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

Happy Endings

so, the last little chunk thing in "F" is meta fictional because it is addressing the reader, and not only referring to itself but to storeys in general. It kinda explains why she had NO detail in her little mini-life plots, and its hard. and she/he...? seems a little bitter about the whole plot... thing... cause she/he's like a plot is just "a what and a what and a what." wah~~~ "now try How and Why." i don't know... the whole thing is just a little snippy to me... like a little sarcastic, i thinks she is just bitter cause she hates doing what everyone says...lol, just kidding~! Maybe she is just snippy and cynical like that without bitterness... XD

Non-Ant

so, i really had trouble finding something to do today, but i did something... so there is a girl in my Japanese class that is SUPER shy, like you have NEVER met anyone like her, i can almost grantee it. So... i usually just partner with who ever is sitting around me... or whoever i was talking to when i walked in the door... but she will usually sit alone, and not get a partner... so i went to her little corner and partnered with her. She really didn't like that at all... she kinda glared at me through her hair (witch is ALWAYS in her face, i mean like all of it) and she did the assignment with me since it was a partner requiring assignment, but she hated it.

I don't know what to say. everyone is always telling you to pay attention to the emo people and so i saw her and she has no friends in the class so i thought it would make her more comfortable if i spoke to her... but no, she hates me now.

Echoes

the echoes may be just like their appearing out of no where... its just another random anomaly of their existence. Maybe its that they themselves are just an echo. So... an echo is brought into existence by whoever or whatever makes a sound and then it exists only to carry that sound for a while and then it fades away as the sound does. Although people notice it while it is echoing, they are totally unphased when the sound is gone. in the same way R and G are brought into existence only by Claud's word and then once he is gone so are R and G.

Horatio

I think Horatio's tone in line 56 is disapproving. Prior to him saying that, he and Hamlet had been talking about how they didn't care much for either Rosencrantz or Guildenstern, so it would make sense that he would say that in a negative tone. Maybe it is only negative because he is sympathising with Hamlet and wants him to approve of his statement.