Happy Endings and White Noise

The author of Happy Endings is interested in the "how and why" of peoples deaths. In White Noise both the characters lives seem to revolve around death and its imminency. they both fear it, and know it is a part of living, nothing can end with out it. The author of Happy Endings would agree that nothing can end in anything but death, so in this way the two are similar.

Girl Scout cookies

i think that when innocent little girl scouts are forced to sell cookies to random (adult) strangers, it is teaching them how to serve. I can speak from YEARS of personal experence, they really force you to do it. You are given lines to say and you have to say them perfectly right. The thing that makes it most like serving is that you have to force a smile, no matter how crule the person/costomer is (within the law) you have to just smile and be polite and tolerate them. There fore it is teaching wemon (girls) how to mask their emotions in order that others might be pleased.

characters and writers

While in many cases the writer does express his/her own opinion in their characters, not all writers will do so. If a writer believes in one thing, but the audience that they are writing to believes in something else, then they may have a character embodying the consumer's belief rather than their own. Some writers write solely for the money, and so are willing to express (even to the point of supporting) another's ideals if that means they will make more money. Usually, i think that this would only be done when comedy is concerned; unless of course the writer believes mass murder is ok or something, then they would write characters that do not embody their beliefs for the sake of pure reputation i suppose.

Art

I think whether or not something is art is determined by the maker or the peice of art. If someone puts their feelings into something, creating it in order to express an emotion or an idea then it is art. In this way, even the spoken word can be art, not just in poems, but also novels or short stories; speaches, if written with "beautiful" language can even be art. Some people though may not think say, gafittii is art but there are others who do so something that is art to one person may not be to another but that does not make it less of a peace of art. Therefore, i beleive art is determined by each individual person, not only in making it but viewing it as well.

Forgetfulness

There is alot of disorder in Forgetfulness. The most prominant form of disorder was in the forgeting, "you will join those who have even forgotten how to swin or ride a bicycle. no wonder you rise in the middle of the night to look up the date of a famous battle in a book on war." The order to oppose this would be learning, rather than forgetting. there is also dissorder in the getting up in the middle of the night when you are suposed to be sleeping. the other dissorder was the structure the stanzas whre in to particular size, and there would be new stanzas in the middle of a sentence. For example this sentence "and even now as you mamorize the order of the planets," new stanza "something else is slipping away,". It would have been more orderly to have that entire sentence be part of one stanza rather than having that space in between. Therefore, Forgetfulness is a very disorderly poem.

Hyper reality

I have fallen Victim to the effects of Hyper reality, when it comes to the portrayal of hospitals on TV. In House M.D. all the cases are real "but the chance of all these cases showing up at one hospital in New Jersey?" not quite as probable. House gives people the idea that extremely rare cases like the ones dealt with by Gregory House, the main character and doctor in House, are common and would be being dealt with every time you might find your self in a Hospital. However, i have been in hospitals several times over the past few years, and have seen first hand that this is not the case. On the contrary, i have never seen a severe case such as the ones in House, but just a few people sitting in the lobby, usually waiting for someone or they may have a head ache of some kind; in fact two of the times i went i had by far the worst case of every one in there, with just a broken ankle or badly cut hand. Not only that,but the head doctor in House M.D. has very questionable and irrational practices which i hope to never see in a hospital. "In the real world, Gregory House would be in Jail,". No doctor would just give a patient a random medication hopping it would work, if they did they would be sued, kicked out of the hospital or be placed in Jail for malpractice. In these all these ways and more, the hyper reality of House M.D. has effected my view on what is supposed to happen in hospitals, despite personal experience.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVWjtFbtBds

Crisis of Postmodernism?

i dont think there is a crisis. we generally embrace it, except for the whole lack of a spirit part. but Christians tend to flow with society even when it comes up with stupid things. so i think in this case i (as a christian) dont mind following the whole postmodern wave... and i dont much more to say... cause thats just all there is since there wasn't really an answer to the question, considering the crisis, if it was re worded without the whole "crisis" part then i might write more... but its not so i cant/wont. XD