I want to use that medium, telescopic text, to tell the story of getting my spine fused six years ago.  It’s something I don’t really talk about any nor do many people know because my scar i hidden, but I feel like it may make so an interesting story.  I want to maybe use poetic language or a poetic form which the story unfolds, but all in all I want it to be the story of being aware of scoliosis and my struggle of living with it.  

I also want to bring into it how I am now and possible include my X-rays but I’m not entirely sure how I will do this.  That I’ve still go to figure out.

My response to my creative project will go into depth the thought process and what I hoped I achieved my audience to receive from my creative project. 

My final project is to go transparent for a day. I have been looking on the internet on how I can do that. I really want it to be streamed live. There is an app called Ustream. This app allows you to stream live video from your iPhone directly onto the internet. I haven’t tried […]

Stephanie blogs about an article she found on using Google Glass and going transparent: google glass post a comment on her blog… TRIGGER WARNING: DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

TRIGGER WARNING: Domestic Violence. Discretion advised. In class today we talked about becoming or being transparent (for a day) as a creative idea for our final project. Just when we thought that this was something that no one had ever thought about – we are proven wrong. I just found a website in where a […]

I want to take the option of writing a critical piece for my final project. I want to concentrate on one of two things: privacy and education.  As many may already know in the class I am very interested in how our privacy rights are slowly being challenged in this new digital era. In “The Circle,” we […]

After reading the novel I think back to the character Mae. We know companies that are similar to the Circle but of course not as drastic. These companies always employ young adults and it makes sense that Mae was chosen. Being so young the company is able to mold you into anything they want. Mae, […]

  “Privacy is theft” If we keep an idea to ourselves is it really theft? To say theft means that there must have been ownership to an idea. I don’t think that any idea can be owned by any one person but there are limits to these things. I don’t feel it necessary to express […]

I would actually like to keep this review of The Circle as general short, sweet, simple and painless as possible, because if I do talk about it in length, it will only turn into an angry rant that would do nothing for the integrity of the book.So in ge...

There are just so many characters I want to talk about: Mae, Kalden, creepy Francis...But there is one I actually want to focus on for the sake of this response: Mercer.Mercer is the ex-boyfriend of protagonist Mae Holland. They really don't seem to ge...

ALL THAT HAPPENS MUST BE KNOWNIt is one of the earlier aphorisms we see in The Circle, probably, as the story goes on, one of the least... unsettling (surprising, I know). It is here we start to get a feel of what The Circle (as a company) entails. The...

The Circle has no end. Everything is connected and the end eventually will lead to the beginning. The circle is closed. and that is where Mae Holland is. She is closed. Completely closed from privacy. She is not a thief, she shares everything, and she eventually will be a top rated employee. But she is […]

http://productivemuslim.com/the-attitude-of-gratitude-a-productive-muslims-approach-to-life/ OK, so this is not an annoying way to advocate Islam, but seriously, after reading this article, I thought that the best part of it teaches an important life lesson: TO BE GRATEFUL!!!! Aaaaaaah!!! It is such a shame that we are taught to be competitors and in some way humans are greedy, be […]

 A rose by another name, would smell as sweet.                                                      -William Sha...

I’ve decided to use the website: http://www.telescopictext.org/ and create a story via this website.  It is a very interesting website in that each word that is clicked on brings about a new type of story of sentence.  All of this is personal and you can change the words and sentences as you please. 

I believe that this will be an interesting project because it has a personal.creative approach to it, yet it is entirely “English oriented” in the sense that I will be creating a literary work of some sort.  I want to try and figure out how I can incorporate visuals to the the telescopic text if possible.  I plan to try things that are out of the obvious when it comes to the website.

I am eager to begin writing because this will be my first time using telescopic text at all and I look forward to seeing how it comes out. 

Okay.So, I know I was supposed to post this a while back, but things got a little hectic. It's a really simple layout some of the blanks that previously existed filled out with what was on the final project.So commentary:I originally had no idea what I...

For my final project, I would like to work on a somewhat creative project: A Manifesto of Privacy Rights in the Digital Age. After reading The Circle and its motto, “Privacy is theft,” as well as the article “Why Facebook is Wrong About Privacy” by Marshall Kirkpatrick, I realize the importance of privacy on the internet […]

Remember to begin thinking about your final project and to post about it on your blog. Have a great weekend! This is Not a Poem

That’s a tentative title, of course.   For my final project for English in the Digital Age, for the sake of this blog and all of you, my lovely followers, and for the sake of knowledge and communities of critical thought, I will be developing a critical, multimedia essay reading social media through a Foucauldian […]

The Circle by Dave Eggers is a metaphor for the increasing role of technology and social media in today’s society. Readers are encouraged to view the effects of technology through the eyes of Mae Holland, a young woman who has just managed to get a job at The Circle. Initially, The Circle is a utopia of young […]

Well, I finished The Circle. Here is my book review: “Encircled by The Circle“ Dave Egger’s The Circle is a dystopia of the world of the Circle, a purely technologically dominated world. The Circle is an internet company whose TruYou invention, a way to be “truly you” on the internet by having one identity, one password, […]

The passage which I will be responding to is when Mae goes to dinner with her parents and her mother explains to her that she saw an old friend and began “bragging” about how well Mae is doing and threw in the amount of money that she makes. 

This scene made me laugh because all in all it was such a typical response as well as action of a proud parent.  Every parent wants to place their child in the spot light and Mae’s mother sure did here; talking up Mae and her job beyond belief (even though it is a very hot job), and throwing in her annual pay. 

I guess it made me laugh because I can mostly see my own mother doing exactly this. ;P

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When I first read this I immediately thought “colt”! But as I thought more about this aphorism, I began to realize how very true this is today.  For instance, think about twitter, and instagram specifically… Both of these social media outlets create a sense of immediacy and telling specific instances.  I mean, you can even link your location to your tweets and instagram posts!  You are truly letting everyone who follows you (stalkers and all) to see into your daily life and then some.  What you had for breakfast, when you got your nails done, where you wen out with the girls last week, that you’re on vacation and your house is empty (hello…burglaries!), and so on…. the list goes on and on.  So as I read through the pages of The Circle, yes things seem kind of crazy at some points, but when you step back and let it process, you realize that we are already at a minute level of what is going on in the novel.

Just finished. I’m still reflecting, and I don’t often write reviews of books right after I finish them–gotta let it marinate. This one is certainly still marinating. But, if I don’t force myself to write it now, I don’t know if I’ll care enough to when I’m five days out. Overall, I like it much […]

‘Okay, with that kind of thing, one of two things will eventually happen. First, we’ll realize that whatever behavior we’re talking about is so widespread and harmless that it needn’t be secret. If we demystify it, if we admit that it’s something we all do, then it loses its power to shock. We move toward […]

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Reading a physical book means I highlight differently. Reading a physical book means I can’t just drag my finger over a moment that fascinates me. Instead, I have to unsettle myself, find my pen, underline, attempt to annotate legibly, and maybe flip to the front of the book for a sticky tab. Reading a physical […]

Please finish The Circle for Thursday. Spoiler alert: we will be talking about events that happen toward the end of the novel. Please also consider your reading of Mae’s relationships: Annie, Kalden, Frances, Mercer, her parents… FYI: LuvLuv–no lulu!

There were multiple connections I made as I read through the circle that were kind of creepy. The first one occurred when the class mentioned that this company, which is trying to connect the world, is cult-like. This brought to mind Apple and the “Cult of Apple.” It was brought up a few years that […]