Archive for March, 2008
HW32 First Impressions are Often the Best Ones
Monday, March 31st, 2008The book, Baghdad Burning is a collection of blog posts from an Iraqi woman. She gives her first-hand experience and insight into the effects of the wars that have been waged in the Middle East including the current war in Iraq. She does not give her name, but rather gives her penname of Riverbend. Her [...]
HW30 Have I Got a Room of My Own?
Monday, March 24th, 2008Have I got a room of my own? After reading chapters five and six of “A Room of One’s Own,” I have contemplated the idea of having a room of one’s own. I thought the subject matter of both chapters was great. The modernity of more voices for women and more options for true love [...]
HW28 Ginny wouldn’t stand for this
Sunday, March 23rd, 2008With apologies to Virginia Woolf,
After reading this article, I should conclude that in my day women were treated this way quite often. Women were merely objects similar to houses or pets, and could certainly not easily own property. In my written work, “A Room of One’s Own,” I discuss how a woman in Shakespeare’s position [...]
HW26: Patriarchy- the very last hurdle to be overcome? hope not!
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008The New York Times is a prominent newspaper that is supposed to be non-biased and fairly portray the news as it is. Saying this, why are five out of six main pictures on today’s online front page of men? This paper shows that, to an outsider this paper makes the United States look like a [...]
HW22: The person on the street, in other words the Main Informant
Friday, March 7th, 2008“As for readers worldwide, blogs can act as the “man on the street,” supplying unfiltered eyewitness accounts about foreign countries.”
In Kline and Burnstein’s book Blog! it talks about the power blogs have on society and also how blogs are more and more becoming vital sources of information. In other words, where once there was an [...]
HW20: Comical or Dry, Funny vs. Boring
Saturday, March 1st, 2008After reading about how DailyKos and Wonkette, two popular blogs that comment on current news, were started I must say that I am more attracted to Wonkette. Its humor is more interesting and drew me in more than the more bland quality of DailyKos. Wonkette’s site has funny headings that [...]