Hey everyone! As the school’s first quarter comes to an end I have selected what I believe are my best blogs and comments. There will be an explanation as to why I chose them and what makes them better than others. I hope you like them, enojy and feel free to comment.
Ignorance=Manipulation, Power
I think this blog covers many of the aspects discussed in class and their similarity with dystopian novels read for the course, ‘We’ and ‘1984’. I really enojyed writing about this particular topic and article since it reveals totalitarian governments from the world we now live in, and I also consider it to be one of my best pieces. It also has a comment from Julie supporting the points I made and suggesting other ideas.
Manipulation of Truth – What is Truth?
As mentioned in this blog, the idea I had of Truth has become more and more complicated to understand and find a definition for it, but finally resolving in the conclusion that both objective and subjective truth are equally valid and can be easily manipulated. In this blog Adrienne and I discussed some of the points I had made in which I tried to answer some questions she had made.
For this blog I made a further research with some websites and books I used for a work I had done in my Theory of Knowledge class, where I had to define Truth. Here they are:
Xenoblogging
Ability to Manipulate Truth
In Monique’s blog about the Manipulation of Truth and the Obejective Truth Presentation we did during class she claims that “one truth does not exist”, and makes a very interesting point about how it is in humans nature to lie.
She provided good ideas, but did leave the readers with some doubts about it since she asked some rhetorical questions too. Therefore I suggested her to resolve her doubts first and instead of rising questions to the reader, she should either answer them or approach them differently. I also proposed she linked her ideas with dystopian novel 1984.
Inconvenient Truth
In her entry “Inconvenient Truth”, Sabrina also talks about Truth and its manipulation. She was able to develop her ideas clearly and made some very god points, one of which is a quote from a US divorce Lawyer which I really liked.
However, I had some questions which I later asked on her entry, expecting some of them to be cleared, or just to allow Sabrina expand her ideas.
Freedom to Write
I found Julie’s ideas on Writing very captivating, since as I stated in my reply, it applies to modern education. We have been educated in a system in which grading is one of the most important things and we are driven by it. Julie’s ideas on how these grades and rubrics affect our freedom of speech and imagination are really good. And as I asked “Why should we be molded?”.
Interaction
War is Peace, Ignorance is Strength, Freedom is Slavery
I really enjoyed reading Adrienne’s blog, especially this one, on Shin a North Korean boy who once lived in a Gulag or working camp. As mentioned previously, I found this historical topic very interesting to write on, and I felt that Adrienne was able to approach it in an excellent manner, also linking it with 1984.
I commented on her blog, and asked her some questions about it, since some ideas weren’t that clear, thus didn’t understand very much her perspective, specially that on subjective truth. All doubts were resolved once she replied.
Discussion
Keep it Simple
In this entry I received a comment from my classmate Jorina, in which she was trying to solve her doubts on the ideas I had presented. Her questions gave me an opportunity to explain my perspective and how I did agree with Orwell’s ideas about a simple language.
Wild Card
http://javieraenglish.blogspot.com/2010/10/strange-meeting.html
This entry is just encouraging my readers to take a look at Strange Meeting, a novel I read this year which in my opinion portrays Jane Smiley's idea on the psychology of relationships novels should have, developed in her book "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a novel".
Wild Card
http://javieraenglish.blogspot.com/2010/10/strange-meeting.html
This entry is just encouraging my readers to take a look at Strange Meeting, a novel I read this year which in my opinion portrays Jane Smiley's idea on the psychology of relationships novels should have, developed in her book "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a novel".
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