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First of all, I've noticed that there are way more asshole drivers on my side of town than in the rest of Vegas. It might just be me, but there are a LOT of raised trucks and dead pigeons in my neighborhood. Also, the concept of the "right of way" is mysteriously absent.
Second of all, in response to Kayla's message about a certain someone's blog entry... I'd just like to say that using a thesaurus doesn't suddenly make you a genius or validate your half-baked, barely coherent essay on how our generation doesn't value education. Especially considering the fact that your goals in life include appearing "cool" and latching onto people you think are cool in the hopes that it will rub off on you.
I'll stop with the "you" crap. Hannah needs to learn that using a bunch of big words (incorrectly) doesn't suddenly make her smart and deserving of our respect.
Thirdly, I miss paragraphs and complete thoughts. Since when did copying Joyce / Miller / Woolf / Faulkner's stream-of-consciousness become so COOL? It sure is troublesome developing my own style of writing / inserting any kind of substance into my work. I know! I'll just make it
completely disjointed and remove
all punc
tuation in order to make it look
really modern and cool and then people willthinkI'martsy plus this way I don't have
to be original
...This means you Jonny.
Literary devices, Jonny, are exactly that... devices. They are used in order to create a mood, to drive the point of the work home. For example, when Plath skips puncuation, uses run-ons, and starts a new stanza mid-point, she does so in order to show that the speaker's thoughts are disorganized, frantic, chaotic even... not because it looks really neat.
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So... I'm doing pretty poorly in school. I'm really interested in my Literary Theory class and have invested so much time in it that I'm getting C's in my other classes. My other, much easier classes.
So while, yes, I am an English major and it's far more important to me to do well in my English classes, I'm in danger of losing Millenium (permanently) because I hate Japanese / Anthropology / Political Theory.
On a side note, I'll no longer be taking Japanese classes because I hate that language. And the kids in my class whose idea of a good time include reading anime magazines and wishing, desperately, for god to turn their skin yellow.
Second of all, in response to Kayla's message about a certain someone's blog entry... I'd just like to say that using a thesaurus doesn't suddenly make you a genius or validate your half-baked, barely coherent essay on how our generation doesn't value education. Especially considering the fact that your goals in life include appearing "cool" and latching onto people you think are cool in the hopes that it will rub off on you.
I'll stop with the "you" crap. Hannah needs to learn that using a bunch of big words (incorrectly) doesn't suddenly make her smart and deserving of our respect.
Thirdly, I miss paragraphs and complete thoughts. Since when did copying Joyce / Miller / Woolf / Faulkner's stream-of-consciousness become so COOL? It sure is troublesome developing my own style of writing / inserting any kind of substance into my work. I know! I'll just make it
completely disjointed and remove
all punc
tuation in order to make it look
really modern and cool and then people willthinkI'martsy plus this way I don't have
to be original
...This means you Jonny.
Literary devices, Jonny, are exactly that... devices. They are used in order to create a mood, to drive the point of the work home. For example, when Plath skips puncuation, uses run-ons, and starts a new stanza mid-point, she does so in order to show that the speaker's thoughts are disorganized, frantic, chaotic even... not because it looks really neat.
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So... I'm doing pretty poorly in school. I'm really interested in my Literary Theory class and have invested so much time in it that I'm getting C's in my other classes. My other, much easier classes.
So while, yes, I am an English major and it's far more important to me to do well in my English classes, I'm in danger of losing Millenium (permanently) because I hate Japanese / Anthropology / Political Theory.
On a side note, I'll no longer be taking Japanese classes because I hate that language. And the kids in my class whose idea of a good time include reading anime magazines and wishing, desperately, for god to turn their skin yellow.