True Blood Reviews
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/37277/true-blood-the-complete-first-season/
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/42870/true-blood-the-complete-second-season/
http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/49109/true-blood-the-complete-third-season/
**wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Blood
other reviews
http://www.hollywood.com/news/TV_Review_HBOs_True_Blood/5304849
EBSCO
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=4&hid=21&sid=e465cf28-f6f1-46ef-94e6-5c557c3afcab%40sessionmgr12&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=a9h&AN=61411082
Southern Stereotypes
http://cornellsun.com/node/21713
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
FInal Project Ideas
True Blood: Television Series
Theme: Culture
Thesis Question:
One theme I may use is Southern Cultural Stereotypes and it's exaggeration through the shows characters
or Growing Acceptance or Exclusion to Diff Religions (and/or) Beliefs
Monday, August 8, 2011
Responce to "Kitchen of Meaning"
In the "Kitchen of Meaning" by Roland Barthes reading is a symbol for analyzing with all you senses. The text becomes everything you encounter in life "imgages, gesture, behavior" of the world around us (B,Roland). Its how we analyze things to see wether they appear more complex then our eyes see. We give objects value when we use it to symbolize more then its general purpose. The man who invented the door created as access way to one room from another or even outside.He didn't mean for it to symbolize privacy,closure, or new beginnings. A door opens and closes but it has nothing to do with new offerings or experiences brought into my life, not physically atleast.
He shows us how things that are natural to others isn't neccessarily natural. You can easily defend that saying what's natural to you isn't natural to me. Its natural for me to draw, natural for you to teach. My natural isn't your natural or even the general society or enviromental natural relatively speaking. Everything is given significance to be natural to some one or place. It can also be means to something else. This scarf reminds me of a time, this time reminds me of a lesson, reminds of a person, who bought me this very scarf. Everythings becomes interchangable with little thought so it can flow os seem to flow naturally. If you take away the words remind me it will no longer have anything to do with eachother; thus becoming a scarf, a person, an experience, a lesson. We give the object meaning. (Meaning also meaning "Signification") that " becomes the mode of thought of the modern world".
He shows us how things that are natural to others isn't neccessarily natural. You can easily defend that saying what's natural to you isn't natural to me. Its natural for me to draw, natural for you to teach. My natural isn't your natural or even the general society or enviromental natural relatively speaking. Everything is given significance to be natural to some one or place. It can also be means to something else. This scarf reminds me of a time, this time reminds me of a lesson, reminds of a person, who bought me this very scarf. Everythings becomes interchangable with little thought so it can flow os seem to flow naturally. If you take away the words remind me it will no longer have anything to do with eachother; thus becoming a scarf, a person, an experience, a lesson. We give the object meaning. (Meaning also meaning "Signification") that " becomes the mode of thought of the modern world".
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Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Response To Michael Wesh's Video
There are or is a major difference in texting/typing and writing on paper. The internet has gone as far as containing paragraph in what wouldn't be a word on paper for example <ln>. The texting has become abbreviated and it bleeds into how we write and as far as the workplace when we have to email superiors or subordenints. I do agree because I've experienced it going back and forth texting my cousin who writes in $YMB0LZ instead of the English language, not even complete or abbreviations of the words( but we have that familiarity and understanding). The more technology that is invented and used the more we lose the language itself, yes we speak it but we don't write it cause for the most part everyone recognizes the abbreviations. With abbreviations replacing words we have to relate time and place to find out what it means 'gm ' on Facebook 'good morning', in the office 'general manager'. "We are now at the point of creating a new language within the language" said (Billy T.).
With texting slang is becoming more mainstream, we speak emotions through the way we text examples being the use of slang, all uppercase, or entirely too many exclamation marks, smiley face, lols, and abbreviations. We don't speak or we don't speak in a way that is respectful (whether it be in a nice or disrespectful tone) that depending on the relationship to each other setting a partial means to how much respect we have for each other as well. People will soon forget how to socialize in public places, but then again we see that all over the news through the lesson our young community shows us they've learned from earlier generations and mutated in newer generations expressed in new ways.
So we may only contact each other through text, instant messaging, email, phone, or video chat to the point we don't need to see each other, I'll see you when I go online. We tell the computer what to do and like us it learns and stores it in its database (which is limited) the computer is nothing but what we have created it to be. We limit the characters allowed in text, blog, and emails so that we don't overload computer to the point it burns out, freezes, or misreads; we also taught the computer how to store paragraphs in symbols and abbreviations such as <ln>. We set the limitations so we are nothing more then what we've created in our technology, and this is why and how we've lost our ability to socialize whether it be online or in person; with each other in a respectful or even to our educational teachings we've gone so long basing a humans worth and trust on. In the end we are what we've created and although there is always something new being created we still limit ourselves. We've created better technology but in a way listen to what we've created or the lessons we gave our technology and this shows in the way we write online and how it bleeds into the way we write on paper. We find new ways to avoid more labor in simple task, shorthand was once for notes now it's all some people know (this statement being self explanatory).
With texting slang is becoming more mainstream, we speak emotions through the way we text examples being the use of slang, all uppercase, or entirely too many exclamation marks, smiley face, lols, and abbreviations. We don't speak or we don't speak in a way that is respectful (whether it be in a nice or disrespectful tone) that depending on the relationship to each other setting a partial means to how much respect we have for each other as well. People will soon forget how to socialize in public places, but then again we see that all over the news through the lesson our young community shows us they've learned from earlier generations and mutated in newer generations expressed in new ways.
So we may only contact each other through text, instant messaging, email, phone, or video chat to the point we don't need to see each other, I'll see you when I go online. We tell the computer what to do and like us it learns and stores it in its database (which is limited) the computer is nothing but what we have created it to be. We limit the characters allowed in text, blog, and emails so that we don't overload computer to the point it burns out, freezes, or misreads; we also taught the computer how to store paragraphs in symbols and abbreviations such as <ln>. We set the limitations so we are nothing more then what we've created in our technology, and this is why and how we've lost our ability to socialize whether it be online or in person; with each other in a respectful or even to our educational teachings we've gone so long basing a humans worth and trust on. In the end we are what we've created and although there is always something new being created we still limit ourselves. We've created better technology but in a way listen to what we've created or the lessons we gave our technology and this shows in the way we write online and how it bleeds into the way we write on paper. We find new ways to avoid more labor in simple task, shorthand was once for notes now it's all some people know (this statement being self explanatory).
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