scrutiny

The author of happy endings argues that the actual story lies in the details, or the bricks as we would call them. She has heard all the facts but wants to know the emotional part of the story the details. When Babette tells Jack her confession she leaves out nearly all of the details and gives him small facts here and there. By doing this she really isnt telling him the story, she is simply giving him facts. In doing so she truely doesnt explain herself or provide any emotional part of the story other than simple ones "desperate, and such". I believe Jack feels cheated to an extent because before she begins her story she says she wants to confide in, but she doesnt confide anything in him other than the fact that she was taking illegal medication and had an affair to do so.

cookies

Selling girl scout cookies doesnt necessarily teach the young girls a gender specific role that they are expected to fill. Unless you attribute selling cookies to cooking in some twisted connection. What it teaches them is the capitalist idea that working for something is the best way to go about obtaining it. Rather this isnt the best or most efficient way. The best way is to find little nitches where one can get what one needs. This isnt to say that some things need to be worked for. America figures the younger you teach em the more ingrained it is into their heads and the less likely they are to fight against the system.

deconstruction

So for our assignment I decided to deconstruct my friend dave picou. Daves a really smart guy so I figured he would be a good target to try this on. So I waited for him to say something. He began saying something about warcraft 3 so I jumped in. What is warcraft 3? he looked somewhat confused and then said its an online game where you choose a race and build up your forces to try and take over the other players bases. I said what is a game? He looked even more confused now and said a game is a competition between 2 or more people. This continued until he finally had to use the dredded word thing in one definition. Then I explained to him how our language is based on a series of assumption and abstract ideas. He thought about it for a moment then said, "So if the breakdown of every word is reduced to the word thing, the any word can mean anything and therefore us discussing this 1 makes no sense and 2 serves no purpose. We could replace any of our words with any other word and essetially it would have the same meaning." Daves a genious.

WHY NOTTTT?

The views of the writer are not always portrayed through the characters. Shows like South Park that make fun of literally everything simply cannot be the views of the writers expressed through the characters. Chances are some of the staff is jewish, the show quite frequently makes fun of jews being cheap and having really bad hair. If the writers seriously felt this way it would create quite a mess in the studio. It is possible outside of south park some of the character's aspects are a reflection of how the writer feels. In fact many of the stereotypes come straight from the writer's mind.

art

In our postmodern world, it is often discussed what art actually is. Many times people see postmodern art and say," that's not art, I can do that." The skill of the artist does not determine the quality of the art. Art is no longer just pictures of scenes, it has now become about the experience the artist geos through. It isn't about the result, it is about the process. It is true that postmodern art is easier to replicate than traditional art. The meaning and intention behind the art is what makes it impossible to replicate. The corporate art producers think they determine what art is, but in reality art is all up to the individual. What we take away from the art is what's important. If I feel that a piece represents the problems we face day to day then it ought to mean that.

Oritz

The disorder in Travelling by Simon J. Ortiz is celebrated through the main character's blissfull ignorant reliving of memoeries. Ortiz writes, "He writes their names on a letter pad, hurries to another source, asks the librarian for another book but it is out and he looks hurt and then he rushes back to the globe." This shows disorder because once his goal of finding the book is crushed he forgets about it. The book meant something to him but it only took him a few seconds to forget about it. Furthermore despite whatever relation he has to these places he is looking at, there is obvious signifigance to them. However Ortiz never lets on to what that relationship might be. The only textual evidence we have is, "A man has been in the VAH library all day long." the VAH is a veteran's hospital so the only conclusion we can draw is that he had either once been to some of these places in war. the lack of knowledge given to the reader about the history of the man is perfect disorder.

stupid

I feel that thebreakdown of words and meaning lie in an inadequate understanding of reality. But I don't like the word inadequate, I feel taht there really is no way to better describe reality. The fact of the matter is that our language is based on a circle that in order to understand any of it you must understand all of it. As demostrated in Toast the snowman says, "What is flour? we'll skip that part too". In order for one to actually understand what toast is one's mind has to backtrack through a huge web of ideas that all come together to support toast. At the same time toast helps support a whole host of ideas itself possibly things like, breakfast, cooking, etc. Thus why you must inderstand the whole circle in order to understand any of it.