John N. Duvall, "The (Super) Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's “White Noise"

     Basically this essay is describing America as a fascist state. It is not run exactly like Hitler ran Germany, but our county is fascist thru the media, television, advertising etc. Right know, our lives are ran by all of the different social networks that are out there. I have been Keeping up with the Kardashians’ more than keeping up with what is going on in my own neighborhood.
     “TV is a problem only if you forgotten how to look and listen” (55). We have obviously forgotten how to look and listen, we don’t watch TV with our critical thinking caps on. We watch it for pure entertainment value, even though there is important information transported thru the tube. Making viewers even more prone to fascist propaganda.
     Like the band Tool’s famous lyrics “great big festering neon distraction, destine to keep you all occupied” The media being the distraction for all the population to miss all of the important information, making us more incline to unimportant/skewed view points.


Don DeLillo, "White Noise" Viking Adult, NY1985.
John N. Duvall, "The (Super) Marketplace of Images: Television as Unmediated Mediation in DeLillo's “White Noise" (pp432-455)

WHITE NOISE......

I believe I am not the only one that is confused about this book.  I had to re-read "WHITE NOISE" before i even got to the end, i thought I had missed something important a long the way and that was why I was a bit lost.  After reading some of my fellow classmate's blogs I came to the conclusion that it was not just me.  I know Professor Cline warned us by telling us that it was going to be a hard read, but this I did not expect.  I have not finish the book, I decided to take a break today and finish it tomorrow.  I already have plans to read it a second time.  For the most part I am really enjoying the book and I am looking forward to the ending. 

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Letter to my Editor

                                                                                March 10, 2013
Dear Laura Cline,
It has been a great privilege to be among your students. I have learned and experience many great things while fulfilling your assignments. My biggest challenge has been the blog, learning how to master it, has also been my greatest achievements. Before this class I would never have thought to create a blog and now it is a point of pride to show all of my friends and family. I have always been a creative person and I enjoy this new medium for my artistic outlet.
I have always considered myself a well read person, but taking this class has open my eyes to new subject matter to explore. I would never have experience Melville or Swift in my current occupation or field of study. In my past, I have focus in argumentative writing and not analytical, which I think it is obvious by my choice of topics.
My goals for the second half of the session is to keep improving my grammar and analytical skills. I would also like to expand my library with traditional literature. I hope to be surprise by even more interesting traditional and unconventional literature, and continue expanding my critical thinking abilities.
                                                 Thank you for this opportunity,
                                                  your student,
                                                   Myrza Lamper.

                                                                              March 10, 2013
Dear Laura Cline,
It has been a great privilege to be among your students. I have learned and experience many great things while fulfilling your assignments. My biggest challenge has been the blog, learning how to master it, has also been my greatest achievements. Before this class I would never have thought to create a blog and now it is a point of pride to show all of my friends and family. I have always been a creative person and I enjoy this new medium for my artistic outlet.
I have always considered myself a well read person, but taking this class has open my eyes to new subject matter to explore. I would never have experience Melville or Swift in my current occupation or field of study. In my past, I have focus in argumentative writing and not analytical, which I think it is obvious by my choice of topics.
My goals for the second half of the session is to keep improving my grammar and analytical skills. I would also like to expand my library with traditional literature. I hope to be surprise by even more interesting traditional and unconventional literature, and continue expanding my critical thinking abilities.
                                                Thank you for this opportunity,
                                                your student,
                                                 Myrza Lamper.

                                     

Myrza Lamper
Laura Cline
Eng.102
03 March 2013


     The purpose of Swift’s text is to scorn the landlords, the Whigs and the Tories of the English Parliament into feeling shame for the treatment of the less fortunate(Moore, Pg692). Swift used the burlesque form of satire successfully. He basically proposed that the poor should raise their children like cattle, to be sold for nutrition and clothing (Swift, pg 6). He accurately argued the ethos, logos and pathos modes of persuasion convincingly. Swift believed that the poor were a drain on the state and that, ethically they needed to find a solution to the problem. He also believed that it logically made sense to turn this drain into a positive contribution to the common wealth.(Swift, pg3), and used the burlesque form of satire to make the appeal to pathos. Claiming it was in their own best interest to be used for food and clothing (swift, pg10).


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