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Writing 20: Reflecting on Your Work in This Course
Image:Mise en abyme, https://pin.it/6pysHb5 I’d like you to think about your work in this course in two different ways. 1) Please point to something you learned how to do as a writer. You should not feel that you need to come up with some sort of deep insight or major breakthrough. I’d simply like you…
Economy and Mental Health: Discussing Jenny Odell’s Overview of “Bartleby”
In Jenny Odell’s work “How To Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy” she references a multitude of different literary works, plays, novels, philosophical articles, online pieces, etc. She uses these to back her argument of trying to resist the economy and to show what it is the economy does to a person. In her work…
Finding Joy, Care, and Meaning: Rebecca Solnit’s Expansion of Jenny Odell’s View of Altruism in Times of Disaster
Did you know that you can have a purposeful, meaningful, and even joyful experience in times of disaster? I am convinced that this is often the case having read Rebecca Solnit’s book, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, in which she maintains through intensive research, persuasive interviews, and personal…
E110: Seminar in Composition 