spontaneous writing, [...]

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Plagiarism and remixing are two different concepts as described by my group. We defined plagiarism as the blatent stealing of someone else’s work and trying to pass it off as your own for profit, whether it be money, fame, or a good grade, without any reference to the original author. Remixing on the other hand, [...]

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I believe Rice’s argument in chapter 6 is that culture, like “cool,” has changed over time.  The origins of cool can be traced back to African Culture, as discovered by Robert Farris Thompson with the word “itutu.”  “Itutu” is the Yoruban culture’s way of describing cool.  Rice points out how much white culture uses an [...]

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Chapter 1
Rice begins this chapter with the question, what is cool? It is synonymous with Marlon Brando and James Dean. Rice defines it with two words, independence and rebelliousness, or at least that was the way cool was defined, through the years it has changed meanings, depending on the generation. Rice states that Jay-Z [...]

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Ed and Toby: A Christmas Tale by Kevin Kardos I chose this project because I hate to read poetry. Most of the other projects were poems, and the other designs were quite depressing looking. This short story had some great pictures and they really drew me in. This project is a creative short story about [...]

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