Jack and Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were beat writers. They did not stay with the status quo when it came to writing. Their literature dealt with alienation, marginality, and rebellion. “They often tried to replicate in their own writnigs the ways in which technolgy functions.” Spontaneous writing has run on sentences and jumps from [...]
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Reading Response 4
November 8th, 2005 · Comments Off
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Reading Response 3
October 16th, 2005 · Comments Off
Remix is a mixture of many original ideas that become one new idea. Plagiarism is taking someone’s original work and making it your own. The difference is that remixes are many ideas made into one. That will take some originality in the process. Plagiarism is taking one idea and and making it your own with [...]
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Reading Response 2
October 16th, 2005 · 6 Comments
Cool is culturally constructed by religion, media, literature music, family traditon, and fashion. Evertything is culturally constructed. They are not ideas that are not taken from literature, but passed down from generation to generation. Culture is a major part of cool. In the 1960’s it was cool for whites to be better than blacks. It [...]
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Reading Response 1
October 6th, 2005 · 9 Comments
Chapter 1 Cool Media
This chapter begins defining the word cool. Cool can be spelled kewl or kool. We can always relate cool to what’s popular or hip. Rap music has been cool in my generation since I could walk. This chapter names Digable Planets, Fab Freddy Five, Snoop Dog and Jay-z all are [...]
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Happiness in a Terminal
September 22nd, 2005 · 1 Comment
I picked Happiness in a Terminal by Brigette Lee from the Neovox website. The article was about how most people hate airports and are always traveling. The author does not have the pleasure of traveling and going to the airport. This is a great experience for her. Airports are a celebration for families. Working men [...]
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