I think I have maintained the minimum requirements to maintain a B in the class, but I know I can do better. I have only missed class once from being sick, and I have never been late. To reach for the A level I want to start being more active on my blog and making more time to focus on this class. I feel like with my hectic Aesthetics class and (thankfully over) module for Wolff, I always pushed this class to the back burner. Now that the nightmare module is done with I can focus more on this class and I will. Especially since I like this blog and I plan to continue to use it more. I know I have a lot of personal issues and family issues at the moment, but I have to try to forget about them because school is very important to me. Graduation is right around the corner, and I am going to make the best of my situation and make it through.
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Feedback: I would like to know if the idea of including the Don't Ask Don't Tell issue in my project even makes sense (because Don't Ask Don't Tell is gone, non-existant). I want to make it a story that begins in the time of Don't Ask Don't Tell and ends with the election. It's supposed to (and will now that I can get out of bed) include Obama's views on Gay marriage and his plans for legalization of it. I still need to screen shot and include tweets. My main issue with my project (as is) is that the series of letters I'm using to tell the story have to be written out by hand and then taken a picture of. Does my use of characters telling their story through "letters" work as a repetend? Is the storyline too far-fetched to be believable? Also, does anyone have any suggestions on how to change the layout of my project? I'm not happy with it.
More to come soon! I wasn't old enough to vote in the last election, but I have been a registered voter for about a year and a half now. In my town we vote at the courthouse, next to the police station. Luckily, because I am a commuter and I still live at home, I don't have to fill out an absentee ballot or re-register here in Glassboro. I do plan to vote, and I plan to vote for Obama. I believe in Obama for the fact that he supports the legalization of gay marriage, and that is a big deal to me. (hence the reason I chose that for my project.)
Computer based technology is most definitely changing writing as a whole. Writing used to be tedious and slow, each letter written by hand with a piece of coal. Then the pencil came about. Then type writer sped up that process, made it a little easier, and now the computer and cell phone and tablet make writing an almost instantaneous process. Things like spell check and autocorrect work for the user to correct mistakes effortlessly, unlike in the days of white out. The computer revolutionized writing by making it easier and moer accesable to people on a broader scale. People in China can have instantaneous conversation with a person in New York through the internet. In my project I talk about Don't Ask Don't Tell. The photographer who took those photos shared them with the world, and his story, in protest of Don't Ask Don't Tell. Without use of the computer this information would have taken weeks or months to reach the rest of the country. Newspapers might not have even run the story
In the article "The Essentials of Micro-Fiction" Camille Renshaw gives examples and ideas on how to write good flash fiction. I think that the most important thing she says in this article is about readers discovering something personal or intimate about a character in a short space. I tend to overwrite when writing a story, often explaining way too much. The idea behind flash fiction is to leave the reader wondering, don't give any back story. No one wants to hear your whole life story anyway. I also really like the 50 word stories blog. I read a few that I liked so much I saved them to my computer (especially the one about the arrow, "drop your bow, raise your arm, don't look back. just catch it") So now on to my flash fiction story: He walked in the front door. “Hi, how are you doing?” he asked. “I’m nervous,” I said, shutting and locking the door. “Really nervous.” “You don’t have anything to worry about,” he reassured me as he took in the small living room. “I won’t show anyone your face.” I went around shutting all of the blinds, locking all of the windows. “Can I see the pictures once you’re done?” “Sure,” he said, casually taking off his jacket and setting it on the couch with his camera bag. “I can’t have my commanding officer find out,” I said, glancing around my small apartment. Gray walls, beige carpet, single bed, single chair. So lonely. So desolate. “This is all I have. If they find out, if Sean gets found out…” “Is Sean your partner?” he asked. “Yeah,” I sighed. “He won’t be here today. He wasn’t comfortable with this.” “I understand completely,” he said. “I would be wary to trust anyone with a camera to my secret.” I nodded. “Where should we do this?” I asked. I wanted to get this over with. “Can I take a look around first? See what I have to work with?” I nodded. I followed him through my living room around my meager living space. He looked in on my small, yellowed kitchen with its card table and single chair. From here to my tiny bathroom, complete with standard toilet, semi-functioning sink and dirty shower. Silently we entered my bedroom. Gray, gray, gray. “I’m sorry it’s so… bare…” I said. “It’s fine,” he replied. “I know these are standard issue. It’s easier this way anyway, less revealing details in the photo.” I blinked. “So did you want to get started?” he asked me. “Sure,” I mumbled. “Where do I…?” “Lets start out on the bed. Just sit at the end, lean with your hands over your face.” Not so hard to do. I was already exhausted. “Stand against the wall. Now look out the window.” Flash. “Sit in the wooden chair. Just look straight ahead.” Flash. “Jump up and down on your bed.” Flash. Flash. Flash. I could feel million of eyes watching me. Judging me. All focused into one tiny flash from a solitary man. I wasn’t brave; I was a coward. I wanted to hide. “Did you want to see the photos now?” he asked. I nodded. Frame by frame every shot showed a sad man with no face. Anonymous in his fatigues and gray walls. “This one is my favorite,” he said. “I think it sends a powerful message.” An anonymous body seemingly hanging from an anonymous gray ceiling. “Is this good?” I nodded. 1. My topic is equal rights/freedom to marry for homosexual couples.
2. So far what I know about my topic is that Obama supports the Freedom to Marry and Romney doesn't. I also know that the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy that kept many servicemen and servicewomen in the closet was abolished, but there are talks of putting a new policy into place that will keep gay couples from marrying. 3. What I want to learn about is the plan for Obama if he wins the re-election. How will he support gay couples who want to have the freedom to marry? How will he go about creating a law that allows for same sex marriages? How important is this issue to him? 4. Some of the sources I have found so far are articles discussing Obama's viewpoint on the Freedom to Marry. Many of them tell how Obama switched sides from being against same sex marriage to being for it after some thought on the subject. The most interesting source I have so far is the article written by a man who photographed closeted servicemen and servicewomen during the Don't Ask Don't Tell period of time. I have a radio interview with the photographer, his personal website with the photos themselves, and an article that he wrote a year after the end of Don't Ask Don't Tell. 5. I'm not entirely sure what form I want my project to take. I think I would like it to be multimodal. 6. I think I would like to create a series of letters from a homosexual serviceman to Obama asking for help with his Right to Marry anyone he chooses. I may also take pictures on some friends with their partners to represent the photos that I found in one of my sources. 7. I think pictures would be one of the best modes to use in my project, especially since I found the photos taken for the Don't Ask Don't Tell project. These pictures are very moving, and as they say, "a picture is worth a thousand words" 8. I honestly have no idea how to create a timeline, so would someone please comment below and help me with this? 9. I would like feedback from the question above, and also on how I should go about presenting the Freedom to Marry platform to audiences. If I could find a speech from President Obama and maybe a counter speech from Romney to have playing in the background I think it would be beneficial. Possibly have some of the more upsetting pictures from the Don't Ask Don't Tell project laid out on the page with Romney bashing gays in the background. Any thoughts? |
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