Computers and Writing

Chapter 13

The World Wide Web has experienced expansive growth creating outlets for personal expression, popular culture and ways for businesses to develop economic plans based on this technological explosion. Hewlett-Packard has done this through its conception of Cooltown where a future is envisioned as a wireless and wired world where human lives are connected with [...]

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The Beats, named for their feelings of despair, were a group of disenfranchised young, white, educated writers in New York and San Francisco who created a new American literary movement dealing with rebellion against the status quo. Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs were two writers from this group who created this new form of [...]

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Plagiarism is using another person’s ideas and/or creations for your own profit or gain, without giving the original creator credit.  The material plagiarized is not normally from an easily recognizable source.  On the other hand, sampling uses iconic material, easily recognizable creations and remixes the material creating something new that is easily recognizable and identifiable [...]

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Rice’s argument in chapter 6 is that the term cool can be broken down into three different levels as noted by Amiri Baraka, a noted poet and playwright who emerged in the 60s during the civil rights era.  These levels are, the cultural level, the economic level and the political level.
His argument is that [...]

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In Chapter 1, Rice defines cool and how it has evolved from the associations with James Dean and Marlon Brando to today’s personalities like Snoop Dog and Jay-Z. Independence and rebelliousness are defining attributes of cool. Cool is associated with a certain mystique, excitement and intrigue. Cool is what we embrace as [...]

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The essay “Cats, Man’s Other Best Friend” by Anthony J. O’Malley caught my eye because I happen to love cats. Well actually, I love animals in general, but cats have a special place in my heart and in my life.
The website O’Malley designed is very simple with no links and a single long page. [...]

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