Home might be like...

a rainy day without an umbrella. Sure it would suck to get caught in the rain and all your clothes and stuff be soaked. It can make you want to rip your hair out because its wet or throw your ruined stuff as far away as you can. But sometimes the rain can be refreshing. If its hot outside then being outside when its raining can feel nice. Like when i went to see blink 182 at jones beach it was pouring throughout the whole concert but it was amazing even though it was raining. So sometimes home can be bad but other times its perfect.

Home is not like...

a rainy day without an umbrella
a sunny day at the beach without sunscreen
when your computer crashes
broken bones 
a storm


a day at the circus. A day at the circus is crazy, theres lots of things going on in a three ring circus. There are animals, people, freaks, clowns. All these things aren't in my home. My house is quiet and organized. Everything has its place where it belongs. In a circus something is always going on, theres never any downtime. When I'm home its because I'm not at work or school. That downtime to sleep or watch tv keeps me going through the next day to repeat it all again. I love that my house isnt like a circus. I dont have any animals and i dont live with any freaks. Just peace and quiet.  

Home is like...

Home is like a bubble. Everyone is the same and there's minimal diversity in Levittown. It can be restricting and suffocating but when its the only thing that you know, you accept it and learn to live with it.

Coney Island of the Mind

     After watching this documentary my first reaction was wow. I want to be able to write like this. Her essay was absolutely incredible. The video only enhanced the essay but the essay can actually stand on its own. I  watched it again but only listened to it the second time and her words were still just as powerful. Her diction and analogy to Coney Island as being just a figure of her imagination was  really unexpected but a welcome surprise.
     This essay had the ability of making me feel like i was at coney island which ive never been to before but i felt as if i knew exactly where she was taking me. The ability for someone to do that with only words is an exceptional talent and one that i wished i possessed. 

Inkshed Ch. 3

One thing in todays world that is important to everyone is immediacy. Everyone needs everything instantly. Both hypermedia and transparent media offer this immediacy this new form of electronic writing is out to remidiate another because it is claiming to do a better job. Books take a while to write, become edited, printed and distributed. Hypertext is instantaneous. Blogs can be posted, edited (after the fact) and commented on the minute its out on the internet. This is better than the printed book because it enhances the reading experience.
     Hypertext's immediacy makes it a very powerful and influential form of remediation because it makes writing accessible and easy to everyone, not just people who are fond of writing. By linking pages together with just one click of the mouse, it connects several ideas that a person wouldnt be able to see if they were using a book.

Like You Know?

      Performance plays a major role when Taylor Mali performs "Like you know". When his facial expressions and movements are visible it has more of an impact on the viewer than just the poem video. His whole argument is more convincing when he is performing. His mannerisms add to the point that he's trying to make.
     The interpretation that the spoken word gives is the advantage of making his whole purpose valid. He talks with his hands and the diction that he uses says that the people of today really don't know what they're talking about. It just doesnt have the same effect when solely looking at the text.
    The poem is just that, the poem. It doesn't have the same feeling or excitement that Taylor Mali gives when in front of an audience. It is essentially at a disadvantage because looking at the two separately, im not convinced by the poem; i am convinced from the video.

Fear of Writing

    I'm not necessarily afraid of writing, more like afraid of how people will perceive my writing. Wondering if i used the right words,  if they liked my argument or they were silently tearing it apart. But it's something that must be done, if you don't write then how will other people know what you think. They're not mind readers, just regular readers. 
     I don't take writing as seriously as Jacques Derrida because I don't think that anything i write will profoundly change anyone's life. Thats not to say anyone's writing wont change the outcome of anything, look at Thomas Paine's Common Sense this started the Revolutionary War, Uncle Tom's Cabin started the Civil War. The Jungle led to a total re-evaluation of the governments standards on food. Writing has the potential to change anything, you just need the proper audience to effect that change.

Chapter 1 Prezi on Bolter :)

http://prezi.com/cpbafxzd2x99/bolter-chapter-1/

The Machine is Using Us

Writing is a technology, it is ever changing, ever moving, creating, and deleting. The only thing that's different is the way that one uses to write it. We're no longer using ink and quills, pens and pencils, or typewriters but laptops, computers, ipads anything. But its all digital. The people are still using their ideas, they're just displaying them in a separate platform. Writing is very powerful. It expresses your ideas, feelings, views and beliefs. The technologies or machines that we use are powerful because it makes everyone's ideas easier to access and influence people all around the world.