Monday, February 7, 2011

Smoke Signals

Possibly the most interesting thing that happened to me was when I first met David Gehle in third hour on Friday.  We immediately began discussing pre-Calculus with writing and gestures when Eric Coughlin burst out laughing and exclaimed, "It's hilarious to watch two people, who can't speak or write, argue!"
This really does prove that the medium is the message as we were having an innocent discussion about mathematics and were mistaken to be bitterly fighting.

Postman on Youtube

Correlation #1. New problems on the horizon. We are losing our minds to something, we will need to fix it.
Correlation #2. We will become slaves to our computers. He seriously believes that computers are taking over, hence his book.

Civility

1. The first six words are meant to ensure that no one suspects that she encourages violence or inflammatory rhetoric
2. She used bellicose to show what kind of metaphors were being used and to also avoid using a word whose meaning can be mistaken.
3. a) She is trying to persuade the reader that we should not be limited in our speech by the ignorance of others
    b) The example about how a words etymology can be different but the phonetics be similar and people will assume the worst.
4. I agree with Chavez, we should exercise our freedom of speech how we wish free of fear that we will be rejected for a false mistaken meaning