Welcome to English 310!
Based on your responses, here are the areas of writing you wish to improve:
critical thinking and analysis, spelling and grammar, writing quickly (in-class essays), avoiding repetition, being concise, clarity, structure, making writing come more easily, being more descriptive, writing thesis statements, revising, summarizing, getting ideas down on the paper, developing main ideas, making the writing flow, writing introductions, using vocabulary effectively, using a more sholarly mode of communication.
The good news is that we will work on each of these areas throughout the quarter.
There is no bad news.
Take care!
Monday, January 9, 2012
Monday, November 7, 2011
Final Essay
Hello All,
For this post, describe the following areas as they relate to your final essay. You may change your minds at any time; this is just to let me know we are all on topic.
1. What department/program/club/event are you using as your focus? Who is your audience? The more specific you can make your audience, the more effective your essay will be.
2. On what advertising form/medium will your essay focus? A poster? A website? A flier? A commercial?
3. What are the strengths/weaknesses of the current advertisement?
4. Which symbols/archetypes are you proposing the department/program emphasize?
For this post, describe the following areas as they relate to your final essay. You may change your minds at any time; this is just to let me know we are all on topic.
1. What department/program/club/event are you using as your focus? Who is your audience? The more specific you can make your audience, the more effective your essay will be.
2. On what advertising form/medium will your essay focus? A poster? A website? A flier? A commercial?
3. What are the strengths/weaknesses of the current advertisement?
4. Which symbols/archetypes are you proposing the department/program emphasize?
Friday, November 4, 2011
Marketing and Advertising
Hello All,
For this post, watch the two Chipotle videos (Back to the Start and Abandoned), and answer the following questions:
1. What message is the advertisement trying to portray? What emotions/concepts does the advertisement give Chipotle?
2. What symbols and archetypes does the advertisement use to portray that message?
For this post, watch the two Chipotle videos (Back to the Start and Abandoned), and answer the following questions:
1. What message is the advertisement trying to portray? What emotions/concepts does the advertisement give Chipotle?
2. What symbols and archetypes does the advertisement use to portray that message?
Friday, October 28, 2011
October 31: Primordial Chaos
Hello All,
Describe the most memorable example you see this weekend of Eliade's concept of Primordial Chaos.
Have fun!
Describe the most memorable example you see this weekend of Eliade's concept of Primordial Chaos.
Have fun!
Monday, October 24, 2011
Film Analysis
Hello All,
As we discussed in class, our readings present archetypes in three different contexts:
In Ariadne's Clue, Anthony Stevens divides and classifies archetypal objects and images;
In The Myth of the Eternal Return, Mircea Eliade analyzes specific archetypal processes;
In The Hero and the Outlaw, Margaret Mark and Carol Pearson divide and classify archetypal personas.
For The Myth of the Eternal Return, the following archetypal concepts have the most relevance for your film analysis:
Celestial Models
Profane/Sacred Time and Space
Symbolism of the Center
Road to the Center
Regeneration of Time (which is comprised of the following steps...)
Abolition of Past Time (of profane time and space)
Restoration of Primordial Chaos
Repetition of Cosmogonic Act
The introduction to this essay is due Friday. For this blog entry, list the film you plan on analyzing as well as the symbols/archetypes (choose two to four different examples) on which you plan to focus.
As we discussed in class, our readings present archetypes in three different contexts:
In Ariadne's Clue, Anthony Stevens divides and classifies archetypal objects and images;
In The Myth of the Eternal Return, Mircea Eliade analyzes specific archetypal processes;
In The Hero and the Outlaw, Margaret Mark and Carol Pearson divide and classify archetypal personas.
For The Myth of the Eternal Return, the following archetypal concepts have the most relevance for your film analysis:
Celestial Models
Profane/Sacred Time and Space
Symbolism of the Center
Road to the Center
Regeneration of Time (which is comprised of the following steps...)
Abolition of Past Time (of profane time and space)
Restoration of Primordial Chaos
Repetition of Cosmogonic Act
The introduction to this essay is due Friday. For this blog entry, list the film you plan on analyzing as well as the symbols/archetypes (choose two to four different examples) on which you plan to focus.
Friday, October 21, 2011
Sunshine
For this post, analyze one name from the film Sunshine.
1. What is its etymology (its word history)? What does the word mean?
2. Are there any mythological figures with the same name? Are there any historical figures with the same name?
3. Why is this name apt for this character?
Icarus
Capa (or Kappa)
Cassandra
Corazaon
Mace
Kaneda
Searle
Harvey
Trey
Pinbacker (or pin-backer)
1. What is its etymology (its word history)? What does the word mean?
2. Are there any mythological figures with the same name? Are there any historical figures with the same name?
3. Why is this name apt for this character?
Icarus
Capa (or Kappa)
Cassandra
Corazaon
Mace
Kaneda
Searle
Harvey
Trey
Pinbacker (or pin-backer)
Monday, October 17, 2011
Archetypes and Repetition / Regeneration of Time
Hello All,
For this post, watch the video for Lambchop's "Is a Woman," and then explain how the video (not the song) exemplifies one of Eliade's concepts from The Myth of the Eternal Return.
For this post, watch the video for Lambchop's "Is a Woman," and then explain how the video (not the song) exemplifies one of Eliade's concepts from The Myth of the Eternal Return.
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