A Room Of My Own (HW 24)

I believe that I do have a room of my own. I have worked very hard to get the respect from my teachers in my major and have received a lot of kudos for the work I have done. Where I did all of this work is in my room, a place where I can be myself and let myself work at any pace I want. I can also do things to keep my mind going and keep me thinking about what I have to do, which makes me more relaxed. But I feel I have the same advantages as women, because now women also have the opportunities men have. Like Woolf says “there are almost as many books written by women now as by men” (Woolf, 86), which was written in 1928, so it’s even more fair now than it was back then.

Woolf and the Democrats (HW23)

With Apologies to Virginia Woolf

After reading this interesting thing that people these days call a “blog”, I realized that the government in the United States is not going well. George Bush seems to be irritating a lot of people on the Democratic National Committee Blog. From what I’ve read, he vetoed a bill that would help for Children’s Health Coverage so he could spend more money on the failing war in Iraq. This is probably the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. To think that war is more important than your own people, including the children who will someday be running the country is preposterous. The amount of children that could be covered by the bill was roughly ten million children while continuing its coverage of 6.6 million more children already covered by the Children's Health Insurance Program. It seems that I’m not the only one on this snazzy blog who thinks that is a stupid decision.

HW18

The blog that I read that upset me the most was on Daily Kos. It didn’t really bother me to what the blogger said on the post, but what actually happened. During a speech to the National Rifle Association, Rudy Giuliani answered a cell phone call from his wife which completely stopped the speech. Of course people got upset and had complained about it and his response had to do with the only thing that he was important in, 9/11. That just irritates me that one would use something like that as an excuse to answer a phone during a huge speech. For someone who’s supposed to be running for president that doesn’t seem like a very good move to pull during a speech. What if he did that during a campaign speech? It just seems stupid that someone would do something like that. Not only that, but during an interview he was quoted saying for another excuse to his phone call incident, “I've been married three times. I can't afford to lose another one. I'm sure you understand. (To Bear Sterns executives)”. Completely ridiculous is all I have to say about that.

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Daily Kos HW17B

I think that the Daily Kos blog would influence me more in an upcoming election just for the fact that Zuniga actually talks about politics that doesn’t deal with scandal. Wonkette is a blog that just puts out information about candidates that only make them human. People make mistakes, and Wonkette makes sure that the entire world knows about it. On Daily Kos, it’s what the blogger feels about an upcoming election or the candidates that are in the race. It would probably give more of a political background of the candidates rather the sex scandals or things that the candidates may have done in their past that has nothing to do with politics. Daily Kos also seems to have a blogger who’s more devoted to his cause than Wonkette. After reading the interview of both people, Zuniga is more serious about his blog and what he puts on it, where Cox doesn’t really care at all what she says on her blog. She actually thinks its fun to “ruin people’s days”. So if I were really trying to find some information about a candidate or party for the political race that is happening at that time, I would choose Daily Kos.

HW14 Response to Denton's Interview

In short, after reading the Nick Denton interview, it makes more sense now that blogs aren’t really going to take over the media in the sense of providing new information or information that people can’t get from the media. Actually, it’s going to just take what is reported in the media and show what is more important than the other stories that have been reported on. As a result, the media won’t really become something to not trust, but it will be a place where the real information is kept, blogs will just be a place to show what “should” be on the front page of a newspaper or magazine. Also blogs tend to not have the resources that news media has. For example if someone writing a blog wanted to report on news in Baghdad, he or she wouldn’t really have the resources to do so, but the news media would be able to send a journalist there to get all the information they need right from the source.