I have a problem with using Snowfall as an example for the writing. The web design is incredible and I’m excited about creating something like it.However the writing is a Journalistic article based on actual events with facts as well as a report done in a creative native story. I understand how we are meant to deconstruct SnowFall for this project. Major environmental event, how it affects character's, history of actual location and time period book takes place, importante characters in the novel and how they are apart of or affected by the big question we are asking. However I don't feel Snowfall as a literary piece is the best example for what we are trying to do. I have a feeling that I am going to make this up as a go whiles staying relatively within the structure provird. Melissa probably won't like it and will be worried that I’m not following the assignment correctly. But I have decided that the institutions are intentionally vague to allow creative freedom. We had some struggles when looking for quotes. We wanted to be sure that they were spread out through the book. In the beginning we found the answers to our big question that yes society does put too much pressure on arbitrary goals like success we found many quotes to support this. but at we got closer to the end of the book it became more of a what happens when a society puts too much pressure on arbitrary goals like success. So we looked instead on the effects the answer to our question had on the characters of the book. Gifs are really helpful: http://giphy.com/gifs/got-get-run-SWKyABQ08mbXW/links
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Lot of time reading this week. I’m going to worry about the writing after I finish the book but i've been marking some quotes. I know yesterday we made the web page yesterday. The main social issue that pushed Okonkwo is that he does not want to be like his father. I think he focused too much on this and it clouds his judgment which will lead to his downfall. He is driven by fears looking weak so he beats his wives and children and kills Ikemefuna even after being told not to be the one that kills him, afraid his sons will be weak and lazy so he pushes them hard in the field and shows them no affection, afraid of failure.
I have been listening to the book on and off on youtube. Listening to the audiobook I have found is very helpful with the difficult names and words. It is also really great because it helps me stay focused on the book so I do not get distracted and read the same sentence five times. I can also multitask and listen to it in interior design while picking out fabrics, then when I hear a good quote I pause it and look it up in the book and take a snapshot of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30UH90u1x28 Slide design The video on slide design was very helpful it helped show how to create a well organized presentation. Connecting our theme with outside sources was helpful in the fact that when looking into articles about our them or books others can make connection between thing that you may not have seen originally. This tir was the easiest I had academically this year I did this on purpose because extracurricularly I am the most busy this time of year. It also gave me a chance to work on scholarships for college. However I worried that when I get into next try that my time management skills will not be as good as they have been in the past at least for the first few weeks. Whilst working on my independent reading presentation I've been going back and forth working on the presentation slides show and the paper I think it helps me to make it flow better and their more cohesive.
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